FEBRUARY 2021

At the 2021 Women in Ag Network Annual Conference, UMASH hosted a stress buster in the virtual community. The 2021 conference Building Bridges, Cultivating Connections, held on February 3, 2021, gathered over 100 attendees, ranging from agricultural businesses, farmers, Extension educators and more.

The UMASH presentation focused on equipping the Women in Ag Network with tangible action items, tools, and resources for addressing the stressors of working in agriculture.

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Check out resources like:

Signs and Symptoms of Stress Card

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Señales y Síntomas del Estrés (Español)

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Cultivating Resilience in Rural Communities Toolkit

This toolkit was developed to support conversations on stress and mental health in the agricultural community.

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Suicide Prevention Classes: Question Persuade Refer

Learn the three steps anyone can take to help prevent suicide. Just like CPR, QPR is an emergency response to someone in crisis and can save lives.

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Farm Safety Series: Mental Health

Many of us have been impacted in some way by an accident, injury or fatality that has occurred on the farm. These events are devastating to communities and affect the livelihoods of those we know and love.

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Suicide Prevention Trainings

The Minnesota Community Partners Preventing Suicide Program works with communities to teach people (gatekeepers) how to identify youth at risk and connect them to appropriate care.

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Cultivating Resiliency for Women in Ag

The Cultivating Resiliency for Women in Agriculture project centers around the fact that farmwomen and women in agriculture have unique needs in responding to farm and agricultural stress because of the multiple roles they play.

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Women in Ag Network

The Women in Ag Network is a collaboration between University of Minnesota Extension and Minnesota’s Farm Service Agency. The Network provides educational opportunities and events that enhance leadership, management and production skills for women working in agriculture.

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