Silence on the Other End: Rural Minds is set to provide rural areas with free mental health resources - RFD-TV
The founder of a group called Rural Minds says that the death of his 28-year-old nephew was a wake-up call to America’s rural mental health crisis.
Since then Jeff Winton has served as an advocate bringing mental health resources to the communities that need them.
According to Winton, “There’s not much happening as it relates to the 46 million people that live in rural America regarding mental health and suicide prevention. I think we’re making some progress, but when I started calling around to various other nonprofit organizations to see what they were doing in rural areas, there was silence on the other end of the phone and an admission that they were more focused on urban and suburban people because, quite frankly, they didn’t know anything about rural Americans.”