Mental Health America of Putnam County

Candid Conversation: Movement and Mental Health
2025-03-31 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Putnam County Public Library, 103 E Poplar St., Greencastle, IN, 46135, United States
Join us!
April is widely recognized as “Move More Month” by the American Heart Association, encouraging people to increase their physical activity during this time, and our next Candid Conversations event will have panelists including local yoga instructor Marla Helton, Purdue Extension Nutrition Education Program Advisor Krystle Pipes, and medical professional and avid marathoner Lisa Miller discussing the importance of movement as part of mental health.
Join us on Monday, March 31 from 6-7:30 pm at the Putnam County Public Library Kiwanis Room for what we hope is an enlightening discussion and information session on this vital connection between our physical and mental health!
Let us know you’re coming; Free Food (with sign-up)
>>> Advance registration is requested, and a free box meal will be provided if you sign up here: <<<
Movement and Mental Health Box Dinner Sign-up
Get to know our Panelists:
Purdue’s Cooperative Extension’s Mission is to help limited resource communities and agencies in five areas Nutrition • Physical Activity • Food Safety • Food Security (hunger) • Food Resource Management (Stretching food dollars). And since we are grant-funded all services are free! We have three programs of education 1) Eat Smart Live Strong– this program is typically for older adults – 5 weeks of class. 2) Eat Smart and move more– this program is directed toward Families- 6 weeks of class. 3) Teen Cuisine– this program is for the teenagers grades 9 thru 12 – 6 weeks of class.

Lisa Miller: With 22 years of nursing experience, I have navigated a fulfilling career while pursuing higher education and maintaining an active lifestyle. In 2016, I initiated a bucket list goal to complete a half marathon in each of the 50 states, which I am scheduled to complete in Hawaii next month. Through regular physical activity, I’ve cultivated the mental clarity and resilience needed to tackle my goals head-on, leading to a more fulfilling and purpose-driven life.

After 25 years as a nationally recognized artist and teacher, Marla found a growing passion for healthy living through yoga. This passion grew stronger when she lost her husband to cancer in 2003. Marla felt the mind, body, and breath connection in yoga brought her the balance and healing she had been searching for.
So began her journey towards opening her own studio in 2012. Located in rural Indiana, Serendipity Yoga Studio provides a space to share the enriched awareness of self and the potency of that connection to nourish and heal the mind and body.

Helping Children/Co-Parenting Class
2025-04-15 17:45 - 20:30, 2025-05-20 17:45 - 20:30, 2025-06-17 17:45 - 20:30, 2025-07-15 17:45 - 20:30, 2025-08-19 17:45 - 20:30, 2025-09-16 17:45 - 20:30, 2025-10-21 17:45 - 20:30, 2025-11-18 17:45 - 20:30
We provide Putnam County Court-ordered classes for families with children living in separate households through divorce or separation of parents. Our Helping Children/Co-Parenting course offerings (abbreviated HCCP) is designed to help the parents and the children going through this change in family dynamics.

MHAoPC provides three services to the families involved in these situations: One course for parents, one for school-aged children, and one-on-one counseling for teens. This time block is for the co-occurring Parent and School-aged Children classes only.
****** PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!!! ******
The parents attend a co-parenting class which emphasizes cooperative, positive parenting and presents concrete tools and resources. The class covers techniques for keeping calm and minimizing stress as well as tips on how to communicate with your co-parent and your children. It also covers children’s developmental stages, and participants share, learn and interact with other participants to widen their parental skills.
Children aged 7 to 12 are supported through facilitator-led discussion and activities, plus materials for them to take home to help them with the transition. In this session the children view age-appropriate media involving family’s separation and divorce.

Awards and Celebration: MHAoPC's Annual Meeting
2025-05-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Music on the Square, 21 North Indiana St., Greencastle, IN, 46135, United States
Join us in learning about the wonderful work MHAoPC’s done this past year, get a pulse on the myriad efforts across the county and region in the mental health sphere, and celebrate the mental health Person of the Year! Our keynote speakers are Neysa Meyer and Sarah Stone from the Putnam County Community Foundation, speaking on the marvelous PCCF efforts towards mental health in our community!
We’ll be sharing wonderful information from MHA National’s 2025 Mental Health Awareness Month campaign, “Turning Awareness into Action”, and provide light refreshments as well.
Hope to see you there!
