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Building Capacity for Farm Stress Resilient Communities

Name: Building Capacity for Farm Stress Resilient Communities
Start: 2024-07-24T03:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-07-24T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Virtual online event

July 24, 2024 @ 3:00 am - 5:00 pm

Farmers experience high levels of stress and suicide risk, complicated by strong values of independence and stoicism. In addition, farmer time demands make it unlikely that many will attend stress management programming. The Farm Stress Production Meeting (FSPM) model infuses conversations on stress into existing commodity production meetings to provide stress management skills to farmers in acceptable and time-efficient ways.

Staff members from the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and the University of Georgia will discuss the Farm Stress Production Meeting Model (FSPM) and how the future well-being of farmers can be improved by developing healthy coping mechanisms and stress reduction techniques that can lead to a reduction in farm stress.

Our presenters:
Jennifer Dunn currently serves as deputy assistant commissioner for the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. She previously worked as the University of Georgia’s rural health agent for the southwest district of UGA Extension. Jennifer is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a recipient of the Intensive Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia Certification at the Aaron T. Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Philadelphia, and a trainer for Mental Health First Aid and QPR. In her current role, Jennifer is helping advance the vision and mission of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities in the southern part of the state with a focus on rural communities.

Benjamin Reeves is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. He studied horticulture at Auburn University followed by entomology at the University of Georgia. He started working for UGA Extension in 2018 in Candler County and moved to Berrien County in 2019. Benjamin works in several cropping systems including cotton, peanut, tobacco, and watermelon.

A question & answer period is scheduled after the presentation.