Mental Health Awareness for Community Development among Parents towards Responsible Parenting

Abstract

Extending community extension programs at present is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic hence, the College of Arts, Sciences, and Technology embraced new strategies in extending learnings to the community in accordance with the strict implementation of health protocol. With the advent of technology, the College was able to materialize its first webinar extension programs in partnership with the Parents Teachers Association of Basic Education Department of Occidental Mindoro State College. The extension program aims to educate the parents on the importance of their mental health as well as ways of guarding their children’s mental health. The conduct of the extension activities covered various methods of interventions using an online platform.

The intervention program covered different topics that focus on mental health specifically with the integration of experiential learning to give the audience the opportunity to know exactly how to understand Student’s Stress Anxiety and Depression (SAD), Positive Parenting, and Mindfulness of Parents.  The intervention program was conducted through lectures, discussion, question and answer, and experiential learning methods. As a result, the overall training evaluation obtained an overall mean of 4.73, which means it is very highly effective. Furthermore, to sustain the program, it must be extended with other organizations to improve service delivery.