What’s Your Connection?

We all face tough times. Ongoing stress from tough times can lead to poor health and other challenges as the brain adapts to survive. Yet, science shows that caring relationships can change these outcomes.

Make connections

• Put down your smartphone and spend 15 minutes non-electronic time with a child

• Share a meal or cup of coffee with friends

• Contact a friend to ask how they are doing

• Offer an encouraging smile to a parent whose child is throwing a tantrum at the store

• Play a rule-based game with a young child

• Introduce yourself to someone you’ve seen before in your neighborhood but never said hi to

• Connect with a young parent and make a plan to do something (shopping, take a walk, lunch)

attend a Workshop

Our interactive, evidence-based workshops explain how stress impacts the brain and why relationships improve individual and community well-being. Attendees will leave with practical ideas for taking action in their work, faith, neighborhood and friend networks.

Request a Connections Matter workshop in your community by clicking here.

If you are in North Carolina or West Virginia please use this form to request a Connections Matter workshop.