Program Updates
To help reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the cancelation or postponement of all events and gatherings of 50 or more people over the next eight weeks. As a result, the County of SLO Behavioral Health Department is postponing all in person trainings and events. This includes all SLO County Friday Night Live programming, including chapter meetings, events, and Board meetings. Thank you for your understanding at this time!
Get the latest news and information about COVID-19 in SLO County from www.readyslo.org
For information about Behavioral Health Services during the Coronavirus outbreak, visit www.slocounty.ca.gov/BHCovid19
If you are in crisis, please call the SLO Hotline at (800)783-0607. You may also call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or text HELLO to 741-741.
To begin behavioral health services, please call the access line at (800) 838-1381.
For information about San Luis Obispo County schools, visit the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education website or your school district’s website (linked below)
School breakfast and lunch programs are continuing throughout the region. Please check your district’s communication for updated information or follow this link to the list being provided by the
San Luis Obispo County Office of Education:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lqto4rwYdn5h8zzC0nyp3zsxNcwN7B5jTdUVwG5tdGM/edit
Make a Mood Board
Get in touch with your creative side and make a moodboard! Choose a topic (leadership, FNL, mental health, traffic safety, etc.) and find words and photos that inspire you on that topic. Maybe you’re reflecting on what makes you a good leader, maybe you want to make something for mental health month, the sky is the limit!
Make sure to share your boards with us on Instagram and FB @slo.fnl so we can feature your creations!
Digital Kick Butts Day Activities
Just because you're at home doesn't mean you can't participate in Kick Butts Day on March 20th!
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Goto considertheconsequences.ca and complete their interactive activities about vaping.
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Visit truthinitiative.org to learn about tobacco use in the media. Then try an experiment of your own and count how many times you see tobacco or vaping products used on TV. Were you surprised? Does it match what you see in real life?
Chair Hat Toss
Like Horse Shoe toss, but indoors!
Turn over a kitchen chair so that its legs stick up.
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Find a hat — baseball is best but winter and cowboy work.
Try to throw the hat onto the legs of the chair.
That’s it. Want to complicate it a bit? Give each leg a point value.
Kahoot
Test your knowledge and challenge your friends or family members to a round of Kahoot on some of our favorite FNL topics!
Mental Health: https://create.kahoot.it/share/mental-health-high-school/a1a9b114-c731-4d56-af35-e96b8e98aee9
Drugs & Alcohol: https://create.kahoot.it/share/atod-for-high-school/28e0f8d5-267c-4ac3-9554-7f1e91978fe5
Indoor Scavenger Hunt
Create a scavenger hunt to play on your own or with your family members! Begin by sitting down and brainstorming 20 commonly found household items (a fork, a photo album, a toothbrush, etc.). Then, write all those items down on a list so that everyone in the group has the same list of items. Once you have the list ready, set a timer and send everyone out to find those items. First player to find all the items is the winner! Don't want to make your own list, find some at
Glitter Jar
When we cannot find the words to describe how we feel or what we are thinking, it helps to find other ways to demonstrate the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
A glitter jar is one of the most powerful visual metaphors for that connection; it illustrates how mindfulness—the cultivation of stillness in the face of swirling chaos of life—affects us. This activity is helpful for all ages!
