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Thank You for Supporting Us and Helping Us Raise Awareness for Children's Mental Health
We Appreciate Each and Every One of You!
The National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health would like to extend a special thank you to everyone who helped make this year's Children's Mental Health Awareness Week a HUGE success. Together we exposed stigma, and showed the nation that Mental Health Matters! Thank you for sporting your green ribbons, sharing facts and resources, taking awareness photos and holding awareness events in your community!
We will continue to raise awareness all month (all year, and all decade long)! Please continue to send us your awareness events and photos and we will be sure to post them! Together we will #EndStigma!
We Will Continue To Expose Stigma with Facebook Likes!
Like us at www.facebook.com/NationalFederation and help us Expose Stigma! Once you "like" the page, be sure to follow the arrow and click the "DONATE" button and commit to donating a minimum of just $1.00!
Help us show how a little can go a long way if we ban together, community by community, person by person. With small efforts from our communities, we can make a BIG difference to eradicate mental health stigma in our nation!
National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week Picture Gallery - View Highlights from the Week
We've compiled this list of images from around the country, highlighting some of the great moments from National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week 2013. Click on each image to view the image in a larger lightbox. If you have images from your events that you would like showcased, please email Corey Brown at cbrown@ffcmh.org
Children's Mental Health Matters - Baltimore Flash Mob 2013
National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week '13
100,00 Green Ribbons!
THANK YOU to everyone who purchased green ribbons to pass out in their communities -- we are officially sold out. Thanks to your efforts, there are now 100,000 more people aware that Children's Mental Health Matters!Curious to know who is advocating for Children's Mental Health? Take a look at this group entitled "Where's Your Ribbon?", created by one of our Facebook members. It gives you an idea of where our ribbons have been distributed. You can even post your own pictures and stories about what you are doing while wearing your green Children's Mental Health Awareness ribbon! Check it out!
Theme - Out of the Shadows: Exposing Stigma
With the spotlight shining on the critical need for mental health care reform in our country, we must also educate the nation about children's mental health and promote comprehensive, grass-root efforts to eradicate scrutiny, discrimination and repercussions that deter our children, youth and families in need of care from seeking consistent help.
Our goal is to keep mental health a part of national dialogue 365 days a year. Plans are underway for a year-long conversation on the matteas we develop interactive online and in-print awareness materials that will debunk myths and expose the often unspoken stigmas that plague our families, bringing mental health out of the shadows and into our everyday conversations to improve the health of our nation.
Be sure to visit this website, awarenessweek.ffcmh.org and our main website, www.ffcmh.org often for National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week activity updates.