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Mental Health Advocates Share Stigmas They Face as a Person of Color with Mental Illness

Aug 06, 2018

In the world of mental health awareness, there are myriad stigmas that make it harder to get treatment. For people of color who live with mental illness, those stigmas can be compounding.

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NNED Partner of the Month

Aug 01, 2018

Young People in Recovery (YPR) has been selected as the Partner of the Month for August. This nation-wide organization is working to provide training, create networks, and bringing recovery support services to communities, families, and individuals.

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Can Story Circles Build Support for Solutions Across Class and Racial Divides?

Jul 31, 2018

‘Story Circles’ brought wildly diverse residents face to face in intimate settings to talk about housing, hear one another and envision the way forward. It was an experiment in deep listening, radical hospitality and bridge-building.

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NNED Virtual Roundtable: Funding Your Behavioral Health Equity Work: How, What, and With Whom?

Jul 23, 2018

Join the NNED on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. EST for this Virtual Roundtable to help NNED partners, especially smaller organizations, enhance their capacity to seek and secure funding!

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Inclusion in Rural Faith Circles through Mental Health Education

Jul 20, 2018

Often, in lieu of clinical sources of aid, African Americans turn to spiritual advisors and circles instead. At God’s Way Christian Baptist Church, however, Eugenia and her son found both. Eugenia shared, “They don’t stigmatize people there. God’s Way truly embraced my children and encouraged them to use their talents.”

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