St. Clair County Community Mental Health (SCCCMH) is forming a Teen Advisory Group (TAG) for local high school students. The group will focus on mental health advocacy, education, and awareness ...
TAMPA (Bloom) – The key to long-term success is protecting your mental health, which prevents burnout, helps you maintain focus and improves overall performance. Entertainer, Actor, and Wellness ...
Los Angeles Times: Project Awaaz: Dayna Altman on mental health advocacy and storytelling through ‘Bake It Till You Make It’
Project Awaaz: Dayna Altman on mental health advocacy and storytelling through ‘Bake It Till You Make It’
WTOL: Student turns personal loss into mental health advocacy through clothing brand
Engineering News-Record: Construction Suicide Prevention Efforts Grow as AEC Firms Focus on Mental Health Care
Construction Suicide Prevention Efforts Grow as AEC Firms Focus on Mental Health Care
EurekAlert!: August Issues of APA journals feature new research on psychiatric genetics, telehealth prescribing of controlled substances, mental health advocacy, and more
August Issues of APA journals feature new research on psychiatric genetics, telehealth prescribing of controlled substances, mental health advocacy, and more
The Advocate: Community: Mental health, suicide awareness is focus of Inter-Civic Council May meeting
Community: Mental health, suicide awareness is focus of Inter-Civic Council May meeting
Press-Telegram: Pinch of Salt: Fosters get well-deserved honor for mental health advocacy
NewarkAdvocate.com: Advanced Health & Education Announces New Management and Renewed Focus on Mental Health Services
Advanced Health & Education Announces New Management and Renewed Focus on Mental Health Services
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Children’s Advocacy Center of Benton County to use grant for mental health training
Children’s Advocacy Center of Benton County to use grant for mental health training
The Oakland Press on MSN: OU student receives advocacy award for campus mental health work
The Maui News: Nominees sought for Mental Health advocacy leaders in Hawaii
WHO fact sheet on mental disorders, including sections on anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorders, disruptive behaviour and dissocial disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, risk factors, health systems and social support, as well as WHO's work in these areas.
mental health support in non-health settings, including child protection services, school health programmes, and prisons. The vast care gap for common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety means countries must also explore innovative approaches to expand and diversify care.
WHO’s Mental Health Atlas is a periodic survey and report of countries’ mental health policies and programmes, laws, information systems, financing, workforce and services.
The document is an opening commentary authored by Dévora Kestel, Director of the Department of Mental Health, Brain Health, and Substance Use at the World Health Organisation. It discusses the prominence of mental health in the preparations for the upcoming UN General Assembly high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in September 2025.
Mental health and NCDs: A shared but differentiated agenda for the 2025 ...
Leaders from across the world at the Eightieth United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) have adopted the political declaration to combat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health challenges through a fully integrated approach. This is the outcome of the intergovernmental negotiations in advance of and considered by the fourth high-level meeting of the UNGA on the prevention and control ...
Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders. Mental health is an integral part of health; indeed, there is no health without mental health. Mental health is determined by a range of socioeconomic, biological and environmental factors. Cost-effective public health and intersectoral strategies and interventions exist to promote, protect and restore mental health.
Good mental health is related to mental and psychological well-being. WHO’s work to improve the mental health of individuals and society at large includes the promotion of mental well-being, the prevention of mental disorders, the protection of human rights and the care of people affected by mental disorders.
Mental health Mental health is an integral part of health; it is more than the absence of mental illnesses. It is the foundation for well-being and effective functioning of individuals. It includes mental well-being, prevention of mental disorders, treatment and rehabilitation. WHO estimates that the burden of mental health problems in India is 2443 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) per ...
WHO’s Mental Health Policy and Strategic Action Plan Guidance and WHO/OHCHR Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation provide complementary, rights-based frameworks for reform. Both call for coordinated policy and legislative changes to close care gaps, eliminate coercion, and build systems rooted in dignity, autonomy, and inclusion.
Mental health is critically important for everyone, everywhere, and goes beyond the mere absence of a mental health condition. It is integral to well-being, enabling people to realize their full potential, show resilience amidst adversity, be productive across the various settings of daily life, form meaningful relationships and contribute to their communities.
Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community. It has intrinsic and instrumental value and is integral to our well-being. At any one time, a diverse set of individual, family, community and structural factors may combine to protect or undermine mental ...
Dayna Altman is a baker, speaker, author, and mental health advocate, stirring up conversations to support healing, vulnerability, and recovery. She spoke on a podcast, Keep Calm and Mental Health On, ...
The silence surrounding mental health struggles is finally breaking. Across America, a growing movement of advocates is dismantling decades of shame and misconception through the simple yet ...
TOLEDO, Ohio — An Owens Community College nursing student turns heartbreak into activism through a clothing brand aimed at supporting people struggling with mental health. Kylee Perry, a double major ...
WVEC: Mental health advocate pushes for open conversations during Suicide Prevention Month
The increasing prevalence of mental health issues among teen youth, including the tragedy of suicide and its heartbreaking impacts on families, took center stage at the May 13 meeting of the ...
Brattleboro Reformer: Brattleboro Retreat Gala will honor mental health advocate Elizabeth Catlin