Created July 2016

Multicultural Mental Health Awareness:

FACTS and TIPS to GET HELP#B4Stage4

Presented by NAMI PA, Main Line, an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness

Note: Content is adapted from material provided by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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Bebe Moore Campbell, a champion for mental health education and support among individuals of diverse communities, was an African American author who co-founded NAMI Urban Los Angeles and received NAMI’s 2003 Outstanding Media Award for Literature. She died in 2006.

Campbell believed that the United States needed a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially a campaign targeted toward African Americans. In 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives proclaimed July as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month.

Today, National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month is dedicated to raising mental health awareness and combatting the stigma associated with mental health within all diverse cultures and communities, across all age groups and genders.

Visit www.nami.org/minoritymentalhealth to find ways to take part in activities for #MinorityMentalHealth month.

July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

Mental health affects everyone regardless of culture, race, age, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation.

Additional Challenges for LGBTQ community

1 in every 5 children ages 13-18 have or will have a serious mental health condition. For tips on how to talk with teens about their mental health visit: http://www.slideshare.net/NAMIPAMainLine/tips-for-talking-about-mental-health-with-a-child-or-teen

Multicultural communities often face unique issues when getting care for mental health.

“It’s not shameful to have amental illness. Get treatment.Recovery is possible.”—Bebe Moore Campbell

Mental Health can affect many areas of your life: home, work, school and relationships

Find a Mental Health Care Provider Who Can Understand Your Cultural Background

Find a Mental Health Care Provider Who Can Understand Your Cultural Background

Tips for Finding a Culturally Competent Provider

Let others know that there is hope and understanding.

Promote acceptance and actively challenge social stereotypes. You can change the way the world sees mental health.

Pledge to be Stigmafree! Individuals, companies, organizations and others can all take the pledge to learn more about mental illness, to see a person for who they are and take action on mental health issues. Learn more at http://www.nami.org/stigmafree#pledge

Share resources: Visit www.nami.org to find a chapter of the National Alliance on Mental

Illness located near you. If you are in the Greater Philadelphia area, visit Main Line NAMI online at

www.NAMIpaMainLine.org for support, educational events, education and support programs for family members, information on mental illness, treatment and coping, advocacy and guides to services in southeastern Pennsylvania.

If you are an African-American person of faith, we recommend the slide deck Mental Illness (& Health): What We Need to Know & Do to Cope – A Faith-Based African-American Perspective

You can help others in your community, regardless of culture, race, ethnicity, gender

and sexual orientation

Additional Resources:Mental Health Stories and

Perspectives Shared on Film

Short video stories, available at http://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/National-Minority-Mental-Health-Awareness-Month/Minority-Mental-Health-Stories, include:

African American NAMI leaders’ perspectives on mental health recovery and support.

Spanish-language testimony from NAMI Latino leaders on the hope of recovery for families and individuals

living with mental illness.

LGBTQ NAMI leaders and supporters sharing their experiences and perspectives on mental health recovery

and support.

Amanda Wang, founder of RethinkBPD, budding filmmaker, and boxer: "This fight is the reason that I am

alive.“

Jessica Gimeno, who tells of experiences at the intersection of racism and stigma.

Masipula Sithole Jr., who describes the power of music in healing and demonstrates with a kalimba (also

known as a thumb piano) from his native Zimbabwe.

New York Times profile of NAMI President, Keris Myrick from the 2011 series Lives Restored.

Created July 2016

Presented by NAMI PA, Main Line an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

NAMI is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

Visit NAMI online at www.nami.org

Visit www.NAMIpaMainLine.org for resources, including support and education resources for the Greater Philadelphia area. info@NAMIpaMainLine.org

267-251-6240

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