Mental Health Stigma
STARS for Children's Mental Health wants YOU to join the fight against stigma!
There are many ways you can help. Here are just a few:
Develop your own Anti-Stigma Campaign
Do you facilitate or are you part of a youth group? STARS can help you develop your own anti-stigma/mental health awareness campaign. Depending on your plans and activities STARS can help cover costs of supplies and can provide stipends for your efforts! Click here for more information!
Educate
Stigma stems from a lack of awareness and education. People aren't aware that mental illness is a common and real issue. This is why STARS is committed to providing mental health education to the area. You can help fight stigma by collaborting with STARS to develop trainings in your area or within your orgranzation. Contact Tara Freed, STARS Training Coordinator, for more information.
Plan an activity
Plan an activity that will get everyone you know excited about mental health awareness. Click here to view ideas. Make sure to contact STARS if you need help developing or implementing mental health month activites.
Get free materials
Click here to download a "Healthy from Head to Toe" flyer.
Click here to download "Healthy from Head to Toe" bookmarks for kids.
Click here to download "Healthy from Head to Toe" bookmarks for teens.
Click here to download our "Mental Health Month Activity Guide."
If you are from Benton, Stearns, Sherburne or Wright counties, STARS may also be able to provide you with free materials like pencils, wristbands, bookmarks and more! Contact Tara at tfreed@cmmhc.com or call (763) 271-5323 to get more information.
These are just a few of our ideas - if you have your own ideas and want our help please let us know!
Anti-Stigma: Do you know the facts?
SAMHSA National Mental Health Information Center
Stigma is not just a matter of using the wrong word or action. Stigma is about disrespect. It is the use of negative labels to identify a person living with mental illness. Stigma is a barrier. Fear of stigma, and the resulting discrimination, discourages individuals and their families from getting the help they need. An estimated 22 to 23 percent of the U.S. population experience a mental disorder in any given year, but almost half of these individuals do not seek treatment (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2002; U.S. Surgeon General, 2001). Read more...
What is stigma and discrimination?
ADS Center - Resource Center to address stigma and discrimination
Stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness may mean something different to each individual. Click here to find a number of definitions to help explain what many may encounter.
Campaigns and Programs
ADS Center - Resource Center to address stigma and discrimination
Groups around the world, and in your own backyard, have made the reduction and elimination of discrimination and stigma a priority. Click here to learn how they did it and how you can do it too.
Research
ADS Center - Resource Center to address stigma and discrimination
Research is conducted on discrimination and stigma associated with mental illnesses. Click here for articles, fact sheets, brochures, books and research provided on issues such as employment, housing, healthcare, the media and many more.
Organizations
ADS Center - Resource Center to address stigma and discrimination
There are many resource organizations focused on discrimination and/or stigma as it relates to mental illness, with specific initiatives to help landlords, employers, insurers, healthcare providers, educators, and others better understand mental illnesses, the people who have them, and their rights. Click here to learn more.
Elimination of Barriers Initiative (EBI)
ADS Center - Resource Center to address stigma and discrimination
The prejudices held by many members of society has helped create a discriminatory social climate for persons with mental illnesses, making it much more difficult to sustain employment, find a home, obtain health insurance, or achieve a basic quality of life. Because of this, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) launched the Elimination of Barriers Initiative (EBI) to identify effective approaches in addressing the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illnesses. Click here to learn more.
What a difference a friend makes
SAMHSA
This site is here for people living with mental illness—and their friends. You'll find tools to help in the recovery process, and you can also learn about the different kinds of mental illnesses, read real-life stories about support and recovery, and interact with the video to see how friends can make all the difference. Click here to learn more.
NAMI StigmaBusters
NAMI StigmaBusters is a network of dedicated advocates across the country and around the world who seek to fight inaccurate and hurtful representations of mental illness. Click here to learn more.
Redesigned Web Site Helps Users Find More Than 600 Resources Devoted to Countering Mental Health Stigma
SAMHSA’s redesigned Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma Associated with Mental Illness is available online with a new library of more than 600 resources. The improved ADS Center Web site features information and advice to help individuals and organizations counter discrimination and stigma associated with mental illness. The centerpiece of the redesigned Web site is a still growing online library of research articles, brochures, fact sheets, toolkits and other resource items. Content is now organized by both topic and audience to help users quickly navigate to items that meet their needs. Materials and playback information for more than 25 teleconference training events are archived on the site, and an interactive map showcases programs around the country that aim to reduce discrimination and stigma associated with mental illness. Click here to access the site.
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