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Community Building Highlights
“The Art of Healing in the New Millennium.”
The National Artists for Mental Health, Inc., NAMH, offered a unique event in mental health recovery at their third annual conference early this spring. They hosted over 40 workshops, keynotes and other presentations with a concentration on the mind, body and spirit. NAMH’S founder, Frank Marquit, stated, “from expressive painting, dance and drama to yoga, meditation and nutrition, these self-help approaches focus on the whole self, and when incorporated into existing recovery plans, they encompass a much more effective means to attain true wholeness and wellness.”
Proceedings of the First World Conference on Mental Health and Deafness:
Coming Together for a Better Tomorrow
This report was released in 1999 by Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. A multinational group of about 480 hearing and deaf people from more than 25 countries participated. The meeting explored effective methods to meet the mental health needs of people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing by sharing current knowledge, identifying gaps in the knowledge base, and developing a national and global agenda for future research in the area of mental health and deafness. A limited number of copies of the proceedings are available. Contact Carole Schauer at 301-443-8304 if you desire a copy of the report.
National Stigma Clearinghouse web site targets sources of information about stigma. Check out this web site, community.webtv.net/stigmanet, that tracks stigmatizing stereotypes of mental illness and provides information to activists concerned about stigma. The Clearinghouse’s focus on inaccurate images of mental illness in news, advertising, and entertainment media has broadened since inception in 1990 to include a clippings and articles file on stigma and related topics. It furnishes this information on request to consumer/survivors, mental health organizations, educators, students, lawyers, researchers, families, and professionals in the mental health field. Take a look at the web site which features positive visibility items that highlight successes of consumers/survivors and consumer/survivor groups to offer a stereotype-shattering presence of groups and individuals who are authentic spokespersons for the mental health community.
Consumer Affairs Bulletin
Volume 4, No. 2 Spring 2000
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