National Mental Illness Awareness Week: Break the Stigma
In 1990, Congress dedicated one week per year as Mental Illness Awareness Week “in recognition of efforts by the National Alliance on Mental Illness [NAMI] to educate and increase awareness about mental illness.” This week, October 7-13, is Mental Illness Awareness week. Almost every one of us knows someone who struggles with a mental illness. […]
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The goal is to facilitate early identification of those experiencing extreme states in order to decrease the duration for untreated symptoms and reduce disruption to the young person’s psychosocial development through a collaborative, recovery oriented intervention.