Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:00pm to 5:00pm Arizona and Pacific; 7:00pm to 8:00pm Eastern Join GSUSA for Campfire Chat: A New Decade of Leadership on how leadership is defined, aspired to, and prepared for in our country. We’ll convene a panel of Girl Scout alums from a variety of industries in order to get a… Read more »
Kristyn Wellesley, a newsroom leader with deep experience in fact-checking, audience development and collaboration, will run The Carter Center Mental Health Program’s solutions-based, 5-newsroom U.S. collaborative on national access to mental health services and how lack of access is impacting local communities. To learn more about Kristyn, click here.
Click here for the Independent Lens Newsletter. Shot over five years, this critically acclaimed Sundance favorite takes viewers inside Los Angeles County’s overwhelmed and under-resourced psych ER, to a nearby jail warehousing thousands of psychiatric patients, to the homeless encampments and homes of people affected by severe mental illness – including the filmmaker’s own sister. Directed,… Read more »
A Letter from Dr. Ravi Grivois-Shah, November 18, 2020: Dear SAAF Community, I’m writing today to share good news…. As many of you may have already heard, the voters of Tucson have elected me to serve on the TUSD Governing Board! The Tucson Unified School District, with over 40,000 students, is the largest school district… Read more »
The second installation of the “Shattering Stigma” project was done recently – a project funded by the Greater Toledo Community Foundation (GTCF) and a collaboration between artist Gail Christofferson of Animal House Glass Studio and Zepf Center. Unique to this installation are QR codes embedded in the piece that allow viewers to get more information… Read more »
Of 1740 films submitted by 112 countries, Ernie & Joe was one of four acknowledged at the International Public Health Film Competition 2020. http://publichealthfilms.org/international-public-health-film-competition-2020/
Click here to read an article on Orchestrating Change in the Oregon Artswatch newsletter.
Arizona Public Media and NAMI Southern Arizona invite you to join us for a special virtual screening of Bedlam. Tuesday, October 27 at 6:30 pm Based on the critically-acclaimed book with the same title, this feature-length documentary from Independent Lens immerses us in the national crisis surrounding care of the severely mentally ill through intimate stories of… Read more »
COVID-19 Creates Unique Challenges for Older LGBTQ+ People: UA SIROW Researchers Share Pioneering Survey Results After a lifetime of fighting for their basic human rights, aging LGBTQ+ people face a whole new series of social and medical challenges. We can now add COVID-19 to that list of hurdles. Quickly recognizing unique threats the corona virus… Read more »
Featured September 2020 “Informed journalists can have a significant impact on public understanding of mental health issues as they shape debate and trends with the words and pictures they convey.” -Rosalynn Carter Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has been a steadfast advocate for parity and improving the lives of those living with mental health disorders.… Read more »