Mental Illness Awareness Week
Do you know how to manage a mental health crisis?
It’s important for individuals who have mental health conditions and their family members/loved ones to know what to do in case of a mental health crisis or emergency. Click here to download “Navigating a Mental Health Crisis: A NAMI Resource Guide for Those Experiencing A Mental Health Emergency” to learn potentially life-saving information for people experiencing mental health crises and their loved ones. This guide outlines what can contribute to a crisis, warning signs that a crisis is emerging, strategies to help de-escalate a crisis, available resources and so much more.
Join us for our 3rd Annual
Walk for Awareness
Saturday, October 20th
Click here for more information and to register
Thank you to our Gold Sponsors
Join Us on Tuesday, October 9th at 6:30pm for our Annual Candlelight Vigil
at St. Michael’s Catholic Church – 1225 National Rd, Wheeling
We will take a moment to pause from our busy lives to remember those who live life with a mental illness and those who have lost their lives due to a mental illness.
Our guest speaker is Jacqui Platt-Hores, a cast member from This Is My Brave, Wheeling. Jacqui will speak about living with anxiety and depression. She is a wife, mother and stepmother and has discovered that the more she opens up about living with her challenges, the more she is able to manage them and help others as well. An administrative professional at Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center, Jacqui is a resident of Wheeling.
Don’t let Curiosity Kill the Kid in You
When I was five, I had an imaginary friend. By the time I was ten, I played “mommy” during a never-ending game of house with my best friends. Thirteen came and I wanted a job like my mom and dad—money, money, money was all I heard. Sixteen saw society too soon. It was the world I thought I had to live in and wanted nothing to do with. I was so busy waiting Read More
