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What’s New from the Council
• Behavioral Healthcare Leaders Share Strategies and Inspire Collaboration at the Council’s 20th Anniversary Celebration – Click here for event highlights and photos, and here to watch the event video.
• The Council encourages everyone to participate in the Sing! for Mental Health Project! Click here for details!
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor and more unashamed conversation.”
— Glenn Close
“We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear.”
— Tipper Gore
“Mental health problems don’t define who you are . They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain but you are not the rain.”
— Matt Haig
Stories Inspiring Progress
The best way to eliminate stigma is to educate individuals about mental health and mental illnesses, especially the fact that mental illnesses are real, just like physical health conditions, and should not incite any judgment or discrimination. Such education should include individuals’ success stories.
The New Jersey Governor’s Council on Mental Health Stigma invites individuals to share their inspiring stories.
Here is one of many examples:
There is hope for you as there was for me
by Emily
Emily: Grossman, MA, CPRP, a member of the Council, Senior Training and Consultation Specialist at Rutgers School of Health Professions, and author of Unlocked: 25 Keys to Recovering from Depression, Anxiety or Bipolar Disorder
Upcoming Events
2025 Suicide Prevention Awareness Month Toolkit
09/01/2025
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month—a time to raise awareness, promote hope, and normalize help-seeking. Suicide affects millions of people every year, yet too many struggle in silence........
The Cohanzick Lenape Story Symposium 2025
08/27/2025
Join us for an in-depth exploration of Native American cultural heritage: traditions, arts, stories and teachings,with a special focus on the Lenape people who remain in South Jersey.....
Back to School for Teachers and Staff Facebook Live
08/20/2025
The Erie County Anti-Stigma Coalition presents a Facebook Live on Wednesday, August 20 from 12pm to 1pm. The event is free and open to the public.
Council News
Behavioral Healthcare Leaders Share Strategies and Inspire Collaboration at the Council’s 20th Anniversary Celebration – Click here for event highlights and photos, and here to watch the event video. highlights
07/16/2025
Behavioral Healthcare Leaders Share Strategies and Inspire Collaboration at the Council’s 20th Anniversary Celebration – Click here for event highlights and photos, and here to watch the event video.
Teen suicide: Tellone explains how we can all work together to save our youth
11/15/2024
Honoree at Mental Health Association of N.J.’s Evening of Excellence, details impact her group, the Society of the Prevention of Teen Suicide, is having
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Tom Bergeron |
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ROI-NJ |