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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
Mayors Wellness Campaign Mental Health Initiative
09/12/2025
In partnership with the New Jersey League of Municipalities, the Quality Institute’s Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) is issuing a request for proposals focused on addressing community mental health needs
Family With a Loved One Is In / Has Been in a State Hospital
09/11/2025
Connect with other family members who have or had a loved one in a NJ State Hospital........
Mental Health Awareness: Shedding Light on the Interplay between Suicide & Stigma
09/10/2025
Suicide awareness, prevention, and reducing stigma are crucial topics that can save lives and improve mental health outcomes.........
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 |