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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
Collaborative Support Services of New Jersey Words of Wellness October 2025
10/01/2025
October is a powerful month to turn inward, check in, and take meaningful steps toward nurturing wellness—specially our emotional and intellectual dimensions........
Mental Health Awareness: Shedding Light on the Interplay between Suicide & Stigma (Part 2)
09/24/2025
Suicide awareness, prevention, and reducing stigma are crucial topics that can save lives and improve mental health outcomes........
Suicide Prevention Awareness Month: Week 4 Promoting Dignity Through Connection
09/22/2025
As we wrap up Suicide Awareness Prevention Month, let’s honor the journeys and voices of those with lived experience—people who have faced mental health challenges, experienced suicidal thoughts, or survived the loss of a loved one to suicide.......
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 |