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What’s New from the Council
- October 4 - 10 Mental Illness Awareness Week: New Issue of Stopping Stigma Features Insights and Recommendations for Eliminating Stigma from Mental Health Experts and Individuals with Lived Experience
- Sharing personal success stories is the best way to eliminate stigma. Please click here to submit your story to be considered as a new post on this website.
“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:
NJ must break silence on suicide. So, I’m sharing my story.
by Shauna Fuzez
NJ must break silence on suicide. So, I’m sharing my story.” – Opinion editorial by Shauna Fuzes, Vice President, Public Affairs and Member Services, New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies, and a Board Member for Attitudes In Reverse® - Click here to read this article on NorthJersey.com or here to access a pdf of it.
Upcoming Events
ICMS Conference, Building Resilience: Strengthening Skills for Today’s Case Manager
11/12/2026
ICMS Conference, Building Resilience: Strengthening Skills for Today’s Case Manager – Not only for ICMS providers – Nov. 12, 2026, at the FEA Conference Center, Monroe Township, NJ. Click here for details on the program, as well as sponsorship, exhibiting and advertising opportunities.
Save the Date: Standing Strong Together to Elevate Behavioral Health
10/20/2026
New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies’ Fall Conference, Standing Strong Together to Strengthen Behavioral Health, October 20, 2026, at the APA Hotel Woodbridge, Iselin, NJ – Click here for details on the program, as well as sponsorship, exhibiting and advertising opportunities.
Council News
October 4 -10, 2026 is Mental Illness Awareness Week
10/04/2026
October 4-10 Is Mental Illness Awareness Week: New Issue of Stopping Stigma Features Insights and Recommendations for Eliminating Stigma from Mental Health Experts and Individuals with Lived Experience
08/21/2026
Stopping Stigma (May 2026) features new Council members and insights and resources that support first responders and their family members.
Stronger than Stigma: Mental Health Resources for First Responders
02/12/2026
On February 12, 2026, the New Jersey Governor's Council on Mental Health Stigma hosted a webinar, Stronger than Stigma: Mental Health Resources for First Responders.