Press release:
Mental Health Dignity Dialogues
May 10 in Aston Park, Asheville
Mental health activists in eight states are organizing to dialogue about dignity and mental health treatment as part of the annual celebration of Mental Health Month. In North Carolina groups will meet Saturday, May 10, in Aston Park, at French Broad and Hilliard in Asheville from 4 to 6 p.m. Participants are asked to bring blankets or chairs and the first name of someone who has been lost to suicide, or who is struggling or missing, for a closing remembrance vigil.
The idea started when a group of people in recovery from mental illness began talking about the need to raise their voices “to promote the dignity of every person and to continue the fight against the prejudice and discrimination associated with mental health conditions,” said one of the state organizers. Soon the idea spread to California, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia.
Mental Health Dignity Day is a national partner with Creating Community Solutions, which is supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the White House as a part of the National Dialogue on Mental Health. To find out more visit http://www.mentalhealthdignityday.org .
Local hosts of the Dignity Dialogues in Asheville are Magnetic Minds, a Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance support group, meeting on Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons at Family Preservation Service on Patton Avenue and the Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective which meets on Tuesdays at the Eagle St. Coffee Emporium. Visitwww.ashevilleradicalmentalhealth.net and www.magneticminds.weebly.com.
For information about the Dialogue on Dignity in Aston Park, contact (828) 545-8321 or (828) 575-2549.
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