💚Mental Health Awareness Week💚
This week the theme is how moving can make you feel better.
Just completed my lunchtime spin, 20 mins, 5.2 miles, enough to get my heart rate up and de-work for a bit 🚴🏻♀️
What will you do today to get moving and help your mind?
#mentalhealthawarenessweek#momentsformovement
June is Men's Health Month, and it's time to spotlight the health challenges that men face and the importance of early detection and treatment.
Stigma around men’s health means men are less likely to seek out help to receive a diagnosis. Men are actively discouraged to share their feelings, but it is important for men to openly talk about and address their mental health challenges.
Join Behavior Therapy Associates in raising awareness and supporting the fathers, brothers, and friends in our lives by encouraging open discussions about mental well-being, preventive health care, and healthy living.
#MensHealthMonth#MentalHealthAwareness
Today is 'Hello, How Are You?' Day and we are delighted to have partnered with Mental Health Ireland to help spread awareness.
Hello, How Are You? is a campaign about connecting with those around you and engaging in open conversations about mental health. It’s about asking the question, ‘How Are You?’ with meaning, and really listening to the response.
Well done to everyone involved! See our video below:
https://lnkd.in/ejGpwYt9#hellohowareyou
There's still tickets left for next week's #ICSLearningNetwork session on #supportedhousing and #mentalhealth - but not many.
This learning summit, chaired by our very own Ewan King, will explore how ICSs and Integrated Care Boards in particular, can bring together housing, social care, primary, community and hospital care to better support local people living with mental health issues.
Ideas, like lives, are #BetterSharedhttps://bit.ly/493mAyL
Attention C Suite executives and Human Resources.... have you checked on the policies that you offer to your employees? What is the coverage offered for mental health care? You might find this resource from NAMI helpful.
Parity — covering mental health care at the same level as other health care — has been a priority throughout NAMI’s history.
Despite laws requiring it, new research confirms that the promise of true parity has not yet been achieved.
Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/3xNbujS
Purpose-driven Experience Design Strategy Leader obsessed with CX | Elevating mental health care focused on clinician and patient experience | On a mission to improve mental healthcare systems ❤️🩹 | Podcast Speaker
From personal experience and as an investor into mental health care my awareness is heightened on this disparity.
✴️ Let me put this as straightforward as I can: it is a matter of life and death. Period.
☝🏼 While patients can’t financially afford out of network, they can’t afford to wait in long waiting lines for in network either, their life depends on timely treatment.
☝🏼 While providers want to help, their hands are tied so to speak, as they feel the impact of sustaining a living with this type of health insurance disparity.
“The report, which covers commercial insurance data for over 22 million Americans between 2019 and 2021, found:
👉🏼People are forced to seek care from higher cost, out-of-network providers for mental health and substance use treatment – at far higher rates than for other medical and surgical care. Out-of-network network use was 3.5 times higher for mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) treatment compared to medical/surgical (M/S) treatment, meaning people with mental illness have to pay more for their care.
👉🏼Mental health providers are routinely paid less than other M/S providers. Average in-network office visit reimbursement was 22 percent higher for M/S clinicians than for MH/SUD clinicians, disincentivizing MH/SUD providers from joining insurance networks and making it harder for people to access mental health care within their network. “
The struggle is real. But we cannot give up. Read on…
Parity — covering mental health care at the same level as other health care — has been a priority throughout NAMI’s history.
Despite laws requiring it, new research confirms that the promise of true parity has not yet been achieved.
Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/3xNbujS
In this final video, Chair David T. Woodward (District 1) concludes the Annual Report video series by sharing how the Board has helped make mental health resources and programs available to Oakland County residents over the past 12 months.
To learn more about the accomplishments of the Board of Commissioners last year, read the complete Annual Report at https://lnkd.in/eNjbCd9E.
Did you know? July is #MinorityMentalHealthAwarenessMonth.
Dedicated to tackling the unique challenges faced by BIPOC populations in the US, Minority Mental Health Awareness Month was established in 2008, honoring the legacy of Bebe Moore Campbell, a best-selling author and tireless advocate for improving the mental health of minority populations in the US.
“Once my loved ones accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can’t we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans…It’s not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.” – Bebe Moore Campbell, 2005
How can we honor the legacy of Bebe Moore Campbell and do more to overcome racial and economic disparities in mental health care?
✔️Be an advocate for BIPOC communities to seek care for themselves and others.
✔️Break down barriers and bust myths around mental health awareness and care in diverse communities.
✔️Share generational wisdom to dispel the stigma around mental health care.
✔️Speak up and fearlessly tell your stories.
Learn more about #BIPOCMentalHealthMonth through these resources:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): https://hubs.li/Q02GdBjN0.
Mental Health America: https://hubs.li/Q02Gdzth0
NAMICA: https://hubs.li/Q02GdGVD0#BIPOCMentalHealth#BebeMooreCampbell#MentalHealthCareIsHealthCare
Children want mental health on the same level as physical health!
In her blog, Petra Zega, Programe Assistant at the Slovenian Association of Friends of Youth, speaks about the importance children in #Slovenia gave to #mentalhealth in the last National Children's Parliament meeting!
Read it here: https://buff.ly/4cbuHuH