First National ‘Mental Health Action Day’ to Drive People to Take a First Mental Health Action for Themselves or Others
For Immediate Release
April 19, 2021
Media Contacts:
First National ‘Mental Health Action Day’ to Drive People to Take a First Mental Health Action for Themselves or Others
One year into COVID-19 and amidst a most dire mental health crisis, ABUNDANCE OF HOPE COUNSELING and nearly 200 organizations team up to plan inaugural ‘Mental Health Action Day’ on May 20
Learn more at www.MentalHealthActionDay.org
CORINTH, TEXAS - ABUNDANCE OF HOPE COUNSELING in partnership with 193 leading brands, nonprofits and cultural leaders today announced the first-ever Mental Health Action Day, to be held on Thursday, May 20 during Mental Health Awareness Month.
Over the past two decades, suicide rates have risen, particularly among young adults. And the COVID pandemic has accelerated the already dire crisis, giving way to what many mental health professionals have called the “second pandemic.”
Though more people than ever are comfortable discussing mental health, finding effective resources and knowing how to get help remains a challenge. Mental Health Action Day is an open-source movement of brands, organizations and cultural leaders to drive culture from mental health awareness to mental health action.
Partners will encourage people to take their first steps towards mental health action -- whether for themselves, for their loved ones or to advocate for systemic changes. Resources and tools will be available for people to seek help in a myriad of ways from starting a meditation practice, learning how to support a friend, or advocating for change.
Partners To Date:
JobPath Partners
[Quote from MTV: “From Covid-19 to economic struggles and the continuing fight for racial justice, the other half of the twin pandemic is the rise of our mental health challenges,” said Erika Soto Lamb, Vice President of Social Impact Strategy at MTV Entertainment Group. “This is a critical moment to shift our culture from mental health awareness to mental health action and MTV is proud to come together with diverse cross-sector leaders on this inaugural day to encourage and empower people to take action -- for themselves, for their loved ones or for the systemic changes needed to improve our social and emotional wellbeing.”]
Mental Health Action Day is being planned in partnership with TaskForce, a cultural organizing agency that builds capacity for those taking on the most pressing challenges facing our communities, our nation and our world.
Additional participants and more information about how each partner will activate on May 20 will be forthcoming. More on Mental Health Action Day and initial partners can be found at www.MentalHealthActionDay.org
About Mental Health Action Day
Mental Health Action Day is an open-source movement of brands, organizations and cultural leaders to drive culture from mental health awareness to mental health action. The first Mental Health Action Day will take place on May 20, 2021 with a mission to encourage and empower people to take their first steps towards mental health action -- whether for themselves, for their loved ones or to advocate for systemic changes, because mental health is health. Learn more at www.MentalHealthActionDay.org
April 19, 2021
Media Contacts:
First National ‘Mental Health Action Day’ to Drive People to Take a First Mental Health Action for Themselves or Others
One year into COVID-19 and amidst a most dire mental health crisis, ABUNDANCE OF HOPE COUNSELING and nearly 200 organizations team up to plan inaugural ‘Mental Health Action Day’ on May 20
Learn more at www.MentalHealthActionDay.org
CORINTH, TEXAS - ABUNDANCE OF HOPE COUNSELING in partnership with 193 leading brands, nonprofits and cultural leaders today announced the first-ever Mental Health Action Day, to be held on Thursday, May 20 during Mental Health Awareness Month.
Over the past two decades, suicide rates have risen, particularly among young adults. And the COVID pandemic has accelerated the already dire crisis, giving way to what many mental health professionals have called the “second pandemic.”
Though more people than ever are comfortable discussing mental health, finding effective resources and knowing how to get help remains a challenge. Mental Health Action Day is an open-source movement of brands, organizations and cultural leaders to drive culture from mental health awareness to mental health action.
Partners will encourage people to take their first steps towards mental health action -- whether for themselves, for their loved ones or to advocate for systemic changes. Resources and tools will be available for people to seek help in a myriad of ways from starting a meditation practice, learning how to support a friend, or advocating for change.
Partners To Date:
- 1pal
- 320 Changes Direction
- AARP
- Abundance of Hope Counseling
- Active Minds
- Administration for Children and Families
- AIM Youth Mental Health
- AIR - Attitudes In Reverse®
- Aliento
- Alma
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- AmeriCorps
- Athletes for Hope
- batyr
- Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc.
- BET
- Black Girls Getting Their SHIFT Together
- BetterUp
- Blue Shield of California’s BlueSky Initiative
- Born This Way Foundation
- Boys & Girls Clubs of America
- Brain Training Club
- BRAVO SIERRA
- Bring Change to Mind
- Charity Bomb
- Chipotle Mexican Grill
- City of Kindness
- CivicGeorgia
- Clubhouse International
- CMT
- Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE)
- Color Of Change
- Comcast NBCUniversal
- Comedy Central
- Comedy Gives Back
- Communities In Schools®
- Compass Coffee
- Complex Networks
- Cope Notes®
- Crisis Text Line
- CURA Strategies
- Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services
- DoSomething.org
- Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation
- Drumming for Your Life Institute
- Empathy Rocks
- Empire Vets
- End Rape On Campus
- Entertainment Industries Council, Inc. (EIC)
- Eventbrite
- EVERFI
- Falkora Mental Health and Neutrotech Initiative
- FaZe Clan
- Feeding America
- Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
- Find Your Anchor
- #FirstRespondersFirst
- FloraMind
- Forest 2 Home
- Fountain House
- FourBlock
- FREE2LUV
- Gaming for Mental Health
- General Assembly
- Generation S.O.S.
- GI Go Fund
- GIPHY
- Give an Hour
- GLAAD
- Grit Digital Health
- Gympass
- #HalfTheStory
- HeadCount
- Headspace
- Health Action Alliance
- Hilinski’s Hope
- Hillel International
- Hines Foundation
- Home Base
- Hope For The Day
- Hopelab
- Inseparable
- International Mental Health Association (IMHA)
- Invest In Access
JobPath Partners
- Joyful Heart Foundation
- JV Agency
- kate spade new york
- Kenneth Cole
- LogoTV
- Long Island Alzheimer's Dementia Center
- Love is Louder
- MAD TASTY
- March for Our Lives
- MedCircle
- Mental Health America
- #MentalHealthPH
- Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative (MANI)
- Morgan Stanley
- Movember
- MTV
- Musack
- MusiCares
- Muslim Advocates
- Muslim Public Affairs Council
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- NAMI Westside Los Angeles
- National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
- National Alliance for Hispanic Health
- National Safety Council
- Never Alone Mental Health & Suicide Prevention
- NEXUS
- NM Impact Ltd.
- NoStigmas
- Notes for needs
- NowMattersNow.org
- NowThis
- Number Story
- Office Depot
- On Our Sleeves®
- One Love Foundation
- One Mind
- Operation Homefront
- Osmind
- Our Minds Matter
- Overtown Youth Center
- Painted Brain
- Pandemic of Love
- Panorama Global
- Paramount Pictures
- Paramount Network
- PAUSE+EXPAND
- Peer Health Exchange
- Penske Media Corporation
- Plant People
- Poder Latinx
- Pop TV
- Project Healthy Minds
- Promly
- Psych Hub
- Puffco
- Punk Rock Food Drive
- Queens Gaming Collective
- Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez
- Represent Justice
- RespectAbility
- Restaurant After Hours
- Rise Above The Disorder
- Rock to Recovery
- Saint City Culinary Foundation (iheardyou.org)
- Sana Benefits
- Sanvello Health
- Shakira Johnson PR & Events
- Shatterproof
- SHOWTIME®
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
- Smithsonian Channel
- Snap Inc.
- Songs That Saved My Life
- Sound Mind Live
- Special Olympics, Inc.
- Storyline Partners
- Stronger Than Stigma®
- Student Veterans of America
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Taskeen Health Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE) Initiative
- Teen Line
- The Ad Council
- The Chopra Foundation
- The Clinton Foundation
- The Jed Foundation
- The Hidden Opponent
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- The Kennedy Forum
- The Lewis Prize for Music
- The Mental Health Coalition
- The National Council for Behavioral Health
- The People Concern
- The Trevor Project
- The Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health
- Therapists in Tech
- Therapy for Black Girls
- theSkimm
- THIRA Health
- Thrive Global
- TimelyMD
- TIME’S UP Foundation
- To Write Love on Her Arms
- Too Small To Fail
- Trans Lifeline
- TV Land
- Two Chairs
- Uber
- UNICEF
- United Nations Verified
- Unite The United
- United Suicide Survivors International
- United Way Worldwide
- Univision Communications Inc.
- VH1
- ViacomCBS
- ViacomCBS Veterans Network
- Vibrant Emotional Health
- VICE Media Group
- Vice Ventures
- VS PINK
- VidCon
- Watering Seeds
- Wounded Warrior Project
- YouTube
[Quote from MTV: “From Covid-19 to economic struggles and the continuing fight for racial justice, the other half of the twin pandemic is the rise of our mental health challenges,” said Erika Soto Lamb, Vice President of Social Impact Strategy at MTV Entertainment Group. “This is a critical moment to shift our culture from mental health awareness to mental health action and MTV is proud to come together with diverse cross-sector leaders on this inaugural day to encourage and empower people to take action -- for themselves, for their loved ones or for the systemic changes needed to improve our social and emotional wellbeing.”]
Mental Health Action Day is being planned in partnership with TaskForce, a cultural organizing agency that builds capacity for those taking on the most pressing challenges facing our communities, our nation and our world.
Additional participants and more information about how each partner will activate on May 20 will be forthcoming. More on Mental Health Action Day and initial partners can be found at www.MentalHealthActionDay.org
About Mental Health Action Day
Mental Health Action Day is an open-source movement of brands, organizations and cultural leaders to drive culture from mental health awareness to mental health action. The first Mental Health Action Day will take place on May 20, 2021 with a mission to encourage and empower people to take their first steps towards mental health action -- whether for themselves, for their loved ones or to advocate for systemic changes, because mental health is health. Learn more at www.MentalHealthActionDay.org