One thing that the 20th-wealthiest county in the United States — a south-central Texas community — and a Boston neighborhood, Roxbury, which is riddled with violence and underemployment and is also the home of the R&B music group New Edition, have in common: both are touched by the epidemic of mental illness.
May is Mental Health Mental Awareness Month. This week provides a time for mental health advocates across the country to come together as one unified voice to decrease the stigma surrounding mental health and illness, to increase visibility of treatment options and to support those who deal with mental health concerns.
Chapters of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) recently held webinars and in-person gatherings in honor of National Faith Day. The Rev. Brooke A. Scott, pastor of the Church on Main, a worshiping community in Middletown, Delaware, spoke during “Pathways to Hope,” the NAMI Delaware gathering.
More than 750 people were present online for the daylong Mental Health and Asian Americans Conference recently put on by the Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary.