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April 27, 2017 PRESENTING SPONSORS Nancy and Miles Rubin in Recognition of the Hardworking Staff Of April 27, 2017 PRESENTING SPONSORS Nancy and Miles Rubin In recognition of the hardworking staff of Maurice Benard HONORING PRESENTER Judy Collins Nancy Rubin BEATRICE STERN MEDIA AWARD PRESENTER Paul Dalio George Segal LEADERSHIP AWARD PRESENTER Anna Akana Melissa Rivers MENTAL HEALTH AMBASSADOR EMCEE Thank you for all you do to help Laura Ornest those in our community EVENT CHAIR Kita S. Curry, PhD who need it most! DIDI HIRSCH PRESIDENT/CEO April 27, 2017 The Beverly Hilton 9876 Wilshire Boulevard Beverly Hills, CA 90210 75 YEARS OF DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services has been providing free mental health, substance use and suicide prevention services for 75 years. Dedicated to serving communities where stigma or poverty limits access, Didi Hirsch helps children and adults from 11 locations and 100 schools throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties each year. Didi Hirsch’s Suicide Prevention Center is the nation’s first and a leader in training, research and services. We help people thinking about suicide, concerned loved ones and those who have attempted or are grieving a loss. Our multilingual crisis line answered nearly 87,000 calls, chats and texts nationwide in 2016 and is one of three that takes calls on the national Disaster Distress Helpline. BEATRICE STERN MEDIA AWARD The family of Beatrice Stern, a dear friend of Didi Hirsch, established the Beatrice Stern Media Award in 2007 to recognize creative individuals in film, television and print who use the constructive power of media to erase the stigma of mental illness and to influence policy. The idea that mental illness is shameful grew out of fear and ignorance LEADERSHIP AWARD about its causes, effects and treatments. Today, we know more about brain chemistry and its disturbances than ever before, yet stigma around Author and social issues advocate Tipper Gore received Didi mental illness persists. Hirsch’s first Leadership Award in 1997 for courageously sharing her experience with depression and the mental health care that helped Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services took a lead role in sparking positive her recover. The Award honors those who enlighten us about mental conversations about mental illness in 1997 by establishing its Erasing the illness and inspire hope. Stigma Leadership Awards. Since then, it has honored dozens of artists, advocates, researchers, physicians, writers and sports figures who have kept the conversation going. Thanks to their efforts, we have made sig- nificant progress in erasing the stigma of mental illness, which will affect MENTAL HEALTH AMBASSADOR half of us sometime in our lives. Didi Hirsch’s Mental Health Ambassador Award recognizes artists, advocates and others who use the power of the Internet and social media to encourage young people struggling with mental health problems to speak up and seek help. HONORING Judy Collins Beatrice Stern Media Award Inspiring audiences since the 1960s, JUDY COLLINS is an award-winning singer, songwriter, author, mentor and in-demand keynote speaker for mental health and suicide prevention. With over fifty albums, several top-ten hits, and gold/platinum-selling albums, Judy’s rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” is part of the Grammy Hall of Fame, and her version of “Send in the Clowns” won the 1975 Grammy for Song of the Year. Judy’s memoir, Sanity and Grace: A Journey of Suicide, Survival and Strength, chronicles her survival following the suicide of her only son, Clark, in 1992. In Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music, she writes about her struggles with alcoholism. And her newest release, Cravings: How I Conquered Food, is a no-holds barred account of her struggle with compulsive overeating. Along with representing UNICEF and other causes, Judy is an accomplished painter and filmmaker. She is the co-director of the Academy Award- nominated filmPortrait of a Woman about Antonia Brico, the first woman to conduct major symphonies around the world (and Judy’s classical piano teacher when she was young). Through her label Wildflower Records, Judy continues to write, tour, create music and nurture fresh talent. HONORING Paul Dalio Leadership Award PAUL DALIO is a writer, director and composer. His first feature film, Touched With Fire, about two poets in a psychiatric hospital who fall in love, was inspired by his own experience with bipolar disorder. Starring Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby and Christine Lahti, it was released theatrically in 2016 and has received a 92% audience approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In 2004, Paul had his first psychotic episode. After two years in and out of hospitals, he was accepted into NYU’s graduate filmmaking program but had to leave due to another episode. To cope, he worked in construction and reapplied to NYU in 2007 where he met his wife and collaborator, Kristina Nikolova, and professor Spike Lee, who became his mentor and Executive Producer. Paul wrote, directed, scored and co-edited Touched With Fire, which was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and described as “an extraordinarily sensitive and nonjudgmental exploration of bipolar disorder and creativity.” The title comes from the book by Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD, a 1999 Erasing the Stigma honoree who had a cameo in the film. In 2016, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration recognized the film, and Paul received the International Bipolar Foundation’s IMAGINE award. Paul currently lives in New York with his wife and children and is working on his next two projects. HONORING Anna Akana Mental Health Ambassador Producer, filmmaker and writer ANNA AKANA wrote and starred in the digital series Riley Rewind in 2013. Inspired by the tragic loss of her 13-year- old sister, Kristina, who was the victim of bullying, Riley Rewind garnered over 25 million views across YouTube, Facebook and Netflix. Anna produces films, sketches and series for her YouTube channel, which has over 1.7 million subscribers. Her weekly show features semi-autobiographical comedic stories where she portrays multiple roles, often speaking about her experience with depression and mental health treatment. Anna has recurring roles on Freeform’s The Fosters and Comedy Central’s Broken People as well as roles in the filmsKids vs. Monsters, Hello, My Name is Doris and Ant Man. Next, she can be seen alongside Bella Thorne and Halston Sage in the thriller, You Get Me and in the Comedy Central series Hampton Deville. Recently concluding her North American comedy tour, Show and Tell, Anna’s second digital series, Miss 2059, begins Season 2 later this year. She has also created the clothing company, Ghost & Stars, and Random House/ Valentine is releasing her first book:So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters To My Little Sister. Maurice Benard Presenter Emmy Award-winning actor MAURICE BENARD joined the cast of General Hospital in 1993, earning his first of seven nominations for the pivotal role of mob boss Sonny Corinthos three years later. In 2003, he garnered an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He also has received four American Latino Media Arts Award (ALMA) nominations for Outstanding Performance in a Daytime Drama. Maurice made his feature film debut in the independent filmRuby , alongside Danny Aiello. His other indie film credits includeDuke , Operation Splitsville, Restraining Order and Mi Vida Loca, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. He recently wrapped the lead in the independent feature film The Ghost and the Whale, playing a man who is consumed by grief after his wife disappears at sea. The veteran actor began his career in New York in the role of Nico Kelly on All My Children. His other television credits include the CBS telefilmsTo Face Her Past, the title role of Desi Arnaz in Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter and Her Wicked Ways. A native of San Francisco, Maurice has been a prominent voice in the battle against bipolar disorder for over a decade and has been involved with Mental Health America, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, and International Bipolar Foundation. In 2002, Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services honored him at its Erasing the Stigma Leadership Awards. Nancy Rubin Presenter NANCY RUBIN is a public servant and a global champion for human rights, women’s rights, mental health, and social justice. She served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights during the Clinton Administration and was a Presidential appointee on the Council for Community Solutions to advance changes for cities’ most urgent needs. She was also a Senior Advisor to the State Department for the UN Human Rights Council in the Obama White House, and worked in the Carter Administration. To expand opportunities for development, democracy and political participation, she serves on the Board of Directors for the National Democratic Institute, was on the Strategy Committee for Harvard University’s Project on Justice in Times of Transition and is a national leader in the effort to pass the Convention to End Discrimination Against Women. She is also a Commissioner of the Women’s Refugee Commission. Viewing access to mental health care as a human right, Nancy was the first chair of the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign. She founded Community Outreach in 1977 to help fund Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, which was named after her mother. She is a former Board member and received an Erasing the Stigma Leadership Award in 2000. Other organizations where she has made important contributions include the Coalition for Women in International Development, the United Nation’s Foundation Strategy Council, the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, The Washington Center, and the White House Corporation for National and Community Service, which created AmeriCorps. George Segal Presenter GEORGE SEGAL had a magic act at age ten and has been performing ever since.
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