For Immediate Release Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Media Contacts: Anna Sackett Rountree, [email protected]
First National ‘Mental Health Action Day’ Aims to Drive People to Take Action for Better Mental Health
One year into COVID-19 and amidst a growing mental health crisis, Clubhouse International and nearly 200 organizations team up to plan inaugural ‘Mental Health Action Day’ on May 20
Learn more at www.MentalHealthActionDay.org
New York, NY -- Clubhouse International 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 challenges of isolation and anxiety faced by people living with mental illness continue to create obstacles to living healthy, fulfilling lives; 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 mental health awareness to mental health action.
Partners will encourage people to take action towards better mental health care -- 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 finding a Clubhouse, learning how to support a friend, or advocating for change.
Partners To Date: ● 320 Changes ● Administration for ● AIR - Attitudes In Direction Children and Reverse® ● AARP Families ● Aliento ● Active Minds ● AIM Youth Mental ● Alma Health
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● American ● Crisis Text Line ● Headspace Foundation for ● CURA Strategies ● Health Action Suicide Prevention ● Didi Hirsch Mental Alliance ● AmeriCorps Health Services ● Hilinski’s Hope ● batyr ● DoSomething.org ● Hillel International ● Ben & Jerry’s ● Dr. Lorna Breen ● Hines Foundation Homemade Inc. Heroes’ Foundation ● Home Base ● BET ● Drumming for Your ● Hope For The Day ● BetterUp Life Institute ● Hopelab ● Blue Shield of ● Empathy Rocks ● Inseparable California’s BlueSky ● Empire Vets ● International Mental Initiative ● End Rape On Health Association ● Born This Way Campus (IMHA) Foundation ● Entertainment ● It's On Us ● Boys & Girls Clubs Industries Council, ● JobPath Partners of America Inc. (EIC) ● Joyful Heart ● BRAVO SIERRA ● Eventbrite Foundation ● Bring Change to ● EVERFI ● JV Agency Mind ● Falkora Mental ● kate spade new york ● Charity Bomb Health and ● Kenneth Cole ● Chipotle Mexican Neutrotech Initiative ● LogoTV Grill ● FaZe Clan ● Long Island ● Cities Thrive ● Feeding America® Alzheimer's Coalition ● Fender Musical Dementia Center ● City of Kindness Instruments ● Love is Louder ● CivicGeorgia Corporation ● MAD TASTY ● Clubhouse ● Find Your Anchor ● March for Our Lives International ● First Responders ● MedCircle ● CMT First ● Mental Health ● Coalition of Asian ● Fountain House America Pacifics in ● FourBlock ● #MentalHealthPH Entertainment ● General Assembly ● Mentally Aware (CAPE) ● Generation S.O.S. Nigeria Initiative ● Color Of Change ● GI Go Fund (MANI) ● Comedy Central ● GIPHY ● Morgan Stanley ● Comedy Gives Back ● Give an Hour ● Movember ● Communities In ● GLAAD ● MTV Schools® ● Grit Digital Health ● Musack ● Compass Coffee ● Gympass ● MusiCares ● Complex Networks ● #HalfTheStory ● Muslim Advocates ● Cope Notes® ● HeadCount
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● Muslim Public Affairs ● Penske Media ● Stronger Than Council Corporation Stigma® ● National Alliance on ● Plant People ● Student Veterans of Mental Illness ● Poder Latinx America (NAMI) ● Pop TV ● Substance Abuse ● NAMI Westside Los ● Project Healthy and Mental Health Angeles Minds Services ● National Action ● Psych Hub Administration Alliance for Suicide ● Puffco (SAMHSA) Prevention ● Punk Rock Food ● Taskeen Health ● National Alliance for Drive Initiative Hispanic Health ● Queens Gaming ● TaskForce ● National Safety Collective ● Teen Line Council ● Rare Beauty by ● The Ad Council ● NBCUniversal Selena Gomez ● The Chopra ● Never Alone Mental ● Reddit Foundation Health & Suicide ● Represent Justice ● The Clinton Prevention ● RespectAbility Foundation ● NEXUS ● Rise Above The ● The Jed Foundation ● NM Impact Ltd. Disorder ● The John F. ● NoStigmas ● Rock to Recovery Kennedy Center for ● Notes for needs ● Saint City Culinary the Performing Arts ● NowMattersNow.org Foundation ● The Kennedy Forum ● NowThis (iheardyou.org) ● The Lewis Prize for ● Number Story ● Sana Benefits Music ● Office Depot ● Sanvello Health ● The Mental Health ● On Our Sleeves® ● Shatterproof Coalition ● One Love ● SHOWTIME® ● The National Council Foundation ● Simon Wiesenthal for Behavioral Health ● One Mind Center Museum of ● The People Concern ● Operation Homefront Tolerance ● The Trevor Project ● Overtown Youth ● Smithsonian ● The Upswing Fund Center Channel for Adolescent ● Painted Brain ● Snap Inc. Mental Health ● Panorama Global ● Songs That Saved ● Therapists in Tech ● Paramount Pictures My Life ● Therapy for Black ● Paramount Network ● Sound Mind Live Girls ● PAUSE+EXPAND ● Special Olympics, ● theSkimm ● Peer Health Inc. ● THIRA Health Exchange ● Storyline Partners ● Thrive Global ● TimelyMD
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● TIME’S UP ● Unite The United ● Vibrant Emotional Foundation ● United Suicide Health ● To Write Love on Survivors ● VICE Media Group Her Arms International ● Vice Ventures ● Too Small To Fail ● United Way ● Victoria’s Secret ● Trans Lifeline Worldwide PINK ● TV Land ● Univision ● VidCon ● Two Chairs Communications Inc. ● Watering Seeds ● Uber ● VH1 ● Wounded Warrior ● UNICEF ● ViacomCBS Project ● United Nations ● ViacomCBS ● YouTube Verified Veterans Network
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.
“We are stronger when we stand together. At Clubhouse International and on behalf of our global network of Clubhouse communities, we call on governments everywhere to invest in meaningful support, services and opportunities for people overcoming mental illness. It is time for all of us to join the conversation. Mental health is everyone’s business. Let’s make Mental Health Action Day 2021 the start of something big! Be part of the change. Speak up for mental health.” Joel D. Corcoran, Executive Director and CEO of Clubhouse International
Additional participants and more information about how each partner will activate on May 20 will be forthcoming.
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About Clubhouse International, a global organization working to end social and economic isolation for people with mental illness, via its 330 Clubhouses in 34 countries. Clubhouses offer resources and opportunities for recovery and living healthy, fulfilling lives.
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