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ACMH is currently welcoming new members to the Statewide Parent Advisory Committee. If you are a parent raising a child with mental health challenges interested in using your voice of experience to create positive change in children’s mental health click here to learn more or download an application today.
ACMH’s #Worth1000Words event for Children’s Mental Health Awareness was a great success! Families, youth, young adults and partners from across Michigan shared deeply impactful photographs of their lives with us. We are so grateful to all who helped us to promote this event and those who shared their stories with us! We have combined all of the photos we received into a video which you can view below. Please feel free to share the video with others. Mental Health Awareness Month has come to an end, but we will continue to highlight youth and families voices at all levels!
Information about the May 2022 #Worth1000Words event:
Quick Links: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube
The Association for Children’s Mental Health hosted a special virtual event in honor of Children’s Mental Health Awareness! Throughout the month of May families, parents and caregivers, providers, and youth shared their stories through photography which we shared on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Prompt Calendar
We created a calendar of prompts and photo ideas to help get participants into the creative spirit or they could choose do their own thing.
Download PDF of Calendar: #Worth1000Words Prompt Calendar
Information to help you share your voice or story through photography:
Tutorials and Resources
You don’t have to have a fancy camera or be an expert in photography – you just have to be an expert in your own story! Show the world what life looks like through your lens! Through the upcoming weeks, ACMH will post prompts and creative exercises on our social media pages to get you started.
Click here for tutorials and resources to help you share your story!
Quick Links: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube
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Past CMHAD Events
ACMH’s 2021 Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day Event, #WalkInMyShoes:
ACMH’s 2020 Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day Event, #CreativeConversations:
YMHLC identifies young adults (ages 18-25) who have created programs and initiatives that fill gaps in mental health resources in their communities. From policy to apps and peer support to sports, MHA’s young adult leaders are making a difference to meet the needs of their peers. Selected applicants participate in a six-month cohort to connect and share ideas with other leaders from across the U.S.
In addition to attending monthly 90-minute meetings over a six-month term, YMHLC members will:
In line with MHA’s founding and history of lived-experience leadership, the YMHLC centers lived experience as essential to meeting the mental health needs of youth and young adults today.
Youth and young adult mental health is worsening, and young people are living in vastly different circumstances than we have ever seen before. To improve the well-being of young people, YMHLC amplifies and grows the work of young leaders who best understand the challenges and opportunities to support their peers.
Click here to learn more or apply today!
Applications are due Friday, Aug. 19.
Selected applicants will be notified by Sept. 16.
Questions? Email Kelly Davis, MHA’s associate vice president of peer and youth advocacy, at [email protected].
ACMH is thrilled to share that Governor Whitmer proclaimed May 1-7th Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week for Children Youth and their Families in Michigan. Highlighting the importance of mental health and supporting children, youth and families to the future and well-being of our state and nation. The proclamation also outlined the importance of meeting mental needs with support and understanding and listening to the voices of children, youth and families as we work to create mental health policy and programming. You can view or download the proclamation below.
Download a copy of the proclamation here: Mental Health Awareness Week for Children, Youth, and Their Families
Join Michigan’s Children this Wednesday for a Lunch and Learn focused on children’s mental health. Five amazing panelists and speakers will discuss what kids from infancy to school-age are experiencing in this pandemic age, and how our state should respond. Register today at: https://tinyurl.com/yftd88tw
Download the recently released Parent Support Partner Annual Report to view evaluation data for MDHHS’s Parent Support Service from the Michigan State University PSP Evaluation Project.
The report and evaluation results demonstrate what we at ACMH have always known, that parent peer support is incredibly valuable to families of children and youth with mental health challenges. Some highlights from the evaluation results include:
As a part of his Unity Agenda proposed during his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden outlined a vision to help address our nation’s mental health crisis.
Then plan includes strategies to help ensure the rising number of children and youth with mental health needs across out nation get the help they need when they need it by addressing barriers such as the extreme shortage of behavioral health providers and much more. The plan also includes a focus on expanding peer support and several other issues at the heart of the mission of ACMH and important to youth and families across our state.
Click here to view the White House Fact Sheet and learn more about the Biden Administration’s vision on how together we can “transform how mental health is understood, perceived, accessed, treated, and integrated – in and out of health care settings”. Helping to to ensure that everyone who needs help can access care when and where they seek it!
White House Fact Sheet – Strategies to Address Our National Mental Health Crisis
Interested in sharing your opinion or views on this issue or your personal experiences, concerns or ideas about current efforts to reform mental health services and supports in Michigan. Click here to find your Senator and share your voice today!
Huge shout out to Tiny Bit of Wood for donating the proceeds after auctioning this beautiful Tea Box as a part of their Tiny Bit of Good campaign – a series of fundraisers that began in December 2020 to benefit local organizations working with marginalized communities.
Tiny Bit of Wood With the Woods in Mind creates environmentally conscious wood art and furniture from locally-sourced lumber obtained from tree service companies and/or naturally fallen trees. 100 % of lumber used is gathered, cut, dried, and sculpted in a one-woman wood shop right here in Michigan. Click here to learn more about Tiny Bit of Wood today!
