The NGO Committee on Mental Health
invites you to commemorate

World Mental Health Day 2007
"Mental Health in a Changing World: The Impact of Culture and Diversity"

This year's World Mental Health Day 2007 theme "Mental Health in a Changing World: The Impact of Culture and Diversity" calls attention to the need to better understand the critical role cultural awareness plays in the planning and delivery of effective mental health services. In an ever-increasingly multi-cultural world, the delivery of appropriate and effective mental health services will be greatly influenced by the willingness and ability of policy makers, program planners, and local service providers to develop, implement, and sustain culturally sensitive systems of mental health services for children, adolescents, and adults who come from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Thursday, 11 October 2007
2:00pm - 4:30pm

Location:
The Church Center
777 United Nations Plaza
(44th Street between 1st & 2nd Avenue)
11th Floor ~ Hardin Room

OPENING REMARKS

Andrey Pirogov
Assistant Director-General, Executive Director
World Health Organization (WHO) Office at United Nations, New York

SPEAKERS

"Considerations in the Development of Racially-Culturally Competent Mental Health Care for the World"
Robert T. Carter Ph.D
Jessica M. Forsyth, M.A., Ed.M.
Teachers College, Columbia University

"Encountering Diversity in our Classroom & Raising Awareness of Mental Health Issues among Muslim Americans"
Mahroo Moshari, LMSW
Manhattan Multi-Cultural Counseling (Private Practice)
UN Representative, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)

“Immigration and Pluri-Cultural Identity”
Invited Speaker

“The Impact of Culture on Mental Health: Building a Broad New Initiative”
Ellen Mercer
Deputy Executive Officer
Director, Center for Transcultural Mental Health
World Federation for Mental Health