NEW! Mental Illness and Suicide – A Family Guide to Facing & Reducing Risks CFCAS “Center News” Reason to Hope Mental Illness and Suicide – A Family Guide to Facing & Reducing the Risks These documents have been developed as an adjunct to the WFMH World Mental Health Day theme…
Africa African Regional Council for Mental Health The African Regional Council has hired Petronella Ntambo Mayeya to run its Canadian-sponsored project for the development of mental health associations in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. She will also work on planning for a proposed regional conference in Uganda. She is based at the ARC office in…
At the United Nations The Federation remains active in drawing the attention of the United Nations community to mental health issues and gives strong support to the NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York. WFMH played a role in founding the Committee in 1996, and its Main Representative, Nancy Wallace, was its chair until June…
Mexico & Central America Regional Vice President: Mercedes Rivas-Torres, MD – [email protected] Belize Consumer Organization speaks out – – Turning Point for Mental Health in Belize (2/05) – Looking Back (7/07) advertisement – Belize Mental Health e-Newsletter (August 2005) – Old Drugs for Mentally Ill Are Dangerous. – Consumers Meet Belize Minister of Health. …
Mental Illness Stigma and Work By Otto F. Wahl, Ph.D.George Mason University Work is an activity central to lives and well-being of most of us. Employment is, of course, a route to income and therefore to the goods and services we desire for a satisfying life. Even more importantly, work, whether paid or unpaid, contributes…