Mental Health Association of Montgomery County is dedicated to promoting mental wellness and providing education about mental illness throughout the community. Each of the organization’s direct service programs actively engages the community through educational presentations for the community-at-large, businesses, mental health providers, schools and other groups of individuals. Whether through formal trainings like Mental Health First Aid or less formal presentations, MHA continues to work toward its mission of mental health education.
To further its reach, MHA launched The Million Minds Campaign. By the end of the year 2010 Montgomery County is expected to be the first jurisdiction in Maryland to reach 1 million residents. To help to support the mental health of all 1 million residents, MHA launched this campaign to promote everyday mental wellness, sustain its programs and services that support mental health and offer materials and resources about mental illness, and to raise needed funds to continue its vital work. Doug and Barbara Duncan are the chairs of this campaign and are actively engaging the community in these important conversations, from appearing in TV and radio PSAs to taking interviews with the press. For more information about this exciting campaign, go to www.MillionMindsMC.org.
As a Campaign for America’s Mental Health affiliate site, MHA is also a partner in Mental Health America’s Live Your Life Well campaign. This initiative focuses on the promotion of mental wellness through its 10 Tools to Live Your Life Well. For more information about this effort, please visit www.liveyourlifewell.org.
50th Anniversary Recap and "MHA: Meeting the Needs
