Join #mhsm on August 28 for an important discussion on Advocating for Mental Health Issues!

Educating Others isn’t just for candidates. It’s a great way to inform your friends, family and community about important mental health issues, about what is important to YOU!

Educating the Candidates in order to ensure the health and mental health of its citizens, thus improving the quality of life for those affected by mental illness, your voice and vote count!

Regardless of your political views, it is important that you make every effort to connect with candidates. Help them understand that mental illness affects millions of individuals, from all cultures, races and income levels across your great nation.

Our elected officials must address critical problems this year. It is our job and obligation to inform them of issues and how their decisions will affect us. Your outreach, your votes will help influence how individuals and families affected by mental illness will experience treatment and support in the future; so please get involved.

You can help. Talk to candidates about mental illness and and VOTE. Your efforts will help shape how candidates vote on important issues like coverage for mental health care and mental health services.

Join the Twitterstorm for Mental Health Gets My Vote!

Monday August 27th from 1-3pm EDT U.S. other time zones http://bitly.com/Q6PxQ8 join the Twitterstorm about #vote4mentalhealth #vote2012. Sample tweets (PDF) here: http://bitly.com/P5WRLY

Join us Tuesday at 9pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time, other time zones http://bitly.com/K3SPgw. Use http://www.tweetchat.com/room/mhsm to participate and/or observe.  To obtain a transcript of the chat if you can’t make it to the chat, go to http://t.co/8mzNvQh and input the date and time for the transcript you want. Remember that the time zone on the site is Pacific Time U.S. and adjust accordingly to your time zone.

We welcome your topic suggestions and volunteers to moderate the chat. Contact @NAMIMass or leave a message on this blog and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for your interest!

Join tonight’s #mhsm chat on What can you do for your self-care on those tough days?

We look forward to you joining us! Join us Tuesday at 9pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time, other time zones http://bitly.com/K3SPgw. Use http://www.tweetchat.com/room/mhsm to participate and/or observe.  To obtain a transcript of the chat if you can’t make it to the chat, go to http://t.co/8mzNvQh and input the date and time for the transcript you want. Remember that the time zone on the site is Pacific Time U.S. and adjust accordingly to your time zone.

We welcome your topic suggestions and volunteers to moderate the chat. Contact @NAMIMass or leave a message on this blog and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for your interest!

Tonight’s chat on the language of mental health and stigma

Here’s the link to the transcript http://bitly.com/RT1KZh

Join us Tuesday at 9pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time, other time zones http://bitly.com/K3SPgw. Use http://www.tweetchat.com/room/mhsm to participate and/or observe.  To obtain a transcript of the chat if you can’t make it to the chat, go to http://t.co/8mzNvQh and input the date and time for the transcript you want. Remember that the time zone on the site is Pacific Time U.S. and adjust accordingly to your time zone.

We welcome your topic suggestions and volunteers to moderate the chat. Contact @NAMIMass or leave a message on this blog and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for your interest!

Resources:

Language: The Importance of Language in Promoting Community Inclusion http://bitly.com/NCq8Zo

USPRA Language Guidelines (PDF) http://www.uspra.org/

Language Matters in Mental Health (PDF) http://bitly.com/Pixi8u

Word choices matter when reporting on people with mental illnesses http://bitly.com/NCpRWr

Eliminating Stigmatizing Language and Stereotypes http://bitly.com/OtgIoa

Mindframe: A resource on the portrayal of suicide and mental illness http://bitly.com/NjHcE9  

Don’t forget to check out the Blogs/Website by Participants in #mhsm chat

There are some very helpful resources and very good blogs to read and share.

Looking for Moderator volunteers for Tuesday 7/24 and 8/7

Would you like to host the Mental Health and Social Media chat (#mhsm) on twitter on any issue around mental health? Please contact us (@NAMIMass or via the comments) with your twitter handle and/or email and we discuss the details. We can offer lots of tips from our own and others experience. It’s a great group that makes it pretty easy for your!

Join us Tuesday at 9pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time, other time zones http://bitly.com/K3SPgw. Use http://www.tweetchat.com/room/mhsm to participate and/or observe.  To obtain a transcript of the chat if you can’t make it to the chat, go to http://t.co/8mzNvQh and input the date and time for the transcript you want. Remember that the time zone on the site is Pacific Time U.S. and adjust accordingly to your time zone.

Here are the upcoming chats and topics:

7/31 – The Stigma Around Suicide Attempts with @bodishot

We welcome your topic suggestions and volunteers to moderate the chat. Contact @NAMIMass or leave a message on this blog and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for your interest!

If you missed the 7/17 #mhsm chat on Accepting Chronic Illness – it’s not giving up!…

Here’s the link to the transcript http://t.co/Rde0XdXa

Join us Tuesday at 9pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time, other time zones http://bitly.com/K3SPgw. Use http://www.tweetchat.com/room/mhsm to participate and/or observe.  To obtain a transcript of the chat if you can’t make it to the chat, go to http://t.co/8mzNvQh and input the date and time for the transcript you want. Remember that the time zone on the site is Pacific Time U.S. and adjust accordingly to your time zone.

Here are the upcoming chats and topics:

7/31 – The Stigma Around Suicide Attempts with @bodishot

We welcome your topic suggestions and volunteers to moderate the chat. Contact @NAMIMass or leave a message on this blog and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for your interest!

The topic for the 7/17 #mhsm chat is Accepting Chronic Illness – It’s NOT Giving Up!

Join us Tuesday at 9pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time, other time zones http://bitly.com/K3SPgw. Use http://www.tweetchat.com/room/mhsm to participate and/or observe.  To obtain a transcript of the chat if you can’t make it. Go to http://t.co/8mzNvQh and input the date and time for the transcript you want. Remember that the time zone on the site is Pacific Time U.S. and adjust accordingly to your time zone.

Here are the upcoming chats and topics:

7/31 – The Stigma Around Suicide Attempts with @bodishot

We welcome your topic suggestions and volunteers to moderate the chat. Contact @NAMIMass or leave a message on this blog and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for your interest!

Hope you joined us for the #mhsm chat on clinical #depression in adolescents but…

if you couldn’t make it, heere is the link to the transcript of the chat: http://bitly.com/PP7Kmj . Lots of very informative and helpful participation, so read the transcript.

Join us Tuesday at 9pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time, other time zones http://bitly.com/K3SPgw. Use http://www.tweetchat.com/room/mhsm to participate and/or observe.  To obtain a transcript of the chat if you can’t make it. Go to http://t.co/8mzNvQh and input the date and time for the transcript you want. Remember that the time zone on the site is Pacific Time U.S. and adjust accordingly to your time zone.

Here are the upcoming chats and topics:

7/31 – The Stigma Around Suicide Attempts with @bodishot

We welcome your topic suggestions and volunteers to moderate the chat. Contact @NAMIMass or leave a message on this blog and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for your interest!

Hope you made the #mhsm chat on 6/26 about Peer Mentors/Peer Support, if not…

Here is the link to the transcript of the chat: http://bitly.com/NA4kfg. Lots of very informative and helpful participation, so read the transcript.

Join us Tuesday at 9pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time, other time zones http://bitly.com/K3SPgw. Use http://www.tweetchat.com/room/mhsm to participate and/or observe.  To obtain a transcript of the chat if you can’t make it. Go to http://t.co/8mzNvQh and input the date and time for the transcript you want. Remember that the time zone on the site is Pacific Time U.S. and adjust accordingly to your time zone.

Here are the upcoming chats and topics:

7/3 – Tools for Recovery with @unsuicide

7/10 – Clinical Depression with @ShellERRN

7/31 – The Stigma Around Suicide Attempts with @bodishot

We welcome your topic suggestions and volunteers to moderate the chat. Contact @NAMIMass or leave a message on this blog and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for your interest!