Social: #ChildrensMentalHealthMatters #CMHAW

Twitter: @NationalFFCMH

Facebook: @NationalFederation

Website: https://www.ffcmh.org/awarenessweek

What Can You Do to Help?

• Talk openly about mental health

• Educate yourself and others about mental health

• Be conscious of your language ‐ avoid words and phrases that perpetuate bias and stigma

• Encourage equality in how people perceive physical illness and mental illness

• Show empathy and compassion for those living with a mental health condition

• Stop the criminalization of those who live with mental illness

• Push back against the way people who live with mental illness are portrayed in the media

• See the person, not the illness

• Advocate for mental health reform

• Pledge to fight mental health stigma and bias at: Nami.org/stigmafree, Bringchange2mind.org, Time‐to‐change.org.uk, Stampoutstigma.com

National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health 
12320 Parklawn Drive
Rockville, MD 20852 
(240) 403-1901 
ffcmh@ffcmh.org 
https://www.ffcmh.org/awarenessweek
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Source: 2019 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.