MH Mediate’s Mental Health Month Activities
5/1 – Resourceful newsletter begins delivering Mental Health Month updates to people on Substack (mhsafe.substack.com)
5/2 – MIRACLE Innovation Competition offers $1000 to law students pitching ideas to reduce mental illness discrimination in courts (www.mhsafe.org/miracle)
5/3 – Eggshells in Action distributes a US and Canada survey of lawyers causing each other distress (https://forms.gle/q1xpVQUju2oBVUer6)
5/4 – BiasResistantCourts.org Free Intake Process Consult expands from being an Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals (ACAN) member benefit to being available to any dispute resolvers (www.mhmediate.com/ACAN)
5/5 – Stigma Looks Like… social media campaign images (designed with NY State Office of Mental Health) are circulated (https://behavioralhealthnews.org/your-options-for-responding-to-mental-illness-stigma-protectively-collaboratively-or-assertively/)
5/6 – Stigma and Conflict Resolution Resource Group resources originally developed with NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene are shared with new mental health groups (www.conflictcompass.com/rg)
5/7 – Dispute Resolution in Mental Health Initiative launches an updated site filled with free resources including AAA-ICDR-Foundation-funded programs (www.drmhinitiative.org)
5/8 – DisabilityRadar.com opens its form to help people report stigma and discrimination (www.disabilityradar.com)
5/9 – Stigma Spotlights campaigns begins large-scale outreach to share addendum resources in response to potentially stigmatizing content (www.mhsafe.org/stigma-spotlights)
5/10 – StrainedMiddle.com makes The Any Who Can’t Come Over childrens book available for free to help children impacted by mental illness estrangements (www.strainedmiddle.com)
5/11 – MH Mediate National Merit Scholars are sent scholarship certificates and free resources from MH Mediate (www.mhmediate.com/national-merit)
5/12 – 20 Years Embracing Bipolar sends thank you notes to Dan’s supportive friends from the past two decades (www.danberstein.com/20years)
5/13 – Bipolar Terror! follows an outreach plan to update stories of mental illness stigma and rejection (www.bipolarterror.com)
5/14 – Bipolar Dynasty project launches to discuss family history and mental health (www.bipolardynasty.com)
5/15 – Talking Mental Health Dashboard offers a day of free year-long sign-ups for companies (www.tmhdashboard.com; code: May-MH-Month)
5/16 – NAMIWalks in honor of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (https://www.namiwalks.org/participants/706293)
5/17 – Library Outreach begins to offer free resources to libraries who may have received the 2022 version of Mental Health and Conflicts via LexisNexis (www.mhsafe.org/lexisnexis)
5/18 – Rights, Ethics, and Voices in Dispute Resolution (REV-DR) promotes resources for mental illness discrimination complaints at dispute resolution centers (www.mhsafe.org/cdrccomplaints)
5/19 – Bullying Breakdown shares ACR program, survey, and other resources to help people address bullying behaviors without stigmatizing mental health labels (https://tinyurl.com/ACRBully)
5/20 – Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club: Mental Health and Conflicts presentation and free book giveaway with DRI Press (https://mediate.com/bookclub)
5/21 – Penn Alumni in Social Impact project begins to help improve distribution of free Mental Health Safe Project resources
5/22 – Disability Accessibility Templates are shared with mental health organizations to help people make accommodations requests (www.danberstein.com/disability)
5/23 – Mindquity Network invites dispute resolvers to sign on and be conflict coaches for conflicts related to rejection and disability accommodations (www.mindquity.com/dr-join)
5/24 – Sharing Uncomfortable Details project launches article on challenges speaking up and resources for mental illness speakers (www.danberstein.com/sharing)
5/25 – Accommodations and Accessibility in Higher Ed shares resources building on UCLaw SF program and survey of hundreds of students facing accommodation challenges in higher education (www.mindquity.com/higher-ed)
5/26 – Listserv Crisis Kit posts to dispute resolution listservs to help them have resources when people write about suicide, distress, or rejection
5/27 – Difficult Conversations Addendum Celebration to celebrate updates to Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (https://mhsafe.org/difficultconversations/)
5/28 – Emotional Use of AI launches article, survey, and tools to help people use AI to overcome distress and rejection (https://forms.gle/A6d2cREKLm2GVcdp7)
5/29 – Outsider Art from Dan Berstein website shares some of Dan’s artwork related to his mental illness, for the first time (www.danberstein.com/art)
5/30 – Conflict Stories promotion of podcast episode of Dan’s challenges raising awareness of discrimination in ADR (www.conflictstories.com)
5/31 – ABAReject.com launches to help people who are silently suffering from rejection at institutions (www.abareject.com)