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What’s New from the Council
•Council Publishes Stopping Stigma with Expert and Personal Insights in Time for Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 5-11, 2025) – Click here to read this publication.
• The Council encourages everyone to participate in the Sing! for Mental Health Project! Click here for details!
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor and more unashamed conversation.”
— Glenn Close
“We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear.”
— Tipper Gore
“Mental health problems don’t define who you are . They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain but you are not the rain.”
— Matt Haig
Stories Inspiring Progress
The best way to eliminate stigma is to educate individuals about mental health and mental illnesses, especially the fact that mental illnesses are real, just like physical health conditions, and should not incite any judgment or discrimination. Such education should include individuals’ success stories.
The New Jersey Governor’s Council on Mental Health Stigma invites individuals to share their inspiring stories.
Here is one of many examples:
There is hope for you as there was for me
by Emily
Emily: Grossman, MA, CPRP, a member of the Council, Senior Training and Consultation Specialist at Rutgers School of Health Professions, and author of Unlocked: 25 Keys to Recovering from Depression, Anxiety or Bipolar Disorder
Upcoming Events
From Broadway to Community Care
10/10/2025
TLC: 22nd Annual Suicide Prevention Conference Bringing the Healing: Postvention in Practice
10/04/2025
Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth: 2025 Annual Conference Bringing the Healing: Postvention in Practice....
Collaborative Support Services of New Jersey Words of Wellness October 2025
10/01/2025
October is a powerful month to turn inward, check in, and take meaningful steps toward nurturing wellness—specially our emotional and intellectual dimensions........
Council News
Stopping Stigma with Expert and Personal Insights in Time for Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 5-11, 2025)
10/03/2025
Council Publishes Stopping Stigma with Expert and Personal Insights in Time for Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 5-11, 2025) – Click here to read this publication.
Behavioral Healthcare Leaders Share Strategies and Inspire Collaboration at the Council’s 20th Anniversary Celebration – Click here for event highlights and photos, and here to watch the event video. highlights
07/16/2025
Behavioral Healthcare Leaders Share Strategies and Inspire Collaboration at the Council’s 20th Anniversary Celebration – Click here for event highlights and photos, and here to watch the event video.