Spotlight on Rethinking Mental Health Care

 
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The nation’s mental health crisis is worsening with the COVID-19 pandemic. About two in five adults reported struggling with their mental health, including substance use, in the last year. That’s twice the number of Americans who typically experience a mental illness in any given year. It’s time to rethink mental health care.  

How can our system of care shorten the ten year average to treat people after their first symptoms? What would the ideal mental health care system look like? What policies need to change to create it? 

Watch below as host Kimberly Adams talks with national leaders in mental health care and policy reform in a recent virtual event discussion.  

This program will be airing on public radio stations nationwide in May. Contact your local station about carriage and air times. 

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RESOURCES

Pandemic Learnings

CARE SYSTEMS

This event is produced by Call to Mind, American Public Media’s initiative to foster new conversations about mental health, and will be recorded for national broadcast distribution. Call to Mind may contact registrants about this event and future content. 

What: Spotlight on Rethinking Mental Health Care

When: Thursday, April 15, 2021 1:00 – 3:00PM ET | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT

Where: Digital gathering via Zoom, broadcast on public radio at a later date

 
 
Kimberly Adams Host

Kimberly Adams
Host

Arthur Evans Jr., PhD Clinical and community psychologist. CEO & EVP of American Psychological Association.

Arthur Evans Jr., PhD
Clinical and community psychologist. CEO & EVP of American Psychological Association.

Tom Insel, MD Neuroscientist, psychiatrist. Chair of Steinberg Institute. Former Director of National Institute of Mental Health.

Tom Insel, MD
Neuroscientist, psychiatrist. Chair of Steinberg Institute. Former Director of National Institute of Mental Health.

 
 
Pooja Mehta Advocate for BIPOC mental health. Masters of Public Health candidate, Columbia University.

Pooja Mehta
Advocate for BIPOC mental health. Masters of Public Health candidate, Columbia University.

Amanda Lipp Mental health & LGBTQ+ advocate, documentary filmmaker. Member of Google Mental Health Advisory Panel. Member of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee.

Amanda Lipp
Mental health & LGBTQ+ advocate, documentary filmmaker. Member of Google Mental Health Advisory Panel. Member of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee.