The Impact of Peer-Based Storytelling on Workplace Mental Health

• By: Maggie G. Mortali, MPH, CEO Jennifer Da Silva, MPA, Director of Marketing & Communications NAMI-NYC
• January 19th, 2026
• help-seeking behaviors, leadership engagement, lived experience storytelling, organizational culture, peer support, stigma reduction, Winter 2026 Issue, workforce wellbeing, workplace mental health
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NAMI-NYC participant reflections illustrate why a peer-based approach matters. One participant shared that they did not know anyone in their life who had experience depression and that hearing a peer speak made them feel less isolated, saying, “I don't have anyone who has depression around me, so...

Dismantling Structural Stigmatization Through Organizational Transparency, Accountability, and Leadership

• By: Gretchen Grappone, LICSW Training Consultant
• July 18th, 2025
• health equity, intersectionality, leadership engagement, mental health, stigma, structural stigmatization, substance use, Summer 2025 Issue
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In the Summer 2022 edition of Behavioral Health News, my colleague, Jayden Carr, BS, and I wrote an article reviewing the most common forms of stigmatization and their negative effects on people with mental illness and substance use disorders (MI/SUD). The term “stigmatization” rather than...