Breaking the Silence: How Reducing Stigma Can Improve Perinatal Mental Health Outcomes

• By: Paige Bellenbaum, LCSW, PMH-C Perinatal Mental Health Consultant, Educator, Advocate, Clinician, and Public Speaker, Adjunct Professor, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College
• May 7th, 2025
• maternal mental health, maternal mortality, mental health, mental health advocacy, mental health roundtable, mental health stigma, perinatal mood disorders, postpartum depression, stigma
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May 7th is World Maternal Mental Health Day. This annual day of recognition across the globe aims to raise awareness around maternal mental health conditions, highlighting the importance of education, advocacy, prevention, and effective treatment and support for those experiencing perinatal mood...

The Future of Mental Health Is on the Line—We Must Protect It

• By: Jorge R. Petit, MD Quality Healthcare Solutions, LLC
• May 6th, 2025
• community mental health services, funding, integrated care, mental health advocacy, mental health awareness month, public health, public policy
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Federal restructuring risks erasing decades of progress. Together, we can demand better for our communities. Each May, we pause to raise awareness about mental health, which also serves as a time to engage in conversations about emotional well-being, reducing stigma, and promoting equitable...

Stand Up for Mental Health: Comedy that Gets Respect!

• By: Carl Alan Blumenthal, MS, MA, NYCPS Peer Specialist
• January 22nd, 2024
• diversity, mental health advocacy, mental health comedy, recovery, self-deprecating humor, self-respect, stand up for mental health, stigma, therapeutic laughter, Winter 2024 Issue
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While performing comedy at hotels in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Rodney Dangerfield first complained in the 1960s, “I don’t get no respect.” Born “Jacob Rodney Cohen,” he was one of many Jewish comedians, such as Jackie Mason, George Burns, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Sid Caesar,...