Morehouse School of Medicine is recognizing the first national HBCU Mental Health Awareness Day with campus presentations and a competition to produce the best public service announcement promoting mental health awareness. The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Center for Excellence (HBCU-CFE) in Substance Abuse and Mental Health at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are collaborating to announce this first National Mental Health Awareness Day happening on February 23, 2010.
The aim of the HBCU-CFE Mental Health Awareness Day is to increase public knowledge and student awareness about mental health issues and to foster a more supportive and informed environment on HBCU campuses and in the community.
“It’s important to continue to create a greater awareness of the mental health issues in our community,” says Gail A. Mattox, M.D., HBCU-CFE project director in MSM’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Cork Institute. “We are looking forward to highlighting winners from the HBCU-CFE Mental Health Awareness PSA competition and have special presentations on campus from other HBCUs.” Activities will start at 9:30 a.m. EST and can be accessed via the web. The link will be on the MSM website.
HBCU-CFE is made possible through the SAMHSA grant number TI-020447-01.
For more information, please contact Dr. Mattox at 404.756.1455 or gmattox@msm.edu.
About Morehouse School of Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) recruits and trains minority and other students as physicians, biomedical scientists and public health professionals committed to improving the health and well-being of communities. MSM is a member of the largest consortium of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the world — the Atlanta University Center (AUC). For more information about Morehouse School of Medicine, visit us online at www.msm.edu. |
