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Deconstructing Stigma: Revealing Leads to Healing

The following story features Brandon , a NFL wide receiver, co-founder of PROJECT 375, and participant in our Deconstructing Stigma: A Change in Thought Can Change a Life mental health public awareness campaign. Told through the eyes of its participants, this campaign boldly challenges the...

New Exhibit Aims to Boost Mental Health Awareness in New Hampshire

McLean Hospital, Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (MHT), and the NH Community Behavioral Health Association (NH CBHA) are bringing an inspirational exhibit highlighting stories of people living with mental illness to New Hampshire. The Manchester exhibit is part of Deconstructing Stigma: Changing...

Deconstructing Stigma at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut

McLean Hospital, in collaboration with Bradley International Airport, the Brian Dagle Foundation, Cultural Coalition, Greater Hartford Arts Council, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Connecticut, recently brought Deconstructing Stigma: Changing Attitudes About Mental Health...

Selena Gomez’s Foundation Helps Expand Educational Outreach to Teens

Singer, actress, producer, and founder of Rare Beauty Selena Gomez uses her celebrity status and expansive platform to bring awareness to mental health. Now, her Rare Impact Fund has donated $100,000 to McLean to fund a series of free educational webinars targeting young people as well as the people...

McLean Hospital Joins Forces To Boost Mental Health Awareness in Maine

McLean Hospital, Bangor International Airport (BGR), Northern Light Acadia Hospital, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Maine are bringing an inspirational exhibit highlighting stories of people living with mental illness to Maine. The goal of the exhibit, which will formally be...

Deconstructing Stigma: Remember to Live in the Moment

The following story features Meghan, a 27-year-old nanny in Massachusetts and participant in our Deconstructing Stigma: A Change in Thought Can Change a Life mental health public awareness campaign. Learn more at DeconstructingStigma.org . A trip to the local market could send Meg into a severe...

McLean Hospital Receives Rare Impact Grant for Expansion of Webinar Series

McLean Hospital’s Office of Education Outreach has received a grant from the Rare Impact Fund to expand its popular webinar series. With the funding, McLean will develop webinars focused on youth mental health and wellness for audiences in the U.S. and beyond. The series will guide teens, parents...

Learning in Your Living Room

For months, staff from McLean’s Education Outreach team had been planning to start a regular webinar series. When the pandemic was recognized in the United States in March 2020, the team quickly mobilized to provide mental health information to the public six weeks earlier than originally scheduled...

McLean Hospital Receives All-Inclusive Award From Color Magazine

McLean Hospital is the recipient of the 2020 Virtual All-Inclusive Award in the category of Public Health Champion Award—Organization from Color Magazine . The award, which was presented during an online ceremony held on December 10, recognized McLean for “making outstanding strides to protect and...

New Art Exhibit Shines Unique Light on Mental Health

What do a wildlife advocate, musician, fitness instructor, actor, athlete, and artist have in common? All have been affected by mental illness and its stigma, and all are brought together in a beautiful and compelling new photographic exhibit that debuted on Thursday, May 20, 2021, at Burlington...

McLean Hospital Announces New Online Author Discussion Series

Coming on the heels of its successful educational webinar series aimed at increasing understanding of and reducing stigma about mental illness, McLean Hospital’s Office of Education Outreach has announced it is launching a new online series featuring popular authors. “The idea for this new author...

McLean Sponsors Maine Art Exhibit Focused on Domestic Abuse

McLean Hospital has joined dozens of businesses and organizations in sponsoring an art exhibit in Rockland, Maine, focused on the issue of domestic abuse. The event was created by Finding Our Voices , a nonprofit organization that seeks to “educate everyone about the pervasiveness and complexity of...

Enhancing Mental Health Education Throughout Ecuador

In 2019, McLean Hospital and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) commenced a collaboration to develop innovative and engaging campaigns to enhance mental health education—for medical students, medical professionals, and members of the public—throughout Ecuador. Through this heightened...