{"id":14289,"date":"2020-05-14T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/mental-health-awareness-month-events-with-nami\/"},"modified":"2020-05-14T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:00:01","slug":"mental-health-awareness-month-events-with-nami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/mental-health-awareness-month-events-with-nami\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Awareness Month Events with NAMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The staff from Counseling and Wellness Services invites all students and staff to join us this month in supporting mental health awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) are hosting several events for Mental Health Awareness Month. NAMI&#8217;s mission is to provide advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives. The following upcoming events are aimed at doing just that.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cafe NAMI<\/em>: Support &amp; Spread Mental Health Awareness!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107910\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cafe-NAMI-1-5-20-20-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107909\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/CAFE-NAMI-2-05-20-20-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Join us <strong>Wednesday, May 20 at 7 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0NAMI CAFE\u00a0,\u00a0a night of live performances!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enjoy a variety of performers, musicians, dancers, poets<br \/>\nand much more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Email <a href=\"mailto:info@naminys.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">info@naminys.org<\/a> to sign up for a spot in our lineup to share your talents!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?oeidk=a07eh32no2g92ae3ab5&amp;llr=zga6rzjab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cafe NAMI Registration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NAMI-NYS Night of Musicals featuring <strong>Zak Sandler<\/strong>\u00a0 and a Musical Inspired Karaoke After Party on\u00a0<strong>Saturday, May 16 at 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107911\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Night-of-Musicals-1-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107912\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zak-Sandler-night-of-musicals-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Register to receive the zoom link: <a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?oeidk=a07eh3349bm17a8412f&amp;llr=zga6rzjab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NAMI-NYS Night of Musicals<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Zak Sandler<\/strong> is a mental health advocate with a musical twist, inspiring audiences, big and small, with his theatrical work. In his performances, he draws on his personal experience with bipolar to open a conversation on mental health with a unique sense of lightness and humor. Zak has appeared on \u201cThis Is Actually Happening\u201d (a podcast with 44K+ plays), and \u201cMoments of Clarity\u201d (a radio show with 1M+ listeners). He is a featured speaker with This Is My Brave and the JED Foundation, and in 2018, he won the Young Leader Award from NAMI-NYS. Zak has played piano on Broadway for WICKED, MEAN GIRLS, MOTOWN, and THE COLOR PURPLE. His musical about bipolar, INSIDE MY HEAD, premiered at New York Theatre Barn, and was a semi-finalist at the O\u2019Neill Theater\u2019s National Music Theater Conference. The show will be touring the US in 2020. Zak is also creating and hosting a docuseries that explores the link between creativity and mental conditions among celebrity artists and up-and-coming artists, called \u201cInsanely Talented.&#8221; He has a BA in music from Yale University<\/li>\n<li>www.zaksandler.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">(Zak does not use the phrases \u201cmental illness\u201d or \u201cbipolar disorder,\u201d because he feels they set a negative tone and imply there\u2019s something wrong with him. He prefers the more neutral terms \u201cmental conditions\u201d and simply, \u201cbipolar.\u201d Our words have the power to transform the conversation.)<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107913 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/NAMI-logo-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more information visit about the National Alliance on Mental Illness visit their website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nami.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nami.org\/home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe and well!<\/p>\n<p><em>Wellness Center Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 14 May 2020 12:00:01 +0000 by\u00a0k.weeks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The staff from Counseling and Wellness Services invites all students and staff to join us this month in supporting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}