This was a “preview” that Time to Change (UK movement) used to try to reduce the prejudice associated with mental illness. It was shown before movies at different theaters across the UK.
Archive for July, 2012
Summer Update
This summer we have been busy trying to find funding for Send Silence Packing. Send Silence Packing is a traveling education program that Active MInds sponsors. At the event they lay out 1,100 backpacks representing the number of college lives lost to suicide each year. The event serves as both and educational event and as an impactful, visual representation of just how big a problem silence is when dealing with a mental illness.
Below is a link that further explains what SSP:
Hope everyone has a great rest of the summer and we can’t wait to get started in the fall!
Active Minds Chapter at UAB 