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I was recently contacted to spread the word on this important mental health cause. 

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Did you know that serious mental illness is a leading cause of disability worldwide, yet only a small fraction of people who need treatment have access to care in their communities? Many more are subject to neglect and abuse of their human and civil rights.

Here’s How You Can Help:

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has joined forces with Ashoka’s Changemakers to launch “Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing”, a competition for new ideas and practices that challenge
the status quo in terms of how we think about and address mental health care needs.

For far too long, mental illness has been stigmatized and those stigmas have served as a barrier to innovation.  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Rethinking Mental Health” competition offers an opportunity for new ideas outside the traditional structures to emerge.

What can you do to participate? Simply go to http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/mentalhealth to do any of the
following:

1.  Comment on entries from others like you who are deeply concerned about this very important issue and want to get involved.

2. Enter the competition and share your own idea for improving mental health.

3. Nominate an inspired idea or project.

Entries and comments can be submitted until October 14th.  A panel of judges will then select 10 ideas that the Changemakers community will vote on to select the top three. The Changemakers collaborative competition winners-the three finalists that receive the most votes-will be announced on December 16, 2009 and will each receive a cash prize of USD $5,000. As important as the three winners, however, is the dialogue that occurs about mental health and that as many great minds as possible come to the table with fresh thinking and new
solutions.

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Lisa Brookes Kift is a psychotherapist  and the creator of  The Therapy and Counseling Blog, a feature of The Toolbox at LisaKiftTherapy.com.

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