Actions Panel
Hope Rising for Youth Mental Health Action
Mental Wellness Community Event with a YMHC community fair, film screening, light bites, networking opportunities, and panel discussion!
When and where
Date and time
Sat, Mar 25, 2023 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM EDT
Location
The Westdale 1014 King Street West Hamilton, ON L8S 1L4 Canada
Refund Policy
About this event
- 5 hours
- Mobile eTicket
Join us on Saturday, March 25, for a community fair, film, light bites, networking opportunities, and panel discussion with leading mental health and suicide prevention advocates, professionals, & community organizations!
All funds raised will go towards youth mental health action efforts locally, provincially, and nationally.
The feature documentary, "The S Word" by Lisa Klein will be followed by a panel discussion with representatives from McMaster University, McMaster Children's Hospital, Suicide Prevention Community Council of Hamilton, St. Joseph's Hospital/COAST, and others. THE S WORD, from Los Angeles-based production company, MadPix Films, tackles one of the most challenging and silenced issues of our time…suicide. The film highlights the journey of a suicide attempt survivor on a mission to find fellow survivors and document their stories of courage, insight, and humor. Along the way, she discovers a rising movement of people transforming personal struggles into action.
The screening will be preceded by a community fair with information tables from local mental health organizations. A panel discussion will follow the screening with leading mental health and suicide prevention organizations and advocates from the Hamilton area.
Tickets are free.
YMHC is not sponsored by the government or by grants. Donations are welcome and appreciated.
Doors open at 5:00 pm. Light bites will be provided. Tickets are available through Eventbrite or at the door.
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About the organizer
YMHC is a community-based, youth-led charitable non-profit organization focused on youth, family and community engagement for mental health education, support, advocacy and change.
We advocate for needs-based, culturally sensitive, trauma-informed mental health supports, services and educational accommodations and direct funding to families to support young people with chronic mental health disabilities.