ACCELERATING SOCIAL GOOD
  • HOME
  • SERVICES
    • SOCIAL CAUSE CAMPAIGNS >
      • STILL HERE: SUICIDE PREVENTION
      • THE WAKE UP CALL: OPIOID EPIDEMIC
      • NO MORE RUNNING: HUMAN TRAFFICKING
      • A MILLION VOICES: AFGHAN WOMEN'S RIGHTS
    • AWARD-WINNING CONTENT CREATION
    • SOCIAL MEDIA & FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNS
    • FUNDRAISING PLATFORMS >
      • SHINE ON: FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION NONPROFITS
    • SOCIAL IMPACT MANAGEMENT & REPORTING
    • STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & SCRUM CONSULTING
  • ADVOCACY
    • Raising Awareness One Story At a Time
    • 'STILL HERE' Suicide Prevention Campaign
    • 'We Are All Worthy' Workplace Stigma Campaign >
      • Support with Signature
      • Support with Selfie
      • Support with Story
      • Our Founder's Personal Story
      • Wall of Solidarity: Our Stigma-Fighter Superheroes
      • How to Become Workplace Wellness Certified
      • Exclusive Stigma-Fighter Superhero Swag
    • 'Hope For All' Social Media Campaign
  • BIPOLAR TO BIPOLAR
    • Lean Into Lived Experience
    • Apóyate en la experiencia vivida
    • Do you need help now?
  • Collaborations
    • Our Mental Health Partners
    • Our Social Good Partners
    • Our Suicide Prevention Partners
  • ABOUT
    • Our Team >
      • Meet Our Chief Executive Officer
      • Meet Our Chief Content Officer
      • Meet Our Chief Technology Officer
      • Meet Our Social Media Strategist, Illustrator & Videographer
      • Meet Our Digital Marketing Intern
    • Our North Star
    • Our Client Testimonials
    • OUR SOCIAL CAUSE
  • Blog
  • Contact

11/24/2021

WE aRE here to build a world where all children flourish but first we need STIGMA-FREE workplaces: FOUR simple ways you can help

0 Comments

Read Now
 
Picture

why i am doing this accelerating mental wellness campaign FOR WORKPLACES. what is your why?

Please allow me to introduce my why, the inspiration that drives me to work so hard on this campaign: Sara. We have hashtags for one another, #saraslight and #kerryshope. ​
Accelerating Social Good collaborates with causes to build a world where the mental healthcare system doesn't let anyone down. A world where all our children can flourish. 

To enable all lights to shine, we simply must have work settings that support and empower people, environments wherein my precious Sara's light is allowed to illuminate as bright as possible.
It is for Sara, who is now 24, and her beautiful friends, that I dedicate much of my time to ensure this cause-advocacy campaign exceeds our expectations.

​What about you? Is creating stigma-free workplaces built on a foundation of empathy, caring, compassion important to you too? Should workplaces be providing mental health programs and supports? What is your why? 

Please consider joining us. Stand with others and share your selfie, and/or share your story. We are simply stronger as advocates and concerned citizens when we stand together. If we are here to affect social change, this is how we can do it. Together.
​

help write stigma-free story with an empathy plot. a story of hope. let's co-create workplaces we all can flourish.

If mental health advocates collaborate, we can interweave a more inclusive story both persuasive enough to change society and powerful enough to shine a light on what the future should look like. A future of no stigma. A future with where we lose fewer precious souls far too soon. A future of mental wellness. A future of hope. A future where we all can flourish.

Let's work together to create stigma-free workplaces, rebuilt on a foundation of empathy and caring, by sharing our lived experiences. A key to ending mental health stigma (read systemic discrimination) is to humanize it with storytelling.
Accelerating Mental Wellness is a cause-advocacy campaign publicly launching in Q1 2022. In preparation, we are galvanizing mental health advocates from around the globe to show the world that we support stigma-free support workplaces through the curation and sharing of our lived-experience stories.

Given our unique lens, we can shift workplace cultures and change the workplace in ways other stakeholders simply can not. Our voices of insight, pain and suffering can influence and shape understanding on a truly deep and human level.
Picture

BUT WE CAN'T DO THIS ALONE. WE NEED YOUR HELP.

This is a rallying cry to advocates and concerned citizens to come together. To share our selfies and our stories in a collaborative and coordinated campaign to accelerate social change on behalf of those who are suffering in silence and shame. With must step up and speak out, a calling more salient in light of the Great Resignation.

Whilst it is easy to build a business case for workplaces to integrate mental health access and programming as a benefit (and we intend to do so), let's also come together to do the hard work. Let's build a human case for rebuilding our workplaces on a foundation of empathy and caring.

If you are a mental health advocate, please consider joining us and raising your voice. Let's all stand up and be heard. And together, be so loud that eventually they must not only listen but TAKE A PLEDGE to either acknowledge the importance of this initiative or take concrete steps to create a stigma-free workplace with appropriate mental health programming and supports for employees. More on this to come in 2022.

FOUR ways you can help

  1. Support with a Signature - sign our "We Are All Worthy" Change.org Petition to ensure all people feel worthy regardless of need for mental health support. 
  2. Support with a Selfie - upload your selfie to take a brick out of the wall of stigma and become a stigma-fighter superhero on our Wall of Solidarity.
  3. Support with a Story - upload your story and help us build the human case.
  4. Support with a Share - simply share this post or our petition in your social channels.

Author

Kerry Martin, Sara's Number 1 Fan, CEO & Founder, Accelerating Social Good; US Lead Chair, Accelerating Mental Wellness Social Change Campaign. 

Share

0 Comments

4/13/2020

How Would Chicken Little Respond to COVID's Impact on Mental Health AND Suicide? Courageously, laying hope for our most vulnerable. We're responding too.

0 Comments

Read Now
 
Picture
​“You’re going to have suicides by the thousands. ... People get tremendous anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies.” —​ President Trump
Yes, perhaps as President Trump cavalierly warns us — breaking all common-sense rules about publicly talking about suicide — the sky is falling. But this is not the time to scramble. We must rise to the occasion, recognizing the psychosocial fallout from COVID is massive and will reverberate for years to come.

Let us remember the moral of the traditional Chicken Little story is too have courage even when it feels like the sky is falling. Let’s come together and lay a four letter word for our most vulnerable populations now at an even higher risk of suicide: HOPE.

Otherwise, COVID is going to take an enormous toll on the mental health of Americans. And, cause an unprecedented increase in suicide rates resulting in the preventable loss in life far outweighing the heartbreak caused by the virus itself.

While the nation’s attention is largely focusing on the active physical treatment of patients, suicide populations are at higher risk than ever before. Despite this, they are being overlooked. This must change. And, change immediately.

Our President’s comments do not leave you with a lot of faith in the federal government’s likelihood of responding compassionately nor do his off-handed remarks suggest he is going to direct federal agencies to take any actions to prevent this outcome.

We can’t just sit back and acknowledge — as our Commander in Chief has already gotten that out of the way for us — that yes, we are going to have a problem on our hands of potentially epic proportions.

Nope, not good enough. Not when lives are at stake.

Whenever and where ever people turn — regardless of how much they have in their wallets — they simply must have access to mental health care. Please keep in mind that of those who die by suicide, 90% have an undiagnosed mental illness at the time of their death, most saw a health care professional in the year prior, with up to 45% of individuals visiting their primary care physician within a month of their death.
We must call suicide what it is, a public health epidemic. And, we must fight it as such, with epidemic measures.
We must marshal as many resources as possible and mobilize an all out war on as many fronts as possible to make mental health care on parity with physical health care.
​
Let me paint a picture for you of what will happen if we don’t courageously respond and give people hope.

What do we Know About Impact of COVID on Mental Health, Suicide and Suicide Attempts?


Read More

Share

0 Comments
Details

    Archives

    February 2023
    January 2023
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    April 2020

    Categories

    All
    Accelerating Mental Wellness
    Accelerating Mental Wellness At Work Initiative
    Accelerating Social Good
    ADD
    ADHD
    Agile
    Anosognosia
    Anxiety
    Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)
    Behavioral Disorders
    Bipolar
    Bipolar Disorder
    Black Mental Health
    Borderline Personality Disorder
    Brain Health
    Brain Illness
    Cause Advocacy
    Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives
    COVID-19
    COVID 19 Response
    COVID-19 Response
    Dating With Bipolar
    Depression
    DSM Reclassification
    Eating Disorders
    Emotional Disorder
    Giving Back
    Guest Blogger
    Hope
    Hope Xchange Nonprofit
    India
    Involuntary Treatment
    Love And Relationships
    Loving Others With Bipolar
    Make A Difference
    Men's Mental Health
    Mental Health
    Mental Health Advocacy
    Mental Health At Work
    Mental Health Awareness
    Mental Health Law
    Mental Health Programs
    Mental Health Stigma
    Mental Health Support
    Mental Health Treatment
    Mental Illness
    Mental Wellness
    Neurodiversity
    Nonprofits
    OCD
    Pro Bono Services
    Psychiatric Treatment
    Psychiatry
    PTSD
    Schizophrenia
    Scrum
    Serious Brain Disorders
    Serious Brain Illness
    Serious Mental Illness
    Social Activism
    Social Enterprises
    Social Justice
    Stigma
    Stigma Fighter Superhero
    Stories Of Hope
    Suicide Attempt
    Suicide Awareness
    Suicide Prevention
    We Are All Worthy Campaign
    We Are All Worthy Change.Org Petition
    Workplace Culture
    Workplace Mental Health
    Youth Mental Health

    RSS Feed

SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER

* indicates required

LET'S GET SOCIAL

© Accelerating Social Good SPC (Social Purpose Corporation incorporated in CA), 2023
  • HOME
  • SERVICES
    • SOCIAL CAUSE CAMPAIGNS >
      • STILL HERE: SUICIDE PREVENTION
      • THE WAKE UP CALL: OPIOID EPIDEMIC
      • NO MORE RUNNING: HUMAN TRAFFICKING
      • A MILLION VOICES: AFGHAN WOMEN'S RIGHTS
    • AWARD-WINNING CONTENT CREATION
    • SOCIAL MEDIA & FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNS
    • FUNDRAISING PLATFORMS >
      • SHINE ON: FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION NONPROFITS
    • SOCIAL IMPACT MANAGEMENT & REPORTING
    • STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & SCRUM CONSULTING
  • ADVOCACY
    • Raising Awareness One Story At a Time
    • 'STILL HERE' Suicide Prevention Campaign
    • 'We Are All Worthy' Workplace Stigma Campaign >
      • Support with Signature
      • Support with Selfie
      • Support with Story
      • Our Founder's Personal Story
      • Wall of Solidarity: Our Stigma-Fighter Superheroes
      • How to Become Workplace Wellness Certified
      • Exclusive Stigma-Fighter Superhero Swag
    • 'Hope For All' Social Media Campaign
  • BIPOLAR TO BIPOLAR
    • Lean Into Lived Experience
    • Apóyate en la experiencia vivida
    • Do you need help now?
  • Collaborations
    • Our Mental Health Partners
    • Our Social Good Partners
    • Our Suicide Prevention Partners
  • ABOUT
    • Our Team >
      • Meet Our Chief Executive Officer
      • Meet Our Chief Content Officer
      • Meet Our Chief Technology Officer
      • Meet Our Social Media Strategist, Illustrator & Videographer
      • Meet Our Digital Marketing Intern
    • Our North Star
    • Our Client Testimonials
    • OUR SOCIAL CAUSE
  • Blog
  • Contact