Five Tips for Opening Your Church Doors
Mental illnesses cause isolation and loneliness. They set people apart and often exclude them from the richness of community. At the Well we provide a place to belong … a place where those who struggle ...
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Interconnected: The Trifecta of Mental Illness, Poverty and Physical Challenges
“It’s all very interconnected,” says Alice Zaccarello, Executive Director of the Well Community. “Our members have a trifecta. They live with serious mental illness, all live in poverty and many have physical health conditions.” Each ...
A Well World: It Takes a Community
It Takes a Community Amid Mental Health Awareness Month and as a part of our 20th birthday celebration, we recently took time to honor folks who have, over the years, played an important role in ...
Life-Altering: Five Things to Know About the Impact of Serious Mental Illnesses
Mental illnesses are a diverse group of conditions that affect the brain—and in turn, the rest of the body—in numerous and varied ways. Just as diseases of other types differ in severity and in the ...
A Matter of Justice: Why Mental Health is Everyone’s Issue
Mental health is often viewed as something that impacts individuals. But mental illnesses and the stigma surrounding them don't exist in a vacuum. Numerous societal factors color the experience of those living with mental health ...
The Relentless Sting of Stigma
Mental illnesses are twice as common as diabetes. Yet, even though these conditions affect one in five people in a year, they’re shrouded in stigma. This stigma hurts millions of people every day—people like members of ...