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Mental Health Awareness Month
May 2025
14th Annual Healthiest State Walk
October 2, 2024
Workplace Well-being Conference
April 2025
5-2-1-0 Summit
October 2024
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Brain Health Summit 2024 Calmar | Mindful Workplaces Beyond Stigma
This year’s Summit takes a deep dive into society’s misconceptions and barriers surrounding brain health and stigma, and the importance of creating “mindful workplaces.
05/18 MAKE IT OK AMBASSADOR TRAINING
Are you passionate about reducing the stigma of Mental Illness in your community? Register to become a Make It OK Ambassador.
A Make It OK Ambassador is someone who has a passion for reducing mental illness stigma in their community. An Ambassador does not need to be an expert on mental health but someone who is interested in reducing stigma by increasing understanding and creating caring conversation about mental illness.
Join us for this free, 2-hour training that will cover what it means to be a Make It OK Ambassador, provide you with the key messages and the tools you will need to help talk about and share Make It OK with others.
To learn more about Make It OK, prior to the training, please visit www.makeitok.org/Iowa.
Location:
Zoom
IA
Cost:
$0.00
05/15 MAKE IT OK PRESENTATION
Make It OK is community campaign to reduce stigma by starting conversations and increasing understanding about mental illness.
Did you know 1 in 5 are diagnosed with a mental illness in a given year while 1 in 8 are diagnosed with diabetes? Yet how we talk about these two illnesses is very different.
In the 50 minute presentation you will:
Learn more about what Make It OK is
Better understand what you can do to reduce the stigma through key messages and resources
Feel more confident in talking more openly about mental illness, and helping people get the care and support they need
Location:
Zoom
IA
Cost:
$0.00
To learn more about Make It OK prior to the presentation, visit www.makeitok.org/Iowa.
Make It OK Night With the Des Moines Menace
The Des Moines Menace and the Iowa Healthiest State Initiative are partnering again in 2023 for Make It OK Night! Join us May 13th at 7PM at Valley Stadium for the Des Moines Menace soccer team home opener to support Make It OK during Mental Health Awareness Month in May.
Don't miss the chance to see the best soccer team in Iowa and help spread the Make It OK message!
05/01 MAKE IT OK PRESENTATION
Make It OK is community campaign to reduce stigma by starting conversations and increasing understanding about mental illness.
Did you know 1 in 5 are diagnosed with a mental illness in a given year while 1 in 8 are diagnosed with diabetes? Yet how we talk about these two illnesses is very different.
In the 50 minute presentation you will:
Learn more about what Make It OK is
Better understand what you can do to reduce the stigma through key messages and resources
Feel more confident in talking more openly about mental illness, and helping people get the care and support they need
Location:
Zoom
IA
Cost:
$0.00
To learn more about Make It OK prior to the presentation, visit www.makeitok.org/Iowa.