Mental Illness – Raising Awareness and Decreasing Stigma in Community

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Always enjoy and appreciate presenting with the dynamic, Brenda Wesley. Brenda is the Director of Community Outreach for National Alliance for Mental Illness of Greater Milwaukee. We presented today the Milwaukee Area Technical College’s West Allis campus to a group wanting to learn about stigma reduction. We shared a lot in today’s session including:

A little theology for faith leaders
A little structure and process for introducing mental illness ministry inside local faith communities
The many people who need equipping and training
- Clinicians
- Pastors
- Nurse
- Police Officers
- Lay persons
- People with lived experience
Strategies for learning
Importance of creating spaces for serving youth

This slide talks about some of the constructs and biases that we have relative to people who have a mental health diagnoses.

Mental illness defined . . .

How can we make a difference?

Some resources . . .

About Post Author

Walter Lanier

Walter Lanier is a husband, father, lawyer, pastor, teacher, educator, and social entrepreneur with a deep commitment to being a liberating force in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lanier, an inaugural CBMA fellow, is the Senior Pastor of Progressive Baptist Church of Milwaukee, which has a 30-year track record of innovation and service to community Milwaukee. Pastor Lanier also serves as the Director of Student Resources at Milwaukee Area Technical College where he also founded the college’s Men of Color Initiative and lead the first-ever Counseling and Psychological Services department.

wjlanier@gmail.com