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Past Event

Glenn Close: Bring Change to Mind

The stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness is deeply rooted in American culture and society. Bring Change to Mind (BC2M) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging dialogue about mental health and to raising awareness, understanding and empathy. Award-winning actor and advocate Glenn Close co-founded Bring Change to Mind in 2010 after her sister Jessie Close was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and her nephew Calen Pick was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder.

Science and evidence-based programs are essential to achieving the work of BC2M. The organization’s seven public service announcements have provided stigma-reducing messaging to more than four billion individuals. By mobilizing deeply engaged change agents, especially youth, to collectively talk about mental health, BC2M is able to encourage healthy help seeking behavior, greater resilience and self-care techniques. It is transforming feelings of isolation and despair into feelings of community and hope. The organization’s peer-led high school clubs, operating in 16 states, are a great example of how youth can, and will, change the perspectives on mental illness in our lifetime. Join Glenn Close and other BC2M leaders for a conversation about the power of advocacy, science and youth leadership to reduce stigma and creative positive change in the world of mental health.

Notes

Part of our series on mental health, dedicated in memory of Nancy Friend Pritzker, with support from the John Pritzker Family Fund

May 7, 2019

Herbst Theater
401 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, 94102
United States

Speakers
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Glenn Close

Co-Founder, Bring Change to Mind; Actor; Advocate

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Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D.

Liaison, Bring Change to Mind Scientific Advisory Council; Professor in Residence and Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychology in the Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley; Co-Director, Child Teen and Family Center in the Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences at UC San Francisco

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Hannah Deng

High School Student Advocate, Bring Change to Mind

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Calen Pick

Ambassador, BC2M; Artist; Advocate

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Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell

(Ret.)—Moderator