National
Wellness Week was September 19-25, 2011.
For more information visit
www.10x10.samhsa.gov
Line Dance for Wellness
September 23, 2011
10:10
AM and 10:10 PM - Wherever you are USA!
Thousands of people across the country got up and moved to their favorite tune in
the Line Dance for Wellness. It was a grove in solidarity with a pledge to reduce mortality by 10 years in 10 years for people
with mental and substance use disorders.
Wellness Works Initiative
As part of National Wellness Week (Sept 19-25, 2011), the National
Coalition for Mental Health Recovery and the consumer-run and consumer-supporter technical assistance centers—the
National Empowerment Center, the National Mental Health Consumers’ Self Help Clearinghouse, the Peerlink Technical Assistance
Centerthe Café TA Center, and the NAMI STAR Center – invited peers to submit a piece of original
creative work expressing what wellness meant in their lives and communities.
Submissions helped raise public awareness
about the importance of embracing a wellness-based perspective, in mental health services as well as in our communities at
large. Click
here for more information www.power2u.org/wellnessworks.html.
