Mental Health Summit – August 2023 from Flint Registry on Vimeo.
Flint, MI – Last summer the Flint Registry hosted a mental health summit with local experts and leaders. The panelists, Tia Coles of Hurley’s Trauma Recovery Center, Dr. Crystal Cederna of Hurley Medical Center, and Chris Leamy of Genesee Health System, were passionate and lively, bouncing off of each other to inspire ideas and conversation about mental health issues in Flint – its causes, treatments, and solutions. Tia Coles made a riveting analogy about the culture of stigma and bias surrounding mental health, calling it an outdated cell phone. Without the updates, it may be acceptable in the beginning. Over time, however, the phone will slow down, the messages won’t send, and its purpose will be useless.
The Flint Registry also works closely with a number of local and national mental health resources and programs.
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