Minding the Gap: Improving Mental Health Access - Eliminating Stigma is a national initiative developed to bring communities together with clinicians, policy makers, as well as faith and community leaders to discuss mental health. This campaign focuses on the development of a community level "safety net" to enhance mental health and related services. This campaign discusses the role of health policy in improving equity in mental health while providing resource information for mental health services.

The Goals of the Initiative are to:

• Develop a national network for mental health awareness, through community interaction;
• Encourage political activism to improve mental healthcare access;
• Equip the community with information needed to seek better mental health care; and
• Disseminate information that will spark positive conversations about mental illness and mental health care in all settings.

Media Release - May 2011
Media Release - July 2010