NH Community Behavioral Health Association

Mental Health Candidate Forum
2022-10-12 08:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | NH Institute of Politics, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, new hampshire, 03102, United States
The New Hampshire Community Behavioral Health Association and The Dupont Group invite you to attend the 2022 Mental Health Candidates Forum.

This Is My Brave
2022-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Bank of NH Stage, 16 S Main St, Concord, NH, 03301, United States
This Is My Brave – The Show in New Hampshire will be live on stage on Wednesday May 25, 2022.
Show Location: Bank of New Hampshire Stage
16 S Main St, Concord, NH 03301
We will update this event listing soon with ticket and performance information.
If a reasonable accommodation of disability is needed, please contact riverbend@thisismybrave.org

The Power & Potential of Peer Support
2022-05-25 13:00 - 15:00 | Colonial Theater, 617 Main St, Laconia, NH, United States
Confronting the Mental Health Crisis: The Power & Potential of Peer Support
Join us at the Colonial Theater in Laconia on May 25th from 1pm – 3pm for a panel discussion with local professionals who utilize Peer Support to promote health and wellness. Free to all. Refreshments will be available

Discussion with Ty Gagne, Author & Speaker
2022-05-24 17:00 - 19:00 | NH

One Friday in April: A story of suicide and survival by Donald Antrim
2022-05-17 18:30 - 19:30 | Gibsons Book Store, 45 S Main St, Concord, NH, United States
Riverbend Community Mental Health, Inc joins Gibson’s Bookstore in welcoming author Donald Antrim into the bookstore for a talk and signing for Antrim’s book, One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival, a searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness.
Named One of TIME‘s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021, one of BuzzFeed’s Best Books of 2021, one of Vulture’s Best Books of 2021, and named one of the Most Anticipated of Books of 2021 by the Los Angeles Times, Literary Hub, and The Millions, this will not be an event to miss! Through a clear and haunting reckoning with the author’s own story, One Friday in April confronts the limits of our understanding of suicide. Donald Antrim’s personal insights reframe suicide—whether in thought or in action—as an illness in its own right, a unique consequence of trauma and personal isolation, rather than the choice of a depressed person.

Movie: Ernie & Joe- Crisis Cops
2022-05-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Red River Theatres, 11 South Main Street, Concord, NH, 03301, United States
In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, Fellowship Housing is pleased to present Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops an intimate portrait of two Texas police officers who are helping change the way police respond to mental health crisis calls. The film takes audiences on a personal journey, weaving together their experiences during their daily encounters with people in crisis. Guns and handcuffs holstered, Ernie and Joe de-escalate confrontations, divert people in crisis to desperately needed mental health services and above all…save lives.

Joe Smarro, a star of the film, will then lead a panel discussion with our own community leaders on this important issue and how the community of Concord, NH deals with crisis response. He will be joined by Concord Chief of Police, Bradley Osgood. Executive Director of NAMI-NH, Susan Stearns. VP Clinical Operations of Riverbend, Sarah Gagnon and a special guest from the community.

The evening will start at 6:00PM with dessert and networking and will conclude at 9:00PM. There is no cost for tickets to see the film although, there is limited seating so reservations are required.
All donations will go directly to Fellowship Housing Opportunities, a provider of quality affordable housing for those living with mental illness.

The Last Optimist with Susan Levine – This moment is gone tour
2022-05-13 19:30 - 21:30 | south parish, 292 state street, portsmouth, NH, United States
Event Description: Please join us for an evening of folk music and help expand the circle of empathetic allies for those struggling with mental health.

Date and Time: Friday May 13,2022 7:30-9:30
Location: South Parish, 292 State Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801
Cost: This is charity show with suggested donation $10 at the door. Donations will go to the Seacoast Mental Health Center
Additional detail: www.lastoptimist.com www.susanjlevine.com/

The Wisdom of Trauma Screening
2022-05-12 | colonial theatre, 95 Main St, Keene, NH, United States

Free Webinar with Kim LaMontagne: The 4 Pillars of Creating and Sustaining a Mentally Healthy Workplace Culture
2022-05-11 12:00 - 13:00 | NH
Register HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y_ddlIuRTUGMJSJxad5kWg

Join the NH Community Behavioral Health Association and its’ ten community mental health centers along with their respective chambers, for a presentation by Kim LaMontagne, President / CEO of Kim LaMontagne, LLC, International Speaker, Corporate Trainer, and Author.
The 4 Pillars is a corporate training that teaches leaders how to create a ‘culture of safety’ in the workplace.
A culture of safety is one where everyone feels safe speaking openly about mental health without fear of judgment, retribution, or job loss.

Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
2022-05-06 09:00 - 15:30 | NH
Email Nikki Dionne at ndionne@smhc-nh.org to register. Course Details Page URL: https://instructors.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/course-details/293964

Magnify Voices Celebration Event
2022-05-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A St, Derry, NH, 03038, United States
Join us for The Magnify Voices Expressive Arts Contest Celebration Event in-person at the Tupelo Music Hall in Derry, NH or virtually on the MV Facebook live-stream! As part of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week, we will showcase all contest entries as well as announce this year’s top 10 finalists. Please know if you do attend in-person, at this time, there are no COVID-19 protocols in place, however the Tupelo Music Hall and the NH Children’s System of Care reserve the right to update policies at any time. The event is FREE but we ask that all attendees pre-register in the form below. Food and event swag will be provided.

"The World Through My Eyes” Art Contest
2022-05-01 - 2022-05-07 | NH
“THE WORLD THROUGH MY EYES”
YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH ART CONTEST!
We invite students ages K – 12 to submit their unique, original artwork (no video please), which illustrates and honors their feelings. Illustrate how you are viewing the world right now!
We will show all submitted work at a TBD venue in the greater Seacoast area for the month of May!
HOW TO SUBMIT:
All submissions are due by the end of the day on Friday, April 1st.
Please email your submission to aferrari@smhc-nh.org or
You can also mail your piece to: Angelina Ferrari, c/o Seacoast Mental Health Center, 1145 Sagamore Avenue, Portsmouth, NH 03801
JUDGING:
We have assembled a panel of expert, local artists to review pieces. Artwork will be judged on creativity, originality and simply how much heart is evident in the work.
PRIZES:
While we feel anyone who creates art is a winner, we will award four prizes, which will be a choice of a Target, Visa, Walmart or Barnes and Noble $25 gift card. There will be one winner in the following four categories:

Grades K-2
Grades 3-5
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-12

Winners will be announced during Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week (May 1-7, 2022).

Lite up the Nite for Mental Health Run/walk 5k
2021-06-17 18:20 - 20:30 | McINTYRE SKI AREA, 50 Chalet Court, Manchester, new hampshire
Join us for the annual Lite up the Nite for Mental Health Run/walk 5k in Manchester on Thursday, June 17th and support efforts to keep mental illness out of the dark! Register yourself or put a team together and participate with friends or family!
Your participation in this event will support the work of The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester in promoting mental wellness and providing services for children, teens and adults in need.
The event will offer a rolling wave start. Runners will be seeded into starting waves based on their self-times. Waves will be divided into separate corralled areas providing enough space for runners to stay socially distanced within their wave area while they wait for the race to start. Personal wave start times will be emailed on Thursday, June 10th. Participants will be directed to the start/finish line by staff and will be sent off one-by-one, 15 seconds apart. There will be no congregating at the start/finish line area.
Click here to head over to Total Image Running to get all the info to register!

This is My Brave New Hampshire 2021
2021-05-27 19:00 - 20:00 | NH
This Is My Brave provides the leading national platform for individuals to share their stories of living successful lives despite a diagnosis of a mental health disorder through artistic expression. The 2021 New Hampshire Cast shares their stories through poetry, essay, and expressive arts.
Due to COVID-19, our show this Spring will be taped before a small, masked and socially distanced audience at the historic Phenix Hall on Main Street in Concord, NH. And while masks are nothing new to individuals living with mental health conditions all of us often hide our pain behind the mask of a smile. This spring, our storytellers are taking off their masks to share their mental health stories to shine a light on the hope that is recovery.

While this event is free, registration is required. When you register, we hope you will consider a donation in support of our behavioral health educational programming to increase knowledge and reduce stigma.

Supporting the Mental Health of your Employees
2021-05-26 12:00 - 13:00 | NH
Celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month by learning the role the employer plays in your employee’s mental wellness. Joining us for a discussion and Q & A will be Dennis Walker, Emergency Services Director, and Rebecca Throop, VP of Community Relations from Seacoast Mental Health Center.

Former NH Chief Justice Broderick Talks about Mental Health
2021-05-21 10:30 - 12:00 | NH
There was a time that no one talked about mental illness. Even the language that was used back in that time conjured up myths and made mental illness seem unimaginable and distant from our lives.

Today, we know better. But sometimes it takes a staggering turn of events to bring the message home.

You won’t want to miss this moving event! Former NH Chief Justice John Broderick talks about mental illness, something he thought would never touch his family.

The event is free, but registration is required.

17th Annual Mental Health Symposium
2021-05-21 09:00 - 11:30 | NH
Dr. Cassie Yackley is a master trainer and trauma-responsive practice content expert . She has extensive experience consulting with agencies to develop sys- tem-wide cultural shifts and to implement organizational change toward trauma- responsive policies and practices has become a state leader and well-known expert in building trauma responsive communities of care.

Virtual Mental Health Symposium Day 2
2021-05-21 09:00 - 11:30 | NH
Mental Health Symposium Day 2 with Dr. Cassie Yackley; “Supporting Post- traumatic Growth in the Face of Grief and Loss.” Virtually 9:00 -11:30 am

The Opioid Crisis Effect on Families: Playreading & Community Discussion
2021-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 | NH
NH Theater Project’s Elephant-in-the-Room Series® / The Opioid Crisis Effect on Families: Playreading & Community Discussion
Featuring A Wider Circle by Mary Ellen Hedrick
Thursday, May 20, 2021 – 7:00-9:00 PM
FREE | VIRTUAL WEBINAR
NH Theater Project and Seacoast Mental Health Center will present a reading of the play A Wider Circle by Mary Ellen Hedrick, and a community discussion on the topic of The Opioid Crisis Effect on Families.
Immediately following the reading of A Wider Circle, facilitator Tim Barretto will lead a community discussion with the audience and panelists from SMHC.

God Knows Where I Am
2021-05-20 18:00 - 20:00 | NH
ABOUT THE FILM
The body of a homeless woman is found in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse. Beside the body, lies a diary that documents a journey of starvation and the loss of sanity, but told with poignance, beauty, humor, and spirituality. For nearly four months, Linda Bishop, a prisoner of her own mind, survived on apples and rain water, waiting for God to save her, during one of the coldest winters on record. As her story unfolds from different perspectives, including her own, we learn about our systemic failure to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Magnify Voices Expressive Arts Contest
2021-05-20 17:00 - 18:00 | NH
Join us to as we celebrate youth in middle and high school (grades 5 – 12) who submitted creative pieces to Magnify Voices reflecting their experiences with mental health in New Hampshire. We will announce the contest winners who were chosen by a panel of judges with varied expertise in the arts, education and behavioral health. All creative pieces will be showcased to help raise awareness, erase stigma and effectuate change!

17th Annual Mental Health Symposium
2021-05-19 12:00 - 15:00 | NH
PRESENTERS:
Ed Mahoney is a New Hampshire licensed Pastoral Psychotherapist and a Clinical Fellow. He currently practices at Bedford Counseling Associates in Manchester, NH where he specializes in couple therapy and bereavement counseling.
Dr. M. Katherine Shear is the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry and the founding Director of the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia School of Social Work. She has developed a targeted psychotherapy, Compli- cated Grief Treatment, for people unable to move forward after a loss, which has proved to be efficacious in three NIMH-funded randomized controlled trials. She is the founding director of the Center for Complicated Grief, the only such center within a school of social work.

Virtual Mental Health Symposium
2021-05-19 00:00 - 14:30 | NH
Mental Health Symposium with Dr. Katherine Shear, “Grief and adaptation to Loss” and Ed Mahoney, “Caregivers Grief; Finding Balance.” Virtual sessions held from 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm. Registration opens soon

Discussions on Diversity and the (Added) Mental Health Impact of COVID
2021-05-18 19:00 - 20:30 | NH
As a country we strive for diversity, equity, and inclusion, yet disparities and discrimination continue to be experienced by many and remain at the top of the news cycle.
The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with an increase in hate crimes among Asian Americans, rising race relation conflict, and brought isolation to members of the LGBTQ community.
Please join us for a conversation with community leaders moderated by Rabbi Robin Nafshi (Bios below) to explore how we can encourage acceptance and understand.

Post Pandemic Mental Health in the Workplace
2021-05-17 09:00 - 10:00 | NH
Panel discussion with Rik Cornell, Chief Justice Broderick, and Dr. Will Torrey. 9-10am “Post Pandemic Mental Health in the Workplace” hosted by Greater Manchester Chamber, Dartmouth Hitchcock Manchester & MHCGM

A Conversation on the Tethered by Light Exhibition and Art as Therapy
2021-05-15 16:00 - 17:00 | NH
Saturday, May 15, 2021, 4:00PM*: A Conversation on the Exhibition and Art as Therapy with Anna West MA, LCMHC of West Central & Julie Puttgen MFA, MA, CHMC of Center for Integrative Health.

Orchestrating Change : Screening and Discussion
2021-05-13 18:00 - 19:00 | NH
ORCHESTRATING CHANGE is the documentary film that tells the inspiring story of Me2/Orchestra, the only orchestra in the world created by and for people living with mental illness and those who support them. Co-founded by Ronald Braunstein, once a world-renowned conductor whose career was shattered when his own diagnosis of bipolar disorder was made public, the mission of the orchestra is to erase stigma one exhilarating concert at a time. As they rehearse, perform and prepare for a major concert, these extraordinary musicians have no idea how much the orchestra will change their lives in poignant and powerful ways.
Join us for a discussion with Me2/ Music Director, Ronald Braunstein, Executive Director, Caroline Whiddon, a Me2/ musician featured in the film and the two filmmakers.
Click here to watch the Orchestrating Change preview.
This event is free, but registration is required. All registrants will receive a private link to watch the documentary that will be live three (3) days before the discussion.

Free Virtual Screening & discussion of Tre Maison Dasan
2021-05-12 16:00 - 18:00 | NH
Lakes Region Mental Health Center is hosting a free virtual screening and panel discussion of Tre Maison Dasan from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12. Tre Maison Dasan is an intimate portrait of three boys growing up, each with a parent in prison. Directly told through the child’s perspective, the film is an exploration of relationships and separation, masculinity, and coming of age in America when a parent is behind bars.
This film is presented by LRMHC, New Futures, The Family Connections Center at the New Hampshire Department of Corrections, and New Hampshire’s Department of Education’s Bureau of Student Wellness. Go to www.lrmhc.org/may for more information.

Flatbread Co Donation Night for Seacoast Mental Health Center
2021-05-11 17:00 - 21:00 | Flatbread Co, 138 Congress Street,, Portsmouth, new hampshire
To honor Mental Health Awareness month, Flatbread Co will donate $3.50/large pizza & $1.75/small pizza to Seacoast Mental Health Center, Inc!

Riverbend Reads: Knot Today by Scott Aubin
2021-05-11 16:30 - 18:00 | NH
Everybody has a story.
Join us for an inspiring conversation with Air Force Veteran Scott W.F. Aubin who has seen incidents and had experiences that most of us never will, none of us ever want to see. He has learned from his PTSD, the hard way, and is now a Suicide Prevention Instructor nationwide, traveling with Dash, his Great Dane Service Dog. His story is compelling, his spirit unconquerable. This Veteran is still serving our country. He tried to take his own life, those of us lucky enough to know him are grateful that it was Knot Today.
