social inclusion campaign Archives - Mad In America

Help Create a Real Stigma Reduction Campaign

Corinna West - May 23, 2013 1

The last four years I've been running Poetry for Personal Power, a stigma reduction campaign funded by SAMHSA. Poetry for Personal Power has been going to Missouri Universities and asking students what they do to get through hard times and we now have about 400 incredible videos on You-Tube, with youth wellness tools.

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