For Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) in early October, NAMI@Emma put together a book exhibit in the library called "Walk in Someone Else's Shoes", complete with actual pairs of shoes. This exhibit featured a wide array of fiction and non-fiction accounts of the lives of people living with mental illnesses. When trying to increase empathy between two people, we are often told to step into their shoes, so what better way to decrease stigma than to have people read from the point of view of a person with a mental illness? Here is the link to the NAMI NYS newsletter's feature on the exhibit: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=3f6c17fa-3466-42a5-ae95-3768c27a4f63&c=a19b00b0-b2f1-11e4-a81e-d4ae527536d1&ch=a1a0a600-b2f1-11e4-a81e-d4ae527536d1
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Jon Calos
12/3/2015 05:56:41 pm
A wonderful event! I am glad that you also got some recognition. This bodes quite well for the work that you will do this year. I am looking forward to what you and your club come up with!
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