Mental Health
Although mental health and mental illness are related, they represent different psychological states.
Mental illness is all diagnosable mental disorders or health conditions that are characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior associated with distress and/or impaired functioning. Depression is the most common type of mental illness.
Mental health is a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. Positive mental health is thought to be associated with improved health outcomes.
Adults will report a decrease in self-reported negative mental health days.
Youth will report a decrease in feeling so sad or hopeless for almost every day for two weeks that is stopped them from doing usual activities.
Adult
- Work with community behavioral health agencies to reduce the stigma of mental illness
- Work with community behavioral health agencies to increase MH advocacy and health promotion
- Work with community behavioral health agencies to expand / support evidence based programs to decrease suicide rates
Youth
- Work with community behavioral health agencies to reduce the stigma of mental illness
- Work with community behavioral health agencies to provide support for at-risk youth and their families, to include ways to minimize daily stress and general life stressors
- Work with community behavioral health agencies to increase Education to parents and communities on how to access mental health services
- Work with community behavioral health agencies to expand / support evidence based programs to decrease suicide rates
Salt Lake County Health Department
Salt Lake County Behavioral Health
National Alliance on Mental Illness Utah
Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness
University Neuropsychiatric Institute
Optum Health Utah
Volunteers of America Youth Resource Center
Valley Behavioral Health
Intermountain Healthcare
HOPE Utah
Salt Lake County Youth Services
Utah Department of Health
Salt Lake County Behavioral Health
National Alliance on Mental Illness Utah
Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness
University Neuropsychiatric Institute
Optum Health Utah
Volunteers of America Youth Resource Center
Valley Behavioral Health
Intermountain Healthcare
HOPE Utah
Salt Lake County Youth Services
Utah Department of Health