Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services to Honor SELENA GOMEZ and Rare Beauty, BEBE REXHA, and HEADSPACE At inaugural Mental Health Is Health experience Streaming May 26, 2021

By leisure, wellbeing suggestions, inspiring tales, and recognition of Didi Hirsch’s Psychological Well being Is Well being Fairness Champions, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin and his spouse Sarah Bloom Raskin, in addition to its Psychological Well being Is Well being Ambassadors – Selena Gomez and Uncommon Magnificence, Bebe Rexha and Headspace – the published will present an unforgettable expertise of the inseparable mind-body connection recognized to scientists for many years however largely ignored till COVID-19 exacerbated the nation’s psychological well being disaster. The occasion will embrace a efficiency by Tony-Award winner Jennifer Holliday and particular appearances by Jimmy Smits, California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, and Melissa Rivers, a Didi Hirsch board member. Actress, comedienne and Emmy® Award-winning former co-host of ABC’s The View, Sherri Shepherd will host. 

Didi Hirsch’s new CEO Jonathan Goldfinger, MD, MPH, FAAP, shares, “Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin tragically misplaced their son to suicide New Yr’s Eve, then courageously shared it days later with the world to spotlight youth psychological sickness and despair. Congressman Raskin has championed equal therapy and pay for psychological well being in comparison with bodily well being, together with new payments handed by the Home to enhance psychological well being, suicide prevention, violence intervention and therapy for substance use throughout America. The household’s selfless service to our nation will undoubtedly save and rework numerous lives.”   

Goldfinger provides, “We’re additionally excited to acknowledge Selena Gomez and Uncommon Magnificence, Bebe Rexha and Headspace for our 25^th anniversary of erasing stigma. Not like a gala, we have reimagined a extra equitable expertise anybody can be a part of to deal with why healthcare and society deal with youth and adults with psychological well being and substance use problems, particularly in BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities, as lower than. With social justice in Didi Hirsch’s DNA, we’re supporting a daring new class of Ambassadors and our new Fairness Champions overcoming a damaged, discriminatory establishment. These leaders of tomorrow are making a tradition the place disgrace has no place, everybody sees the thoughts and physique as one, and entry to whole-person care can flourish.”

The Fletcher Household Basis and Nancy and Miles Rubin are Visionary sponsors for the Psychological Well being Is Well being expertise. Company companions embrace:

The Psychological Well being Is Well being expertise is produced by Tony Award winner Scott Mauro/Scott Mauro Leisure, Inc., and written by 6-time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch.

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