Psych Central Community Connection a Winner in Text, Talk, Act Contest

Psych Central and our affiliated non-profit organization, the Psych Central Community Connection, have partnered with the National Dialogue on Mental Health, the White House initiative started in 2013 to help increase the national discussion about mental illness, treatment and general mental health.

Creating Community Solutions, who is also part of the national dialogue, has brought face-to-face dialogues on mental health to over 170 communities. They’ve done this with an innovative texting app to help get the conversation started with groups of friends about mental health.

On October 6, they held a contest to see who could bring the most folks together to talk about mental health.

On behalf of the Psych Central community, the Psych Central Community Connection — which provides micro-grants to community members in need — entered the contest and, to our surprise, was one of the many winners!

We’d like to share the complete list of winners (below) and offer our whole-hearted congratulations to them all!

Here is a list of all of the winners of the Text, Talk, Act contest:

College/University Winners

First place: Active Minds at Ithaca College, NY
Active Minds at Coppin State University, MD
Active Minds at Emory University, GA
Active Minds at Rochester University, NY
Active Minds at Saint Michael’s College, VT
University of Colorado Boulder, CO
University of Missouri Active Minds, MO
University of Vermont, VT

High School Winners

First place: Sherando DECA, Stephens City, VA
Essex High School, Essex, VT
Saydel High School, Des Moines, IA

Community Organization Winners

First place: PORT Human Services, NC
Georgia EmpowerMENT, Atlanta, GA
Psych Central Community Connection, Newburyport, MA

Individual Winner

Timothy Cox

Want to learn more about how you can participate in Text, Talk, Act? Watch this quick video.

And thank you to the National Institute for Civil Discourse, which funded the Text, Talk, Act project. Please click on the link to learn more or to donate to them.

Want to help our non-profit? Please consider a donation to the Psych Central Community Connection today! Your donations are tax-deductible as allowable by law.

Dr. John Grohol is the founder & CEO of Psych Central. He is an author, researcher and expert in mental health online, and has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues -- as well as the intersection of technology and human behavior -- since 1992. Dr. Grohol sits on the editorial board of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking and is a founding board member and treasurer of the Society for Participatory Medicine.

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