July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month:
In 2008 the month of July was proclaimed National Bebe Moore Campbell Minority Mental Health Awareness Month by the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States.  The Office of the Census U.S. estimates that minorities will be the majority in the United States by the year 2042 and reports that more than one of two people added to the national population between July 1, 2007 and July 1, 2008 was Hispanic/Latino.  Because Latinos and other minorities are also affected by mental disorders and often they lack the information and resources available, they need all the information, help, treatment and support available. 

We want to invite everyone to celebrate and to learn more about minority mental health and how people with these illnesses are leading successful lives. Recovery of mental illness is not only possible but it is real.  We have to continue to break the stigma associated with mental illnesses and take advantage of all the advances in the field including new clinical therapies and pharmacological treatments. 

 
Since 1999 CETPA has been providing awareness, treatment and recovery about mental illness through community talks, health fairs, educational workshops and direct treatment services in English and in Spanish.  www.cetpa.org