{"id":30796,"date":"2017-04-19T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=30796"},"modified":"2017-04-19T17:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:00:06","slug":"lehigh-county-raises-awareness-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=30796","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County Raises Awareness of Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Lehigh County, in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.namipalehighvalley.org\/\">NAMI Lehigh Valley<\/a>, celebrate Children\u2019s Mental Health Awareness Day by raising awareness and showing that positive mental health is essential to a child\u2019s healthy development.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Children\u2019s Mental Health Awareness Day will take place on <\/em><em>Thursday, May 4 at 1 p.m. at Lehigh County Government Center, 17 South 7<sup>th<\/sup> Street in<\/em><em> Allentown<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Attending will be County Executive Thomas Muller; Representative Michael Schlossberg, Democratic co-chair and co-founder of the Mental Health Caucus, who has helped members of the General Assembly and citizens of Pennsylvania understand mental health issues and concerns; Mariel Hufnagel, a Speaker with Minding Your Mind who will talk about her personal journey; and local Musician Craig Thatcher who is an advocate of mental health awareness and eradication of stigma.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mental Health impacts 1 out of 5 children in our community. Courageous conversations can help reduce stigma and build healthy communities where our children can live, love, and learn to their full potential.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInfromation Provided By:<br \/>\nSue Lettera<br \/>\nCOUNTY OF LEHIGH<br \/>\nOffice of Public Information<br \/>\nGovernment Center<br \/>\n17 South Seventh Street<br \/>\nAllentown, Pennsylvania 18101-2401<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighcounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.lehighcounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/nami-lv.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}