RESPECT Institute is coming to Heads Up For Harry!
Monday, September 12 – Friday, September 16, 2022
10:00am-2:00pm
The RESPECT Institute of Georgia (RI), created by mental health advocate Joel Slack, supports participants in developing the skills necessary to transform their experiences of mental health and substance use challenges and cross disabilities into educational and inspirational presentations. The RESPECT Institute of Georgia helps participants organize, construct, and customize their personal stories of recovery and independent living so they can share their stories in diverse venues such as management meetings, legislative meetings, employee orientations, university classrooms, civic meetings, and continuing education programs.
The RESPECT Institute of Georgia’s Virtual training is a 4 ½ day training program that empowers participants by acknowledging, honoring and valuing their personal experiences and insights. Through this recognition and acceptance, participants reclaim their sense of self. They own their lived experiences without shame or embarrassment and become instrumental in eliminating stigma in the general public as they advance the message of recovery and educate the next generation of behavioral health professionals.
Through a partnership with Slack Consulting and the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network, the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities sponsor’s trainings and speaking engagements through a virtual platform allowing participants from across the state to give hope, recovery and independent living a voice.
To date, the RESPECT Institute of Georgia team conducted over 200 RESPECT Institute of Georgia trainings statewide and graduated over 1,800 individuals who shared their stories to over 175,000 Georgians.
Heads Up for Harry is seeking 5-6 young adults to participate in this training. If you are interested in becoming a mental wellness educator and advocate with Heads Up for Harry, please contact…
Margaret Jones
margaret@headsupforharry.org
404-590-0199
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Heads Up for Harry 2021 Annual Report
HU4H had a busy 2021. Read about our successful year and future goals in the 2021 Annual Report.
Heads Up for Harry featured on All Things Considered - NPR
Listen to the interview with Spencer Mitchell, HU4H’s President, on All Things Considered with host Emil Moffatt.
Spark the Conversation 5K - A Grand Success!
Thank you for making the first annual Spark the Conversation 5k a huge success. The race surpassed our fundraising goal and raised just over $12,000 to support programming for mental health for young adults!
Race Winners
Congratulations to our race category winners! We'll be shipping out $100 restaurant gift cards to our winners in each category from our gracious sponsors!
Overall Winner (and Men 30-49) William Raffety (23:29)
Men's 18-29 - Will Kesterton
Men's 50+ - Marc Merrill
Women's 18-29 - Jennifer Carlson
Women's 30-49 - Lia Santos
Women's 50+ - Esther Harbert
Thank you to our sponsors!!
The event would not have been such a great success without your support!
Raffle Winners
We have one more surprise! We've entered all race registrants for a raffle for $100 gift cards to Bad Daddy's Burger Bar. And the winners are.....
Jack Spalding
Kathryn Leach
Hodges Markwalter
Natalia Danty
Congratulations to the raffle winners, and thank you all again!!
Heads Up for Harry on Focus Atlanta - Atlanta's CW9
Heads Up for Harry President, Spencer Mitchell, joins Focus Atlanta host Keisha Lancelin to talk about the organization and the upcoming Spark the Conversation 5K Race.
Watch the interview here - Focus Atlanta
November 3-5 - Georgia School Counselor Association Annual Conference
Heads Up for Harry will be hosting a table at the Georgia School Counselors Association Annual Conference exhibit hall.
Wednesday, November 3 - 5, 2021
The Classic Center
300 N. Thomas St
Athens, GA 30601
Come talk to us about how we can work together to help fight the stigma!
September 25th - Spark the Conversation 5k - Heads up for Harry
Heads up for Harry 2020 Annual Report Available. Thank you to all volunteers and contributors!
2020 was an exciting year for Heads Up for Harry! Check out our 2020 Annual Report to learn more about it. The report includes an overview of our organization, a message from our president, an introduction to our team and board, a look back at what we accomplished in 2020, where we’re setting our sights in 2021, a list of our generous donors, and our financial statement.
We are grateful to you, friends and supporters of Heads up for Harry, and we look forward to continuing to serve you. Thank you for this opportunity, and we wish you health and wellness.