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Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Commission Minutes <br /> September 19, 2018 —Draft Minutes <br /> Page 6 of 13 <br /> 226 Vice Chair Beltmann stated another distinction is one is Mental Illness <br /> 227 Awareness Week which is what the proclamation is for and there is Mental <br /> 228 Health Awareness Month. She thought the Illness puts a negative connotation <br /> 229 to mental health and mental health is recognizing it in a way that is more in <br /> 230 keeping with where Society is at socially. <br /> 231 <br /> 232 Commissioner Manke asked if the two proclamations can be combined <br /> 233 somehow. <br /> 234 <br /> 235 Commissioner Djevi thought Mental Illness Awareness Week was a National <br /> 236 thing and he did not think the City could change that. <br /> 237 <br /> 238 Commissioner Manke thought if the Commission were to combine the Mental <br /> 239 Health part, the mental illness part could fall within that same month with the <br /> 240 focus on just the illness side of things where the month is being focused on <br /> 241 Mental Health Wellness. <br /> 242 <br /> 243 Vice Chair Beltmann read the Google definition to the Commission. She <br /> 244 concluded that there is a distinction. She wondered if the Commission should <br /> 245 include Mental Health Awareness Month as a proclamation. <br /> 246 <br /> 247 Commissioner Peterson stated she would be curious to see what the difference <br /> 248 would be or how similar the proclamations would end up being. <br /> 249 <br /> 250 Commissioner Eck suggested the organization called Avivo that focuses on <br /> 251 career development and also work with a large part of the population or <br /> 252 individuals with diagnosed mental illnesses and drug addiction and might be a <br /> 253 great place to get feedback on. <br /> 254 <br /> 255 Commissioner Peterson suggested not including statistics because statistics <br /> 256 change and would mean doing research every year. <br /> 257 <br /> 258 Vice Chair Beltmann stated the reason she liked the statics is it shows how <br /> 259 pervasive it is. <br /> 260 <br /> 261 Commissioner Peterson agreed and thought it was important to somehow <br /> 262 include that, but she did not know if there was a different way to do the <br /> 263 statics. <br /> 264 <br /> 265 Ms. Olson asked if the statics came from the Nami.org website. She thought <br /> 266 Nami.org might update that information on an annual basis because that <br /> 267 organization does something similar. As long as there is someplace the <br /> 268 Commission can go to get those statistics then the numbers could be changed <br /> 269 on an annual basis as long as that is in the instructions to do that. <br /> 270 <br />