The NGO
Committee on Mental Health
invites you to commemorate
World Mental Health Day 2007
“Mental Health in a Changing World: The Impact of Culture and
Diversity“
This year’s World Mental Health
Day 2007 theme “Mental Health in a Changing World: The Impact of
Culture and Diversity” calls attention to the need to better
understand the critical role cultural awareness plays in the
planning and delivery of effective mental health services. In an
ever-increasingly multi-cultural world, the delivery of appropriate
and effective mental health services will be greatly influenced by
the willingness and ability of policy makers, program planners, and
local service providers to develop, implement, and sustain
culturally sensitive systems of mental health services for children,
adolescents, and adults who come from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Thursday, 11
October 2007
2:00pm – 4:30pm
Location:
The Church Center
777 United Nations Plaza
(44th Street between 1st & 2nd Avenue)
11th Floor ~ Hardin Room
OPENING REMARKS
Andrey Pirogov
Assistant Director-General, Executive Director
World Health Organization (WHO) Office at United Nations, New York
SPEAKERS
“Considerations in the
Development of Racially-Culturally Competent Mental Health Care for
the World“
Robert T. Carter Ph.D
Jessica M. Forsyth, M.A., Ed.M.
Teachers College, Columbia University
“Encountering Diversity in our
Classroom & Raising Awareness of Mental Health Issues among Muslim
Americans“
Mahroo Moshari, LMSW
Manhattan Multi-Cultural Counseling (Private Practice)
UN Representative, International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
Immigration and Pluri-Cultural
Identity
Invited Speaker
The Impact of Culture on Mental
Health: Building a Broad New Initiative
Ellen Mercer
Deputy Executive Officer
Director, Center for Transcultural Mental Health
World Federation for Mental Health