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Lights!
Camera! Action!
The Mental Health Players have been taking center stage for over 15
years, bringing distinctive, thought-provoking presentations to audiences
across Maryland.
Using role play and interactive audience participation, this troupe of volunteer actors expands awareness and educates community members about mental health issues, mental illnesses, relationship problems, substance use, and a comprehensive range of societal problems.
Conflicts are presented through dialogue between actors, with a narrator facilitating audience responses. This flexible, spontaneous format allows the actors to tailor performances to a broad variety of topics and audiences.
Veteran Player Jill Hettinger explains it best:
"I was a psychotherapist
for 33 years and sometimes I felt that I was more effective in helping
someone in a 15 minute role play than I might have been in several
therapy sessions."
Everybody
can benefit
Used as an alternative or supplement to a keynote speaker, the Players illustrate
familiar scenes and get to the root of disagreements. Groups ranging in number
from 20 to 500 have benefited from the Players' presentations over the years.
These include:
Institute
on the Ministry to the Sick
Child Abuse Prevention Center
Baltimore
Neighborhoods
Baltimore
Orioles Staff
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Business
and Professional Women
Baltimore County and Baltimore
City Police
League of Women Voters
St. Agnes
Hospital
Patterson
Park High School
Internal Revenue Service
Baltimore
Veterans Administration
The Mental Health Players staff can also develop unique, custom presentations based on group needs.
More information:
Lisa Palmer, 410.235.1178
ext. 207
lpalmer@mhamd.org
"Promoting
mental health for all Americans will require scientific know-how, but even
more importantly, a societal resolve that we will make the needed investment. The
investment does not call for massive budgets; it calls for the willingness
of each of us to educate ourselves and others about mental health and mental
illness, and to confront
the attitudes, fear, and misunderstanding that remain as barriers before us."
David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
U.S. Surgeon General
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