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Student is taking on mental illness stigma

Spooner Advocate (WI) - 7/17/2016

"Take action. Start the conversation. End the stigma."

That is the goal of Kenia Link, a student at Northwood School whose "senior exit project" will be a program to raise both awareness and money toward dealing with mental illness.

"End the stigma" will be the core message during Kenia's silent auction and family-friendly cookout fundraiser catered by Pogo's Harbor Inn beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 20, at the Minong Community Center. Her goal is to raise funds for NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which has chapters in the region.

Riders from the Mental Illness Awareness Tour 2016 will make a stop in Minong specifically for Kenia's project.

The tour involves three men who are touring the 48 continental United States for two months in their Chicken Car, a car that generates questions and enables them to "create a conversation around this event that will only help us in our mission to raise awareness" about mental illness and the stigma that surrounds it.

As they explain, "We believe by taking the whole world of mental illness from some secret hiding place and placing it in a blunt public space, such as this road-trip, people will no longer be afraid of it."

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