10th Annual Mental Health Matters Day

Join us in 2024 for our 10th annual Mental Health Matters Day as we break down the barriers around mental health and substance use disorders.

While visiting our exhibitors you’ll discover the valuable resources available for you, your family and the community. You’ll hear from presenters with lived experience who will share their stories and provide uplifting messages about their recovery.

A Decade of Stories

Shining a Light on Behavioral Health

You are invited to join us
May 15th, 2024
at the corner of L & 15th St.
California Sate Capital Park
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Register below to receive a ticket for a scoop of Gunther’s Homemade Ice Cream, served by Rich’s Ice Cream Catering!

Speakers

Announcing Our Keynote Speaker!

Heather Bodie
Making Room For Light
Celebrating the Brightness Within Our Stories of Struggle

About Heather:
Heather Bodie is a public speaker, artist, and mental health advocate who has spent the last 15 years creating events and sharing stories to disarm the deadly stigma surrounding mental illness. She joined the Chicago-based non-profit Erasing the Distance in 2013 and served as Executive Artistic Director, facilitating conversations about mental health in a wide variety of industries across the country.

She is deeply invested in exploring the role that language plays in the ability to acknowledge and address mental health challenges both personally and professionally. She has worked within a multitude of professional industries, identifying ineffective communication patterns, ideating mental health-focused approaches to solutions, and coaching management teams to invest in open conversations about mental health with their teams.

Learn more at HeatherBodie.com

LaVontae Hill

LaVontae Hill was born and raised in Richmond, CA.  LaVontae carries the title of an Associate Clinical Social Worker with over half a decade of experience as a Mental Health Therapist.  LaVontae graduated from California State University, Sacramento with a BASW and The University of Southern California with a MSW. LaVontae, has over a decade of experience working with children, youth, and families residing in impoverished communities. LaVontae has recently began his journey as a Motivational Speaker and has become a member of the Stop Stigma Sacramento Speakers Bureau as well as a TEDx speaker. LaVontae considers himself to be a Wounded Healer as he utilizes his life story of trauma to inspire while breaking generational curses for all who face and struggle with mental health challenges and mental illness.

Claudia Fernandez-Niedzielski

Claudia is a thriver and a woman who has learned to succeed despite the many challenges she has faced.  She endured a psychotic break at the age of 22 and was hospitalized for 6 months with no end in sight for her illness nor a way to get better.  It was through the tireless dedication of an entire team of doctors who refused to give up, the loving support of her entire family and those who knew her and to Electro Convulsive Therapy (ETC) that she was brought back to life.   She is now a mother of two adult children, a wife of 29 years, and a woman who has found a way to create a successful and beautiful life despite of her diagnosis of bipolar disorder and the ups and downs of mental illness. She loves her parents, brothers, children, husband and extended family with all her heart and continues to learn how to live a life full of passion and in full harmony with herself. Claudia is currently on a quest to be the best version of herself and as she shares the lessons she has learned and use to find meaning, self-discovery, understanding and compassion for herself and others and her deep self-worth. Through her seminars and classes, she has a genuine and profound impact on those she mentors and leads.

2024 Sponsors!

Sponsorship Opportunities

We are still accepting applications!

Exhibitors

We are still accepting applications!

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Anthem

BeingwellCA

Cal Voices

California Alliance of Child and Family Services

California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies

California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies

California Department of Rehabilitation

California Youth Crisis Line

CAPS Academy

Consumers Self Help Center

CAYEN

Disability Rights California

I Am Collaborative

July Forward

Lightfully Behavioral Health

National Union of Healthcare Workers

NAMI Sacramento

Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.

NorCal Services for Deaf & Hard of Hearing

Pacific Clinics

Peers Envisioning & Engaging in Recovery Services

Postpartum Support International

PRC

Saint John’s Program for Real Change

Soluna

Stars Behavioral Health Group

Steinberg Institute

 

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