VSAAC to host youth mental health forum at Ansonia High School

ANSONIA - The Greater Valley Substance Abuse Action council will host a forum entitled “Mental, Emotional, & Behavioral Disorders in Young People" at 6:30 p.m. April 5 at Ansonia High School. 

Guest speaker Dennis Embry, Ph.D., President, PAXIS Institute, will discuss the mental, emotional, and behavioral epidemic that touches one out of two young people by age 18, with lifetime effects for every Connecticut family and community. 

 “For the first time in North America, more children have mental illnesses than physical illnesses...”  Canadian Broadcast Corp., DOC ZONE CBC-TV, July 25, 2014.

Learn how Connecticut can be the first state to launch a public health prevention strategy to protect all children.

For more information, contact VSAAC at 203-736-8566.

This event is funded by Valley United Way and supported by Valley Council for Health and Human Services.

VSAAC, a program of BHcare, is a public/private partnership comprised of community leaders and citizens who develop and carry out strategies to reduce alcohol, tobacco, drug use, suicide, risky behaviors, and promote good mental health among youth and, over time, among adults through community education, community mobilization, public awareness, and advocacy in the Lower Naugatuck Valley, Greater New Haven, and surrounding communities. 

For more information, visit www.VSAAC.com. 

BHcare is a regional community provider of behavioral health, addiction prevention, and domestic violence services for the Shoreline, Greater New Haven, and Lower Naugatuck Valley communities. 

For more information, visit www.bhcare.org.

This is a press release from BHcare.