Mental Health and Stigma Free

The Ridgewood STIGMA-FREE Initiative is a Village-wide program that aims to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness. We are dedicated to raising awareness of the disease of mental illness and create a culture wherein residents who have the disease feel supported by their community and neighbors and feel free to seek treatment for the disease without fear of stigma.

Joining the Stigma-Free Initiative will:

• Educate residents that mental illness is a disease and must ...be treated as such.
• Raise awareness of the prevalence of mental illness in our community.
• Provoke public interest in learning what is “STIGMA-FREE”.
• Providing residents an opportunity to become involved in their community.
• Allow people living with the disease to feel supported by their community and thus decrease feelings of isolation and shame.
• Link people in need of local mental health resources.
• Raise awareness that care is accessible regardless of income.

The Stigma Free Task Force meets the 3^rd Tuesday of each month at 3:00pm in the Garden Room of Village Hall. Please reach out to Dawn Cetrulo for more information dcetrulo@ridgewoodnj.net or at 201-670-5500 ext. 2245

Meeting link: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89524196427?pwd=ZEJ4MDk5azN1TjRoNVgzSyt4NDhzZz09
Meeting ID: 895 2419 6427
Passcode: 731126