On this episode of We R H.O.P.E. Braking The Stigma Through Change we will be speaking with Wayne Miller. Not only does Wayne run The Center For Recovery but he also understand the correlation mental illness plays. Wayne is also a leader in racial equality. We will be breaking down Waynes project, Living Proof Mentoring. This organization supports youth of color in both Vermont and New Hampshire where a child of color may go years with our seeing anyone that looks like them in their community.

On this weeks episode of Breaking The Stigma Through Change, host Sean Perry will be speaking with Dr. David Baker. Dr. Baker is the Superintendent of Windsor South East Supervisory Union. Sean and Dr. Baker are going to dive into the Mental Health crisis that is currently plaguing our schools. With childhood trauma, generational poverty and addiction on the rise, the teachers, administrators, parents or caregivers and most of all the children are looking for answers. Tune in to find out what Dr. Baker and his administrative team have done to support their district.

On this episode, host Sean Perry will talk about the taboo topic of Mental Illness in the Christian community with Rev. Wayne Lydem. Sean and Rev. Lydem will dive into the myths the Christian community may have had and still may have. They will discuss the views and what if anything has changed in the last 30 years or so. They will also tackle what can be done to break the stigma when it comes to Christians and the church.

On this weeks episode of Breaking The Stigma Through Change, host Sean Perry will be speaking with Dr. David Baker. Dr. Baker is the Superintendent of Windsor South East Supervisory Union. Sean and Dr. Baker are going to dive into the Mental Health crisis that is currently plaguing our schools. With childhood trauma, generational poverty and addiction on the rise, the teachers, administrators, parents or caregivers and most of all the children are looking for answers. Tune in to find out what Dr. Baker and his administrative team have done to support their district.

On this episode of We R H.O.P.E. Breaking The Stigma Through Change, host Sean Perry will be speaking with former Chief Justice John Broderick Jr. They will breakdown the mental health crisis in NH, what lead Chief Justice Broderick to change direction in his life and how his personal tragedy is now a message of hope for not only youth in New Hampshire but surrounding states.

Dr. Timothy DiGiacomo is the Clinical Director for Mountain Valley Treatment Center, a short-term residential program for adolescents and young adults struggling with anxiety and OCD. Tim is a licensed psychologist who has served as Clinical and Adjunct faculty for the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, New England College and Franklin Pierce University, and as a consultant for several schools. Tim has presented at regional and national conferences on anxiety and OCD including at ADAA and IOCDF. Tim is a graduate of the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology and completed his internship and fellowship at Dartmouth Medical School.

On this episode of Breaking the Stigma Through Change, Sean will be speaking with Dellie Champagne and Rebecca Whitley from the New Hampshire Children's Behavioral Collaborative. They will discuss the current behavioral health care system and the changes that are being made. Why it is important to support a child's behavioral health at a young age and what families and schools can to to make sure its a success. Sean will discuss the 5 strategies they have in-place that will help to make this possible and finally the will break down Senate Bill 14 and why it may be a game changer in the state of New Hampshire.

On this episode, Sean will dive into behaviors and what they mean for children who struggle. He will discuss how schools are currently supporting negative behaviors and why they need to change their lens. Sean will break down anxiety, triggers and how our thoughts create emotions which impact our behaviors. Sean will explain how behaviors are a language and a way we all communicate when we cant use our words. Finally, Sean will tell you how We R H.O.P.E. is changing the way children get support and how teachers, administrators and caregivers can learn to look past the behavior and start looking at the cause of them.

In this episode of We R H.O.P.E. “Breaking the Stigma Through Change” Sean will tackle the issue of mental health and illness in hip hop. The communities of color have strayed away from this topic for far to long. People like Justin King are coming out of the shadows to be open, honest and vulnerable about their experiences. Justin’s music isn’t about drugs and alcohol or even about how much money he has but rather about his real-life experiences of love, pain, loss and fear. He is an inspiration to a generation of youth who need something REAL to hold on to. We will find out how HOPE has inspired not only his music but his life. We will dive into some of his tracks and break down the meaning and vulnerability that it took to write and share these songs with the world.

On this episode of We R H.O.P.E. Breaking The Stigma Through Change. We will be speaking with Oryx Cohen. He's the Chief Operating Officer of The National Empowerment Center and the Co-Founder of The Freedom Center. Oryx will discuss his lived experience, Emotional CPR , Mental Health, Trauma and Extreme states. Oryx will also discuss survivors of Psychiatry and the documentary Healing Voices that he not only stared in but co-produced. Oryx’s love, compassion and empathy to share the message of hope through his lived experience is unmatched. He brings a unique perspective to mental illness but more importantly solutions and real supports.

Dan will describe the essential aspects of recovering his life through a lived experience of recovery from a severe mental health condition. He will also share his experiences as a peer, a family member, a researcher, a psychiatrist and an advocate. In each dimension of lived experience, Dan has learned the importance of connecting at an emotional level as a bridge across diverse beliefs and roles. Dan and several other peers started the National Empowerment Center in 1992 and helped define the components of recovery. During the last 11 years, Dan and a team of 20+ peers have been developing emotional CPR as a means of implementing the lessons of recovery and peer support for the whole community. Through connecting at a heart-to-heart level and respecting each others humanity, we can help others and ourselves experience Connection, emPowerment and Revitalization. When a community embraces these values all members contribute to each others' recovery.

In this, our first episode we will discuss who Sean Perry is and how he got started in this work, the birth of We R H.O.P.E., the We R H.O.P.E. approach , who we are, who we serve and what we offer to the communities we serve. We will discuss our mental health care system and the current mental health crisis, and why we support other people everyday.