On this special interview episode of House on Fire, in honor of National Mental Health Awareness Month, we're speaking with Vaughan Bagley, the Director of Social Impact at MTV Entertainment Group. Join us as we discuss a plethora of topics: from the intersection between mental health, media, storytelling, and action (individual and collective), to Mental Health Action Day, to corporate responsibility in depicting the full continuum of mental health in media. As Vaughan shares, referencing a conversation had with a youth organizer, '1/5 people have a mental health crisis, but 5/5 people have mental health.' Mental health IS health, and we are excited to support a process of enhancing and diversifying accessibility to resources, as well as to work towards destigmatizing and broadening definitions of mental health for all.
Sources:
https://www.mentalhealthishealth.us/
https://www.mentalhealthaction.network/