The Anti-Stigma Project was formed in 1993 by the Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration in collaboration with On Our Own of Maryland to reduce stigma within the mental health system. The mission of The Anti-Stigma project is to fight stigma by raising consciousness, facilitating ongoing dialogues, searching for creative solutions, and educating all participants within or connected to the mental health community, including consumers, family members, providers, educators, and administrators.

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Stigma...in Our Work, in Our Lives Video Order Form

Stigma...in Our Work, in Our Lives
This interactive workshop is designed to reduce stigmatizing behaviors, attitudes and practices within the mental health and addiction recovery communities. Participants identify stigmatizing behaviors and attitudes and their impact on the design, delivery, and receipt of services, and develop possible solutions and action steps. (3 hours)

Stigma: Language Matters
In this experiential workshop, participants explore the power of language as it relates to stigma. They also develop alternatives to stigmatizing language and learn to integrate these concepts into their professional and personal lives. (2 hours)

Responding to Stigma: Effective and Applicable Strategies for the Workplace
Reducing stigma and discrimination requires individual, community, and systemic responses. This workshop applies a multi-layered approach to identify and implement individual and systemic solutions and to develop anti-stigma principles to guide our work in systems and organizations. (4.5 hours)

Stigma: It Doesn’t Discriminate
The consequences of stigma create barriers to providing and receiving competent and effective mental health treatment and services. In this session, six thought-provoking and realistic skits take the audience on a journey through the many facets and faces of stigma, paying particular attention to the intricacies of language and culture. (2 hours)

The Anti-Stigma Project offers a series of workshops that challenge participants to examine the impact of stigma on both their professional and personal lives. In these workshops, The Anti-Stigma Project facilitates ongoing dialogues that enable participants to talk openly on a level playing field about attitudes, behaviors, and practices that are stigmatizing. Each workshop introduces new perspectives by stimulating thought provoking interaction -- interaction that breaks down traditional, stigmatizing barriers and deepens the understanding and awareness of how stigma affects everyone in the mental health community.

Each workshop is team-facilitated by experienced trainers with extensive and varied experience in mental health, addictions, recovery, education and communications. All facilitators of The Anti-Stigma Project combine a variety of learning approaches such as group discussions, role-playing, and multimedia in order to facilitate positive change. The workshops that we currently offer are:

All workshops combine a variety of learning approaches such as group discussion, role-playing, assessment surveys, and analysis of videotaped interviews. In addition, our videotape titled “Stigma...in Our Work, in Our Lives,” is a valuable education and training tool designed to prompt meaningful thought and conversation among all those who have been affected by mental illness.

The Anti-Stigma Project workshops are free to mental health programs, clinics, or hospitals that receive full or partial public funding from the state of Maryland. For more information or if you would like to schedule a workshop, please contact the Training Coordinator at 410-646-0262 or 1-800-704-0262.