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DMHS Congratulates TAMI Coalition Speaker Megan Lummiss on Receiving the Prestigious Kaiser Foundation 2010 Excellence in Youth Leadership Award

The Kaiser Foundation is a national organization dedicated to raising awareness of mental health and addictions. Their National Awards for Excellence Program recognizes outstanding accomplishments among the thousands of Canadians in communities large and small who are helping take mental illness and addictions out of the shadows. Each Award recipient receives a $10,000 grant to be given to a recognized charity of their choice.

DMHS congratulates local mental health champion Megan Lummiss on receiving the Kaiser Foundation’s 2010 Excellence in Youth Leadership Award. Ms. Lummiss is a speaker with the Talking About Mental Illness (TAMI) Coalition, an alliance of community agencies, school boards, youth, people with mental illness and other community members that educates young people across Durham Region about mental illness. Through TAMI’s efforts, young people learn to recognize the signs of mental health problems, know that help is available, and respond with knowledge and compassion if they or others in their lives experience mental health problems.

To learn more about the Kaiser Foundation, please visit http://www.kaiserfoundation.ca/site/mission.php. To learn more about the TAMI Coalition, please visit http://www.ontarioshores.ca/tami.htm.