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Issues That Matter - Caring for Someone During a Mental Health Emergency

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA, 98260 United States (map)

This event is presented by the Clinton, Freeland and Langley libraries and supported by the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation.

An evening with Sarri Gilman, author of Transform Your Boundaries and "Naming and Taming Overwhelm" and a TEDxSnoIsleLibraries speaker.

This Issues that Matter event will help you recognize the condition of overwhelm and address how to deal with a mental health emergency. Sarri will be joined by Dr. Howard Aposhyan, Charlene Ray, LICSW, and others who will share ways to understand difficult mental health challenges and how to find help and support.

Free and Open to the Public

Earlier Event: February 12
A Night With Matthew Gardner, Economist
Later Event: February 14
Jose Gonzales Trio Valentine's Day Concert

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.