Mental lllness Resources – 2021

Recognizing a pressing need to reduce stigma regarding mental illness, the JDA Collaborative focused on mental illness awareness during 2021. With many people struggling with a variety of mental illnesses, exacerbated by the isolation and disruption brought on by the pandemic, JDA sought to raise awareness and understanding throughout the community.

JDA Partner Organizations invited members with mental illness to speak at their Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month Shabbat services. Additionally, the JDA Partners hosted panel discussions, invited in guest speakers, and hosted events on suicide prevention and postvention.

Passover Mental Health Haggadah Insert Explains and explores how mental illness touches all of us and the stigma often associated with it. In line with our tradition of asking questions, this Haggadah insert encourages discussion and questions about mental illness at your Passover seder.  

JDA also promoted and continues to promote the wonderful resources on mental illness with a Jewish lens that can be found at Blue Dove Foundation.