#SpotlightOnCLT: Mental Health
This month, our #SpotlightOnCLT is shining on #MentalHealth and our nonprofit partners who serve and support this cause. Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Mental health determines how we react to stress, relate to others, and make choices in every stage of our life.
Our friends at HopeWay here in Charlotte have one important mission, to make hope tangible by inspiring mental wellness for all.
Dr. Alyson Kuroski-Mazzei, CEO and Chief Medical Officer for HopeWay, shares her insight, below, into our recent mental health crisis, and why she sees hope for the future.
“You’ve seen the headlines. We are seeing mental health challenges surge as we continue to navigate the pandemic, and socioeconomic determinants of health continue to go in the wrong direction.
According to a publication by a leading medical journal, JAMA, COVID-19 has tripled the rate of depression in US adults in all demographic groups. Emergency Department utilization has also increased for children ages 5-17.
While this reality is heavy on my heart and mind each day, HopeWay is working with community partners and expanding access to care to help mitigate these issues.
We are not just in the business of mental health treatment - we are in the business of inspiring hope and mental wellness. And for that, I am grateful. Hope is woven into everything that we do. We see clients regain lost hope through our programs each day. As a non-profit navigating the pandemic, we also held onto hope. While it was a most challenging year, it also gave us an opportunity to pause and be intentional about where we want to go in the future.
Writing this causes me to reflect on the thousands of lives impacted by HopeWay and how we have evolved since we opened in 2016. HopeWay started with a strong mission and vision, a sharp focus on our core values and the recruitment of a solid team of mental health experts. Today, those elements of our foundation make it possible to keep dreaming and growing with great promise for what lies ahead. Even with the myriad of challenges COVID-19 brought us, we recently expanded to meet other needs. We have grown into our strengths and are now utilizing our treatment model and staff expertise to serve Veterans on our main campus and children and adolescents (in addition to adults) at our outpatient clinic, HopeWay Psychiatry & Associates.
Last year we saw a growing division in our country, but we also witnessed tremendous compassion – a neighbor helping a working mother while her kids did virtual school, a stranger grocery shopping for the elderly man in isolation, someone lending an ear to just listen and be supportive. 2020 and 2021 reiterated that the compassion for our clients and other people struggling with mental illness extends way beyond the walls of HopeWay. Companies, large and small, are shining light on employee mental wellness, psychiatrists are volunteering their time to care for doctors and other healthcare workers who are struggling, school systems are thinking of new ways to support the mental health of teachers and staff. HopeWay is here as a resource to all.”
Follow along with SHARE Charlotte during the month of February as we shine a light on nonprofit partners and the essential work they are doing for our community’s mental well being.
#SpotlightOnCLT: Mental Health
Our friends at HopeWay here in Charlotte have one important mission, to make hope tangible by inspiring mental wellness for all.
Dr. Alyson Kuroski-Mazzei, CEO and Chief Medical Officer for HopeWay, shares her insight, below, into our recent mental health crisis, and why she sees hope for the future.
“You’ve seen the headlines. We are seeing mental health challenges surge as we continue to navigate the pandemic, and socioeconomic determinants of health continue to go in the wrong direction.
According to a publication by a leading medical journal, JAMA, COVID-19 has tripled the rate of depression in US adults in all demographic groups. Emergency Department utilization has also increased for children ages 5-17.
While this reality is heavy on my heart and mind each day, HopeWay is working with community partners and expanding access to care to help mitigate these issues.
We are not just in the business of mental health treatment - we are in the business of inspiring hope and mental wellness. And for that, I am grateful. Hope is woven into everything that we do. We see clients regain lost hope through our programs each day. As a non-profit navigating the pandemic, we also held onto hope. While it was a most challenging year, it also gave us an opportunity to pause and be intentional about where we want to go in the future.
Writing this causes me to reflect on the thousands of lives impacted by HopeWay and how we have evolved since we opened in 2016. HopeWay started with a strong mission and vision, a sharp focus on our core values and the recruitment of a solid team of mental health experts. Today, those elements of our foundation make it possible to keep dreaming and growing with great promise for what lies ahead. Even with the myriad of challenges COVID-19 brought us, we recently expanded to meet other needs. We have grown into our strengths and are now utilizing our treatment model and staff expertise to serve Veterans on our main campus and children and adolescents (in addition to adults) at our outpatient clinic, HopeWay Psychiatry & Associates.
Last year we saw a growing division in our country, but we also witnessed tremendous compassion – a neighbor helping a working mother while her kids did virtual school, a stranger grocery shopping for the elderly man in isolation, someone lending an ear to just listen and be supportive. 2020 and 2021 reiterated that the compassion for our clients and other people struggling with mental illness extends way beyond the walls of HopeWay. Companies, large and small, are shining light on employee mental wellness, psychiatrists are volunteering their time to care for doctors and other healthcare workers who are struggling, school systems are thinking of new ways to support the mental health of teachers and staff. HopeWay is here as a resource to all.”
Follow along with SHARE Charlotte during the month of February as we shine a light on nonprofit partners and the essential work they are doing for our community’s mental well being.
#SpotlightOnCLT: Mental Health