International Archives

International Day of Peace

September 30, 2021 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

September 21, 2021 was the International Day of Peace, an event created by the United Nations to celebrate strengthening the ideals of peace around the world. This year, iFred celebratedContinue Reading

Filed Under: Education, Events, Families, iFred, International, Suicide Prevention, Sunflowers, Uncategorized, Youth Tagged With: antithesis of hope, combat hopelessness, day of peace, end stigma, finding hope, global mental health, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopeful cities, hopeful mindsets, hopelessness, iFred, kathryn goetzke, Manhattan Beach, mental health, STAND 4 PEACE, strengthening the ideals of peace, suicide prevention, teach hope, United Nations

Global Hope Challenge Date Change

December 21, 2017 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

Hi all! We are so excited about all the entries, and want to apologize for those that have had issues with the technology. We just want to clarify a fewContinue Reading

Filed Under: Children, Depression, Depression Foundation, Global Month of Hope, Health, Hopeful Minds, iFred, International, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health Tagged With: Global Hope Challenge Date Change, Global Mental Health Movement, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, suicide prevention, teach hope

Kirti

May 4, 2016 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

What Brings Me Hope: My experiences in healing depression without drugs. I was depressed in 1984-85 and was taking loads of meds and depression was controlled, but not showing signsContinue Reading

Filed Under: Depression, Everyday Heroes, Health, Hope Stories, iFred, Inspiration, International, Mental Health, Wall For Hope Tagged With: depression, end stigma, finding hope, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, iFred, mental health, share hope, suicide prevention, teach hope

Health and Hope Can Prevent Suicide

September 22, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

#stopsuicide #globalcrisis #hope #suicideprevention Every 40 seconds, an individual life is lost to suicide. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls it a #globalcrisis and estimates that the global suicide figureContinue Reading

Filed Under: Depression, Events, Health, iFred, International, Jagannath Lamichhane, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Research, Suicide Prevention, Youth Tagged With: depression, depression advocacy, end stigma, finding hope, global mental health, health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, iFred, international depression blog, Jagannath Lamichhane, suicide prevention, teach hope, world health organization

Take Global Action Today for World Suicide Prevention Day – #FundamentalSDG

September 10, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

The International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression (iFred) announces today, World Suicide Prevention Day, it joins to support the #FundaMentalSDG initiative to advocate adding clear, measurable mental healthContinue Reading

Filed Under: Depression, Events, Health, iFred, International, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Suicide Prevention Tagged With: depression prevention, end stigma, FundamentalSDG, global mental health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, no health without mental health, suicide prevention, teach hope, united nations post development goals, wspd

Bridging the Mental Health Treatment Gap Must Be a Global Priority

September 2, 2014 By Kathryn Leave a Comment

Every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) organizes the mhGAP Forum as part of its annual partnership event on mental health. The mhGAP Forum is an informal groupContinue Reading

Filed Under: Depression, Depression Foundation, Events, iFred, International, Jagannath Lamichhane, Mental Health, Movement for Global Mental Health, Suicide and Grief, Suicide Prevention Tagged With: depression advocacy, end stigma, eradicating suicide, finding hope, global mental health, hope, hope is teachable, hopelessness, international depression blog, Jagannath Lamichhane, movement for global mental health, rebranding depression, suicide prevention, teach hope, world health organization