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NAMICon 2022

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June 14, 2022 @ 12:00 am June 16, 2022 @ 5:00 am

WATCH youth featured in the new documentary series, filmmakers, student journalists, mental health experts, artists, athletes and celebrity ambassadors come together to urge the country towards a more thoughtful conversation about youth mental health and well-being.

About NAMICon 2022

Filmmaker Ken Burns joins us at NAMICon, as we celebrate two years of collaboration with the Well Beings Youth Mental Health Project, created by WETA, the PBS flagship station in our nation’s capital. NAMI CEO Daniel H. Gillison, Jr., WETA President & CEO Sharon Percy Rockefeller, NAMI Next Gen Youth Ambassadors, filmmakers Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers, youth featured in the film, will join us to see and discuss excerpts from the new two-part, four-hour documentary series Ken Burns Presents Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness, A Film by Erik Ewers & Christopher Loren Ewers, premiering June 27 and 28 on PBS stations nationwide. PBS.org/plainsight. 

WellBeings.org is a health and wellness resource, not a crisis or suicide response website. If you are in crisis, or experiencing thoughts of suicide, please call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or the LGBT National Hotline at (888) 843-4564. The service is free and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.