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.
The Best of NAMICon 2022
Watch highlights from NAMICon 2022, featuring a discussion between Ken Burns and members of NAMI’s Next Gen young adult advisory group, “Hiding in Plain Sight” director Erik Ewers and the young adults featured in the film, a conversation with mental health care experts about youth suicide and prevention, and much more.
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.
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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.