Musicians and Advocates Ready to Rock the Hill: National Take Action Tour Kick-off for Mental Health Parity and Suicide Prevention

Musicians and Advocates Ready to Rock the Hill: National Take Action Tour Kick-off for Mental Health Parity and Suicide Prevention

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To help prevent the incidence of suicide, The Kristin Brooks Hope Center, the founders of 1-800- SUICIDE, the Mental Health Liaison Group and SubCity Records are co-sponsoring a press event on Jan. 31. They will be kicking off the 45-city, multi-band, Take Action Tour, which is expected to pass the $1 million mark the tour has raised for charity, and which has helped tens of thousands of individuals, provided information on mental health services and suicide prevention. The tour will be calling for passage of The Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act, and for full funding of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act.

Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people aged 15-24. The majority still have undiagnosed and untreated behavioral health disorders.

Ronnie Winter, lead singer for music group The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, headliners for the 2007 Take Action Tour, will be speaking at the press event about his efforts to become trained and certified as crisis interventionists for suicide prevention.

Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and Congressman Howard Berman (D- Calif.) will speak as well on the importance of mental health parity and the impact the tour has on America's youth.

What: Kick-off of national music tour that will push for expansion of
Mental Health Parity Act

When: Jan. 31 at 11 a.m.

Who: Congressman Patrick Kennedy; Congressman Howard Berman; Reese
Butler, founder of KBHC/1-800SUICIDE; Ronnie Winters of the music
group The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus; as well as other national
musicians from The Take Action Tour.

Where: Room 1334, Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

The Kristin Brooks Hope Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to suicide prevention, intervention and healing: by providing a single point of entry to community-based crisis services through innovative telephony and Internet based technologies; by bringing national attention and access to services for postpartum depression and other women's mood disorders; through education and advocacy; through formal research and evaluation of crisis line services; and by championing the need for national funding for community-based suicide prevention crisis services.

Mental Health Liaison Group is comprised of over 50 national organizations representing consumer, family members, advocates, professionals and providers.

For more information, visit http://www.hopeline.com/.

CONTACT: Reese Butler of www.hopeline.com, +1-202-669-8500, reese@hopeline.com, or Scott Goodstein, +1-202-518-8332, SGcatalyst@aol.com, for www.hopeline.com

Source: www.hopeline.com

CONTACT: Reese Butler of www.hopeline.com, +1-202-669-8500,
reese@hopeline.com, or Scott Goodstein, +1-202-518-8332, SGcatalyst@aol.com,
for www.hopeline.com

Web site: http://www.hopeline.com/

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