Mental health awareness days
If you want to promote meetings around specific topics or events, we recommend looking at national and global awareness days, as well as holidays.
Here is a list of some examples for you to consider. *
*Note: HeyPeers does not endorse any particular awareness day, organization, or information that is included in this article. This list has only been compiled as an example for independent Peer Supporters to consider when promoting their services for any given topic of their own experiences.
January
Self Love Month
February
National Eating Disorders Awareness Month (NEDAwareness Week)
March
March 30: World Bipolar Day
April
National Stress Awareness Day
Alcohol Awareness Month
May
National Mental Health Awareness Month
Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month
June
Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month
LGBTQ+ Pride Month
July
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
August
August 30: National Grief Awareness Day
September
Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
October
Mental Illness Awareness Week and World Mental Health Day
First full week of October: Mental Illness Awareness Week (NAMI)
- Tuesday of Mental Illness Awareness Week: National Day of Prayer for Mental Illness Recovery and Understanding- Thursday of Mental Illness Awareness Week: National Depression Screening Day
- October 10: World Mental Health Day (UN).Second full week of October: International OCD Awareness Week
October 11: Annual National Coming Out Day
Third Wednesday of October: Love Your Body Day
November
First Wednesday in November: National Stress Awareness Day
Saturday before Thanksgiving: International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
December
December 1: World AIDS Day
December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities