Suggestions for Family Events

• Develop a family time capsule on mental illness beliefs and thoughts. Open it next year, and see if everyone in the family still feels the same way.
  
  
• Write an article on mental illness and submit it to the local newspaper for publication during MIAW.
  
  
• Compose songs (or change the words to existing ones) that deal with mental illnesses. Organize a concert for family and friends.
  
  
• Organize a puppet show or short theatrical presentation with your children about mental illness.
  
  
• Discuss the myths about mental illness.