COLORADO SPRINGS – In recognition of National Depression Screening Day and Mental Illness Awareness Week, Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group is offering and promoting free and anonymous depression screening on its Web site: www.ppbhg.org.
The screenings coincide with the organization’s Heroes of Mental Health Luncheon on Oct. 8 at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort.
An estimated 15 million people will suffer from major depression this year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The condition can take effect due to several factors, which can be psychological, biological, environmental and genetic.
National Depression Screening Day (Oct. 8) is held every year on the Thursday of Mental Illness Awareness Week. Hundreds of organizations throughout the United States provide both in-person screening events and online screening tools to help patients identify the services they need and promote positive mental health.
The online screening tool will continue to be available on the organization’s Web site after October 8.
“Our community should participate in this effort,” said Morris L. Roth, president and CEO of Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group. “It’s been a tough year and we know many people aren’t ‘themselves.’ We hope this tool will help those who need it, while encouraging them to recovery.”
The online screening tool consists of 10 simple questions and is completed in a couple of minutes. Participants who score high are given a local, 24-hour telephone number to speak to a medical professional to get further information about depression and treatment options.
Award-winning journalist Eric Weiner is the keynote at the Heroes of Mental Health Luncheon, which runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. He traveled to the world’s happiest countries before penning The New York Times-bestseller “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World.”
Tickets ($35 each) are still available by calling (719) 314-4305.
For 134 years, Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group has created help and hope for Southern Colorado residents. Its organizations provide a broad range of services to meet adult and family needs, substance abuse, acute treatment and managed care. We also provide vocational skills training and affirmative employment in catering, design/build/construction services as well as facilities management services.
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