Corey Minor Smith’s moved 21 times and attended 14 different schools before graduating high school, and throughout her childhood she was a teenage caretaker to her mother who was living with a severe mental health condition. In spite of these obstacles, she became a successful attorney.” These adverse childhood experiences along with becoming a trained facilitator for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), have paved the way for her mental health advocacy work.

Currently, she is appointed to serve as US Senior Counsel for HUD the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). On this episode of The vault we talked about the challenges that caregivers face when living with someone with severe mental health issues and ways to support families and caregivers with resources and training. Corey has also written books and guides to support families who have had similar challenges due to having loved ones with severe mental health conditions.

 Self-care for caregivers.
 Mental health support for caregivers.
 How to help a loved one who does not acknowledge their mental illness.
 How to support a loved one who has severe mental illness.
 How to utlize resources in the community to support caregivers.
 How to utilize resources in the community to support loved ones with severe mental
illness.
 How to cope with High Functioning Depression

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Alison Malmon is the Founder and Executive Director of Active Minds, the nation’s
leading nonprofit organization promoting mental health awareness and education for young adults. Alison tragically lost her 21 year old brother when she was a college student and she turned that grief into action and started Active Minds, which is no on over 1000 college campuses, universites and K-12 schools, workplaces and communities. Alson and Active Minds knows that when friends are struggling, they turn to their friends for help. But what if a young person doesn’t feel adequately skilled to support a friend who is having mental health struggles? Alson and Active Minds started a new campaign to empower young people with the skills to support their friends who are dealing with mental health issues using the A.S.K. method. Active minds has also recently partnerned with MTV on this mission. Listen and learn about how you can support young people and youth on this newess episode of The Vault.

 How to Talk To Youth About Mental Health.
 How youth can talk to their friends to support mental health.
 How to help youths who are having a mental health crisis.
 High Functioning Depression in college students.
 Anhedonia
 How to cope with High Functioning Depression


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Malina Malkani, MS, RDN, CDN, is the pediatric registered dietitian, best-selling author, speaker, and single mom and top nutrition influencer dedicated to educating her combined audience of over 150,000 followers about infant and child nutrition. Malina is a trusted expert in local and national media outlets and owns a nutrition consulting company and private practice that helps caregivers feed their babies and kids with confidence. She Joins us on the Vault to talk about how parents undergo stress and anxiety related to their children’s food allergies and ways to cope. She also talks about foods that are brain foods for children and babies because food is medicine.

She is the author of Simple and Safe Baby-Led Weaning: How to Integrate Foods, Manage Portion Sizes, and Identify Allergies and the creator of two online courses for parents: Safe & Simple Baby-Led Feeding and Solve Picky Eating. Her new book, Safe and Simple Food Allergy Prevention: A Baby-Led Feeding Guide to Starting Solids and Introducing Top Allergens, is due out in November of 2024 with publisher, BenBella Books, distributed through Penguin Random House. A Forbes Health Advisory Board Member since 2022, member of the Advisory Council for the RWJF Reframing Child Health and Obesity project, Kabrita Medical Advisor, and former national media spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Malina completed her undergraduate degrees at Northwestern University and master's degree in clinical nutrition at New York University.



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