Hadassah Boston is hosting the event Beyond Stigma: Increasing Mental Health Awareness on Wednesday, January 22 at 7 PM. It will be a conversation between Rachel Zimmerman, author of Us, After and Felicia Falchuck, a Newton resident and local social worker. The event will be at a private home in Newton (address will be given upon registration). Register here.
$10 Fee. Additional donations encouraged, and all donations will be directed to Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO). In the Jerusalem area, HMO provides more mental health services than all of the health organizations together.
Rachel Zimmerman, an award-winning journalist, has written about health and medicine for more than two decades. She currently contributes stories on mental health to The Washington Post and previously worked as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and a health reporter for WBUR, Boston’s public radio station. Her essays and reporting have been published in The New York Times; Vogue; The Cut; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Atlantic; Slate; The Huffington Post; and Brevity, among others. Zimmerman’s book, Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide, was published in June 2024 by the Santa Fe Writers Project.
Felicia Falchuk is a LICSW in private practice in Newton.
