The Skills of Central PA 19th Annual Centre County Mental Health Awareness Month Kickoff Celebration presented by Centre Helps/988 launches an annual campaign on Tuesday, May 1st, at 5:30pm. For the second consecutive year, the event will be held at the Wasson Farm event barn with a full agenda of live music, free food, activities, vendors, door prizes, and compelling stories. Admission is FREE and everyone is welcome to attend.
Popular musician Eric Ian Farmer will get the celebration started, performing when the doors open at 5:00pm. A free Wasson ice cream scoop will be given to every attendee, along with other complimentary snacks for all. At the same time, the vendor fair will open inside the barn and activities will begin. The formal program begins at 5:30pm, with speakers sharing stories of inspiration, success, hope, and recovery. Following the speakers, at approximately 6:45pm, the music and vendor fair will resume, and lead up to the door prize drawing.
Health and human service providers and other organizations that are key to mental health in Centre County will actively participate in the event. In addition to all the vendors who will be connecting with Centre County residents during the evening, corporate sponsorship helped to make this event possible. Presenting sponsor Centre Helps / 988 Suicide-Crisis Lifeline will be part of the vendor fair, handing out valuable resources and answering questions, while promoting their website www.centrehelps.org The Meadows, celebrating 40 years of commitment to recovery, joins Centre Helps, Skills of Central Pa, and the Opportunity Centre Clubhouse as major contributors to the event.
The 2025 event committee, made up of mental health professionals serving as volunteers, has been meeting and working on various elements of the celebration for months now. Our community is grateful for the effort of these representatives.
The Wasson Farm event barn is located at 2545 Shingletown Rd State College, PA 16801. More about this FREE event can be found by clicking the Events Tab at www.SkillsOfCentralPa.org, or searching the newly developed Facebook page titled Mental Health Awareness Kickoff Celebration Centre County.
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