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Family Diversity Projects, a non-profit organization in Amherst,
MA, has created five award-winning traveling photo-text rental exhibits that tour
communities nationwide and internationally.
Our exhibits are perfect for diversity events in your:
- Schools (K-12)
- Colleges
- Corporations & Workplaces
- Libraries
- Houses of Worship
- Hospitals
- Mental health centers
- Conferences
- Museums
- Diversity Events
- Community Events
By educating people of all ages to recognize, support, and celebrate the full
range of diversity, our traveling exhibits are designed to help reduce prejudice, stereotyping, and harassment of all people who are perceived to be "different" from
the "norm."
Family Diversity Projects also provides speakers on diversity and workshop leaders for conferences and exhibit venues.
How to bring our rental exhibits to your community
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Funding
Funding for Nothing to Hide has been provided over the years by the following:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The AEC Trust
The Holder Family Foundation
The Icarus Foundation
The Patrick-Murray Inaugural Committee
The Tsunami Foundation
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Many Generous Individual Donors
Thank you to our funders!
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Photos by Gigi Kaeser
Interviews by Jean Beard and Peggy Gillespie
Exhibit Description |
Companion Book |
Testimonials |
Tour Schedule
Exhibit History |
Advisory Board
Exhibit Description
Nothing to Hide is a museum-quality photo-text traveling exhibit featuring photographs
and interviews with families whose lives are affected by mental illness - schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, major depression, anxiety
disorders, etc. The compelling accounts demonstrate strength,
courage, integrity and accomplishment in the face of the adversity and stigma of mental illness. By
bringing visibility to these individuals and their families, Nothing to Hide
helps dispel harmful stereotypes, myths, and misconceptions about mental illness.
Edwin Cassem M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an
Advisory Board member for this project, says it best: "Stigma is worldwide and
stifling. Nothing to Hide aims to eradicate prejudice and discrimination
based on mental disability. It is a project whose hour has come." Funded in part
by NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness), Nothing to Hide has
received rave reviews and media attention wherever it has traveled. The book, Nothing to Hide won a prestigious Ken Johnson NAMI-NYC Metro Book Award book award from NAMI-NYC Metro.
Companion Book
"The photographs and interviews give a dignity and humanity to
patients and their families, as well as providing a real sense of the
day-to-day difficulties of living with mental illness. This book is both wonderful
and important."
- Kay Redfield Jamison Ph.D.
author of The Unquiet Mind
"This wonderful book will touch the heart of anyone who has been close to mental illness. It is
a book that everyone should read."
- Lesley Stahl, co-editor 60 Minutes
info and to order:
the new press
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Testimonials
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"We can not thank Peggy Gillespie and her team at Family Diversity Projects enough for putting together such an invaluable resource. It's hard to know its effect until it's used. For us this exhibit was the best tool for opening dialogue about an unspoken but immensely important matter. Undoubtedly, Nothing to Hide has positively influenced our students and has helped the efforts to decrease stigma associated with mentali llness."
- Raul Navarro
College & Guidance Counselor
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory
Houston, TX
"Thank you for the use of the fabulous exhibition. It travelled around in 3 of our corporate Johnson & Johnson sites in England and Belgium, and our people were very excited to see the patient and their families together. The exhibition is a real eye-opener. Our scientific community needs to start thinking about the patient from day one and not only about efficacy of the drugs, but about the overall well being of the patient and their families. This helped the individuals who work for our pharmaceutical organization to reflect about their own stigma concerning mental illness. Great work!"
- Frederik Wittock
Senior Director Cross-Pharma R&D Communications (Outside US)
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, division of Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.
Belgium
"The Division of Mental Health Services recently showcased the Nothing To Hide: Mental Illness in the Family photo-text exhibit in our State Capitol rotunda. The photographs were impressive and captivating. The accompanying quotes were poignant and informative. This exhibit was set up in the rotunda for several days during the Legislative session. Besides our lawmakers, at this particular time of the year the Capitol is also filled with many state agency representatives and other visitors including school groups and accompanying educational staff. We were very pleased with the comments received and interest shown in this exhibit by these groups. The exhibit was of outstanding educational benefit and certainly made an impact on everyone who had the opportunity to view it."
- John Selig
Director of the Arkansas Department of Human Services
Division of Mental Health Services
"Hosting the exhibit Nothing to Hide at Wheaton College was an unforgettable
experienced. I witnessed first hand the incredible power of the dialogue that
comes from experiencing the photographs and text panels...This exhibit makes it
safe to talk openly and candidly about mental health issues within one's own
family. The exhibit touched every student I spoke with."
- Dale Rogers Marshall
President, Wheaton College
Norton, MA
"Our Executive Director ... told the Board of Directors that having the exhibit come to Mansfield was one of the best things we have ever done."
- Rhea Jane Swartz
Public Relations Coordinator
Richland County Board of Mental Health Services, Mansfield, OH
"Nothing to Hide provides an opportunity for conversations to occur on the subject of mental illness, a subject that if mentioned at all, is frequently discussed in hushed tones. Intelligence and sensitivity are hallmarks of the work of Family Diversity Projects. I know of no better organization to help make discussions about this topic acceptable to society."
- Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann
Anti-Defamation League
A World of Difference Institute
"I think Nothing to Hide is important because it not only gives mental health consumers the opportunity to tell their stories and explain their lives, but it shows how the entire family is affected by the many faces of mental illness. My parents and my husband have been a great help to me in making my life successful, and this exhibit allows them to have a voice."
- Christina Coolidge
Mental Health Consumer
"I enthusiastically endorse Nothing to Hide. Serious mental illnesses are devastating but common experiences for many families. Anything we can do to educate, decrease stigma, and reach out to families who feel they are alone with this problem is worthwhile."
- E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.
Research Psychiatrist
Author, Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers
Tour Schedule (Partial List)
In order to meet demand, multiple copies of this photo-text rental exhibit were created. If your desired booking date appears below it does not mean the exhibit is unavailable. Please contact us to arrange your exhibition. For exact locations and times of a showing, please contact the people listed below.
Exhibit History
Nothing to Hide has toured to hundreds of venues in the
United States and Canada. The exhibit and companion book have been featured in numerous magazine
and newspaper articles across the country including the NAMI Advocate, Ruminator,
The Boston Globe, The Cape Cod Times, The Capitol Times, The Sunday Washington Post Magazine, Reintegration Today, and The Wheaton Alumnae Journal. Here are just a few of the
sites it has visited:
Hospitals, Mental Health Centers and Museums
- National Depressive/Manic Depressive Association, OH
- Butler Hospital, PA
- Schuylkill County Community Support Program, PA
- Ben Gordon Center, IL
- NAMI - San Diego (Mercy Hospital), CA
- San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital Auxiliary, CA
- The People Connection, MN
- NAMI-Arizona
- NAMI- NYC Metro
- Fountain House, NYC
- Western Psychiatric Institute, PA
- Brattleboro Retreat Healthcare, VT
- Mental Health Association of North Dakota
- Alegent Health, NE
- West Plains Council on the Arts, MO
- Central Nassau Guidance & Counseling , NY
- Mott Children’s Health Center, MI
- Clarendon House, VA
- Dilico-Ojibway Children and Family Services, Canada
- Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburgh, FL
- American Jewish Museum, PA
- NAMI-Cape Cod
Churches
- First Presbyterian Church, Iowa
- Buxmont Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, PA
- East Liberty Presbyterian Church, PA
Colleges and Schools
- Kansas University Medical Center
- Mt. Holyoke College, MA
- University of Maine
- Sinclair Community College, PA
- Wheaton College, MA
- Southwick High School, MA
Advisory Board
Steven E. Arnold, M.D.
Philadelphia, PA
Director, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Neuropathology, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
Marilyn Benoit, M.D.
Washington, DC
Medical/ Executive Director, Devereux Children’s Center
Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center
Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann
Brooklyn, NY
Anti-Bias Education Consultant
EHB Consulting
Jaime Campbell
Boston, MA
Consumer and Former Guest of Gould Farm
Mental Health Consultant
Edwin H. Cassem, M.D.
Boston, MA
Chief of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Laurie Flynn
Arlington, VA
Former Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Fred Frese, Ph.D.
Hudson, OH
Consumer; 2nd Vice-President of NAMI
Director, Summit County Recovery Project
Penny Frese, Ph.D.
Hudson, OH
Board Member, Summit County Mental Health Board
Film Producer, Claire’s Story: A Child’s Perspective on Childhood Depression
Michael A. Jenike, M.D.
Boston, MA
Director, Psychiatric Neuroscience Program
Associate Chief of Psychiatry (Research), Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Kay Jamison, Ph.D.
Washington, DC
Author, An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast
Ann Madigan
Boston, MA
Anti-Stigma Coordinator, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
Jay Neugeboren
Northampton, MA
Author, Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival
Clea Simon
Cambridge, MA
Author, Mad House: Growing Up In the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings
Lesley Stahl
New York, NY
News Correspondent, 60 Minutes
E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.
Washington, DC
Research Psychiatrist
Author, Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers
Carolyn T. Villarrubia, M.D.
League City, TX
Executive Medical Director, Devereux Texas Treatment Network
Private Practitioner, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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