UU Mental Health Network

UU Mental Health Network As a starting point, a covenant and a mission were written, and a decision was made to apply to the UUA to become an official “related organization”.

The UU Mental Health Network promotes inclusion of people affected by mental health issues in the life and work of our congregations and in the society at large. In 2018 a number of individual Unitarian Universalists who were interested in mental health started meeting and jointly decided that the time was right to form a UU Mental Health Network to work collectively on mental health issues that a

ffect our congregations and society at large. Later we decided to incorporate and seek non-profit status with the IRS. In May of 2019 we created a set of bylaws and submitted paperwork to become incorporated in the state of Michigan. Karl Pannanen, one of our members who is an attorney lives in Michigan and handled these matters on a pro-bono basis. In June of 2019 we presented a “poster session” at the UUA’s General Assembly in Spokane in which we discussed our newly forming organization with attendees at the General Assembly. As a result, we doubled the number of people who wanted to be part of this effort! In July of 2019 our incorporation was successfully obtained, and paperwork for our application to become a UUA “related organization” was submitted to the UUA. In March of 2020, we received 501 (c)(3) Non-profit status from the Internal Revenue Service, meaning that donations to the UU Mental Health network are tax exempt.

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