2026 Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month Celebration
Recovery is Possible: Celebrating 23 Years of Mental Health, Education, Advocacy & Support.
Join our community healing events in honor of Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month.
We will be having two virtual events that lead into our main in-person celebration.Please be sure to register for each event you would like to attend.
“Recovery is Possible” Mental Health in the African-American Community
This virtual conversation is designed to be a safe space for family members, consumers & mental health professions to discuss and navigate recovery. We will be meeting through Zoom.
Tuesday, July 21st 6:00pm-7:30pm PST
Our main in-person event will include performances, speakers and more. Lunch will be provided. Each adult must register to guarantee meal preference. Please indicate if any children will attend with you.
Saturday, July 25th 11:00am-1:30pm PST
Ahmanson Senior Center (at EXPO Center)
Programa virtual de prevención de suicidio de PPR (QPR) con NAMI Urban LA
NAMI Urban Los Angeles está celebrando el mes de "Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month" y queremos compartir el entrenamiento de PPR con nuestra comunidad. El curso de PPR (QPR) está diseñado para ayudar a salvar vidas y reducir los comportamientos suicidas al proporcionar capacitación innovadora, práctica y comprobada en prevenir el suicidio.
Deberá asistir a la clase con Zoom. Después de completar el entrenamiento de PPR, los participantes pueden obtener su certificado de PPR.
Miércoles 22 de Julio 6:00pm-7:30pm PST
Her Story
"It’s not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible!"
- Bebe Moore Campbell.
Bebe Moore Campbell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001". Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature; her memoir, Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad; and her first nonfiction book, Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage. Her essays, articles, and excerpts appear in many anthologies.
Campbell's interest in mental health was the catalyst for her first children's book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry, which was published in September 2003. This book won the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Outstanding Literature Award for 2003. The book tells the story of how a little girl copes with being reared by her mentally ill mother. Her book 72 Hour Hold also deals with mental illness. Her first play, Even with the Madness, debuted in New York City in June 2003. This work revisited the theme of mental illness and the family.
In her early days she graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from the University of Pittsburgh. She was an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
She lived in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, Ellis Gordon Jr. They raised two children, a son, Ellis Gordon III, and a daughter, actress Maia Campbell, from Campbell's previous marriage to Tiko Campbell. Maia Campbell is best known for her role as "Tiffany" on In the House. Bebe Moore Campbell died from brain cancer, aged 56, on November 27, 2006, and was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California. Her favorite quote on being a writer was: "Discipline is the servant of inspiration."
