Change The Conversation
Join the #Movement
Mental health awareness is at an all time high, but mental health outcomes are moving in the wrong direction. You hear “1 in 5 people will live with a mental illness.” But #SameHere emphasizes that mental health doesn’t have to apply to only 20% of us, it applies to everyone. Our mission is to normalize our societal perception of mental health and incorporate it into our everyday conversation.



Let's Make Change Together.
“Mental health affects us all. I created #SameHere because all of us have a mental health story.”
~ Eric Kussin
About #SameHere Global
A Focus on Shared Human Experience
Our Mental health fluctuates as a result of the challenges, stressors, and traumas of life. This impacts all of us, not only 1 in 5, but 5 in 5 people. Our initiatives focus on helping you build a proactive approach to mental health in order to heal and build resiliency.
- Mental Health Education
- Global #SameHere Alliances
- Create Community Programs
- Physicians & Practitioners
- #SameHere Scale Tracking
- STARR - Gym For the Brain
- Conference Events
- Celebrity Speakers
Be a Part of the Change
Meet The #SameHere Alliances
From world-class athletes to leading researchers, our alliance members share their stories as proof that mental health impacts everyone, no matter their accolades or status.

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By connecting with others around the globe and sharing our experiences, we can help others feel less alone and more empowered to seek support.
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Bring #SameHere to Your Group
For years, we have offered customized, practical mental health resources to groups and organizations across the globe. From mental health education to trauma-informed workshops, our offerings are tailored to meet the unique needs of diverse groups. Learn more about our programs, built in partnership with 5 in 5, Inc., that empower organizations like yours to foster cultures where mental health is prioritized and part of everyday dialogue.

It’s so awesome what we’re doing together, helping people in so many different ways and normalizing the conversation. I’m all in. – Dwight Gooden

Veteran
I just wanted to say that because of your programs and with some help from my girlfriend, I have started to see the big picture with all my problems…and I have realized I do need to seek mental health treatment. I just wanted to reach out to say thanks for making these appearances and letting us know that it’s OK to not be OK. Thanks for helping me gather up the courage to seek help.

Bridgestone Arena Employee
Thank you and your celebrity alliance members for the program on mental health awareness and the importance of discussing it. It's true, “We’re All A Little Crazy"!!

CEO, President and Alternate Governor of the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators
Thanks again for coming down this past month. People down here are still talking about it daily. You left quite an impact with your whole program!

Senior Director of Communications for the Florida Panthers
Thanks so much for your time with the Clippers yesterday. Your program and your story is truly inspiring and the messages you leave us with are really sinking in.

Manager, MVP Services, LA Clippers
Thank you so much for speaking to our team at MSG. You are very brave for sharing your story and program. It has no doubt impacted the team and I think it has opened up a path to authentic and open communication.

(Manager, Corporate Hospitality), The Madison Square Garden Company
Thank you for taking the time today to share your program with us. I enjoy hearing others' experiences especially when they are told in a real and human way and I really felt that with yours. What you discussed today really resonates with me and I love the way you discuss mental health and the commonality of the experiences we all are facing. I hope that we as a society can move towards being more open and honest with these experiences and each other. Thank you for what you are doing and for sharing your programs with us.

(Sr. Manager of Special Events Sales & Operations), Cincinnati Reds
Let me say just how impressed we all were with your program this morning! While all the program leaders over the two days were very good, great in fact, your program was my favorite. I polled three others in our group and, without any solicitation, they too found yours to be the best one of the few days. Your ‘grounded’ way of presenting is so nice to experience, and your message so powerful. I truly wish you all the success possible on your mission to change peoples’ view about mental health.

Deputy Fire Chief for City of Campbell River in British Colombia, Canada
On behalf of the BC First Responders Mental Health Committee, thank you for the valuable work that you do and for sharing your insight, experience, and knowledge with the first responder community to help with the promotion of positive mental health.

WorkSafeBC
Your organization's insight and the way you all talk about mental health deeply resonates with our first responder community. Your organization is bridging the gap and bringing everyone together from all walks of life under the theme of the #SameHere movement. Your campaign and mantra about “5in5” and mental health on a continuum, effectively normalizes the conversation and compliments our own campaign “Share it don’t wear it”!

British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters’ Association
This is what the world needs now more than ever! Your organization is leaving such a beautiful legacy behind, and I can’t wait to see what comes next.

(Founder and CEO), GTSE - Global Tourism
Wanted to send you a BIG thank you for presenting for us, it really was such an eye opening and wonderful presentation. It was great to hear your stories and it really is such an important message. The exercises were really great and everyone loved them. We’re getting great feedback from our employees and the kids they work with – one of the girls texted me immediately after and told me she can’t stop smiling now because it took her 16 years to no longer feel alone.

(Social Work Counselor, FCA), Project Independence Suffolk - For Foster Care Youth
I can’t remember a time when that many of our employees were together and that engaged. You have something special going here and it unites people in a magical way. It was one of the best days of the year for us in our offices.

(Chief Marketing Officer), Monumental Sports & Entertainment
On behalf of the NYU Winthrop Sports Medicine Team, thank you for presenting at our 5th Annual Sports Medicine Symposium. Your lecture and slides were enlightening and noteworthy. The feedback we have received from members of the audience after the lecture was astonishing. Thank you again for your involvement as it wouldn’t have been possible without you!

(Athletic Trainer), NYU Winthrop Hospital
It was so great to see how your story and this theme {of #SameHere} related to everyone going through something, resonated with our diverse group of employees. To have a satellite office in another country join in, and watch on video, as you engaged the group in the room at the same time, it was very rewarding to get employees from all over, to hear this message and be on the same page about this topic.

(People Operations Director), Smart Design
This program was definitely one of the most valuable and useful resources MSG has provided in my time with the company. Thanks for coordinating.

(Premium Account Manager, Corporate Hospitality), The Madison Square Garden Company
There are not enough hours in the week for me to have provided 1:1 counseling to all those in attendance {at a #SameHere Global event}. Intervention is always too little, too late compared to prevention…and yet in the several hours that we gathered together, it was clear that people universally felt less alone, more connected, and dare I say it, more “normal” or OK.

Associate Director of Counseling Services at Drexel University (now with Rowan University)
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