Dairy Farmer and Rural Minds founder and director, Jeff Winton will highlight the challenges and differences around mental health for those living in rural America. He will address how mental health stigma affects rural communities and strategies to help address the stigma. Growing up on his family’s dairy farm, he discovered that many of the families in his small, 500-person town had a relative or friend living with some form of untreated mental illness-depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia. But their struggle was met with silence. There were few or no resources in the community for treating them or conversations about helping them. The stigma attached to mental illness wa...