Thursday, June 12, 2025

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Founder/Executive Director Sean Brennan presents the workshop: Asylum Farms to Food Apartheid: Reimagining Food Justice through a Peer-Driven, Person-Centered Approach 3rd Annual NYS Justice Peer Conference this years theme "Driving Change by Elevating Voices".

St. Francis College

179 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201

Auditorium

Get ready! The Brain Food Garden Project is hosting its 1st Annual LGBTQIA+ PRIDE in Our Mental Health Awareness Day Celebration across our social media platforms! Our "Amplify Voices: An LGBTQIA+ PRIDE & Mental Health Toolkit" will be available for download starting Monday, May 12, 2025. Join us in showing your support now and amplifying LGBTQIA+ mental health awareness today, throughout PRIDE month in June, and 365 days a year! Share the love and support across your socials all day long! To read the media release click here 

If you have trouble with the link email brainfoodgp@gmail.com and a copy of the toolkit will be emailed to you.

Join the NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) Office of Advocacy and Peer Support Services for their monthly Lunch & Learn series featuring the Brain Food Garden Project and the story and vision of our Founder and Executive Director, Sean Brennan. The event will be held via Zoom from 1-2 PM. To register, click the link below. 

April 30th is NYS ACEs Awareness Day and May is Trauma-Informed Care Awareness Month. Our Founder/Executive Director Sean Brennan is Brain Food Garden Project's representative at the NYS Trauma-Informed Coalition. Attached find the media toolkit the Coalition updates every year as a service to the community. 

The Baltic Street Wellness Solution community drop-in Center is NOW reopened after a major renovation and name change! Join our Founder/Executive Director Sean Brennan at the Isaac Brown Healing Arts & Community Center the last two Friday's of every month as he facilitates the Baltic Street Garden Club in their NEW hydroponic garden from 1-2pm and BFGP Presents Feeding Our Mental Health workshops from 3-4pm 

882 3rd Avenue 10th Floor

Brooklyn, New York 11232

Workshops also available via Zoom for more information email

brainfoodgp@gmail.com 

Founder/Executive Director Sean Brennan returns to the Howie The Harp Advocacy Center to facilitate his 5 hour course “Feeding Our Mental Health: Food Justice, Food as Medicine, Shopping & Budgeting for Healthier Eating. 

The course is offered two cycles a year as part of the peer training program’s curriculum (Closed Session)

Based on a chapter from our Founder/Executive Director's forthcoming book The Compassionate Path: Navigating Mental Health Peer Advocacy and Nonprofit Development. Sean returns to the Howie the Harp Advocacy Center to facilitate   

The Importance of Strategic Career Planning: From Lived Experience to Lived Expertise for the next generation of Mental Health Peer Advocates currently enrolled.

The course is offered two cycles a year as part of the peer training program’s curriculum (Closed Session)