Finding Mental Health

Penny Frese has a doctorate in Fine Arts and for the past 20 years has advocated for universal mental health education in schools. In this episode, Penny shares with us how her husband and psychologist Fred Frese’s illness, schizophrenia, and her daughter’s illness, depression, led to her current life’s work. She recalls the story of when her daughter was in the throws of depression in high school and how they launched a curriculum for mental health education directed toward schools, parents and physicians. It was the beginning of the now nationally acclaimed Red Flags mental health program.