Jason DeShaw to Perform at Chinook and Hays/Lodge Pole Schools

 

May 3, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 25, 2017

Contact: Dana M. Pyette

Sweet Medical Center

Jason DeShaw, a national award-winning mental health speaker and country singer from Montana, will perform in Chinook on May 3 and in Hays on May 4. For over a decade DeShaw has been a professional country singer performing across North America and Europe.

DeShaw has released five albums and shared the stage with national country music acts including The Oakridge Boys and Little Big Town. In 2010, doctors diagnosed DeShaw as having bipolar disorder and alcoholism. As he began to recover, DeShaw became an advocate for mental health by combining his story and songs into a presentation entitled Serenity in the Storm.

Since 2013, he has presented for a wide variety of groups, students, law enforcement officials, teaching staff and health professionals in theaters, schools, VA Centers and psychiatric hospitals across the nation. Jason DeShaw's story has touched countless hearts, and he is the recipient of the 2014 Champions Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

"It was the most impressive thing I've ever witnessed in relation to helping people understand the essence and importance of mental disorders," said Dr. Matt Byerly, Director for the Center for Mental Health Research & Recovery at Montana State University.

DeShaw will be appearing at Chinook High School on May 3 at 1:15 p.m and Hays/Lodgepole High School on May 4 at 2:00 p.m. The May 3 performance is for high school students only. The May 4 performance is open to the public.

This program is free and sponsored by the Montana Primary Care Association and Sweet Medical Center.

 
 

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