{"id":552634,"date":"2025-11-06T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/552634\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:50:31","slug":"helpline-center-hosting-actor-sean-astin-for-mental-health-speaking-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/552634\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpline Center hosting actor Sean Astin for mental health speaking events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; The Helpline Center announced on Wednesday that actor and mental health advocate Sean Astin will be coming to Sioux Falls this Thursday, November 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sean Astin, known for roles in Rudy, The Goonies, The Lord of theRings, and Stranger Things, is also a vocal advocate for mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He will discuss his personal journey, growing up with his mother, Patty Duke, who had bipolar disorder, and emphasize resilience, compassion, and open mental health discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Astin will be at two sold-out events on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The first is a ticketed luncheon at 11:00 am at The Catelin Hotel, where Sean will share his story. The second event is an evening presentation at 7:00 pm at O\u2019Gorman High School, focusing on storytelling, advocacy, and support in mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">These events are part of the Helpline Center\u2019s Speaker Series, an ongoing initiative to bring nationally recognized voices to the region and elevate mental health awareness and education. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helplinecenter.org\/sean-astin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.helplinecenter.org\/sean-astin\/\">Click here<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Dakota News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; The Helpline Center announced on Wednesday that actor and mental health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[30043,7480,920,176896,105,176894,7361,218,176897,176895,28091,176898,54138,176769,66424,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-552634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-actor","9":"tag-advocacy","10":"tag-events","11":"tag-goonies","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-helpline-center","14":"tag-lord-of-the-rings","15":"tag-mental-health","16":"tag-sam-gamgee","17":"tag-sean-astin","18":"tag-sioux-falls","19":"tag-sold-out","20":"tag-south-dakota","21":"tag-speaking","22":"tag-storytelling","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115502135750350478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}