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The Carver County Board of Commissioners is looking for interested citizens to serve on the Mental Health Advisory Committee. This committee advises the County Board and the Community Social Services Department on services relating to mental health and mental illness.
If Geoff Cutler is right ("Political Correctness Trumps Reason," Nov. 22) that labeling Nidal Hasan "correctly" as a "terrorist" could have prevented the Fort Hood massacre by "removing" him from Walter Reed, then he points out what advocates for improved mental illness awareness have known for years: Being mentally ill does not raise public alarm (in this case, that of the "military brass ...
Marianne Kernan, president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)-Moore County, received the Advocate of the Year award at NAMI's recent statewide conference in Raleigh. NAMI North Carolina says this award is given to an individual who has had a "significant impact on the lives of people living with mental illness and their families in a local community."
WASHINGTON — As a veteran, U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, has no shortage of friends in the military.
NEW ORLEANS – Police are askingfor the public’s help locating a missing man who suffers from mental illness, according to New Orleans Police Department spokeswoman Officer Shereese Harper. Darryl Cage was last seen around 6'30 a.m. Friday morning at his home in the 6300 block of General Pershing Street by his niece, said Harper. “Darryl Cage is described as a 49-year-old African-American male ...
At Bartlett’s Village Board meeting Nov. 17, Village President Mike Kellycq expressed his concerns about the patient who escaped from Elgin Mental Health Center in September.
Hamilton County mental-health services provider BehaviorCorp. and Anderson-based Center for Mental Health Inc. have completed their merger this week. The new nonprofit corporation, Aspire Indiana, will serve residents in Madison, Hamilton, Boone and northern Marion counties.
It was a difficult Thanksgiving for the family of a missing west St. Louis County woman. She's been missing for eight days. Sherry Brown has lived with a mental illness most of her life. She was on her way home from a hospital last week - but never made it home.
The holiday season is fast approaching and Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center employees are preparing to spread Christmas cheer to 300 patients who will be in the center.
An 18-year-old Wisconsin Rapids woman who reported she was sexually assaulted at a Wood County mental health facility said staff members refused to report the incident to police until she threatened to inform the news media, according to a claim for damages filed Wednesday with the Wood County clerk.
The Mental Health Association of Morris County, located at 100 Route 46 East, Bldg. C, Mountain Lakes, is accepting bookings for the Mental Health Player’s 2008-09 performance season.
They are just a few of the more than 2,000 homeless people living in Allegheny County, according to the Allegheny County Department of Human Services.
Physical and mental illness leave families unable to afford Christmas gifts this year.
LYNN-Greater Lynn Senior Services has received a $30,000 grant from The Boston Foundation for its Elder Mobile Mental Health Project. The grant follows an initial $15,000 commitment from the foundation last January for the two-year pilot project that has since become a permanent program at GLSS.
Poughkeepsie The Mid-Hudson New York Chapter of the Bereaved Parents of the USA will hold a meeting on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at the D.C. Mental Health Center, located at 230 North Road, in Poughkeepsie.
NORRISTOWN — A defense lawyer is seeking a psychiatric evaluation for a Spring City woman accused of stealing more than $100,000 from a Norristown law firm where she worked then lying about being sexually assaulted while in custody.
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