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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.
Michaela Gagne was crowned Miss Massachusetts in June 2006. She also completed her master’s degree in mental health counseling and art therapy from Lesley University. She will be the featured guest speaker at the next meeting of the Rotary Club of Wellesley on Tuesday evening, Dec. 1, at the Wellesley Community Center, 219 Washington St. (Route 16), Wellesley Hills.
Among challenges: The subject is nearly taboo in many Asian countries, and research in this country tends to lump the diverse group into one ethnic category. Since she was a teenager, Stella Ho has wrestled with fainting spells, seizures and suicidal tendencies.
Inside her new home at the Area Mental Health housing complex, Garden City resident Bridgette Regan moved into her small, one-bedroom apartment with her television, her bed and her entertainment center. There's also a broken chair in one corner.
A Duluth teen with a history of arson received a probationary sentence Tuesday and was ordered to seek mental health treatment.
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn.----OptumHealth Inc., a UnitedHealth Group company , announced today that it has acquired leading global employee assistance program provider PPC Worldwide. As workforces become more global, the acquisition responds to increasing demand around the world for essential services such as employee counseling, work-life balance support and crisis intervention.
Linda Phillips, sitting, Patty Zygutis, left rear, Lynn Furutani with her dog Mimi, and Louis Rodriguez were among the two dozen clients and staff workers with CARE Hawaii's Psychosocial Rehabilitation program who participated in a Tuesday morning rally on Kamehameha Avenue to raise awareness about mental health and the implications of the state's cutting off funds for the PSR program ...
AGAWAM - The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is a grass roots organization focused on self-help, support, education and advocacy, dedicated to improving the lives of people with severe mental illnesses.
Worldwide, more than 450 million people live with unmet mental health care needs. Wake Forest University Counseling Professor Donna Henderson co-developed a training course with easy-to-follow lessons that helps nonprofessional community volunteers in developing countries respond to mental health issues.
The issue of the late Beth Stayer’s mental health records will be the topic in a hearing set for 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, in Boone County Circuit Court.
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.
A prison parolee with a mental illness pleaded guilty yesterday to stabbing a neighbor to death for no apparent reason in May.
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Tehama County Chapter Meeting will be from 6 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 3 at the Tehama County Department of Education, 1135 Lincoln St., Room A, in Red Bluff.
Influx of money will help deal with increased demand for family services. Soon there could be more help for families struggling with mental health problems. On Wednesday, network180 announced that it has received a $6 million dollar grant from the federal government.
Princeton resident David Mechanic is this year’s winner of the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, awarded by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). A medical sociologist, Mr. Mechanic is the director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Construction of the new Children's Museum of Kansas City building on 5th and Minnesota has made significant process in 2009. The three-story, 81,000 square feet facility will house early childhood education services, family support services and health, oral health and mental health services for young children and their families in Kansas City, Kan., and Wyandotte County.
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