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Nothing About Us Without Us!
VOCAL's Mental Health Recovery
News for March 29, 2012
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Dear Reader,
You are receiving the VOCAL Network Digest because you are on our email list. The Network Digest is a twice-weekly update of mental health announcements throughout Virginia and the nation. If you prefer not to receive these updates, please click the "unsubscribe" button at the bottom of this email. Thank you!
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City of Harrisonburg Celebrates March as "Recovery Month"
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TONIGHT, March 29th, there will be a panel of speakers discussing mental health and substance abuse recovery at "Our Community Place", 17 East Johnson Street, at 6 p.m. This is a free event and open to the public.
Anna Mendez, REACH Program Director will serve on the panel.
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VOCAL Update
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Change occurs all the time as part of life and it is no different at VOCAL! One of the biggest changes that has recently happened at VOCAL is that we are happy to announce that Anna Mendez has accepted the role of Director of Operations.
In this new capacity Anna is responsible for, among other things, overseeing the responsible, timely and effective management of VOCAL's state and Federal grant reports and contracts; maintaining organizational documents, ensuring VOCAL's adherence to all organizational processes and policies; compliance with legal and nonprofit regulations and supervising office management. Anna is excited to serve her peers in Virginia in this new capacity and she is actively seeking input and feedback from all members on VOCAL programs. Please contact her directly at anna@vocalvirginia.org or 540.908.6392 with your questions, comments, thoughts, praises, volunteer-availability, and concerns as they pertain to VOCAL!
VOCAL wishes continued success to all current and former VOCAL staff and board members who have served the organization and our fellow peers in Virginia
- Ann Benner, Heather Peck, and Debra Knighton. As the composition of the VOCAL staff and board family continues to change and evolve, VOCAL wants to assure our membership that the dedication and focus of the organization remains, as always, on the fulfillment of the VOCAL mission and vision.
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Save the Date! Friday, April 20th: VOCAL Recovery Education Open House!
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Have questions about mental health recovery? Want to learn more about recovery education opportunities in Virginia? Want to know what great things VOCAL's REACH Program is up to? Interested in serving on the REACH Advisory Council? If you answered yes to any of these questions we hope you'll stop by the VOCAL Charlottesville Office from 3-5pm on Friday, April 20th for the first annual REACH Open House. Stay tuned to the VOCAL Digest for more information!
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Call for Workshop Proposals for VOCAL's Statewide MH Consumer Conference
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All those interested in presenting a workshop/break-out session at our conference, "Strength in Diversity and Purpose" must submit your topic/name, outline, and educational/learning goals to Yolande Long:
yolande@vocalvirginia.org
Outlines are due no later than Monday, April 16th for consideration.
Each workshop will be given a one hour and thirty minute (1.5 hour) time slot. You must be able to provide your own handouts if you will use them.
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Wellness Coach Needed for Friends 4 Recovery
Whole Health Center, Inc. Richmond
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We are a 100% peer-run, non-profit organization. We provide an accepting and welcoming environment where individuals who have lived mental health experiences can take charge of their own recovery. We offer one-on-one Wellness Coaching, educational classes, skill-building activities and support groups for the greater Richmond area. Our staff and board of directors are individuals living in mental health recovery.
For more information on our facility, visit www.friends4recovery.org.
Job requires wellness coaching to individuals as well as facilitation of education and recovery groups. The successful candidate will have lived mental health experience and recovery education (CELT, WRAP, Peer Support Specialist or Wellness Coach training preferred). Other characteristics include strong computer skills, organization and time management skills. Fluency in Spanish a plus. Up to 16 hours per week, no benefits.
Persons with disabilities encouraged to apply.
Please forward your resume by 4/9/2012 to Friends4RecoveryJob@gmail.com. Individuals selected to interview will be notified. No telephone calls, please.
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Unique Volunteer Opportunity Available in Charlottesville
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Calling all VOCAL gardeners! VOCAL has recently received a small, anonymous donation to cover the cost of new grass seed, flower seeds and bulbs, and gardening supplies to help beautify the outside of the VOCAL Charlottesville Office.
VOCAL is now looking for a local volunteer who is willing to but these supplies to use! If you are a gardener in the Charlottesville area looking for an outlet for your green-thumb and are interested in providing volunteer gardening services to VOCAL, please contact Anna Mendez at anna@vocalvirginia.org or 540.908.6392.
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NAMI of Roanoke Valley's 28th Annual Dinner Meeting
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April 26th at 6:00 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center
Dr. Otto Wahl, Professor of Psychology and former Director of the Psych.D. Program at the University of Hartford will be guest speaker. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for his efforts to combat the stigma of mental illness.
Annual meeting dinner cost is $25.00 per person, although a $5 scholarship registration is available, first slots to NAMI members.
For further information, and to register, call 540.761.3856
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Art Class at Friends 4 Recovery Whole Health Center
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4:30 - 5:30 -p.m. on Monday, April 2nd
9511 Hull Street Rd, Suite A in Richmond
For more information, call 804-307-7653
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Writer's Camp Thursday Afternoons in Falls Church
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Welcome all Happy Campers!
Writer's Camp Thursday afternoons at Falls Church Consumer Wellness Center, (6245 Leesburg Pike, #420 Falls Church, VA 22044, 703.531.4650). Flash fiction, micro fiction, haiku, poetry, postcards, want ads, and other forms of creative expression practiced and enjoyed! Lots of prompts and good ideas shared to help you get started submitting for print, or getting a different perspective on things in your life and your world!
For more information call Violet at 703.207.7147 write away. (spelin 'n grammer doan cownt.)
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"Living the Dimensions of Recovery" Conference in NOVA
************************************************ Regional Community Support Center will offer this year's conference on Thursday, June 7th, at the Ernst Community Center on Little River Turnpike in Annandale, VA from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Dr. Dan Fischer will be the keynote speaker. We will have music during lunch, and some great, info on system transformation as well as updates from the consumer-operated programs. Good things are happening and this promises to be another important event in celebrating positive changes. Please email Lauren Davis, with "RCSC Registration Form Request" in the subject area of your email. (lauren.davis@dbhds.virginia.org) for a registration form, they will be available a little later on this month. If you don't have an email, call Violet Taylor at 703.207.7147. Register early, these conferences get filled quickly!
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"How Stigma Affects Your Recovery" and WRAP
Class at 84 Main in Warsaw
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Wednesday April 4th from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
WRAP Class from 1:00 to 2:00
Questions? Call 804-333-3581
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Malaina Poore Pulls Off Successful Fundraising Event
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Thanks to Malaina Poore, Firewalkers Coordinator, for pulling off VOCAL's most successful fundraising event to date! The Charlottesville Ladies Arm Wrestlers (CLAW)
held last Saturday evening supported VOCAL's Firewalker's project.
Way to go!
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Ongoing Trauma Recovery Group at Friends 4 Recovery Whole Health Center
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Every Wednesday from 2-4 p.m.
9511 Hull Street Road, Suite A in Richmond
For further information, call: 804-308-1366
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WRAP Facilitator Training at Valley CSB, Date TBA
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Valley CSB (Staunton/Augusta County area) has received one time funding to do a WRAP facilitator training program through VOCAL's REACH program. Anna Mendez and Bonnie Neighbour will be facilitating the training, the date has yet to be determined, so stay tuned! If you are interested in WRAP Facilitator training, please submit an application through our web site, http://www.vocalsafelink.org/wrap_form.php
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Thank you, Lyn Hall!
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VOCAL thanks Lyn Hall for her dedicated service to our peers in Virginia at Western State Hospital! Lyn celebrated her retirement from Western State on Wednesday, March 28, after working there for more than ten years. For the last decade Lyn has been one of the driving forces behind peer support at Western State Hospital and helped bring the Recovery Model of mental health to the hospital. She has been an invaluable resource to our peers at WSH both as a WRAP Facilitator and as an American Sign Language Interpreter.
VOCAL wishes her well in her retirement and is grateful for all she has done to promote recovery in Virginia. Thank you, Lyn!"
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************************************ Exciting News from the Firewalkers Project!
************************************ Spiritual breakthroughs. Mad gifts. Visionary meltdowns. Do these themes resonate with you? We are publishing an anthology of creative non-fiction about what is called mental illness and mystical experiences, shifts in consciousness and unexpected blessings. Deadline is June 21, 2012. Please see full details at www.thefirebook.org
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National Empowerment Center Presents: "Expanding Our Vision: Positive Outcomes from around the World"
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Friday, April 27th, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Denver, Colorado
For complete details and to register, click here.
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Understanding and Building on Culture and
Spirituality in Recovery-Oriented Practice
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Wednesday, April 4th from 3:00-4:00 p.m.
FEATURING
Rev. Laura Mancuso, M.S., CRC/CPRP
Interfaith Chaplain, Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministries
Dee Bigfoot, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Gladys Christian
President, National Association of Peer Specialists
MODERATED BY
Larry Davidson, Ph.D.
Recovery to Practice Project Director, Development Services Group, Inc.
This session will describe three components of culture and spirituality in recovery-oriented care: cultural and spiritual assessments, culturally appropriate interventions, and ways in which spirituality and culture can shape an individual's recovery journey. Our presenters will introduce a range of strategies that ensure care is responsive to a person's cultural identity and discuss approaches for fostering cultural strengths and spirituality in care planning and recovery practices. An important facet of culture and spirituality in recovery-oriented care addresses the aging process-how can practitioners be cognizant of person- and family-centered culturally specific needs? Three multidisciplinary specialists will share their perspectives. Reverend Laura Mancuso, M.S., CRC/CPRP, will describe practical tools for making assessment culturally and spiritually oriented. Dee Bigfoot, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, will discuss recovery-oriented interventions that have spiritual and cultural components. Finally, National Association of Peer Specialists President Gladys Christian will address how spirituality and culture have affected her recovery journey.
As with all RTP Webinars, participants are welcome to call in or submit their questions and comments for presenters to address at the end of the session.
TO REGISTER
https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000963084/Registration.aspx?pageName=7mf1dd6wqv671fzs
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