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News You Can Use!
VOCAL's Mental Health Recovery
News for April 2, 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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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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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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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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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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WRAP and Healing from Trauma Course
June 27-29 at the Teminos Interfaith Retreat Center, PA
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Please join Matthew Federici, Executive Director, and Copeland Center Advanced Level WRAP Facilitators for a 3-day course on WRAP and Healing from Trauma Course in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
For those of us who have experienced trauma, many things can be triggering. By creating a plan that empowers us to determine what works well for us is a trauma-informed practice. This course is beneficial for people seeking recovery from trauma or any supporters of trauma survivors utilizing WRAP.
WRAP Facilitators are encouraged to attend and will receive the recommended refresher credit.
Tuition is $350 including lunch. Shared lodging available on site
To apply: http://tinyurl.com/WRAPandTrauma2012
Once you have applied, you will receive an email from the staff. Payment of the tuition will hold your space in the training.
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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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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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"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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VACSB Conference: "Celebrating Strengths That Increase
Community Dividends"
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May 1st Pre-Conference Institutes
May 2nd - 4th Conference
Crowne Plaza at Fort Magruder Hotel and Conference Center in Williamsburg Virginia
Online Registration at www.vacsb.org
Click on VACSB events and May 2012 Development and Training Conference to enter registration information for each attendee. A confirmation email will be sent to the email address provided. Upon receipt of confirmation, please send payment to VACSB.
A limited number of registration-only conference scholarships are available for people receiving CSB services and family members.
The scholarship does not provide for transportation, lodging or food.
Please contact the VACSB office for a scholarship application:
Phone: (804) 330-3141
Email:kspringfield@vacsb.org
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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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Free Third Thursdays Gathering in Charlottesville
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Thursday, April 19th, from 7-8:30 p.m.
The topic will be "Compassionate Honesty: Speaking from the Heart". Invite a friend for an informal evening of discussion and interactive activities.
For registration and/or further information: 434-977-6918 or
Workshop@CareerWithHeart.com
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From Ruth-Anne Walker, Director, Legislative Affairs, DBHDS
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The next meeting of the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services will be
at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at DBHDS Catawba Hospital, Marsh-Thomas Building
(Building 73), 5525 Catawba Hospital Drive, Catawba, VA 24070-2006.
The 29-page packet will be available online at this link: http://www.dbhds.virginia.gov/adm-StateBoardDefault.htm#sb1 Directions and a schedule are on pages 14-17 of the main packet.
Ø A tour and a business dinner are planned for the Board's visit the evening of April 18th at Blue Ridge Behavioral Health's Rita J. Gliniecki Recovery Center. There will be a program of presentations about community services in the area. Prior to dinner at 6 p.m., there will be a tour at the center beginning at 5:15 p.m.
Ø During the Board meeting on Thursday, at 10:15 there will be a 45 minute break for members to go on a guided tour of Catawba Hospital.
Ø At every regular Board meeting, there is a period for Public Comment.
If you plan to participate in either of these tours or the dinner program, please let me know by calling the number listed below, or emailing me by Friday, April 13th. This is not required, but would be very helpful. Thank you.
804.786.1332 or Ruthanne.Walker@dbhds.virginia.gov
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Participants Sought for Teleconference on Connecting
Peers with Communities of Faith
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The Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion is seeking peer specialists and peer-operated programs to participate in a teleconference focus group in order to understand the roles each might play in helping peers connect with religious communities. The Collaborative is hoping to determine if a demand exists among peers to connect with these communities, as well as understanding what peer specialists and peer-run organizations might do in order to help peers connect. In addition, a Collaborative spokesperson says, "understanding obstacles and/or support for integration into religious communities would help us to provide others with valuable information about what they might encounter. Obstacles and support could include training and other resources that might be helpful to peer specialists and peer-operated programs."
If you are interested in participating in such a conversation, please e-mail Susan Rogers at srogers@mhasp.org with "Spirituality Focus Group" in the subject line.
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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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