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Recovery Will Change Your Mind!
VOCAL's Mental Health Recovery
News for July 16, 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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Please send any program news, announcements, or creative submissions electronically to yolande@vocalvirginia.org or by regular post to:
VOCAL Network
1904 Byrd Avenue, Suite 111
Richmond, VA 23230
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"Recovery, Social Rehabilitation, and Living Tobacco Free" Webinar
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Tuesday, July 31st from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Hosted by the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
To register: Click here
Speaker: Dori S. Hutchinson, Sc.D., Director of Services, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, and Associate Clinical Professor at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University present.
Webinar objectives:
- Provide a brief overview of the toll of tobacco among those with serious mental illness
- Discuss a framework for recovery
- Explain strategies to assess and develop readiness for recovery and social rehabilitation
- Describe the importance of the role of peers in tobacco cessation
- Study real life case studies
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W.R.A.P. Facilitator Training Coming Soon!
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There are plans in the works to hold a W.R.A.P. Facilitator Training the week of August 20th, in Staunton.
Scholarships will be available. If you are interested in applying, download the application here: http://vocal.groupsite.com/file_cabinet and submit it either electronically to network@vocalvirginia.org or send it by postal mail to:
The VOCAL Network
1904 Byrd Avenue, Suite 111
Richmond, VA 23230
ATT: REACH
If you have applied in the past, please note that we will need for you to reapply now.
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New "Drop-In" WRAP Group in Richmond
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Ongoing group starting up for anyone facing mental health challenges.
Interested??
For further information, email: wrapnrecovery@gmail.com or call 804.727.8540/804.727.8555 |
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Uncle Sam's Vets Wanted at "84 Main"!
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All veterans from all branches of service are invited to join us for
coffee, conversation and camaraderie on Mondays mornings, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
84 Main Street
Warsaw, VA 22572
For information, contact:
Yvonne Vaughan at 804-769-2751 or e-mail: yvaughan@mpnn.state.va.us |
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NAMI Releases Special Report: "The Mental Health Needs of Military
Personnel, Veterans, and Their Families"
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http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=press_room&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=141522
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Change of Date for State Board of BHDS Meeting: Tuesday, August 28th
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The next quarterly meeting of the State Board of BHDS has been changed to a newdate. It will now be held on Tuesday, August 28th (this is a change from July 17th).
The meeting will still be at the Northern Virginia Training Center, Fairfax, and will begin at 8:30 a.m.
Information about meetings of the Board can be found at this link: http://www.dbhds.virginia.gov/adm-StateBoardDefault.htm |
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The Social Security Administration's Mental Health Treatment Study: Design, Outcomes, Policy Implications, and Next Steps
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Thursday, July 19th from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
In 2005, the Social Security Administration engaged Westat, Dartmouth, the University of Texas San Antonio and the University of Maryland Baltimore, to conduct the Mental Health Treatment Study. The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that a package of interventions -- individual placement and support, systematic medication management, and the services of a nurse-care coordinator -- would help social security beneficiaries with schizophrenia and affective disorders return to work and otherwise improve their quality of life. This webinar will briefly discuss the study design, and then discuss the elements of the interventions, the results, the implications for implementing similar interventions, and the next steps.
Presenters
Thomas Hale, Ph.D. from the Social Security Administration
Deborah Becker, M.Ed. and Gary Bond, Ph.D., from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
Alec Miller, M.D. and Troy Moore, Ph.D., from the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
William Frey, Ph.D. from Westat, Inc.
Register here:
http://takeaction.mentalhealthamerica.net/site/R?i=zdYBKGxmvX51P5JWSURMoQ
Questions? Email ssteverman@mentalhealthamerica.net
Can't be there? A recorded version of the webinar will be available on Mental Health America's website at a later date.
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National Initiative to Deal with the Mental Health
Impact of TBI Is Launched
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The Mental Health Association of New York City has launched a national effort to promote awareness of the mental and emotional effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The TBI and Emotional Wellness Alliance will involve researchers, academics and medical professionals with the goal of promoting prevention and identifying TBI and its impact, Mental Health Weekly reports. Representatives from the world of sports and the military arena will also be involved. The Alliance's goals are to develop and advocate for policy recommendations; foster the development and dissemination of early identification and preventive strategies; and provide public and professional education on best practices for identifying, and better understanding, the mental health effects of this condition.
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Webinar: "Latest Research and Promising Practices for Treating
Tobacco in Smokers with Co-occurring Mental Illness
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Tuesday, July 31st from 3:00 - 4:15 p.m.
Hosted by: Center for Tobacco Cessation
To register:Click here
Speaker: Judith Prochaska, PhD, MPH - Dr. Prochaska is a licensed clinical psychologist, from Stanford University's Department of Medicine. Her research focuses on developing effective treatments for tobacco dependence and other leading health risk factors with a specific focus on populations with co-occurring disorders.
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Reminder: Monthly National Networking Teleconference Today at 1 p.m.
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The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse invites you to participate in our monthly national networking teleconferences, which take place the third Monday of every month at 1 p.m. (If the third Monday is a national holiday, the call takes place on the fourth Monday.)
The call-in number is 866-906-0123; the pass code is 5037195#. The purpose of the call is for consumer/survivor leaders from around the U.S. to get together, share information, and "network." This is a free-flowing forum! Join us! (Please note that we have eliminated the signal tone that announces callers in order to avoid interrupting anyone speaking on the call. Instead, sometime during the call, the facilitator will take a roll call of participating states.)
If you have an agenda item to suggest, please e-mail Susan Rogers, srogers@mhasp.org, with "Agenda" in the subject line.
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