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Nothing About Us Without Us!
VOCAL's Mental Health Recovery
News for September 6, 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: What it Takes to Have It and Keep It"
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September 17th, from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
This webinar will focus on using WRAP to explore how amazing our lives are. Sometimes we are caught up in the doings of our lives and we miss the moment to be present to our wellness. Join Copeland Center Certified Master WRAP® Facilitator, BJ North as she draws upon her extensive life experience of how WRAP promotes wellness. When the key concepts of mental health recovery and WRAP: Hope, Personal Responsibility, Education, Self-Adocacy, and Support, thrive in our lives, wellness also thrives.
This webinar will help you understand how you can put in place in your life actions that will keep you on the wellness track. BJ will talk about what wellness is, acknowledge when we have it, and discuss how to keep it.
To register:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/728522945
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Moveable/Re-Moveable Art Project
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This Saturday, September 8th from Noon - 7:00 p.m.
City Space 100 5th Street Northeast, in Charlottesville 22902
Facilitated by two local artists, Flora Lark Baily, Nina Frances Burke with Jona Noelle Baily, Youth Create Wholeness' inter-generational, mental wellness community art event entitled "Moveable/RE-Movable Art Project" is comprised of a one day collaborative sign-making project that encourages creative expression and positive self-image. The magnetized signs made during the event (such as "Be Who You Are," "You are NOT alone," and "You Are LOVE") will be collected for another event which will ultimately serve the community as a way to communicate words of encouragement for all who sees them. Funded by SAMHSA's (The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) Social Inclusion Grant, VOCAL's Youth Create Wholeness strives to challenge the current stigma around mental illness.
It is a Drug Free, Alcohol Free, Free to Express yourself Safe Space for Connection and Community.
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Peer Support Groups at "On Our Own of Roanoke"
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Wednesdays, at 2 p.m. and Fridays at 2:30 p.m.
429 Elm Avenue, SW, Roanoke
540.362.0061
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"Vital Signs: Recovering from Mental Illness" in Charlottesville Daily Progress
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http://www2.dailyprogress.com/lifestyles/2012/jul/22/vital-signs-recovering-mental-illness-ar-2072124
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Friends 4 Recovery Whole Health Center Seeks Wellness Coach (PT, Temporary)
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Friends 4 Recovery is a 100% peer-run, non-profit organization that provides an accepting and welcoming environment where individuals who have lived mental health experiences can take charge of their own recovery and wellness. Staff offers peer to peer one-on-one wellness coaching, educational classes, skill-building activities and mutual support groups for the greater Richmond area. The staff and board of directors are individuals living in mental health recovery. Visit www.friends4recovery.org. The successful candidate will have lived mental health recovery experience, be a power of example of working on their whole health, 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, $11 / hour.
Persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. Please forward your resume by 9/16/2012 to jobs@friends4recovery.org Individuals selected to interview will be notified. No telephone calls, please.
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Central Peer Connect Meets Next Tuesday, September 11th
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12:30- 2 p.m.
Friends 4 Recovery Whole Health Center
Rockwood Office Park
9511 Hull Street Road Suite A
Richmond 23236
(804) 308-1366
All peers in central Virginia and invited and encouraged to attend - come join us!
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"Art of Recovery 2012" Call for Entries - An Annual Show in Richmond Since 2007
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For further information, please go to: www.artofrecovery.org
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Free Workshop, "The Power of Intention: Create the Life You Want"
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Thursday, September 20th from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Orange Hill Wellness Center
401 Orange Street, Charlottesville
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What Does Wellness Mean to You?
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To celebrate National Wellness Week (Sept. 17-23, 2012), sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), you are invited to submit a poem, a piece of visual art, a song, or a digital video that expresses what wellness means in your life and for your community. "During National Wellness Week, we aim to inspire individuals to improve one's physical health behavior, while exploring their talents, skills, interests, social connections, and environment to incorporate other dimensions of wellness," according to the National Empowerment Center Technical Assistance Center, which, along with the other four consumer and consumer supporter national technical assistance centers, is supporting this effort. Submissions are due September 9th. Selected works will be showcased on the web. Please email your original submissions to wellnessworks@power2u.org.
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Are You Interested in Serving on the VOCAL Board of Directors?
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Board members are needed from the following regions:
HPR 1- Northwest
HPR 4 - Central
HPR 5 -Southeast
PPR3/HPR3 - Southwest
One "At-Large" member
For further information about the specific regions where there are openings for board members, please refer to your e-newsletter from last week.
To apply: http://vocal.groupsite.com/file_cabinet
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Peer Support Group at 84 Main, Warsaw
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Every Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. - Noon
Different topic each week.
For further information, call 804.333.3581
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September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day
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