DMH Connections

A publication of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health

March 2012
 

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In This Issue

CBHI Update
New Year, New Focus on Good Health
Metro Boston RLC Honors Volunteers
Conferences and Events
DMH Kicks Off 2012 Citizens Legislative Breakfast Series
DMH Resources Are a Kiosk Away!
Vinfen and DMH Present New Approaches to Health in Recovery
New content on the DMH...Website
Register Today! Vinfen's Annual Moving Images Film Festival
Save the Date -NAMI walk 2012
Video of the Month

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 Connections Correction

We apologize that In the December 2011-January 2012 issue, the "Recovery, Peers are Key to DMH Inpatient Mission" article reads: "Kevin Huckshorn, who now serves as director of the National Technical Assistance Center for the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors." Kevin is
currently the Delaware Director, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health.

 

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New Year, New Focus on Good Health

 

The start of a new year often gets many people thinking about how they can improve their health and overall wellness. For five DMH peers-Domingo, Donna, Ward, Phyllis and Craig-that endeavor began early last fall when they were chosen to pilot the Peer Support Whole Health and Resiliency program (PSWHR).

 

After the death of his beloved son Joseph Feaster III in 2010, Joseph Feaster II approached Bernard Carey, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health (MAMH), about how funds donated to MAMH in remembrance of his son could best be used. The late Joseph Feaster was someone who was interested in good physical health and fitness and coupled with the growing interest in and awareness of the benefits of good physical health on overall good mental health, the PSWHR program was launched. Current national models were reviewed and one stood out: a health and wellness approach that was developed by the Appalachian Consulting Group led by Larry Fricks and Ike Powell, national leaders in the consumer movement. Through the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), DMH invited them to conduct the Peer Whole Health and Resiliency (PWHR) training featured in the November issue of DMH Connections. Some additional components were added to the model, the speakers and the gym, for example, but the content is built upon the Fricks-Powell model.

 

Craig Lewis, also a peer, developed and implemented the PSWHR program. Response to the program was overwhelming and ultimately Craig chose five applicants to part of the pilot group. In the ten-week program, the time commitment includes two to three weeks for goal setting followed by eight weeks of peer support meetings. "Our program at the Lindemann includes an enhanced curriculum which features a 30-minute work out component, a visit by a nutritionist and also more intensive peer support skill training," said Craig.

 

PSWHR uses a daily action plan to help each participant meet their goal. When a goal is set a confidence scale of 1 to 10 is applied, but 7 is the lowest number a participant can choose to ensure a high enough level of confidence to reach goals. If participants are struggling they adjust their goal and increase the confidence level accordingly.

 

PSWHR participants identify their goals as based on the IMPACT criteria which includes: Does it improve health quality? Is it measurable? Is it positively stated? Is it achievable? Does it call forth positive actions? Is the goal time limited?

 

Each weekly meeting is three to four hours one day a week. Each meeting includes a peer-run check-in, a peer run relaxation response meditation session for an hour or more, and peer support group. The group usually eats lunch together for 30-45 minutes which includes more specific peer support training/dialogue. A 30-minute exercise component at the Lindemann gym or a 30-minute aerobic walk around the Lindemann is also part of the day. This time also includes more specific training and workout information by the Lindemann gym coach. Each meeting ended with a check-in and well wishes to each other for the week. Between weekly meetings, each peer is expected to call other peers in the program to offer support and develop stronger connections.

 

PSWHR offers participants a unique opportunity to participants to tailor goals to meet their needs level of comfort in achieving results. By offering 10 whole health, wellness, and resiliency domains to choose from, success in reaching a goal is more realistic for some. Some of these include stress management, healthy eating, physical activity, restful sleep and a sense of meaning and purpose to name a few.  

A well attended inaugural graduation ceremony was held in the Lindemann gym last December. "PSWHR training is about creating new habits, being aware/taking note of one's progress and giving and receiving peer support. It is geared toward helping the participant create a healthier lifestyle by focusing on something that they want to add to their lives regarding their interests, desires, strengths and what they see as a viable goal," said Craig who gave opening remarks. Domingo then led the group in a short relaxation exercise and each of the graduates spoke about how they met their goals and benefited from the program. Mr. Feaster was also on hand and gave heartfelt remarks to the graduates. 

 

Watch video of the graduation ceremony and learn more about the program below.

 

PSWHR Graduation 2011
Watch video from the PSWHR Graduation Ceremony

 

Meet the PSWHR Graduates and Mr. Joseph Feaster II
Watch here to meet the PSWHR Graduates and Mr. Joseph Feaster II

 

Craig is recruiting for the next session. For those interested in participating in the program or would like more information, please email Craig at Craig.Lewis2011@gmail.com or call 617-626-8321 and leave a message.

 

PSWHR Graduation

Pictured Left to right: Domingo Cintron Jr., Craig Lewis, Donna Bell, Patty Kenny, Phyllis Matchett, Bernie Carey, Ward Merithew and Joseph Feaster II.

 

Metro Boston RLC Honors Volunteers

 

The Metro Boston Recovery Learning Community (MBRLC) recently honored volunteers who have contributed to the MBRLC's services and programs above and beyond expectations at its third annual holiday party and awards luncheon. The MBRLC has several partners whose volunteers who help out with day-to-day operations and the peer warm line. Receiving awards were volunteers from Cambridge-Somerville Recovery Center (Vinfen partner); Peer Education and Resource Center (Bay Cove partner); Boston Resource Center (Boston Medical Center partner) and the Peer Warm Line, a peer-run compassionate call-in toll-free telephone service of the MBRLC/Boston Medical Center).

 

More than 50 shared good food and good cheer with representation from all the MBRLC partners including community members, volunteers, staff; and Department of Mental Health, Boston Medical Center and NAMI-MA leadership as well as several local elected officials who dropped by to support the work of the MBRLC and the awardees.

 

The highlight of this event was the creation of an annual award named after MBRLC's number one volunteer, Howard Trachtman, BS, CPS. Howard wears many hats (at least TWO HATS) www.twohats.org, as well as serving past or present on a number of major national, state and local committees, and is the co-executive director of the MBRLC with Anne Whitman. He works days, nights and weekends, and no matter where he is, he has his trusty smart phone, ringing off the hook, always helping peers. It is a special privilege to make this award in Howard's name every year and honor a "Volunteer of the Year" for their hard work while remembering Howard's continuous contributions to peers and to human rights.

 

This year, the MBRLC recognized more than 25 volunteers whose work is invaluable to the smooth operation of the Recovery Centers and peer warm line. MBRLC honored Andrea Selzer with the 2011 Howard Trachtman Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award. Andrea took over management of the MBRLC's gift shop in the lobby of the Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center about three years ago. With 20 years of retail experience, she worked as a volunteer to help The Shop get off the ground. She is a terrific salesperson and a savvy buyer, manager and display artist. After only a few years of volunteering, Andrea's story is one of success: She is now working back in retail, just around the corner from the Fuller at Boomerangs Special Edition, an elegant boutique where all proceeds benefit Aids Action.

 Conferences and Events 

 

March 29, 2012

Creating Safety for GLBTQ Youth in Our Communities

Presented by The GLBT Youth Support Project

Training for providers and DMH Staff from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Breakfast provided

Training for peer leaders from 1 to 4 p.m. Refreshments provided

Both Trainings will be held at The Bridge of Central Massachusetts

4 Mann St. Worcester, MA

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 22, 2012.  To register, or for more information, contact: Annabelle Lim annabelle.lim@massmail.state.ma.us or (617) 626-8087.  If you need accommodations, including ASL interpreters, please make your request to Annabelle by Thursday, March 15, 2012. Additional trainings are in the planning process for Boston on April 11 and Brockton on June 15. We will provide you more information in upcoming issues of DMH Connections or you may contact Annabelle.

Click here for a printable PDF flyer

 

 

Southeastern Mass (SEMA) Recovery Learning Community (RLC) and Resource Connection Center (RCC) March Events Calendars 

 Attleboro RCC

  Brockton RCC 

Cape Cod and the Islands RCC

New Bedford RCC

Taunton RCC 

 

 

Upcoming Trainings from The Bridge Training Institute   

 Click here for the complete 2012 training schedule.

  Training Institute events are held at the DoubleTree Hotel which is wheelchair accessible to people with mobility limitations. If accommodations such as ASL interpreters or visual aids are needed, please contact Stephen Murphy at stevem@thebridgecm.org, or 508-755-0333 three weeks in advance of the training date.

  

 

 Upcoming Workshops at the Center for Professional Innovation (formerly Community Program Innovations) 

 CPI offers continuing education for mental health and healthcare professionals and educators, holding day-long workshops throughout Massachusetts on clinical and management topics.  Trainings are held in Billerica, Foxborough and Springfield.  To view the complete schedule and to register visit  

 http://bridgewellcpi.org  

All facilities are wheelchair accessible.  If accommodations such as ASL interpreters or visual aids are needed, please email: info@BridgewellCPI.org or call  339-883-2118.

  

MA Department of Public Health Suicide Prevention Program 

2012 Trainings  

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health Suicide Prevention Program Workshop Calendar is available with fall
the full schedule of trainings. More workshops will be added throughout the year. When registering, note that each event has tabs titled with information regarding the workshop. Space is limited for each workshop and fills up quickly, so register before the deadline. Click here to view the current Suicide Prevention Training Calendar.

 

 

Click here for the Transformation Center website and all the latest information and events happening throughout the mental health community.
 

Please send your event information to

Michelle Cormier Tallman

by the submission date for publication in DMH Connections 

DMH Kicks Off 2012 Citizens Legislative Breakfast Series

 

It's a 15-year annual tradition, and this year is no different as DMH continues its annual series of DMH Citizens Breakfasts, an opportunity for members of the mental health community to meet with their legislators, thank them for their support and discuss how DMH helps people with mental illnesses recover and live satisfying lives in communities of their choice.  It is also an opportunity for consumers and family members to share good news and success stories about their life experiences. 

 

Always a lively event, the Suburban region of the Northeast-Suburban Area did not disappoint as they kicked off the series on February 9. The Advocates Music Jam Band warmed up the room with their musical talents during the networking time prior to the program. The group, formed in 2006, has been creating "positive feelings and healing" through their music.

 

Representative Denise Garlick speaks at the Legislative BreakfastMaking an encore appearance, special emcees Alan Jensen and Nicole McMahon, two youth from the Wayside S.T.E.P.S. program, introduced Area Director Susan Wing, keynote speaker DMH Commissioner Marcia Fowler, as well as legislators and presenters. Senator John Keenan and Representative Denise Garlick sponsored the Suburban breakfast. Both spoke about how they have come to understand the role of the Department of Mental Health and its services and were eager to hear the recovery stories of the program.

 

Speaker Gillian Simmons poses with Commissioner FowlerRecovery presentations included remarks from Sean Barry who credited the Atlantic Clubhouse with helping him to grow as an individual and aspire to achieve his goals of becoming an independent and productive adult. Gillian Simmons pictured with Commissioner Fowler has been a consumer of DMH services since she was 14 years old and is now a project assistant at Transitions RTC at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. Gillian plans to attend Massachusetts Bay Community College this fall with plans to major in Biology, concentrating on biomedicine. Brian Sullivan told his story of his older brother Matt who has been a consumer of DMH since the age of 14. Matt, now 19, attends Granite Academy and never misses a day of school. He loves to play basketball in the community and aspires to be a peer mentor one day. In addition to the services he receives from DMH, Matt's amazing journey could not have been possible without the continued support of his dedicated family.

 

With record attendance, The Great Hall at the State House was filled to capacity for the Metro Boston region of the Metro-Southeast Area breakfast on February 16. Interim Deputy Commissioner for Mental Health Services Clifford Robinson (and former Metro-Southeast Area Director) gave opening remarks and his farewells as Area Director as he assumes his new role for the Department. Cliff was presented an engraved print of the new Mass Mental Health Center by Metro-Southeast Area Interim Director Patricia Kenny.

 

Rep. Byron Rushing speaks at the Legislative BreakfastCommissioner Fowler introduced legislative sponsors Senator Sal DiDomenico and Representative Byron Rushing. As a long-standing member of the House, Rep. Rushing, pictured, received a standing ovation for after sharing a moving story of a student assignment where they spent the weekend in the back wing of a state hospital in the days when the idea of patients returning to the community was merely a novel concept.

 

Barbara Leadholm receives her award from Comm Fowler and Cliff RobinsonSpeakers included staff member and advocate Rhonda Bourne and Rose DiPiro. Rose is a member of Center Club and has been working as a receptionist at the Lindemann for 14 years. Recognition awards were presented to former DMH Commissioner Leadholm, pictured with Commissioner Fowler and Cliff Robinson, and the Peer Whole Health and Resiliency Steering Committee. The Friends of Metro Boston also presented Commissioner Leadholm with a photo scrapbook of photos taken by Mary Sine throughout her tenure.

 

Below are the dates for the remaining Legislative Breakfasts:

 

Friday, March 30

Central-West Area

Springfield Technical Community College

 

Thursday April 12

Northeast-Suburban Area

Great Hall, State House

 

Thursday April 26 

Metro-Southeast Area

Great Hall, State House

 

Friday, May 11

Central-West Area

Worcester Technical High School, adjacent to Worcester State Hospital

 

 

*The Advocates Music Jam Band holds "The Jam" on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Edwards Hall 39 Edwards St. in Framingham.

 

Click here to view more photos from the Legislative Breakfasts.

DMH Resources Are a Kiosk Away!

 

A unique DMH education and information-sharing addition to the Town of Framingham is going strong after 15 years. The Kiosk program began as a pilot project in the Framingham Town Hall, at that time designed as a resource and a way for DMH to increase its visibility in the community and to reach out to adults, children, adolescents and families who may be in need of mental health services. It was a simple idea which began with placing a kiosk in the lobby of the town hall that would be staffed two hours a week by two DMH case managers. They provided information on the array of DMH services offered and how to access them.

 

Today the Framingham Kiosk Program has grown beyond its original borders to cover four towns with DMH kiosks located at City Hall in Marlborough and Town Halls in Hudson, Framingham and Southborough. Each kiosk is staffed two hours a week as paid supported employment positions by DMH service recipients. All four kiosks are now under the aegis of the Framingham Recovery Learning Community, funded by DMH and monitored by the DMH case management site in Westborough.

 

Throughout the years, Kiosk resources have expanded to help citizens beyond DMH information and often assist individuals on how to contact the Social Security Administration and help citizens navigate other public service agencies.

 

The Kiosk Program has raised awareness of mental illness and is one of our most effective tools in neutralizing the stigma that keeps people from getting treatment. They provide a visible service, so visible that

 

  • Framingham celebrates Mental Illness Awareness Week and Mental Health Month with a mammoth banner spanning the main thoroughfare and advertising DMH to the community.
  • Southborough has taped and aired on local cable TV a program about the Southborough Kiosk. This was aired during Mental Illness Awareness Week in October 2010
  • Town clerks, mayors, and other local employees and elected officials have an instant on-site resource when citizens have questions on how or where to access DMH services. They simply point them in the right direction to the Kiosk

Vinfen and DMH Present New Approaches to Health in Recovery

  

Nearly 150 people attended the Innovative Approaches to Health Behavior Change In Psychiatric Disabilities, sponsored by Vinfen and hosted by the Department of Mental Health.

 

The conference was held at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center on Fenwood Road in Boston last month.

 

"Vinfen and DMH are partners committed to helping find solutions to improving health outcomes for people with serious mental illness," said former DMH Commissioner Barbara Leadholm who gave welcome remarks. "Today we saw evidence-based approaches from research and application standpoints. The excitement and challenge is bringing it together and committing to next steps to help people live healthy lives in their communities."

 

Dr. Steve Bartels and his team from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice outlined research data on the serious medical problems that people living with mental illness face resulting in much shorter life expectancy than the general population.

 

"People with serious mental illness have a 25-30 year shorter life span than the general population and die disproportionately from preventable cardiometabolic risk factors such as smoking, obesity and diabetes," said Bartels.

 

Dr. Bartels and his team, Sarah Pratt, PhD and Kelly Aschbrenner, PhD, presented data that shows people with serious mental illness being disproportionately and inappropriately placed in nursing homes.

 

Dr. Bartels and his team detailed five evidence-based models and emerging evidence based practices designed to improve health outcomes integrating rehabilitation, health and fitness promotion, and health care management.

 

After the presentation, a panel discussion was held with Dr. Kim Mueser of Boston University, Dr. Bob Master from Commonwealth Care Alliance and former DMH Commissioner Barbara Leadholm.

 

"It's time to tune into wellness," said Dr. Mueser. "Social support is so important. We have to connect with the significant others of people with mental illness so they can get help their loved ones work on their goals."

 

Dr. Master talked about the importance of integrating a fragmented system. "DMH has done an amazing job given the components of the system. "We need to build more robust nursing teams".

 

Vinfen CEO Dr. Bruce Bird facilitated a question and answer session following the panel discussion.

A continental breakfast and lunch was provided by Webster House, one of Vinfen's Clubhouses.

To view the presentation in its entirety, please visit www.vinfen.org.

 

 

Vinfen CEO Dr. Bruce Bird, Sarah Pratt, Dr. Steve Bartels, Kelly Aschbrenner
Pictured left to right: Vinfen CEO Dr. Bruce Bird, Sarah Pratt, Dr. Steve Bartels and Kelly Aschbrenner

New content on the DMH Website:
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DMH Connections works to keep you up to date on changes and additions to our online presence so that you can stay connected and supported in your work. We strive to stay on top of website and intranet updates. If you have any site or contact changes at your facility or in your division, or if you spot any inaccuracies, please send them to Michelle Cormier Tallman.
 
Below are a list and links of the most recent changes and updates: 
  

 

In the top left column under What We Do>DMH Resource Guides:  The DMH Resource Guide (February 2012) has been updated.

 

In the middle of the left column under Initiatives>Community Based Flexible Supports page: the ACA documentation requirements for re-enrollment has been added.  Also the FAQ master list and the CBFS service note signature requirements have been updated.

 

In he middle column under DMH Offices, we have added a link to Click Here to find the appropriate DMH site office for your city or town. When clicking on a city or town, you will be linked to the area office page that services it.

 

A reminder that all public meetings are posted on the

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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
Wheelchair access for the building is available. 

Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services and ASL are  available upon request. Check the box next to "I will need an ASL interpreter or CART services for panel sessions." on the registration form.

10:30AM-11:00AM  Registration
11:00AM-12:00PM  War Torn 1861-2010
12:00PM-12:45PM  War Torn 1861-2010 Panel Discussion
12:45PM-1:30PM  Lunch
1:30PM-3:00PM  Rebirth
3:00PM-3:15PM  Break
3:15PM-4:15PM  Rebirth Panel Discussion
Day concludes

 

Click here to register or learn more about the film festival.

This year's films include: 


Project Rebirth
www.projectrebirth.org 

Movie poster for the film RebirthProject Rebirth's film, REBIRTH, is a full-length documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2011. It is the result of a decade-long process by director Jim Whitaker and is a riveting journey into living history. It is also an act of personal witness to one of the most profound events in American history and the healing that has come its wake.From early 2002 through 2009, the REBIRTH film crew chronicled the lives of five people directly affected by 9/11.

 

The participants include a survivor from an impact floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC); a firefighter who survived the collapse of the WTC but lost his best friend; a high school student who lost his mother; a young woman who lost her fiancé; and a construction worker who lost his brother, assisted with recovery efforts, and is presently helping to build the Freedom Tower. Their narratives are the thread of recovery and resiliency from grief, loss and trauma that comprise the unique message of the film.
 

REBIRTH also simultaneously tracks - via unprecedented multi-camera time-lapse photography - the evolution of the former WTC and the entire rebuilding of the site. Though the film captures the minute-by-minute demolition and redevelopment of the WTC site until 2009, Project Rebirth will continue the time-lapse element of the project until the site is completed in its entirety. Please visit our Time-Lapse Project + Film Archive tab and page to learn more about this important element of our project. Philip Glass composed REBIRTH original score.
 

Wartorn 1861-2010

Movie poster for the film War TornCivil War doctors called it hysteria, melancholia and insanity.  During the First World War it was known as shell-shock.  By World War II, it became combat fatigue. Today, it is clinically known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a crippling anxiety that results from exposure to life-threatening situations such as combat. With suicide rates among active military servicemen and veterans currently on the rise, the HBO special WARTORN 1861-2010 brings urgent attention to the invisible wounds of war.  Drawing on personal stories of American soldiers whose lives and psyches were torn asunder by the horrors of battle and PTSD, the documentary chronicles the lingering effects of combat stress and post-traumatic stress on military personnel and their families throughout American history, from the Civil War through today's conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 

Executive produced by James Gandolfini (HBO's "Alive Day Memories:  Home from Iraq"), WARTORN 1861-2010 is directed by Jon Alpert and Ellen Goosenberg Kent and produced by Alpert, Goosenberg Kent and Matthew O'Neill, the award-winning producers behind the HBO documentary "Alive Day Memories:  Home from Iraq."  Alpert and O'Neill also produced and directed the HBO documentaries "Section 60:  Arlington National Cemetery" and the Emmy®-winning "Baghdad ER."


The documentary is co-produced by Lori Shinseki. The documentary shares stories through soldiers' revealing letters and journals; photographs and combat footage; first-person interviews with veterans of WWII (who are speaking about their PTSD for the first time), the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom; and interviews with family members of soldiers with PTSD.  Also included are insightful conversations between Gandolfini and top U.S. military personnel (General Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, and General Peter Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army), enlisted men in Iraq, and medical experts working at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.  Gen. Chiarelli, who is working to reduce the rising suicide rate in the Army comments, "You're fighting a culture that doesn't believe that injuries you can't see can be as serious as injuries that you can see." Bookended by haunting montages of emotionally battered American soldiers through the years, WARTORN 1861-2010 explores the very real wounds that occur as a result of combat stress, or PTSD.   HBO Documentary Films in association with Attaboy Films presents WARTORN  1861-2010.  Directed by Jon Alpert and Ellen Goosenberg Kent; produced by Jon Alpert, Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Matthew O'Neill; co-producer, Lori Shinseki; co-producer, archival segments, Caroline Waterlow; edited by Geof Bartz, A.C.E., Andrew Morreale, and Jay Sterrenberg; supervising producer, Sara Bernstein; executive produced by James Gandolfini and Sheila Nevins.

Save the Date 

NAMI walk 2012

Celebrate strength, hope, and recovery!

 

 

Walkers gather at the starting line of the 2011 walk
Join the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts (NAMIMass) to help educate the public about mental illness and fight stigma by participating in his year's NAMIWalk.

 

May 12, 2012

Artesani Park in Brighton (Boston)

Registration begins

at 9:00 a.m.,

the Walk begins at 11:00 a.m.

 

Walking helps NAMI Mass improve and expand its education, support, and advocacy efforts. Become one of thousands empowered to stop the stigmatization of mental illness and celebrate at NAMIWalks Massachusetts!

 

Visit www.nami.org/namiwalks/ma to register to walk or show your support. Contact Walk Manager Karen Gromis at kgromis@namimass.org or 781-938-4048 for more information.

5th National HERR CONFERenceJ July 17-19 2012 San Diego

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Video of the Month
New MMHC Ribbon Cutting 2012 

 

  

 Former Commissioner Leadholm and Secretary Bigby join staff from the BIDMC for the ribbon cutting ceremony of the new Massachusetts Mental Health Center on January 31, 2012

 

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