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MHASC Bringing Wellness Home
 
First Edition, Volume 5 January 2010
Greetings!
Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a joyous holiday season and are starting 2010 with great resolutions and a determination to make this year even better than last. We can help. Start your year off right by attending our annual faith based conference and stay up to date with mental health news you can use. Visit our website for helpful tips to help you get through the cold wet days of winter. And as always, thanks for being a part of the mental health movement in South Carolina.
 
MHASC Staff
 
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Helping the Hurting 
 A Conference for Faith Congregations
Friday, January 22, 2010
8:30am to 1:15pm
Midlands Technical College
Airport Campus, Columbia, SC
 
Sponsored by Mental Health America of South Carolina
 
The cost is $10.00. Lunch will be provided.
 
Helping the Hurting is a half-day conference to assist members and leaders of local faith congregations in identifying, understanding and referring those who suffer from mental illness in their congregations. It will include a resource fair sponsored by behavioral health providers and support and advocacy organizations to provide information and referral services for our local congregations. Please join us for this informative and timely conference.
 
To attend the conference please contact Anita T. Baker at 866-929-6145 or by email to atbaker@mha-sc.org or click on the following link to our website for a registration form:
 
 
We hope to see you on January 22!
 
 
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The Bell Story
The Bell
During the early days of mental health treatment, asylums often restrained people with mental illness with iron chains and shackles around their ankles and wrists. With better understanding this cruel practice eventually stopped.
 
In the early 1950s, Mental Health America issued a call to asylums across the country for their discarded chains and shackles. On April 13, 1956, at the McShane Bell Foundry in Baltimore, Md., Mental Health America melted down these inhumane bindings and recast them into a sign of hope: the Mental Health Bell.
 
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In This Issue
Helping the Hurting
The Bell Story
Clifford Beers Champions
Upcoming Events
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Many Thanks!
 
The Clifford Beers Campaign has been a great success and we want to thank the following donors for their generous contributions.  Our 2009 Clifford Beer Champions are:
 
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Harding
Dr. Delores Macey
Mr. and Mrs. John Morris
Mr. and Mrs. R. Blencowe
Mr. Matt Brown
Mr. Norm Deas
Charie Tolley
Palmetto Behavioral Health
Ms. Anita G. Floyd
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Miller
  
It's not too late to contribute to our annual campaign and your contributions are so greatly appreciated!  Click here to make a donation.
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Upcoming Events
 
QPR training for Foster Parent Associations
 
Marion County, 1/7
Fairfield County,  1/12
 Lancaster County, 1/12
  MarlboroCounty , 1/14      Aiken County, 1/14        Laurens County, 1/19 Chesterfield County, 1/21 Dillon County, 1/21       Newberry County 1/26      Pickens County 1/26           Union County 1/28
 
  
Helping the Hurting Conference Friday, Jan 22 
 
 
  To learn more about these and other upcoming events visit www.mha-sc.org 
  
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