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VOCAL's Mental Health Recovery
News for December 13, 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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Fire Stories: Further Thoughts on Radically Rethinking Mental Illness
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At last, the book is complete! Click HERE to buy the book today. Our work has always been about putting a human face on something potentially scary and unknown. Fire Stories is a small but powerful book that encompasses so much of what we wanted to say about mental health, crisis, spirituality, and how we see ourselves in the world. Firestories: Further Thoughts on Radically Rethinking Mental Illness is a collection of 12 narratives that reveal the chaotic and often deeply spiritual experiences of those who have encountered states of mind often labeled as mental illness. These vivid accounts describe emotional turbulence, hidden blessings, mad gifts, ecstatic visions, altered states, spiritual breakthroughs and visionary meltdowns.
A follow-up to Firewalkers: Madness, Mystery and Beauty, Fire Stories explores our complicated relationship with reality and the various ways we attempt to resolve the brilliant colors of perception and imagination with a society that is often far more black and white. Editors: Beth Gager, Yolande Long, Malaina Poore and Cynthia Power Authors: Lara Abramov, Beth Gager, Khadijah Kysia, Seth Leornard, Paul Millenski, Jason Mintel, Kara Nichols, Malaina Poore, Christopher Reynolds, Paul Sohar, Jane St. Clair and Colleen Wells
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CORRECTION! VOCAL's Board to Meet on Wednesday, January 2nd,2013
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10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
1600 5th Street, Room A
This is an open meeting.
Please RSVP to Deidre at deidre@vocalvirginia.org if you would like to attend.
Please note: VOCAL does not reimburse for mileage/travel expenses nor provides lunch for guests.
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"Self-Care for the Holidays" at Friends 4 Recovery
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Monday, December 17th from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
9511 Hull Street Road, Suite A, Richmond
For further information: 804.308.1366
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Defining Trauma: SAMHSA Seeks Your Feedback
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SAMHSA is now seeking input from the public on the concept paper, SAMHSA's Working Definition of Trauma and Principles and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach.
For ease of review, the paper is divided into three sections:
- Definition of Trauma
- A Trauma-Informed Approach
- Guidelines for Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach.
Each section has a separate link and unique forum to provide comments and, if you wish, to vote on comment offered by others. You have up to 10 votes to endorse other comments, and you may revise your votes throughout the comment period.
The feedback forum will be open beginning Monday, December 10, 2012, and ending at midnight eastern time on Friday, December 21, 2012. This forum will provide an open and transparent process for stakeholders to offer their comments about the definitions, principles, and guidelines, and also make suggestions for improvement.
Feedback on the forum is an important part of the public dialogue on this issue. Your feedback will be carefully considered in the shaping of the definitions of trauma and trauma-informed approach, and the principles and guidelines of a trauma-informed approach.
Learn More About How SAMHSA Developed the Working Definition of Trauma
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Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) Train the Trainers - Three Day Program in Fairfax
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January 7th, 8th and 9th, 2013
This training will create a team of community-based trainers who are capable of facilitating/presenting the CSP curriculum of the Institute for Recovery and Community Integration to individuals throughout Northern Virginia. As a trainer you will become certified by the Institute to train peers as Certified Peer Specialists and will qualify to become a member of the Northern Virginia CPS Training Team. The program is three days in length and includes a current copy of the Institute's curriculum, a program guide for trainers and extensive references, resources and appendices related to the training.
The training will enhance your skills and knowledge regarding recovery and peer support, help you master the Institute's curriculum material and instruct you in how to transfer this knowledge to peers through the use of specific facilitation techniques and practical hands-on activities.
Qualifying for the Training:
For this Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) Trainer Program you must be a working Certified Peer Specialist.
Prerequisites:
You must meet the following prerequisites in order to apply for this training:
- Successfully completed the Institute for Recovery & Community Integration's Certified Peer Specialist training program.
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Successfully completed the Copeland Center's WRAP Seminar II Mental Health Recovery Facilitator training. Applications are due no later than 4:30 pm, December 14, 2012. Please email or call Cicely Spencer with any questions
(Cicely.Spencer@fairfaxcounty.gov or (703) 324-7167)
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From Ann Benner, Executive Director of VAULT
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I am writing to invite you to participate in VAULT's first survey of self-advocates'
needs and issues.
We are seeking input as we develop our advocacy agenda for the 2013 Virginia
Legislative Session. This survey is designed primarily for individuals who have
disabilities, but we are also taking input from those who work with and support
people with disabilities. Please share the survey with any number of other people
with disabilities. We will send a summary of the results to this email list in January.
Please use this SurveyMonkey link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H62CKTS
Thank you for helping us represent you!
VAULT (Virginia Advocates United Leading Together) is Virginia's cross disability, self advocacy organization. On our Board of Directors are representatives of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Hearing Loss Association, VACIL, Virginia Ass'n of DeafBlind, VOCAL, Voices of Virginia, the Youth Leadership Forum, plus seven individual self-advocates. We are funded by a grant from the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities.
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The DBHDS FY2012 Annual Report Now Available
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The DBHDS FY 2012 Annual Report to the Governor and Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees is now available at: http://leg2.state.va.us/dls/h&sdocs.nsf/By+Year/RD3602012/$file/RD360.pdf.
The report contains a lot of statistical information about the public behavioral health and developmental services system (state facilities, CSBs, and Part C). It includes statewide data about numbers of individuals who received services, types and amounts of services received, and static capacities of those services at the core service, program area, total CSB, total state facility, and total state levels. The report includes information about revenues and expenditures and FTEs for CSBs, state facilities, and the Central Office. It also includes information about Part C services separately. If you need to use this type of data about CSBs or state facilities for FY 2012, please use the data in the annual report for the sake of consistency and face validity. Finally, the report contains information about the Department's initiatives and accomplishments and systemic outcome and performance measures in FY 2012. |
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"Laughter is the Best Medicine"
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Tuesdays, from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., at 84 Main in Warsaw
Call 804.333.3581 for information about this, and other activities at 84 Main.
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Christmas Party at Friends 4 Recovery Whole Health Center
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Come join old friends and make some new ones!
Friday, December 21st from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. at Friends 4 Recovery
9511 Hull Street Road, Suite A, Richmond
804.308.1366
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