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A twice-weekly electronic news-digest delivered to your inbox dedicated to keeping you informed of mental health recovery news and opportunities across the Commonwealth and the nation.
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New In the Digest This Week
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SAMHSA: Promote Mental and Physical Wellness in 2013 - Posted 4.22
Through its Wellness Initiative, SAMHSA pledges to promote wellness for people with mental and substance use disorders by motivating individuals, organizations, and communities to take action and work toward improved quality of life, cardiovascular health, and decreased early mortality rates.
Wellness includes many dimensions of health: physical, emotional, financial, social, occupational, intellectual, environmental, and spiritual. SAMHSA's Wellness Initiative aims to inspire individuals to improve one physical health behavior and explore their talents, skills, interests, social connections, and environment to incorporate other dimensions of wellness.
To learn more and sign the Pledge for Wellness, visit http://www.samhsa.gov/wellness.
SAMHSA's Wellness Initiative Webinar (Training Teleconference), "Springing Into Wellness and Planting the Financial Wellness Seed" - Posted 4.22
Tuesday, April 30th from 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
To register:
http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001mPOldpAq-ZlpiTiF8QTMlEH9L0DTxaFQxvhkaZBUIFNJM6MuHOvJJRLuvFirTKPT3FQIWSWPsQHaHXL_jzqkdoexUxJxfoO3fIrc9CJ-JiaOWAj0sMrJfvOw67f-XscFkRkmmGZNY2Ht0P_G0UOHeA==
For many people, spring means a time for renewed growth and balance in many areas of life. The Wellness Initiative is excited to help you, your loved ones, and your communities spring into wellness.
To promote recovery and social inclusion, SAMHSA's Wellness Initiative promotes embracing the Eight Dimensions of Wellness to achieve a holistic overall well-being. These dimensions include the social, emotional, physical, occupational, intellectual, spiritual, environmental, and financial aspects of a person's life. Wellness is not the absence of disease, illness, and stress, but the presence of purpose in life, active involvement in satisfying work and play, joyful relationships, a healthy body and living environment, and happiness.
This year, the Wellness Initiative is focusing on the financial dimension of wellness. Approximately 60 to 80 percent of people with mental illness are unemployed. For individuals with severe mental illness, this number can rise to approximately 90 percent. Along with the advantages that come with having an income, employment can also provide an enormous positive impact on an individual's recovery, through social and emotional benefits.
However, financial wellness is not just about employment. It is also an intricate balance of the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of managing, investing, and conserving one's financial resources and interests. Barriers to financial wellness and employment are challenging for anyone, but can prove especially difficult for people with mental and substance use disorders.
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VOCAL News
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View the Proposed VOCAL Bylaws Changes - Posted 4.11
http://www.vocalvirginia.org/Click on the link at the top of the grey column on the left-hand side of the page. These changes will be voted on at the Annual Meeting on May 21st at VOCAL's Annual Conference at James Madison University.
Tentative Conference Schedule - Posted 4.11 Monday, May 20 10 a.m. - Check-in begins in Festival Conference and Student Center 11:30 - 12:45 p.m. - Lunch in Dining Hall 1 - 2:30 p.m. - Workshops in Festival 3 - 4:30 - Workshops in Festival 5 - 6 p.m. - Dinner in Dining Hall 6:30 - 8 p.m. - Workshops/Meetings in Festival 8 p.m. - Qigong in Festival Tuesday, May 21 7:30 - 8 a.m. - Relaxing walk around campus, meet in front of Festival 7:00 - 8:45 a.m. - Breakfast in Dining Hall 9 - 10:30 a.m. - Welcome, Orientation, and Keynote Address in Festival 10:45 - 11:45 a.m. - Regional Round Tables in Festival 11:45 - 12:45 p.m. - Lunch in Dining Hall 1 - 2:45 p.m. - Annual Meeting in Festival 3 - 4:30 p.m. - Workshops in Festival 5 - 6 p.m. - Dinner in Dining Hall 6:30 - 8 p.m. - Workshops in Festival 8 - 11 p.m. - Social and Dance in Festival Wednesday, May 22 7:30 - 8 a.m. - Relaxing walk around campus, meet in front of Festival 7:00 - 8:45 a.m. - Breakfast in Dining Hall 9 - 10:30 a.m. - Workshops in Festival 10:30 - 11:30 p.m. - Pack Up 11:30 - 1 p.m. - Lunch in Dining Hall with Closing Program 1 - 2:30 p.m. - Check out of Residence Halls
R.E.A.C.H. Announces WRAP Facilitator Training for July - Posted 4.1
The next WRAP© Facilitator training will take place in Richmond July 15-19. The location has not been finalized and will be announced as soon as the information becomes available.
To be considered for the training, please complete an application and either mail it in or submit online. The application deadline is May 15, 2013. If you have any questions please call Debbie Smith at 434. 243.7878, ext. 10, or e-mail: debbie@vocalvirginia.org
The application can be found here.
VOCAL Announces Conference Keynote Speaker, Joseph Rogers!
 Joseph Rogers is Chief Advocacy Officer of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP), and found
er and Executive Director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, a consumer-run national technical assistance center funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services.
In 1984, Joseph Rogers created Project SHARE (Self-Help and Advocacy Resource Exchange), a peer-support and advocacy organization, under MHASP's auspices. As a result of Rogers' vision and leadership, Project SHARE grew until it was blended with MHASP, which Rogers had built from a small regional mental health advocacy agency into one of the largest mental health associations in the country, including an array of peer-run programs serving local, statewide, and national constituencies. From 1997 to 2007, Rogers served as President and CEO of MHASP.
A national leader of the mental health consumer movement, Joseph Rogers has testified before U.S. Senate committees and has consulted in more than 30 states, as well as nationally and internationally, on behavioral health policy issues. He has chaired and/or served on numerous boards and committees, such as the Executive Committee of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, and the Congressionally appointed Task Force on the Rights and Empowerment of People with Disabilities, which helped pass the Americans with Disabilities Act. He was a key player in the closing of Philadelphia State Hospital and in the successful struggle to get the dollars to follow the patients into the community, to establish what has become a model system of community-based services, including peer-run services.
Rogers has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows to publicize the self-help/advocacy movement and fight prejudice and discrimination.
His many awards include the Heinz Award for the Human Condition (2005), the Outstanding Non-Psychiatrist Award of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists (2002), and the Timothy Coakley Behavioral Health Leadership Award of the American College of Mental Health Administration (2009), for his leadership in transforming mental health care in this country.
VOCAL's Annual Statewide Mental Health Consumer Conference, "Carrying the Torch"
May 20-22 on the campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg. The registration form can be found on our website;
the link to same in the top left hand corner of the home page.
Go to: www.vocalvirginia.org to download the form. Please mail it to the VOCAL Network office at 1904 Byrd Avenue, Suite 111, Richmond, 23230, with your check or money order. Please do not send cash through the mail. We are not able to accept credit card payments.
One registration form per person, please. THE DEADLINE FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO APRIL 22!
Call for Workshop Proposals for "Carrying the Torch", VOCAL's Statewide MH Conference
DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO
APRIL 22nd
VOCAL seeks workshop proposals from members and friends! Workshops are 1.5 hours in length. Please provide a title, description, names of presenters, and any other information that may be useful for our understanding of your proposed presentation.
You will be notified after the due date whether or not the proposal is accepted.
Please send via email to yolande@vocalvirginia.org or by postal mail to the Network office address.
"Ask Will!"
Do you have questions about VOCAL? Is there something you want to know but just don't know how or who to ask? Now there is an easy way to make it happen: it's called "Ask Will"!
Please include your name and contact information for verification: anonymous submissions will not be accepted. Responses will be published in the VOCAL Network News newsletter which is currently published six times per year. An archive of responses will be made available through VOCAL's website at www.vocalvirginia.org, under the "Ask Will" column. In this column, members can ask questions of VOCAL's Executive Office. The intent of this column is to disseminate information to you - our membership - in a timely fashion. Inquiries can be sent to: askwill@vocalvirginia.org.
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News Around the Commonwealth |
Mondays Focus on Stress Reduction at Friends 4 Recovery Whole Health Center, Richmond - Posted 4.18
Call the Center for details: 804.308.1366
"Hope for More Than a Season" An Evening Celebrating Musical and Visual Arts - Posted 4.11
"Hope for More Than A Season" Seeks Performers and Artists - Posted 4.11
Reflecting the Message of Hope and Recovery from Mental Health or Substance Use Disorders
Hosted by Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Community Services Board Co-OP Programs
Thursday, April 25th from 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Living Waters Lutheran Church, Kilmarnock (corner of Bluff Point Road and Church Street)
Admission is free, but please RSVP to 84 Main, 804.333.3581
Friends 4 Recovery Whole Health Center Programming - 4.11
Trauma Recovery Group on Fridays from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Spanish Class on Monday, April 15th from 2:00-3:30 p.m.
9511 Hull Street Road, Suite
Richmond (23236)
804.308.1366
"Nourish" Meets at Center for Recovery and Wellness, Lynchburg - Posted 4.8
"Nourish" is a free, peer-run support group for people who struggle with issues such as overeating, binge eating, diabetes, bulimia, anorexia, etc., encouraging one another on a joint path to healthier living.
Tuesdays, from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
618 Court Street, 434.947.2662 or email:
"Art of Recovery" Opens May 3rd, Fredericksburg - Posted 4.8
Ninth Annual "The Art of Recovery" art show opens Friday, May 3rd from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at The PONSHOP Studio and Gallery located at 712 Caroline Street in downtown Fredericksburg. The exhibit features original artwork of adults with mental illness. The show is organized by members of Kenmore Club, a psychosocial rehabilitation program operated by RACSB. The exhibit coincides with National Mental Health Month and will be on display through May 26th. The PONSHOP Studio and Gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5:00 p.m.
"The Art of Recovery" show will feature approximately 50 pieces representing several art mediums. Artwork includes original drawings, paintings, three-dimensional artwork (sculpture), textiles, and mixed media. A number of the pieces will be available for purchase.
The Art of Recovery provides a forum for artists living with mental illness to gain confidence in their abilities, address misconceptions surrounding mental illness, and experience community support. To learn more, contact Helen Conley at 540-373-7737 or artofrecovery@racsb.state.va.us.
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Conferences and Webinars
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Link to Virginia Mental Health Conferences and Trainings Calendar for Opportunities to Attend Conferences and Trainings - Posted 4.11
Go to: http://tinyurl.com/VirginiaCalendar
Do you know of other things that could be posted on this calendar?? Email Yolande Long: yolande@vocalvirginia.org
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Links to MH Peer-Run Programs in Virginia
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Consumer Wellness Center (Annandale)
Recovery In Motion ( Fredericksburg)
kakallay@gmail.com
Blacksburg Computer Empowerment Services
http://computerempowerment.net/about.htm
Friends4Recovery Whole Health Center (Richmond)
http://www.friends4recovery.org/#!calendar
Center for Recovery and Wellness (Lynchburg)
http://centerforrecoveryandwellness.org/calendar/
Trillium Drop-In Center (Woodbridge)
http://pwdropincenter.org/calendar.php
On Our Own of Roanoke Valley
http://rvonourown.com/Events.aspx
WeCare, Inc (Martinsville)
http://wecaremhc.org/?page_id=42
On Our Own of Charlottesville
http://wwhttp://www.saara.org/events-calendar.phpw.onourowncville.org/structure.html
84 Main (Warsaw)
804.333.3581
Recovery Resources and Support
Other Program Information:
Virginia Peer Support Coalition (Virginia)
Mental Health America of Virginia (MHAV)
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Job Opportunities
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Peer Specialist Job Opening in Lynchburg - Posted 4.18
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Senior Clinician, Chesterfield County Mental Health Support Services - Posted 4.4
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The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Office of Cultural and Linguistic Competence's April 2013 "Ideas into Action" Newsletter - Posted 4.18
http://www.dbhds.virginia.gov/2008CLC/documents/Volume%206-Issue%201-April%202013.pdf |
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I look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely,
Yolande Long
Communications and Events Coordinator
804.343.1777
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