SAMHSA Celebrates National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day By Recognizing Youth for Their...

                   
prnewswire.com     May 8, 2008            

SAMHSA Celebrates National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day By Recognizing Youth for Their Resiliency Keke Palmer, Marc Indelicato, Herschel Walker and 35 non-profit and professional organizations joined SAMHSA to increase awareness of children's mental health... [read full story]                

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Children's Mental Health Fair Held at Raleigh County Mall

wvnstv.com     May 9, 2008          

This week is dedicated to kids with mental illness. ... Posted Thursday, May 8, 2008 ; 04:36 PM Updated Thursday, May 8, 2008 ; 05:51 PM BECKLEY- -- This week is dedicated to kids living with mental illness. The Crossroads Mall is where local mental health providers set...                

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Children Mental Health Awareness Day- May 8th

todays-woman.net     May 8, 2008          

Today is “Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day.” Some of you may remember that I suffered from an eating disorder in my late teens. I have also suffered from depression a great portion of my life and it wasn’t until my early 30’s before I was diagnosed. According to a report published by the...                

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SAMHSA Celebrates National Childrens Mental Health Awareness Day By Recognizing Youth for Their...

redorbit.com     May 9, 2008          

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Crystal Borde, +1-202-331-4323, for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; or SAMHSA Press Office, +1- 240-276-2134 Keke Palmer, Marc Indelicato, Herschel Walker and 35 non-profit and professional organizations joined SAMHSA to increase awareness...                

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SAMHSA Celebrates National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day By Recognizing Youth for Their...

redorbit.com     May 9, 2008          

WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Seven youth from the Washington Metropolitan area were recognized today by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) during National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C., for...                

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Local officers train to help mental health patients -Asheville Citizen-Times

mentalhopenews.blogspot.com     May 8, 2008          

by Josh Boatwright • jboatwri@gannett.com ASHEVILLE – Tracy Mixson knows encounters between police and people with mental illnesses can be scary, even dangerous at times. Officers often walk into volatile situations, talking people out of suicide or taking them into custody if they might endanger...                

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Mental health, substance abuse program funded -Ventura County (CA) Star

mentalhopenews.blogspot.com     May 8, 2008          

By Kathleen Wilson Ventura County has won $670,000 in state funding to expand a nationally recognized program for people struggling with both mental illness and substance abuse. Psychologist Linda Gertson, who oversees the program, said new sites will probably open in July in Ventura and the east...                

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On the front lines of mental health care -Portland Oregonian

mentalhopenews.blogspot.com     May 8, 2008          

Editorial: As a sporadic client of Cascadia Behavior Healthcare, it saddens me to read the recent headlines about its financial problems. For many of us, the mentally ill, Cascadia is a lifeline, a comfortable place to go when we desperately need help. I've found Cascadia's counselors and staff...                

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Beating the Mental Health Treatment Stigma - ABC News

mentalhopenews.blogspot.com     May 8, 2008          

By RICHARD DeVAUL, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Texas A&M May 7, 2008— "and one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest." So starts the famous book chronicling our mental health system in the 1950s, best known for Jack Nicholson's portrayal of a sane but wild inmate in the...                

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Mental illness needs more care -Visalia (CA) Times-Delta

mentalhopenews.blogspot.com     May 8, 2008          

May 7, 2008 Tulare County Tuesday unveiled two mobile mental-health units that will travel to underserved areas of the county delivering mental health services. Advertisement The units cost $300,000 each and will be paid for with part of $10.5 million Tulare County received from Proposition 63 to...                

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Local officers train to help mental health patients - Asheville (NC) Citizen Times

mentalhopenews.blogspot.com     May 8, 2008          

Josh Boatwright Tracy Mixson knows encounters between police and people with mental illnesses can be scary, even dangerous at times. Officers often walk into volatile situations, talking people out of suicide or taking them into custody if they might endanger themselves or others. That’s why...                

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