PHILADELPHIA, May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Joseph Rogers, Chief Advocacy Officer of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP), will receive the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from Eli Lilly and Company on May 22 at 2 p.m. at the Roosevelt Hotel, 123 Baronne Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Conti Room. The award includes $15,000 for the non-profit organization of the honoree's choice. Rogers overcame psychiatric hospitalizations and homelessness to become a national leader of the mental health consumer movement and an internationally known advocate. In 1984, MHASP hired Rogers to start support groups of individuals with psychiatric diagnoses - but he didn't stop there. Through his leadership and vision, MHASP has grown from a regional advocacy organiz...
The fastest way we know to transform a mental health agency into a recoveryoriented operation is to involve the people being served in all levels of the program. Having peers present in the service system adds a constant source of accountability to the culture, which helps sustain the steps taken toward transformation. Larry Pricks, director of consumer relations and recovery at the Georgia Division of Mental Health, has been a key player in pioneering Georgia's program evolution from a strong grassroots consumer movement to a partnership between his office and the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network, Inc. Consumer leaders were at the table six years ago when the state redesigned its services and included a new Medicaid-billable service for peer support under the rehabilitation opt...
... workers, including the child welfare, health, mental health, and substance abuse treatment sect... Gibbs, 2003; Shlonsky & Stern, 2007) and consumer-centered models (Linhorst, Eckert, & Hamilton, 200... outgrowth of the evidence-based medicine movement (Gray, 2001; Sackett, Straus, Richardson, Rosenber...
Annual award program will honor screenwriters, producers, and behavioral health advocates raising awareness and understanding of mental and behavioral health problems HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will honor former first lady and champion for mental health awareness Rosalynn Carter at the 2010 Voice Awards. Carter's 40- year campaign to improve the mental health system and educate the public about the impact of behavioral health on American families, especially military families, has reduced the misperceptions and prejudice associated with mental health problems and encouraged more people to seek recovery. The event--co-hosted by Emmy Award winner Hector Elizondo and Academy Award winner Loui...
... to the mental health recovery movement and veteran's mental health. Consumer Leadership A...
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... Party for representative payee consumers along with their friends and families. Volunteers ... the quality of life for consumers of mental health services by aiding in the development of a voluntary consumer self- help movement. Contact: Rachel Jackson, 490-6248. lccouncilofchu...
PHILADELPHIA, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Saturday, May 5, 2012, as thousands of psychiatrists congregate for the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting, individuals with psychiatric labels and others will converge in a global campaign to oppose the APA's proposed new edition of its "bible," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), scheduled for publication in 2013. Occupy the APA will include distinguished speakers from 10 a.m. to noon at Friends Center (1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia), and a march at approximately 12:15 p.m. to the Pennsylvania Convention Center (12th and Arch Streets), where the group will protest from approximately 1 p.m. while the APA meets inside. This peaceful protest exposes the fact that the DSM-5 pushes...
... over 13,000 signatures from mental health professionals calling for "an alternative approach...-based National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse and a longtime consumer/ssurvivor movement leader. "We will promote humane alternatives to th...
... of West Virginia maintains a staff of consumer affairs technicians who can answer questions and m... offering the community a broad range of mental health wellness and psychological testing services... to increase muscular strength, range of movement and activity for daily living skills. Hand-held we...
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...-USNewswire/ -- The National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations (NCMHCSO) m...
Dr. James Warde, the first commissioner of mental health in Erie County, died Monday. He was 76. Dr. Warde, of Buffalo, trained at the State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, and worked as deputy director of New York City's mental health system.
... of recovery-oriented services and the consumer advocacy movement. After leaving the county positi...
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