This item comes from the Community Impact Newspaper of Austin, Texas:
Williamson County (Texas) Sheriff James R. Wilson was selected Sheriff of the Year by the 2008 National Crisis Intervention Team Conference Committee. Wilson will be honored Nov. 5 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta.
The National CIT conference is sponsored by National Alliance on Mental Illness, [...]
Treatment & Accountability Courts Save Money and Lives
Just for fun… Halloween Trivia
I am the author and MC for an irregular (in more ways than one!) Trivia Contest that I do for a group of friends. I thought it would be fun to share the upcoming Halloween Trivia with our “Fighting for those with Mental Illness” regulars. If you stumbled across the website while looking for Halloween [...]
Is Bad Judgement “a Mental Illness”?
As I worked this afternoon on a grant proposal, I would periodically pop over to check news headlines, the stock market, and the weather.
Midday there was a story about a young lady working for John McCain’s campaign who had been robbed and –according to the headline– mutilated. The incident had happened Wednesday night.
Within an hour there [...]
Mental Illness and Me
One of my earliest memories is of writing a letter to my father. He was in the hospital and I wasn’t allowed to visit because I was too young. I remember specifically asking my mother how to spell “the.”
At the time, my father was in Milledgeville. In Georgia in the early 1960’s, saying someone was [...]
Selling Mental Health
It is the time of year that our organization is selling sponsorships for the Benefit that we hold in January. Like most people, I find selling a challenge. This is why successful salespersons earn nice paychecks.
For Mental Health America of Northeast Georgia, finding sponsors for our event is doubly difficult.
You may not have heard, but [...]
Tighter Economy Demands Collaboration
Non-profit organizations will be hard-pressed to make their fundraising goals this year.
That’s not unusual. Ask most non-profit managers and they will tell you that there seems to always be more demand than resources.
For Mental Health America of Northeast Georgia, we’re looking at a belt-tightening year in 2009. While we are surviving right now, we are draining [...]
Thomas Eagleton and the mental health of politicians
I am going to post here an article I wrote for our organization’s newsletter earlier this year.
I decided to do this after reading an article suggesting that Sarah Palin’s behavior indicated mental illness. Though the author of the article wanted to come across as genuinely interested in Governor Palin’s well-being, I think it was nothing [...]
Looking Ahead
With Mental Illness Awareness Week 2008 behind us now, we are looking ahead to issues that loom in the future.
The nation is currently preoccupied with tremendous financial woes and an upcoming presidential election. Where is mental health in all this?
Let’s start with the second issue first: the race between Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin.
I would like to [...]
A Candlelight Vigil
Last night we showed the film “A Summer in the Cage” as part of our Mental Illness Awareness Week activities. The crowd was small, but I attribute that to the fact that the weather was bad.
We need the rain! I kept telling myself.
Tonight we will be hosting a Candlight Vigil at the University of Georgia [...]
