My dad passed away when I was four years old. My mom remarried this person who was my second dad. I didn’t like him. He touched me, abused me and was mean. I cried and I was afraid of him. I got mad and was bad in school. My dad said he was hurt by [...]
This is the first of weekly poems and prose to follow by Anna Marie Lawrence, who is helping to transform the Northern Lakes CMH system to be one which expects recovery. She hopes to inspire others on their recovery journey. We invite you to visit this Virtual Recovery Center each Thursday for the next installment. [...]
The Depression Is Real Coalition has developed a national communications campaign to educate Americans on the truth about depression. It includes new public service announcements for television, radio, and print. The purpose of the campaign is to help educate the public about the true nature of depression, and to offer hope. If you or someone [...]
VSA Arts of Michigan is offering some workshops for visual artists. Scholarships are available for artists with disabilities. Contact 313-832-3303 for information on scholarships. Gallery Insider Talk for visual artists will be a panel discussion with Art Gallery owners and curators. You will learn about the differences and similarities of galleries, how they approach the [...]
It’s never too late to join in the art classes with Tom McClellan. Learn a dynamic process for expressing your feelings and ideas through the arts. Try your hand at using acrylic paints and pastel chalks. A great way to get your thoughts out of the way and your emotions out and expressed, rather than [...]
On 3/20/08 we completed an in-depth look at our progress in transforming our local public mental health system since last fall. We marked a number of items off as COMPLETED! and pushed back dates on some others. Stepping back and evaluating the concrete things that have happened inspires us to push on because we know [...]
When you want to see updates on Northern Lakes CMH’s recovery transformation process, take a look in the new “Category” called Recovery Transformation Updates. There is a subcategory there as well, called Blueprint Updates. We will collect all our progress reports here! Categories are a very handy tool to finding things in the Virtual Recovery [...]
About 80 people from Northern Lakes’ six counties attended the 4th Annual Walk A Mile In My Shoes Rally at the State Capitol on May 14, 2008. There were 1,800 people there, and everyone was cheerful and enjoyed the day, even though it was pouring down rain. The purpose of the rally was to raise [...]
