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NAMI SAN ANTONIO IS HOSTING A FORUM FOR ADVOCACY, INC.
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WHO IS ADVOCACY, INC.?
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 Advocacy, Inc. is a disability legal rights organization that advocates for the legal, human and services rights of individuals with disabilities in Texas.
WHAT: We invite individuals with disabilities, family members, other advocates and providers of services to come to a public forum to tell us what your service and legal needs are and how Advocacy, Inc. can better serve individuals with disabilities.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
TIME: 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Christ Episcopal Church, 510 Belknap, Parish Hall, San Antonio, TX 78212
Please call the NAMI office at (210) 734-3349 for further information
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED
The location is on a bus route
Spanish and sign language interpreters will be available
Please call 72 hours before meeting if you need any other disability-related accommodation at 210-737-0499 or 1-800-880-8401.
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| NAMI WALK - DATE CHANGED TO MAY 15 ------MARK YOUR CALENDARS! |
SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2010
NAMI SAN ANTONIO – WALKS FOR THE MIND OF AMERICA
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Location: Koehler Pavilion, Brackenridge Park
San Antonio, TX
Date: May 15, 2010
Distance: 3 K
Check-in: 8:00 am
Start Time: 9:00 am
We discovered our walk date was the same as the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Walk and we don't want you to have to choose! So, we decided to move our NAMIWalks San Antonio Walk for the Mind of America. Hope to see you there!
Click Here
to Register Yourself or Your Team
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NAMI CONNECTION
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NAMI CONNECTIONS IS A RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
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NAMI Connection is a recovery support group for people living with mental illness. These groups provide a place where a person can go and be treated with respect and understanding. They offer encouragement and hope. The groups offer a casual and relaxed approach to sharing the challenges and successes of coping with mental illness. NAMI Connections meets monthly for approximately 90 minutes. It is offered free of charge and follows a flexible structure without an educational format. All groups are confidential.
NAMI Connections meetings are held:
The second and fourth Wednesday of each month
La Paz Community Mental Health Center
530 San Pedro Avenue
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
For information, call the NAMI office at 210 734-3349
For directions, please call the La Paz office at 210 558-8744
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SAVE THIS IMPORTANT DATE!
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The First International Crisis Intervention Team Conference
June 1 - 3, 2010
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The First International Crisis Intervention Team Conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas, June 1 - 3, 2010. The conference is formerly known as the National CIT Conference. The City of San Antonio, Texas is proud to host the 1st Annual International CIT Conference at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel!
The CIT International Conference will showcase initiatives that promote collaboration between law enforcement, mental health and advocacy systems in serving the mental health population. The conference will provide multiple workshops that highlight innovative initiatives which invite collaboration and innovation among attendees in their respective communities. Over 100 presentations will showcase usable information that can be applied and utilized to create a standard of excellence in community policing and strengthening the public safety net. This year’s conference is being offered for the first time on an international level to meet the needs of providers and users of services around the globe!
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OCD Support Group
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Support group for those who would like to learn more about Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
First and Third Tuesday of each month
510 Belknap Place (Behind Christ Episcopal Church)
Room 225
7:00 pm - 8 pm
Please call the NAMI office for more information, 210 734-3349
All calls are confidential
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American Association on Health and Disability Scholarship
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The American Association on Health and Disability (AAHD) is proud to announce the creation of the 2009 AAHD Scholarship Program
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The AAHD Scholarship Program will support students with disabilities who are pursuing higher education. Preference will be given to students who plan to pursue undergraduate/graduate studies in the field of public health, health promotion, or disability studies, to include disability policy and disability research. Royalties from the Disability and Health Journal will fund the first year of the AAHD Scholarship Program.
Please visit www.aahd.us to read more about the Scholarship Program and to download the application.
If you would like to make a donation to the AAHD Scholarship Program, please send your contribution to American Association on Health and Disability, 110 N. Washington Street, Suite 328-J, Rockville, MD 20850. Please indicate your donation is for the Scholarship Program. For additional questions, please contact Roberta Carlin at rcarlin@aahd.us or 301-545-6140 ext. 206.
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NIMH Family BPD Research Study Available at Texas
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Family members and partners of a relative with symptoms of Borderline
Personality Disorder are invited to participate in a National Institute
of Mental Health (NIMH) funded study in Houston, October 23, from noon
to 3 PM. Spouses, parents, siblings, children over 21, and partners
are eligible by registering at videoresearch@neabpd.org. The study
will be held at the Marriott Westchase in conjunction with the NAMI
Texas State Convention although one does not need to attend the entire
convention to join in the study. All participants will receive $25 and
lunch is included.
For more information contact Diane and Jim Hall at
jahall2@hotmail.com, 281 300-3837, or Kelly Jeschke at
kjeschke@namitexas.org, 512 693-2000.
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SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT IMPLEMENTS
NEW MENTAL HEALTH UNIT
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Recently the San Antonio Police Department implemented a new Mental Health Detail on a 180 day pilot project review. There are two officers assigned to this unit. Officer Ernest Stevens and Officer William Kasberg have been chosen for this undertaking. The two Officers will be assisting patrol when a call is received for a mental heath issue. The Officers will respond with an assessor from the Center for Health Care Services to assist with an assessment and if needed, placement. The design of this program is to divert unnecessary arrest and expedite treatment for those who need it. Resources will also be provided to family members who need or request support.
The new detail will be working Monday thru Friday. Their hours are as follows:
Monday 8:00am – 4:00pm
Tues-Fri 6:00pm – 2:00am
The Officers are in the process of flexing their hours in order to provide more daylight hours as requested by patrol. They will be working 8:00am – 4:00pm the entire second week of every month. The need for their service has already out weighed the hours they are working. The initial statistics are astonishing and expansion of this unit is hoped for in the future. If police assistance is required and it is an emergency, continue to call 911 and request a CIT officer if one is available. To contact the two officers assigned to the Mental Health Detail if they can be of any assistance please call them at these phone numbers :
William Kasberg: 394-9637
Ernest Stevens: 289-2530
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| Study by Columbia University Medical Center |
Report by Columbia University On How Bedtimes Effect Children's Mental Health
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A Columbia University Medical Center report findings are the first to examine bedtimes' effects on kids' mental health — and the results are noteworthy.
Middle and high-schoolers whose parents don't require them to be in bed before midnight on school nights are 42% more likely to be depressed than teens whose parents require a 10 p.m. or earlier bedtime. And teens who are allowed to stay up late are 30% more likely to have had suicidal thoughts in the past year.
To learn more go to:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-06-09-bedtime-teen-depression_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
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University of Texas Health Science Center Announces New Research
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The UT Health Science Center’s Psychiatric Genetics Research Center is studying the difference and potential of early interventions in the lives of those most at risk of one of two major mental illness; children of parents affected with Bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia. For these children who are at high genetic risk, the study team is endeavoring to get the children the treatment they need, and provide psycho education classes, giving children and their parents tools to properly deal with these illnesses when they do occur. NAMI San Antonio has responded to this project enthusiastically, providing co-teachers from their Family to Family team, to assist with the study’s Family Focus Group Classes, and their collaboration has been extremely beneficial. The intent is for the interventions to improve the ability of these children to finish school, have productive jobs and family lives, and reduce suicide attempts, substance abuse, and other risky behaviors.
Participating in this study can be a great help and real contribution toward improving the ways our culture responds to these major mental illnesses as they occur in families. People with Bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia are typically not diagnosed until several years after onset of symptoms. This has serious consequences. Being undiagnosed or sub optimally treated during these years has lifelong effects, given the impact on school, relationships and first employment.
The two year study is enrolling children from age 6 to 20 who have at least one parent who has formally been diagnosed with either Bipolar disorder or Schizophrenia. The study is being conducted at the Psychiatric Genetics Research Center downtown on Soledad. For anyone who is interested in this important work, your participation will be a great help, financial compensation is included as well.
For further information, call either Sarah Japhet at 562-5116 or Judi Robinson at 562-5123.
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