Mental Illness Awareness Week, October 4-10, has just closed.…
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Twenty years ago this month, the State of Michigan locked the doors of the Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital.
At any one time, the State Hospital was home to thousands of patients and steady work for hundreds of employees.
On the next Points North here on Interlochen Public Radio, we'll take a tour of the building with some former employees.
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Budget talks continued in Lansing Tuesday, but it's not real clear how much progress is being made.
Among the many areas likely to see cuts is the department that supports the state's mental health services.
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Local, state and federal legislative candidates have been invited to a series of forums in October to discuss their views on key issues. The public is invited to attend. The forum is sponsored by Northern Lakes Community Mental Health (NLCMH) and its Consumer Advocacy Council. The forum will focus on affordable housing, employment, public transportation, and health care. Candidates attending will have the opportunity to address these issues and to respond to audience questions.
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I was sexually abused by two family members before my teen…
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Mental Illness Awareness: Learn A Little – by Leslie
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob A. Riis
Interlochen Public Radio: 20th Anniversary of Traverse City State Hospital Closure
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. – Frederick B. Wilcox
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. – Theodore Isaac Rubin
TV 9 & 10: Accessing Mental Health Services May Get More Difficult in Budget Deal – 9/22/09: Ryan Raiche and Photojournalist Jeremy Erickson, a video interview with Greg Paffhouse, CEO and Signe Ruddy, Traverse House Director
3rd Annual Art of Recovery Show: Call for Artists!
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables. – Spanish Proverb
Public Invited to Candidate Forums
You can have anything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
Brenda: My Story
Mental health: Overcoming the stigma of mental illness