Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. – Joann Thomas

Cadillac News: “Coalition survey to target poverty issues”

CADILLAC - Various human service agencies in Wexford and Missaukee counties will be key in finding out poverty conditions and needs for the two counties. Northern Lakes Community Mental Health Community Collaborative Coordinator Ken Nydam said the survey and the results will be used by the Coalition for Poverty Reduction to formulate a report.

Look Closer Postcards: See Me For Who I Am

These postcards were submitted to a project called Look Closer:…

Chance favors those in motion. – James H. Austin

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick. – Laurence Shames

Mental Illness Awareness: Learn A Little – by Leslie

Mental Illness Awareness Week, October 4-10, has just closed.…

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

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.

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

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.

3rd Annual Art of Recovery Show: Call for Artists!

Whether it’s mental illness, substance abuse, grief, loss,…