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Santa Cruz Mental Health AdvocateSanta Cruz MentalHealth AdvocateWe believe recovery ispossible. Our site contains articles, news, recovery techniques andlinks. We advocate for mental health care systems to adopt therecovery model. NAMI-SCC Mental Health News Recovery Fresh Air Other Links Add your name to our guest book....  Recovery IS Possible...  More Articles on Recovey Advance Directives - use an advance directive as a crisis plan and as part of WRAP. Workforce Issues with Recovery-Based Care Transformation WRAP, Peer Support and Recovery: Tools for System Change Implementing Recovery-based Care from East to West Living with voices - useful articles on coping with this common and distressing symptom. Schizophrenia & Recovery - resources for recovery from schizophrenia. Partners in Recovery - Panel: Integrating Psychiatry into the Recovery Process, atthe System of Care Conference, April 26-28, 2000, in Santa Clara. The key note speakers were Jay Mahler, an activist in the consumersurvivor movement, and Patricia Deegan Ph. D., Director of Training at theNational Empowerment Center. Pat Deegan, Ph.D., soul-felt talk revealing how the mentalhealth system has so often impeded patients' road to recovery, and how we can do better. Mental Health Recovery: What Helps and What Hinders? - National Research Project for the Development of Recovery Facilitating System Performance Indicators releases report. NEW Recovery from Schizophrenia - excerpt from Finding Hope in Schizophrenia:Healing and Hope for Everyone In the Family by Louise Loots Thornton. Thornton is the mother of three children. Two have been diagnosed with mental illness. Her son, diagnosed withschizoaffective disorder, has been living with the symptoms for over 20 years. Her daughter has a dual diagnosis and severe depression. Louise has been a member of NAMI/SCC for over 15 years and co-teaches theJourney of Hope class in Watsonville. Sheis an English teacher at Gavilan College. Seeking alternative treatments for depression - for 30%-50% drugs simply do not work. Someone Believes in Me - Article by Daniel B. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., author of PACE:Personal Assistance in Community Existence - An Alternative to P/ACT, about the strength of healing that people who have significantly recovered from mental illness received from having someone believe in them. "We've Been Misled by the Drug Industry," by Daniel B. Fisher. Editors Note: We believe that in many cases medications are the key to recovery, as do many individuals: comments on Dan Fisher's article. Wellness Action Recovery Plan- Notes from a recent talk by B.J. North and Sharon Kuehn, on WRAP: The Wellness Action Recovery Plan, a program of self-help and recovery started by MaryEllen Copeland, a mental health recovery educator and author. Sharon Kuehn Psychosocial Treatments in Psychotic Disorders by Nancy A. Huxley, Ph.D., and Ross J. Baldessarini, M.D. - The revolution in treatment of psychotic disorders as biological disorders has led to a trend to undervalue and under-utilize psychosocial interventions. Recovery from Schizophrenia is possible - A very large group of consumers has achieved remarkable recovery. They are people who, in spite of ongoing symptoms, have carved out a life. - From Monitor on Psychology, Feb. 2000 Studies show that early intervention in schizophrenia may forestall the worst long-term outcomes for this devastating brain disorder. Schizophrenia - A handbook for families - published by Health Canada, this approaches treatment with more than just medication. Not long ago I was asked to speak and be available to answer questions at a meeting of our local chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). The participants were either individuals being treated for a mental disorder or family members. I was struck by the first question, "How do we find a psychiatrist who will both prescribe medications and talk to us?" As I looked at the audience, they all nodded in affirmation that this was a significant problem. Psychotherapy not only can lead to clinical improvement in patients with psychiatric disorders, but also can favorably influence their brains and physiology as well, increasing scientific evidence shows. - Psychiatric News July 6, 2001. Treatment of psychosis without using psychiatric medications - letter from Dr. Loren Mosher. Individual Mental Health Rehabilitation Services include services to assist a client in improving, maintaining or restoring various community living skills such as functional skills, daily living skills, social skills, and leisure skills. Family Response to Chronic Illness - Excerpts from the book Family Process by Peter Steinglass. Santa Cruz Mental Health Services... Local Crisis Phone Numbers - Listings of Santa Cruz County services and crisis numbers. Mental Health Community support services in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz County Budget Cuts NAMI-SCC letter to Local Mental Health Board supporting 7th Avenue expansion. Your support is needed for the Family Partnership Program. Career Services in Santa Cruz County - Carol Caruso writes about the services available in Santa Cruz for developing employment skills. Results from the NAMI Santa Cruz County survey of families experiences with Dominican Behavioral Health have been compiled. NAMI-SCC requests Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to provide legal assistance to those in financial need who need to create an LPS Conservatorship. NAMI SCC Board members recently toured the Cordilleras Mental Health Center locked treatment facility in Redwood City. The story behind the residential care facilities in Santa Cruz County. MEDI-CAL focus group reports on Services in Santa Cruz County. NAMI Santa Cruz County and Santa Cruz County Mental Health worked closely with the Santa Cruz Police Department to sponsor the first 25 Santa Cruz Police Officers to receive CIT (Crisis Intervention Team) Training in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz NAMI has written a letter of support for the proposed SAMHSA Community Action Grant to support creation of a housing center next to the MHCAN community drop-in center. Efforts to prevent repeal of the Santa Cruz County utility tax failed and so County Mental Health services faces cuts next year. NAMI-SCC Report on the 7th Avenue facility. Messengers - In January, we published this story in our newsletter. Read what happened, and the power that newsletters and web sites can have to effect change in our society. David tells his story of struggles with dual diagnosis, schizophrenia and bipolar. One family's story of how they tried to care for their son who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the difficulties of dealing with the system. Shawn describes his struggles with schizophrenia and gradual progress in learning to manage it. Client Poetry and Artwork on display from the Santa Cruz Mental Health Client Action Network. Check this out, wonderful contributions... Advocacy... National Empowerment Center, National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse and CONTAC funding at risk for FY 2003. California Governor Davis signs AB 1421 - Involuntary Confinement Bill. Congress Adjourns for Election Campaign Season Without Acting on Mental Illness Insurance Parity Bill or Funding for Research and Services Programs. Federal legislative update - August 2002. Advocacy needed for HHS-Labor Appropriations Bill for FY 2003. Your letters are needed in SUPPORT of SB 1289 by Senator Ray Haynes. It would prohibit California school personnel from recommending psychotropic drugs for a child. We believe such recommendations should only come from a physician or psychiatrist. PBS Documentary on John Nash airs April 28th. This documentary again raises questions of accuracy in the movie, A Beautiful Mind. The debate over whether people with severe mental illness should be forced to accept treatment was stoked anew Thursday, June 14, 2001, with the release of a California study. The study by the Rand Corp., a think tank in Santa Monica, found that mental patients might benefit from forced treatment — if it is supplemented significantly with support services. One of the report's main conclusions was that California's mental health system is underfunded. More on the debate over forced psychiatric care and families' struggles to control their loved ones. (From USAToday - Health) Stigma - The Most Unjust Assessment One Person Can Make About Another, Before Even Meeting That Person! As a result of the evidence it has heard in its first session in Berlin over the weekend of June 30/July 1, 2001, the Russell Tribunal is convinced that the serious abuse of human rights in the name of psychiatry is widespread but largely unrecognized. On Friday, June 22, 2001, Assemblywoman Helen Thomson withdrew her bill, AB 1421 for consideration this year due to lack of Senate support and budget funding. Testimony of Dr. Fred Frese, NAMI nationalboard member, on June 20, 2001, before the House Veterans' Affairs Committee,Subcommittee on Health. Dr. Frese testified on behalf of NAMI and the NAMIVeterans Committee on the need to improve access to treatment and services forour nation's veterans with severe mental illnesses and their family members. AB1800 - Why forced psychiatry is not the right approach, comments by Senator John Burton. (Feb., 2001) Psychiatrist Loren Mosher & David Oaks Speak on Recovery - Mad Pride, The Movement for Human Rights and Alternatives in the "Mental Health System" hosted a panel in San Francisco on January 5, 2001. In it, Dr. Loren Mosher spoke on Biopsychiatric Ideology as an Impediment to Recovery, and David Oaks, spoke of the movement to Resist the Rise of Forced Psychiatry. (Jan., 2001) Stigma of Mental Illness - People with psychiatric disabilities are shunned. Ensconced in a separate array of interventions that are isolating and insulating, people with psychiatric disabilities are also discredited with a mental-health specific language. Something CAN be done about the Santa Cruz Housing shortage - Read what Judy Williams did to provide housing for mental health clients in Santa Cruz County. (Feb., 2001) Glued Pages and Sticky Questions - Concerns about censorship by the NAMI California Board of Directors of The Journal, and their stopping the publishing of this excellent publication. (Feb., 2001) Update: DanWeisburd DEMAND Notice released March 8, 2001. Dan Weisburd demands a retractionand apology from the NAMICalifornia Board of Directors. Web Rings (These offer resources, help and support) Click here to see the WebRings page. Who we are, Anna and Douglas Huskey. Mental Health Links Web Site Categories... (archives by topic) Action Alerts Events Experiences Legislation News Newsletters Opinion Organizations People Recovery Reports Services Last Updated on 02/06/05 webmaster@namiscc.org var site="sm9mentalhealth"             Opinions expressed in thisweb site do not necessarily reflect the views of NAMI Santa Cruz County, NAMICalifornia or any affiliated organizations. 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