Mental Health Education

Breaking the Cycle Part 3: Everyone’s Distant Cousin but No One’s Baby

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How the Community Care movement resulted in an epidemic of homelessness. …Deinstitutionalization is at the very least a work in progress if it has begun at all… Hamlin and Oakes Reflections on Deinstitutionalization in the United Kingdom – 2008 1984. England. A scathing report emerges: the structure of the National Health Service is woefully broken, […]

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Breaking the Cycle: Pt. 2 – Relics of a Dark Past

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Exploring the dark history of asylums and the rise of deinstitutionalization in the US.

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Breaking the Cycle – Exploring Community Mental Health Care Pt. 1: Intro

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Community Care is a way to shift the onus of solving social problems away from the individual, like Kenny, who rarely has the resources, emotional education, time, or money to “self care,” to a greater collective that includes individuals, governments, aid organizations, communities, and businesses working together to improve the systemically broken conditions that produce

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Infographic: U.S. Mental Health Law Factsheet

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Get a primer on past and current mental health laws with this colorful infographic. Find out how U.S. law is working in favor of your mental health!

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Special Topic: Making The Family and Medical Leave Act work for YOU!

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Continuing on with our mental health in the workplace topic, I wanted to take a minute to highlight a very important piece of legislation, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)and how it can really help those who are struggling with mental illness stay secure while focusing on getting healthy. Like all legislation, the FMLA

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The MSB Work Module – A guide to surviving and thriving in the workplace

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Continuing our spotlight on mental health in the workplace, this module provides actionable resources on how to thrive in the workplace by asking for accommodations, reaching out for support, and knowing your rights. It also has valuable information for employers themselves on how to cultivate a more mentally healthy work environment! Enjoy! Ah work. Work

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Therapy Quest – Finding The Right Type of Therapy

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Today I’m sharing an updated gem from my early blogging days: Therapy Quest <3 Many of you may not know but I am absolutely in love with fantasy. As a young child, escaping into fantasy books and movies helped me survive. Now as an adult, I find it an invaluable tool with which to battle

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