[Letter from the Executive Director]

Dear Reader:

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the newsletter of the Mental Health Association in Pennsylvania (MHAPA). This quarterly email offers updates from MHAPA programs and initiatives and news about the mental health community in Pennsylvania.

To your inbox every few months, we will bring stories of people and programs serving Pennsylvanians, as well as information from MHAPA’s Children’s News [link to CN site], our OpenMindsOpenDoors (OMOD) [link to OMOD site] anti-stigma campaign, and MHAPA affiliates [link to http://www.mhapa.org/affiliates.htm] across the state.

MHAPA works on behalf of the mental health of the citizens of Pennsylvania, instilling principles that facilitate recover and resiliency of individuals and their families through advocacy, education, and public policy. In addition to the action alerts we send out when your voice is critical, this newsletter will serve as a tool to keep you informed about key legislation and events affecting Pennsylvania mental health consumers, providers, and families.

With this issue, we bring you:

An overview [link to page with Sue’s article on Budget] of the PA 2010-2011 state budget, passed on time a few weeks ago, as it pertains to mental health services.

Beautiful artwork [link to steve shaw and tricia interview] created by artists who are part of the Magnificent Minds Project [link to MMP story], a Harrisburg non-profit that highlights the contributions of artists who live with mental illness.

Information about OMOD’s Certified Peer Specialist [link to OMOD section of newsletter] resources section on the campaign’s website.

A list [link to CN update] from PA Children’s News of Pennsylvania schools implementing Positive Behavioral Supports, a research-based approach that responds to negative behaviors in children in supportive rather than punitive ways.

And more.

We also want to hear from you. Let us know what you are doing to affect change for people living with mental illness. Email us at info@mhapa.org, with information about events in your region and programs that work against stigma and discrimination and for the rights of mental health consumers.

Sincerely,

Sue WaltherExecutive DirectorMHAPA

[Feature 1- Budget update]

Bad News, Good News, Bad News: An 2010-2011 Budget Overview First the bad news. As everyone knows, Pennsylvania faces extreme economic challenges. As a result, the recently released FY 2010-2011 budget contains many reductions, and the state mental health appropriations budget reflects cuts from the FY 2009-2010 budget totaling more than $35 million.

Now for the good news. The Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) [link to http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/about/OMHSAS/ ] has been able to generate more federal revenue than anticipated so the base cut has been mitigated and counties will not see an overall reduction to their 90% base allocation. In addition, OMHSAS had proposed a $5 million forensic cost containment, which it will absorb rather than pass on to individual counties. (See OMHSAS Budget Highlights below.)

Back to the bad news. While we are grateful that OMHSAS is able to generate additional federal dollars to mitigate the impact of significant state allocation cuts, the budget still reflects a decrease in the state’s dollar commitment to the mental health system and will negatively impact the state base allocation for years to come. In addition, the budget includes a $2.1 million reduction to the Behavioral Health Services Initiative (BHSI). This greatly impacts the availability of behavioral health services for those individuals who do not qualify for medical assistance but have significant behavioral health needs.

And finally, we cannot ignore the elephant in the room – the hoped for six month extension of the enhanced federal matching rate provided under the federal stimulus program. The final 2010-2011 state budget is based on Pennsylvania receiving the enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/fmap.htm match to the tune of $850 million. Without it, drastic cuts in services loom on the immediate horizon. And no one knows when Congress will decide whether or not to extend FMAP. In the meantime, critical programs and jobs remain in limbo.

OMHSAS Budget HighlightsOn July 15, Sherry Snyder, Acting Deputy Secretary of OMHSAS, provided a detailed briefing of the OMHSAS budget. Below are the highlights. Click here [link to attached PPT] for a more detailed overview.

OMHSAS Community Mental Health Budget Highlights

Community Mental Health Services Base Allocation

$705.314 Mo Restores the FY 2009-10 midyear cuto Reduction in State appropriation offset by Federal revenue

o Proposed $5M Forensic Initiative absorbed - OMHSAS will work with Counties to enhance alternatives

o Net result is no reduction to 90% Base allocationo FY 2009-10 Community Hospital Integration Projects Program (CHIPPs) are annualized

at $5.7M for the 60 CHIPPs at Allentown State Hospital (ASH)o 39 additional CHIPPs to support the closure of ASH($3.7M)o $1.82M to ODP for waiver program to discharge 13 persons from state hospitals to the

community (10 will be from ASH)o Six-month funding for 30 CHIPPs at Norristown State Hospital ($1.65M)o Budget does not include a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA)

BHSI/Act 152

The BHSI Initiative is reduced by 3.8%, or $2.1 million, to $53.2M. OMHSAS will apply the reduction equally to the mental health and drug and alcohol

portions which are 40% Mental Health and 60% Drug and Alcohol. Funding for Act 152 remains unchanged at $16.2 million.

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The Magnificence of an Artist’s Mind

Syngred Bridell grew up in an artistic household, with parents whose paint canvases were outlets for creative expression and therapeutic tools for dealing with the effects of mental illness. Her mother struggled with depression; her father, a veteran of the Vietnam War, with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Witness to their ongoing experiences with recovery, Syngred has always keenly understood how important the process of creating art can be for individuals living with mental illness.

For the past 15 years, Syngred, who holds an MSW from Temple University, has worked as a Crisis Case Worker at Dauphin County Crisis Intervention. Throughout her professional career she’s drawn on the artistic experiences of her parents when working with clients, and has long dreamt of starting a program that would offer artists living with mental illness opportunities to share their work with the world. After recently being named a Center for Progressive Leadership’s Pennsylvania Political Leaders Fellow [link to http://s216300718.onlinehome.us/fellows/pennsylvania09.php], she knew it was time to realize this dream.

“I’ve always believed that individuals are powerful agents for change,” says Syngred. “And I have been fortunate to be part of organizations – as a student at Temple and a part of the Center for Progressive Leadership -- that encourage action and community involvement.”

Last summer, Syngred, who is also an artist and clothing designer, founded the Magnificent Minds Project [link to http://www.magnificentmindsproject.com/], a Harrisburg non-profit that celebrates the immense creativity, ingenuity, and artistic brilliance that exist within individuals who have mental illness.

“Our goal is to eradicate stigma against mental illness by sharing with the world the amazing -- and unique -- contributions people with mental illness make to our lives and communities,” she says.

Magnificent Minds invites artists to show their work in exhibitions organized by the project and hosted by local art galleries. The galleries donate their space, and Magnificent Minds funds the purchase of art supplies the artists may need to create pieces for display in the show.  One hundred percent of any proceeds from sales during the exhibition go directly to the artist.

[Tk quote from gallery]

To begin building Magnificent Minds, Syngred leveraged her contacts in the mental health community to raise awareness of the program. She met with caseworkers and other providers and asked them to encourage their clients to send in art – or create something

new. “We were overwhelmed by the response,” she says. “And today, word of mouth has taken on a life of its own.”

Harrisburg’s Gallery Blu [http://www.galleryblu.org/home] hosted the first exhibition in January 2010. The show was an “outrageous success,” with more than 30 artists participating. This summer, the Art Association of Harrisburg [http://www.artassocofhbg.com/index2.htm /] hosts the second Magnificent Minds Project exhibition at The Reservoir Park Mansion.

[callout]Read about Steven Shaw and Patricia Hutchins [link to article below entitled Steve and Patricia: Words and Art.], two Magnificent Minds artists exhibiting in both exhibitions.

Syngred recently resigned from her full-time job to focus exclusively on Magnificent Minds. She plans to offer more exhibitions each year, reach out to new artists and organizations, and include other art forms, such as the performing arts. She will also continue to work closely with all of the committed volunteers who provide supplies, time, and professional services, serving as the backbone to the project.

“People are so eager to help,” she says. “We are building a tremendous community among artists, providers of mental health services, and businesses. As program budgets everywhere are being cut and mental health services threatened, Magnificent Minds offers a no cost therapeutic outlet that individuals and organizations can seek for added support.”

For more information about the Magnificent Minds Project visit the website [link to http://www.magnificentmindsproject.com/?page_id=289]. Don't miss the Magnificent Minds Project Art Exhibition at The Reservoir Park Mansion [link to exhibition page http://www.magnificentmindsproject.com/?page_id=289], on view until August 30, 2010.

Steve and Tricia: In Words and Art

Patricia Hutchins and Steve Shaw are a true renaissance couple. Both visual artist working in multiple media, they are also scholars, poets, parents, musicians, and travelers. Tricia, as she’s know to friends, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in French, an associate's degree in Culinary Arts, and many credits in fine arts.  She currently works at the East Shore Area Library of the Dauphin County Library System.

Steve, who holds a Master of Library Science degree, is the retired Director of Administrative Rules for the state of New Hampshire. He hails from New York City and has lived in Prague and Cambridge, England, as well as throughout New England. The two kindred spirits, recently transplanted to Harrisburg from New Hampshire, are also exhibiting artists with the Magnificent Minds Project [link to article about MM]. Steve has bipolar disorder and Patricia Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, and

Depression. For both, creating art is a healing process and helps them find new ways of approaching and managing daily life.

“Part of my definition of depression is that you can’t see,” says Steve, who writes and paints daily. “Art and creativity helps you get through that really down time, when everything looks bleak. Creating art is thinking about space and breaking through barriers and challenges. The process is directly transferrable to everyday life.”

Adds Tricia, “To then have our work, which was sometimes made during very challenging times, validated by the public is incredibly rewarding and uplifting.”

Below is a gallery of Steve’s and Tricia’s recent works, all part of Magnificent Minds exhibitions, with artist statements about each.

[Jeff: Below are text boxes where images should go. The images are attached to the email and should accompany the captions. I’m fine having the captions as part of the page or a separate link.]

Steve

What Picasso Left Out [link to page with the following copy:]

As is well known, Picasso had a “Blue Period.” He also painted guitar players many times. But he never painted blues guitarists, such as those who arose in the Mississippi Delta in the 20’s and 30’s. This scroll, full of blue colors and blues music, tries to remedy this. It tries to capture what Picasso left out.

At the left end of this blues scroll, Picasso stands with his hands raised. From his head shoot plastic forms which take amoeba shapes (the word plastic has two contrary meanings: “fixed and hard,” and “soft and pliable”—it is the second meaning intended here). From the fingers of his painting hand a rainbow of flows, which is not multi-colored, being composed only of shades of blue. Below the arch of the blue rainbow is an African mask. African masks were a huge influence on Picasso’s art.

At the end of the rainbow, there is a pair of black feet surrounded by gold. The feet are those of a weaver, since many African fabrics were woven on looms operated solely by foot power. Above the feet, cubist forms, such as those in a Picasso painting, emerge from a composite of shapes drawn from the twin-circle shapes found in eyeglasses and guitars. A worm, representing basic life forms unseen under the soil, leads us to a large yellow guitar decorated with apostrophes, since American blues’re yet to come (in the way letters are left out of a contracted word).

[Insert image What Picasso Left Out]

The golden guitar leads to a scene of African men fishing. The fishermen’s boat shapeshifts into two forms: the mast becomes a boabab tree and the bow becomes a guitar. The boabab tree is believed to grow upside down in African lore, so here it is a symbol of tradition turned upside down, as it will be when blues music evolves from the hardships of slavery. The boat now turns into a slave ship, containing a cramped man with a broken-necked guitar. Above him are two portraits, one of a Pharaoh (Memphis, a blues center, has an Egyptian name) and one of G. Belzoni, an early explorer of the pyramids, for whom Belzoni, Mississippi is named. Belzoni is often mentioned in the blues of Charlie Patton, the “father” of the delta blues guitar style, also known as “the Masked Marvel,” since his earliest recordings were anonymous (note the mask with the guitar neck, a turnaround from the broken guitar in the slave ship).

Tears are shed for all the suffering slavery brought to the Mississippi Delta. The tears turn into fertile Mississippi River flood waters, on which a harp guitar floats. The amoeboid forms we first saw above Picasso’s head return, but now they are creative life forms in flowing Blues waters. The river forms a guitar with “f” holes and deposits a free-form amoeba guitar on the shore, as if it were drift-wood. All this implies that the African fishermen we saw earlier will become musicians in the new land where the slavers have brought them. All this goes on behind the wallpaper of a plantation house, unseen by the plantation owners.

The Moon’s First CitizenAlbert Pinkham Ryder was a reclusive artist who was so fascinated by the effects of moonlight some called him “the first citizen of the moon.”

The Two JeffersonsThis double portrait started from a fanciful premise that American history and culture were profoundly affected by two men named Jefferson: Thomas and Blind Lemon. Blind Lemon Jefferson played a huge part in Blues history. The blues, an American invention, is to me an essential part of the dream of democracy imbedded in the Declaration of Independence. Of course, no historian of American history thinks that way—yet.

Tricia

[Insert image, I am the Wellspring]

[Insert image The Two Jeffersons]

[insert image The Moon’s First Citizen]

Je suis la Source/I am the wellspring.There’s a nice story behind Je Suis la Source. A therapist of mine told me a story of a client who said that she ran from place to place to place to try to quench her thirst, but was always left thirsty—until she discovered the cool, refreshing well inside of her. I wanted desperately to make a piece of art about that story. I sketched, I thought, I struggled—nothing was right. Then one day I sat down with a Claybord© that I had painted with Prussian Blue ink, and tried, as usual, to empty my mind of all intentions as to the outcome. Halfway through I realized that I was making my piece about having joy within. Pretty cool, huh?

Kaleidoscope Rose within a Rose SoloWhile I was recovering after being hospitalized for depression, I worked daily on scratchboard mandalas, as a meditative exercise, an aid to healing and an art medium. Eventually I had made nearly a hundred of them. These are just a select few.

Judy at TwilightJudy is a friend from New Hampshire. In the last two years, my feelings of displacement after moving to Harrisburg have led me to concentrate on the faces of those I miss. One by one, my friends’ faces are beginning to cover my walls. I enjoy portrait work more than I ever imagined—since so much of my art in the past has been all about geometry—and I know that both portraits and mandalas will continue to be part of my artistic expression.

[Insert image Kaleidoscope]

[Insert image Rose within a Rose]

[Insert image Solo]

[Insert image Judy at Twilight]

[OpenMindsOpenDoors Update]

Certified Peer Specialists

Each year, American businesses lose $70 billion in productivity and absenteeism due to untreated mental health disorders. At the same time experts acknowledge that work is a key factor in supporting mental wellness and warding off mental illness.

We know that work is an important part of recovery for many people with mental illness. But did you also know that for people living with mental illness, the support of peers is a critical component of being able to sustain work? Having someone who understands what life with a mental illness is like and who can lend a hand – and ear – from an experienced, “I’ve walked in your shoes,” perspective, strengthens an individual’s recovery efforts.

Certified Peer Specialists (CPS) are people with mental illness who help others regain control of their lives and progress through recovery. A CPS offers support in any number of ways, from helping with day-to-day tasks to assisting in setting and realizing long-term goals for recovery, to being a “person who understands.”

The OpenMindsOpenDoors campaign, which aims to end discrimination against people who have mental illness, encourages Certified Peer Specialists throughout the state. OMOD’s Employment website [link to http://openmindsopendoors.com/employment/index.htm ] contains a section [link to: http://openmindsopendoors.com/employment/peer.htm] dedicated to CPS. It offers a job bank of available CPS positions across Pennsylvania and a list for providers of Certified Peer Specialists available to work in multiple counties. CPS who register to be part of the list receive regular email updates about new job openings and trainings throughout the state.

We encourage you to share the following links with individuals and organizations you know who would benefit from hiring a CPS, might consider training to be a CPS, or already is a CPS:

For providers seeking to hire CPS, register [link to: http://openmindsopendoors.com/employment/peer_form_view.htm] to see our list of CPS available for work.

For CPS looking for employment, visit our Job Bank [http://openmindsopendoors.com/employment/peer_job_bank.htm] and add your name to the list [link to: http://openmindsopendoors.com/employment/peer_form.htm] of CPS working across counties and in specific regions. We also offer a list of trainings [link to: http://openmindsopendoors.com/employment/peer_training.htm] for CPS.

OpenMindsOpenDoors is an MHAPA initiative aimed at ending discrimination against people with mental illness. Approximately one in five people in this country live with a mental illness -- people who have needs just like everyone else,

and demand basic rights just like everyone else.

Children’s News Update

List of Pennsylvania Schools Supporting Positive Behavior for 2010-11 School Year

As we enter back to school season, families of children with emotional and behavioral challenges feel the anxiety of knowing that their child’s school is not prepared to offer evidence-based support. Other families, however, feel more confident knowing that their school has taken dramatic steps to creating a positive school climate.

More and more districts are joining the Positive Behavioral Supports (PBS) [link to: http://www.papbs.org/Home.aspx?PageID=68a5038d-36df-414f-8e1f-a78737463ace] movement, as they see schools implanting PBS report significant improvements in school climate.

PBS is a research-based approach to behavioral health support, in which all school staff are trained to respond to children in very specific ways. They learn to reward good behaviors and provide effective supports when children are struggling. Schools quickly see dramatic drops in poor behavior, and equally dramatic increases in desired behaviors, such as paying attention in class and getting along with peers.

Below is the list of schools districts currently adopting PBS. A more complete list of schools by building is here [link to: http://www.papbs.org/filestorage/moduleupload/PAPBSschools.pdf].

Pennsylvania Public School Districts Implementing PBS, July 2010

Altoona Area Abington Bradford Area Bethlehem AreaBristol TownshipBucks County IU #22Central Dauphin Chester County IU Chichester Coatesville Cumberland Valley Danville Area Easton Area GatewayGirard Greater Johnstown Greater Nanticoke Grove City Area Hazelton

Highlands Huntingdon Area Jersey Shore AreaLaurel Lewisburg Area MuncyNorthern Cambria Northgate Middle / Senior High SchoolOxford Area Penncrest Pennridge Philadelphia Pleasant Valley Pocono Mountain Pottsgrove Pottstown Reading Scranton Selinsgrove Area

South Park Southern Tioga Steel ValleyWashington Warwick Area Williamsport Area Wyoming Area

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To learn more about PBS, contact one of the above schools to arrange a visit. PBS schools are usually happy to show off their results.

More Information PA Positive Behavioral Support Website [link to: www.papbs.org] Pennsylvania’s School-wide Positive Behavioral Support System, an Introduction

[link to: www.pattan.net/files/RTI/SWPBS-Intro.pdf]

PA Department of Education [link to: www.pattan.net/files/RTI/SWPBS-Intro.pdf]

School-Wide Positive Behavior Support: A Plan For Pennsylvania - Education Law Center [link to: www.elc-pa.org/pubs/.../imp- PBS BriefingBook%2012-18- 08.pdf ]

[Callout:]

Sign up [link to http://pachildrensnews.org/] to receive MHAPA’s monthly Children’s News for information about policies and programs related to children’s mental health issues.

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[Affiliate Updates]

Affiliate Updates

Each month, Mental Health America of York and Adams County [link to http://mhay.org] hosts the following monthly support groups in York County.

Bipolar Support Group Depression/Anxiety Support Group1st Wednesday of each month 4th Wednesday of each month7:30pm to 9:00pm 7:30pm to 9:00pm

LocationBorder’s Café of Borders Bookstore 3000 Whiteford RoadYork, PA 17402(Across from the York Galleria Mall)

In relaxed and casual settings, the groups offer informative discussions and the opportunity to share with others and build a support network. Facilitated by Vince DeMasi, they are open to anyone who would like to attend. Bring friends and family!

If you have questions, would like more information or need directions to Borders, please contact Mental Health America of York and Adams Counties at (717) 843-6973. Ask for either Seth or Kim.

The Advocacy Alliance [link to http://theadvocacyalliance.org/index.htm] continues its efforts to offer positive solution based responses to the Luzerne County Scandal [link tohttp://www.pachildrensnews.org/Luzerne]. On August 9, as follow-up to a successful education law and rights training offered earlier this spring, it is offering a full day and evening of training focused on school discipline and the behavioral support needs and rights of students.  The information will focus on alternatives to Zero Tolerance policies, which have been found to be ineffective in promoting safe school climates and good student outcomes. More information about this full-day session is available here [link to: http://pachildrensnews.org/archives/639].

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Mental Health America/Allegheny County [link to: http://www.mhaac.net/], along with a coalition of advocates, advocacy and behavioral health organizations, is co-sponsoring The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital [link to: www.suitcaseexhibit.org], an exhibition featuring the hundreds of suitcases found abandoned in the attic of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York when it closed in 1995.  Many of the suitcases appeared untouched since their owners packed them decades earlier before entering the institution. Read more [link to a page with the copy and images below] about this exhibition that bears witness to the isolation and arbitrary nature of mental illness and provides insight into psychiatric institutions of the early-mid 20th century. University of Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Gallery [link to http://www.tour.pitt.edu/tour-060.html]. September 1-24, 2010

[Read more page, linked to from above. Jeff see actual image files attached to the email for these images.]

The Lives They Left Behind September 1 – 24, 2010

Frick Fine Arts Gallery University of Pittsburgh

School of Arts and Architecture

Featuring the Willard Suitcases Exhibit and the photography of Matthew Murray, Abandoned America

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In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York’s Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. The suitcases and their contents bear witness to the rich, complex lives these people led before they were committed to Willard – and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections, as well as to loss and isolation. “The Lives They Left Behind” was created to honor the memories of these people and others like them who were removed from their communities and institutionalized.

This exhibit provides insight into psychiatric institutions in the early-mid 20th century and also raises some difficult and compelling questions. For more information: www.suitcaseexhibit.org  The Lives They Left Behind Exhibit will

-     raise awareness of the isolation and arbitrary nature of mental illness-     stimulate discussion and provide education about resources-     honor the lives of those who lived invisibly at state hospitals every where

 Mental Health America/Allegheny County, along with a coalition of advocates, advocacy and behavioral health organizations, is co-sponsoring this event in Pittsburgh. Co-sponsors include: University of Pittsburgh, School of Architecture; Community Human Services, Inc.; Community Care Behavioral Health; Allegheny Health Choices, Inc; Duquesne University

Along with the Willard Suitcases Exhibit and the photographs of “Abandoned America”: www.abandonedamerica.org , we will be holding a lecture series and movie nights (Tuesdays) during the month of September at Frick Fine Arts in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh (between Hillman and Carnegie Libraries) to raise community awareness and reach as broad an audience as possible.

Lectures will be held in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium at 7 PM: 9/2/10- Darby Penney, author of “The Lives They Left Behind” and curator of the

Suitcases Exhibit 9/9/10 - Matthew Murray, photographer, “Abandoned America” 9/16/10 - Robert Whitaker, author of “Mad in America” 9/22/10 - Dr. Carla Yanni, author of “The Architecture of Madness”;

All events will be free of charge and open to the public.

If you would like more information, please contact Rachel Freund, Director of Community Outreach, Mental Health America/Allegheny County, 1-877-391-3820 or rfreund@mhaac. net .

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Events

August

3rd Mental Health for Military Families: The Path to Resilience and Recovery. [Link to http://promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/teleconferences/archive/training/teleconference08032010.aspx]A SAMHSA ADS Center Training Teleconference. This free training teleconference will cover the evolution of mental health services for service members; mental health problems faced by returning service members and their families; and effective strategies for preventing, reducing, and addressing mental health conditions—strategies such as resilience training and veteran-to-veteran support. Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm EST.

9th Education Law Forums, Luzerne County [link to http://pachildrensnews.org/archives/639.]A day and evening of workshops about issues affecting Pennsylvania’s children’s educational services.

20th Peer Support Training Day, Mt. Gretna. [Link to http://www.openmindsopendoors.com/employment/peer_job_listings_071110.htm] The PA Peer Support Coalition holds its 3rd Peer Support Continuing Education Training Day at Philhaven in Mt. Gretna.

Until August 30th Magnificent Minds Project Art Exhibition at Reservoir Park Mansion, Harrisburg. [Link to: http://www.magnificentmindsproject.com/?page_id=289]

September 13th-17th Five-Day WRAP Facilitator Training, Harrisburg. [Link to: http://www.pmhca.org/?page=news_detail&id=679] The Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition offers a Five-Day WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) Facilitator Training at the low cost of $100.