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“Mental health residence prompts some concerns”

Posted by: Jenn on: February 5, 2009

This article discusses the proposed mental health facility in a former Baldwin township area nursing home facility. The article was originally found at … http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09036/946992-55.stm   in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Thursday, February 5, 2009.
The fear based opinions alledging that people are afraid of residents of the proposed facility escaping and harming their families couldn’t be more [...]

“Humor contributing to one’s life”

Posted by: Jenn on: December 18, 2008

I stumbled across this letter to the reader’s forum of the Jamestown, NY, Post-Journal.  It is written by a women who suffered with and recovered from depression in part through music and humor.  She also has physical disabilities, but has lead a successfull life.  I found this letter to be inspirational and offering hope to [...]

Rep. Kathy Rapp Responds

Posted by: Jenn on: September 18, 2008

I had sent an email to Rep. Kathy Rapp in regards to the statement that seemed to imply that the majority of folks in State Hospitals were sex offenders.  Below is her response to my email which I received on September 17, 2008 and have her permission to share it with others who shared my [...]

“Silent Witnesses” [WSH cemetary rededication]

Posted by: Jenn on: September 17, 2008

I found this in todays edition of the Warren Times-Observer, it discusses a rededication ceremony to be held on Sept 26th in memory of folks wo died and were buried in a cemetary on Warren State Hospital grounds.  The original artical in is original format can be found at … http://www.timesobserver.com/page/content.detail/id/506277.html 

Silent Witnesses

 

Rededication set for WSH [...]

Call to action

Posted by: Jenn on: September 5, 2008

Rep. Kathy Rapp has responded to concerns about her statement on September 17, 2008, see the following link for more details …. http://pamhi.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/rep-kathy-rapp-responds/ 
I didn’t mention this before in thelast post bout Rep. Kathy Rapp’s Fall 2008 newsletter, maily because I was too fired up about it and wanted to cool down before I posted anything [...]

 I found this article at ….
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080722/NEWS02/379775664/-1/RSS01
I’m not posting it for any reason other then to offer an example of how we (myself included) as mental health Consumers, need to not only learn to be accountable for our actions, but also to demonstrate what can happen if we choose to do things that are inappropriate.  It [...]

Important Service Area Planning Meeting Update

Posted by: Jenn on: April 15, 2008

I received an email from Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumer Association (PMHCA) on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, containing the information included below about Service Area Planning  meetings.  I don’t know what information has changed, so be sure to check to see what if anything has changed with regards to your Service Area Planning meetings.

Changes have been [...]

“Cloud of uncertainty hanging over WSH lifted”

Posted by: Jenn on: March 27, 2008

This article reverberates the latest update regarding Forensics in Pennsylvania not being privatized.  It is from the Warren Times-Observer, originally printed on March 22, 2008.  It also mentions some possible uses for what use to be doctors’ houses on Warren State’s grounds that were brought up at some point during the extensive discussions surrounding Warren [...]

Busy week

Posted by: Jenn on: February 11, 2008

Couldn’t decide what to title this, but I felt that with everything that went on last week, I needed to write about at least some of it.  I attended the local and regional CSP meetings, along with a housing meeting, all this while recovering from a badly bruised elbow, which is doing much better at this [...]

Fluke? or the beginning of a new trend

Posted by: Jenn on: January 18, 2008

  I witnessed something that impressed me more then you can imagine.  our local Community Support Program (CSP) has been floundering at best for as long as I can remember with meetings in the past discussing what activities should be held for Consumers at the drop-in center, and other misc. topics that really didn’t pertain [...]


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