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Workshops for Visual Artists

VSA Arts of Michigan is offering some workshops for visual artists. Scholarships are available for artists with disabilities. Contact 313-832-3303 for information on scholarships.
Gallery Insider Talk for visual artists will be a panel discussion with Art Gallery owners and curators. You will learn about the differences and similarities of galleries, how they approach the selection [...]

Art Classes for June & July 2008 - Everyone Welcome!

It's never too late to join in the art classes with Tom McClellan. Learn a dynamic process for expressing your feelings and ideas through the arts. Try your hand at using acrylic paints and pastel chalks. A great way to get your thoughts out of the way and your emotions out and expressed, rather than [...]

Latest Blueprint Documents Here

On 3/20/08 we completed an in-depth look at our progress in transforming our local public mental health system since last fall. We marked a number of items off as COMPLETED! and pushed back dates on some others. Stepping back and evaluating the concrete things that have happened inspires us to push on because we know [...]

New Category Added: Recovery Transformation Updates

When you want to see updates on Northern Lakes CMH’s recovery transformation process, take a look in the new "Category" called Recovery Transformation Updates. There is a subcategory there as well, called Blueprint Updates. We will collect all our progress reports here!
Categories are a very handy tool to finding things in the Virtual Recovery Center. [...]

“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” – Fulton J. Sheen


Walk A Mile In My Shoes!

About 80 people from Northern Lakes’ six counties attended the 4th Annual Walk A Mile In My Shoes Rally at the State Capitol on May 14, 2008. There were 1,800 people there, and everyone was cheerful and enjoyed the day, even though it was pouring down rain.
The purpose of the rally was to raise awareness [...]

“The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.” – Allen Klein


Recovery Learning Communities – April 2008 meeting materials here!

The April agenda included time for people attending to look at a big table full of recovery books and movies. Everyone brainstormed how best to be able to share these materials with people across 6 counties. The groups really like the idea of setting up a library system of some sort, so a person may [...]

“Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


“Some things have to be believed to be seen.” – Ralph Hodgson


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