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Entries by Northern Lakes CMH
Cadillac News: “Finding Happiness”
It’s late winter and we’re living in a depressed economy, but that doesn’t mean your emotional well-being has to suffer.
Val Bishop, chief operating officer at Northern Lakes Community Mental Health for six regional counties, offers simple ways to enhance your happiness while living in a bad economy:
Pathways to Recovery: Ongoing & Open to Everyone!
Pathways to Recovery is a self-help class which focuses on how you can use your many strengths and resources to set goals and achieve recovery in broad areas of life such as: having a sense of home increasing your knowledge and education deciding what kind of work you may want to do developing the kind […]
Cadillac News: “Insuring mental health: closing the gap”
by Jeff Broddle NOTE: A recent telephone survey of adults in Northern Lakes CMH’s service area indicates overwhelming support for insurance parity. 93% of those surveyed strongly or somewhat agree that health insurance plans should be required to provide equal coverage for people with mental illness and for those with physical illness. Imagine your doctor […]
Charging The Human Battery
One choice, just one, can change your life forever. Simply put, your life today is what your choices have made it, but with new choices, you can change directions this very moment. For me, that idea alone is highly motivational because it offers tremendous hope, regardless of circumstances, for a better tomorrow. Your life-changing choice […]
Recovery Council January 2009 materials here
After being snowed out in November and December, the Recovery Council resumed its work at its January meeting. Handouts included the agenda, minutes from the September and October meetings, a new draft Recovery Policy, a list of Recovery Council Blueprint Tasks updated last September, and a Position Description for surveyors who will be conducting the […]
MACMHB Blog Features Northern Lakes’ Public Relations Efforts
Taken from the Michigan Association of CMH Boards publication, Connections:
The CMH BOARD BLOG is the place that we post articles and links to information too lengthy for publication in Connections. It’s also the online forum where you can post comments about the articles, or just do a little free writing of your own.