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Entries by Northern Lakes CMH
New national recovery blog!
The National Mental Health Awareness Campaign has launched a new mental health blog! Each week speakers will be providing a unique perspective on mental health issues in our country with their personal stories, viewpoints, current articles and studies about mental health. Check it out here!
Recovery Learning Community Sept 08 Materials Here!
The September 2008 Learning Communities agenda was all about food… Fast food restaurants and nutritional information by item so you can make healthy choices in fast food restaurants; Recipes so you can make healthy versions of beef burritos, burgers and fries, chili, fried chicken and macaroni and cheese at home (thank you, BD Diabetes.com!); and How to […]
Managing Your Energy
The article below was excerpted from the book, The Essence of Leadership, by Mac Anderson. It is reprinted here with permission. Not long ago, I had the opportunity to spend some time with best selling author John Maxwell. The conversation turned to how managing your energy can be one of the keys to leadership. John […]
Recovery Council July and August materials here
July minutes and agenda and August agenda are here. The Recovery Council reviewed the survey they’ve been developing to help with the Blueprint task of creating a strategy to regularly connect gaps in community resources needed to support consumers in places where consumers regularly gather. The group also brainstormed on how we might pilot using […]
Change is Good…You Go First!
The article below is excerpted from the book Change is Good…You Go First! by Mac Anderson and Tom Feltenstein. It is reprinted here with permission. Something magic happens when we accept personal responsibility for our behavior and our results. But, it’s not easy, because it’s human nature to “pass the buck”. I (Mac) know there […]
Recovery Council May and June materials here
Minutes from May and June Recovery Council meetings highlight the progress being made to move Northern Lakes CMH further along to being a truly recovery-oriented system. One of the topics discussed on the agendas focused on using the REE (Recovery Enhancing Environment) survey by Priscilla Ridgway. Another involved developing a short “community gaps” questionnaire to use […]