DN Community Mental Health Services
Enhancing Physical Wellness: Lunch Presentation
Greetings everyone!
We have the pleasure of announcing that on Monday, February 22, 2010, the Community Services Network and Fellowship Place will host a special lunch presentation for all clients and staff. The event will start at noon with a healthy (free) lunch, followed by an hour long presentation by Lydia Chwastiak MD, MPH, Asst Prof, Psychiatry and Medicine, Yale Univ. Dr. Chwastiak will present "Enhancing Physical Wellness: Live Healthy, Feel Better". This consumer directed event is presented as part of the CMHC/CSN 2009/2010 Performance Improvement Goal designed to promote health and wellness among CSN clients and staff. Please invite the clients served by your agency to this important and educational event. Please refer to the attached flyer for more details. We are looking forward to seeing you on the 22nd.
Career Services Presentation
Career Services/Professional Development Presentation by Kathy Forkin, Director of Career Services at the University of New Haven Tuesday, February 9th 10-11 am Dixwell Newhallville Community Mental Health Services Conference Room. Coffee and doughnuts will be served! Attendees of the presentation will be invited to select an outfit from the DNCMHS Professional Clothing Closet! Please sign-up at front desk by Monday, February 8th.
EMDR Training Friday, March 12
Please join us at Southern Connecticut State University for a seminar on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing techniques. Please read the full post for more details.
Lupus Foundation of America First Annual Author Symposium
Please join us on Saturday February 6th, 2010, 10 AM at The Water Club in New Haven Connecticut for what is sure to be an exciting event! Our two key note speakers will be Donna Jackson Nakazawa and Bernie Siegel. Other special speakers include Dr. Joseph Craft and Wendy Battles Plasse.
Hannah Gray Community Housing
Happy Holidays!
I'm pleased to announce that the Hannah Gray Home, Inc. is accepting applications for its beautifully renovated residential care facility. Hannah Gray (d.1861), a remarkable African American woman, laundress and seamstress, bequeathed to the Dixwell community and greater New Haven a legacy of generosity and compassion. Her compassion and generosity live on at 235 Dixwell Avenue New Haven, CT.
Please view the video to learn more about the home.
Homeless Tent City Thursday November 19th
Dear Friends,
As you know, the city last year cut the Homeless Overflow Shelter from its budget. Many organizations and individuals worked together to replace that lost money, so that the 100 homeless men who depend on the winter shelter had a place to go. Kika Matos, the Community Services Administrator for the city led the way by organizing a symbolic tent city on the Green that raised over $40,000. Now, Dr. Chisara Asomugha, her successor as C.S.A. is putting together another tent city a week from now on Thursday, November, 19th to raise money again for the Overflow Shelter. Thanks to the federal funds that the city is passing through to the Overflow, it is now open and there is enough money in place to keep it open until the end of February. But we can't let it close then at the height of the winter, so we must again reach deeply to fund the money to get through the winter.
I am attaching both a poster and an explanation of the city's efforts. We would be profoundly grateful for your sponsorship of a tent or a cardboard box shelter or any other funds that you and people you know could contribute. We apologize for the short notice, but the need will not end on November 19th, so anything you can contribute after that will go entirely to providing shelter for the homeless. Thank you for your generosity.
EMDR & Working with Childen by Ana Gomez
Greetings from Dixwell/Newhallville.
I'm excited to announce that Ana Gomez will be with us next week for an EMDR consulation.
She's flying in from Phoenix to do two consultations: the first will be a more intimate gathering of practitioners interested in how
EMDR works with children (which says something about clincal work with adults).
I would like to extend you an invitation to this small, speciality focused group as a special treat:
Survivors of Homicide - Program Services
I am pleased to inform you that Dixwell Newhallville Community Mental Health Services now offers an innovative program to support and provide trauma treatment with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for individuals/families that have survived a homicide.
A Call To Serve: Hannah Gray
Nearly 150 years ago, Hannah Gray, an African American seamstress, laundress, supporter of the abolitionist movement and homeowner bequeathed her home to shelter, warm and nurture indigent, elderly African American women. Today her legacy of service continues. Her call to serve echoes down through the ages to the voices of servants like Collin Powell, First Lady Michelle Obama, you and me.
Join the call to serve, to shelter, to warm and nurture with a monetary donation for the purchase of bedding, cooking ware, laundry supplies, and other home goods for the Hannah Gray home and its residents.
Healing the Generations
"Toxic Stress," "Adverse Childhood Experience," "PTSD" ... no matter what you call it, the bad things that happen to our Connecticut children can cause health problems, interfere with school and affect the quality of their lives. We know the effects of trauma are passed from generation to generation. The time to do something is now. Please join us for a two day conference designed to investigate the effects of trauma on children and families.