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Hello Families, Friends and Community,
We would like to invite you to The City of Berkeley Mental Health Division & Berkeley Mental Health Commission’s "May is Mental Health Month 2024" campaign. Please join us and register for the May is Mental Health Event – “Be Kind to Your Mind” happening on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 from 5:30-7:30 pm, North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley for in person location. We will have a night full of activities to help you “Be Kind to Your Mind”. There will be chair yoga, art, drumming, mediation, raffles, music, food, community resources and more. This is a free community event, available both in-person and via Zoom. Let's unite to show our support for mental health. Please register. Here is the link for Eventbrite. In-Person Location: North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Avenue Free Zoom Registration Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-DNxDLWdRGWvSI8vS3GBcQ Webinar ID: 817 1865 5955, Passcode: 905328 Telephone: Dial: US: +1 669 900 6833 For additional Information contact: [email protected] or Dial: (510) 981-7644 Read the original flyer here Family Matters: Strategies for families supporting people who have experiences labeled as psychosis2/16/2024
 Give the gift of peer support this year Bay Area Hearing Voices Network offers indispensable peer guided support for those who hear voices and other forms of extraordinary sensory experiences, as well as support for the family and friends who support these individuals. Through community, we foster belonging, acceptance, growth, and ways to cope, outside of traditional medical models of treatment. We champion the fight to destigmatize mental health and empower individuals to self-define. Donate  BAHVN hosted a community workshop with Wildflower Alliance’s Cindy Marty Hadge.
This year, we’ve provided over 300 support group sessions with over 2,300 attendees. Your kind contributions to our organization will go towards facilitator training, increased availability and accessibility to our groups, new groups, more in-person workshops, new programs, and the guarantee that we can continue to offer peer led support to our valued community members. This Holiday season, please consider making a contribution to ensure our work to provide accessible alternative mental health support continues. We are a 501C3 organization so all donations are tax deductible. Donate Our mailing address is: BAHVN 1012 Jones St Berkeley, CA 94710-1520 USA Berkeley mental health crisis team has a phone number and a start date.
Soon, residents will have a new number to call for certain emergencies: 510-948-0075 By Alex N. Gecan Aug. 17, 2023, 3:26 p.m. The Specialized Care Unit, Berkeley’s mobile crisis team, finally has a projected start date and a phone number. The SCU should be able to start taking calls on Sept. 5, the day after Labor Day, according to Samantha Russell, director of crisis services at Bonita House, the nonprofit mental health care organization running the $4.5 million two-year pilot program. Read more here. The family of Irvo Otieno, a mental health patient who died in police custody, gave the gruesome details of what they saw in the moments ahead of his death. Attorney Benjamin Crump the video was an example of the inhumane ways the police treat mentally ill citizens like criminals instead of people in need of help, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Read full article here. You can read and download the article on the BJGP website: Withdrawing from SSRI Antidepressants: advice for primary care.
This is an important moment as the journal is widely read by GPs, who are the main prescribers of SSRI antidepressants in the UK. Although there was a mention of this topic on the BJGP website last year, which linked to IIPDW’s video, this is the first time this information appears in print in a UK journal aimed at GPs. You can find the full article here. This article is an invitation to open our perceptions to other approaches of supporting people through emotional crisis. Rather than pathologizing behavior we can use curious inquiry to explore the intelligence that is working. “What is this behavior serving or supporting?” or “What is the story that this metaphor is trying to tell?” or even, simply, “What happened?” Thus, with compassion we look for the intelligence that was used by the person in distress in order to survive.
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