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May 2012 Newsletter NEWSLETTER May 2012 P.O. BOX 1364 Chico, CA 95927 www.namibutteco.com MAY IS MENTAL HEALTH MONTH ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NAMI Butte County NAMI BUTTE COUNTY WALK SUPPORT GROUPS GENERAL MEETING 2012 AGENDA: Thank you to all who came out NAMI BUTTE COUNTY’S 1. Voting for officers: and walked with us on Saturday, Family & Friends Support Group President, Vice- April 21 st . Thank you to the many First Tuesday ea. Month 6:30pm President, Secretary & wonderful volunteers who helped Congregational Church Treasurer 1190 E 1 st Ave., Chico 2. MOVIE NIGHT: set-up, clean-up and run the Walk and create a fun, friendly and Info: Nancy at 895-8933 or “Canvas”, When [email protected] Mary’s mental illness meaningful day. Thanks to the sponsors, the organizations who puts herself and her BUTTE COUNTY family in jeopardy, had informational booths and to those who provided music! Behavioral Health her husband and son Depression/Bipolar Support Group The support enables us to helplessly watch as Every Thursday: 2:30 p.m. continue our local programs she is torn from her Dual Diagnosis family by the police. of education, support and Every Friday: 11:00 a.m. Forced to raise a boy advocacy for people with The Iversen Center on his own & cope mental illness and their 109 Parmac, Suite 2, Chico with his wife’s families. 879-3311 schizophrenia, father (The Iversen Wellness & Recovery Center and Med Clinic offers a & son learn whit it is to be truly a family. wide variety of activities including STARTING OVER STRONG arts & crafts, writing groups, as DATE: Thur. May 17 th well as many support groups. Pick up their calendar at 109 Parmac, TIME : 6:30 p.m. “Empowering people to advocate, Ste. 2 or call 879-3311. The Med PLACE: Butte County Library access, and achieve social and Clinic Phone Line is 879-3974) 1108 Sherman Ave., Chico economic justice." (Corner of East First Ave and “Starting Over Strong (SOS) is DEPRESSION BIPOLAR Sherman Ave) a faith-based nonprofit SUPPORT ALLIANCE INFO? CALL Cathy: 228-7100 organization based in Butte and Every Tuesday: 6pm to 8pm OR e -mail: Glenn counties that works to help First Christian Church [email protected] those who have served time in jail 295 E. Washington, Rm. 6, Chico We are open to the public or prison transition back into For more information, Everyone is welcome society, particularly when it comes rd Call Ken (530) 566-4380 Meetings are held 3 Thur. each month to finding employment. In PARADISE: The Wellness and addition to working with Recovery Center (WRC) is individuals with felonies and/or IN THIS ISSUE consumer driven and emphasize misdemeanors on their record, recovery oriented activities including SOS also helps people who are NAMI WALK 2012 having trouble finding peer support, socialization STARTING OVER STRONG employment because of an arrest opportunities, life skill groups, SUPPORT GROUPS that did not result in a conviction. reintegration into the community, MIOCR ACT employment services, and medication ANOSOGNOSIA Sharon Darsey support. This centers is open to all PERSONALLY SPEAKING [email protected] community members. PTSD P.O. Box 2104 The Hub HEALTH INSURANCE Willows, CA 95988 805 Cedar Street, Paradise, CA 95969 DSM CHANGES (530) 877-5845 BOOK CORNER www.startingoverstrong.com Monday-Friday 8 am - 5 pm 1 MIOTCRA reauthorized the MIOTCRA Upon this outset of the 62nd program for an additional five observance of Mental Health Support the Mentally Ill years. The reauthorization bill Awareness Month, the Treatment Offender Treatment and Crime expanded training for law Advocacy Center introduces a new, enforcement to identify and Reduction Act four-minute video containing respond appropriately to Please add your organization to dramatic footage illustrating the individuals with mental illnesses; it the national sign-on letter in condition that renders millions of also supported the development support of funding for the Mentally people unable to choose treatment of law enforcement receiving Ill Offender Treatment and Crime because they don’t believe they are centers for assessing individuals Reduction Act (MIOTCRA) in FY sick. in custody for mental health and 2013. substance abuse treatment "Anosognosia" is narrated by Dr. E. needs, as an alternative to jail Congress is currently working on booking . Fuller Torrey and contains startling appropriations bills that will clips of Russell Weston being determine funding for MIOTCRA interviewed after his arrest for the in fiscal year 2013. As this work ANOSOGNOSIA 1998 shooting deaths of two U.S. progresses, the field must send a Capitol police officers. Weston IN MENTAL HEALTH strong message to Congress believed he was defending the MONTH: A CALL FOR about the importance of this world from cannibals; he did not AWARENESS OF program for people with mental believe he suffered a mental illness. UNAWARENESS illness involved with the justice Weston has never been tried and system, their families and remains hospitalized with paranoid May is Mental Health Month, communities. A letter in support of schizophrenia. MIOTCRA is now circulating. Sign alternately called Mental Health your organization on today and Awareness Month, an observance For more information about lack of forward the letter to others in that’s been around since 1949 to awareness into illness, see your community. “raise awareness of mental health the recently updated backgrounder, conditions and mental wellness for "Anosognosia: A cause of violent WHAT YOU CAN DO all.” behavior in individuals with severe psychiatric disorders," by Dr. 1. Contact Jay Nelson at the The “mental health awareness” we Torrey and visit our anosognosia Council of State Governments are promoting during this page . Justice Center at commemorative month is the one [email protected] to add your that’s tragically missing in people organization to the letter. (Impaired awareness of illness with severe mental illness: (anosognosia) is the single largest awareness of their own mental 2. Share this information with reason why individuals with others in your state and illness. schizophrenia and bipolar disorder do community and enlist them to do not take their medications. It is caused the same A neurological syndrome called by damage to specific parts of the BACKGROUND “anosognosia ,” this "lack of insight" brain, especially the right hemisphere. MIOTCRA was signed into law in affects an estimated 50 percent of It affects approximately 50 percent of individuals with schizophrenia and 40 2004 to improve access to individuals with schizophrenia and percent of individuals with bipolar treatment for people with mental 40 percent of those with bipolar disorder. It is the single most disorder. When taking medications, illnesses involved in the criminal awareness of illness improves in some justice system. The bill received common reason people with severe patients.) unanimous, bipartisan support in mental illnesses don’t take the both chambers of Congress and is medications that would stabilize www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org supported by a broad spectrum of them and a compelling reason that leaders representing the diverse court-ordered interventions fields of law enforcement, like assisted outpatient corrections, the courts and mental treatment (AOT) are necessary to health. In 2008, Congress save lives. 2 PERSONALLY SPEAKING sobbing, she escaped in a panic. support this vital legislation. I ask Arrested again I was thrown into you, plead with you, to support jail. Booked for assault on a Laura's Law in order to prevent 'I Am a Victim of a Failed cohabitant. I manically roamed any further tragedies. System' - personally speaking the cell. Commanded once again, I tore my clothes in a deranged Sincerely, (April 27, 2012) state, drank copious amounts of RENY water trying to cleanse myself, Dear Assemblymember: hoping to liquify to escape this *************** nightmare. Enter the guards and I, Reny, am a victim of a failed police. They proceeded to Taze (NOTE: The foregoing letter was health care/judicial system that me eight times and pepper spray submitted to California Assembly has rendered me a life sentence in me. Crying inside and outside I members in support of AB 1569, which would extend the state's a wheelchair. After two brief was thrown into a thinly rubber assisted outpatient treatment [AOT] encounters with the law, it was coated "safety" cell. Delusional, I law known as Laura's Law until the third encounter that sealed crashed my head against the wall, 2017. For more information, visit my fate. rendering me a C5/6 quadriplegic. Laying in agony, I our Laura's Law page .) First encounter, I was driving pleaded for help for www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org erratically to my parent’s house. I approximately 10 hours. was arrested. Second encounter, *************** my undiagnosed paranoid Up until then I was your typical schizophrenia commanded me to American, working to pay the UPDATE: May 5 th cleanse my body by setting it rent, going to college, girlfriend and a one-time homecoming king. From Carla Jacobs, Randall Hagar, afire. Arrested again, I was 5150 Chuck Sosebee & Mark Gale: only to be let go after a 10-hour Now in the eyes of many, the stay which should have been a judicial system, another criminal. mandatory 72-hour hold. The Assembly overwhelmingly Like many mentally ill people, I voted in favor of extending Laura's Released with roaring voices in have fallen victim to the Law (65 to 3) until 2017. my head, I was arrested for the "revolving door" that is our The assisted outpatient treatment third and final time. On January 6, judicial system. Incarceration and law that AB 1569 seeks to extend is 2007, I was commanded to homelessness seem to be the only answer for the mentally ill, named after Laura Wilcox, who was sacrifice my girlfriend. Armed killed by Scott Thorpe, a man with causing a financial strain to an with a paring knife, I latched onto untreated schizophrenia.
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