Voices for CHANGE (VFC) #12, Fall 2005 Issue
Voices for CHANGE (VFC) #12, Fall 2005 Issue
Lyn Legere
In this article Lyn describes the current state of those changes to medicare and medicaid, which are soon to take effect. To read the full text of this article click on the title just above or Click HERE
Howard Trachtman
Howard would like to introduce you to the Boston Chapter of M-POWER and invite you to our next meeting! To read the full text of this article click on the title just above or Click HERE
The Coalition for Fresh Air Rights (CFAR) is very active these days. This CFAR section contains an article by Jonathan Dosick, CFAR Director, entitled: "Fresh Air Bill Deliberated at State House" ; and an explanation of "Your Inpatient Rights as a Consumer/Survivor in Massachusetts", and a poem entitled "Fresh Air Freedom" by longtime CFAR activist Sarah Entenmann. To read the full text of these articles Click HERE or click on the titles above, or on the headline "CFAR SECTION" located just above this intro paragraph.
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Conference
Helen Cheltenham
Helen describes a recent conference, which was held to educate psychiatric consumers about the Wellness Recovery Action Plan or WRAP. The WRAP is a plan one makes when one is well to both enhance ones recovery and cope with potential crises. To read the full text of this article click on the title just above or Click HERE
Keeping Disability Protections in the New Welfare Law
Linda Fountas
How will the new Welfare Reform bill in Massachusetts affect people with disabilities, read about it by clicking here or on the headline above this intro blurb.
Chris Lineman
Chris discusses the difficulties of being a low income disability recipient in a society that increasingly requires good credit for many things like housing etc...etc...To read the full text of this article click on the title just above or Click HERE
Announcement
Five Spanish-speaking mental health consumers recently graduated from the Peer Counseling Training offered by the Northeast Independent Living Program in Lawrence, Mass. This unique training prepared them to provide one-to-one support and companionship to other Department of Mental Health (DMH)-eligible mental health consumers in the Merrimack Valley. The Peer Counseling Project offers services in English and Spanish throughout a large area from Andover to Salisbury. There are twenty trained peer counselors now working in the project, which is the only bi-lingual peer counseling program for mental health consumers in Massachusetts. From left to right, front row, Benjamin Aljueso, Gladys Feliciano, Lidia Henriquez, Ramona Santana, and Francisco Santana; back row, Latino Outreach Coordinator Oliva Tejada, DMH Multicultural Outreach Coordinator Raul Montero, Program Coordinator Ruthie Poole, DMH Program Liaison Rosalind Pastrana, and DMH Essex North Site Director Dottie Smith.
Poetry
