Third, with my advice, you’ll see yourself losing those weight fast stay thin! Fourth. As Directions is celebrating its 30th year of operation, the transition is well timed with a few other significant milestones this year. While becoming the sole Diversion Services provider for Pinellas County with the mission of diverting children from the child welfare system, introducing a brand new location in Pasco County, serving as lead social services agency for the Pinellas County Sheriff’s ‘Officesponsored’ homeless shelter, Safe Harbor, being awarded scattered site Supported Housing funding in Pasco County, and earning an exclusive contract with Pinellas County Health and Human Services to serve as the behavioral health provider in the innovative integration of behavioral and primary health care, fiscal Year ‘11-‘12 brought record expansion and growth for the social services agency, including the honor of being named the 2012 Large ‘Not for Profit’ Business of the Year by the Clearwater Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Did you know that the broad scope of services offered at Directions for Living, that includes primary care, substance abuse treatment, behavioral health care, homeless outreach, and many other services, Directions for Living is also proud to be the provider of Dependency Case Management and Diversion Services within the child welfare system of Pinellas County through its Child Safety and Family Preservation division -one that often went unacknowledged under the former name.
The Directions for Living logo, that was developed in collaboration with local branding and advertising firm PeakBiety, was carefully chosen to represent the dynamic integration of Directions for Living’s four main service sets.
Now, the public might be able to remember the ‘multi faceted’ nature of Directions for Living at first impression, Together, these core areas make up the comprehensive, integrated health care agency that many have come to know through experience. Adult Behavioral Health; Children’s Behavioral Health; and Child Safety Family Preservation, Prevention, Wellness. Just keep reading. Directions for Living’s new website.org, furthermore launched today. Website is intended to be an exuberant reflection of the new brand which can serve as a positive resource, navigation tool, and an inviting introduction to the agency for clients, partners, and the community. It’s the organization’s hope that the name ‘Directions for Living’ and commitment that ‘Life Gets Better Here’ will capture the true focus of the agency, that still includes but now extends well beyond the previously narrow mission of providing premier behavioral health services, as it enters the next stage of assisting Tampa Bay consumers along an expanding continuum of care.
Respected and rigorous research is showing that mental health challenges are episodic, that means that they go away over time.
Psychiatric medications can cause long time health problems like diabetes, obesity, and sexual dysfunction.
These problems do not necessarily resolve when the medications are no longer being taken, and the mental health problems may become more extreme than before. He found that they experience mental health challenges that are far worse than anything they experienced before they began taking the medications. His investigation led to an intensive study of the merits of psychiatric medications and his documentation of the phenomenon that occurs when people who been taking medications for a long time no longer take them, as he searched for answers to the troubling question of why the amount of people with mental health challenges in the US had tripled over the past two decades.
Robert Whitaker gives an overview of his important work, Anatomy of a Epidemic.
She will speak specifically to the efficacy of using the evidence based Wellness recovery Action Plan as the initial and primary support on the journey to recovery.
Mary Ellen Copeland shares her vision of a mental health system where people who reach out for assistance and support are first encouraged to use their own personal resources to find simple, safe solutions to their mental health challenges. Stories that illustrate the challenges of using WRAP, and the power of WRAP in helping people to improve the quality of their daily lives and going on to meet their own goals and dreams, Her presentation includes stories that she has gathered from people across the world who use WRAP.