Mental Health Community Forums
Please add your voice in person by attending one of the forums or by email (rizzolok@co.mendocino.ca.us).
As per the Ukiah Daily Journal Friday November 20, 2009 COMMUNITY BRIEFS
"The Mendocino County Health and Human Services Agency is seeking public input on the delivery of mental health services.
Four community forums will be held countywide.
The impacts of the budget crisis on mental health services in Mendocino County and strategies to address the budget shortfall will be presented. Public input and discussion regarding potential changes in the delivery of mental health services will follow the presentation."
Dates and Times:
Wednesday December 2, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Willits City Council Chambers, 111 E. Commercial Street
Thursday December 3, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Fort Bragg Town Hall, 363 North Main Street.
Wednesday December 9, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Consolidated Tribal Health Project 6991 North State Street, Calpella
Thursday December 10, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Gualala Community Center, 47950 Center Street, Gualala.
"All Members of the community are invited to attend and comment on the potential changes in the delivery of mental health services. Anyone unable to attend is invited to submit their input by emailing rizzolok@co.mendocino.ca.us.
For more information, or if transportation is needed from Covelo to Willits or from Ukiah to Calpella, contact Dee Pallesen at 463-7724.
Comment from Susan Wynd Novotny:
Even one sentence of what you think is needed or what your experience is can make a difference.
As a community we need to brainstorm and look for creative and practical solutions to fill the gaps in services and make sure our loved ones and
ourselves can get the supports that are needed for well being and recovery.
Maybe you hold the key to what hasn't been considered or hasn't been supported in the past.
Mental Health services has been greatly effected by our current fiscal state of affairs.
There is a lot at stake and we as a community need to weigh in on what we think is needed to make for a healthier community.
I have been asked to attend all four of the community forums and will be working to make the information available on a new blog site (www.peerempower.org)
that I have just begun to develop. (all suggestions, in put and critiques welcome as I am new at this!).
Perhaps we will see a difference made if we can continue community education, conversation and action together.
I hope that this Thanksgiving weekend brought joy to you and your family.
