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We are pleased to announce the opening of our online store, Turning Point Enterprises. All of the products are hand made by clients of the Turning Point program. We are currently offering several holiday items including wreaths and gift boxes. Check back often for new products. You can visit the store by going to http://shop.seminolecares.org, or click on the button to the left titled "Turning Point Enterprises". All proceeds go to the Turning Point program.

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Seminole Behavioral Healthcare is a private, nonprofit organization whose goal is to provide comprehensive, biopsychosocial rehabilitation programming in the areas of mental health and substance abuse. These services are designed to facilitate our clients recognizing and using their strengths and abilities as well as identify their personal goals for successfully living, learning, socializing and working in our community.
 
Florida's Mental-Health System Could Face $15M In Budget Cuts
Kate Santich
Sentinel Staff Writer
OrlandoSentinel.com
April 20, 2009


Florida's mental-health system -- already ranked 48th among the 50 states by a national advocacy group -- could face $15 million in budget cuts from state lawmakers, with about a third of the reductions hitting programs in Central Florida.

If approved, the cuts would target eight mental-health or substance-abuse treatment facilities in the region. One of them, a program for drug-addicted pregnant and postpartum women, would close.

Other facilities, such as a mental-health crisis unit in Seminole County, probably would have to turn away patients. The unit would lose a third of its 21 beds, even though it has only one more bed than when it opened more than 25 years ago.

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Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid is a 12-hour interactive certification course designed to lower stigma surrounding mental illness by increasing ones skill in helping a person cope with a mental health crisis. It gives primary care providers, educators, businesses, and others in the public a tool and a resource to help overcome fear of a mental health crisis. Fear is generally the root of most stigmas. The stigma surrounding mental illnesses in the United States is no different: fear of not understanding the problem, fear of doing or saying the "wrong" thing and fear of not knowing what to do when someone needs help.

The course was developed in 2000 by Betty Kitchener and Professor Tony Jorm with the aim to improve the mental health literacy of Australians, it is now auspiced by ORYGEN Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry. The training program has since been replicated in six countries, including Scotland, Great Britain and Canada.

Last year the National Council has adapted this well-researched Australian program for the American public. And as of January 2008, the United States has been added to this list of other countries and Seminole Behavioral Healthcare was one out of seven agencies to be apart of this inaugural group training.

As a National Council member, Seminole Behavioral Healthcare was chosen to represent the state of Florida in leading and managing the certification program. The National Council's vision is that by the year 2025, Mental Health First Aid certification will be as common and as well-known as CPR and other first aid certifications.

To be apart of this vision, please contact Julie Emmer to request further information via email on our upcoming scheduled trainings or call by phone at (407) 831-2411 extension 1206.

Feel free to check out the following websites for more information about the Mental Health First Aid initiative in the United States, Florida and abroad.

The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/

Florida Council for Community Mental Health
http://www.fccmh.org/

Australia Mental Health First Aid
http://www.mhfa.com.au/

University of Melbourne
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/

 

AD/HD PARENT SUPPORT GROUP

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JOIN US: Every 3rd Tuesday beginning May 15th
TIME: 5PM to 6:30PM
PLACE: Seminole Behavioral Healthcare
237 Fernwood Blvd
Fern Park , Fl. 32730
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Seminole Behavioral Healthcare: Yesterday and Today

Founded in 1969 by a concerned group of community residents, Seminole Behavioral Healthcare employed a staff of three and operated out of a small storefront office. Today, Seminole Behavioral Healthcare has developed into a multi-campus, comprehensive mental health agency with 170 employees and more than 10 programs.

Seminole Behavioral Healthcare can be defined by the thousands of people whose lives we touch each year. Working with government agencies and other community resources, we extend an open invitation to those whose lives have been changed by mental illness, alcohol or drug dependency, or physical, sexual or emotional abuse.

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