Cyber-bullying… technological overload… high-tech isolation… violent and realistic video games. And these are only some of the challenges facing our youth today. Add to that, the fact that globally, depression is one of the leading causes of illness and disability among adolescents, and you can see why the theme for this year’s World Mental Health…
In our latest post, we offer up a guest blog from Elizabeth Pedley, aka Sylvia Forrest, author of A View From My Window, a book of wonderfully enlightening short stories. Elizabeth will occasionally be blogging for us in the future so stay tuned for more of her inspirational stories. She recently had an exchange with…
In our opinion, the first step in helping someone… anyone, actually… is to recognize their value as a human being. At CHOICE, we operate under the premise that everyone who walks through our doors deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. And in that vein, we don’t pigeon-hole ourselves with regard to what types…
Two celebrity suicides made news recently. It’s a tragedy. Even more of a tragedy is that the rate of suicide is growing in this country. And whenever a well known celebrity suffers from this fate, the news media brings the issue into our collective consciousness for a brief moment and gives us the opportunity to…
We are proud to unveil the new calendar feature on our website. We were having enough trouble ourselves keeping track of all of our group and world of work class schedules that we figured our clients must be having issues as well. So… we build a new interactive calendar that lays out all of the groups we…
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Given what we do at CHOICE, I’m not sure how much more aware we could be… in fact, we are painfully aware of the sheer numbers of Americans who are out there struggling day in and day out with mental health issues. And these issues vary in scale from…
Brian’s story warms our collective hearts. It’s just an amazing thing when CHOICE just…well…works! One of the things that distinguishes us from other agencies is our ability to go out into the field and address peoples’ needs where they live and where they hang out. If we hadn’t gone out to find Brian, he would…
Today, we offer up some words from the heart by our friend Nancy Palagano. We thank her for continuing to share her voyage with us. Feel free to contact her through The Lotus Healing Project on Facebook… The degree to which we fall prey to susceptibility is the degree to which we suffer from stigma….
Our latest schedule of both Socialization and World of Work groups is underway for the new year. We hope you’ll join us as we continue to add both the frequency and the diversity of our group activities. Cardio Drumming In Socialization Groups, we’ve added a cool, fun, hip new CARDIO DrumFIT Group. It’s been a…
We recently had the pleasure of introducing the community to our new headquarters in New Rochelle at 71 North Avenue. We threw ourselves a little party and were so thrilled that so many showed up. New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson attended, along with New Rochelle City Councilman Ivar Hyde and a wonderful group of local…