Our latest initiative involves the development of our new Self Help/Peer Support Program to supplement the Peer Concept we practice throughout our agency. Targeted towards people with chronic long term psychiatric hospitalizations and significant diagnoses, Peer Self Help is designed to help clients integrate into the community when they have been absent from it for…
Our Art Group was proud to participate in Visions 2015, an exhibition hosted by ArtsWestchester and organized by Rockland Psychiatric Center. Over 200 people attended the opening reception viewing more than 150 artworks by more than 70 artists who are recipients of mental health services in Westchester County. The New Kids on the Block Guy…
Today, we share with you a powerful poem from a beloved client who struggled mightily. He struggles on in our hearts and memories, and through his message, we hope to reach others who are also out there, fighting the battle. – Thomas We Love You. It is not depression, It is despair that made him…
May is widely recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month. For us at CHOICE of NY, every month is mental health awareness month and like everyone else in our “business”, we are happy to take advantage of this marketing moniker to bring more attention to our mission. It seems these days that everyone is talking about…
Active Minds is a college student-based organization started in a dorm room by 21-year-old college student Alison Malmon at the University of Pennsylvania. The impetus, unfortunately, was the suicidal passing of her then 22-year-old brother. That was fifteeen years ago. Since then, Alison and Active Minds have taken this tragedy and turned it into a student-run…