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MHA Spotlight
Meet
Simmy Wolf
As a volunteer organization, Mental Health America relies on the dedication
of many different types of individuals who help us further our mission and
delivery of services. One such professional is Simmy Wolf.
In addition to her work at Behavioral Health Response (BHR), Simmy
plays an integral role in Street Talk, the quarterly
newsletter for law enforcement in Eastern Missouri. Simmy’s skills
transform a collection of articles, pictures and graphics into a coherent
print product. She is responsible for layout, graphics, all aspects of print
production, and oversight of mail distribution. Mental Health America, along
with its Street Talk partners – BHR and the Street Talk
Advisory Board – thank Simmy for all her hard work that helps make the
newsletter possible!
Simmy joined Behavioral
Health Response in 2001 as Administrative Assistant to the president/CEO.
In her current position as Office Manager, she additionally coordinates
in-house agency events and oversees the agency’s fundraising for the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She also has duties within the Finance
Department, and is responsible for health and safety procedures for all
staff.
Thank you to our Open Mind respondents
through the years!
For decades, mental health professionals in the
St. Louis area have been kind enough to
volunteer their time and expertise to answer questions posed by consumers in
our Open Mind column, appearing in local publications, including the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
and the Suburban Journals all over the metro area. Open
Mind is no longer being published, but we maintain an
archive of articles that
continue to be valid examples of the expertise of our local mental health
professional community. Thanks!
Self-Help
Group Directory is Still Available!
Updated listings, easier-to-use format!
Click here for a convenient
order form
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Mental
Health Professionals
An important message from MHA and MO HealthNet
Click here!
Mental Health Professionals . . . Want to
increase your visibility?
- Write a Book Review of a mental health
oriented book - fiction or nonfiction. We'll feature your review on
our home page, and you can promote your agency or practice.
- Volunteer to be a member of our Speaker's Bureau. You'll have
the opportunity to reach hundreds of people face to face and become well
known in the community.
- Call us at 314-773-1399, or complete an
Information & Referral form
and send it to 1905 S. Grand, St. Louis, MO 63104.
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Free Drug Education Materials
from NIDA The National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is the lead Federal agency for research on
drug abuse and addiction, and like the National Mental Health Association,
NIDA works to prevent substance abuse among our Nation's youth, schools, and
communities. To that effort, NIDA has created the NIDA Goes Back to School (NGBTS)
campaign for children, teens, and the adults who influence them, including
science/health teachers, curriculum developers, science chairpersons, school
nurses/counselors, and youth-health advocates. The campaign is a source for
FREE science-based publications and teaching materials for grades K-12. The
materials emphasize the consequences of drug abuse on the brain and the
body, and aim to increase scientific literacy. Visit
www.BacktoSchool.drugabuse.gov
or call (800) 729-6686 to order FREE publications and teaching materials for
grades K-12. |
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Mental Health Resources for Consumers and Professionals
Does your patient need help paying for expensive
medicines? Click
here for important information.
Before They Fall Off the Cliff is a film
about the 1994 McBride Family tragedy. This website details the film and has
additional mental health resources.
Click
here.
Dialogue for Recovery is an NMHA program, aimed at
enhancing communication between doctors and other mental health professionals
and patients about treatment goals, medication side-effects and other quality
of life issues affecting the recovery of individuals diagnosed with serious
mental illness. For more information please call 800-969-NMHA (6642) [e-mail: infoctr@nmha.org]
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What's your Line? Tell us your specialty or area of
special interest. We are frequently asked to make referrals to
mental health professionals with specific skills or specialty areas,
such as ADHD children, Bi-Polar children, Respite Care, Group Therapy,
etc. Call us at 314-773-1399 or send e-mail to
info@mhaem.org, with "Practice
Specialty" in the subject line.
In
particular, we see a need in the community for low cost anger
management therapy, especially in groups. We often get requests
for information for such a service. Some callers are
self-referred, while others are court-ordered. As you might
expect, those in the court-ordered group are usually those with the
fewest resources to pay for services. Professionals and agencies
looking to increase their client base and diversify their services may
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Looking for CEUs? There are a great many local,
regional and national conferences held in and around St. Louis that
offer CEUs. Click on the links below for meeting information:
AAMFT
American Counseling Association
American Mental Health Counselors Assn.
Care
and Counseling
Conte Center -
Washington University School of Medicine
Eastern Missouri
Psychiatric Society
Eating Disorder Referral and Information Service
Lima Associates
Menninger
Clinic
Missouri
Institute of Mental Health
Missouri Mental Health
Counselors Assn.
Missouri Psychological Association
Missouri Society for Clinical Social
Work
NASW-Missouri
National Board for Certified Counselors
St. Louis Psychoanalytic
Institute
Univ. of
MO-STL/Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis.
UM-St. Louis School of Social Work
Washington U. Dept. of Psychiatry
"Internal Family Systems Therapy" presented by Bob
Pelley, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 3-5 PM
Click for details. |
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Are You on
Our List? Mental Health
America of Eastern Missouri maintains an Information and Referral
list of mental health professionals in the St. Louis area. If
you're not on our list, take a few minutes right now to complete our
I&R form. You can also use the same form to volunteer for
our Speaker's Bureau and other visibility-enhancing programs.
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A Message from the
Director
We
have added this professional page to our website as a resource for
you, the mental health professional. Our intent is to provide items of
interest such as medication access, continuing education
opportunities, ordering information for the MHA Self-Help Group
Directory and ways to raise your visibility through our programs.
We welcome your input on ways to improve this page and add information
regarding other items of interest. Please contact us at
info@mhaem.org.
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Directory
of Professional Associations
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
American Association for Marriage and
Family Therapy
American Association of Suicidology
American
Psychiatric Association
American
Psychological Association
Eastern
Missouri Psychiatric Society
Missouri Mental Health Counselors Association
Missouri Psychological Association
National
Association of Social Workers
NASW -
Missouri Chapter
Psychotherapy St.
Louis
St. Louis
Psychoanalytic Institute |
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