NC CANSO

Humanizing Mental Illness

lcoker — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:32:14 +0000

SPECIAL NOTE: This article was written and submitted by Mike Weaver, NC CANSO board member and Executive Director of Mental Health Association of the Tar River Region. After Christmas, and after picking up a friend at his house near Hartford, Connecticut, we were bogged down in Holiday traffic. We decided to get off onto [...]

Creation of ‘The Dangerous List’ is Scapegoating

lcoker — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:11:37 +0000

SPECIAL NOTE: This article is written and submitted by Bonnie Jo Schell, Chairperson of the Board of Directors for NC CANSO. President Obama’s Plan to protect US children and communities from random and planned violence includes one alarming proposal. The President wants all loopholes closed from state and national lists that could keep guns out [...]

2013: North Carolina Mental Health Services System will Begin New Year With Long-Sought Change!

lcoker — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:29:13 +0000

Significant mandates arose from an agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice and the State of North Carolina in the latter part of 2012. This New Year will include a new emphasis on personal agency and choice for individuals using public mental health services in North Carolina! As a result, our Local Management Entities/Managed [...]

Recovery Conference Inspires Unity, Optimism in Face of Adversity

lcoker — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:08:22 +0000

This year’s “One Community in Recovery” conference on November 14 and 15 was the best of the four that have been held. First, let me say that for many, the title of the conference has begged the question, “Recovery from what?” Because anyone living in North Carolina and who cares about the lives of people [...]

PEERing Into the Future and Marching Ever Forward

lcoker — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:53:40 +0000

NC CANSO desires to see progressive change in our state with regard to how our state-wide community respects and encourages us and our friends. In recent years, North Carolina has talked about becoming oriented toward recovery in its mental health service system. This means as a state, there is a growing will to focus [...]

November’s ‘Recovery Conference’ Agenda, Registration, Scholarships NOW Available!

lcoker — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:11:14 +0000

http://northwestahec.wfubmc.edu/mura/www/?utm_campaign=none&utm_source=redirectlink&utm_medium=none/#/event/37351

The information is now available on November's annual state-wide "recovery conference," as it is often called. A cross-discipline, cross-perspective group has worked hard through email and telephonic meetings to bring timely topics to NC consumers, service providers, administrators, and advocates. We hope readers will consider attending this conference and have provided the link for the conference agenda, registration, and yes, scholarship information. But you better hurry for the scholarships! Consumer scholarship application deadline is Friday, September 29th.

Link to One Community in Recovery information:

NC’s One Community in Recovery Conference Planning Underway! Information (including consumer scholarships) to be coming soon!

lcoker — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:37:48 +0000

HOW ABOUT YOUR LME?

lcoker — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:33:36 +0000

Note: This article was originally written spring 2012 Is your LME (local management entity) applying with the state to become a waiver manager (or an “MCO” or managed care organization)? The consider this: Through the years, how much “genuine welcome” (good terminolgy found in the original State Plan for Mental Health Reform) has been extended [...]

The Challenge Still Stands, and WE Must Help It Remain!

lcoker — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:05:27 +0000

The Consumer Voice is becoming stronger now, but not without much work and ongoing outreach across geography and across organizations! Yet this effort is not without reward–for who can better tell our own stories? Who can best enlighten decision-makers and communities about the true nature of our potential to recover or to attain more skill [...]

What Defines North Carolina?

lcoker — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:43:06 +0000

North Carolina may have pretty roads and trees and hills and art and beaches and mountains and venerable old neighborhoods and updated, upscaled downtowns (in some towns), but this isn’t truly what defines us as a state. It is the character of our people. And this is where the story becomes regrettable. What we don’t [...]