Category Archives: Mental Illness

Girl Scout promotes reading to help teens deal with mental illness …

And as this week's FOX 4 Reaching 4 Excellence Young Achiever turns the page on her mental health challenges, she shows us we can also read for recovery. Sixteen-year-old Teresa Shockley is drawn to books, especially …

Mental Health First Aid Program Comes to NYC | Al Jazeera America

A daylong training program that teaches volunteers to recognize and respond to mental health crises will soon be offered to a quarter of a million New Yorkers, in a bid to make such training as common as that for CPR or first …

Book about mental illness — created by a Jewish father and son …

“Challenger Deep” may be fiction, but it is written from the experiences that Shusterman had parenting Brendan as he went through many diagnoses for mental illness during his teen years. In his acceptance remarks at the …

Perdido Street School: Rob Astorino Offers Mental Health Services …

Rob Astorino Offers Mental Health Services To "Insecure" Andrew Cuomo. This made my day: Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino—the 2014 Republican candidate for governor—today suggested Gov. Andrew …

New York – OpEd: Mental Illness In The Frum Community: It's Time …

Mental illness? It falls into the same category as drug addiction and sexual abuse and is yet another unspoken taboo in our world. We try to pretend that these issues don't exist and if anyone does get up the courage to speak …