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Mental Health Matters In partnership with NAMI-Southern Oregon (NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness). Andra Hollenbeck from NAMI-SO hosts conversations with mental health professionals and those navigating mental health.
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In partnership with NAMI-Southern Oregon (NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness). Andra Hollenbeck from NAMI-SO hosts conversations with mental health professionals and those navigating mental health.

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Acceptance and belonging on the road to mental health recovery

Acceptance and belonging on the road to mental health recovery

Mental Health Matters host Andra Hollenback speaks with two NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group facilitators on the important role of peer support in mental health recovery. Dana Green and Lia Dugal talk about their experience, first as group members then as faclilitors. They discuss the benefits, the process, and how to participate if you live in the Medford-Ashland area.

La Clinica's Birch Grove Collaboration offers a whole-person approach to wellness

La Clinica's Birch Grove Collaboration offers a whole-person approach to wellness

Host Andra Hollenbeck speaks with Birch Grove Collaboration Director Stephanie Lyon. They discuss Birch Grove's collaborative, whole person approach to wellness and mental health in an effort to break down the barriers to care. The Collaboration currently includes nine partner organizations that work together to provide comprehensive services.

La Clinica's Birch Grove Collaboration offers a whole-person approach to wellness

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Sarah Small discusses services offered by Options Southern Oregon

Sarah Small discusses services offered by Options Southern Oregon

In this episode of Mental Health Matters, host Andra Hollenbeck speaks with Sarah Small, Community Engagement and Development Manager for Options Southern Oregon. Small describes the comprehensive range of services and resources offered by the organization, as well as open access, eligibility criteria and locations.

Insufficient mental health services for youth in Oregon - a father's struggle

Insufficient mental health services for youth in Oregon - a father's struggle

Oregon ranks last in the country went it comes to providing mental health services to youth in need. Filmmaker turned mental health advocate Andy Neal speaks with host Andra Hollenbeck about how he and his wife have struggled for years to secure mental health services for two of their children. The children suffered multiple severe traumas before being adopted from foster care into Andy's family and are now living with the consequences of those experiences. Andy describes how difficult it has been to get his children the help they need, the dearth of services, the arcane system, the impact on the whole family, and his new life's mission as a mental health advocate.

Insufficient mental health services for youth in Oregon - a father's struggle

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Fostering resilience and emotional health in children

(BoldJourney.com) Host Andra Hollbeck speaks with Oshri Hakak, author, illustrator and school program coordinator with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in Los Angeles. They talk about how to foster resilience as well as positive social and emotional health in youth. Oshri also discusses his new illustrated children's book "Life Rocks."

Revised Measure 110 provides funding for deflection programs

Revised Measure 110 provides funding for deflection programs

Jackson County offers deflection programs that support efforts to rehabilitate drug offenders. The revised Measure 110 (Drug Addiction and Recovery Act) re-introduced criminal penalties for drug possession but also provided funding for deflection programs in Jackson County that help rehabilitate drug users. Ben Spence and Eric Guyer join Mental Health Matters to discuss with host, Andra Hollenbeck.

Psilocybin as a mental health treatment

In partnership with NAMI-Southern Oregon (NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness), Andra Hollenbeck from NAMI-SO hosts conversations with mental health professionals and those navigating mental health. In this episode, Andra visits with Heidi Pendergast, Oregon director for Healing Advocacy Fund, and Emma Knighton, Director of Services for InnerTrek to discuss how the drug Psilocybin is being used to treat patients diagnosed with mental illness.

When mental illness is diagnosed, and you take the patient home

When mental illness is diagnosed, and you take the patient home

No one can "catch" a mental illness the way we catch a cold. But the people around the mentally ill person can certainly be affected by the illness. Nicole Gillen found out the hard way when her daughter showed signs of schizophrenia. Gillen found the existing literature lacking, so she wrote her own book, Schizophrenia & Related Disorders: A Handbook for Caregivers. Book and author get a discussion on the latest edition of Mental Health Matters, our joint podcast with the National Alliance on Mental Illness Southern Oregon. Listen as NAMI-SO's Andra Hollenbeck and Nicole Gillen get into the specifics of caring for someone with serious mental illness (SMI).

How newer treatments for PTSD and anxiety work

There are plenty of sources of trauma in the world; just peruse the news headlines of the day for evidence. The effects stay with the people who experience or witness trauma as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD. June is PTSD Awareness Month, so you can guess the topic of the latest edition of Mental Health Matters. MHM is our podcast made in partnership with the Southern Oregon chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI-SO's Andra Hollenbeck focuses on PTSD and anxiety disorders with Robert Cuyler, a psychologist and mental healthcare executive. He's been involved in work to develop new treatments for PTSD and panic issues.

More than hot and smoky: the mental health needs of firefighters

Fighting wildland fires is dangerous business, in so many ways. The physical challenges are usually emphasized, and they are considerable. But stop to consider what the sight of all the destruction does to the human mind, in addition to how the mind interprets the often backbreaking work of firefighting. We explore the issue in a new edition of Mental Health Matters, our joint project with the National Alliance on Mental Illness Southern Oregon chapter. Andra Hollenbeck from NAMI-SO talks to Jeff Dill, the founder and CEO of the Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance. Dill and Dylan Johnson, a Weyerhaeuser forester and fire crew leader, talk about the mental health needs of firefighters and how they are being addressed.

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