Probate Judge Sherri Friday holds commitment hearings every week inside a small group therapy room at UAB’s Center for Psychiatric Medicine. On a recent Thursday, one of the patients folded and unfolded a stack of papers and bounced her knee up and down. She had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and had been responding to treatment. […]
School-Based Mental Health Services Expanding
WHNT Channel 19 in Huntsville recently visited the Nova Center for Youth & Family, the child and adolescent division of WellStone Behavioral Health, to report on the expansion of school-based mental heath services in area schools. With the beginning of a new semester next week, WellStone will have clinicians embedded in almost 40 schools throughout the Huntsville, Madison, […]
Nova Academy Celebrates Graduation
The Nova Academy, a therapeutic preschool for children ages 3-5, celebrated the end of summer and graduation with a program and luncheon on July 30, 2015. The Academy is a program of the Nova Center for Youth & Family, the child and adolescent division of WellStone Behavioral Health. With parents, grandparents, friends, and other family in the audience […]
Help & Hope for Dementia Caregivers
Covenant Presbyterian Church at 301 Drake Avenue in Huntsville, is hosting a seminar on Saturday August 8, 2015 from 9 am to 12 pm entitled “Help & Hope for Dementia Caregivers”. The seminar will provide practical advice for caregivers of people with dementia and will dispel the sense of hopelessness that families may experience in […]
Local Rally Brings Mental Health Awareness
Over 200 people gathered at the Huntsville Public Library on May 11, 2015 to recognize May as Mental Health Awareness month and to highlight the impact on local service availability should the currently proposed FY 16 state budget for the Alabama Department of Mental Health become a reality. Several local providers spoke about the reduction […]
Commissioner Predicts Collapse of State Mental Health System
By Amy Hinton Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — At his agency’s legislative budget hearing Wednesday, Alabama’s Commissioner of Mental Health, Jim Reddoch, minced no words when he described the impact of the 15 to 30 percent budget cuts proposed by the Alabama Legislature. The Alabama Department of Mental Health is the single State agency with […]
ADAP Director Warns Legislature: Fund Mental Health or Go Back to Federal Court
10 Apr 2015 By Amy Hinton Alabama Political Reporter TUSCALOOSA – Just one day after Alabama’s Commissioner of Mental Health, James Reddoch, addressed the Alabama Legislature and outlined the devastating impact of the Legislature’s proposed budget cuts on the state mental health system, the Executive Director of Alabama Disability Advocacy Program (ADAP), James Tucker, officially […]