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 11 Feb 2008
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MVBCN Welcomes Helen Lara as Consumer Affairs SpecialistHelen joins us from California, bringing 11 years of experience with self-help programs. She managed the Interlink Self-Help Center and created the new Wellness and Advocacy Center, both in Santa Rosa. As a result of her own life experience, Helen became a passionate advocate for the role of peer support as an essential component of recovery.
You can read Helen's essay on recovery: RECOVERY: What Is It? (PDF)
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27 Nov 2007
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MVBCN Releases Criminal Justice/Substance Abuse Collaboration DocumentMVBCN releases Improving Results, a document describing how criminal justice and substance abuse treatment systems can collaborate to maximize the benefit for people served by both systems. Over a period of a year and a half a group of criminal justice and substance abuse treatment professionals from the BCN region worked on key issues: information sharing, continuum of care and evidence-based practices. For each topic the document draws from stakeholder interviews and literature review to provide an overview; challenges and barriers; recommendations; and, funding challenges.
See our downloads page under MVBCN policies. Download Improving Results PDF
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22 Oct 2007
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Silver Achievement Award Goes to EAST! On October 11, 2007, EAST received the Silver Award from the American Psychiatric Association in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Sally Godard accepted the award on behalf of the team. The national award recognizes the innovative work done by EAST staff.
See our downloads page under MVBCN policies. Download Psychiatric Services Reprint
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