We are very fortunate as a group that we have so much friendly support from many friends in the community. We have friends who have shared a location for us to meet (GreenTree Church and Community Center), friends who come by to contribute snacks and other resources (you know who you are!) and now we even have a community group who has given the Peer Center a five hundred dollar grant to help with programming!
We wish to thank the Adult Mental Health and Substance Abuse Advisory Committee at CenterPoint Human Services for inviting us to apply for this grant! We will be using these funds to:
- bring a dietitian to GreenTree to instruct us on nutrition for our minds and our bodies and
- host a self advocacy class using the FREEDOM SELF ADVOCACY curriculum produced by the National Mental Health Consumers Self-Help ClearingHouse.
This organization is one of the technical assistance centers funded by SAMHSA that helps consumer organizations with support and training. In fact, one of the ClearingHouse staff is coming from Pennsylvania in September to offer a training institute to help interested peer specialists learn to present this curriculum in other communities! So this grant is opening some marvelous doors just by association with this project!
We are so grateful to the Advisory Committee and hope that this curriculum will help many people gain more benefit from their services through self-advocacy!