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October 01,
2004
Local artist
donates posters to MGHS to raise awareness about
Mental
Health
Awareness Week
Marquette
artist Pat St. Germain, second from right, presented Upper Michigan
Behavioral
Health, a service of Marquette General
Health System, several posters/paintings he designed to help draw
attention to Mental Illness Awareness Week (Oct. 3-9).
Sponsored
by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), the theme
for this year's Mental Illness Awareness Week is "Unity through
Diversity." The goal for the week is to educate citizens
about the hope and real possibility of reclaimed lives in all
communities
across the country.
Pictured,
from left, are Barb Bradley, representing the Alger-Marquette
chapter of NAMI; Jan Place, nurse manager
of the Detox Unit at Marquette General; St. Germain; and Shawn
Hatch,
Clinic Supervisor of Upper Michigan Behavioral Health.
NAMI
is a non-profit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy
organization
of consumers, families and friends of people with severe
mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder,
bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive
disorder,
and others.
Founded in
1979, NAMI works to achieve equitable services and treatment
for more than 15 million Americans
living
with severe
mental illnesses and their families. "We are extremely happy
to have the new posters in our waiting room," Hatch said. "These
posters are a creative way to help people get connected to NAMI,
which offers a crucial form of support to friends and relatives
of those with a mental illness. We are pleased to be in a position
to help them, help others."
NAMI offers
a twice-monthly support group at The Commons in Marquette.
For
more information, contact
the MGHS Education/Conference Center at 906-225-3470
from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. (MGH photo)
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