Sonoma County, California 94952, United States
Peer Voices Now
Summer 2019
HOPE: Editor Kate Roberge
What exactly is hope?
Why do we continue to have hope in the face of difficulty, or even despair?
As people with mental health challenges, many of us have had times of great suffering in our lives. So why hope? Where does it come from?
Can we cultivate hope?
Can we sustain it?
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson
Spring 2018
Peer Voices Now! By Persons with Lived Mental Health Experience, for Our Community SPRING 2018 A Newsletter from the Consumer Relations Program in Sonoma County, California (14pgs)
Contact Editor: Kate Roberge
Kate Roberge c/o The Wellness and Advocacy Center 2245 Challenger Way, Suite 104 Santa Rosa, CA 95407 An electronic version of the survey can be requested online at kroberge@gire.org
Peer Voices NOw 2017
Winter 2017
SPIRITUALITY
1 “Why does God Hate Me? ……….
2 Survey Responses………………….
3-7 Mental Health and Spirituality Initiative………………………….....
8-9 Mental Health and Spirituality Support Groups and the Consumer Relations Program ...
10 HEALING VOICES MOVIE…….
11 Peer Support Specialist Training ……………………………….
12 Editor: Amy Breckenridge Graphic and design assistance: Tania Carrillo and Naomi Muraka
Mental Health and Spirituality have been linked in a variety of ways –some positive and others, more negatively. A part of the public mental health discussion in California during the last ten years has been the effort made to “inquire about, embrace and support the spiritual lives of the people it serves or desires to serve”. The Spirituality and Mental Health Core Workgroup formed in late 2006 asks us to consider the idea that ‘Spirituality and religion can be important components of recovery, and they have too often been overlooked and minimized and many times labeled as pathology, leaving consumers with little hope for themselves and their future”. To these ends, PEER VOICES NOW! decided to put the question of spirituality and recovery to people living with mental health challenges in Sonoma County and hear what their experience of Spirituality and Recovery have been
Sonoma County Mental Health and Spiritual Initiative (MH&SI)
Liaisons for Sonoma County: Kalia at: lightwater3@aol.com or Dr. Gary Bravo at: gary.bravo@sonoma-county.org
Spring 2017
Transformations
This issue celebrates a milestone in Sonoma County – The Ten-Year Anniversary of the Wellness & Advocacy Center.
It got me thinking about change and how it occurs – personally, in the community and systemically. Consequently, I want to devote this edition of Peer Voices Now! to the theme of Transformation.
Editor: Amy Breckenridge
Contact: Editor Amy Breckenridge
Kate Roberge c/o The Wellness and Advocacy Center 2245 Challenger Way, Suite 104 Santa Rosa, CA 95407 An electronic version of the survey can be requested online at kroberge@gire.org