Mental Illness -- Related to the News, and with Resources to Read if Interested

I picked up a copy of the Grand Junction Free Press on Friday and it had a really nice Letter to the Editor that I wanted to include here, from Sharon Raggio, President and Chief Executive Officer of Colorado West Regional Mental Health, Inc and Colorado West Psychiatric Hospital, Inc.  For those following Lumigrate who are located here in western Colorado, there is a Mental Health First Aid training which might be of interest for people to take or tell others about who might benefit from the training.  AND if you're reading this from 'afar', you might find this ANOTHER example of what this amazing community of Grand Junction is doing that's making a big difference and causing us to have some of the best and cheapest health care in the United States!  

I'll let Ms Raggio and the Free Press know about my including this here as well, and perhaps they'll come to Lumigrate for some information and we can be part of THEIR processes.  We're all in this together, after all! ~~ Mardy

Here's the link to the letter to the editor -- I encourage everyone to follow the link and go look around the paper's website, it's a tremendous FREE newspaper!  (They have an amazing history that was recounted recently and even in this same issue, a wonderful piece about the history of the Lions Club here, which has the biggest money-making fundraiser every year of any Lions Club in the organization!  We're a valley of essentially 100,000! It's an AMAZING place, and the Free Press gives you a good look at it if you're interested!  www.gjfreepress.com/article/20110114/LETTERS/110119953&parentprofile=search