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Wishing you a Happy & Healthy New Year
from Chester County Mental Health Services!
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Powerful Connections
Teens get it. Friends are important. Adolescent friendships are crucial to build feelings of acceptance and belonging. They help teens develop social skills, empathy and support networks, as well as a sense of their own identity beyond family ties. In fact, research shows that strong friendships in adolescence predict a happier and healthier adulthood, and strong friendships throughout adulthood reap many health benefits.
Click to read more
from the Mayo Clinic.
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Get Creative!
Free Art Sessions from Stages Arts Initiative
On the fourth Tuesday of each month, Crossroads Recovery Center in West Chester hosts free art sessions from 1:00 - 3:00 PM. Sessions are facilitated by Arnold Melton, an experienced artist and Stages Arts Initiative board member, who says anyone is welcome to attend in the newly designed art room and explore a number of art mediums. Registration is not required, and interested art-lovers may drop-in to the informal sessions to have fun and create art projects. The next session is Tuesday, January 28 at Crossroads Recovery Center, 825 Paoli Pike, West Chester.
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Registration is Open!
Crisis Intervention Team Training
Chester County's 7th Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training is scheduled from April 27 to May 1, 2020. An intensive 40-hour course endorsed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, CIT is offered at no cost for local police officers, state troopers, constables and corrections officers. For more information and to register, use this link:
http://scheduleme.link/3761/
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Bright Futures Returns to Chester County
Bright Futures is a free eight-week class for individuals in recovery who want to sharpen their computer, job search and interviewing skills. The next class is scheduled to run from March 16 to May 6 from 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM, twice a week, at the Delaware County Community College in Exton. For more information, contact Julie Gentile, Chester County's Recovery Systems Coordinator at 610-344-4703 or
jgentile@chesco.org
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New 211 Call Center Addresses Homelessness in Chester County
Last month Chester County established a 211
call service for any county resident in need of information on, and help with emergency, temporary or permanent housing. The new 211 Homeless Coordinated Entry Call Center provides a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week information service as well as intake services from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday.
The service can be accessed in English and Spanish, and serves those who are hearing impaired via a 711 relay service that calls 211.
The Chester County Decade to Doorways initiative, administered through the county’s Department of Community Development, announced the new service, which went live on Dec. 12. The Call Center service will be administered by Pennsylvania’s 211 system via a contract with the United Way of Chester County.
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Helping Youth in Distress
A presentation for parents
January 21 from 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Lionville Middle School
Matthew Winterstein, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Director of Research in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Pictured to the right, he will present important information for parents at the Lionville Middle School Library. Community members welcome.
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Become a Certified Mental Health First Aider in 2020!
Free classes are scheduled this winter.
Flyers are posted regularly.
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Unionville Chadds Ford School District Holding 4th Annual Resource Fair
January 22 from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
At the school district office public meeting room
Registration requested
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Doors to Wellbeing offers a Monthly Peer Specialist Webinar Series
Tuesday, January 28 at 2:00 PM
Crisis Engagement Strategies
In acute and crisis situations, peer support specialists can become an essential part of the recovery process for individuals under duress. Peer support specialists engage, empower, and advocate for people in acute and crisis settings.
Click for more information and to register.
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If you are interested in County of Chester Job Opportunities, please check our our current openings at the link below:
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More Resources, Events & Classes
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There are several other county departments
that send out community newsletters and announcements just like this one. If you're interested, sign up with
this link!
Use links below for more information!
Chester County CHADD
(Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder) offers information, resources and local support groups.
Charting a Lifecourse
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What's your vision of a good life? Learn about the Lifecourse tools, offered at no cost.
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Chester County Department of Mental Health / Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
601 Westtown Road, West Chester, PA 19380
Chester County Commissioners
Administrator: Linda Cox
Deputy MH Administrator: Candy Craig
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