Empowerment Magazine
WINTER 2011
Top Three Ways to Promote Wellness 3
Finding Happiness and Contentment during the Holidays 4, 5
Q & A on Co-Occurring Disorders 6, 7, 20
Reaching Across Stockton 8, 9
How to Pick a Counselor or Therapist 10
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Empowerment Magazine
WINTER 2011
Top Three Ways to Promote Wellness 3
Finding Happiness and Contentment during the Holidays 4, 5
Q & A on Co-Occurring Disorders 6, 7, 20
Reaching Across Stockton 8, 9
How to Pick a Counselor or Therapist 10
We Advocate For You! 11
New Direction 12
Inside this issue:
Sacramento Launches Mental Health Promotion Project to Reduce Stigma and
Discrimination
14
Managing Seasonal Affective Disorder 15
Interview with Dianne Ross, RN, Founder and CEO of AHMI 16, 17
What You Can Do To Speed Up Your Disability Application 18
Minestrone Soup and Mary Jo’s Revised French Chocolate Cake 19
Resource Page 23
Marilyn Washington
Terry Zick, M.
A.
Melanie Martinez
Anne Adams
Chelsea Bagias, Psy.
D.
Cindy Tuttle
Dianne Ross, RN
Office of Patients Rights
Phommasone Griffith
Eric Zuniga
Gail Erlandson, MA
Rosario M.
Ramirez, (Social Security
Administration)
Tammy Dyer.
M.
S.
W.
Ron Risley, M.
D.
C.
O.
R.
E.
Medical Clinic Inc.
David Kiesz
Mary Jo
Randall Stenson M.
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