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The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing   (HCPF) -
Mental Health Advisory Committee ( MHAC)     Member Recruitment

MHAC Application    


MHAC Member Confidentiality Agreement

MHAC Recruitment Letter

The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing  Official Web Page

The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing  will evaluate applications  for filling the gaps in representative areas, that were previously identified.  The candidates are then submitted to the Executive Director for approval.  Following her approval, we will notify the new members, send them a copy of the by-laws, the URL for the meeting agendas/minutes, etc. and advise them of the next meeting.  We will also share the recommended applicants with the Committee, but it is the Department's responsibility to select new Members, not a Committee vote

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Alpine Waste & Recycling

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“Our trash collection company which gives friendly and efficient service and is a supporter of CHARG Resource Center.”

 



THANK(S) to Channel 9
A Supporter  of CHARG Resource Center !


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The Consumer Story Project
This is a project started by the PAE - Protection, Advocacy and Empowerment committee.  The PAE  committee is a committee to the MHPAC - Mental Health Planning and Advisory Council, a Federally funded State Council who's role is to advise the State of Colorado on Mental Health issues.

The PAE Consumer Story Project's goal is to Educate the Public and Reduce stigma by giving a forum for MH Consumers to publish their personal stories, poems, art work.   We feel this is an effective manner in which to communicate the issues, concerns, hopes and goals of the Mental Health Consumer.

To submit your personal work for publication at the CHARG web site, email Zim Olson at:

pae_consumer_stories@yahoo.com

PDF, JPG, DOC formats are acceptable.  Story length should generally be limited to four pages or less.
CHARG Drop in Center - Clothing Bank & Needs List

Donations Needed - Women's and Men's Clothing - All Sizes

CHARG Drop in Center Clothing Bank
920 Emerson St
Denver Colorado 80218
Call Jennifer Miller - Drop in Center Coordinator - 303-830-2130

NEW - THIS SECTION IS FOR CONSUMERS

For Sale, Events, Groups, Thoughts, etc.

Submit items for this page to Diana Roca

 

Rachel Corday's  (Mental Health Consumer), new book:
" The Benningdon-Crank, Nervous Hospital"

Rachel Corday's Book

Synopsis of "The Benningdon-Crank Nervous Hospital"

by Rachel Corday



The Benningdon Crank Nervous Hospital is a novel about a woman named Thuna Paxton who, as someone with bipolar disorder, is spending inpatient time at the Benningdon Psychiatric Institute where she discovers the untimely deaths of a number of fellow patients.

In her compromised position as a mental patient she is limited in her capacity to be heard either by the hospital or the police. But she has an advantage in that she has a friend in fellow inmate and bipolar patient Marin Chadwick. It is rare for a mental patient to make a connection with another patient and it is because of their combined strength that they are able to persevere in their attempts to survive a killer who is focused on getting rid of them both. 

Thuna is a Social Work Supervisor for Multnonmah County in Portland, Oregon where the Institute is located, and where she lives with her husband Nate, an art history professor at the University of Portland, and her son, Travis, who leaves for Stanford in the fall. Nate and Travis are equally supportive of Thuna, and stand by her throughout her search as she confronts the policies of the hospital and the appalling practices and attitudes of the staff toward patients.

While Thuna struggles in her effort to survive as she seeks the killer, other patients are not so enduring. Thuna’s friend Graham, who, because Thuna has befriended him, and who fought to help Thuna survive a night in the infamous Room 2, is, in the end, brutally murdered in his bed.

A mental hospital is a dangerous place, but it is not so much for the staff, which is the common misconception, but rather for the patients who must endure an astonishing degree of ignorance and prejudice against them. Patients must attempt to survive hospital abuse until they are either freed to an almost equally dangerous outside world, or until their life comes to an end in the institution. During Thuna’s incarceration she reveals the depth of these conditions and fights moment by moment to survive them all.

Even for a mental hospital, and an awarded one at that, Benningdon Psychiatric Institute is more than it seems, and the exact nature of its horrific secret is uncovered by Thuna’s relentless efforts to save her own life as well as those of others who have already lived lives of unendurable suffering.
 

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