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CHARG Resource Center
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Click Here To Donate To CHARG Resource Center	www.mhselfhelp.org - National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse Colorado Nonprofits Association - Local umbrella group of nonprofit organizations Community Shares of Colorado - the workplace giving federation to which we belong and which we enthusiastically support The Mental Health Center of Denver - Denver's community mental health center The Center for Mental Health Services' Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) - award-winning government Web site that offers a wealth of information about mental health listing of various recovery related websites National Housing Trust Fund Campaign Tech for All Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition Texas Mental Health Consumers links Georgia Mental Health Clinic Network links SAMHSA Consumer Survivor links National Institute of Mental Health - Publications Dogboyz Design - Great web design David Quarton's (A Co Founder of CHARG) Web Site Zim Mathematics
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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 www.alpinewaste.com “Our trash collection company which gives friendly and efficient service and is a supporter of CHARG Resource Center.”
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" 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. Top of page

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Alpine Waste & Recycling

www.alpinewaste.com

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

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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