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Make Your Own Mental Health Crisis Kit

Make Your Own Mental Health Crisis Kit

When you have depression or another mental health condition, you often cannot predict when you will find yourself struggling. A Mental Health Crisis Kit is a collection of comforting items you can carry with you or have on hand for those situations. Suggestions to place 

Co-Occurring Disorders

Co-Occurring Disorders

Thank you to DrugRehab.com, a web resource that provides information about addiction and mental health issues, which replied to last week’s post. Please see below to learn more about depression and how it often occurs along with a substance use disorder. In general, health care 

Mental Illness Awareness Week 2017

Mental Illness Awareness Week 2017

Mental Illness Awareness Week 2017 (October 1st through 7th) is here! According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, while one in five teens lives with a mental health condition, less than half of them receive treatment. Depression is a serious illness that requires medical 

Plan D NoVA Flyer to Make Its Debut!

Plan D NoVA Flyer to Make Its Debut!

Just in time for the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board (CSB) Recovery Resource Open House, PlanDNoVa’s flyer is ready for distribution.  The Open House will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, September 27th, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at CSB’s Merrifield Center, located at 8221 Willow 

Plan D NOVA– Welcome to the World…Wide Web

Plan D NOVA– Welcome to the World…Wide Web

Welcome to Emma’s Gold Award Project! I have created a website, Plan D (for Depression) NOVA, that will help teenagers in Northern Virginia who are experiencing a mental health crisis and their families locate the resources they need for recovery in a single location that