mental health

True self care is about more than bubble baths and face masks. If you want more than another "solution" to your stress in the form of an expensive, generic "relaxation" method, look no further.

Clarifying your values makes everything clearer. It helps you prioritize what's important, let go of what's not, and create a life that gives you purpose and meaning. Engage in meaningful discussions, step outside your comfort zone, and get crystal clear on who you are and what you want in this 9 week discussion-based life skills course.

The Safety Consultation and Training Section of the State of Nevada's Division of Industrial Relations and the Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative, a program offered by the Foundation for Recovery, are joining together to recognize the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Safe + Sound Week beginning Monday, Aug. 7 through Sunday, Aug. 13.

Safe + Sound Week is a nationwide event designed to help workplaces improve worksite safety and health.

Are you interested in applying yoga and mindful movement as a form of trauma healing modality to your students, clients, family members or yourself?

Believe it or not, there's more to it than you think.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon will be Sarah Adler, Principal at Silver State Government Relations. She will speak on behalf of the Nevada Housing Coalition, a group that works with legislators on policy solutions that address both the shortage of affordable and supportive housing and access to existing housing.

Affordable housing is defined by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development as “Housing for which the occupants are paying no more than 30% of his or her income for gross housing costs.”

A student housing revitalization project through Friends in Service Helping, that is currently taking shape on North Carson Street in Carson City, is extending a contribution campaign after successfully collecting $80,000 in matched donations.

The next AAUW monthly meeting will be Feb. 7, 6 p.m. and feature Laura Yanez, Executive Director of NAMI/ Western Nevada who will present information about mental health needs and services, drawing information from caller data on public contact with the Warm Line and Teen Text Line.

NAMI is a nationwide program initially developed in Wisconsin in 1979. Its work includes advocacy, outreach, education, support, skills training, and stigma reduction for teens and adults.

Nevada Humanities, in partnership with Double Scoop, is hosting a timely conversation about the many connections between art and mental health.

The featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon will be Deacon Craig LaGier, St. Vincent Advisor and Minister to the Homeless at St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Community. He also serves as Chaplin for the Carson City Sheriff's Office. Deacon Craig is also the Founding Director of the Night Off The Streets program, or NOTS for short. To reduce the risk of ill healh or death due to hypothermia, NOTS provides overnight shelter at local churches to people without homes.

As many as 17% of people who struggle with problem gambling demonstrate suicidal gestures, attempt, or complete suicide, with an additional 32% who experience suicidal ideation, according to a study published by the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

In 2017, Vitality Unlimited, based in Elko, was among the first organizations in the nation to have received the Federal designation as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC).

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Elizabeth Haase MD, Medical Director of Behavioral Health at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center. A psychiatrist with decades in private practice, Dr. Haase also serves as part of the voluntary faculty at the University of Nevada-Reno School of Medicine. The focus of her remarks at the tele-luncheon will be the mental health impacts of climate change.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be Ali Banister, Chief Juvenile Probation Officer for Carson City Juvenile Services. In addition to those duties, she also serves as an adjunct professor at Western Nevada College teaching juvenile law. At the tele-luncheon she will detail the range of juvenile services currently available in Carson City, with special emphasis on the psychological toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on the community's young people and their educational experience.

Open Network Event from 4-8 p.m. on Friday March 26, 2021. Free event. Everyone is welcome! Stop by to network, meet, mingle, and if you are interested, pull up a chair and hear what industry experts are talking about during our 15-20 min Live Panel Discussions while you are mingling with others.

Gov. Steve Sisolak is proposing a two-year budget that reverses cuts to Medicaid and other key K-12 programs made last summer, after financial projections left the state at what officials are calling an “inconsistent, if not positive, ending point” for tax revenue.

Carson City is now accepting letters of intent to apply for its Community Support Services Grant. Non-profit organizations and government agencies are qualified to fill out the Letter of Intent. Projects or programs must be for Carson City residents. In addition, your agencies proposal must meet one of the following critical needs of the community:

YERINGTON, Nev. — Individualized and group support services for people and families impacted by addiction and mental health are now available for free in Yerington, Fernley, and Dayton through Foundation for Recovery, a community nonprofit led by volunteers and staff in recovery from substance use and mental health themselves.

This week's Senator Square features guest writers Ananda Campbell and Bridget Gordon-Johnson who explain Monday homeroom academic strategies. Campbell is a CHS Library Media Specialist and Carson City School District Library Coordinator. Gordon is a CHS counselor. This is their report:

A 28-year-old Carson City man was arrested Wednesday for suspicion of misdemeanor trespassing and possession of drug paraphernalia, a sheriff's office booking report states.

Nevada prison officials say they’ve identified just two people in a population of nearly 14,000 who might be eligible for an early release on the basis of their susceptibility to COVID-19 and other factors, even as more than 80 percent of the inmate population in a Carson City prison has tested positive for coronavirus.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office Investigations Division is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing and endangered veteran. The missing person is identified as Robert Hester, 61, and was last seen near his Carson City residence on or about October 1, 2020.

This week, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office hosted training of school-based officers provided by the National Association of School Resource Officers. The training is viewed as essential certifications for officers working within educational environments and critical to the success of the “triad” concept of policing in school programs.

We are in need of Unique Caregivers to join our "Best Place to Work Team" at Home Instead Senior Care in Carson City. Want to be a part of a team that views you as the professional that you are and values you for the quality of care that you deliver to our seniors?

A 24-year-old man was booked Friday for two counts suspected gross misdemeanor open and gross lewdness following an incident in which he was captured on a Ring door bell camera doing a lewd act.

One of her favorite quotes is from French dramatist Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh, who said, “Things are beautiful if you love them,” and Hannah Etchison, Carson High’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program Coordinator, loves people, loves Carson City, and said, “I wanted to help in the community that raised me.”

Partnership Carson City, inspiring a healthy community through education and prevention, is teaming up with the Nevada Coalition for Suicide Prevention and the Nevada Office of Suicide Prevention to remember those lost through suicide for the 14th annual 5K Walk in Memory, Walk for Hope.

Bike Month has always been a cornerstone for Muscle Powered to bring community together every May to share our love of biking. Back in March, as we began to watch the COVID-19 outbreak unfurl in the United States, we held out hope that we could still come together to celebrate as usual.

Carson City is now accepting Letters of Intent to Apply for our Five-Year, Non-Competitive Community Support Services Grant (CSSG).

Non-profit organizations and government agencies are qualified to fill out the Letter of Intent. Projects or programs must be for Carson City residence.

In the pleasantly warm evening air under the trees this past Wednesday, Maurice White, candidate for Carson City supervisor for Ward 2, held a meet and greet at Glen Eagles Restaurant on North Carson Street, and talked to an attentive and respectful audience of about 35-40 people.



“Dr.” Sisolak the good Democrat: racism is a public health crisis.

https://carsonnow.org/story/08/06/2020/nevada-governor-proclaims-racism-...

http://gov.nv.gov/News/Proclamations/2020/Racism,_as_a_Public_Health_Cri...

With this proclamation, the governor has perpetrated the most egregious insult of all Nevadans. He has also perpetrated the most egregious assault on fact, law and common sense.