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Spirit e-Newsletter | May 2008 | Krist Samaritan Center | Touching Lives, Healing Hearts
Celebrate National Mental Health Month | May is National Mental Health Month—and we’re celebrating you. As a patron of the Krist Samaritan Center, you’ve already taken the first step to discovering the means to mental wellness. With your help, we are spreading the word about mental health and how the Center serves a great purpose in our community—and we thank you. So sit back, relax and catch this month’s Spirit…you deserve it. [Photo]
Keeping an Eye on Mental Health | As a tribute to Mental Health Month, we’re offering up a few thought-provoking statistics about mental health issues and the impact they are having on our society. • Between 28 to 30 percent of the U.S. population has a mental health disorder, substance abuse disorder or both. • As many as 8 million Americans who have a serious mental illness do not receive adequate treatment each year. • People who receive treatment for depression are two-thirds less likely to miss work days due to illness. • Untreated and mistreated mental illness costs the U.S. about $105 billion in lost productivity each year. • Older men are far less likely to seek and receive treatment for depression than older women. • Only about 21 percent of children in the U.S. who need mental health services actually receive them. "Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all." –President Bill Clinton
Welcome St. Luke's United Methodist Church!
The Krist Samaritan Center is proud to announce the addition of another counseling location. Beginning this month, Krist Samaritan Center counselor Derek Prins, M.A., L.P.C, will offer counseling at the St. Luke’s Center for Counseling and Life Enrichment in the Houston Greenway area. What: Krist Samaritan Center’s Greenway Counseling Location | Where: St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 3471 Westheimer at Edloe, Houston, Texas 77027-5334, www.stlukesmethodist.org. Center for Counseling and Life Enrichment, 2719 Joanel, Houston, Texas 77027 | Who: Derek Prins, MA, LPC | When: Counseling will be offered on Thursdays. Why: To provide counseling to the St. Luke’s congregation and the Greenway and Galleria communities. How: To access counseling services at St. Luke’s, please call 713.402.5046 to schedule an appointment.
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Working Together: The Krist Samaritan Center and San Jose Clinic Join Forces to Offer Counseling | The Carole and Ronald Krist Samaritan Center for Counseling and Education and Ignacio Barcenas, M.A., L.P.C. intern, have partnered together to offer counseling to Spanish speaking persons in the community at the San José Clinic. The oldest charity clinic still in operation in the U.S., the San José Clinic has provided healthcare to the underserved population in the Houston area since 1922.To learn more about the San José Clinic, please visit www.sanjoseclinic.org.
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Mark Your Calendars! | A Samaritan Celebration 2008: October 23, 2008 @ River Oaks Country Club | Chairpersons: Philip and Alice Burguieres | Honorees: Vivien and Scott Caven, Granville Knight, Jr., John Sage, Martha Turner
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