Warren Washington Association for Mental Health

OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP

Holiday Helpers Needed
Don't panic just yet, but the holidays are around the corner and AMH is again asking the community to remember those living with psychiatric disorders. There are gifts to be given and feasts to be eaten, all of which will be made merrier with contributions from our community.

Gifts for Teens
After 12, kids no longer can receive gifts from existing holiday programs. Please help us help them awake to a special gift this holiday. Your support is another way of saying, "Someone cares about you and wishes you Happy Holidays!

Festivities
East Side Center offers modest lunches Monday through Friday, but for the holidays, Chef Kevin Donovan likes to provide feasts that represent the traditions celebrated by many Americans. An ESC member also plays Santa with small gifts for each member. Food, gift coupons, beverages, activity passes..all are riches during the holidays.

Please contact Belinda Bradley, Director of Support Services 793-2352.

Share your knowledge.
Contribute to our community’s mental health!

Reaching Out - An educational outreach project which offers presentations by the mental health community.
Featuring
Speaking Out: A Speaker’s Bureau of area individuals willing to share their mental health knowledge.
Acting Out: An interactive theatre-based program which encourages understanding of human stuggles and discusses alternatives to help ease the burdens. details

GIVE A GIFT TO GET A GIFT
The envelope … please

Renovations at the 230 Maple Street location (former Box Company) have reached a standstill as AMH awaits additional funding to complete the vision of a mental health complex for our community.

Added Value … sharing the spirit

Several revenue-raising efforts are underway; both will help all of us. Your gift to AMH comes with a gift for you to give someone else. A portion of the contribution amount is also tax deductible. Both will add meaning to gift-giving. Please contribute >>

MEMORY GARDEN

One of the next phases of the renovation project is to create a Memory Garden and landscaping around the buildings and near the bike path that separates the main property from the parking area. Designs are being developed with help from BOCES and work will begin once the project is funded. For a minimum donation of $100 supporters can become part of this project which will incorporate trees, flowers and shrubs in a beautification project that will remember the spirit of those who have come before. A card recognizing your contribution will be sent.

Your contribution helps purchase trees, bushes, benches, picnic tables, bricks, stones, annuals, perennials and a special memorial to loved ones. Help build a garden that reflects the beauty inside 230 Maple Street outside for all the community to appreciate. All contributors will be listed on the Wall of Distinction and in the Association’s newsletter, Parallax – new line of sight. Please contribute >>

Note Cards & Limited Edition Prints
Another fundraising project grew out of a photograph that was created through the “Picturing Ourselves” photograph program at East Side Center. The program’s guru, Dona Ann McAdams, worked with several staff and members to create the photo seen here. The original print was available at the May 2004 Annual Dinner Art Auction, but many other expressed an interest in making it available for purchase. Therefore, note cards and limited edition 8 x 10 prints of “Picturing Ourselves” is available with proceeds from this sale will going towards furthering renovations at 230 Maple Street.

5 x 7 Note Cards
The note cards are printed on white card stock with a lacquered finish over the black & white photo with a blank inside. 20 cards and matching envelopes tied with raffia, to keep or give as a gift. $21.95 plus shipping & handling. click to order >>

Signed, Limited Edition Photograph
The photography project called “Picturing Ourselves” at East Side Center with Kevin Donovan, Sean Mailhot, Toni Collura and Dona Ann McADams collaborating to produce the photograph. The 8 x 10 silver gelatin archival photographs signed, numbered and presented on black museum board matting. Each one of the 50 photos are individually printed by Dona Ann Mc Adams and mailed in a protective sleeve. $50.00 plus shipping and handling. click to order >>

GOAL
$300,000
RAISED
$234,200
STILL NEEDED
$65,800

The Campaign for Mental Health
Capital Construction & Service Consolidation

Campaign proceeds have effectively “raised the light and renewed the lives” at the former Box Factory which is now 230 Maple Street. The new building houses support services for adults and youth and East Side Center which offers support, education, low cost café and enrichment activities including Project C.H.O.I.C.E.—job skills training and employment through the AMH work program; Dual Recovery Groups – helping individuals with mental illnesses and substance use disorders; Picturing ourselves – a photography project which has resulted in a darkroom, cameras and new-found talents for East Side Center members.

230 Maple also houses development which works through the Coalition for the Advancement for Mental Health to sponsor bi-annual field trips for high school students, bi-annual 4-page information insert in The Post Star, the creation of a mental health curriculum, Under the Image: Real voices. Real People, and the March 29th conference on Troubled teens.

Please contribute to community mental health. We have accomplished a lot and can accomplish more if we work together, hand-in-hand. Please contribute >>