Blog Archive: May 2012

Voices responds to Governor McDonnell’s veto of SB 217 (school enrollment & kinship care)

On May 23rd, Voices participated in a press conference to respond to Governor McDonnell’s veto of SB 217 (Sen. Barker), a bill that would have removed barriers to school enrollment…

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Art exhibits at VTCC feature patients’ work

For 50 years, the Virginia Treatment Center for Children (VTCC) has provided mental health treatment for the children of Virginia. As part of the anniversary celebration, it has launched an ongoing…

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Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week Wrap-Up

Thank you to everyone who participated in making Children’s Mental Health Week an important time in Virginia. Gov. McDonnell issued a proclamation declaring May 9, 2012 to be Children’s Mental…

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Parent Susan Thrush explains need for crisis services

Interviewed at the Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day event in Henrico on Wednesday, May 9, 2012, mom and advocate Susan Thrush explained to WCVE reporter Craig Carper how mobile crisis…

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The Ongoing Stigma of Mental Illness

Voices’ Policy Director and Campaign for Children’s Mental Health Coordinator Margaret Nimmo Crowe writes in an Op-Ed in the May 2nd Richmond Times-Dispatch: “Parents routinely are blamed for their children’s…

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