Tag: nami
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EDITORIAL: Julie Foster’s giant stride for mental health
The greater Pikes Peak region lost a true leader with a heart and a vision last week, with the passing of Julie Foster at age 89. Foster was decades ahead of her time with her mission to address mental health, years before phrases like “mental health awareness” became part of our culture and the community’s…
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Co-founder of NAMI Colorado Springs leaves large community legacy, remembrance scheduled Monday
A “gem of a woman,” as some describe Julie Foster, had the foresight decades ago to realize the importance of mental health and in her passing leaves behind gratitude and praise for her prescient work in several facets of the community. Foster, co-founder of the Colorado Springs affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, died April 29 at age…
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‘You don’t have to carry it alone’: Colorado Springs woman turns struggle with schizophrenia into advocacy
The invisible friends Cat Price talked about in childhood were chalked up to an active imagination, and her adolescent angst and hostility got interpreted as teenage rebellion. When, as a high school freshman in Colorado Springs, she had thoughts of suicide, began harming herself and experienced a full-blown psychotic break — during which she completely…
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Well-known El Paso County coroner announces he’ll be stepping down
Most of the boxes for the possible scenarios and a few surprises of what a forensic pathologist could encounter on the job have been checked off for El Paso County Coroner and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Leon Kelly. “When you think of all the things that have happened over the last decade, there wasn’t a…
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Well-known El Paso County coroner announces he’ll be stepping down
Most of the boxes for the possible scenarios and a few surprises of what a forensic pathologist could encounter on the job have been checked off for El Paso County Coroner and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Leon Kelly. “When you think of all the things that have happened over the last decade, there wasn’t a…
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Contentious back-and-forth follows miscommunication, grant denial for NAMI Colorado Springs
After what El Paso County Sheriff Joe Roybal described as a miscommunication, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Colorado Springs will not receive funding for a school-based addiction prevention program. The Region 16 Opioid Abatement Council granted and then revoked almost $40,000 in grant funding during its April meeting that NAMI Colorado Springs had expected…
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Contentious back-and-forth follows miscommunication, grant denial for NAMI Colorado Springs
After what El Paso County Sheriff Joe Roybal described as a miscommunication, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Colorado Springs will not receive funding for a school-based addiction prevention program. The Region 16 Opioid Abatement Council granted and then revoked almost $40,000 in grant funding during its April meeting that NAMI Colorado Springs had expected…
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Hundreds walk for mental health in Colorado Springs, despite rain
Editor’s note: The funds raised total for NAMI of Colorado Springs is $81,030. Rain and low temperatures blanketed Panorama Park as the community gathered for the Colorado Springs National Alliance on Mental Illness walk for awareness Saturday. “Of course, on a mental health day it has to be gloomy, but doesn’t that show you have…