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Cahaba Center services are special (The Selma Times-Journal) Sun Nov 22 00:07:59 PST 2009 SELMA — Before and after a person’s school years, the Cahaba Center for Mental Health, a program of the United Way, cares for the intellectual well being of people in Dallas, Wilcox and Perry counties with mental illness, substance abuse or intellectual disabilities. Read full article »
Milledgeville mental hospital told to stop admitting patients (Rome News-Tribune) Fri Nov 20 21:17:26 PST 2009 A state official says Georgia’s largest mental hospital will stop admitting new patients. The Telegraph newspaper in Macon reports that Thomas Wilson, spokesman for the Department of Behavioral He... Read full article »
Bridgeway to take over mental health services (The Township Journal) Wed Nov 18 23:41:49 PST 2009 NEWTON As the lights at Sussex House a place where adults with psychiatric disabilities were able to go for skill building and rehabilitation are about to be turned off, an agency called Bridgeway Rehabilitation Services is coming to the county to help area residents recover from mental illness... Read full article »
Equi-Kids open house to offer preview of Wings for Warriors Pilot Program (The Langley Air Force Base Fighter) Fri Nov 20 00:29:00 PST 2009 Equi-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program, a non-profit organization that offers riding instruction to young people who have mental, physical, emotional or learning disabilities, will hold an open house Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to noon to offer information about their Wings for Warriors Veteran and Family... Read full article »
Mental Hospital Stops Admitting Patients (WSB-TV 2 Atlanta) Fri Nov 20 06:41:45 PST 2009 MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- A state official said Georgia's largest mental hospital will stop admitting new patients. Read full article »
Mental hospital stops admitting patients (Thomasville Times-Enterprise) Fri Nov 20 09:31:52 PST 2009 MILLEDGEVILLE (AP) — A state official says Georgia’s largest mental hospital will stop admitting new patients. Read full article »
Central State Diverting Patients (Georgia Public Broadcasting) Fri Nov 20 12:24:12 PST 2009 One of the state's seven psychiatric hospitals is no longer accepting new patients. Following a week long visit by the United States Department of Justice state officials made the decision to quit taking new patients at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville until they can make some changes.... Read full article »
FYI Navarro County (Corsicana Daily Sun) Sun Nov 22 17:11:47 PST 2009 Al-Anon — 8 p.m. Thursdays; 4 p.m. Sundays; 2412 N. Beaton St., Corsicana. Alcoholics Anonymous —11 a.m. Sundays; 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays; Lakeside United Methodist Church annex building, 515 Farm-to-Market Road 416, Streetman (St. Elmo community). Read full article »
Paw Prints (Press & Sun-Bulletin) Sun Nov 22 17:24:31 PST 2009 Females: Pit bull mix, white, 8 months; hound mix, red, 3 years; Jack Russell terrier, white/brown, 4 years; pit bull mix, brindle, 8 months. Males: Jack Russell terrier, black/white, 4 years; Lab mix, black, 1 year; Rottweiler/pit bull mix, brown, 4 months; beagle, tri-colored, 1 year. Read full article »
AgrAbility Farm breaks new ground (Tifton Gazette) Thu Nov 19 19:18:09 PST 2009 TIFTON — Farmers with physical disabilities are often a little too self- reliant to ask for help or don't know where to find it. But help is out there. Soon, they’ll have an entire farm dedicated to equipment and training designed to help them get back to farming more comfortably. Read full article »