As we approach September, we will have numerous engagement opportunities, educational features and community engagement walks for Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. We hope you will join us in those to showsupport and encouragement to our community.
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RMC Cafe Booth RPC teammembers will staff a booth on Thursday, Sept. 8 from11am-1pmto educate colleagues on suicide prevention. If you would like to help, please message Roger Smith, Roger.Smith3@hcamidwest.com.
To support and spread awareness of September's Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, we have numerous activities. We hope you will join us and stay tuned for more updates!
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If you have news to share, positive patient story or to highlight the good work you do in and out of RPC, we would love to hear it!
FromtheCOO RPC Family, It is hard to believe that summer is winding down and kids are heading back to school. Ihope that you all have enjoyed the sunshine and warmweather as much as my family. We’ve loved grilling out and playing yard games (I’mperfecting my ladder ball Atskills).RPC, there are many things to look forward to. First, we are excited to restart our monthly newsletter. We hope you find this format informative and helpful as you take pride in all we do at RPC. Secondly, there is good news with the expansion of our team as we have a newprovider and multiple staff members starting in the coming month.
Best ShannonRegards,Griggs
August2022 UPDATESFOR THESTAFFOFRESEARCH PSYCHIATRIC CENTER Quick links: From the COO | Upcoming Events | New Provider Update | Employee of the Month | New Sta | Follow RMC on Social Media
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For our patients and community, going back to school can be exciting as well as terrifying, particularly for kids who have already experienced bullying, anxiety, stress, depression or trauma. Students today are grappling with intense experiences, social media and school shooting drills.
KimLudwig, RPC Director of Clinical Operations and a licensed clinical social worker, talked with Kansas City Mom Collective a locally-focused parenting resource for moms and families, to provide tips on howto help parents. Kim discusses all things back to school and mental health, including at-home coping strategies, internet and social media boundaries, modeling healthy behavior, and utilizing valuable resources in our area. Listen to her podcast here!
RPC is hosting a booth at the Farmers' Market on Saturday, September 10 to talk to the community about all things mental health, including Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. If you would like to volunteer and attend, please sign up here.
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Brookside Farmers'Market Booth
Speak Up 2022 Walk
The following Sunday on Sept. 18, RPC will again participate in a Suicide Prevention Awareness Walk. The Speak Up 2022 Walk starts at 10amand will be hosted on the Garmin Campus in Olathe, KS. Please sign up here if you are able to join us!
Join your colleagues on Sunday, Sept. 11 at 9amin Loose Park, 51st and Wornall. RPC will have a booth and will walk in the Remembrance Walk. Please sign up here so we can keep a watch out for you!
On the surface, Linda had everything going for her: a career in the Air Force, a desire to go to dental school after finishing my dual degrees in psychology and Spanish, and a loving and supportive family. Inwardly, however, Linda was struggling with selfdeprecating thoughts and contemplated self-harmand Readsuicide.her story in her Kansas City MomCollective column and howthe amazing teamat RPC helped her learn valuable ways to deal with her stresses and to knowshe wasn't "a monster.
Back-to-School
Suicide Awareness Support (SASS) 19th Annual Remembrance Walk
PetTherapywithRocket Pet Therapy is back with Jayne Frye and her companion Rocket. Pet therapy is such a highlight for our senior and adolescent units.
August 26th is Dog Day! Submit a photo of you and your dog(s) by TODAY, Wednesday, August 24, to RMC.MarketingDept@hcamidwest.com and include your name, anyone else's name who is in the photo, and your dog's name.
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Karen'sRetirement
RPC is fortunate that she will continue working on a PRNbasis. Please wish her well!
We celebrated Karen Thomas's retirement earlier this month. Karen has been with RPC for over 40 years and has been an integral part of the organization. We cannot thank her enough for all the lives she has impacted both staff and patients!
Provider
Christopher Dao, DO will be joining Kansas City Psychiatric Group with Dr. Khoury, Dr. King and Dr. Ceman on September 18th. Dr. Dao will be providing inpatient care for Adults and Geriatrics, as well as IOP, PHPand ECT. He is completing his residency at University of Kansas, Wichita Campus in June.
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Employeeof theMonth
ChantelBethune-Barrett,LeadSocialWorker
Chantel Bethune-Barrett was selected for August's Employee of the Month because she is an exceptional social worker. She was recently promoted to Lead Social Worker due to her outstanding work ethic, leadership skills and ability to work so efficiently and Chantelthoroughly.frequently volunteers to take on more duties, which includes her ongoing work as an MSW Field Instructor, Co-Chair for the MSW Intern Committee and Co-Chair for the Education Committee. She is an exceptional teammember and provides compassionate care of her patients. Congratulations!
New Staff
RPC has been so fortunate to hire the following staff! Thank you for your help with peer interviews and orientation. Please give our newteammembers a warmwelcome to the RPC family.
Education
SocialWorkCEU LunchandLearn
Mental health impacts everyone. Every day, people are online actively asking questions and seeking answers about mental health. Psych Hub and HCAHealthcare, in collaboration with Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry, have partnered to create a podcast series called “You Ask, We Answer” to bring people credible online mental health education. Click here to access all the podcasts on Spotify or download fromany podcast platform. Here are a fewnewones to take a listen to: The Most Commonly Asked Questions on OCD, Answered PTSD - "ACrack in the System" You're Dating a Narcissist, NowWhat?
Dr. McCloskey is a clinical psychologist at the Kansas City VA. She is employed as the Local Recover Coordinator, providing coordination of care for our U.S. Veterans. Dr. McCloskey completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology in 2008 at MUand started her psychology career at the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2011. She is an expert in Native American culture and mental health. The lunch and learn that she presented at RPC in July was: “Cultural Considerations When Working with Native American Clients.” The following is cultural background information about Dr. McCloskey: “IamfromKansas City and reside in Waldo. My father's family is fromthe Yankton Reservation/Yankton Dakota and the Rosebud Reservation/Sicangu Lakota in South Dakota. My father, Richard McCloskey, was a Combat Navy Veteran of WWII. My mother is frommixed European American and Delaware Nation, primarily fromAppalachia.”
“Iamthe proud daughter, daughter in law, granddaughter, niece and cousin to many Veterans in my family. Iprovide services to Veterans to give back what was given to my father and my family. Ialso deeply appreciate Veterans’ service to the protection of our way of life and lands.”
MentalHealth Podcasts
“Icome to you today fromthe ancestral lands of the Kansas, Osage, Kaw, Otoe, Kickapoo and Wyandot, who were keepers of the land where the three rivers come to meet.”
FOX4: Coverage of the newNational Suicide Prevention Hotline activated with interviews with Linda, an RPC patient. Watch here! FOX4: "Back to School Health Check Up: What Every Parent Should Know" with Dr. Cassandra Brewster, who references RPC's expertise in mental health. Watch here! Follow RMC on SocialMedia How informative was this email? In theNews
