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New Public Art Project Puts Face to Mental Health Recovery
d testimonials generated from the workshop. The portraits will be wheat pasted onto wooden panels installed outside of Landis House, a community art space owned and operated by Perry County Council of the Arts. Inside, participant testimonials and additional photos will be displayed.
The exhibition opens with a reception on October 11, 2013, during Mental Illness Awareness Week 2013 (October 6-12). It remains on view through I'm the Evidence/Mental Health Campaign's Faces November 22, 2013. of Mental Health Recovery Public Art Project celebrates people in recovery and those who support For more information, please visit the Mental Health Association in Pennsylvania website. them. Perry County Council of the Arts hosts the first exhibition, October 11 through November 22, 2013. Opening marks Mental Illness Awareness Week 2013 I Am The EvidencePeople can and do recover from mental illness. The evidence is the men and women who live successfully in their communities, surrounded by supports and services that enable them to lead healthy and fulfilled lives. To put a spotlight on mental health recovery, the I'm the Evidence/ Mental Health Campaign, a grassroots initiative of the Mental Health Association in Pennsylvania and Support the Journey, announces the Faces of Mental Health Recovery Public Art Project, a new project that celebrates individuals in recovery and their supporters. Faces of Mental Health Recovery uses photography to engage individuals, organizations, and communities in the support of recovery. The two-phase project launches September 7 - 8, 2013, with a handson photography workshop. During the workshop, which is led by artist and community organizer Kara Newhouse, people in recovery and individuals from their support networks learn photography skills and how to tell their personal stories. Phase two is a public exhibition of large-scale, black -and-white portraits an
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About PMHCA The Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumers' Association (PMHCA) is a statewide member organization providing information, referrals and supports to people who are receiving services or in recovery from a mental illness in Pennsylvania. PMHCA 4105 Derry Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17111
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When I am not working on system and data migrations I am spending time working with my mom, Patricia Gadsden with her Celebrating Families program. I handle all of the behind the scenes organization items for the program. I am an insanely organized person and love pulling eveything together to assist with this program. As if that isn't enough I also write in my spare time. I currently Terri Coleman Washington have four published books and have three others in various stages of development. In 2011my debut novel YesterHere is some additional information for day’s Lies granted me the title of award you to use for my article. Not sure if he winning bestselling author. wanted 1st or 3rd person but I will give you the info in 1st person Please edit as you see fit. You know me well. If you In my spare time I enjoy spending time with my family, I have three grown chilhave any questions just give me a call. dren and one four year old grandson In addition to writing one of my passion is I am Director of Applications Develop- singing. I frequently sing in church and ment for Coventry HealthCare where I last year had a lead role in the Beluah have been employed for over 23 baptist Church's Christmas production years. During my time at Coventry I Going Home for Christmas. have held various roles on both the business and the Information Technology side. Most of my time has been spent in IT working on various data conversion and integration projects. Coventry was recently acquired by Aetna and I am currently working on the migration from Coventry systems to Aetna systems. It's karma actually, for the past decade I have worked on bringing business into Coventry systems that we acquired and now the tables are turned and things are moving the other way. It's challenging but I love it.
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I vividly remember my real estate agent telling me about Harrisburg’s “mayor for life,” and chuckling that he’d probably die in office. I would have been content to simply cover Harrisburg politics from the remote WITF palace on the Swatara Township hill. But the Great Recession ended that fairy tale and forced me into the quagmire of City Hall. I accepted a job in the administration of Mayor Linda Thompson, but not just any job. And before my plane touched down in Har- I was her first spokesperson. Two months later, I was not her spokesperson any longer. And the rest risburg, I had spent three decades covering the world, working for national and international media is Harrisburg history. We lived it. organizations in both print and broadcasting. I had Through my years trotting around the globe, even authored two books on one of the weightiest learning about different languages, cultures and topics in the modern world – Islam and terrorism. customs, I have learned that life is unpredictable. I
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No adventure could ever compare to walking through Lebanese refugees camps with guntotting jihadees or dining in Khartoum with a sheikh once considered one of the most dangerous men the world. Or so I thought. Little did I know what would await me in Harrisburg. I settled in Harrisburg not for excitement and adventure but for a quiet life in what I thought was a somewhat sedate Eastern capital on the banks of a beautiful, lazy river.
never would have thought that I’d be living in the capital of Pennsylvania and so immersed in the community life of a small American city. But I now am a part of two worlds. Through the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg that I founded with a group of community leaders four years ago, I have been able to maintain my connection to the greater world while sinking my roots deeply into the rich soil of the Susquehanna. I can still travel to beloved places like Istanbul, Tashkent and Paris, but I can also take pride in being a part of a real community and helping it to grow and prosper.
I have lived in New Orleans, Washington, Paris, Athens and Prague – some of the world’s Boy was I wrong. If I thought covering the eternal conflict between the Israelis and the Pales- greatest cities. Whatever anyone tells you, they all have their eyesores as well as their beauty. It’s the tinians was the greatest challenge I would face in my lifetime, I had no idea about the roller coaster I same for Harrisburg. There are serious problems, but there is unparalleled beauty here, as well. One would face in Harrisburg politics. In fact, I had no of my friends from Afghanistan came to visit me reidea I would enter into the political fray of a city reeling from two decades of one-man rule, and that cently, and I will never forget her reaction as we drove into Harrisburg from the West Shore. It was I would become embroiled in the efforts to overno different from my reaction when I saw the Prathrow yet another dictatorial regime and regue’s Charles Bridge for the first time. She was alestablish democracy. most breathless with awe when she saw the arches I moved to Harrisburg in 2008, flying directly of the bridges spanning the glistening waters of the from Prague, Czech Republic, to take a job as Senior Susquehanna. Vice President of Content for WITF. Prague was just “How beautiful,” she sighed. emerging from decades of Communist rule and struggling to catch up with the modern world. “Yes,” I said with unabashed pride. When I arrived in Harrisburg, it was a city still in the “Harrisburg is quite a city! It’s now my home.” grips of the Reed Administration and apparently content to remain so.