Children’s Crisis Treatment Center’s Fall Family Festival /Festival Familiar de Otoño

Children’s Crisis Treatment Center and the Caring Families of CCTC invite you to attend the Fall Family Festival Join us for a day of children’s health & wellness information, information on early intervention strategies, behavioral health screenings, literacy activities, arts & crafts, and much, much more! This event is rain or shine. **************************************************************************************** Children’s Crisis Treatment Center y Caring Families de CCTC lo invitan a asistir al Festival Familiar de Otoño. ¡Únase a nosotros para un día de información sobre salud y bienestar infantil, recursos familiares, exámenes de salud conductual, [...]

Recognizing Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

July is Minority Mental Health Awareness month. You might wonder: why the distinction, if mental health doesn’t discriminate across race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation? Consider this: while the number of people experiencing mental illness may be the same across demographic groupings, people's access to care and quality of treatment for mental illness varies greatly. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “the quality of and access to mental health care are suboptimal for minority groups.” NIMH also describes several recent studies showing that “members of racial and ethnic [...]