The latest issue of the KCMHSAS Messenger can be found here. It contains information about:

• National Awards Won by Kalamazoo Wraps
• Highlights of Recent Events
• A Success Story
• And much more

• 'Successes every day': Annual breakfast highlights strides for community's mentally disabled
• Column: Try applying the disease model to mental health problems
• Viewpoint: In Kalamazoo County, help with mental health concerns is available around the clock

• Experts debate merits of Kevin's Law, which allows courts to intervene in mental health care
• Mothers who each lost a son to suicide share mission to erase stigma of mental illness
• Kent County courts, jails wrestle with helping mental health patients in crisis
• Don't make false assumptions about Rodrick Dantzler, mental illness and violence, psychiatrists say
• Learn how to help children, teens control their anxiety
• Anxiety disorders, compulsions hold many captive
• Mental Health: 5 things everyone should know
• After battle with drugs, alcohol, woman shares how she successfully dealing with bipolar disorder
• Persistence pays off for woman trying to move beyond mental illness despite medication trial and error
• Art teacher overcomes schizophrenic syndrome, volatile moods with medication, education
• Experts say public stigma, ignorance stand between mentally ill and health