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All Healers Mental Health Alliance

Our Mission
The mission of the All Healers Mental Health Alliance is to organize a long term, culturally competent response to the mental health needs of people of the United States, particularly people of color and people living in poverty affected by all hazards and disasters. We will work with all individuals, organizations, mental health, emergency response and crisis workers of various disciplines and backgrounds towards the goal of providing culturally competent mental health services and in doing so, foster hope, recovery, and resilience among affected people.

  

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Why donate to AHMHA? Read about the many invaluable activities, promoting mental health and a balanced well-being in the face of disasters. About Us
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Your support allows AHMHA to provide emotional healing to disaster victims and it also allows AHMHA to provide healing to the healers providing service to disaster victims. 




“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?” - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968).
  
 

Latest News . . .                                                                          OFFICIAL AHMHA NEW ORLEANS CHAPTER SITE

Creative, Therapeutic Interventions for Survivors of Disasters and Trauma

IPS seems like such a distant memory, but we have a finished product that being displayed at the Women's Mental Health Congress in Melbourne Australia this month (March 16).  A Baylor colleague is attending and will present the poster on behalf of AHMHA. For those of you who have not yet met Alice Mao, she was an APA minority fellow, is a very active mentor for us at Baylor and UT.


CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Employer: The Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC), University of Maryland School of Medicine

Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Position Download


Employer: Urban Strategies, is actively seeking to fill doing case management with former C.J. Peete residents, and one is administrative/clerical.  If you know of anyone who might be interested in the jobs, or anyone who could help spread the word about them, feel free to forward the information.

Job Title: 
Case Manager:   Download
Case Manager Supervisor:   Download
Clerical Assistant:   Download

Employer: University of Calilfornia, San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry

Job Title: Director of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry  Download
 
Job Title:   Chief of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center
Vice Chair, UCSF Department of Psychiatry Download
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If you know of open positions, please send them to: illum2@bpgny.com
You Are Cordially Invited 
Brother Leonard G. Dunston, MSW, Dr. Ron Daniels, and Dr. Annelle Primm cordially invite you to the 2008 Institute of the Black World Black (IBW) Family Summit Policy Institute III. The summit will be held on Friday, May 16, 2008 from 9:00 AM until 4:30 PM at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2237 in Washington, D.C.

Below you will find three documents. The first document is the official Black Family Summit invitation letter, complete with the full agenda for the summit. The second document contains the minutes from the February 22nd meeting of the 2008 Black Family Summit Policy Institute. The third document is a draft of a letter addressed to President Bush on behalf of the Grant Family.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Brother Leonard Dunston at 919-765-5710 or via email: leonard_dunston@yahoo.com (please note there is an underscore between Leonard and Dunston).
 

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Brother Leonard Dunston at 919-765-5710 or via email: leonard_dunston@yahoo.com (please note there is an underscore between Leonard and Dunston).

Peace and Blessings, 

PTSD Research

Dr. Michael Pratts, BPA secretary, BPGNY member and Friend of AHMHA is conducting some research on PTSD and has asked us to identify some patients for the study.  I believe that the patients will be paid to participate.  Please review the letter below and let me know if your practice is able to help him with this study.  I know that we will be able to help with interpretation and utilization of the data.  Dr. Phyllis Harrison-Ross is on their advisory board (in an effective manner).  More information . . .
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
National Leadership Council on African American Behavioral Health (NLC) is proud to appoint nationally recognized expert on Mental Health, Altha J. Stewart, MD, as the Executive Director for the organization
. press release

Abstracts to Review:

Disruption of Existing Mental Health Treatments and Failure to Initiate New Treatment after Hurricane Katrina:
/All_Healers_Mental_Health_ZXRCXS/Disruption of Existing Mental Health Treatments and Failure to Initiate New Treatment After Hurricane Katrina.pdf

Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid-Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence:
/All_Healers_Mental_Health_ZXRCXS/5 Essential Elements Hobfoll Watson Belletal.pdf

Dr. Phyllis Harrison-Ross in her Easter Bonnet

Dr. Harrison-Ross looking smart as she shares a moment with Susan Taylor.  

  
Dr. Beny Primm Selects AHMHA as an Exceptional Organization
 

Dr. Beny Primm received the Public Health Leadership Award. He selected AHMHA as an exceptional organization conducting the work of public health at the community level, garnering us an award and a $5,000 grant.  AHMHA was represented by Dr. Annelle Primm and Mr. Elliott Hill, LCSW, BCD.