August’s Web Content Theme is Mental Health Awareness

By Sarah Zobel Homelessness Resource Center August 3, 2015 In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy—and with frequent news reports of people with mental illnesses being shot by police, committing suicide in very public ways, or living on the...

Please Take the DBHDS Civil Commitment Survey

If you have experienced an Emergency Custody Order (ECO), Temporary Detention Order (TDO) or court-ordered involuntary admission to a mental health hospital or outpatient treatment, DBHDS asks that you give some of your time, by answering survey questions at the...

Quest Harrisonburg May 2015

Written by Marquita Leary, 2015 Quest Graduate Our Life-Changing Journeys of the Future Life as we know it may be hard, But, each and every last one of you are a “Star”, We have fallen and gotten back up again, Constant trials and tribulations battered beneath...

Rasoul: A conversation about mental health

By Sam Rasoul Rasoul, a Democrat, represents much of Roanoke in the House of Delegates. All too often when we hear mental illness, depression or suicide mentioned out loud, the details of a national or international tragedy follow. We may feel a need to understand or...