Category: Education
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Reliance Health Recognized As A Top Workplace for 9th Year
Despite a year full of changing protocols, expectations, and imposed restrictions, the staff at Reliance Health have demonstrated their incredible skill in supporting and caring for those served by the agency. We are honored that during such a difficult time our employees have once again recognized Reliance Health as a Top Workplace through the Hartford…
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Agency Updates Regarding COVID-19
Hello Reliance Health family. We hope you are well and secure at home. As Governor Lamont has stated, it is critical that those who can stay at home do so. We continue to reach out to our membership to assess immediate needs, arrange for supports such as food bags and emergency resources, and navigate individualized…
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A Season of Gratitude
Reliance Health is grateful to those who support our mission through a variety of ways. It is through your fiscal contributions, in-kind donations, time, advocacy, and general encouragement that we are able to provide those experiencing mental health symptoms with high-quality services. During the last fiscal year, Reliance Health provided mental health services to 1,595…
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September is National Recovery Month
September 5, 2019 – For the past 30 years, September has been recognized as National Recovery Month by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The purpose of National Recovery Month is to educate Americans that substance use treatment and mental health…
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The Art of Healing
June 6, 2019 – Throughout the months of March, April, and May 2019 members and staff of Reliance Health’s Supportive Housing Programs had the privilege of working with local artist Jerry Wagner learning how to work in acrylic mediums to create unique abstract color mixes that expressed their inner selves in a new artistic dimension.…
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We Want to Know!
April 4, 2019 – We all have ways that we care for our mental health, whether we’re aware of it or not. For example, are you a gardener? Runner? Pet parent or booklover? All of these activities are examples of ways we can care for our mental health! As we prepare to honor May is…
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World Bipolar Day – March 30th
March 21, 2019 – March 30th has been declared World Bipolar Day to bring attention and awareness to the disorder, which affects nearly 2.6% of the US adult population and 1-2% of the World population. Bipolar disorder is often characterized by significant shifts in one’s mood, energy and ability to think clearly. The mood shifts experienced by those…
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Moving People Toward Recovery
September 20, 2018 – There were over 1,000 opioid overdose deaths in the state of Connecticut last year, 82 in New London County alone. “I think with this epidemic, no matter where you’re at, what community you’re in, it can happen. I think it’s going to become more common place,” said Norwich city zoning enforcement…
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Auricular Acupuncture
August 13, 2018 – Last week four Reliance Health clinicians were trained on how to provide auricular acupuncture as part of a Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services’ initiative to implement the treatment into clinical services. So, what it auricular acupuncture, and how does it help those with mental health diagnoses? Auricular Acupuncture is…