The Ashland County Mental Health and Recovery Board sponsored an important conference highlighting the long term effects of adverse childhood events. I was fortunate to be a participant.
Jerry Strausbaugh, executive director of the Appleseed Community Mental Health Center, said the conference was a substantial benefit and reinforced the need to reach each in-need or at-risk individual with personalized care and understanding.
“We straddle this world of bureaucracy where to come get help means you get a diagnosis and then you fill out a treatment plan and all kinds of things,” Strausbaugh said. “I understand why we have to do those things, but really what we need to do to help people is validate them and help them tell their story, and help them understand that their past doesn’t have to translate into their future.”
Follow this link for the article in our local paper: