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Program aims to keep ex-offenders from returning to jail
Jon Lentz, The Gazette - August 16, 2009
The first two times Glen Tatro was released from prison, freedom proved temporary. He thinks his third prison sentence, though, will be his last.The difference is a new ex-offender program in Colorado Springs that aims to prevent inmates like Tatro from returning to crime by providing free medical care, mental health treatment and life-skills training. The strategy is critical for inmates like Tatro, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder, a mental illness marked by mood swings and psychosis. Mental health treatment in prison turned his behavior around and kept him out of trouble, eliminating the voices he heard and the mania that kept him awake for days......Click here to read the rest of this new article |
Amie Howser has been a patient at
SET since 2010. She has been served by SET’s medical and mental health services
and benefited from her providers communicating openly to create the best plan
of treatment for her recovery. One aspect about mental health that our community
should become aware of, is that with mental illness, recovery is possible
(NAMI)...
"I
have been a RN for 27 years, doing Oncology nursing for the last 20 years.
My boys were getting older and moving on to college and I realized I had
extra time on my hands. My boys worked at Marian House regularly for
scouts and to get service hours for St. Mary’s. I had heard they had a
homeless medical clinic there and it sparked my interest. I started
volunteering over a year ago and have LOVED the clinic. It is the neatest
atmosphere. Truly, everyone that I work with really love being there.
Every single time I have been there ....