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...start, we have increased staff in Mental Health Service; revitalized the Bureau Study Counsel academic support services; developed an outstanding alcohol and other drug service; expanded the educational efforts of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and the Center for Wellness and Health Communication by welcoming them into the department of Behavioral Health and Academic Counsel; provided more education and support to residential staff; and worked to better coordinate all the programs in BHAC with the aim that students will be welcomed in any of our programs and directed to the most appropriate help. Without doubt...
...Margie McKenna ’70, who is a psychiatrist at MHS. There are now five separate peer counseling programs, supervised by BSC and MHS staff. The student-run group, Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group, began 12 years ago. Now, we have the Community Health Initiative, Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors, the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Student Alliance and the Student Mental Health Liaisons, all dedicated to promoting student well being through education and advocacy...
...handful of state legislatures have declared it's closing time for Sunday alcohol sales restrictions, saying an extra day of sales could give their foundering budgets a much-needed shot of revenue. Those states - Georgia, Connecticut, Texas, Alabama and Minnesota - enjoy overwhelming voter support for an extra day of sales, but face opposition from members of the Christian right, who say that selling on Sunday undermines safety and tears apart families. "During times of economic stress, our families are under enough pressure," says Jim Beck, the president of the Georgia Christian Coalition. "I don't think we need...
Beck argues that when you're facing a budget shortfall in the billions, the extra revenue from an added day of alcohol sales is just a drop in the bucket. His opponents, however, insist it is significant. "At least it's a drop," says Georgia Senator Seth Harp, who introduced a bill proposing local referendums on Sunday sales. "Maybe it's even a cup full. But right now, I'd like to have a couple of cups full than nothing at all." (See what businesses are doing well despite the recession...
...Sunday and shopping is one of them," Laband says. "Churches have had to come to grips with that; they haven't drawn a line in the sand and said 'You have to go to church.' So the trend is clear that states will do away with some of these alcohol prohibitions. It will happen. It's just a matter of when...