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Last week's Care for the Harvard Community kickoff program was intended to reach those who are suffering in silence. As a high-profile outreach of a wide range of student-led and professional Harvard mental-health groups that hosted discussion sessions in each House, the Care program demonstrated an effort to take the difficult step of starting the discussion about mental health for Harvard's students, Faculty and staff, from janitors to professors. We urge students to continue the dialogue on mental health, for themselves and those they care about in this community...
...response to a provost-commissioned report last year that found students critical of the mental-health care options available to them. Richard D. Kadison, chief executive of University Health Services (UHS) Mental Health Services, said the program was part of an overall effort to "improve access and outreach, de-stigmatize mental health services and create constructive dialogue with the University community...
...better, knowing more accurately the scope of the issue we are dealing with. Equipped with this information, peer educators are more comprehensively trained and are, thus, more helpful when we turn to the students in outreach. We are glad that you realize and find it worth to reporting that "Rape Happens at Harvard." Meanwhile, Peer Relations and Date Rape Education, Response, The Coalition Against Sexual Violence and other peer groups do not find this to be news, as we have built our mission around and have personally committed ourselves to increasing awareness of this fact...
Westland has an aging population. Eleven percent are over 65 and as high as 35-40 percent are over 55. So I spent a morning this week at the Friendship Center. It's a large, new facility for seniors that has won a national award from HUD for community outreach. There wasn't one senior I spoke with who had honed in on the differences between Gore and Bush on Social Security, Medicare or prescription drugs. They did think Gore was going to help them sooner, but they were all voting for the vice president because he has more experience...
Over the next year, program leaders say they hope to increase the legitimacy of HOP as a community organization, by streamlining the program, raising more funds, recruiting new volunteers and focusing on outreach...