Earlier this week I told you about how Project Helping Hands is providing mental health resources to Gustav victims.
Yesterday I received an email and press release from The National Council letting me know that Project Helping Hands is now also extending their help to Hurricane Ike victims.
The press release:
‘Helping Hands’ For Hurricane Ike Victims
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2008—As Hurricane Ike bears down on the Texas coast, help is available for emergency mental health and addictions needs in the immediate aftermath of the storm. Project Helping Hands, established by National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, will help behavioral healthcare organizations respond to …read more

Who doesn’t love it when our society pulls together to help victims?
Yesterday I received this press release from the National Council, the same bunch of forward thinkers who created an office on an island in Second Life called Nonprofit Commons in order to virtually offer mental health and addictions awareness and support.
Emergency Assistance Available for Gustav Victims
Experts Available to Discuss Mental Health and Addictions Issues in the Wake of Disaster
Contact: Meena Dayak, MeenaD@thenationalcouncil.org; 301.602.8474
Washington, DC — As the Gulf Coast braces for another potentially devastating hurricane, help is available to meet emergency mental health and addictions needs in the immediate …read more

Or, soccer, for American readers.
I love Saturday Sanity.
Not only does it give me a chance to recognize all the important mental health-related news I discover throughout the week (that, for one reason or another, I don’t have time to talk about in depth), but it also gives me a chance to let you all know about things going on here at Mental Health Notes and the rest of the b5media Science & Health Channel.

Yesterday I told you about the work The National Council is doing via Second Life. Soon after I posted it, I found out that Preferred Family Healthcare …read more

Are any of you familiar with Second Life? I know, I know, I can be really behind sometimes – I just discovered it a few months ago. I’m not a member yet, so to find out more about Second Life you should check out the Web site’s What is Second Life? and FAQs sections; however, simply put, “Second Life is a 3D digital world imagined and created by its Residents.”
So, why am I talking about Second Life on a mental health blog? The answer to that is interesting indeed.
A few days ago I received an email from an employee with …read more