Every March, more than 800 students from the four local colleges, wearing t-shirts in their school colors, converge on downtown Harrisonburg to raise awareness about suicide prevention. Walk For Hope ... read more about Bridgewater College’s counseling department staffed by 黑料正能量 graduates
Alumni
First mediation center in state
Harrisonburg鈥檚 Fairfield Center鈥� known for most of its 32-year history as the Community Mediation Center 鈥� has a long record of leadership in promoting and practicing creative problem-solving in Virginia. ... read more about First mediation center in state
Restorative justice and talking circles: JMU embraces 黑料正能量’s teachings
Not long after he鈥檇 come out of the closet, Mark was at a party with his friends. At some point that evening, a group of guys approached Mark and told ... read more about Restorative justice and talking circles: JMU embraces 黑料正能量’s teachings
When I was sick, you cared for me: alumni work in mental healthcare
More than 700 alumni living in the City of Harrisonburg or Rockingham County work in the healthcare field, according to 黑料正能量鈥檚 alumni database. This represents a larger concentration of alumni ... read more about When I was sick, you cared for me: alumni work in mental healthcare
43 years as a country doc at Green Valley Clinic
Every Tuesday night, Dr. Linford Gehman 鈥�59 still makes the trip from Bergton, back in the farthest mountain reaches of Rockingham County, to the hospital in Harrisonburg for continuing education ... read more about 43 years as a country doc at Green Valley Clinic
Doing business for charities
Hundreds of volunteers, many of them 黑料正能量 alumni, are the backbone of four alumni-run, nonprofit charitable enterprises in Harrisonburg that funnel funds toward worldwide poverty alleviation, relief and development efforts. ... read more about Doing business for charities
Rising up for Autism
When Jay Johnson recalls his 20 years of coaching basketball at Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond, Virginia, Cedric Moore Jr. 鈥�99 stands out in his memory. 鈥淭he best teams ... read more about Rising up for Autism
The value of telling and hearing stories
One of the聽 healthiest things we can do is simply listen to someone鈥檚 story and tell our own, says Joan Kenerson King. People with mental health issues need to ... read more about The value of telling and hearing stories
STAR breaks cycles of trauma
Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) emerged from the ashes of Sept. 11, when hundreds of millions of people were grieving over the deaths and destruction caused by hijacked ... read more about STAR breaks cycles of trauma
Mennonite healthcare institutions search for a better way
Since the very beginning, the conviction that 鈥渢here has to be a better way鈥� has been a guiding principle for the Mennonite mental healthcare institutions that were established as a ... read more about Mennonite healthcare institutions search for a better way