We are excited to launch our Hopeful Minute Series! Join the Center for Family Life & Recovery Team on our Facebook to chat about positive stories, health, & wellness, & tips for a mentally healthy life!
This week, help us welcome Elizabeth Toomy, Team Leader from the Central Problem Gambling Resource Center, to today’s Hopeful Minute!
This week we’re discussing Gambling Prevention.
March is Problem Gambling Awareness Month – our favorite month of the year! ! This year’s theme is Facing Problem Gambling Together. For more information about ways, you and your organization can take part in Problem Gambling Awareness Month, please visit our website at NYProblemGambling.org/PGAM.
We are pleased to offer a FREE monthly online Family Support group for those family members who believe their loved one’s gambling may be problematic. You can register to participate HERE. The sessions are held on the second Thursday of each month from 8 to 9 p.m.
We are continually looking to expand our network of Problem Gambling Treatment Specialists across our 13–county region. We are seeking private practitioners interested in helping those with a gambling disorder. We provide free training and professional development. For more information, please email us at CentralPGRC@NYProblemGambling.org.
The Central Region PGRC is a program of the New York Council on Problem Gambling, which is funded by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports. The Central PGRC is dedicated to addressing the issue of problem gambling within the Central New York region through increasing public awareness and connecting those adversely affected with services that can help them.
The Central PGRC is dedicated to the positive transformation of lives harmed by problem gambling. This vision of transformation includes individuals with a gambling problem as well as their families and communities. With a focus on supporting the individual and reducing barriers to care, the Central PGRC is truly the premier organization providing problem gambling services in the central region of New York State.
We are excited to launch our Hopeful Minute Series! Join the Center for Family Life & Recovery Team on Facebook to chat about positive stories, health, & wellness, & tips for a mentally healthy life!
This week, help us welcome Katie Burns, Recovery Advocate to today’s Hopeful Minute! We are discussing our Outreach Project with our Recovery Program.
Utica NY- Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week is a time to focus on the mental health of children. For 10 years, Center for Family Life & Recovery has offered children, youth, and young adults with mental or substance use disorders in the Mohawk Valley the services and supports they need to meet their goals at home, at school, and in the community.
COVID has impacted children both directly and indirectly. The CDC has reported that during the onset of COVID that Emergency Department mental health visits of children 18 years and younger during the months of Jan. 2020-Oct. 17,2020 showed an increase of 31% and children ages 12-17 had the highest proportion of Mental Health visits during this time. Beyond just thinking about the illness itself and getting sick so many children and families social, emotional, and mental health has been impacted by this pandemic. Many parents are seeing their children for the very first-time experiencing anxiety, sadness, and behavior changes. Some of the change’s parents may be noticing with their child due to stress related to COVID may include but not limited to:
“Awareness Days are an opportunity for us to join with more than 1,100 communities across the country in celebrating the positive impact that we can have on the lives of children, youth, and young adults when we are able to integrate positive mental health into every environment,” said Cassandra Sheets, Chief Executive Officer. “When we focus on building resilience and social-emotional skills in children, youth, and young adults, we can help these individuals and their families thrive.”
Center for Family Life & Recovery focuses on prevention and Mental Health and be as proactive as we can for our children and families. Center for Family Life & Recovery prevention department works with our school districts and the focus is on proactive prevention and providing evidence-based programming that is geared around Mental Health. Our Prevention focus is on a tiered level of support as all children and families may have different levels of support and needs. We want to provide prevention to ALL children and their families, but we also know that we need to build more services around children and families that have unique and different situations. We offer many different prevention services and programs to work with our families by education, empowering, advocating with them, and working toward wellness as a family unit.
If you or your child is struggling with Mental Health you can call Center for Family Life & Recovery for help to help Navigate services with you. You are not alone! Center For family Life & Recovery is supporting Families and offering hope.
