News from the Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris
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2020’s Holiday Season: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year?
By Katie Newman, Writer and Research Assistant at MHAEM (Sophomore, University of Washington). We’ve made it nearly a full rotation around the sun since the dreaded COVID-19 virus reared its ugly head in the United States. We have dealt with many disappointments; the...
COVID-19 and Its Impact On Small Businesses
written by guest author Katie Newman This is the second part of the multi-part (I haven’t quite decided how many parts yet) series I will be writing about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected different groups of people. The first article I wrote was about...
MHAEM Serving Homeless Population at Newark International Airport
Area Mental Health Agency Serving Homeless Population In August, the Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris, Inc. (MHAEM), a Montclair and Parsippany based not-for-profit behavioral health agency, began providing outreach and case management services to...
COVID-19 Changed What Being a Stay-at-Home Parent Really Means
written by guest author Katie Newman One would be hard pressed to find someone whose life has not been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The people who, generally, have it the easiest have had to work from home, cancel vacations, and find new ways to beat boredom....
Revisiting COVID-19’s Effects on a College Student’s Mental Health
Written by Katie Newman Up until a couple of weeks ago, I hadn’t thought much about the blog post that I’d written for MHAEM at the end of March. When I reread it, I saw that I’d addressed some things that had truly proven to be legitimate concerns. I didn’t have my...
Reflections From A College Student Impacted By The Pandemic
Written by Katie Newman As many of us have so eloquently put it to our friends, families, neighbors, and significant others, “This is freaking crazy.” And we’re right. None of us has ever lived through a pandemic before. Up until about two weeks ago and since August,...
NJ Transit Extends MHAEM’s Public Art Initiative to Montclair’s Bay Street Station
NJ TRANSIT has unveiled the third installation of the Out in the Open. In it Together public art project highlighting mental health issues at its Bay Street Station in Montclair. The installation, first shown at Newark Penn Station in October 2018, is presented in...
Advocate on behalf of the patients at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
As you may have read in recent news reports, the Office of the Public Defender has filed a suit against the State of New Jersey regarding the inhumane conditions at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital. The MHAEM Board and Staff hope this drastic legal action will...
CODE BLUE: NJ Warming Centers
In response to the extreme weather over the next few days, MHAEM's PATH teams (Essex and Morris) are working closely with the local police departments, warming stations and shelters to assure our homeless without an address have shelter from the cold during the day...
Board Member to Debut Film at Cannes Film Festival
'Beyond the Silence', a film by William Michael Barbee, a Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris County board member, was inspired to create a film based on his own life and raise awareness about the issues facing the mentally ill. "What I had to do was put my...