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 Editor: Charles M. Sakai        Assistant Editor: Steve Bell

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Alliance, the nation’s leading patient-directed organization focusing on the 
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Friday, March 14, 2008


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DBSA Colorado Springs			   	 477-1515

National Suicide Hotline		            1-800-273-TALK

St. Francis Behavioral Health		    	776-8482

Pikes Peak Mental Health Crisis Center	    	635-7000
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No Experience?  -  That’s OK!  -   Will Train!

Resource Center Staff:  General office, welcome
	visitors, maintain library materials & more. Great 
	opportunity to expand your own knowledge while 	
	helping others! 
Facilitators: Support Groups are our most Important    
	Activity!  Learn how  to make support groups happen.   
Community Outreach:  Support staff (Presenters) 
	needed for acclaimed DBSA Hospitalization and
	Awareness Program.  Also represent DBSA 
	at health and diversity fairs.   Help open the door for
	those seeking the kind of support we have to offer!


	For more information about these and other 
	volunteer opportunities, call 477-1515 today!
Text Box: Educational 
Program on Teen Depression 
for Local Schools






For information about the DBSA                                Colorado Springs 
Teen Depression Initiative and  to                             schedule a presentation
at your school, please contact
Ralph Lundgren: 477-1515, or by email: help@dbsacoloradosprings.org

 

 

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learned details about the program that we were not aware of.  It's an important service the police are providing.  I was  impressed that our members took the time to come out in bad weather to hear what this man had to say."

 

  Information about crisis intervention strategies and prevention is available at our Resource Center, via our chapter web site at www.DBSAColoradoSprings.org, or the DBSA national web site,  www.DBSAlliance.org .

       “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”               - Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich