Going, Going, Gone: Declining Bed Numbers and Severe Mental Illness
Meeting for the week of August 24 - August 30, 2020
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Going, Going, Gone: Declining Bed Numbers and Severe Mental Illness
Speaker: Elizabeth Hancq
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Membership Committee Chair - Ferheen Abbasi
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As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
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The Four Way Test
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Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steve Shags Shagrin!
My great-aunt was married three times, as she kept outliving her husbands. This was one of her favorite stories!
Jacob age 85, and Rebecca age 79 are all excited about their decision to get married. They go for a stroll to discuss the wedding and on the way go past a drugstore. Jacob suggests that they go in. He addresses the man behind the counter: "Are you the owner?"
The pharmacist answers, "Yes."
Jacob: "Do you sell heart medication?"
Pharmacist: "Of course we do."
Jacob: "How about medicine for circulation?"
Pharmacist: "All kinds."
Jacob: "Medicine for rheumatism?"
Pharmacist: "Definitely."
Jacob: "How about Viagra?"
Pharmacist: "Of course."
Jacob: "Medicine for memory?"
Pharmacist: "Yes, a large variety."
Jacob: "What about vitamins and sleeping pills?"
Pharmacist: "Absolutely."
Jacob: "Perfect! We'd like to register here for our wedding gifts."
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
I think seeing people do things in new ways is inspiring. Today, let's take a moment to celebrate an off-the-charts cool combination of music and marbles. This is "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan.
World of Rotary
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
I took this photo in 2012 during a partial solar eclipse. During the eclipse, the sunlight was being filtered through the leaves of trees at our home. These small gaps between the leaves act like a pin hole camera with very small aperture. The cresent shaped images of the partial eclipse were projected onto our chimney.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
5 Awesome Car Life Hacks
Some great ideas! Life Hacks for your car. Make a quick holder for your mobile phone or Sat Nav. Stop your windows from steaming up, fix a slow seat belt and more.
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
On the first meeting of every month, we feature service reports from club members for the previous month. Thanks for your service everyone!
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Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! This section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
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Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated on the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Shags Shagrin made a Other Amount donation.
To celebrate my 38th year in Rotary, still with perfect attendance!
Monique Ziesenhenne made a $20 donation.
Just glad we're surviving the heat wave and storms. TRF-Annual Fund, please!
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Please apply my gift to Polio Plus. The weather has been warm all week. Jazzmine is happy!
Catherine A made a $20 donation.
Grateful that my family in Morgan Hill, Napa and Sonoma did not have to evacuate due to nearby fires. Hoping for continued the safety of everyone in California wildfire regions. Please send this donation to The Rotary Foundation.
Selected Comments
Every week at the bottom of our meetings, there is a comments section for members and guests to tell us what they enjoyed about the meeting or to ask questions to the speaker. We select a few comments every week from last week’s meeting to be featured during this week’s meeting.
Here are the comments selected from last week’s meeting.
Nan Herron said:
Samah, your presentation blew my mind. Thank you for reminding me of all the privilege I take for granted. I CAN'T WAIT to see your projects come to fruition! Yes, Ferheen! Let's make it into a Rotary party!
I love the paper airplane,
and Keith, you reminded my HOW MUCH I want to see a total solar eclipse! I am "scheduled" to go to Chile in December .... but doubt that will happen. I'm looking not the one in the USA in 2024...
And, Shags, I take those kitchen hacks very seriously and am saving them all in a file! They are incredible! I can't believe I ever survived without them!
Thank you Rotary Family for adding sunshine, smiles, and connection to my week!
FelixP said:
Wow - what an inspiring and touching presentation! It’s impressive to see global world politics in a very specific, very concrete situation. And I am impressed by the courage and bravery of Samah. Keep on going!! And I wonder, what would be most helpful for her to continue her journey
Cal Mann said:
It's hard to know where to start with how incredibly inspiring this is. Suffice it to say that Samah's bravery, commitment and creativity are helping to restore faith in the goodness and potential of humanity. One person really can make a difference.
Be sure to leave a comment at the end of this week’s meeting after you watch the program below, and perhaps you’ll see your comment featured next week!
Program: Going, Going, Gone: Declining Bed Numbers and Severe Mental Illness
Speaker: Elizabeth Hancq
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others. Special thanks to member Roger Plested for leading our club's Programs Committee in finding us amazing speakers each week.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
The number of psychiatric hospital beds that remain in state hospitals for people with serious mental illness whose treatment is not being, or cannot be, adequately addressed in a community setting has fallen to fewer than 12 beds per 100,000 population in the United States, the lowest level on record.
This shortage has set off a domino effect of unmet demand that is reflected in such consequences as individuals in psychiatric crisis being boarded for days and even weeks in hospital emergency departments while they wait for hospital admission. It has also resulted in inmates in psychiatric crisis being wait-listed for weeks and months in jails and prisons as they wait for admission to forensic beds. The lack of an adequate supply of psychiatric beds in a community contributes to the over-representation of people with severe mental illness in the criminal justice system and who experience homelessness.
This program will describe the trends in psychiatric bed capacity over the past 60 years and the consequences of failures of the mental health treatment system to provide a full continuum of care for people with serious mental illness.
Our speaker, Elizabeth Hancq, is the Director of Research for the Treatment Advocacy Center. Elizabeth leads the organization’s Office of Research and Public Affairs (ORPA) and works with Treatment Advocacy Center staff and outside researchers to carry out its research agenda. She has co-authored multiple ORPA reports that have been cited in national media, including the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, and has generated statistics that have been used as testimony by government officials in the highest levels of office. In addition, Elizabeth has published in prestigious academic journals including JAMA Psychiatry and Nature Communications.
Previously, Elizabeth worked in community health quality improvement and public health program implementation and evaluation in Washington, DC. Prior to her work in public health, Elizabeth served as a research assistant at Georgetown University Lombardi Cancer Center and as a research scientist at McGill University in behavioral neuroscience. Elizabeth earned her masters of public health degree in prevention and community health from George Washington University in Washington, DC, and her bachelor’s degree in physiology and neuroscience from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Members and guests, please welcome Elizabeth Hancq!
Additional Resources
An overview of the the Office of Research and Public Affairs https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/evidence-and-research
Sign-up for Elizabeth's Research Weekly blog https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/stay-informed
Elizabeth's twitter: @ElizabethHancq
other resources:
Living Well with Schizophrenia YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCENqBB_xNax3mLX_WGLf2Lg
Recovery Cafe San Jose http://recoverycafesj.org/
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Santa Clara https://namisantaclara.org/
recommended authors: E. Fuller Torrey "Invisible Plague" https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Plague-Mental-Illness-Present/dp/0813542073 and others; Xavier’s Amador’s book: "I'm Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!" https://www.amazon.com/Someone-Mental-Illness-Treatment-Anniversary/dp/0967718937/
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
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