10/08/08 Expert on mental illness delivers message of hope
"Clinical psychologist Patricia Deegan reaffirmed her belief Tuesday that psychosocial rehabilitation should be based on a model that provides the individual with choices and hope. Co-founder of the Boston University Institute for the Study of Human Resilience, Deegan, who was first diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 17, went on to make mental health transformation her life's work." by Anne Kyle, Regine Leader-Post, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 READ ARTICLE
vail place featured in MPR coverage on mental health crisis
"The staff members at Vail Place help people with mental illness thread their way through the bureaucracies that control access to treatment, housing, jobs and education." (from "Recent case exposes cracks in fractured mental health system" by Dan Olson, Minnesota Public Radio, January 20, 2006)
