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Peer Coalition
Third Tuesday of the Month
11:00AM - 12:00PM
If you are a peer your welcome to be part of this unique and important coalition.
Lets bring the peer perspective to the dialogue of change and solution within the mental health system. Share your experience and knowledge. Everyone is welcome. Come and join us.
It is time for peers to take a leading position in the changes within the mental health system.
Third Tuesday of the Month
11:00AM - 12:00PM
If you are a peer your welcome to be part of this unique and important coalition.
Lets bring the peer perspective to the dialogue of change and solution within the mental health system. Share your experience and knowledge. Everyone is welcome. Come and join us.
It is time for peers to take a leading position in the changes within the mental health system.
Dance in the Rain
Whole Person Approach
“People with mental health challenges helping others with mental health challenges. Giving them strength and the courage to begin rebuilding themselves by focusing on the full scope of their being.”
Dance in the Rain believes that a strong personal support system and peer engagement are the greatest assets a person with mental health challenges can possess. We work hard to help individuals recognize who their supports are and to help them build strong support systems.
Whole Person Approach
“People with mental health challenges helping others with mental health challenges. Giving them strength and the courage to begin rebuilding themselves by focusing on the full scope of their being.”
Dance in the Rain believes that a strong personal support system and peer engagement are the greatest assets a person with mental health challenges can possess. We work hard to help individuals recognize who their supports are and to help them build strong support systems.
Dance in the Rain also believes that mental health challenges are community issues. We believe that it will take all the different Cape & Islands communities to come together each helping in their own unique way to help solve the issues facing the existing fractured mental health system. Many of our events are community oriented and designed to give the many different communities opportunities to participate.
(communities identified as: peer, mental health, art, professional, business, family, first responder, health, faith, community at large, senior, youth, and more ...)
(communities identified as: peer, mental health, art, professional, business, family, first responder, health, faith, community at large, senior, youth, and more ...)
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Welcome to
Dance in the Rain Whole Person Approach Mental illness is unique to the individual. Every individual has unique brain pathways, chemistry's and biology's. Each person reacts to stimuli and circumstances differently. They have their own unique backgrounds, histories, traumas, joys, sorrows and triumphs. Therefore... As a provider begins to communicate with the individual seeing them as a Whole Person with their own unique chemistry, life story, and illness the individuals chemistry and life begins to be revealed to the provider. As the two continue to work together a unique medication program evolves out of the knowledge and trust gained between the two. As the Wholeness of the person begins to be discovered to the individual and others in their life a unique and personal healing process begins. It's sculpted and created by the uniqueness of the individual and their support system. Mary E Munsell 6/2013 |
I feel Carly Simon's song "Touched by the Sun" encompasses what peer to peer engagement is all about.
We learn from those who have been there. By engaging with your peers you will get there and be 'touched by the sun.' You'll be able to "open your wings of desire." |
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Print out this month calendar April 2017 Click pdf. format on the right or download from arrow on large picture of calendar. |
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Artwork By: Mary E. Munsell
Startling Statistics
*The Cape & Islands Region has the largest suicide rate in Massachusetts.
* Preschoolers are the fasting growing market for antidepressants. At least 4% of preschoolers are clinically depressed. (Health and Human Services - Federal Government)
* Nationally, we loose one life by suicide every 15.8 minutes. Suicide in the eleventh leading cause of death overall and is the third-leading cause of death among youth and young adults aged 15-24. (US Public Health Service)
*The Cape & Islands Region has the largest suicide rate in Massachusetts.
* Preschoolers are the fasting growing market for antidepressants. At least 4% of preschoolers are clinically depressed. (Health and Human Services - Federal Government)
* Nationally, we loose one life by suicide every 15.8 minutes. Suicide in the eleventh leading cause of death overall and is the third-leading cause of death among youth and young adults aged 15-24. (US Public Health Service)
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Dance in the Rain
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Come use our safe comfortable space! If your looking for a place to work on projects that you would like to work on but would like to work on in the company of others come on in. We have WI-FI, hot coffee, tea, the use of kitchen space. We have a color printer, scanner and copier plus an extra computer. Also the use of a phone to make some calls.
Maybe your looking for some help in navigating the confusing mental health system. We have all been there and we are still going through it. We learn from each other. We also offer one to one peer engagement to help with any issues you may be facing. Dance in the Rain will also help you prepare for a psychiatrist appointment so that the doctor gets a larger picture of where you are in your life not just a snapshot of how your presenting during the appointment.
Perhaps your feeling a bit in crisis and just need to talk. We are here. We are great listeners, after all we have been in the same place you are many times before.
Would you like some insight on why you might be stuck and seem to doing the same things? A fresh perspective from others who understand on an intimate level rather than an observational level? It might be refreshing?
Do you want to do something different this time? Fill the gaps in your support system? Stop having people trying to fix you all the time. Would you like to have people walk along side of you and respect you for who you are and where you are? How about having people support your dreams and ideas?
Grow at your own pace. Be unique and be who you are. It just might surprise you!
Dance in the Rain is what you make of it.
Come grow with us and develop something spectacular for peers living with mental health challenges.
Maybe your looking for some help in navigating the confusing mental health system. We have all been there and we are still going through it. We learn from each other. We also offer one to one peer engagement to help with any issues you may be facing. Dance in the Rain will also help you prepare for a psychiatrist appointment so that the doctor gets a larger picture of where you are in your life not just a snapshot of how your presenting during the appointment.
Perhaps your feeling a bit in crisis and just need to talk. We are here. We are great listeners, after all we have been in the same place you are many times before.
Would you like some insight on why you might be stuck and seem to doing the same things? A fresh perspective from others who understand on an intimate level rather than an observational level? It might be refreshing?
Do you want to do something different this time? Fill the gaps in your support system? Stop having people trying to fix you all the time. Would you like to have people walk along side of you and respect you for who you are and where you are? How about having people support your dreams and ideas?
Grow at your own pace. Be unique and be who you are. It just might surprise you!
Dance in the Rain is what you make of it.
Come grow with us and develop something spectacular for peers living with mental health challenges.
Our office hours are: *unless otherwise noted*
Monday: 10:00am to 3:00pm
Tuesday: 10:00am to 3:00pm
Wednesday: 10:00pm to 3:00pm
Thursday: 10:00 to 3:00pm
Closed Friday, Saturday & Sunday.
Please Stop by for a chat and a cup of coffee or tea. We would love to meet you and hear your thoughts and ideas. Come and use our open art studio. We have many different art supplies that you can experiment with free of charge. Find out what Dance in the Rain is all about. Don't go it alone anymore! Come engage with those who understand.
Monday: 10:00am to 3:00pm
Tuesday: 10:00am to 3:00pm
Wednesday: 10:00pm to 3:00pm
Thursday: 10:00 to 3:00pm
Closed Friday, Saturday & Sunday.
Please Stop by for a chat and a cup of coffee or tea. We would love to meet you and hear your thoughts and ideas. Come and use our open art studio. We have many different art supplies that you can experiment with free of charge. Find out what Dance in the Rain is all about. Don't go it alone anymore! Come engage with those who understand.
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Use door next to ProCuts!
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Join our new online peer support group!
Get peer support and engagement 24/7/365 To Join Go To: groups.yahoo.com/Danceintherain-wpa Follow the prompts to join. You will need to get a Yahoo ID and password but you can have the groups emails send to any email server. Only members of the group may view posts. CHECK IT OUT AND JOIN US! DON'T GO IT ALONE ANYMORE. WE HEAR YOU AND UNDERSTAND! |
*Drop in anytime to chat or just hangout!
You don't have to participate in the programing offered at the time you drop in.
You are always welcome!
Our office hours are:
Monday - Thursday 11:00am - 4:00pm unless otherwise noted.
Monday:
Mary 11:00am - 3:00pm
Alejandro - 10:00am - 3:00pm
Mike - 11:00am - 2:00pm
Tuesday:
Mary 11:00am - 3:00pm
Alejandro 10:00 - 3:00
Wednesday:
Mary 11:00am - 3:00pm
Alejandro 10:00am - 3:00pm
Thursday:
Mary 11:00am - 3:00pm
Alejandro: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Mike 12:00pm - 3:00pm
OFFICED CLOSED ON FRIDAY'S
It's about options! The more options you come into contact with the greater the opportunity for growth.
Dance in the Rain believes offering peers opportunities to engage in social settings, through meetings, workshops, events and other venues gives a person an opportunity to strengthen and build their personal support system. An integeral building block in the foundation in creating life as it will be lived. 
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Rethink your world!
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Dance in the Rain has become a Nonprofit Peer to Peer Collaboration as of March 2013. We serve the mentally ill and the dual diagnosis population living on The Cape & Islands. |
