A New Look for Caminar's Newsletter August 5, 2011 Readers of Caminar's newsletter will notice a fresh, new look to the most recent edition of Caminar's newsletter. You'll enjoy reading about updates to Caminar programs, client success stories, common myths about mental illness and much more.
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Chip Huggins, CEO, Caminar; Ms. Doris Buffett; Stephen Way, Co-President, NAMI San Mateo
An Evening with Doris Buffett was held on March 31, 2011 at the San Mateo County History Museum. (Photos by Dawdy Photography)
Caminar and NAMI San Mateo County partnered in a joint fundraising event- An Evening with Doris Buffett, which was held on March 31, 2011. Warren Buffett prepared a special video for the event introducing his older sister, Doris. She and Warren grew up with a mother who had mental illness. Michael Zitz, author of Giving It All Away: The Doris Buffett Story, will interview Doris about her interesting life, growing up with Warren, and the Sunshine Lady Foundation she founded in 1996. The Foundation has given away $100 million- and Doris is not done yet. She is still personally seeking recipients of her grants.
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Warren Buffett introduces his sister, Doris, and talks about the stigma around mental illness
Doris Buffett endorses Caminar and friends
Doris Buffett talks about her family and mental illness
During Mental Health Month, we need to focus on jails and prisons May 18, 2011 This month is Mental Health Month, and there is one place where mental disabilities are shamefully going untreated: in our jails and prisons.
In 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 45 percent of federal prisoners, 56 percent of state prisoners and 64 percent of local jail inmates have symptoms of serious mental illnesses.
In the United States today, there are more people suffering from serious mental illness in our jails and prisons than there are in our psychiatric hospitals, according to Dr. Terry Kupers, one of the world’s leading experts on the psychological effects of solitary confinement.
Imprisonment itself contributes to mental illnesses. It’s difficult for any human being to be housed in a 6-by-8 cell with another inmate. Add in segregation or solitary confinement — where the lights are on day and night and you’re totally isolated — and mental balance is virtually impossible for anyone to handle, much less for someone hearing voices or having persecution thoughts.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANNOUNCES ITS NEWEST MEMBER, KAREN MCCOWN November, 2011
The Caminar Board of Directors has elected Karen McCown as its newest member.
Karen is recognized as an educational pioneer who founded the Nueva School in Hillsborough in 1967, where she published Self-Science, her visionary emotional intelligence curriculum. She is dedicated to continuing her legacy with the founding of Synapse which she hopes will become a model for future schools. In planning the school she met with educators, political and business leaders and Nobel Laureates to consider the educational needs of our society. She saw that the central foundation of a school should be not simply giving students knowledge, but giving them the opportunity to develop wisdom. Her commitment is reflected by her active involvement on campus. She is the chair and co-founder of Six Seconds, a non-profit organization that offers training and materials on emotional intelligence.
Honored as Educator of the Year by the California Association of the Gifted, Karen has presented at thousands of symposia and conferences. She has served on a broad range of trustee and advisory boards for social, emotional, and mental health.
Karen is recognized as an educational pioneer who founded the Nueva School in Hillsborough in 1967, where she published Self-Science, her visionary emotional intelligence curriculum. She is dedicated to continuing her legacy with the founding of Synapse which she hopes will become a model for future schools. In planning the school she met with educators, political and business leaders and Nobel Laureates to consider the educational needs of our society. She saw that the central foundation of a school should be not simply giving students knowledge, but giving them the opportunity to develop wisdom. Her commitment is reflected by her active involvement on campus. She is the chair and co-founder of Six Seconds, a non-profit organization that offers training and materials on emotional intelligence.