National Alliance on Mental Illness
Not much time to catch my breath and post this week. Last Sunday, we got a call from family and immediately began making plans to drive south Monday afternoon. Mike had to work and I had a meeting in the NAMI Howard County offices at 12:30 p.m. The half-hour meeting gave me the opportunity to sign my contract with NAMI, meet the other contractor that I’ll be working with and discuss the “game plan” for the next few weeks. While I work on the redesign of their information brochure for individuals with mental illness and their families, my team mate will be putting together a database of health care providers in Howard County, Maryland. By the time we meet again in a couple weeks, we should be through phase I of the project.
Monday afternoon, I let local friends know we were leaving town. When Mike got off work, we loaded up the car, had dinner and left town. We spent most of Tuesday with family and although a short trip, we’re glad we went. Fortunately, things have improved some during the week. The rest of the week was catch up on my Examiner.com column and work on a handout for a women’s retreat I’ll be attending next weekend. Today, Mike and I spent the morning on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, Maryland. We walked in the NAMIWalk for the Mind of America – the culmination of an annual fundraising effort to support the wonderful NAMI programs for individuals with mental illness and their families. Now it’s time to hit the hay. After church tomorrow, it’s back to work on the NAMI brochure.
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