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Peace of mind.
Sometimes getting there takes a specialist. Depression, anxiety, addiction. Mental and behavioral health problems can affect anyone. We offer a comprehensive range of outpatient and medication services. Our experienced psychiatrists and counselors offer adults, children, and families professional guidance and effective treatment plans so people can once again enjoy peace of mind.

KBH News for Saturday, January 28, 2012
KBH, Inland Hospital offer integrated care in Waterville
KBH is expanding access to health care in central Maine by opening its fifth clinic, and second in Waterville, on the West Concourse. A ribbon cutting was held Jan. 20.
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A Child Goes Missing: Helping the Community's Other Children Cope
Our community is in the midst of coping with the unexplained, extended disappearance of a tiny, vulnerable child. Advice from Dr. Karen Mosher, Clinical Director at KBH.
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Abnaki Knights donate $1,000 to KBH
Abnaki Council 334 of the Knights of Columbus has donated $1,000 to Kennebec Behavioral Health through the Knights' Persons with Disabilities Program.
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Inland Hospital grants $1,500 to KBH, High Hopes
Inland Hospital has contributed $1,000 to KBH through the hospital's Community Benefit program and $500 to the High Hopes Clubhouse in Waterville.
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Church provides gift baskets to those in need
The Penney Memorial United Baptist Church in Augusta is supporting many families in need by providing 38 Christmas food baskets to families working with KBH case managers.
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Free music for multimedia clinical projects
Agency clients and staff now have access to a library of royalty-free music for clinically related multimedia projects.
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'Hearts & Minds' newly available to community
The Winter (2011-2012) issue of KBH's Hearts & Minds community newsletter is now available here to download onto your desktop.

What is "behavioral health"?
What exactly is "behavioral health"? MeHAF Program Officer Becky Hayes Boober, Ph.D., poses the question in MeHAF's blog. It's a question worth asking - and answering.


James R. "Jim" Schmidt (1927-2011)
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James R. "Jim" Schmidt, one of the world's leading proponents of the clubhouse model for rehabilitation in the mental health field, died Aug. 11, 2011. Gov. Paul LePage and others praise his work.

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KBH honors Inland Hospital, Winthrop Family Medicine, Rep. Webster at annual meeting
Kennebec Behavioral Health honored several area health-care leaders at the agency's annual meeting June 16. DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew was the event's keynote speaker.
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Meet Dr. Mosher and read her views on various aspects of mental and behavioral health. Go to the blog.