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 Thursday, May 17, 2012
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| Child's health focus of free community talks |
Kennebec Behavioral Health is pleased to present several free educational programs in the coming weeks, many of them related to Children's Mental Health Awareness Week, which is May 6-12.
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| Teens create April 14 screenplay on depression |
On April 14, KBH will present "The Road Back," a screenplay on teen depression to air on WABI-TV from 7-8 p.m. and on The CW channel from April 22 from 10-11 a.m./ More
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| Lester T. Jolovitz, 1917-2012 |
Lester T. Jolovitz, who helped co-found our agency in 1960, died Feb. 29 in Naples, Fla. A longtime supporter of Kennebec Behavioral Health programs, Mr. Jolovitz served as president of the agency's governing board from 1964-1965. / More
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| Events keyed to child-abuse awareness month |
April is National Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Awareness Month. Several local agencies and law enforcement officers plan events to draw attention to abuse and awareness. / More
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| Agencies merge to improve access to care |
Kennebec Behavioral Health and Youth & Family Services Inc. have merged their non-profit agencies, programs and workforces to provide expanded and coordinated health-care options in central Maine. About 35 Y&FS employees became part of the KBH staff in the merger, during the first week of February. Patient care was uninterrupted during the transition. KBH now has about 350 employees. / More
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| KBH offers free presentations on stress, negative behaviors |
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Kennebec Behavioral Health's 2012 Community Learning Series includes presentations by School Based providers who will speak about dealing with stress as well as negative behaviors at home. / More
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| Everything looking up at Looking Ahead Clubhouse |
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Open less than two months, Kennebec Behavioral Health's new Looking Ahead Clubhouse affiliate in Lewiston, at 646 Main Street, already has had more than 100 referrals and has 78 members. The Clubhouse is based on the evidence-based Clubhouse Model of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, which improves the quality of life for clubhouse members who experience mental illness. / More
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| Agency's economic value to region |
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Kennebec Behavioral Health creates a positive economic impact on central Maine by paying competitive salaries to its 350 employees, by buying goods and services from central Maine businesses and vendors, and by helping thousands of people maintain their jobs through individualized health-care plans. / More
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| Bob Long led State substance-abuse commission |
As chairman of the State of Maine's Substance Abuse Services Commission, KBH's Bob Long recently served as the chairman of the Workgroup convened through Legislative Document 1501. / More
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| Mental illness - by the numbers |
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People with serious mental illness - which include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major clinical depression - die 25 years earlier than the general population, on average. Sixty percent of premature deaths in people with schizophrenia are due to medical conditions such as cardiovascular, pulmonary and infectious disease. / More
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| KBH's new Waterville clinic is agency's fifth |
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Kennebec Behavioral Health expanded access to health care in central Maine by opening its fifth clinic, and second in Waterville, on the Downtown Concourse in 2011. The Concourse Clinic offers adult and adolescent psychiatry in the formerly empty space between Inland Family Care, which opened in May 2011, and the Family Dollar Store. / More
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| James R. "Jim" Schmidt (1927-2011)
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James R. "Jim" Schmidt, a leading proponent of the clubhouse model for rehabilitation in the mental health field and the international expert in employment for those experiencing mental illness, died Aug. 11, 2011. / More
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| KBH thanks board members for their service |
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Kennebec Behavioral Health has announced the composition of its community-based Boards of Directors for fiscal year 2011-2012. / More
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