Department of Psychiatry Mark S. Gold, M.D. Interesting Places in and
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Street healers offer help and hopeBy Bridget MurphyThe story started like many of his patients' stories. "I had got in a little trouble," the homeless woman explained, after psychiatrist Richard Christensen and fellow outreach workers found Robin Parker in a Jacksonville park. A scar criss-crossed her left brow like a train track... What almost never went away was the headache the 44-year-old said she'd had since a lawn mower blade attack. It left her needing 26 stitches by her eye last year. "I pulled them myself, but I don't think I pulled them all out," Parker said, a street corner away from patrons sipping designer coffee. Parker had a smile for outreach team nurse Debbie Carter as she promised her an aspirin and a clinic appointment. And why not smile? Help from Christensen's team of street healers meant more than a free bag of food and bottle of water. Bundled with their help was hope. Hope that whatever Parker needed to repair a mind and body worn out from seven years of living on and off the streets wasn't completely out of reach. See entire article in Jacksonville Times-Union, June 27, 2008. McCabe Foundation Partners with the University of Florida to Create Endowment for Community Mental Health in Indian River County by Christopher Brazda VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Ellie and Bob McCabe of Vero Beach have made a $2 million gift to the University of Florida to establish a permanent endowment to support psychiatry and community mental health in Indian River County. The gift is the largest ever made by The Robert F. and Eleonora W. McCabe Foundation, which has focused its philanthropic efforts on mental health care in Indian River County since 2001. The endowment will fund The Robert F. and Eleonora W. McCabe Eminent Scholar Chair in Psychiatry and Community Mental Health at the University of Florida, College of Medicine, in Gainesville. The Eminent Scholar will be based in Vero Beach and will focus on developing a satellite academic department with a broad range of expertise to both train and retain psychiatric professionals in Indian River County. "We have known for several years that our community suffers from a lack of access to psychiatric care." said Ellie McCabe, president of the McCabe Foundation. "Without early access to care, people who suffer from mental illness and addictions often end up hospitalized or in jail because of behavior related to their disease." more See article from Vero Beach Press Journal, "$2M gift to help mental health services in Indian River County". |
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