By Kenneth McGrath MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — Alabama faces the tragic reality of having one of the nation’s highest veteran suicide rates. According to the Alabama Department of Veteran Affairs, in 2020 152 veterans in Alabama took their own lives. Alabama is home to approximately 400,000 veterans and although veterans represent about 10% of the […]
by: Nicolette Schleisman MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A local veterans group fighting to open a substance detox and residential treatment facility here in Mobile has won approval from the state to adjust the state health plan, a win in the path to opening the facility. Tuesday morning a group of people from Mobile in support of […]
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — Veterans Recovery Resources, a local nonprofit group, won a big victory in Montgomery Tuesday. The Statewide Health Coordinating Council approved its request that will now help it open a detox facility in Mobile County. VRR plans to open a 34-bed inpatient detox center in Mobile County but needed the SHCC to grant […]
by: Nicolette Schleisman MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A local veterans group trying to expand its care is fighting to open a detox facility here in Mobile. Veterans Recovery Resources, a non-profit group, will be going to argue for the chance to open their own substance detox and residential treatment facility. “This facility that we’re trying to […]
Posted by Gabriel Tynes Veterans Recovery Resources (VRR), which has a widely-praised and nearly funded plan to open a residential detox and recovery center for veterans and first responders at the blighted Raphael Semmes School building on Springhill Avenue, is being challenged by a competing health care provider upstate. VRR Executive Director John Kilpatrick said the […]
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WPMI) — A local non-profit organization that serves veterans is fighting to open a facility it says will help those battling addiction. Veterans Recovery Resources wants to open a 34-bed detox and residential treatment facility on Springhill Avenue. “We only have one mission and that’s to remove barriers to care for veterans and […]
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WPMI) — NBC 15 is spotlighting the services provided by Veterans Recovery Resources in Mobile not only addressing the mental, emotional and spiritual issues of our veterans but also first responders and their families. A fire 11 years ago on Dauphin Island nearly proved fatal. Gale force winds created a monster that […]
Objectives: Participants will be able to Describe how a functional-contextual definition of moral injury differs from a syndromal or diagnostic definition and the clinical implications of this distinction. Differentiate non-voluntary and non-pathological moral responses to morally injurious events Demonstrate how to use core ACT processes to interrupt morally injurious patterns of behavior with clients Presenters […]
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WPMI) — If you are a veteran or first responder and find yourself in need of help Veteran’s Recovery Resources in Mobile is providing that help. Tonight, we introduce you to one of the support specialists there.. who has turned his own life experiences, into the most rewarding career he could have imagined. […]
