Touchstone Services Inc.
"Our goal is simple...To help you reach yours"
OPPORTUNITY CENTER: About Us
Opening Doors to Success
1301 N. Madison Avenue
Bay City, MI 48708
Phone: (989) 895-9080
(989) 737-0353
Fax: (989) 895-7914
Director: Karen Amon
""The Opportunity Center"
Lyrics/Music by Dave Waldman
Copyright April 14, 2008
All rights reserved
For more information please visit the composers websight at http://home.earthlink.net/~waldmusic/index.html
Annual Camping Trip
July 14 - 16
Sleepy Hollow Campground
Laingsburg, MI
Cost is $15.00
For more information see Shannon or Josh
FAMILIES IN ACTION
Nine week educational and support series for families who care for a loved one with mental illness.
Topics:
What Families Expect
Mental Illness Symptoms
Services that are Available
Stress Management
Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
Medications
Communication with someone who has symptoms
Dealing with Difficult Situations, Behaviors
Recovery
Feb 16-April 13, 2009
Monday Evenings from 6pm-8:30pm
YES Youth Education and Support
A collaborative research project with Michigan State University, Bay Arenac Behavioral Health and Touchstone Services Inc.
It is a six group session for youths 10-15 years old who have a parent coping with mental illness. The youth learn about mental illness, treatment, stress management and developing coping skills.
Presentations, discussions, activities, fun and refreshments!
Next Group in May.
Family Psychoeducational Group:
A therapy method that incorporates people with Schizophrenia and their families. A series of joining (meeting with individual family members) is conducted. A one day workshop for informational purposes and then bi-weekly treatment groups for an extended period of time.
Plans to begin this project in June-July of 2009.
Poems, essays and stories by members
The Darkness of Night
By: Mark N.
As I inhale the darkness of the darkened night, I glance and see the smoke dangling in front of me.
The smoke dances around my head like roaring flames of campfire. Each movement is synchronized with one another, like ghouls dancing at a joyous festival.
As I sit in the darkness, I hear the echoes of crickets chirping. It seems they are communicating with one another, each one telling a story of life that was placed in front of them.
I sit here and look at the moon in the sky, and wonder, "why does it look so close?" I reach my hand out and try to grab it, but like everything in my life it is so close and yet so far away. The moon has such a calming effect. I feel like it is watching over me, protecting me from any harm that might come my way.
The cool breeze flowing on the tip of my skin makes me feel helpless, like I am defenseless against an attack. I can't see the enemy, yet I know he is there, ready to attack again.
As I sit here meditating on my surroundings, I realize that nature is nature in harmony with one another, and wonder "Why can't my life flow together like the serene nature we have been blessed with?"
Again, I take another drag off my cigarette as I inhale the thickness of the dark night.
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By: Margaret H.
I walk my own path through life,
Yes I will never be no mans wife.
But what is it that I seek
Just a little humor or compassionate relief.
Just walk with me and be a friend
You are not required to stay to the end.
As the wind blows I may shake and cry,
Yet the good Lord's will does not see it fit for me to die.
In my heart is so much pain
Is it any wonder I'm not sane,
Was I born in vain.
