River Oaks specializes in the treatment of mental illness. We treat children and adolescents with mental illness as well as adults with addictions, eating disorders and trauma based disorders.

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

This is Lulu, an expert in indigenous health. She is Native Hawaiian and during her doctoral studies and since getting her doctorate (I think in public health?) with a focus in indigenous health, she has worked with indigenous communities all around Hawai'i and the lower 48, and now, for the first time, in Alaska (in Dillingham, SW Alaska). Her next goal? Global indigenous health.

Kentucky Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Diana Mortenson performs physical fitness training with behavioral health professionals at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

River Oaks specializes in the treatment of mental illness. We treat children and adolescents with mental illness as well as adults with addictions, eating disorders and trauma based disorders.

Connecticut Community Foundation’s grant delivered medical equipment, exam tables and computers to Wellmore Behavioral Health’s new Promoting Integrated Care clinic in Waterbury. Read the full story at conncf.org/this-place-saved-me/

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Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

U.S. Army Chaplain (Maj.) Dana Durham of the California Army National Guard hugs Greg Crowe with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation while working at a search base, Nov. 17, 2018, in Oroville, California. Chaplains from the California Military Department are embedding with National Guard search teams as they sift through debris from the deadly Camp Fire. Crowe is a retired Sgt. 1st Class from the Cal Guard's 749th Combat Sustainment and Support Battalion. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

River Oaks specializes in the treatment of mental illness. We treat children and adolescents with mental illness as well as adults with addictions, eating disorders and trauma based disorders.

River Oaks specializes in the treatment of mental illness. We treat children and adolescents with mental illness as well as adults with addictions, eating disorders and trauma based disorders.

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

River Oaks specializes in the treatment of mental illness. We treat children and adolescents with mental illness as well as adults with addictions, eating disorders and trauma based disorders.

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

River Oaks specializes in the treatment of mental illness. We treat children and adolescents with mental illness as well as adults with addictions, eating disorders and trauma based disorders.

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

River Oaks specializes in the treatment of mental illness. We treat children and adolescents with mental illness as well as adults with addictions, eating disorders and trauma based disorders.

U.S. Army Capt. Melissa Parmenter, a Behavioral Health Officer with the New Jersey Army National Guard, stands for a portrait at the Atlantic City Convention Center Federal Medical Station, Atlantic City, N.J., April 18, 2020. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

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Pamela Shelmon, Executive Director, CRCC, Schaumburg, Illinois

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Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)

Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)