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FACES is a non-profit corporation founded by families of loved ones with brain disorders such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression and schizoaffective disorder. The mission of FACES is to serve and support families by helping to dissolve the stigma surrounding mental illness. Our goals are to educate the public, provide educational resources, advocate for access to services, and create a model residential center.

Crisis Intervention Training (CIT)

Chesterfield County’s program Partnership for Change is a five year imitative focusing on developing a coordinated plan to divert individuals with mental health disorders from the criminal justice system. One of the goals is to explore the feasibility of Crisis Intervention Teams. Since police officers are first responders in many mental health crisis, CIT trains police officers to recognize and de-escalate events surrounding an occurrence. A primary goal is to get people into treatment instead of into jail.

A special work group has formed at the request of Chesterfield County’s Police Chief, Col. Dupuis, and the Chesterfield County Community Service Board’s Executive Director, Debbie Burcham. A plan of action will be presented in three to four months since its inception in August of 2009.

The group will explore the following areas: CIT history, goals, and components of a successful CIT. Supporting data and resource concerns will be examined as will be the benefits to local citizens and County departments. We will keep you up to date on new developments.

By Pam Weiseman, FACES Board Chairman

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Food Lion has redesigned the web site in order to make it easier to register your MVP Card and provide support to FACES. These tips might help if you will try again.

• When selecting the organization, use Organization #31834 for FACES.
• All registration numbers must have 12 digits. These numbers start with 46.
• Call the FACES center if you are still having a problem and we will be glad to register for you.

Food Lion is involved in the local communities in which it serves, and LionShop & Share is thier way of helping your community grow and prosper. It is the easiest, most convenient way to raise money for your local not-for-profit organization. Each time you shop at Food Lion and use your MVP card, a portion of your total grocery purchase will be donated to your organization.

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FACES is going Green.

Everyone is concerned with the environment and the financial situation. In order to do our part and still continue our mission of education and support to families FACES will be making some changes to the method of delivering the newsletter. We will be posting all articles on our web site (facesva.org) at the first of each month. There are also direct links posted on this site for additional information which you may find helpful. Another option would be to receive an email copy of the newsletter. We will continue to mail the newsletter each month to anyone who wishes to make that selection.

FACES is dedicated to providing the services that families need in order to deal with their loved ones and now we will be doing it Green.

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