AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR HASLAM
DBSA Tennessee
The Honorable Governor Haslam:
Tennessee can not afford to loose the valuable peer service of its 45 peer support centers, no mental health service can compensate for the wellness created for such a modest monetary investment. For nearly pocket-change per hour per person, some of our most vulnerable fellow Tennsseeans receive the priceless gift of comfortable and safe peer support centers. Yet, with the stoke of your pen these same helpless ones are left in the cold, their lives treated as to have no value. Today, you can do the right thing by acting to keep our 45 peer support centers open and fully operational.
As State Director of Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) Tennessee, I promise to personally stand with you in a decision to continue funding for these life lines to thousands of the mentally ill. Serving our State for over four decades, DBSA Tennessee helps to improve the lives of people living with mood disorders. With over 20 chapters/support groups, we affect several thousands of lives, including consumers and their family members and loved ones. Through community education efforts, our members passionately work to push back against stigma.
We are an affiliate of the national organization. The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is the leading patient-directed national organization focusing on depression and bipolar disorder. The organization fosters an environment of understanding about the impact and management of these life-threatening illnesses by providing up-to-date, scientifically-based tools and information. DBSA supports research to promote more timely diagnosis, develop more effective and tolerable treatments and discover a cure. The organization works to ensure that people living with mood disorders are treated equitably. Assisted by a scientific advisory board comprised of the leading researchers and clinicians in the field of mood disorders, DBSA has more than 1,000 peer-run support groups across the country. Nearly five million people request and receive information and assistance each year. For more information about DBSA or depression and bipolar disorder, please visit www.DBSAlliance.org and www.DBSATennessee.org .
Very respectfully,
Steve Brannon, B.A., M.Ed., D.Div.
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