NEWS & NOTES

Worried about some of her friends, a Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center board member recently messaged the Center’s CEO Patrick Schmitz and other staff members. “I have friends who are just down and need some positivity,” the board member said. “I have been asked if Bert Nash has any online resources/exercises/links that would help people who are experiencing low energy or light depression during these seasonal days of COVID. Thanks for any help.” Help is available. Not

Jeree Catlin, Endowment Board Chair: Why is it important to you to support the Bert Nash Center financially? In normal years, providing financial support for Bert Nash provides both seed money for new services as well as support for enriching current services. But this year, with the quarantine, endowment and financial support have been even more critical in providing much needed operating funds. Ongoing support will be especially important going forward so that we can expand

Congratulations, Sara Godinez, the 2020 recipient of the Sandra Shaw Spirit Award, the highest award a Bert Nash Center staff member can receive. The presentation was conducted during a virtual all-staff meeting in September. She was joined by her husband, Mike, and their son, Alex. “There have been lots of highs and lots of lows this past year and lots of anxiety and stress. But there have been plenty of high points and one thing for sure, this pandemic has made me very grat

The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center has been here for Douglas County for 70 years. We celebrated on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 by hosting a virtual at-home fundraising breakfast. The online program helped us raise unrestricted funds that will shape and improve the delivery of mental health services we offer to children, families, and adults in Douglas County. A special thank-you to our sponsors who, without their generous support, this virtual event would not be pos

Dear Friends, As we look back on this year, we can acknowledge it has been a year of adversity. Yet, resiliency has been the pillar for us to stand on. Because of the pandemic, we face a mental health crisis unlike any we have seen before, where anxiety and depression are affecting our community at higher rates while the resources of those needing help have diminished or disappeared entirely. As the economic impact of Covid-19 stretches into the future, we are seeing an incre