NEWS & NOTES

Note: Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center will observe Mental Health Awareness Month in May with stories of hope and recovery. Kevin Hines spends 300 days a year on the road, sharing his story around the world. His motivation is simple. “It’s seeing the positive reactions from people who tell me their lives have been changed,” Hines said in a phone interview from his home in Atlanta. “That’s what motivates me.” Seventeen years ago, the then 19-year-old Hines took a bus t

Note: Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center will observe Mental Health Awareness Month in May with stories of hope and recovery. Suicide is something Lisa Doffing had thought about for a long time. Since she was 9, in fact. She’s now 49. “I remember telling my step-mother and her boyfriend that I didn’t want to live anymore,” Doffing said. “I never engaged in self-harm, like cutting or anything, but the desire to be at peace was very much present in my life.” Today, Doffin

Note: Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center will observe Mental Health Awareness Month in May with stories of hope and recovery. Eleven years ago, Danny Henderson was home alone when he suffered a debilitating stroke. He was 36. Three days later, a friend came to the house and found him. Doctors told him later he was hours away from dying. Today, Henderson still feels the lingering effects of the stroke, and he had knee replacement last October, but he’s feeling better all

Note: Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center will observe Mental Health Awareness Month in May with stories of hope and recovery. Brad Burnside considers himself an introvert. “I think some people are surprised by that,” said Burnside, who is the market president of US Bank in Lawrence and the incoming chair of the Bert Nash Governing Board of Directors. The demands of his job and the associated civic responsibilities often put him in public positions that are not necessari

Note: Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center will observe Mental Health Awareness Month in May with stories of hope and recovery. For Maggie Crowder, forgetting the past wasn’t the hard part. Remembering was. She wished she could forget. But she couldn’t. Years of abuse had left her with memories — more like nightmares— she couldn’t shake. But thanks to a treatment she went through at the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center called exposure therapy, as well as individua