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The 70-year-old client is an accountant by trade. So, when Ruth Shadel, Bert Nash aging specialist, talked to him about the cost and benefits of his actions, that made sense. “But this was a different context,” the client said. Shadel and the client connected not on a numbers level but on a trust level, which is important in the client-therapist relationship. “You have to have that,” said Shadel, who started the Center’s Successful Aging Program in 2004. The program provides

Amy Volweider can relate to what it’s like to be a millennial. Because she is one. Volweider is a therapist in the Adult Outpatient Program at the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center. At 28, she is at the upper end of the millennial age range, which is considered to be 18 to 34. So she can appreciate the issues and challenges facing millennials; she’s faced many of them herself. And is still facing them. “On a lot of levels, I get them,” Volweider said of her fellow mill

Charlie Kuszmaul, who retired in November, spent 25 years on staff at the Bert Nash Center. For most of that time — 19 years, to be exact — he was the driving force behind a program that places a mental health therapist in Douglas County schools. Known as WRAP, which stands for Working to Recognize Alternative possibilities, the in-school therapy program has touched the lives of “probably 10,000 kids” over the past nearly 20 years, said Kuszmaul, who joined the Bert Nash Cent

Bert Nash Center and Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority have a long history of working together. The newest partnership between the two organizations involves plans to develop an eight-unit apartment building adjacent to a proposed crisis center, across from the Bert Nash Center, 200 Maine St. “This is probably the strongest partnership between a community mental health center and a housing authority in the country,” Bert Nash Center CEO David Johnson said of the relat

Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center and the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority have received an award of $80,000 from the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation for continuation of the Community Support Services HOME tenant-based rental assistance program. The Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority will administer the funds. The Community Support Services HOME tenant-based rental assistance program is a collaboration between the Bert Nash Center and the Lawrence-