December, 2014

The Evidence of a Good Year—Looking Back at 2014 and Ahead to 2015!
As 2014 comes to a close, there is a barrage of reporting from media outlets on the top stories of the year. Politics, disease, violence…it can be overwhelming and disheartening to think about the year behind through this negative focus, particularly when we all have experienced [...]Read more

Kindness Today and Every Day
Many people have commented that taking action on the values of the ITE poem is really about being kind to one another. And they’re right. It is that simple. For many, this time of year spurs the seemingly simple action of kindness to one another that somehow seems to get lost in [...]Read more

Rocky: Mascot for Hope, by Shelley Bishop
Taking action on the values represented in the ITE poem is at the core of the ITE/MH Campaign, and to me it seems like the process of recovery usually starts with feeling connected…to another person, or in the case of Kate Longest, to an incredible dog named Rocky. I met Kate [...]Read more

Recovery Story: Recovery’s Aerodynamics
By Kyle, B.S., CPS While still a High School Senior at Southern Wells High School, Poneto, Indiana, back in 1977, I enlisted for serving in the US Navy. Due to my high achievement on ASVAB test scores I qualified for Submarine Service and it thrilled me to go through all [...]Read more