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Finding Help with Parenting Challenges
By Jessica Cochran
ACMHS Child and Family Services, October 1, 2018
It’s the last of six evening sessions for this group of five families enrolled in Parenting with Love and Limits® (PLL). That means it's potluck night, and the younger kids especially can’t wait to load up their plates with sub
When D. first came to live with Karen R. and her husband, he was almost five years old and he had been seriously abused. D.’s care team from the Office of Children’s Services helped connect his new family with services to begin the long road to recovering from that history. That included therapy through the Alaska Child Trauma Center at
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Lunch with the Residential Team
By Stephanie Rhoades, ACMHS Board Member
There's a little place in Anchorage where lunch is served every Wednesday and Friday in a setting so intimate and secure that one diner spoke openly of feeling depressed from being so far away from his family and the positive steps he took to address that feeling, steps
Leadership Changes at ACMHS, June 2018 Update
By Jessica Cochran, Executive Coordinator
CEO Jim Myers has been at ACMHS for 6 months now, and CEO for 5 of them. Leadership consultant Don Tebbe calls this the “Post-Hire-Taking -Charge phase”, and says it lasts for 6 to 12 months, often through a complete annual budget cycle. But he goes
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ACMHS Announces New CEO
Jim Myers, MBA to take over management of ACMHS, FCMHS, LLC, and Alaska Youth Advocates on January 16, 2018
Anchorage, Alaska, November 21, 2017- The Board of Directors of Anchorage Community Mental Health Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the selection of Jim Myers, MBA as the new
