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“I KNOW TODAY, I’M NOT THE PERSON I STARTED OUT TO BE” – Craig Tschetter Author of FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO Grace Jones once said, “Everyone has to make their own decisions.  I still believe in that.  You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.” At no time in my life have…

January 6th BEP Board Member and Committee Chair Training on media tools and our business processes as a non-profit. January 8th BEP Board Meeting 7 PM, second floor MetaBank. January 21 Family Support Group, 1330 So. Main, Faith Reformed Church 6:00 to 7:30 PM. January 22 Annual Networking Social for BEP Volunteers and Friends, 6-9PM Wooden Legs Brewery, side room. Find out…

Last Tuesday evening,  members of the Brookings Empowerment Project presented an overview of BEP and our proposed transitional housing project. We were using this opportunity to educate the council about BEP, to outline the business plan we have developed for 2018, and to request funding from the city in support of our efforts. Here is a…

“Mental trauma will never end, so one needs to find a way to face the pain every day in order to survive.” Craig Tschetter, USMC Author of FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO My very first psychiatrist, Dr. Ching, told me in 1981, “Your memories are never ever going to leave you. The sooner you accept what I’ve…

As the Brookings Mental Health Task Force continues to ask about different services available in the community we became aware of this new service to the community. The following is an excerpt from an email to the Task Force from Nikki Eining of Avera Behavioral in Brookings: I wanted to follow up about this specific…

Members and Friends of BEP, We are excited to introduce to you another resource in our community to help with the battle of Stigma of Mental Illness. RecoveryHope.org was started by Caleb and Molly Anderson. After Caleb was admitted to treatment for opiate addiction, Molly made it her mission to learn more about how to…

On this episode of “On Call with the Prairie Doc,” Guest host, Dr. Deb Johnston, is joined by Matthew Stanley, DO, of Avera Medical Group University Psychiatry Associates Sioux Falls. They will discuss common outpatient and inpatient psychiatric conditions and their causes; how much psychiatric illness is thought to be the result of genetics or…

The VFW Auxiliary Third Sunday breakfast for September 2017 selected the Brookings Empowerment Project (BEP) for its nonprofit recipient.  This year the September breakfast was well attended, and the VFW Auxiliary recently presented the Brookings Empowerment Project with a check for $875 to continue its mission of “empowering those with persistent mental illness through supportive…