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ESTHER: Celebrating 20 Years!

Justice, Hope and Action


Events we're highlighting as part of our twentieth anniversary

Mental Health Task Force Meeting

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Friday, February 7, 2020 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Friday, March 6, 2020 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Friday, June 5, 2020 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Friday, July 3, 2020 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Friday, August 7, 2020 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Friday, September 4, 2020 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Zoom Meeting

Monthly meeting discussing issues and advocacy related to mental health concerns, criminal justice system, child welfare, and the like. Attend via Zoom conference. Leave us a message at https://esther-foxvalley.org/mhtf to be added to the mailing list or for Zoom info.

Mental Health Task Force. ZOOM Meeting

Date: 
Friday, April 3, 2020 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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ZOOM

Monthly meeting discussing issues and advocacy related to mental health concerns, criminal justice system, child welfare, and the like. Attend in-person or via Zoom conference. Leave us a message at https://esther-foxvalley.org/contact/mental-health-task-force to be added to the mailing list or for Zoom info.

Mental Health Task Force Meeting

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Friday, May 1, 2020 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Friday, June 26, 2020 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Zoom Meeting

Monthly meeting discussing issues and advocacy related to mental health concerns, criminal justice system, child welfare, and the like. Attend in-person or via Zoom conference. Leave us a message at https://esther-foxvalley.org/contact/mental-health-task-force to be added to the mailing list or for Zoom info.

Addiction Recovery Coach Training

CCAR Recovery Coach Academy

CCAR Training LogoThe CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© (RCA) is a 5-day intensive training academy designed to provide individuals with an understanding of both the art and science of recovery coaching. The Recovery Coach Academy includes core competencies for recovery coaches with training on ethics, boundaries, medication-assisted treatment, gambling, and more. By focusing on the goals of the individuals being served, participants will learn the key fundamentals of this rewarding work – which CCAR has identified as actively listening, asking really good questions, and treating people as their own best resource, all while discovering and managing their own stuff.

Recognized nationally as the original and leading recovery offering of its kind, CCAR’s Recovery Coach Academy is an innovative new approach to healing people’s lives that is unlike any other training. This training provides 30 CEUs awarded from the Connecticut Certification Board and recognized in WI.

The training will take place digitally via Adobe Connect on Sept 14-18, 2020, from 11:00 am-3:00 pm daily, with additional pre-work assigned daily. (Click here to review the minimum computer system requirements to participate in the training.)

The cost of the training is $200 and includes access to all 5 days of the training, 1 RCA Manual and 30 CEUs. The training is being offered at a reduced cost in part because of grants and other generous contributions. (This training typically costs $850.)

Register Now

This training is being hosted by ESTHER in partnership with Menīkānaehkem and presented by Helios Recovery Services.

Once registered and paid, participants will be asked to create an account on the CCAR Protraxx training system to track attendance and administer the certificate of competition.

For additional information regarding registration, please contact Bill Van Lopik

For information regarding the training, Protraxx, or Helios Recovery please contact Jesse Heffernan: jheffernan@heliosrecovery.com

“Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops” Free Virtual Showing

Date: 
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 1:00pm
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Virtual Event

NAMI Wisconsin Presents

Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops Virtual Showing

November 19th, 2020
Matinee Showing @ 1 – 3 PM 
Evening Showing @ 6:30 – 8:30 PM 

“Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops” Free Virtual Showing

Date: 
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 6:30pm
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Virtual Event

NAMI Wisconsin Presents

Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops Virtual Showing

November 19th, 2020
Matinee Showing @ 1 – 3 PM 
Evening Showing @ 6:30 – 8:30 PM 

Join NAMI Wisconsin for a virtual showing of the HBO documentary Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops followed by a live Q&A with Ernie and Joe themselves. This documentary follows two police officers with the San Antonio Texas Police Department who are diverting people away from jail and into mental health treatment, one 911 call at a time.
TW: Suicide, Gun Violence

The first 100 people to register before November 12th will receive complimentary popcorn in the mail to enjoy during the film!

REGISTER MATINEE REGISTER EVENING

Read more, and watch the official trailer, on the NAMI Wisconsin website.

Cancelled- Mental Health Task Force Meeting

Date: 
Monday, December 14, 2020 - 6:00pm
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Zoom Meeting

Monthly meeting discussing issues and advocacy related to mental health concerns, criminal legal system, child welfare, and the like. Attend via Zoom conference. Leave us a message at https://esther-foxvalley.org/mhtf to be added to the mailing list or for Zoom info.

ESTHER Mental Health Task Force

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Monday, January 11, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Monday, February 8, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Monday, March 8, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Monday, April 12, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Monday, May 10, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Monday, June 14, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Monday, July 12, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Monday, August 9, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Monday, October 11, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Monday, November 8, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Zoom Meeting

Monthly meeting discussing issues and advocacy related to mental health concerns, criminal legal system, child welfare, and the like. Attend via Zoom conference. Leave us a message at https://esther-foxvalley.org/mhtf to be added to the mailing list or for Zoom info.

Rally: MMIWG2S Billboards for Change

Date: 
Saturday, June 12, 2021 - 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: 
Urban Evolution parking lot, 2401 W College Ave, Appleton

With the Waking Women Healing Institute and the Native Justice Coalition ESTHER is participating in a billboard campaign to raise awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2-spirits. A new billboard in this campaign has just been placed on West College Avenue in Appleton, near the Urban Evolution store.

Join us for a rally Saturday morning, June 12, from 9:30-10:30 am, to dedicate the billboard and learn more about the campaign to raise awareness across the Great Lakes about this issue. “No more silence. No more stolen sisters.”

Help spread the word. Download and share the attached flier.

June 12 MMIWG2S Billboards for Change Rally Video

MMIWG2S Billboard Rally Video Now Available

On morning of June 12, ESTHER, in collaboration with the Native Justice Coalition and Waking Women Healing Institute, sponsored a rally at the Urban Evolutions store on West College Avenue in Appleton. The purposes of the rally were 1) to draw attention to the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women, girls and two-spirits in Wisconsin and the nation, and 2) to dedicate a new billboard placed nearby. About fifty people attended, and the event drew media attention from WBAY TV in Green Bay and Appleton radio.

The rally was streamed live on Facebook. If you did not attend, or would like to experience the program again, click on the image to watch the recorded video on Facebook. (This video is publicly visible; you do not need a Facebook account to watch it. The program starts about 10 minutes in, so you may want to fast-forward to that point.)

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