December 31, 2024 • 13 mins
On the next episode of Keeping Ashland Healthy, Dr. Ashley once again abandons the boss as she searches for coal to give out this Christmas season. The boss spends time with Baby New Year and looks ahead to what we can expect from 2025. Learn more about the Board at www.ashlandmhrb.org/ or by calling 419.281.319
(Record Date: December 20, 2024)
(Record Date: December 20, 2024)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome. You're listening to the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast, a
podcast production of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of
Ashlyn County, Ohio. Thanks for joining us, and welcome back
to another episode of the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast. My
name is David Ross. I am the boss executive director
here at the Mental Health and Recovery Board, and not
(00:21):
with me in studio is doctor Ashley Ackerman. She's out
doing all kinds of things. I think she's collecting coal
that she's going to distribute to deserving youngsters this Christmas season.
We can only wish doctor Ashley the best in her endeavors.
But I wanted to take just a few minutes. I
(00:44):
know we're getting towards the end of the calendar year,
and one of the things I enjoy doing is looking ahead.
We do a lot of planning at the Mental Health
and Recovery Board. Anybody that knows me will know that
I'm not one for spontaneity, which is why just one
of many reasons I'm not invited to parties. It's hard
(01:05):
for me to do anything spontaneous. I do like to
plan things out, and I have an expectation that things
go a certain way. Once they're planned, which again leads
to all kinds of frustration. But back in the day,
and I won't tell you how old I am, but
I did watch Rudolph's Shiny New Year back in seventy
six and seventy seven, and that was one of those
(01:28):
stop motion animated TV specials. It had a cast of
characters including Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, of course Sanna,
but one of the favorite characters for me was Happy.
I don't know if you recall Happy. Happy was also
called Baby new Year, and he had extremely large ears
(01:54):
that were revealed when his top hat was removed, and
that always caused me to laugh, and it's been with
me ever since. Is Baby New Year. Those folks at
Rank and Bass did this kind of stop motion stuff.
It's kind of freaky if you're not used to It's
almost like Davy and Goliath the claymation. It's a weird
(02:16):
kind of special effect. But anyway, Baby New Year it
symbolizes what is to come. So I wanted to think
about what's to come and calendar to your twenty twenty
five what you could expect from your Ashton County Mental
Health and Recovery Board. This twenty twenty five. So just
a few things to put on your radar and hopefully
(02:38):
look forward to. This first one is important, even though
it might sound a little boring, is the state funds
services in Ohio on a two year budget cycle, so
the next one coming up is for twenty six and
twenty seven, and they also operate on what they call
a state fiscal year, which begins lie first, So fiscal
(03:02):
year twenty six actually begins July first, twenty twenty five,
so you're going to see between January and June quite
a lot of discussion about the state budget, and mental
health and substance use services are a big part of that.
So I will be involved as well as the board
(03:22):
members and staff with trying to encourage our partners at
the state but also legislators to support hopefully increases in
mental health and substance use services that flow to communities,
flow to boards like ours. I have to be honest
with you, the early indications are that the budget's going
(03:43):
to be flat. That's unfortunate because our budget's been flat
for many many years now, and with the cost of
everything going up, including you know, costs to employ the
highest quality professionals in Ashton County. It's harder and harder
to do that with a flat Bundy flat funding, So
(04:03):
the two year budget cycle. Be looking for a lot
of activity between January and June around that and we
will certainly keep you apprized of those developments. The other
big thing that happens on March twenty six, and boy,
I'm excited about this is our sixteenth annual pat Risser
our SVP conference. Lots of podcasts upcoming on that, but
(04:27):
just a teaser. That's March twenty six at Ashley University's
Upper Convocation Center. We will have two speakers for keynotes
that I think will be dynamite. You've heard me mention
Brooks scene before. Siem Brooks book May Have Side Effects
is incredible. It talks about her journey of coming off
(04:49):
psychiatric medications after fifteen years. This is still something that's
not talked about nearly enough. And I love her book
because it's written for everybody. It's not it's not written
for doctor's physicians or for a highly technical audience. It's
written for everybody and that's what I love about it.
(05:09):
It's so accessible. So this issue of how to come
off psychiatric medications is explored, and just the effects and
the story. We're bringing in Brooke to talk about her book,
but also what we can do more in Ashland County
to assist those that have made that decision to reduce
her come off entirely some of the psychiatric medications they
(05:31):
might have been prescribed coming with her. Is D Barbish.
D is actually Brook's mom, and D's story is fascinating
in its own right because Brooke talks about starting the
medications when she was fifteen years old, and obviously that
was done with D's consent. So D talks about her journey,
(05:52):
what she knew or what she didn't know when she
said yes to the prescribers that wanted to give her
daughter medications beginning at fifteen. She's learned along the way
some of her feelings about the healthcare system. And one
of the other fascinating things is D ended up being
a counselor in her own right. She helps people, and
(06:14):
she's going to talk about compassion key, which is the
model that she uses in assisting folks on their journeys.
So Brooke and D we will have more speakers, but
these are two of our keynots that I think will
make the conference really special. We've really never tackled this
issue before, so look forward to that on March twenty six.
(06:39):
The other huge issue is a levee. The Mental Health
and Recovery Board has a five year, one MILI levee
for mental health and substanceute services. We've enjoyed great support
over the twenty five years. It'll be in November of
twenty twenty five of that levee. Our board is right
(07:02):
now discussing the best way forward and how we want
to approach our voters about really showcasing all the things
that the levee has done to benefit the community. So hopefully,
come November fourth or a little before, if you take
part in early voting, we'll be able to hopefully convince
you that a yes vote will continue the kinds of
(07:24):
quality programming and efforts that the board has been funding
for the last twenty five years. We will do several
podcasts on the levee. We'll certainly take questions from folks
throughout the year. I'll give some information about the board
how you can contact us if you do have questions.
We will do our very best to answer any and
(07:45):
all questions that folks might have about those about Levey
related issues, and then, of course don't forget September is
always an extremely busy month for the Board. September has
been designated for many many years now by our County
Commissioners as Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month. We anticipate that
happening again. We cap off the month of September with
(08:09):
a Suicide Prevention and Awareness Walk that'll be September twenty eighth,
twenty twenty five this year. Also in the month of
September is We've got fair season. We love going out
the Ashton County Fair as well as the Loudonville Street Fair.
I think the Ashton County Fair this year will begin
on September fourteenth through the twentieth. We are a destination
(08:32):
location at the Ashton County Fair because of some of
the giveaways that we've created. The staff are wonderful in
coming up with things that are both practical but they
have important information about mental health and substance use. About
our contract partners, Apple Seed, Akada and Catholic Charities, I
(08:52):
recognize a lot of folks don't always know the Board
in what we do, but my hope is always that
they least know our contract partners because they're the ones
that are actually providing the services in the community. Again Appleseed,
Catholic Charities and CADA. You know, both the Street Fair
and the Ashton County Fair are a wonderful opportunity for
(09:14):
us to meet you. If we haven't had a chance
to meet you in person, we can do that and
you'll get some wonderful giveaways. I tell you, we've got
some exciting things planned for the fairs this year, you know. Last,
but not least in terms of big events, will be
our October twenty second annual lunch. Still working on a
(09:35):
keynote for that, but we like to wrap up, you know,
our fiscal year in October by breaking down what's happened. Obviously,
we'll still be in that Levey mode, so we'll talk
a little bit about the levy and answer questions. Then
some of the other trainings I wanted to make you
aware of is our ongoing partnership with Ashton University and
(10:00):
the Question Persuade refer which is again our primary evidence
based practice prevention strategy to make anybody aware how they
can save a life from asking the question, persuading the
individual to get help and referring them. The training only
takes an hour at minimum an hour. We can go
(10:21):
to an hour and a half if you can give
us the time. We offer that at any organization or
group at no cost. But you know, thousands of folks
at Ashland County have been trained in this model. We
think we know based on reports that it's saved lives.
So those trainings QPR trainings will continue throughout twenty twenty
(10:42):
five in a variety of different of locations. But you
can always call the board at four one nine two
eight one three one three nine uh and we'll schedule
that with you. Hopefully you'll also come and see what
we're doing on our web page Www Ashland. You know
do people say www, I don't know three ws ASHLANDMHRB
(11:06):
dot org. We've got all kinds of great resources on
our web page and of course social media. Now doctor
Ashley isn't here, but I let her handle that because
she's quite a bit younger than I am, and I
don't understand it, but I know we do. We post
a lot of cool stuff on there, So if you're
on Facebook or Instagram or LinkedIn, I know we have
(11:26):
a presence there. We also our YouTube channel is getting
I think, more and more popular. We like to put
these podcasts on there as well, so please check us
out on YouTube as well. Like us. I think that's
something you can do on that. So if you enjoy
or make comments only if they're nice comments though, but no,
(11:46):
if you have some comments that you'd like to make
to help us improve what we do or how we
do it, please do that there or call the board.
I just want to say, you know, as we end
twenty twenty four a great year, I just enjoy the
support of the Ashen County community. Folks in this community
(12:07):
to get it, whether it's North South, Middle folks seem
to understand that it's really hard to have a fulfilling
life if all areas aren't being addressed. And you know,
you can have all the money in the world and
all the great physical health, but if your mental and
emotional life isn't where you want to be, those other
(12:27):
things aren't going to make up for it, and vice versa.
You can be mentally and emotionally healthy without being physically healthy,
and there's going to be an impact. So we really
emphasize that holistic health perspective and mental and emotional health
it's just part of that. But we work tirelessly with
our partners in the community to have that well balanced,
(12:47):
well rounded view of individual health. So on behalf of
the Mental Health and Recovery Board. Let me just say
this will probably be our last podcast of the year,
wishing you and yours a very happy and marry Christmas
as well as a safe uh New Year's Eve New
Year's Day. So this is the boss without. Like I
(13:11):
said Doctor Ashley, she's out rustling up some coal. Uh.
Signing off for calendar year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Thank you for listening to another episode of the Keeping
Ashland Healthy podcast. The podcast is a production of the
Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County, Ohio. You
can reach the Board by calling four one nine two
eight one three one three nine. Please remember that the
Board funds a local twenty four to seven crisis line
through Applese Community Mental Health Center.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It can be reached by.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Calling four one nine two eight nine sixty one one one.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's four one nine two eight nine sixty one one one.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Until next time, please join us in Keeping Ashland Healthy.
Welcome. You're listening to the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast, a
podcast production of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of
Ashlyn County, Ohio. Thanks for joining us, and welcome back
to another episode of the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast. My
name is David Ross. I am the boss executive director
here at the Mental Health and Recovery Board, and not
(00:21):
with me in studio is doctor Ashley Ackerman. She's out
doing all kinds of things. I think she's collecting coal
that she's going to distribute to deserving youngsters this Christmas season.
We can only wish doctor Ashley the best in her endeavors.
But I wanted to take just a few minutes. I
(00:44):
know we're getting towards the end of the calendar year,
and one of the things I enjoy doing is looking ahead.
We do a lot of planning at the Mental Health
and Recovery Board. Anybody that knows me will know that
I'm not one for spontaneity, which is why just one
of many reasons I'm not invited to parties. It's hard
(01:05):
for me to do anything spontaneous. I do like to
plan things out, and I have an expectation that things
go a certain way. Once they're planned, which again leads
to all kinds of frustration. But back in the day,
and I won't tell you how old I am, but
I did watch Rudolph's Shiny New Year back in seventy
six and seventy seven, and that was one of those
(01:28):
stop motion animated TV specials. It had a cast of
characters including Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, of course Sanna,
but one of the favorite characters for me was Happy.
I don't know if you recall Happy. Happy was also
called Baby new Year, and he had extremely large ears
(01:54):
that were revealed when his top hat was removed, and
that always caused me to laugh, and it's been with
me ever since. Is Baby New Year. Those folks at
Rank and Bass did this kind of stop motion stuff.
It's kind of freaky if you're not used to It's
almost like Davy and Goliath the claymation. It's a weird
(02:16):
kind of special effect. But anyway, Baby New Year it
symbolizes what is to come. So I wanted to think
about what's to come and calendar to your twenty twenty
five what you could expect from your Ashton County Mental
Health and Recovery Board. This twenty twenty five. So just
a few things to put on your radar and hopefully
(02:38):
look forward to. This first one is important, even though
it might sound a little boring, is the state funds
services in Ohio on a two year budget cycle, so
the next one coming up is for twenty six and
twenty seven, and they also operate on what they call
a state fiscal year, which begins lie first, So fiscal
(03:02):
year twenty six actually begins July first, twenty twenty five,
so you're going to see between January and June quite
a lot of discussion about the state budget, and mental
health and substance use services are a big part of that.
So I will be involved as well as the board
(03:22):
members and staff with trying to encourage our partners at
the state but also legislators to support hopefully increases in
mental health and substance use services that flow to communities,
flow to boards like ours. I have to be honest
with you, the early indications are that the budget's going
(03:43):
to be flat. That's unfortunate because our budget's been flat
for many many years now, and with the cost of
everything going up, including you know, costs to employ the
highest quality professionals in Ashton County. It's harder and harder
to do that with a flat Bundy flat funding, So
(04:03):
the two year budget cycle. Be looking for a lot
of activity between January and June around that and we
will certainly keep you apprized of those developments. The other
big thing that happens on March twenty six, and boy,
I'm excited about this is our sixteenth annual pat Risser
our SVP conference. Lots of podcasts upcoming on that, but
(04:27):
just a teaser. That's March twenty six at Ashley University's
Upper Convocation Center. We will have two speakers for keynotes
that I think will be dynamite. You've heard me mention
Brooks scene before. Siem Brooks book May Have Side Effects
is incredible. It talks about her journey of coming off
(04:49):
psychiatric medications after fifteen years. This is still something that's
not talked about nearly enough. And I love her book
because it's written for everybody. It's not it's not written
for doctor's physicians or for a highly technical audience. It's
written for everybody and that's what I love about it.
(05:09):
It's so accessible. So this issue of how to come
off psychiatric medications is explored, and just the effects and
the story. We're bringing in Brooke to talk about her book,
but also what we can do more in Ashland County
to assist those that have made that decision to reduce
her come off entirely some of the psychiatric medications they
(05:31):
might have been prescribed coming with her. Is D Barbish.
D is actually Brook's mom, and D's story is fascinating
in its own right because Brooke talks about starting the
medications when she was fifteen years old, and obviously that
was done with D's consent. So D talks about her journey,
(05:52):
what she knew or what she didn't know when she
said yes to the prescribers that wanted to give her
daughter medications beginning at fifteen. She's learned along the way
some of her feelings about the healthcare system. And one
of the other fascinating things is D ended up being
a counselor in her own right. She helps people, and
(06:14):
she's going to talk about compassion key, which is the
model that she uses in assisting folks on their journeys.
So Brooke and D we will have more speakers, but
these are two of our keynots that I think will
make the conference really special. We've really never tackled this
issue before, so look forward to that on March twenty six.
(06:39):
The other huge issue is a levee. The Mental Health
and Recovery Board has a five year, one MILI levee
for mental health and substanceute services. We've enjoyed great support
over the twenty five years. It'll be in November of
twenty twenty five of that levee. Our board is right
(07:02):
now discussing the best way forward and how we want
to approach our voters about really showcasing all the things
that the levee has done to benefit the community. So hopefully,
come November fourth or a little before, if you take
part in early voting, we'll be able to hopefully convince
you that a yes vote will continue the kinds of
(07:24):
quality programming and efforts that the board has been funding
for the last twenty five years. We will do several
podcasts on the levee. We'll certainly take questions from folks
throughout the year. I'll give some information about the board
how you can contact us if you do have questions.
We will do our very best to answer any and
(07:45):
all questions that folks might have about those about Levey
related issues, and then, of course don't forget September is
always an extremely busy month for the Board. September has
been designated for many many years now by our County
Commissioners as Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month. We anticipate that
happening again. We cap off the month of September with
(08:09):
a Suicide Prevention and Awareness Walk that'll be September twenty eighth,
twenty twenty five this year. Also in the month of
September is We've got fair season. We love going out
the Ashton County Fair as well as the Loudonville Street Fair.
I think the Ashton County Fair this year will begin
on September fourteenth through the twentieth. We are a destination
(08:32):
location at the Ashton County Fair because of some of
the giveaways that we've created. The staff are wonderful in
coming up with things that are both practical but they
have important information about mental health and substance use. About
our contract partners, Apple Seed, Akada and Catholic Charities, I
(08:52):
recognize a lot of folks don't always know the Board
in what we do, but my hope is always that
they least know our contract partners because they're the ones
that are actually providing the services in the community. Again Appleseed,
Catholic Charities and CADA. You know, both the Street Fair
and the Ashton County Fair are a wonderful opportunity for
(09:14):
us to meet you. If we haven't had a chance
to meet you in person, we can do that and
you'll get some wonderful giveaways. I tell you, we've got
some exciting things planned for the fairs this year, you know. Last,
but not least in terms of big events, will be
our October twenty second annual lunch. Still working on a
(09:35):
keynote for that, but we like to wrap up, you know,
our fiscal year in October by breaking down what's happened. Obviously,
we'll still be in that Levey mode, so we'll talk
a little bit about the levy and answer questions. Then
some of the other trainings I wanted to make you
aware of is our ongoing partnership with Ashton University and
(10:00):
the Question Persuade refer which is again our primary evidence
based practice prevention strategy to make anybody aware how they
can save a life from asking the question, persuading the
individual to get help and referring them. The training only
takes an hour at minimum an hour. We can go
(10:21):
to an hour and a half if you can give
us the time. We offer that at any organization or
group at no cost. But you know, thousands of folks
at Ashland County have been trained in this model. We
think we know based on reports that it's saved lives.
So those trainings QPR trainings will continue throughout twenty twenty
(10:42):
five in a variety of different of locations. But you
can always call the board at four one nine two
eight one three one three nine uh and we'll schedule
that with you. Hopefully you'll also come and see what
we're doing on our web page Www Ashland. You know
do people say www, I don't know three ws ASHLANDMHRB
(11:06):
dot org. We've got all kinds of great resources on
our web page and of course social media. Now doctor
Ashley isn't here, but I let her handle that because
she's quite a bit younger than I am, and I
don't understand it, but I know we do. We post
a lot of cool stuff on there, So if you're
on Facebook or Instagram or LinkedIn, I know we have
(11:26):
a presence there. We also our YouTube channel is getting
I think, more and more popular. We like to put
these podcasts on there as well, so please check us
out on YouTube as well. Like us. I think that's
something you can do on that. So if you enjoy
or make comments only if they're nice comments though, but no,
(11:46):
if you have some comments that you'd like to make
to help us improve what we do or how we
do it, please do that there or call the board.
I just want to say, you know, as we end
twenty twenty four a great year, I just enjoy the
support of the Ashen County community. Folks in this community
(12:07):
to get it, whether it's North South, Middle folks seem
to understand that it's really hard to have a fulfilling
life if all areas aren't being addressed. And you know,
you can have all the money in the world and
all the great physical health, but if your mental and
emotional life isn't where you want to be, those other
(12:27):
things aren't going to make up for it, and vice versa.
You can be mentally and emotionally healthy without being physically healthy,
and there's going to be an impact. So we really
emphasize that holistic health perspective and mental and emotional health
it's just part of that. But we work tirelessly with
our partners in the community to have that well balanced,
(12:47):
well rounded view of individual health. So on behalf of
the Mental Health and Recovery Board. Let me just say
this will probably be our last podcast of the year,
wishing you and yours a very happy and marry Christmas
as well as a safe uh New Year's Eve New
Year's Day. So this is the boss without. Like I
(13:11):
said Doctor Ashley, she's out rustling up some coal. Uh.
Signing off for calendar year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Thank you for listening to another episode of the Keeping
Ashland Healthy podcast. The podcast is a production of the
Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County, Ohio. You
can reach the Board by calling four one nine two
eight one three one three nine. Please remember that the
Board funds a local twenty four to seven crisis line
through Applese Community Mental Health Center.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It can be reached by.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Calling four one nine two eight nine sixty one one one.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's four one nine two eight nine sixty one one one.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Until next time, please join us in Keeping Ashland Healthy.
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