RISE Housing and Support Services supports and encourages a holistic approach to wellbeing. RISE promotes a healthy balance between personal and career goals in our staff and offers a variety of employee wellness activities. RISE Residents are encourage to participate in recreational activities to improve their spiritual, physical, and social wellbeing.
Every summer RISE staff get together to socialize, relax, and to get to know staff members from other programs that they don’t see during the normal course of business. This year our staff enjoyed a very fun and festive “Totally 80’s” picnic at our Annual Summer Retreat!
Owen Virgilio, Progressive Steps Apartment Program (PSAP) Counselor, shares his story of being a transman and how prejudices against LBGTQ+ individuals affect his mental health. I am open and proud to be a transman, but the prejudices we in the LBGTQ+ community face have affected my mental health. In the past I’ve faced prejudices at… Read More
Safe and stable housing is a basic need, and it can be difficult or impossible to care for your mental health if that need is not met. “Look Around, Look Within” is the 2023 Mental Health America (MHA) theme for Mental Health Awareness Month. MHA shares that from your neighborhood to genetics, many factors come… Read More
Milestone Manor – Helping People Recalibrate their Mind, Body, and Social Well-being! Help Milestone Manor help people realize that they can heal from trauma by supplying a need from the Milestone Manor Amazon Needs List! View the Milestone Manor Needs List
“Grayce is unconditional love. She is my companion.” Nothing compares to the joy of the loyal companionship of a pet. Their unconditional love provides comfort and can help reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Pets can ease loneliness, encourage exercise and playfulness, and as Liz – a Milestone Manor resident – has discovered, pets are a… Read More
Please join us in celebrating mental health awareness as our residents share what having good mental health means to them.
Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with a mental health diagnosis. During May, RISE joins the national movement to raise awareness about mental health. Mental health is always important, but this year – with the lingering effects of the pandemic and a shift in “returning to normal” – it is at… Read More
When discussing the pioneers in the field of mental health, one of the first names that jumps to mind is Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis. Other well-known figures might include Ivan Pavlov, who discovered Pavlovian conditioning, Emil Kraepelin, who is widely considered the founder of modern psychiatry, or Eugen Bleuler, who introduced the world to… Read More
Kindness is choosing to do something that helps others, motivated by genuine warm feelings. Kindness, or doing good, often means putting other people’s needs before our own. Several studies have shown that showing kindness to others can benefit our own mental health and wellbeing. In fact, the research has shown that kindness and mental health are deeply connected.… Read More
The 2022 theme for Black History Month in the US is “Black Health and Wellness,” highlighting the legacy of black scholars and medical practitioners while also taking a look at how American healthcare has often underserved the black community. Black Health and Wellness not only includes one’s physical body, but also emotional and mental health. In… Read More
