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Midwest Rock Lobster, heart attack survivor
Rod McBride, also known as Trigger or Midwest Rock Lobster, is a heart attack survivor after he almost died at the age of 32. This month he met a woman that would be his fiance, Corinna West, the current Bike for the Brain webmaster. This is a bicycle love story, as the two met via bicycle near City Market as he describes here on his blog.
Video of Midwest Rock Lobster talking about being a heart attack survivor:
Rod talks about what gives him Personal Power, his bicycling. He has found that cycling can get him though tough times and it was exactly what he needed as a heart attack survivor. At first he said that he never thought twice about putting his bike on his car and riding to group rides. Then he met another transportational cyclist and learned how to bike [...]
Bike for the Brain Social Media coordinator Corinna West met Martha Prim at the 2011 Kansas Recovery Conference in Wichita, Ks. Martha is a graduate of Consumers as Providers.
Consumers as Providers:
Martha Prim, a graduate of the consumers as providers program
From the KU School of Social Welfare Website: The Consumers as Providers Training Program teaches consumers of mental health services the skills and knowledge on the provision of mental health services in order to work in the mental health or human service field as a consumer provider such as a Certified Peer Specialist. Consumers as Providers is a Kansas Certified Peer Specialist Training Program that consists of 18 weeks classroom instruction and Educational Support Group followed by 104 hours (7 weeks) of internship activities. Consumers as Providers partners with mental health agencies across the state of Kansas, Kansas universities and community colleges and social service and mental [...]
Poetry for Personal Power interview – “How do you Get through difficulties?”
The Poetry for Personal Power rolling bicycle based health fair display booth talks with jay Matlack, the found of Tricycle Transit
Jake Wiens of Tricycle Transit talks about how art, and bicycling can help him through tough times in his life. This interview was done as part of the Poetry for Personal Power project, where a Rolling Bicycle Based Health Fair display booth went around Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District to see how people got through difficulties in their lives. The idea was, “What Gives You Personal Power?” This is based on Pat Deegan’s personal medicine concept.
Pat Deegan is a Ph.D. psychologist who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 17 but then fully recovered and revolutionized the mental health field. When she was looking to find what was most helpful in people’s recovery, she found that [...]
Cherie Bledsoe, Director of Bike for the Brain grant recipient SIDE. Cherie used her Kansas City recovery stories to help pass a constitutional amendment protecting voting rights for people with mental health diagnoses. Shown with Rick Cagan of NAMI-KS.
Many people in the metro area have great Kansas City recovery stories to tell!
At Bike for the Brain, one of our most important messages is that all people can recover from a mental health diagnosis. Often the most disabling part of the experience is becoming labeled and losing hope. People have many ideas about psychiatric labels based on media exposure and their past experiences, and much of what is currently out there is not positive. Stigma is a word that has been used in the past to describe this kind of discrimination and prejudice. An older method of promoting mental health awareness has aimed to let people know that [...]
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