Bill Text: GA SR794 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, CSX Corporation, Pineland, Gateway, and Satilla Community Service Boards; recognize
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-02-06 - Senate Read and Adopted [SR794 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SR794-Enrolled.html
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Senate
Resolution 794
By:
Senators Grant of the 25th, Carter of the 1st, Unterman of the 45th and Hill of
the 4th
A
RESOLUTION
Recognizing
and commending the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, the CSX Corporation, and the
Pineland, Gateway, and Satilla Community Service Boards; and for other
purposes.
WHEREAS,
mental illness is a serious medical condition that affects children,
adolescents, adults, and the elderly; and
WHEREAS,
mental health is essential to one's overall health and well-being, and mental
illness will strike one in five adults each year regardless of age, gender,
race, ethnicity, religion, or economic status; and
WHEREAS,
the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, the CSX Corporation, and the Pineland,
Gateway, and Satilla Community Service Boards, along with their Community
Navigation Specialists (CNS), have funded and are implementing a public-private
nonprofit partnership called the Opening Doors to Recovery Research Project
(ODR); and
WHEREAS,
the ODR Research Project is designed to improve the lives of citizens with
serious mental illness in Behavioral Health Region 5 who have had repeated
episodes of hospitalization, incarceration, and homelessness by providing
services in the community with intensive case management; and
WHEREAS,
through the generous contributions of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, the
CSX Corporation, and the Pineland, Gateway, and Satilla Community Service
Boards, the ODR Research Project in collaboration with the Department of
Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities provides Community Navigation
Specialists (Navigators) to effectively and humanely help 100 of the most
vulnerable citizens who have had multiple admissions to Georgia Regional
Hospital Savannah achieve recovery; and
WHEREAS,
the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Georgia has collaborated with
stakeholders in Behavioral Health Region 5 and has committed to finding
solutions to Georgia's fragmented mental health system and to educating the
public on mental health needs and services through this private-public nonprofit
partnership; and
WHEREAS,
the NAMI Georgia and the CNS through the ODR Research Project are committed to
de-stigmatizing mental illness and finding solutions to open doors to recovery
by using the resources provided by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, the CSX
Corporation, and the Pineland, Gateway, and Satilla Community Service Boards,
and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental
Disabilities.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that the members of this body join in
recognizing and commending the outstanding leadership and contributions of the
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, the CSX Corporation, and the Pineland, Gateway,
and Satilla Community Service Boards.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed
to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the Bristol-Myers Squibb
Foundation, the CSX Corporation, and the Pineland, Gateway, and Satilla
Community Service Boards.
