In today´s episode of ‘Your Business Greatness’, host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at “Your Choice Coach”, speaks with guest Dr. Donna-Demetri Friedman, Executive Director of Mosaic Mental Health.
Dr. Friedman shares the work that she’s doing with Mosaic Mental Health and the services that they are providing. She also discusses some of her accomplishments in her professional career.
About Dr. Donna Friedman:
Dr. Donna Demetri Friedman is Executive Director of Mosaic Mental Health , adjunct associate professor at NYU, mother-infant microanalyst trained by Dr. Beatrice Beebe, graduate of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program ; co-editor of “Attachment-based Clinical Work with Children and Adolescents”; and and recipient of the Outstanding Alumna Award at NYU and the Emily Fenichal Award from Zero to Three.
Three Key Points:
‘We Mosaic’ has been around for a long time. They started a very small grassroots practice in 1959 when deinstitutionalization was happening. Its mission has been to remain a small, nimble organization that's rooted in the community serving the diverse community that they are in and providing a range of mental health services. They have expanded the breadth and range of services that they provide. Hence, they are a mosaic of community members that they serve. They have housing and crisis services as well as psychotherapy and medication management.
They are focused on integrating their care and providing integrity for the folks that they serve and also promised to the people who are coming to them because they see people with chronic mental illness working and helping others. So, it's not only a place to heal, but it's a place to feel hopeful about one's own future, and that's something that they really feel so strongly about.
They do let people know that they are out there and their clients are very grateful and receptive, word of mouth is one of their greatest marketing tools because they serve in many cases. Entire families come to them and they have something called the ‘Family Support Centre’, where they have groups for parents and their children of all ages. That's been a wonderful program that has some of the kids that were taught and now they're going off to college and they write to them and let them know how much they've helped them and share their successes with them.
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