Community

Community Involvement: Internships Serve Students

Yazmin Menjivar, UTA intern, helps Well members prepare for Bingo. The Well is a community within a larger community. Local businesses, restaurants, churches, civic groups and educational institutes are just some of the neighbors who ...
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Serious, Yet in the Shadows: Why Your Gifts Matter

Serious mental illnesses often stay in the shadows rather than take the spotlight in conversations about giving and generosity. Though these diseases typically get less attention than illnesses like cancer or causes like animal welfare, ...
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Well Wishers: Providing Stability for Members, Month After Month

Serious mental illnesses add multiple layers of instability to the lives of our members. Unsettling and sometimes unpredictable symptoms upend their routines and construct barriers that prevent them from connecting with others. For many, these ...
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The Gift of Seeing

Well Community members sometimes tell us that in the larger community, they feel invisible. This is sad evidence of one of the greatest harms of serious mental health conditions: They rob people of being truly ...
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Monster Mash: Generous Fun

Jeff and Violet Lane with Joyce and Jerry Wascom at Monster Mash 2024 “Before the Well Community began meeting at our church, Cliff Temple Baptist, I was teaching Sunday school, and Joel Pulis* started bringing ...
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Caring for One Another

Friendship. Relationship. Fellowship. These are basic needs for all humans. Most of us find such connections in our families, our workplaces, our community or our church groups. But for people living with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ...
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