APRIL 26. 2000 - WCC CAMPUS VOICE 21
May marks Mental Health Month
Students in the Horticulture class and visitor to the
Open House hold samples of the students' work:
(1 to r) Anthony, Shari, Carolyn Walston with
Continuing Education, Shalone, Thomas, and David
Hawk, instructor. PHOTO: VOICE STAFF
Program gives students
skills in horticulture
On April 19, students in the
Horticulture course of Continuing
Education held an Open House at
the Greenhouse where they gave
away chrysanthemums and ferns
they have been growing since
January.
David Hawk, coordinator and
instructor in the course, said the 9
students from vocational
rehabilitation and the Stepping
Stones mental health program
have been gaining skills so that
they can find employment in
garden centers or with landscaping
companies.
Hawk, a 1997 graduate of
WCC’s Turfgrass Management
Technology program, said the
students started the plants from
seed or cuttings, transferred them
to flats, and then potted them.
One group of zinnias will be
planted in the circle in the
courtyard behind A&M and the
Wayne Learning Center.
“The students’ hands-on
greenhouse experience will make
them valuable employees,” Hawk
said.
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By ALICE REGINA LAPOINT
May is National Mental Health
month, an important observance
for the mentally ill and their
families because not much is
commonly known about mental
illness.
One of the organizations
working towards better
understanding of the mentally ill is
the National Association of the
Mentally 111 (NAMI), a support
and advocacy group for the
mentally ill and their families.
Wayne County NAMI is an
affiliate of North Carolina NAMI
and the national NAMI
organization.
Wayne County NAMI meets
every third Thursday of the month
at 7:00 p.m. in Wayne Learning
Center on campus.
The causes of mental illnesses
are still not definite. Many
research teams around the world
are still exploring mental illness to
gain greater understanding of the
condition.
Sometimes the media portray
the mentally ill negatively, seeing
them as knife-wielding murderers
or mindless drones.
Though it is true that a mental
illness may cause a person to lose
control of thoughts and actions,
very few mentally ill are ever
violent, and most mentally ill have
average or above intelligence.
. The three most common mental
illnesses today are schizophrenia,
manic depression, (or bi polar)
and major depression.
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