Maria Thomas
Atlanta, GA (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
New FoundMinds
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Location:
Atlanta
Industry:
Non Profit
Year Founded:
2011
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Business Stage:
Creation/Idea
Entity Type:
Nonprofit Corporation
Description:
By developing a well-rounded resourceful reintegration program available to support homeless veterans, and individuals with psychiatric disabilities in mastering the complexities of reintegration along with enriching activities, New FoundMinds will create a comprehensive prevention and intervention program that allows the American Dream to become sustainable while dissipating the stigma that has been attached to mental illness.
Collaborating with local mental health providers, New FoundMinds proposes to implement a reintegration program with the capacity to address the needs of the clients (individuals with psychiatric disabilities) by raising awareness of the need for a specialized structure (supported housing and/or co-housing)for successful reintegration back to their respective communities, home, and workplace.
New FoundMinds main goal in implementing a reintegration program is to reduce the stigma attached to mental illness by educating the community and erasing the old idea that mental illness is a sickness to fear, and provide a new, understandable and innovative way to instill the “living well” idea.
New FoundMinds will promote mental illness as a treatable illness and individuals with psychiatric disabilities are fellow neighbors, friends, family and co-workers who would like to be sustainable and productive citizens.
New FoundMinds has two main tenets: First—to raise reintegration abilities to lead individuals with psychiatric disabilities to a healthy, productive way of life, and second—to provide education that will lead to the intervention at the onset of a mental illness to develop a more intellectual, socially adapt responsible member of our communities.