TAMHO - Behavioral Health News & Events Volume 2 Issue 1 | Page 6

Behavioral Health News & Events Volume 2, Issue 1 | January 2014 My Health, My Choice, My Life is a health promotion and wellness initiative for Tennesseans who live with mental health and substance use conditions. The holistic health initiative integrates a medical model with recovery and resiliency, resulting in an initiative that focuses on overcoming physical and mental health symptoms through strengths, personal empowerment and resiliency. It is led by individuals who have firsthand, lived experience with psychiatric and substance use disorders. My Health, My Choice, My Life provides individuals with self-directed tools, empowering them with the knowledge, skills and resources to improve their overall well-being and resiliency and live healthy Early Brain Development Collectively ensuring, from the very beginning, that the “life course” does not become a “life curse” AUTHOR & CONTRIBUTOR: Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Primary Care Pediatrician, Access Community Health Center [TAMHO 2013 Annual Conference Keynote Speaker] which laid out the principles of early brain and child development in a highly accessible manner and then articulated a vision for the future of legislative decision making. The “Resolved” clause read as follows: The world of Early Brain and Child Dipesh Development has, for a long time, Navsaria, MPH, been a familiar one to th