{"id":4628,"date":"2012-02-28T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2021-04-27T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:36:28","slug":"living-to-our-full-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/28\/living-to-our-full-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Free mental health community programs offered"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cds.hawaii.edu\/\" title=\"Center on Disability Studies\">Center on Disability Studies<\/a> is hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cds.hawaii.edu\/livingtoourpotential\" title=\"Living to Our Full Potential\">Living to Our Full Potential<\/a>, an innovative free program for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s youth with mental health challenges and their families. The program aims to give participants overall well-being of their minds, bodies and emotions.<\/p>\n<p>With national statistics placing 20 years as an average amount of time that a person with a mental challenge loses in comparison to someone without a mental health challenge, this program has the potential to add years to participants&#8217; lives. Living to Our Full Potential aims to create sustainable lifestyles that include healthy choices and knowing how to communicate ideas effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Free events such as storytelling workshops, cooking classes and a Youth Leadership Empowerment Academy, will take place from February through April.<\/p>\n<p>The program will also showcase some of the nation&#8217;s most dynamic self-advocates, like Linea Johnson, author of the soon-to-be-released book <em>Perfect Chaos<\/em>, and Keith Johnson, artist and pioneer of SoulTouchin&#8217; Experiences.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to register visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cds.hawaii.edu\/livingtoourpotential\">Living to Our Full Potential<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Center on Disability Studies&#8217; Living to Our Full Potential program aims help youth with mental health challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[269,9],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-center-on-disability-studies","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140229,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions\/140229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}