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