Pam Walker has taught in the classroom at PEP for 41 years. When asked why she has stayed so long she laughs and says she would be bored anywhere else. She’s right about one thing: PEP classrooms are not boring. PEP Day Treatment Centers provide integrated special education and mental health services for students with
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NMT Certification Ensures Brain Science is a Focus at PEP In November Positive Education Program reached a new milestone: a new group of eight staff achieved Phase I certification in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT). That brings the total number of clinicians with Phase I NMT certification at PEP to 26. In addition, 5
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WKYC Features PEP’s Impact on Young People On Saturday, Oct. 19 PEP’s CEO Habeebah Rasheed Grimes and director of PEP Connections Jill Koenig sat down with Leon Bibb of WKYC’s program, We the People. The episode highlighted OhioRISE – a statewide program of Medicaid aimed at helping young people with significant behavioral health issues –
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Why We Vote One vote in the Tennessee State Legislature tipped the balance, finally granting White women the right to vote. It was the reversal made by a young representative, in response to a plea from his mom, that made Tennessee the 36th state in the union to ratify the 19th amendment. Black men were
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