Compeer News
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CompeerCorps Program Manager Stacy Fogarty speaks about the new Vet2Vet program in Rochester, N.Y here.
Compeer of the Mohawk Valley has started a Vet2Vet program. Click here to read the full story published by the Utica Observer-Dispatch.
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Compeer Founder is Featured Alumna in College Publication
Bernice "Bunny" Skirboll is a featured alumna in a college magazine.
Kaleidoscope, published biannually by the Division of Advancement, the College at Brockport, State University of New York, recognizes Bunny's achievements with Compeer in the article "Bunny Skirboll: A Life Built Around Friendship."
Read the article here.
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Michele Brown, Executive Director Compeer of Greater Buffalo.
Dignity and Compassion Set Tone.
Read Michele's reflection here.
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Program and Director Celebrate Twenty-five Years
Spearheaded by Gertrude "Googie" Walsh Butler, a staunch mental health advocate and consumer, an advisory committee formed in 1984 to assess Compeer program startup in Buffalo.
The following year Compeer Founder Bernice "Bunny" Skirboll hired Michele Brown as coordinator for the new program which would serve Buffalo and all of Erie County. For the first ten years, Compeer Inc. administered the program and guided its growth.
"Under Michele's leadership, strong dedication, and professionalism, Compeer West grew in Buffalo and become its own agency in 1994," remembers Skirboll. "It has been a great joy and sense of pride for me to watch the tremendous growth, acceptance, and recognition of Compeer of Greater Buffalo under Michele Brown."
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Lida M. Riedlinger
Read Lida's Message to
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Compeer Inc. Names New President
Compeer Inc. has announced a new president to assume the organization's top leadership role.
Lida M. Riedlinger was appointed President/CEO by the Compeer Inc. board of directors. In this role, Riedlinger will provide leadership to the Compeer Inc. team, work closely with U.S. and international affiliates to strengthen program support, and deliver brand awareness through program delivery excellence and repeatability.
Riedlinger brings expertise in organizational development, business process, program leadership and account management.
Interim President Dana Frame will join the Compeer Inc. board. She will continue in her capacity as president of Compeer Rochester Inc.
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Study Finds Compeer Programs Help People with Serious Mental
Illness Achieve Significantly Increased Social SupportRead the Boston University Study here.
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The latest edition of the CompeeReview, a publication of Compeer, Inc.,
is now available for download in PDF format. CompeeReview is published quarterly.
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Compeer
since 1973
"“COMPEER
has essential attributes needed for people with mental illnesses to
live meaningful lives in the community like everyone else. It
is relatively low cost and utilizes natural rather than paid staff
supports; creates opportunities for equal and reciprocal rather than
hierarchical relationships; activity takes place in the community
rather than the agency; and the interactions can combat negative
beliefs, prejudice, and discrimination. COMPEER was possibly ahead of its time when it was founded more than 35 years ago. The current and future emphasis on recovery and community integrations means ‘COMPEER's time has come.’ ” -- Mark Salzer, Ph.D
featured presenter at the first Compeer webinar, April 2009
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