Pictured from left to right: (front row) Kendyl Havens, Lily Keepman, Tess Karnowski; (middle row) Jenna Gilbert, Katie Parham, Maya Karnowski, Lori Findlay, Sydney Miller and Elena Kadow; (back row) Audrey Broege, Lindsey Smith and Alyssa King By Lori Findlay, advisor and teacher at Silver Lake Intermediate School Oconomowoc, WI – Many schools offer volunteer…
DetailsA sense of calm. Increased mindfulness. Reduced stress. These are three of the many gifts patients who participate in horticultural therapy at Rogers Behavioral Health will never see, but instead will be felt, when they take home a Therapeutic Gardening Toolkit provided by a grant from the Kettle Moraine Garden Club. “Since horticultural therapy was…
DetailsTen years ago, at the age of 15, young sports enthusiast Paul Schommer found himself in a race against time when his father passed away unexpectedly and his battle with anorexia began spiraling out of control. After being hospitalized and undergoing months of unsuccessful therapy sessions, his doctor recommended he receive round-the-clock, residential treatment at…
Details“Oconomowoc,” our admissions counselor tells the parent on the other end of the line, “It’s in Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.” You can almost see the concern through the telephone as the thought of packing up her 12-year-old daughter and flying her to some city in the middle of the country sinks in. I mean, it’s called…
DetailsWhen Ted, a Minneapolis financial advisor, was 12, he smoked marijuana for the first time. That spurred a nine-year detour into drugs and alcohol that led to detox followed by 90 days of treatment at Rogers’ Herrington Recovery Center. Today, Ted celebrates more than nine years of sobriety. Ted often senses the silent question everyone…
Details
