401 Living Your Best Life: Keys to Optimizing Better Mental Health
Health, Wellness, Medici | FULL (Membership Required)
“Life is difficult and complex,” said M. Scott Peck. His opening to his 1978 book, The Road Less Traveled, remains as true today as it did over four decades ago. Optimizing better mental health is important in managing life’s hardships and plays an important role in people living their best life. This course is intended to be conversational and help elevate the importance of mental healthcare in building stronger individuals, families, and communities.
Michael Yates
Michael Yates has nearly 35 years of combined experience in community behavioral health and public child welfare services. He received a Master of Divinity from Vanderbilt University in 1990. He spent two years at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital before joining the McNabb Center in 1992. He spent 12 years providing therapeutic foster care services before joining Harmony Family Center in 2004 as the statewide director of the Adoption Support and Preservation Services program, where he received the Bill Williams Award for excellence in adoption services. Michael joined Ridgeview Behavioral Health Services as Director of Development in 2014. Michael is also a regular contributor to newspapers through op-eds, guest columns, and agency-related media releases. He was Project Director on Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-funded planning and neonatal abstinence syndrome programming and is current project director on the Behavioral Health Support project. Michael has served on the Session of Westminster Presbyterian Church and is a former board member of the Alcoa City School Foundation, Alcoa Kiwanis Club, and is past Chair of the Mental Health Association of East Tennessee Board of Directors.