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		<title>The Choices TA Center</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our video series on &#8220;What does (insert program here) do?&#8221;, we bring you another short overview of one of our programs: The Choices Technical Assistance Center:
Choices TA Center from Choices Inc on Vimeo.
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Choices is often asked &#8220;What does (insert program here) do?&#8221;. Now, we could tell you, we could send you to our web site, or we could post a blog entry. But we are excited to offer something new! Check out this very short overview of one of our programs: Youth Emergency Services:
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		<title>The Problem with Positive Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Seth Godin&#8217;s Blog
All the evidence I&#8217;ve seen shows that positive thinking and confidence improves performance. In anything. 
Give someone an easy math problem, watch them get it right and then they&#8217;ll do better on the ensuing standardized test than someone who just failed a difficult practice test.
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		<title>Incremental, not Instantaneous</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s an old favorite told to impatient children by their parents – “Good things come to those who wait”. You, our faithful Needs Aren’t Services blog readers have been waiting for a few months, but we hope you find the wait has been worth it.
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		<title>Change Agents Change First</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting Upon Change
Change…..what a wonderfully charged word! It conjures up thoughts of “the change we can believe in” and the beautiful, dramatic and historic events of January 20, 2009.
It also brings to my mind a fine book called Changing for Good by Prochaska, Norcross and Diclemente that has helped many people overcome difficulties, from smoking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesteam.wordpress.com&blog=3734630&post=90&subd=choicesteam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needs Aren&#8217;t Services and the Phrases that Pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Needs Aren’t Services is one of the most powerful practice guidelines known as the 18 Phrases That Pay. It brings to life other phrases like LISTEN, LISTEN AND THEN LISTEN! When families are truly listened to, they are more likely to join with the members of their child and family teams because they don’t feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesteam.wordpress.com&blog=3734630&post=86&subd=choicesteam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are the Strengths, the Strengths and the Strengths?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Strengths Model
The strengths model was born over a quarter century ago as a demonstration project at a Lawrence, Kansas Community Mental Health Center.  The idea was to provide outreach and community-based services with persons we now refer to as suffering from severe and persistent mental illnesses. Staffed by students (who were not given any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesteam.wordpress.com&blog=3734630&post=62&subd=choicesteam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needs Aren&#8217;t Services</title>
		<link>http://choicesteam.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/needs-arent-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Georgetown Training Institutes, Choices, Inc. launched the Needs Aren&#8217;t Services blog to give systems of care communities across the country a place to share their thoughts about the Phrase that Pays Listen, Listen and then LISTEN. More than 150 people commented on our first post, a testament to the importance of providing families [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesteam.wordpress.com&blog=3734630&post=45&subd=choicesteam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Listen, Listen, and then LISTEN!</title>
		<link>http://choicesteam.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/listen-listen-and-then-listen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the inaugural post of the Needs Aren&#8217;t Services Blog by Choices, Inc. We are the gatekeepers, so to speak, but this is YOUR blog. It is our goal to provide you with a venue to discuss the Phrases that Pay, wraparound values and systems of care topics. We plan to bring together a diverse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=choicesteam.wordpress.com&blog=3734630&post=11&subd=choicesteam&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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