Behavioral Health in America is Badly Broken: The Episodes Project Has A Solution

This bold podcast addresses the failure of most behavioral health systems across America for many decades. Tom McNulty, M.S., with 45+ years in behavioral health (mental illness and addiction), is joined by Invizion's president and president of Episodes Motion Pictures, Peter C. Hertsgaard, M.F.A. As co-creators of The Episodes Project, Peter and Tom have designed a three-component continuum of behavioral health solutions. The movie, Episodes (written and cast) is a full-feature film that follows a 15-year-old girl, Allie. The neighborhood, city, town or village with frontline responders will receive training and coaching on enhancing intervention, rapid evaluation, and appropriate referral skills. This would include EMTs, law enforcement, campus security, teachers, caregivers, religious leaders, urgent/primary/ER providers, and family. This component is Spotlight on the Community and it uses "interactive theater" as a training tool. The third component, "the EPISODES" is copyright protected and trademark registered. This component keeps the messaging on behavioral health going - long before and after "Mental Health Awareness Month" every May. It consists of 50 shows (Copyright Protected) that could run for five years with 10 episodes/season. The Episodes Project is ready! Additional funding is currently being secured. Spotlight on the Community will launch first.

Behavioral health in America is badly broken at a time when our country is facing sudden and massive layoffs, fear is rampant, mass shootings continue, lying is accepted, kids live with a "fear of impending danger" due to school drills, mass shootings, human trafficking, cyber-assaults, opioids, fentanyl, teen suicide, despair, and...depression is still the number one reason employees call in sick. How many mass shooters have failed behavioral health intervention?

Learn more about The Episodes Project on Facebook and LinkedIn. The website is: www.episodesthemovie.com. Send Tom an email at: tomsuccess@verizon.net. Please share this podcast. Thank you.

Tom McNulty, M.S. -Host

A program of Spotlight on Hope, Inc. Produced by Success Stories, Inc.

Sponsored by: DENT Neurologic Institute, Success Stories, Inc., HHPartners,

Buffalo Renaissance Foundation's Veteran Affairs Committee

For many years, the message about marijuana was it was a "gateway" drug to other more dangerous and illegal drugs. As a therapist working with adolescents in South Florida in the 1970s and 1980s, that was our clinical message to teens and adults. Pablo Escobar, the Calle Cartel, and Manuel Noreiga were flooding the streets with all kinds of drugs. Today, "street" drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, opioids and Xanax-look-a-likes are laced with fentanyl that produced more than 115,000 overdose deaths in 2023 - up from 64,000 in 2017. Along comes medical cannabis and states approving recreational marijuana use.
In this podcast, we talk with an internationally recognized expert in the therapeutic, pharmaceutically produced, and medically scripted cannabis and its applications for many conditions from anorexia to a list of neurologic conditions. Our guests include, Laszlo L. Metchler, MD, FAAN, FEAN,FASN, FAHS, Board Certified Neurologist and Oncologist and expert in neuro-research and neuroimaging, Maria Caserta, Director of Community Education and Marketing (mcaserta@dentinstitute.com), and DENT's researcher, Chris Ralyea. This podcast is straightforward, purely science, research, and clinically accurate information from the experts at DENT Neurological Institute www.dentinstitute.com (716) 250-2000. Dr. Metchler has spoken about the appropriate use of medical cannabis around the world and has developed a line of products - available now. DENT Neurologic Institute is the largest neurology practice in the USA. They created the DENT Neuroscience Research Center (not-for-profit) to constantly explore new treatments- both located in Amherst, NY. Please share this podcast with those who can benefit from this information. Thank you very much! Be well!
Tom McNulty, M.S.
Host

Hurricanes, Tornado Storms, Flash Floods, Mudslides, Forest Fires, & Trauma:
What To Say and Not Say To Children and Adolescents

We get multi-level, print and electronic, and tragically repetitive news stories that adults take for granted. Still, the weather and natural disasters emotionally impact children because the drama leads to the trauma. Recently, several neighbors with children have asked me about what they should say regarding the fear and worry they see in their children about "weather trauma". It is a real thing. The reoccurring threat of hurricanes, floods, forest fires, and tornado storms has caught the attention of our kids. Their brains cannot properly process the power of these traumas and, therefore, they tighten up, cry, have nightmares, and have lots of questions. Are you ready to answer their questions or recognize their warning signs?
This broadcast will give you fundamental tips to address your children's reactions and the critical importance of active listening and helpful communication. Be well. Be safe.
Thank you,
Tom McNulty, M.S.
Sponsors: DENT Neurologic Institute, Buffalo Renaissance Foundation, The Episodes Project