Gould farm in the news
Gould Farm holds a unique place in the history of mental health treatment in the United States. Our work has been featured in national publications and international press, from Oprah to NPR and the Wall Street Journal!
The Wall Street Journal
The Case to Bring Back the Asylum. A new generation of flexible, varied institutions would help reduce the vast numbers of mentally ill adults in jails and prisons.
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Oprah.com
Why People Are Flocking to This Farm to Heal At Gould Farm, everyone has a job to do. The most important: heal.
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Harvesting Hope Capital Campaign
Florida couple gives $500k toward Gould Farm Community Center.
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National Public Radio
Community-Based Care Can Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness NPR references Gould Farm in their July 1 public health story on community-based care. Listen to the Invisibilia episode online and check out this article about the impact of stigma.
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Rodale Institute
Farming for health and well-being - "With a belief that emotional healing can manifest through hard work and service to one’s neighbors—in other words, through earnest participation in community—visionary ..."
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The Jewish Week
Building a Sukkah; Building Community - I'd never really built a sukkah before. Sure, I've put a few together, attaching metal poles, stringing up fabric, and unrolling bamboo mats. But this was different...
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Psychology Today
Clinical Director Jane Linsle's interview on "The future of Mental Health" - The broad strokes of recovery at Gould Farm encompass purposeful work and service, relationship with self and others in a community that fosters recovery and a sense…
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Berkshire Eagle
Gould Farm is a work therapy community. Staff, volunteers and guests live and work together, caring for the farm and the gardens, the forests and the grounds...
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Irish Times – Therapy at work
The Gould Farm concept is deceptively simple: a psychosocial treatment programme combined with the rigorous, everyday, round-the-year work of running a farm...
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Edible Berkshires
Nathan Yaple on work, baking and beet bread - "Baking is a tool that helps my fellow community members get back in touch with the strengths and joys that were present in their lives before mental health challenges got…
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Psychiatric News
Gould Farm Has Spent 100 Years Helping Those with Serious Mental Illness. Before the start of the deinstitutionalization movement, mental hospitals often had farm operations where patients helped with chores. There is still a place, however, where farms are…
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