Perspectus Letter Draft

Wally Odd
Founder & President

USU National Awareness

Of Mental Illness
alumni@usu.edu
435-797-2055

Patricia Stevens

Director

USU Women’s Center

Taggart Student Center

0185 Old Main Hill

Logan UT, 84321

Patricia.stevens@usu.edu

435-797-1728

Dear Patricia Stevens,

Our goal is raising awareness among Cache Valley residents about the free resources and strategies available to them through the venue of National Alliance on Mental Illness about the issues of mental illness. NAMI is a support group and resource center, a basic grassroots effort taking advantage of local experiences with a peer-to-peer approach. Our sponsors will help fund the event. We will be holding a conference about the affects and challenges that come with mental illness. We are asking for 1,000 donation from each of our sponsors. That funding will pay for the catering of the event.

This event can be successful with the help of our sponsors. The awareness will be raised among the general public of Cache Valley. Mental illness affects our society, and with peer-to-peer approach to support groups and resources, will increase the standard of living, break stereotypes .

The USU Women’s Center is a program dedicated to the furthering of the education of women. They deal with abolishing stereotypes, stress management and helping the under-privileged woman handle domestic issues to return to receive a higher education. Many women are denied further education because of the domestic nature of rearing children and dealing with mental illness themselves. NAMI is an organization that can give appropriate resources to help with recovery and coping with mental illnesses. Twice as many women than men suffer from a mental illness. Two out of four women suffer from a mental illness, within the ages of 18 and older. The Women’s center could use NAMI resources to help them overcome this issue with more precision and depth.

The Women’s Center, “Provides information, assistance and referral concerning the opportunities and resources available on campus and in the community.”

The USU affiliate and NAMI is not well known, yet one out of five families have a family member diagnosed mental illness. One out of four Americans have a diagnosed mental illness and two out of four women have a mental illness. The counseling center isn’t fully utilized because it costs money if you are not a student. NAMI is a free service with a peer-to-peer approach. Not only will this be another form of resource that the Women’s Center has pledged to have, but will also give them a bigger outreach for those who need help and services.

We plan to use USU campus for the location of the event. We will use the Women’s Center’s name as our forefront in the flyers and poster sent around Cache Valley (which also includes the Preston, Idaho, area). We would market the event three weeks in advance with the local business owners and the city of Logan. We would then use the social networks and NAMI PSA’s on the local radio stations to advertise for the event a week before. We will be selling tickets through USU ticket office when the posters/fliers go up.

NAMI is a nation-wide organization found in all 50 states. They have an annual convention during the second quarter held this year in San Francisco. Director and President Wally Odd founded the organization in Utah and has spread his outreach nation-wide. Our team of planners have international experience and outreach. We have an understanding of the local demographic. We have personal experience with the challenge of coping with mental illness.

Our estimated Budget:

SERVICES

1-Catering:

Food/Dining Services $2,500

(Utah States catering %25 off because of being a student affiliation)

2-Place:

Utah State Ballroom $1,000

3- Advertisements:

Fliers/posters $200

Tickets $100

PSA $0.00

Speaker:

Wally Odd NAMI Cache Valley President $0.00

A member of the Women’s Center $0.00

Sponsors

Women’s Center $1,500

Ticket Sales

Tickets $10 ea.

Seats available: 450

Total Expense $3,800

With Donation $2,200

We are excited to have you join our efforts and for us to join in your work. We feel that this event can be a success with your audience as well with the local residents. Together, we can further our outreach and help lighten the load of challenges that affect us all. We look forward for your response and feedback.

Sincerely

Wally Odd

Specific Details of the Event

March 1^st: Tickets will go on sale for $10. Posters with Women’s Center sponsoring NAMI put up in all buildings on Utah State Campus. Posters will also be put up at local businesses.

March 4^th: Fusion HD radio will begin to announce about the event with the Women’s Center at the forefront.

March 10^th: Banners will be placed around campus at the Taggart Student Center, Old Main, Family Life and the Engineering building.

March 15^th: Press releases will be sent to the local radio stations and newspapers to begin to announce the event and continue until the event date. Utah State will also send a mass email to the students to advertise the event.

March 17^th: Flyers will be passed out on Utah States campus as well as at a table on the first floor of the Taggart Student Center.

March 19: The event will begin and go from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. We will announce the women’s center as well as NAMI. A representative from the Women’s Center will come and speak on how women are affected by mental illness. Wally Odd, President of Cache Valley NAMI, will then speak on how woman as well the community is affected by mental illness.

Chinesse Fur Farm exposed by PETA

I watched this clip and cried. I am used to the notion of fur in fashion and what not and the ethical treatment of animals.

BUT this clip, opened my eyes to the nastiness of the fur industry. Not to mention, there is no way to track where the fur is harvested.

DISCLAIMER:
This clip is from PETA's site and is eXtremely graphic! If you have a weak stomach or have a tender heart for animals, it will rip your heart out. It did mine...

Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org.

Photo PUN

I changed the saturation, and changed all of their clothes and put the background to its original color. Its the Blue girls...but really, they were the Mean Girls...notice the burn book!

I soft-erased Sniffles into the background, made her dissolve into the picture, changed her saturation and blended her in with an off-color burn.

I change the saturation, the color, cropped some eyes in boogers eyes and flipped the picture

What budget cuts do to people...

EFFECTIVE March 1, 2009
NEW OFFICE POLICY

Dress Code:

1) You are advised to come to work dressed according to
your salary.

2) If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a
Gucci bag, we will assume you are doing well financially
and therefore do not need a raise.

3) If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your
money better, so that you may buy nicer clothes, and
therefore you do not need a raise.

4) If you dress just right, you are right where you need
to be and therefore you do not need a raise.



Sick Days:
We will no longer accept a doctor's statement as proof
of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.

Personal Days:
Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year.
They are called Saturdays & Sundays.

Bereavement Leave:
This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing
you can do for dead friends, relatives or co-workers. Every
effort should be made to have non-employees attend the
funeral arrangements in your place. In rare cases where
employee involvement is necessary, the funeral should be
scheduled in the late afternoon. We will be glad to
allow you to work through your lunch hour and
subsequently leave one hour early.




Bathroom Breaks:
Entirely too much time is being spent in the toilet.
There is now a strict three-minute time limit in the
stalls. At the end of three minutes, an alarm will
sound, the toilet paper roll will retract, the stall
door will open, and a picture will be taken. After your
second offense, your picture will be posted on the
company bulletin board under the 'Chronic Offenders'
category. Anyone caught smiling in the picture will be
sectioned under the company's mental health policy.



Lunch Break: (Love this one)

* Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch, as they need
to eat more, so that they can look healthy.

* Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a
balanced meal to maintain their average figure.

* Chubby people get 5 minutes for lunch, because that's
all the time needed to drink a Slim-Fast.


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The Management

Photoshop that got deleted on accident

The Luau

I am so excited for the Luau. It is this Friday at 7 pm! I am so excited to see the dancers and hear the music. I helped teach the section of the Island of Tahiti. It is the island that is best known for the fast hip-shaking.

It's gonna be good. The problem is their adds, haven't been very successful in letting people know what and when. They had little fliers scattered everywhere. They also have a Facebook and Myspace going on. I haven't seen hardly any fliers on Campus, but I have seen them in the community. I just recently submitted a PSA to the local radio, however, that was on given to me a little too late for it to be very beneficial. I hope that the words spreads far enough to make a difference!

YEAH for the LUAU

Sigh

I am so tired of such crap of the gutter trash of our society. It is too bad that this world isn't primative anymore. It would get rid of the garbage through natural causes in society. Natural selection would be such a blessing in disguise.

It is such a redeeming quality to know that higher planes of life can lift weary minds to a far greater plane than having to mingle with the filth of the common world.

...I know, I am grumpy.

Aaaaahhhh, I feel better now.

But I totally meant every word here. PS or well...