GOC’s Partnership with Meridian Behavioral Healthcare
This is Brian Wilson, the Program Manager at Meridian Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. He refers a lot of people over here, and wanted to come see our facility and catch up…
GOC Advocacy at UF Health Psychiatric Hospital
GOC Members went into UF Health (formerly Shands) psychiatric hospital to meet with patients. Many GOC Members have been patients there themselves. Our Members shared that there is help, there…
The Importance of Gratitude at GOC
We worked on our annual report this week and decided our theme would be gratitude. At the GOC we are grateful for our Members and everyone like you who believe…
Meet Our Member Kim Sugar
This is Kim Sugar. At the GOC, Kim is finding new things she is capable of doing every day. Trying things at your own pace and gaining that sense of…
GOC Attends Ceremony for City Commission
Advocacy is very important. At the GOC, we want to help give people living with mental illness a voice. We all should have choices in our care and in our…
Co-Responders Refer New GOC Member
Thanks so much to Alachua County Sheriffs Office Deputy Dan Maynard and his partner Nicole Ge La Cruz with Meridian Behavioral Healthcare, Inc., part of the co-responder team of Alachua…
Deputy City Manager Visits GOC
Special thanks to Carl Smart, Deputy County Manager of Alachua County for taking the time to come see the GOC. It is great to see our community leaders really get…
Co-Responders Team Visits GOC
It was great to see our friends from the Gainesville Police Department and Meridian Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. Co-responder team. They stopped by the GOC and other locations to spread holiday…
Shop at Walgreens, Help the GOC
There are all kinds of ways you can help the GOC. If you shop at Walgreens, here is one such way: From now until Feb. 28, you can donate your…
Crisis Intervention Comes to GOC
Every quarter, law enforcement officers from all over our region go through Crisis Intervention training to learn how to better help people living with mental illness. During their week-long training,…