“Where did this start? Did it start with a death in my family? Was it a break-up? Or did I just wake up one morning and depression was there, standing over me?” asks Anna Leah Lovlace, a ninth grader at Milwaukee High School of the Arts during a performance of “Pieces: In My Own Voice.”

The play, performed recently at South Division High School, consists of seven monologues related to mental health disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression.

The young actors explained that approximately 20 percent of adolescents have a diagnosable mental health disorder, and that suicide is the third leading case of death in adolescents and young adults.

Asked what they hope the play will accomplish, the student performers said they want to end joking about mental disorders and reassure those who have a mental illness that they are not alone... Read More

In celebration of National Law Day, the Milwaukee Bar Association (MBA) will be providing FREE legal information clinics Saturday, May 5, 2012, from 1:0 0 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  The free legal information clinics are available to the public and will be held at four metro Milwaukee locations:

Ken Leinbach was on an airplane when he realized that even as an “ordinary science teacher,” he had enough power to change at least one person — himself. Passionate about preserving the environment, he got rid of his car, reduced the amount of trash he threw out and did more recycling. “I became green before green was green,” he said.

Executive director of the Urban Ecology Center since 1998, Leinbach used the story to illustrate a tenet of abundant communities: “What we have is enough.”

Leinbach joined panelists Dr. Michele Bria, executive director of Journey House; Christopher Boston, director of Sustainable Communities at LISC; and Sharon Adams, a founder and program director of Walnut Way Conservation Corp., at the recent workshop, “Recognizing Abundance in Milwaukee.” Jeanette Mitchell of Cardinal Stritch University moderated the program... Read More