Jackie Davis, Executive Director of the Mental Health Association of Talbot County (MHATC) will be the guest speaker at the noon April 13 meeting of Talbot Association of Clergy and Laity (TACL), hosted by Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Miller Hall. The Cathedral is located at 315 Goldsborough Street in Easton, and Miller Hall is located to the rear on North Street. The public is invited to this brown bag meeting.
Ms. Davis will speak on community mental health services, with an eye to TACL’s initiative for community and parish nursing, to help congregations practicing the complete range of spiritual, physical and mental health. MHATC’s director for five years, she is especially known for promoting mental wellness and behavioral health through education and advocacy.
“I have always admired Jackie for her professional drive,” said TACL chairman Bishop Joel Marcus Johnson. “Just a few weeks ago, we bumped into each other at the statehouse in Annapolis, each representing our respective works, visiting elected and appointed officials over a range of bills for children’s mental health. She is a most energetic professional, and I know she will be an inspiration for all of our ministries, clergy and lay. I think she may be the binding element to bring all our concepts together, along with our member partners, the Eastern Shore Area Health Education Center (ESAHEC).”
“Jackie’s concepts will add another layer to what we in TACL have come to understand,” Bishop Joel added, “that with our dramatic increase in Talbot’s elder population, simultaneous with a leveling off of younger care givers, whether family or professional, those congregations which understand and practice the soul-mind-body complex of spiritual health will be those congregations which thrive.”
Ms. Davis has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice, and a background in professional services with the Federal Government. She is a recent widow and the proud mother of two young adult daughters.
TACL, now entering its 52nd year, is Talbot County’s interfaith organization promoting its spiritual welfare through works of compassion, justice, peace and reconciliation for the common good. It achieves this through education, relationship building, and its diverse ministries. For more information about TACL, please write to [email protected] .
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