At the heart of this story is Karen and a special group of her friends, who remember clearly why For All Seasons had to exist. As a young deputy state’s attorney prosecuting child sexual abuse cases, she saw families with nowhere to turn. There was no local therapy, no real support system, no place for healing to begin. When co-founder Joy Mitchell-Price and a small group of determined women began asking hard questions about mental health care in rural communities, what followed was not just the creation of an agency, but the shaping of a culture built on trust, collaboration, and a simple conviction that when someone asks for help, the answer should be yes.
The conversation also brings us to the present, as Beth Ann reflects on how For All Seasons matured without losing its core values. Through professional accreditation, open-access care, work in schools, partnerships with first responders, telehealth, and early childhood programs, the organization has learned to grow without turning people away. What comes through most clearly in this interview is that For All Seasons was never about size or recognition. It was, and still is, about showing up every day for people when they need it most.
This video is approximately 12 minutes in length. For more information about For All Seasons, please go here
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Waaaow! This is truly an inspired bio-in-brief of such a dynamic community institution. I am reminded of my undergrad years in Chicago during which I served on staff of psychiatric institutions for youth of the Episcopal diocese and of The Jewish Children’s Bureau. Of the latter, I recall our executive director, Morris Davids, and of his dynamism for enjoining staff to become partners with our kids in what he termed a “centrifugal” approach, always seeking new treatment windows for each of them based upon their own interior talents. Such thinking has never left me – and its this active kind of thinking and reaching out that I am hearing with For All Seasons. Have a fabulous party year!