THE HOPE PROJECT

Jen Padron is the Director of The HOPE Project, and provides Project Management to The Hope Concept LLC Wellness Center in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area in Texas.  She is currently a PhD candidate in Public Health and Community Public Health Education & Promotion, and is writing a dissertation on the U.S. Peer Supports, Certified Peer Specialist Certification Process, and COSP outcomes supporting peer services effectiveness in psychiatric rehabilitation, hope, integration and recovery.  She was educated and trained at the University of Texas at Austin and The University of Washington in Seattle.  Jen published findings of her M.Ed Practicum, “HIV/AIDS/STD/HCV Education I SMI” (Psychiatric Quarterly Journal) following a study at the Acute & Forensic units at Austin State Hospital inpatient facility for adults.

Her areas of interest include developing peer supports, peer services, and peer workforce development. She currently site as Chair to the US Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association of Texas; and as the Consumer Representative and Chair to the Certified Peer Specialist Committee, via HOPE Texas Mental Health Resource Network.

 

Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW Inbetweenland with Jacks McNamara

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May 4, 2013

Jacks McNamara is a genderqueer artist, writer, organizer, and healer. Jacks co-founded The Icarus Project and is the subject of the poetic documentary Crooked Beauty. They are the author of Inbetweenland, released by Deviant Type Press, have self-published 5 zines, and are co-author …
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW Inbetweenland Reflections

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May 1, 2013

                              Jacks McNamara is a genderqueer artist, writer, organizer, and healer. Jacks co-founded The Icarus Project and is the subject of the poetic documentary Crooked Beauty. They are …
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW We Are Now Qualified to do Anything, with Nothing

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March 6, 2013

I attended Milt Greek’s educational opportunity at Cooper Riis’ The Farm last February 25, 2013 and it was especially fortuitous for me. What I was able to glean from the presentation, in short, was that it shook me up.
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW What I Learned From Producing Wellness Solutions 1.0

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September 10, 2012

The Hope Concept Wellness Center + HOPE Project just held our first national conference in the City of Freedom (Philadelphia) much to everybody’s and to our amazement. Here is some of what I learned from producing Wellness Solutions 1.0 Uncensored Innovation.
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW My Peer Service Work

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August 1, 2012

My work in peer service stems from the giving back to my community, yes, but it’s more than that. I do it because I can’t do anything else. I love this work. I love consumer 1:1 contact and prefer to be in the background otherwise because I don’t like attention.
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW How My Anger Led Me to Forgiveness

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July 30, 2012

It may sound a bit cliché, but one of the best definitions of forgiveness I’ve ever heard was actually stated by Oprah Winfrey. Oprah’s definition of forgiveness is, “to accept the fact that the past can’t change.”
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW Prayer and Hope, Part II.

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June 21, 2012

Since I accepted the Project Management gig where I work most of the time in the DFW Metroplex in Texas, I’ve gone through rough patches, but all in all, it’s play.  I’ve managed to get myself fired three  (3) times …
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW Tunneling

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May 27, 2012

Texas is big. So are its politics, at the very heart of it all. I fell into mental health by sheer virtue of my own shared life experience for being psychiatrically diagnosed as living with Bipolar Depression in ’96.  At …
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW National Peer Certification

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April 28, 2012

Health disparities between the seriously persistent mentally ill (SPMI) population and general population exist which are alarming (MHA, 2008).  A report issued by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD, 2006) stated that the rates of morbidity …
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW Hope

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April 7, 2012

Hope is the emotional state, the opposite of which is despair, which promotes the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one’s life. It is the “feeling that what is wanted can be had or that …
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW “Come Out for Health Week”: March 26-30, 2012

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March 24, 2012

My personal + professional advocacy and mission work didn’t start with mental illness. I Chaired the University of Washington’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender student organization at 18 years old. I watched helplessly as friends faltered by an un-named plague.  I learned advocacy …
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Jen Padron, M.ED, ACPS, CHW So This Is Texas 2

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February 24, 2012

Allow me to introduce myself to you… I’m a California transplant and now live and work in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex where I work with Magdalena Caballero-Phillips, Founder & CEO, to The Hope Concept LLC Wellness Center and The …
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