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In 2008, July was declared Bebe Moore Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. We have recognized it since it was brought to my attention 4 years ago. During this event, our goal is to dispel myths regarding Mental Health and bring about awareness to mental health issues that affect minority communities disproportionally as well as collectively.

Speakers

Rev. Glen Dixson, MDiv, BCC.

Rev. Glen serves as a clinical chaplain in the Central Texas VA Healthcare System. He came to Central Texas in 2002, by way of the United States Army. Glen answered the call to ministry in 2002 and began serving in the Christian House of Prayer in 2003. He was licensed and ordained by the late Bishop Nathaniel Holcomb in 2008, which was also the year he responded to the call to chaplaincy. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from George W. Truett Seminary at Baylor University in 2016. He has completed five units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). Upon completion of a four-unit residency at Baylor Scott and White Health (BSWH) in 2016, he was selected to join the team as a staff chaplain. He served BSWH as the Supportive and Palliative Care chaplain for a little over four years at the organization’s Hillcrest campus in Waco, TX.

Chaplain Glen transitioned from his full-time staff position to a part-time position in order to be closer to home and more available for his young son. It was at this time that he was also selected to join the Central Texas VA Healthcare System as a fee basis chaplain. After serving as a fee basis chaplain for several months, he was called to fulfill a full time opening at the beginning of 2021. Chaplain Glen has served childhood and adult patient populations in level II trauma hospitals, and has also served adult populations in acute medical settings, hospice, palliative care, and mental health. He currently facilitates two groups at the VA’s Domiciliary: Meaning and Purpose; and Grief and Loss. He co-facilitates a virtual Moral Injury Group with a Psychologist from Mental Health..

Chaplain Dixson enjoys weight lifting, traveling, singing, and baking. He and his wife have been married 23 years and have one son.

 

Sponsorships

Shatonya Craddock

Shatonya spent most of her childhood traveling the world with active duty army parents, and considers Texas home. Shatonya Craddock is an alumnae of Grambling State University where she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in social work. For over a decade, she has used her knowledge to apply various psychotherapeutic modalities to effectively assist all demographics of the community with progressing through generational, psychosocial, and life stressor and trauma. Shatonya has served many populations including active duty service members, child and adolescents, as well as geriatrics.  She has engaged in individual, group, and family counseling concentrating on mental health and wealth.

With a heart to serve, Shatonya aspires to create a path to mental wellness and safety for families that is secure and effective. Maternal mental health and helping to destigmatize mental health in the Black community is a passion of hers. She plans to further cultivate her expertise on mental health, by pursuing her Doctorate degree in Social work in the Spring of 2025.

When she is not serving others, Shatonya enjoys reading, shopping, dancing, catching up on her favorite shows, and cuddling with her fur baby, Rocky.

Vendors

633 Chiropractor out of Killeen

Baylor Scott and White (Various Health Issues)

Temple Community Clinic

Feed My Sheep (SunRise Center)

Central Texas County Services

Queeneth Jones

Dr. Queeneth Jones is a board certified lifespan mental health nurse practitioner with 9 years of VA PMHNP nursing experience.  She has been within the VA system since 2015 before transitioning from mental health to nursing academia as the creator of the first PMHNP residency program in the state of Texas.

Dr. Jones completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at University of Florida School of Nursing in 2012 and earned her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from University of Florida - Gainesville in 2015.  She holds office in the American Psychiatric Nurses  Association as the Texas chapter secretary.

Jones’ dissertation research was centered on mitigating the synthetic use in adolescents throughout the south Florida region. Dr. Jones is currently the first administrative PMHNP within the TX VA system as a Supervisory Nurse Practitioner.

She previously served as an adjunct professor for University of Texas – Cizik School of Nursing, and enjoys coaching the future track stars of the DFW in summer track for leisure. She also writes television shows and full length feature films with her husband. She is able to infuse her  experience as a secondary teacher, an athletic coach and as a mentor in many avenues of her life, bridging her nursing philosophy of helping every individual she encounters with her social life.

Edward Boyd Freeman, M.D.

Dr. Edward Freeman, M.D., serves as a psychiatrist at the Psychiatry Private Practice of Manfred and Associates, PA, in Killeen, Texas. He also holds the roles of Senior Aerospace Medical Examiner and HIMS Independent Medical Sponsor. Dr. Freeman is licensed by the Texas Board of Medical Examiners and has extensive forensic experience, having worked from 1996 to 2004 at the Galveston County Jail in Galveston, Texas, the Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas, and the Hidalgo County Jail in McAllen, Texas.

Dr. Freeman's research experience includes positions at the University of Iowa's Center for Toxicology, the University of Iowa's Department of Pathology, Iowa State University's Department of Microbiology, and the University of Texas at Houston's Department of Psychiatry. Notable studies he has contributed to include the Fluvoxamine Clinical Trial for the Treatment of Trichotillomania and research on Domestic Violence and Aggression in Families of Returning Soldiers from the Conflict in Bosnia, Sarajevo-Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Since 1994, Dr. Freeman has been an active contributor to numerous publications, workshops, symposia, and presentations. Additionally, he has been a contributing columnist for Baycomber Magazine in Houston, Texas, since April 2003.

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Resources:

National Alliance on Mental Illness

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