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Art Unveiling
Six of the seven Marianapolis students who created four uplifting paintings for the newly renovated Day Kimball Child/Adolescent Behavioral center stand near their work, along with Rebecca Patenaude (back right), and Michelle Murphy, Community Service Director and director of Campus Outreach at Marianapolis (floral dress, right). Linda Lemmon photo.
Behavioral
health center
reopens with
artistic flourish
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM --- With the need "long overdue," Day Kimball Healthcare July 23 formally re-opened its renovated space for its Child/Adolescent Behavioral Health Program.
The program is a hospital-based outpatient clinic that provides psychiatric and psychological serves for kids up to 18 and their families.
Staff members are currently serving more than 150 children and their families and by the year's end, will have served about 250. The program treats adjustment reactions, disruptive behavior problems, anxiety/fears, depression and other mood disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, parent-child relational problems and more. Referrals come from the Pediatric center, local schools, the state Department of Children and Families, local psychiatric and partial hospital programs, community behavioral health agencies and more. A staff of seven works at the center.
The group's space has been renovated and four paintings contributed by budding artists at Marianapolis were unveiled last week. Loosely based on the area near Day Kimball, the student artists' vision was to reflect the experience young patients might have at the center. " Student Danielle Tata said, "The paintings go from dark to light. As you walk down, it gets light, representing their journey here." Rebecca Patenaude, chair of the Marianapolis Prep art department said only one of the seven artists has had an art class.
Students include: Tata, Mary Hanrahan, Meghan Lazze, Megan Johnston, Elizabeth Sisko and Emily Audet.