From the Newsroom: The Providence Journal
Redemption: The fall and rise of Mark Gonsalves
Playlist by From the Newsroom: The Providence JournalThe moon had set, leaving only stars above as Friday, June 26, 2015, began. Dawn was nearing when Mark Gonsalves, 44, left his apartment near the Newport end of the Pell Bridge and got into his car. L…Follow the podcast:
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Christa Thomas-Sowers discusses the behavioral-healthcare workforce crisis - and what it means for needy people
Christa Thomas-Sowers, community outreach coordinator for Community Care Alliance, discusses Rhode Island's statewide behavioral-healthcare and mental-health workforce crisis - and what it means for needy people who are forced to go without vital services. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story…
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Saul Weingart, new president of Rhode Island and Hasbro Chilren's Hospitals
Dr. Saul N. Weingart, the new president of Lifespan's Rhode Island and Hasbro Children’s Hospitals, discusses challenges, successes and the future. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story and video at providencejornal.com
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Jody Rich podcast final cut
Nationally renowned addiction specialist Dr. Josiah D. “Jody” Rich, of Miriam Hospital and Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, discusses medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder and the four components of successful recovery: health, home, community and purpose. @gwaynemiller #p…
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CODAC head Linda Hurley and client Anthony Perito discuss opioid addiction and its treatment.
CODAC head Linda Hurley and client Anthony Perito discuss opioid addiction and the help that is available, including talk therapy and medication assisted treatment, or MAT. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Story at providencejournal.com.
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Rafe Sweeney podcast
Joined by his sister, Kara Sweeney Guerriero, Rafe Sweeney, 53, discusses living with mental illness and his ambition to help others when he finally is released from the hospital back into the community. @gwaynemiller #Podcast for @projo - Story and video at providencejournal.com
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Mark Gonsalves talks suicide prevention with The Providence Journal
During the depths of his mental-health struggles, in 2015, Mark Gonsalves sought to end his life by jumping off the Newport Bridge. He survived to restore his health -- and today is a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist at Fellowship Health Resources, which operates community mental-health programs …
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Redemption: The Fall and Rise of Mark Gonsalves
Depressed, using alcohol and drugs, and recently jobless, Mark Gonsalves decided to end his life by suicide. Amazingly, he survived a 220-foot jump from a bridge and went on to become an inspiration to others dealing with mental-health and addiction issues.
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Tape One: Fall
To the south, boats in Newport Harbor twinkled; north, Narragansett Bay stretched in darkness toward Providence. The air was about 66 degrees but there was no wind. Summer had arrived, a tad cool but nonetheless welcome in a year that had dawned with an historic blizzard. Gonsalves stepped from his…
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Tape Two: Floating
As Gonsalves had floated, thinking some creature might have saved him, he looked up at the Pell Bridge, its lights glittering. Why hasn’t someone seen my car? he wondered. No one’s in it. Why haven’t they called the police? He did not, at first, see the Wellcraft 26 or the woman and two men aboard.…
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Tape Three: Childhood and Adolescence
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