The A-B Tech Counseling Center and Diversity Committee, in conjunction with National Depression Screening Day, will hold its fourth annual free mental health screening event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 14 in the Coman Student Center.
Participants can fill out a short, anonymous questionnaire that assesses their likelihood for depression, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Participants also have the opportunity to meet with a volunteer community clinician to receive the results of their screening and speak with them about their personal situations. There will also be free snacks and chair massages for all participants.
Asheville Playback Theatre will present a special performance of "Stories of our Dance with Sustainability" at 8 p.m. Oct. 24 in A-B Tech's Ferguson Auditorium. The presentation is sponsored by the A-B Tech Drama Club.
Audience members will be invited to tell true stories from their lives and the troupe will create spontaneous theatre from these stories. A suggested donation of $10, $5 for students, will be accepted but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more info on Asheville Playback Theatre, see www.ashevilleplayback.org.
Shannon Redmon, Medical Sonography instructor, has been chosen as a member of the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography's Educational Committee. The SDMS is a national society, and Redmon will be contributing to five objectives, including investigating the development of a clinical instructor training program and a mentoring program for new educators.
Debra Reese, Medical Imagining chair, was selected to give the Reeves-Rousseau Memorial Lecture at the North Carolina Society of Radiologic Technologists annual meeting Oct. 9 in Concord. She will speak on Generational Differences in the Workplace. The speaker is selected each year based on outstanding service to the profession.
A-B Tech's Surgical Technology graduates were able to take their national certification exam in a computer lab on campus for the first time since the program began. Catherine Ball from the Academic Learning Center proctored the exam for the 12 students. Eleven of them passed for a 92 percent pass rate. Offering the exam required coordination between Ball, Robin Keith, Surgical Technology chair and John Tucker, Technical Support Specialist II.
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