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BRIEF: Mental health group to give awards

Times-Tribune (Scranton, PA) - 9/27/2015

Sept. 27--SCRANTON -- The Scranton Area Chapter of the National Alliance of Mental Illness will hold the 19th annual Candlelight Vigil on Friday on the Spruce Street side of Lackawanna County Courthouse Square beginning at 6:30 p.m.

The event is part of National Mental Illness Awareness Week, an effort to educate communities about mental illness and to end stigma. At the vigil, the group will honor two individuals in the community for their service. The Candelight Award will go to Christine Wydeen, Ph.D., regional director of Community Care Behavioral Health, for her 30-year career serving those with mental illness. The group will give its leadership award to Scranton police Patrolman Ronald Alongi, who in March responded to a mental health crisis and talked a woman off a bridge, remaining with her until she checked into a hospital, a response the group called "extraordinary" and "exemplary."

-- DAVID FALCHEK

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