At night, even with the fire trucks and police cars rushing past her home on one of Las Vegas' busiest streets, Cindy (not her real name), a grandmother of two in her early 50s, says her prayers and writes in her journal. And then there are those times when she reaches for a familiar stack of papers, nearly two inches thick, and plucks her way through the pages until she finds the passages that remind her everything is going to be OK.

The stack of well-worn handouts and daily affirmations is from a treatment program that Cindy attends aimed at helping clients gain coping skills to help them handle the day-to-day struggles of living with mental illness. The program has been in place for 14 years, helping hundreds of men and women of every age, every background, from throughout Southern Nevada. Ironically, it is not in Las Vegas, or even Henderson, but nestled in the quiet surroundings of Boulder City.