NARPA 2008

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Save the Date!

October 1-4, 2008, Austin, Texas

Announcing NARPA's 26th Annual Rights Conference:

"Seizing Opportunities for Change"

Click here for mare details and to REGISTER.

Norman DeLisle, MDRC
"With Liberty and Access for All!"
GrandCentral: 517-589-4081
MDRC Website: http://www.copower.org/
LTC Blog: http://ltcreform.blogspot.com/
Recovery: http://therecoveringlife.blogspot.com/
Change: http://prosynergypsc.blogspot.com/

Busy, busy busy

 Our sensitive overlords at the National Center for Trauma-Informed Care are holding a conference this weekend; their 3rd in a series spanning two decades. I must be in pretty bad shape to consider this good news, but beneath the layers of shmooze and self-congratulation must lie some potential toward changing hearts and minds in the bureaucracies they toy with. That’s what I tell myself, looking over the program schedule (PDF), which kicks off July 10 with a private all-day Consumer/Survivor/ Peer/Expert Meeting to develop a National Consensus Statement on Trauma-Informed Care. Heaven knows it is time for that or something like it.
From the pink flower-embossed, healing brochure:
The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) has been sponsoring conferences that have defined the agenda of what needs to be done to recognize, understand, spark, and speed the healing and recovery process from violence and trauma.

Norman DeLisle, MDRC
"With Liberty and Access for All!"
GrandCentral: 517-589-4081
MDRC Website: http://www.copower.org/
LTC Blog: http://ltcreform.blogspot.com/
Recovery: http://therecoveringlife.blogspot.com/
Change: http://prosynergypsc.blogspot.com/

June 13-16: NAMI National Convention In Orlando

Who: National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness.

When: June 13-16, 2008

Where: Rosen Centre Hotel
Orlando, FL
9840 International Drive
Orlando, Florida 32819
Phone: (407) 996-9840

Why: Get the latest news on scientific research, innovative mental health programs, problems in the healthcare system, and human interest stories. Cover veterans, children and multicultural issues and hopes for recovery for all people living with PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other illnesses.

Full Schedule: http://www.nami.org/convention/program

Vip Speakers And Honorees

- Jane Pauley, TV journalist
- Thomas Insel, M.D., director, National Institute of Mental Health
- Nora Volkow, M.D., Ph.D., director, National Institute on Drug Abuse

Florida Speakers And Programs

Topics for state and local stories:

- Judge Steven Leifman, 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County
- Judge Mark Speiser, 17th Judicial Circuit Court, Broward County
- Louis de la Parte, Department of Aging & Mental Health, Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of Southern Florida
- VA Sunshine Healthcare Network (VISN 8), Bay Pines
- Polytrauma Center, VA Medical Center, Tampa
- Florida Partners in Crisis, Orlando
- Florida Borderline Personality Disorder Organization, St. Petersburg
- GEO Care, Miami
- Treasure Coast Forensic Treatment Center, Indiantown
- South Florida Treatment and Evaluation Center, Miami
- Vincent House, Pinellas Park
- Aspire Behavioral Health, Inc., Osceola

Ask-The-Doctor Sessions On:

- Anxiety Disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Depression
- Medications
- Mood Disorders Across the Lifespan
- PTSD
- Schizoaffective Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Kids Get to Ask the Doctor

National Alliance on Mental Illness

Norman DeLisle, MDRC
"With Liberty and Access for All!"
GrandCentral: 517-589-4081
MDRC Website: http://www.copower.org/
LTC Blog: http://ltcreform.blogspot.com/
Recovery: http://therecoveringlife.blogspot.com/
Change: http://prosynergypsc.blogspot.com/

Conference on Innovative and Effective Ways to a Recovery-Orientation

Join an outstanding collection of leaders from the US and around the globe who will be presenting at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation's State-of-the- Science Conference, "From Innovations to Practice: The Promise and Challenge of Recovery for All", held April 14 & 15, 2008 in Cambridge, MA. Come together with experts in transformation for the field of mental health, with over 90 presenters covering what you need to know to shift your agency, program and workforce to a recovery orientation.

Madness, Citizenship, and Social Justice

This public conference, hosted by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, will take place at the SFU Vancouver campus, British Columbia, Canada on Thursday June 12th through Saturday June 14th, 2008. Our objective is to provide a forum in which critical topics and issues related to madness, citizenship, human rights and the role of the ‘psy’ professions can be explored across a range of intersecting positions and perspectives. Participants and delegates will include academics, users/survivors, activists, advocates, practitioners, and community workers from the local Vancouver area, across Canada and around the world.