NAMI-DE invites you to our Annual Conference & Consumer Conference!

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A COMMUNITY CONFERENCE on Issues Related to Mental Illness & Living in Recovery

Thursday, October 4, 2007

DuPont Country Club, Crystal Ballroom

Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING FOLLOWING CONFERENCE AT 4:30

 In recognition of Mental Illness Awareness Week 2007, along with activities being held throughout the nation, NAMI-DE will host our popular Annual Conference & Consumer Conference on Thursday, October 4, 2007.

 The NAMI-DE 2007 AWARDS Luncheon is included in the registration fee.

 We invite every attendee - consumers, family members, loved ones, students,

mental health & other treatment specialists, law enforcement professionals -

to benefit from the information and inspiration that our guests will offer!

As always, each of our guests is not to be missed!

Pete Earley - Award Winning Journalist

Author of CRAZY: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

Jonathan Stanley, J.D. - Acting Executive Director of the Treatment Advocacy Center

Howard Isenberg - Executive Director of Open Door, Inc.  

Ranga Ram, M.D. - Wilmington Psychiatrist

 OTHER GUESTS TO BE ANNOUNCED!

 Pete Earley, a former reporter with The Washington Post, Pete Earley has been a journalist for more than thirty years and has written       eight nonfiction books and three novels. His first book, Family of Spies, was about the John Walker spy ring and was made into a five hour miniseries for CBS television. His book, Circumstantial Evidence, helped free a wrongly accused black man from Alabama's death row. While writing The Hot House, Mr. Earley spent a year inside a maximum security penitentiary as a reporter doing research.  

CRAZY: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness tells two stories. The first is about Mr. Earley's struggle to get his college age son help after he is diagnosed with a serious mental illness. The second describes what Mr. Earley discovered during a nine month investigation at the Miami Dade County Jail where he followed prisoners with mental problems through the justice system and into the community to observe what services were available to them.  He is described by Washingtonian magazine as one of a handful of journalists in America "who have the power to introduce new ideas and give them currency".  More than 1 million copies of his books are in print.

 Jonathan Stanley, J.D., is Acting Director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, a national organization working to eliminate legal and clinical barriers to timely and humane treatment for millions of Americans with severe brain disorders. The Treatment Advocacy Center is a nonprofit organization working on the national, state, and local levels to educate civic, legal, criminal justice, and legislative communities on the benefits of assisted treatment in an effort to decrease homelessness, jailing, suicide, violence, and other devastating consequences caused by lack of treatment.  Since the onset of his bipolar disorder, Jonathan has graduated from          Williams College in Massachusetts, Quinnipiac College School of Law in Connecticut and been a practicing attorney.

Call 302-427-0787 to REGISTER NOW!

Or Register online now by clicking here

Members $25.00, Non-Members $40.00, Consumers $5.00

Exhibitors welcome! $85.00 includes 2 lunches

 Call 427-0787 to pay by credit card or mail check to:   "Conference", 2400 W. 4^th Street, Wilmington, DE, 19805