Community Hope will host our Annual Forum on Mental Health on Saturday, June 9, 2007 beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the Morris County Fire Fighter and Police Training Academy in Parsippany, New Jersey.

This year’s event focuses on helping persons with disabilities to draw on their strengths and abilities to promote their own wellness and recovery. Keynote speakers from the national disability advocacy community will be John A. Lancaster, Executive Director of the National Council on Independent Living in Washington, D.C. and former Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities and Kathie Snow, author and Founder of Disability is Natural in Woodland Park, CO.

Interactive workshops and a panel discussion will be offered in the afternoon.

The educational forum aims to provide individuals with mental illness and other disabilities; their family members and caregivers with the resources to promote wellness and recovery. The Forum is also open to the public and health care professionals.

The Forum on Mental Illness is made possible by the generous support of the Morris County Mental Health Substance Abuse Advisory Board; Janssen Pharmaceutica; Organon and the Schering-Plough Corporation. For information on sponsoring the Forum, contact the Community Hope Development Office at 973-463-9600, extension 303.

Registration is $25 for the first family member attending, professionals and community members. Additional family members may attend for $20 per person and mental health consumers for $15.

For a conference brochure, contact Wendy Huelsenbeck at whuelsenbeck@communityhope-nj.org or call 973-463-9600 at extension 313.

Founded in 1985 by family members of young adults with schizophrenia, depression and other severe forms of mental illness, Community Hope today provides a continuum of housing with support services to more than two hundred (200) individuals in recovery from mental illness and substance abuse.

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