Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News
June 19, 2003, Vol. 03-51

ADS Center Internet and Teleconference Training Session

Dear Colleague:

You are invited to participate in a virtual training session via the Internet and the telephone on the topic of gaining acceptance for housing for mental health consumers in the face of NIMBYism - "Not In My Back Yard." This session is sponsored by the Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma (ADS Center), a project of the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The session is free to participants.

Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Eastern

The training will offer the expertise of Michael Allen, senior staff attorney of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, in Washington, D.C., and Sister Mary Scullion, executive director of Project H.O.M.E., in Philadelphia, and will include a question-and-answer session. Participants will learn how to replicate initiatives for overcoming NIMBYism and gaining acceptance in their own communities. The strategies are helpful both for organizations that provide housing as well as for people who advocate for safe, affordable, and accessible housing for mental health consumers.

The presentation will take place during the first hour, to be followed by a thirty minute period of discussion with the presenters.

If you can access the Internet and the telephone at the same time, you will be able to follow the PowerPoint slides that will accompany the telephone presentation on the Internet. However, if you would like to participate by phone only, a hard copy of the PowerPoint presentation will be sent to you before the call so that you can follow along.

All participants will receive a confirmation email and agenda within 48 hours of responding to this invitation. That email will include log-in instructions for the call.

To register for this teleconference, please reply to this message, stating that you want to participate. For more information, please call Susanne Finiello at 800-553-4539, Ext. 334.

Reminder: Please let us know if you would like to participate by phone only, and materials will be sent in advance of the call.