Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News
June 23, 2005, Vol. 05-94

Alternatives Conference Registration Brochures are Available

The National Empowerment Center and the Alternatives Conference Advisory Committee invite all to Phoenix, Arizona, October 26 to 30th for Alternatives 2005: Leading the Transformation to Recovery. Registration brochures are now available online at www.power2u.org or by mail (call 800-POWER2U to request brochures). Scholarship applications are also available at the website or by mail and are due June 30, 2005. Alternatives 2005 is funded by the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

The Alternatives Conference will offer a wide variety of workshops, institutes, keynote speakers, and caucuses addressing topics including peer support, consumer-operated services, self-help, empowerment and recovery. Marking twenty years since the first Alternatives Conference in 1985, this year's event will provide a forum for mental health consumers and survivors from across the nation to meet, exchange information and ideas, and provide and receive technical assistance. Join us in Phoenix this October for "Leading the Transformation to Recovery: And Still We Rise."
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The Center for Mental Health Services is a component of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, United States Department of Health and Human Services.