Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News
December 14, 2005, Vol. 05-140

Peer Support: Disaster Preparation for People with Psychiatric Disabilities

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) invites you to participate in an interactive webcast on Dec. 15, 2005.

Event Title: Peer Support: Disaster Preparation for People with Psychiatric Disabilities

Date & Time: December 15, 2005 (Thursday) 1:00 - 2:30pm Eastern Time

The Dec.15, 2005 webcast will focus on using self direction/peer support in planning for and reacting to disasters. Learn from those that have lived through such disasters and what can be done and how self direction/peer support can be utilized. Also resources will be shared pertaining to disaster preparation for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Materials from three previous webcasts on self-direction are also available for download. The materials include the speaker PowerPoints, resource links and discussion questions. Use the webcast and materials to help in your discussions of transforming our mental health systems to embrace Self Direction.

Speakers: Daniel B. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.
Executive Director. The National Empowerment Center Inc. (NEC)

Debra LaVergne
Meaningful Minds of Louisiana

Laverne Miller, Esq.
Howie the Harp Peer Advocacy Center, New York

Kaye Rote
Executive Director. Oklahoma Mental Health Consumer Council

LIVE AND ARCHIVED VIEWING VIA WEBCAST: A live webcast, as well as a later archived webcast, of this broadcast will be available for free and unrestricted viewing at: http://www.ConnectLive.com/events/samhsa

LIVE VIEWING VIA SATELLITE: This broadcast will be available for free and unrestricted viewing from all fifty states of the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. C-BAND Satellite: AMC-1, Transponder: C20 Orbital Location: 103 degrees W.L. Downlink Freq: 4100 MHz Vertical

Send questions to jgolden@dbconsultinggroup.com or calling 301-589-4020, Ext 211 and asking for Jackie Golden
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