Mental Health at the Crossroads:
Seizing the Opportunity
For Positive Change

Friday, October 19th-Saturday, October 20th

Cross Wind Conference Center
8036 North Hoover Road
Hesston, Kansas 67062
1-877-298-7343
www.crosswind.ws

Conference Schedule

Friday, October 19th

3:00 – 5:00 pm NAMI Kansas Consumer Council meeting – Come early to get acquainted and for afternoon refreshments

5:30 – 7:00 pm NAMI Kansas Affiliate Leaders meeting – This will include dinner, served at 6:00 pm

7:00 – 9:00 pm Town Hall Forum on Public Policy Choices: Mental Health and the Law

Saturday, October 20th

8:00 am Breakfast for overnight guests

9:00 – 10:30 am Conference plenary session featuring Mary Giliberti, Director of Public Policy and Advocacy for NAMI

10:30 – 11:45 am Concurrent workshops

• Crisis Intervention Teams
• Medicaid Funded Certified Peer Specialists: An Emerging Profession
• Social Security Disability Issues
• Ask the Doctor

12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch and conference plenary featuring Rocky Nichols, Executive Director, Disability Rights Center of Kansas

1:45 – 2:45 pm Concurrent workshops

• Update from Kansas Health Solutions
• Emergency Preparedness Issues for Mental Health Consumers and Family Members
• Understanding Compulsive Hoarding
• Learning to Laugh in Stressful Times

3:00 – 4:30 pm Conference plenary featuring Pete Earley, author of Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

Click here for a copy of the flyer for the Pete Earley event.

Other conference offerings will include

• Awards presentations
• Voting for members of the NAMI Kansas Board of Directors and on proposed bylaws changes.
• Exhibits and Poster Sessions
• Silent auction fundraiser
  

Workshops (subject to change):

Crisis Intervention Teams • Update from Kansas Health Solutions • Medicaid Funded Certified Peer Specialists: An Emerging Profession • Understanding Compulsive Hoarding • Emergency Preparedness for Mental Health Consumers and Family Members • Social Security Disability Issues • Learning to Laugh in Stressful Times • "Ask the Doctor"

The schedule for Friday, October 19, 2007 will include meetings of the designated representatives to the NAMI Kansas Consumer Council and
a meeting of NAMI Kansas Affiliate Leaders.

A Town Hall Meeting will be convened on Friday evening to listen to various viewpoints
on a topic related to mental health treatment and the law.

Saturday's activities will run from 9:00 a.m. through 4:30 p.m.

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• The registration fee includes lunch on Saturday and other refreshment breaks throughout the conference. To register for the conference, click here.
  
  
• Conference registrants who will require lodging at the Cross Wind Conference Center should complete the lodging reservation information on the registration form and return to NAMI Kansas with additional payment for lodging and overnight meals. Lodging is subject to availability.
  
  
• Dinner on Friday and breakfast on Saturday will be provided for the designated representatives to the NAMI Kansas Consumer Council and for designated Affiliate Leaders and scholarship recipients. .
  
  
• Current NAMI Kansas members may request scholarship assistance to help defray the cost of attending the conference. Click here for the scholarship application.
  
  
• For questions and information, call NAMI Kansas at (800) 539-2660 or e-mail namikansas@nami.org.
  
  
• Click here to arrange for exhibit space at the conference.
  
  
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