Standing Up for Mental Health: Making Our Voices Count in 2008

 Friday, October 10th-Saturday, October 11th

 

Savior Pastoral Center
12601 Parallel Parkway
Kansas City, KS  66109
(913) 721-1097
http://www.saviorpastoralcenter.org

Conference Schedule

Friday, October 10th

1:00 – 3:00 pm –  NAMI Kansas Consumer Council meeting – For designated Representatives and Alternates from local affiliates and support groups

3:00 pm – Registration opens

3:30 – 5:30 pm – NAMI Kansas Affiliate Leaders meeting

6:00 pm – Dinner

7:00 – 9:00 pm – Pre-election Legislative Forum

Saturday, October 11th

            8:00 am – Breakfast

            9:00 – 10:15 am – Conference plenary session featuring Jim McNulty, Director, Support, Technical Assistance & Resource Center , NAMI

“The Road to Recovery Begins with the Battle Against Stigma”

10:30 – 11:45 am – Concurrent workshops

12:00 – 1:30 pm – Lunch and conference work session on "Strategies for Strengthening Local NAMI Affiliates and Support Groups" 

1:45 – 3:00 pm – Concurrent workshops

3:15 – 4:30 pm – Conference plenary featuring  Ron Willis, Founder, Green Porch Swing Productions, Jewell, Kansas

“Lighting Your Candle & Fanning Its Flame”

Workshops

• Your Right to Vote and How It Can Create a Huge Change
• Expansion of CIT in Kansas: The Sedgwick County Experience
• SSDI/SSI Work Incentives
• A Comprehensive Approach to the Treatment of Depression
• I’ve Fought Less Fires Since Recognizing I Was the Arsonist”: Application of Life Principles to “Quench” Inflamed Communication, Smoldering Relationships and Burning Issues
• Two Halves of a Whole: Aging Issues for Mental Health Consumers and Their Caregivers
• Effecting Change: The Hospital & Home Project
• Kansas Family Partnership: A Family-Consumer-Professional Partnership

Other Conference Events

• Awards presentations
• Voting for members of the NAMI Kansas Board of Directors and on proposed bylaws changes. Current members of NAMI Kansas will receive ballot information in September.
  
• Exhibits and Poster Sessions
  
• Silent auction fundraiser

Additional Conference Information

• REGISTRATION: The registration fee includes lunch on Saturday and other refreshment breaks throughout the conference. Overnight lodging and other meals are extra. Contact the NAMI Kansas office to register for the conference.
  
  
• LODGING: Conference registrants who will require lodging at the Savior Pastoral 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.
  
  
• MEALS: Dinner on Friday and breakfast on Saturday will be provided for the designated Representatives and Alternates to the NAMI Kansas Consumer Council, for scholarship recipients, and for others who elect these meals with their registration.
  
  
• SCHOLARSHIPS: Current NAMI Kansas members may request scholarship assistance to help defray the cost of attending the conference.
  
  
• To ensure that you receive all future conference announcements, subscribe to the NAMI Kansas list serve. [Brett: use the link from the 2007 archive that reads: Join NamiKansas email list]
  
  
• For questions and information, call NAMI Kansas at (800) 539-2660 or e-mail namikansas@nami.org.