Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 30, 2013

Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 30, 2013

This is a day for peers to learn from each other about empowerment and wellness strategies. A second workshiop day for non-peer staff is available on Thurs. May 29, 2013.

Topics include:

PTSD Facilitated by Rhonda Hunt, PS.  Recognition, symptoms and ways to make lives easier living with PTSD.

Tobacco Myths  Facilitated by Kristen Frame, TTS, PS. Learn about the unique needs of individuals who experience mental illness and tobacco cessation.

 

 “Getting Ahead” Peer Panel Facilitated by Donna Gibson, Program coordinator. Learn how peers in this program build resources and choices to move forward.
 

Inuksuk: Building a Path to Peer Wellness and Recovery

Participants will have the opportunity to create their own Inuksuk, in an interactive discussion and art project.

 

A delicious lunch is included in registration fee.Options for the day include: a chance to tour the Arboretum, and a post-conference walk around the park trails.

 Location: Dawes Arboretum , 7700 Jacksontown Road, Newark, OH 43056www.Dawesarb.org  Dawes Arboretum offers a beautiful Japanese garden, a cypress  swamp, woodlands and a discovery center.

This training was made possible by a grant from a collaboration between Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) and  Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) (formerly Medical Education Group/ MEG) to MHALC’s Compeer Program.

Deadline for registration: May 22, 2013. Registration cost is $25, and includes lunch and materials. Ask about the limited number of scholarships available to consumers. Call  740-52-1341 for more information.

To register online: go to www.mhalc.org, to complete registration and pay with PayPal. 

By Fax: the attached registration to 740-522-4664 and pay with credit card.