Please join us for the 3^rd Annual Celebrate Recovery!  Conference.  Each year, this conference moves us one step closer to creating a community free of stigma and discrimination, where people with severe mental illnesses can find the services, support and encouragement needed to live full lives in recovery.

The Third Annual Celebrate Recovery! Conference will be Friday, August 6^th,  at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Louisville,  from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.  Lunch is provided.

This year’s keynote speaker is Mr. Larry Fricks, 1995 winner of the Clifford W. Beers Award, as well numerous other awards for his work and advocacy in support of people with a mental illness   He is currently working with the Benson-Henry Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital and studying the six factors that promote mind/body resiliency. His groundbreaking work will be the focus of this year’s Celebrate Recovery! Conference.

We hope that through the conference we will be able to bring providers, consumers and family members together to celebrate the role that each of us plays in creating a recovery environment throughout Louisville and surrounding counties.

The deadline for registration is Friday, July 30, 2010.If you have not already registered, please call or email Melinda Kelly (mkelly@sevencounties.org or 589-8550 ext. 4475) or Marsha Wilson (mwilson@sevencounties.org or 589-8550 ext. 4499). We just need your name, addresses and to know whether you’d like a vegetarian or meat entrée for lunch.

Thanks to the generosity of our many sponsors, there is no cost to participants. The conference is sponsored by Seven Counties Services, Inc., the Joseph Family Foundation, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, Bridgehaven Mental Health Services, Wellspring, KY Olmstead Coalition, PASSPORT Health Plan, Medical News, TEVA Pharmaceuticals USA, Pfizer, Inc. and Q of L Pharmacy.