Living Waters Inc Presents

Mental Health Summit

Building Community Connections for Mental Health: Faith and Community

The summit features a day-long program with a keynote, moderated discussions, plenary, panel discussion, breakout sessions and exhibitors featuring Behavioral Health service providers.  It brings together clergy, faith communities, behavioral health professionals and civic servants to discuss common concerns about accessing mental health care and ways to work together to support mental health consumers, their families and caregivers.

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2020
Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm
Venue: Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
3400 Beatties Ford Road
Charlotte, NC 28216

Registration: $40 – $65
Fee includes continental breakfast and lunch

Register online
For more information about the summit, please call 704-944-3119 or Email: info@livingwatersfa.com

Doors open at 8:00 am for registration, networking, and breakfast

Limited scholarships are available for faith leaders

Topics include:

• Navigating the Behavioral Health System
• Cultural Competence
• Guardianship
• Creating Caring Congregation
• Trauma, Violence and Mental Health
• Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health
• Spirituality and Religion in Mental Health Recovery
• Ex-convicts, Youth Offenders, and Mental Health

Invocation by Dr. Clifford A. Jones
Keynote Speaker: Rev. Dr. Sheldon R. Shipman

Selected Speakers:
Honorable Carla D. Cunningham
Dr. Dwayne A. Walker
Rev. Sidney E. Phillips
Imam Khalil A. Akbar
Pastor Frank Garcia
Minister Maurice Raley
Chaplain Harry Burns

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