8:00-8:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45
Introductory Remarks, George Weigly, CEO, Tri
County Mental Health and Counseling Services, Athens
8:45-9:45
First Keynote: Steve Miller, Member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Consumer's Council of NAMI National,
"Surviving Schizophrenia and Rebuilding One's Life"
9:45-10:00
Break
10:00-11:00
Darby Penney, Powerpoint: "The Lives They left
Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic"
11:00-11:45
John Hartman of COVA "Maintaining Benefits
while Making the Transition to Work"
11:45-12:15
Pete Wuscher, Coordinator “Who We Are”, (A round
robin of 20 second self introductions of all present. A grand
success in 2005)
12:15-12:45
Box Lunch
12:45-1:15
Video on the local transformation project
And
The Levy, Earl Cecil, CEO 317 Board
1:15-2:15
Second Keynote: Maureen Boals, "Surviving Bipolar
Disorder and Reentering the Work Force"
2:15-2:30
Break
2:30-3:30
Panel on Groups:
-The Gathering Place, Scott Kreps
-Consumer Support Groups, Pete Wuscher
-NAMI Athens, Adrienne Nagy, President
-The Athens Photographic Project, Nate Thomson, Executive Director
3:30-3:45
Closing Remarks, Doug DeVoe, Ohio Advocates for
Mental Health
