Empowerment Through Awareness – Mental health conference

Join us for Empowerment Through Awareness, a conference dedicated to promoting mental health and well-being.

Learn about holistic approaches, brain and body health, suicide awareness, and much more from experts and local community leaders.

Keynote speaker:

• Detective Jamie Shoemaker, Geneseo Police Department
  Making an IMPACT on Your Community – Mental health and substance use within the community and breaking the stigma surrounding mental illness.

Additional presentations:

• Interoception: Tuning Into You to Manage Stress & Anxiety – Stephanie Phares, HSc, MOTR/L
• Understanding Mental Health and Wellbeing, Utilizing Bodily Systems and Relational Framework – Breann Hirst, LISW, LCSW
• The Transformative Power of Sound Healing – Jessica Ramos, MsED, QMHP and Autumn Gonzalez, LCPC, MHC, CAADC
• Bridging the Gap: Supporting Veteran and Military Students’ Mental Health – Thomas Reagan, M.S., Black Hawk College and Joe Landen, U.S. Air Force (retired)
• Creating a Community of Change – Kevin Atwood, Foster’s Voice

Registration fee:

• Public – $40
• BHC employee – $25 (must call to register)
• BHC student – $20 (must call to register)

Includes light breakfast, lunch and a professional certificate of attendance.

Professional and Continuing Education credits – 5.25 hours awarded (Consult your governing rules to determine if appropriate subject matter criteria will apply to credit hours and check with your issuing state or licensure board for approval.)

• Last day for a refund – Thursday, Feb. 27
• Last day to register – Thursday, March 6

For more information, call 309-796-8223.