An Interactive Presentation on Concurrent Disorders
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
The Hub
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The From Recovery to Discovery Peer Support Group is open to anyone affected by mental illness, either directly or indirectly.
FREE!
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Susan Kilbride-Roper has been working and volunteering in the mental health community for sixteen years. She and her husband own and operate a mental health promotion organization, The Empowerment Connection. Susan believes passionately in the resilience of the human spirit and, through the mutual experiential sharing of peers who have survived and thrived while living with concurrent disorders of mental illness and addiction, has had the privilege to meet some of the most resilient and gifted individuals who continue to inspire her every day. She looks forward to being “inspired anew” by the members of the From Recovery to Discovery Peer Support Group.
Graham Hooper lives with a mental illness and has a history of substance abuse. These days, however, Graham works as a musician, a financial project manager, a videographer /editor, and a mental health advocate and peer support worker. As a husband, father, and volunteer, he is a busy guy. Though peer support groups, lifestyle choices, and self-knowledge, the conundrum of a concurrent disorder no longer eludes him. He states that "life has taught me that there isn't one perfect remedy to my troubles - there were, fortunately, lots of little ones."
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