Events

Coming Soon

• Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day is May 4
• disAbility Resource Expo Exhibitor Meet & Greet, Vineyard Church, May 4, 4-6PM
• “Building Inclusive Communities,” presentation by David Wetherow, Brookens Admin Building, May 5, 1PM
• Mental Health Awareness Week is May 8-14
• Depression Screening Day Event at Parkland College, October 2017
• Self-Help Center Facilitator Workshop, October 2017
• Survivors of Suicide Loss Day, November 18, 2017
• disAbility Resource Expo, Vineyard Church, April 7, 2018

Past Events:

• 19^th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival – April 19-23 at the Virginia Theatre:
• The festival was dedicated to the Alliance for Inclusion & Respect and to the principles of kindness, compassion, empathy, and forgiveness;
• Our sponsored ‘anti-stigma’ film was “Mind/Game – the Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw” and will be shown on Saturday, April 22, with an extended Q&A directly after the film, including our own members: Juli Kartel, Joseph Omo Osagie, and Dr. Carla Hunter;
• The director of the film visited local youth, for a high school screening and discussion of the film, on Friday April 21;
• Annual Big Tent Art Show and Sale on Saturday, April 22 from 9AM to 5PM, in front of the Virginia Theatre.