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Getting Comfortable with an Uncomfortable Conversation

Date: Thu, 03/21/2019
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Cost: Free
Who can come: This is a Community event in Midlothian,VA. Mostly parents but teens are welcome. There will be emotional content.

Details on the event and takeaways on the registration page. And we are asking for registration so we can follow up with resources based on Q & A after. This is the neighborhood in which Charles grew up and the middle school he attended and the community is struggling with the loss of another young man.

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Keynote for Wellstone in Cullman, Alabama

keynote speaker mental health

I wish I could say I was the star of the event. Or maybe even the CEO, Jeremy or Chris, the COO. But no, the bread pudding was the real star. A lovely venue to boot.

I got to meet the family whose father was attacked by a man who was lost in psychosis, entered the family home and killed Stephen Griffith, an upstanding community lawyer. His wife was also attacked but is alive today.

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