MEDIA ADVISORY
August 23, 2001

What:

Half-day seminar

Reporting and Writing about People with Disabilities

Sponsored by the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation

Where:

State Capitol Auditorium
600 Dexter Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36130

When:

Thursday, September 6, 2001
12:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Who:

Print and broadcast media, including health reporters, and college/university journalism and communications students

Why:

To facilitate accurate, sensitive reporting about the DMH/MR, its contracting agencies, consumers receiving mental illness, mental retardation and substance abuse services and their families

Details:

Commissioner Kathy Sawyer will provide an overview of the DMH/MR service delivery system, and a series of panels, which will feature consumers, family members and clinicians, will address topics specific to persons receiving mental illness, mental retardation and substance abuse services.

*If you cannot find parking around the capitol complex, parking is available in the Crampton Bowl parking lot, which is two blocks east of the Union Street entrance to the Capitol. Shuttle service will be provided for those who desire it.

For further information: Contact the DMH/MR Office of Public Information and Community Relations at (334) 242-3417