Inaugural Brighter Days Conference To Be Held May 16 At Florence Center

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With generous funding from the Dr’s Bruce and Lee Foundation, the Nemec-Abbott Foundation, Marion Health Foundation, and The Dailey Family, The Jonathan Foundation in collaboration with Pee Dee Department of Health and Environmental Control and Pee Dee Mental Health is pleased to offer the 1st Annual Brighter Days Conference. The conference is being provided as a free community service as the culmination of our work on three projects in support of American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s (AK+FSP) Project 2025 to reduce suicide by 20% by 2025.

The conference will provide no cost education and training for the target audiences of:

  • Conference Agenda
  • Healthcare: Counseling/Primary Care/Emergency Departments
  • Education: Public and Church-based Schools
  • First Responders: Law Enforcement, EMS, and Mobile Crisis Units

The keynote speaker will be Dr Daniel Amen, world-renowned founder of the Amen Clinic, BrainMD, and Amen University. Dr Amen’s mission is to end mental illness by creating a revolution in brain health. Amen Clinics has the world’s largest database of brain scans for psychiatry totaling more than 250,000 SPECT scants on patients from 155 countries. His keynote session will discuss how neuroscience is transforming psychiatry and helping patients prevent or reverse mental health disorders.

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