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NAMI Cambria County With NAMI Pennsylvania
and Cambria County MH/MR Program and Nulton Diagnostic & Treatment
Center, PC through the Cambria Somerset Council for Education of
Health Professionals
Present:
"INJUSTICE
FOR ALL" -
The Mentally Ill Offender And The High Cost of System Failure to
Our Communities
Friday, October 7, 2005
7:30 a.m. * 4:00 p.m.
Living Learning Center - Univ. of Pitts. - Johnstown, Pa.
For more information contact NAMI Cambria County at namicca@nami.org
or 814-535-3166
Presenters include:
Xavier Amador, Ph.D.,Psychologist, Author, Professor,
On-Air News Consultant, and Speaker
Dr. Xavier Amador is an adjunct professor in Clinical Psychology
at Teacher's College, Columbia University in New York City and is
on the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill (NAMI).
Ron Honberg, J.D. * NAMI Policy & Legal Affairs
Director. He has practiced advocacy law in the mental health arena
for more than 16 years. During this period he drafted many amici
curiae briefs, provided technical assistance to attorneys, and worked
with NAMI affiliates concerned with litigation impacting on the
lives of people with severe mental illnesses
Major Sam Cochran - Memphis Police Department.
Major Sam Cochran is the Coordinator of the Crisis Intervention
Team, (CIT), a specialized group of officers within the Memphis
Police Department's (MPD) Uniform Patrol Division. The MPD department
pioneered the CIT in 1988 after the police shooting a year earlier,
of a 27 year old man who had mental illness.
David Kaczynski, executive director of New Yorkers
Against the Death Penalty (NYADP) and the brother of Theodore Kaczynski
- the so-called Unabomber- who was arrested in 1996 after David
and his wife Linda approached the FBI with their suspicions that
Theodore might be involved
in a series of bombings that caused three deaths and numerous injuries
over 17 years. Despite his diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia,
Theodore was charged capitally and only avoided the death penalty
after his family waged a two-year campaign to convince the US Justice
Department
that Theodore's delusions had precipitated his violent behavior.
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