We are busy getting things ready for the "Family to Family" education course being offered here in Sonora beginning on August 5, 2001 at 2:00

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 NEW EDUCATIONAL COURSE FROM NAMI
(FROM SUMMERd Advocacy Strategies for People with Severe Mental Illnesses in Managed Care Systems", which provides an overview of legal issues in the managed care system.  It also provides guidelines for advocacy strategies.  We have downloaded this publication and it is available to you from the NAMI Library Resources. If you have other questions for an advocate please call Louise Fichera at (209)852-2405.  She is the local managed care patient's rights advocate for Tuolumne County.

OPEN MINDS QUARTERLY
If you like to write and would like to publish your experiences there is now a publication that is interested specifically in first person accounts of living with mental illness.  For complete submission guidelines and other information you may write to:
*Barb Wilson, M.A., Editor
*Open Minds Quarterly
*680 Kirkwood Dr., Bldg. 2
*Sudbury, Ontario
*Canada P3E IX3
*Phone: 705-675-9193 EXT. 8286
*Fax: 705-675-3501

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