| New Mexico Suicide Prevention Coalition
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Dear Gwen,
Our Suicide Survivors Healing Conference is this Saturday. If you haven't already registered, please do so now. We finally have our On-line registration page working, so you can register from the convienience or your computer and charge the registration fee to your credit card. How easy is that?
We're also having our Quarterly Coalition Meeting on November 28th in Santa Fe. Please join us to hear about the happenings around the state and help us start make plans for our First Annual Statewide Suicide Prevention Conference to be held next June. You'll also get a chance to meet our newest Board Member, Patsy Trujillo.
See you all there!
Sincerely,
Darleene Edwards
NMPSPC
Vice-Chair and Treasurer
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Suicide Survivors Healing Conference
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Sponsored by the New Mexico Suicide Prevention Coalition
Location:
First Presbyterian Church
215 Locust Street NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico
(Near Central and I-25)
Time:
8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
Registration starts at 8:30 A.M.
Registration Fee:
$15.00 per person
(includes lunch, snacks, and materials)
Please make plans to attend this important conference that allows survivors to share experiences of loss and come together for support, healing, information, and empowerment. The Conference coincides with the 9th Annual National Survivors of Suicide Day which includes an Internet broadcast from the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention that will be reaching out to tens of thousands of people who have lost a loved one to suicide.
For more information please contact:
Gwendolyn Packard, Executive Director
New Mexico Suicide Prevention Coalition
(505) 401-9382
Info@nmsuicideprevention.org
Or visit our website at: www.nmsuicideprevention.org
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November Coalition Meeting
November 28, 2007
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
2550 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM
Toney Anaya Building -Large Building with lots of glass
(approx. ¼ mile north of Camino Carlos Rey and ½ mile south of the Osage intersection, on the east side of Cerrillos) |
| Homeless Veterans "Stand-Down"
November 16-17, 2007 - Albuquerque Homeless Veterans Stand-Down at the New Mexico Veterans Integration Center, 6101 Central Ave NE, 9 am to 5 pm both days. The purpose of the stand down is to provide free co-located services from Federal, State and community agencies to homeless veterans in NM. Services will include medical exams, DD-214 and other veteran benefits, employment, metro court, ID cards, VA medical cards, social security applications, food stamps, clothing and hot meals. The project is a collaboration between the NM Department of Veterans Services, US Dept of Labor, NM Dept of Workforce Solutions (Labor), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, NM National Guard, Human Services, DMV, and many other volunteers. ABQ Rape Crisis, Commission on the Status of Women, YWCA and Coalition Against Domestic Violence are scheduled to participate. Any homeless veteran can get free transportation to the event by telling any city bus driver that they are heading to the VIC and they will receive free passage. Call (505) 827-6300 or 1-866 433-VETS (8387) for more information.
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