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November 4, 2009

I have just returned from two wonderful conferences focusing on mental illness. One was the Pathways to Promise Conference held in the St. Louis area and the other was the 25th Annual Conference of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) North Carolina in Raleigh. The conferences were filled with promise, energy, and a great desire to provide persons with mental illness and those who love and care about them with services and support.
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