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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=155 height=170 src="cid:image003.jpg@01CE23C1.13F6E150" align=left hspace=10 alt="http://www.namiathensohio.org/gfx/2013_Curlis1.JPG" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In sound recovery from schizoaffective disorder, Karen Curlis devotes her considerable energies to helping her peers. She has served on Supreme Court, Attorney General, and regional task forces concerned with the interface between consumers and the criminal justice system.&nbsp; Former president of the Ohio Center for Advocacy, Training, and Support, she also does peer advocacy and support through recovery tools such as PAD, WRAP, Peer-to-Peer and In Our Own Voice. In 2012, she was one of only eight persons nationwide to win a Voice Fellowship Award from the Substance Abuse &amp; Mental Health Services Administration. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="September_26th"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>September 26th</span></b></a><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Speakers:</span></b><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'> Darcy and Paul Granello<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Topic:</span></b><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'> Because Every Life is Worth Saving:&nbsp; Suicide and Suicide Prevention in Young People</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_5" o:spid="_x0000_s1029" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.namiathensohio.org/gfx/2013_Granellos1.JPG" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:116.25pt;height:127.5pt;z-index:251658752;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:7.5pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:7.5pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=155 height=170 src="cid:image005.jpg@01CE23C1.13F6E150" align=left hspace=10 alt="http://www.namiathensohio.org/gfx/2013_Cheavens1.JPG" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_6"><![endif]>Until recently, borderline personality disorder was seen as very hard, if not impossible, to treat. However, recent work with dialectical behavior therapy at Harvard, Duke, and the University of Washington (among other places) has turned that assumption on its head. Trained at Duke, Dr. Cheavens served there for three years as Associate Director of the Cognitive Behavior Research and Treatment Program before becoming an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University and Director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic in the OSU Psychological Services Center.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thomas W. Walker<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Professor Emeritus, Political Science<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Member, National Alliance on Mental Illness<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>740-593-1339 (office) and 740-593-3757 (home) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p></div></body></html>