Monday, July 30, 2012

July 30: Learn to help children who witness violence

July 30 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Attend a program on July 31 and learn how to help children who witness violence

Who: Dr. Carl Bell
What: The Children Who Witness Violence  
Where: Hotel Louisville’s 12th floor Ballroom (“The Louisville Suite”)
When: 2:00 – 3:15pm on Tuesday, July 31
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* * * FREE to the public * * * Please arrive early to secure seating * * *

Dr. Carl Bell is a world-renowned psychiatrist specializing in children and youth who witness violence.
Dr. Bell is a charismatic speaker who works to make research and statistics on risk and violence accessible and compelling.
PRESENT POSITIONS
Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research, Director of Public and Community Psychiatry Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health;  Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of
Illinois at Chicago
President & C.E.O. - Community Mental Health Council & Foundation, Inc.
MEMBERSHIPS (Partial List)
Member, National Medical Association (NMA). Former Chairman, Psychiatry
Member, Black Psychiatrists of America.  Former vice-president, former newsletter editor
PUBLICATIONS
During his 39 years of psychiatric practice, Dr. Bell has published over 450 articles on mental health issues.  He is Associate Editor of the American
Psychiatric Press, editor of Psychiatric Aspects on Violence: Understanding Causes and Issues in Prevention and Treatment; author of The Sanity of
Survival:  Reflections on Community Mental Health & Wellness; co-author of Suicide and Homicide Among Adolescents and chapters on: "Black
Psychiatry" in Mental Health and People of Color; "Black-on-Black Homicide" in Mental Health and Mental Illness Among Black Americans; and
"Prevention of Black Homicide" in The State of Black America 1995. 
Dr. Bell has been interviewed by Ebony; Jet; Essence; Emerge; The New York Times; Chicago Tribune Magazine; People Magazine; Chicago
Reporter; Nightline; ABC News; NPR; CBS Sunday Morning; The News Hour with Jim Lehrer; the Tom Joyner Morning Show; Chicago Tonight; and
The Today Show.
HONORS AND AWARDS (Partial List)
* Appointed to the City of Chicago & County of Cook Anti-Violence and Community Stabilization Leadership Group by Mayor Emanuel and President
   Preckwinkle, August 30, 2011.
* Founding Executive Committee Member of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention by Pamela Hyde - Administrator of Substance Abuse
   and Mental Health Services Administration, September 1, 2010.
* Appointed to the National Research Council’s Committe

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