Speaker: PTP Panel Description: Roger Comstock – When Teens Consider Suicide Steve Higginbotham – What to Do When Your Loved One Has an Addiction to Gambling David Looney – Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is a condition that can develop following a traumatic and/or terrifying event, such as a sexual or physical assault, the unexpected death of a loved one, or …

Speaker: PTP Panel Description: Westley Hazel – I Have Trouble with the Blues… Daniel Howell – How Elders/Members Can Encourage Foster/Adoptive Families Larry Kirby – Loss of a Spouse This panel will discuss sources for help, how to cope, and finding hope in God. Jerry Martin – Giving Hope to the Depressed and a Reason to Live to the Suicidal …

These ideas come up frequently with college students and in congregations. Awareness and incidences of mental health issues–including addictions–are growing rapidly. Jerry Martin – All congregational leaders should become comfortable discussing these matters with people. How can I help a friend with an eating disorder? Steve Higginbotham – How do you combat the shame of having a mental health disorder? …

Don Williams – Alzheimer’s Disease. Discussion of where to find help, how to cope. Ron Williams – Cancer. Discussion where to find help, how to cope. Jerry Martin – illness, old age. Discussion where to find help, how to cope. Larry Kirby – Loss of child. Discussion where to find help, how to cope. Westley Hazel – My New Normal …