BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b749f1795359c5cdf2ab892dea26d993837 CATEGORIES:Lawyers Affinity Group (LAG) SUMMARY:LAG February Event DESCRIPTION:
Lawyers Affinity Group- Mental Illness: Stigma, Substance Abuse; Police Interaction and Its Impact on Self- and Family Well-Being
Family’s Pers pective: Mental illness does not “just happen.” Does substance abuse (addi ctions) mask physically grounded mental disorders? Should police address u nderlying mental illness causes when responding to domestic violence 911 ca lls? What are the limitations of the “5150” stabilization care, and fragmen ted public & private treatment sources? Richard Weissman will discuss p otential cultural differences in responding to mental illness, the importan ce of family understanding, support of a loved one in crisis (acute and chr onic), and the progress of UCLA Chancellor’s Grand Challenge on Depression.
About the Speaker
Richard Weissman is a Bruin undergraduate (’69) and attended Loyola School of Law, Los Angeles (’72). He is a practicing lawyer and served the Courts as receiver, partition refe ree, provisional director and licensed Professional Fiduciary managing and controlling assets in Civil, Probate, Family Law and State and Federal cons umer securities and real estate fraud litigation. Richard is a lay member o f the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), a Past President and Memb er of the Los Angeles County Probation Commission (and Juvenile Justice Com mission), and currently NAMI’s liaison to LA County’s new Youth At Risk CBO referral program. He is also a NAMI Crisis Intervention Trainer and partic ipates in the LA County Sheriff’s Department in-service mental health sensi tivity program. Richard and his wife, Carol (also a Bruin), are alumni sup porters of the UCLA Chancellor’s Grand Challenge on Depression.
This event is sponsored by ADR Services, Inc . and will give MCLE credit for the session.