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ollier County’s only comprehensive, not-for-
profit mental health and addiction recovery
treatment center serving children, adults and
C families, will host the 6th Annual Sound
Minds™ Mental Health Symposium on March 23,
2019 at Moorings Presbyterian Church (791 Harbour
Dr, Naples). The symposium will be held from 10
a.m. until 12 p.m. and will be followed by a VIP Meet Sound Minds
the Speaker luncheon that will include live music.
Mental Health Symposium
The symposium will feature keynote speaker Austin
Eubanks, an injured survivor of the Columbine March 23, 2019
shooting and an expert in the addiction treatment
industry. Eubanks’s traumatic experience as a teen Moorings Presbyterian Church
was the catalyst to his painful, decade-long journey
through addiction. The symposium will conclude
with a moderated Q&A with Eubanks. CEUs are
available for Florida state licensed nurses and clinicians
(LMHC, LCSW, and LMFT).

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Funds raised at the symposium invest
in our innovative mental health and
addiction treatment services, which are
designed to address unresolved trauma.
Our new, highly-specialized trauma
incident reduction therapy has proven to
be very effective and this care needs to Austin Eubanks is an expert in the addiction treatment industry
expand. Mental health is a community and a nationally recognized speaker and media contributor on
issue and one we must solve together. topics surrounding behavioral health and addiction recovery.
He is the Chief Operations Officer for Foundry Treatment
Scott Burgess, Center. In his non-profit board roles, Austin helps advance the
David Lawrence Center President and CEO
objectives of Stout Street Foundation, a 180-bed therapeutic
community serving primarily an indigent population, and 5280
High School, a 400-student Denver Public Charter School
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focused on prevention and addiction recovery in adolescents.
Eubanks said, “Less than an hour after scrambling
out the back door of the Columbine High School
library, I was lying in a hospital bed, medicated on a
Tick et and Sponsor ship
variety of substances intended to relieve my pain.”
Now in long-term recovery, Eubanks has devoted
his career to helping those who have turned to Inf ormation
substances as a result of trauma. Eubanks will share
with attendees his personal journey as well as strategies
for addressing the issues of substance abuse plaguing There is a $10 suggested donation per
the nation. person for the symposium.
Eubanks adds, “We have to reform a broken
healthcare system that is slowly coming to terms with The cost for the VIP Meet the Speaker
the fact that they are responsible for this pandemic. I Lunch is $125.
had to learn to lean into the pain and stop looking for
the fast road to relief. We have to teach people to do the
For sponsorship and ticket information,
emotional work needed no matter how much it hurts.”
visit DLCSoundMinds.org or
contact DLC at 239-354-1445 or donorcare@dlcmhc.com.

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