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Hartford HealthCareBehavioral Health Network

September 17th, 2015 6:30 to 8:30 pmUniversity of Saint Joseph, Hoffman Auditorium1678 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford

Hartford HealthCare’s Behavioral Health Network invites you to attend a forum on mental health, hope and recovery. Mental health advocate Jessie Close wants to change how people talk and think about mental illness. An ambassador for Bring Change 2 Mind, a not-for-pro� t organization founded by Jessie’s sister, actress Glenn Close, Jessie � ghts stigma and misunderstanding to create a clearer

picture of mental disorders. Her own struggle with bipolar disorder and alcoholism provides the backbone to a courageous story and an enlightened perspective on the state of mental health in America. This forum will be moderated by Senior Vice President of the Behavioral Health Network, Patricia Rehmer and will include other panelists with lived experience like Jessie.

There will be an opportunity to meet Jessie as well as a book signing from 8:00 to 8:30 pm.

Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness, Jessie’s memoir, was released in 2015. She blogs about living with mental illness for BringChange2Mind.org and has made

appearances on Good Morning America, Katie, Erin Burnett, and Piers Morgan.

Changing Minds 4 the Better: A conversation on mental health