WHAT:
The Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority and Wayne State University will hold "Raising the Bar," the authority's first interdisciplinary mental health conference, in the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Gordon Scott Hall. The conference is co-hosted by the Detroit Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and the Michigan Area Health Education Center.

Behavioral health professionals will share practical knowledge and experience in addressing complex mental health recovery challenges and showcase the importance of collaboration in the community mental health system transformation.

Topics will include better serving homeless populations and military veterans, mental health first aid, trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, adolescent suicide prevention, behavioral addictions and much more.

WHEN:
June 8-9, 2015
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE:
Gordon Scott Hall
540 E. Canfield
Detroit, MI 48201

VISUALS: 
Area behavioral health leaders and practitioners leading and attending workshops and presentations

MEDIA: Please check in at the front desk of Scott Hall's main entrance, adjacent to the University Health Center.

About Wayne State University School of Medicine
Founded in 1868, the Wayne State University School of Medicine educates more than 1,000 medical students in all four classes. In addition to undergraduate medical education, the school offers master's degree, Ph.D. and M.D.-Ph.D. programs in 14 areas of basic science to about 400 students annually.

Wayne State University is a premier urban research institution offering more than 380 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 28,000 students.