“Understanding Depressive and Alcohol Use Disorders: Promoting Healing and Recovery” is the theme of the 10th-annual faith-health symposium, sponsored by the William S. Perper Foundation. The symposium is for individuals and families affected by depressive or alcohol-use disorders, and for those who care for them.

This one-day event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

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This year’s symposium features two keynote speakers: Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.,
co-director of the Mood Disorders Center at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland; and Denis Antoine II, M.D., Addiction Treatment Services Medical Director at the Center for Addiction and Pregnancy, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore.

All registrants for the symposium will receive a free copy of Dr. Jamison’s book, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (1995), a best-selling memoir of the author’s experience with bipolar disorder.

In addition to the keynote speakers, two members of the Fifth Avenue community—the Rev. Kate Dunn, parish visitor; and former staff member Virginia Goss, now a chaplain at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital—will share their experiences with depressive and/or alcohol-use disorders. A resource fair will feature representatives from local organizations and agencies with information on community programs and services.

The Perper Foundation has generously provided funding for the last decade to support the William S. Perper Healthy Community Partnership National Sympo­sium. The annual symposium honors Perper’s legacy to helping those less fortunate by engaging partnerships between hospitals and faith communities that have the potential to address many of today’s greatest health care challenges. William Perper was a longtime member of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.

For more information about the symposium, email Kimberly Monson or call her at 410.550.1118.