Lecture by Interventionist specialists and best-selling authors Jeff and Debra Jay
March 15, 2009 by Steve Pierce / YpsiNews.com
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WHAT: A FREE presentation by Jeff and Debra Jay; internationally-known Intervention experts, best-selling authors and popular media personalities!
Can others help when an addict/alcoholic doesn’t seem to want help? Do family and friends have to wait for the addict/alcoholic to “hit bottom?” What if the “bottom” is death, jail or insanity?
Through the intervention process, people who care learn how to use love and honesty to break through the denial that keeps an addict or alcoholic locked in the downward spiral of his/her disease. The intervention process helps “raise the bottom” to where the alcoholic/addict is, rather than waiting for him/her to become sicker and “hit bottom” on his/her own. Intervention brings about a moment of clarity that allows an addict/alcoholic to accept help.
Through their work in intervention, Jeff and Debra Jay have found that love is a powerful force for confronting addiction. Unlike practitioners who espouse a “tough love” approach, they found that love breaks through denial more effectively than toughness. With love first and good planning, “tough love” is often unnecessary.
WHEN and WHERE: “Intervention” is scheduled for Tuesday, March 31, 2009, from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm; in the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Education Center auditorium, 5305 Elliott Drive, Ypsilanti, Michigan.
WHO: Jeff and Debra Jay are dynamic, highly experienced speakers whose presentations are liberally interwoven with compassion, humor, personal stories and real-life descriptions
Jeff Jay is the co-author (with Debra Jay) of Love First: A New Approach to Intervention for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction. A standard-setting book on intervention, Love First has helped tens of thousands of families, friends, and professionals create a loving and effective plan for helping those who suffer from addiction. First published in 2000, the second edition of Love First, revised and expanded, was published in 2008. Jeff also co-authored At Wit’s End, a book on co-occurring mental health and addiction disorders. Jeff heads a private practice that provides intervention and crisis management services nationally. His work has appeared on CNN, the Jane Pauley Show, PBS, Forbes Online, Moyers on Addiction and other national broadcasts and has been featured in Parade Magazine, the Washington Post and numerous publications and professional journals. “I am passionate about intervention for a very simple reason,” says Jeff, “Intervention saved my life.”
Debra Erickson Jay is an addiction specialist, professional interventionist, and author. She provides intervention training and consultation services, with an additional specialty in older adult intervention. Debra has appeared frequently on “Oprah” and other nationally broadcast programs. She is a co-author (with Jeff Jay) of “Love First: A New Approach to Intervention for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction;” the author of “No More Letting Go: The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction;” and a co-author of “Aging and Addiction: Helping Older Adults Overcome Alcohol or Medication Dependence.”
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT NEWS: This free program will bring PRACTICAL INFORMATION, HELP and HOPE to anyone who cares about an alcoholic or addict, and to anyone who wants to learn more about the intervention process. We’d like to ask your help to inform your readers of this unique opportunity to learn how “Love First” can help addicts and alcoholics find recovery.
BOOK SIGNING: Books by Jeff and Debra will be available for purchase and to have signed by the authors.
CONTACT INFORMATION: The Education Series is organized by Dawn Farm, a non-profit community of programs providing addiction services. For information, your readers can contact Dawn Farm at 734/485-8725 or info@dawnfarm.org, or see the web site at http://www.dawnfarm.org.
CE: Intervention and each program in the Education Series provides 1.5 free CE hours.
Contact Matt Statman at 734/669-8265 or mstatman@dawnfarm.org, or see their web site at http://www.dawnfarm.org for more information.
Dingell, State Lawmakers address action on Stem Cells
August 7, 2008 by Steve Pierce / YpsiNews.com
Filed under Announcements, Video
(August 7, 2008) Dearborn, MI – Federal and State lawmakers hoping to see more action and fewer roadblocks to stem cell research in Michigan held a legislative briefing at the Ann Arbor District Library at 7pm on August 7. U.S. Representative John D. Dingell (D-MI15) along with State Representatives Rebekah Warren (D-Ann Arbor), Pam Byrnes (D-Chelsea) and Alma Wheeler Smith (D-Salem Twp.) joined the Director of the University of Michigan’s Center for Stem Cell Biology, Dr. Sean Morrison, to discuss the restrictions scientists currently face and what is happening at the state and federal levels to expand this vital research.
All the elected officials are supporters of the ballot initiative that would lift some restrictions on stem cell research in Michigan. In 2005, the Houston Chronicle described Michigan as one of five states with the most severe laws regarding stem cell research and last year The Toledo Blade referred to Michigan as “backward” because of its restrictive rules.
Source: Congressman John D. Dingell’s office
Materials Unlimited to raise money for Best Friends Animal Society
July 18, 2008 by Steve Pierce / YpsiNews.com
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(July 18, 2008) Materials Unlimited in downtown Ypsilanti is having their annual 20% off sale through the month of August. This year they have added a twist.
They will donate 3% of all sales to the Best Friends Animal Society, the nation’s largest no-kill animal sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.
The sale runs from August 2nd to 27th.
Materials Unlimited
2 West Michigan Ypsilanti, MI 48197
(800) 299-9462
Free Pops concert in Riverside Park this Saturday, May 24th 2pm
May 20, 2008 by Steve Pierce / YpsiNews.com
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(May 20, 2008) The Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission and Target Corporation present Ypsi Pops: A Tribute to the Americas, a free concert by the Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, May 24th at 2:00 pm. The concert will be held at Ypsilanti’s Riverside Park Pavilion with parking available in the Depot Town parking lots. This will be the YSO’s first ever outdoor concert at Riverside Park. Depot Town businesses will be offering food and beverages for sale during the event. Visitors are encouraged to bring blankets or lawn chairs for seating. In case of rain, the concert will be rescheduled for Sunday, May 25th at 2:00 pm.
The Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 9th season, under the baton of founding Music Director Adam C. Riccinto. The YSO is primarily a volunteer adult orchestra comprised of musicians from Ypsilanti and the surrounding communities. The YSO performs four regular season concerts from September through April, generally at Towsley Auditorium on the campus of WCC.
For more information, call 971-6355 ext. 203, or visit www.ypsilantisymphony.org.
YpsiNews produces Water Street video
May 5, 2008 by Steve Pierce / YpsiNews.com
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(May 5, 2008) We put together this video as our contribution to help promote Water Street at this weeks 2008 Detroit Brownfield Conference. Enjoy!
Water Street, Ypsilanti Michigan from YpsiNews.com.
Water Street is a city owned 38 acre property in Downtown Ypsilanti Michigan that is available for redevelopment. With 1,500ft of frontage on Michigan Ave./US 12 and over one-half mile of frontage on the Huron River, the site is perfect for mixed use, sports, retail, hotel, residential, and office space. To learn more about this opportunity, please visit the City of Ypsilanti website at CityofYpsilanti.com.