Brighter Days Conference
A culmination of work to support AFSP's Project 2025, aiming to reduce suicide by 20% in healthcare, education, and first responders.
Date and time
Location
Florence Center
3300 West Radio Drive Florence, SC 29501Refund Policy
Agenda
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Opening Remarks and Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Breakout Sessions 1
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Breakout Sessions 2
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Keynote Session - Dr. Daniel Amen
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
VIP Executive Session (invite only)
About this event
- 6 hours
With generous funding from the Dr’s Bruce and Lee Foundation, the Nemec-Abbott Foundation, Marion Health Foundation, and The Dailey Family, The Jonathan Foundation in collaboration with Pee Dee Department of Health and Environmental Control and Pee Dee Mental Health is pleased to offer the 1st Annual Brighter Days Conference. The conference is being provided as a free community service as the culmination of our work on three projects in support of American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s (AK+FSP) Project 2025 to reduce suicide by 20% by 2025.
The conference will provide no cost education and training for the target audiences of:
- Healthcare: Counseling/Primary Care/Emergency Departments
- Education: Public and Church-based Schools
- First Responders: Law Enforcement, EMS, and Mobile Crisis Units
Our keynote speaker will be Dr Daniel Amen, world-renowned founder of the Amen Clinic, BrainMD, and Amen University. Dr Amen’s mission is to end mental illness by creating a revolution in brain health. Amen Clinics has the world’s largest database of brain scans for psychiatry totaling more than 250,000 SPECT scants on patients from 155 countries. His keynote session will discuss how neuroscience is transforming psychiatry and helping patients prevent or reverse mental health disorders. The conference highlight will be a private VIP Executive Session for health care executives, legislators, and key members of the mental health community to ask questions and dialogue with Dr Amen about the mental health developments in our community including the new MUSC/McLeod collaborative on a new Behavioral Health Hospital and the PDMH transitions care grant.