Illinois Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Call for Papers:

The Jay G. Hirsch Memorial Award

Open to medical students, general psychiatry residents, child psychiatry fellows, and former fellows and residents who have graduated within the last two years. Papers will be judged on originality, relevance to the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, type of paper, and quality of writing and manuscript preparation. For Information for Authors instructions, please contact Jean Stiman @ tjstiman@sbcglobal.net.

The Jay G. Hirsch Memorial Award was established to honor the late Jay Hirsch, M.D., a much beloved child psychiatrist, clinician, and educator who had a profound impact on child psychiatry in Illinois.

The winning paper will be presented at the

March 18, 2009 meeting of the

Illinois Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Deadline for Submission of Manuscripts is: February13, 2008

Submit manuscripts electronically to: Jean Stiman at

tjstiman@sbcglobal.net

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You are Invited!

ICMHP Community Planning Assembly

Northern Illinois Assembly - November 13, DeKalb

On March 4, 2008, The Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership (ICMHP) hosted a statewide Assembly in Springfield. The assembly provided an opportunity for partners in children's mental health from across the state to network, hear from ICMHP grantees about their initiatives, and meet as regional groups to discuss their children's mental health system. The afternoon regional break-out session was designed in response to an expressed need from communities to participate in a discussion with other community members about their children's mental health system and what strengths, needs, and areas for collaboration currently exist. Unfortunately, the weather caused us to cancel that portion of the afternoon; however the evaluations indicated that there was an interest in still having a regional discussion.

Because of this interest, the Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership would like to invite you to attend a Community Planning Assembly. There will be three assemblies, one in northern Illinois, central Illinois, and southern Illinois. The focus of the day will be on building children’s mental health community partnerships. Each Assembly will include a panel of regional leaders in children’s mental health, including representatives from schools, Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health Regional Offices, early childhood, juvenile justice, and families. The panelists will focus on their experience with cross-system collaboration. We will incorporate information about ICMHP and provide a statewide context. There will also be an interactive session with opportunities to discuss building community partnerships to enhance collaboration within the children’s mental health system in your area.

Registration Fee $20. Family members are encouraged to attend. The registration fee will be waived for family members. Lunch will be provided.

Ashleigh Kirk, Project Assistant - Illinois Children's Mental Health PartnershipIllinois Childhood Trauma Coalition - 208 S. LaSalle St., Suite 1490 - Chicago, IL 60614

P: 312-516-5567 - F: 312-456-0088 - akirk@voices4kids.org

Promoting good mental health for everyone in Illinois.
Join us at http://www.mentalhealthillinois.org

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Children's Brain Research

Children's Brain Research Foundation (CBRF) is committed to making a positive difference in the lives of children and adolescents who have problems with brain development and function. Dedicated to giving these children a chance to reach their fullest potential, CBRF's intent is to take new directions in children's brain research by supporting promising children's brain research and investigators, educating healthcare professionals and promoting public education. (www.childbrf.org)

For nearly a century, the Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) has been a leading force in providing a broad range of innovative mental health services to children, adolescents and their families, as well as rich grounds for research in prevention and intervention, and clinical experiences for trainees in the fields of child psychiatry and child psychology. IJR, established in 1909 and transferred to University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990, was the first child guidance clinic and the second organized psychology training program in the nation. It was also one of the first sites for training child psychiatrists.
( www.psych.uic.edu/institutes/ijr.htm)