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Moving Beyond Reaction to Reason: Mental Health and School Safety Post-Sandy Hook

Health freedom advocate and Connecticut parent Sheila Matthews will speak this month at the Harry Bennett branch of The Ferguson Library on school safety and youth mental health reforms in response to the Newtown shootings, and how these changes could affect the rights of parents and students. 

Co-founder of the nationally-recognized non-profit Ablechild.org: Parents for Label & Drug Free Education (www.ablechild.org), Sheila Matthews regularly testifies on the state and Federal levels in defense of psychiatric health freedom and has been featured in Time (9/10/01) and interviewed on CNN, Fox, as well as numerous radio stations throughout the country.

This free event is sponsored by the Green Party of Connecticut (www.ctgreenparty.org).

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AbleChild.org (501c3), was incorporated in New York in 2003 and has no political or religious affiliations. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the Green Party of Connecticut.

This event is not sponsored or conducted by the Ferguson Library. 

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When:  1:30-3:30 pm, Saturday, March 29, 2014 

Where:  Auditorium, The Ferguson Library-Harry Bennett Branch, 115 Vine Road, Stamford, CT 06905

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