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Erika's Lighthouse strives to keep you informed about the various opportunities to get help, get involved, or just stay up-to-date about adolescent mental health issues. You are not alone.

Erika's Lighthouse invites you to "bring depression out of the dark" literally by wearing your ELH T-shirt wherever you go this summer!

Gilson Park to Paris. Wrigley Field to the Field of Dreams. Great America to the Great American Southwest. Where ever you be, wear your T!

Erika's Lighthouse supporters are going to great lengths to "bring depression out of the dark." And so can you!

  1. Wear your Erika's Lighthouse T-shirt when you are on vacation or at camp, back at school, or just hangin' out.
  2. Take a picture of it and send it to us at erikaslighthouse@gmail.org or Erika's Lighthouse, PO Box 616, Winnetka, IL 60093
  3. Then look for your picture on Erikaslighthouse.org!

By wearing your T-shirt, you help to spread the Erika's Lighthouse message, and help to break stigma.

Amazing How We Can Light Tomorrow with Today
Thank you for helping to...

GET DEPRESSION OUT OF THE DARK!


Naomi Ruth Cohen Foundation 2008 Mental Health Conference, Sunday, June 1, 2008

Entitled, "Women's Voices: Understanding the Mental Health Issues of Women and Girls" at Beth Emet, 1023 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL 60202. Panelists for the conference will be experts Dr. Laura Miller, Director of the Women's Mental Health Program at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, Executive Director of the Center for Contextual Change. Joining the panel will be Tracy Harris, an internationally renown flutist who suffers from schizoaffective disorder. There will be numerous discussion groups and closing remarks by Rev. Sarah Butter of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette. Click here to purchase your tickets. For more information, please call 847-869-4230 x335.


Erika's Lighthouse Presents a Benefit Performance of "Botanic Garden" - A Walk Through the Paradise of Marriage

The play, written by Todd Logan and directed by Olympia Dukakis, will be performed exclusively for Erika's Lighthouse supporters and their guests, Thursday, February 28th at The Victory Gardens Theatre, 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago. Tickets are $50 per person and include cocktails and "lite fare" at 6:00 pm prior to the 7:30 pm performance. A "Q&A" with the playwright follows. For more information, contact Toni Elipas

"Botanic Garden" is a two-character play, about a middle-aged woman Kate, preparing for her first date in three years following the death of her husband. Observing Kate's panic as she waits with dread for the doorbell to ring, Botanic Garden offers a funny and refreshingly unconventional love story.

Parking for Victory Gardens patrons is available at Children's Memorial Hospital, ($6.00) 2316 N. Lincoln and at Lincoln Park Hospital, ($5.00) 550 W. Webster Ave (just east of Lincoln Avenue).

Erika's Lighthouse is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Tickets are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. To download a reservation, click here. Send completed reservations to Toni Elipas, 136 DeWindt Road, Winnetka, IL 60093.


Talk on Depression Awareness

December 10, 2007 at 7:00 PM
Maple School in Northbrook

Maple School is implementing the Red Flags Depression Awareness Program begingin the first week in December 2007. The P.T.O. is offering a talk on Depression Awareness with Peggy Kubert, LCSW, director of Erika's Lighthouse to give parents the information which will support the efforts being done with Maple students.


Coping With Holiday Stress
FREE presentation offered by The Samaritan Counseling Center

Tuesday, December 11th at 7pm
The Samaritan Counseling Center - Christ Church offices
690 Oak Street, 3rd Floor, Winnetka

Dr. Katie Fruhauff will discuss sources of stress and ways to manage stressors during this busy and stirring season.
(PDF of flyer)

Feel free to call Katie for more information at 847.475.1805 ext. 1.


NAMI CCNS
Visions For Tomorrow Support Group

Parents of Children & Adolescents Mental Health Network

Every second Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m.
Kenilworth Union Church
211 Kenilworth Avenue, Kennilworth

Cook County North Suburban, CCNS, offers parents whose children, birth to 25 coping with all forms of brain disorder, the opportunity to network, compare resources, find out what works and doesn't, and to give and receive support.

For information call Network Facilitator Barbara Maier at 847-446-8416 or CCNS at 847-724-1460.