National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy     

Passing the Torch:
New Advocates, New Skills, New Alliances

November 14-17, 2007  
Los Angeles, California       

Passing The Torch:
New Advocates, New Skills, New Alliances

Conference begins Wednesday evening and ends at noon Saturday

More than 35 Workshops & Keynotes including

Leonard Roy Frank
Psychiatric Survivor, Author & Book Editor
Transformational Spirituality

Jim Gottstein, Ira Burnim, & Richard A. Zitrin
Truth to Power: The Zyprexa Papers

Young Activists Panel
In Our Hands: The Future of Advocacy and the Movement

Can Truong
Psychiatric Survivor & Director, Center for Education Empowerment
Journey Toward Freedom: Rights and Empowerment

And a Special Presentation of Side Effects
A Play by Margaret Lunevitz, Activist and Playwright

• Michele Magar, The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Jennifer Mathis, J.D., New Developments in Voting Rights: What Advocates Need To Know for the Next Election
• Celia Brown, United Nations Work with Diverse Populations
• Susan Stefan, J.D., Significant Developments in Mental Health Law -- 2006 -2007
• Bill Stewart, Ron Bassman & Ann Rider, Teaching College as a Guerilla Activity
• Ira Burnim, J.D., Using Olmstead To Transform Community Services
• Leslie Morrison, Updates and New Initiatives in Reducing and Eliminating Behavioral Restraint and Seclusion
• Dennis Feld, J.D., & Kim Darrow, J.D., Psychiatric Terrorism
• Tom Behrendt, J.D., Guardianship and a New Model Statute
• Leonard Roy Frank, Dorothy Dundas & Ron Bassman, Bearing Witness

AND MANY OTHERS, INCLUDING

Nancy Arvold, Bob Fleischner, Jeannie Matulis, Ty Colbert, Melinda Byrd,
Mort Cohen, Emmett Dwyer, Elyn Saks, Stacie Hiramoto, Delphine Brody, Laura Van Tosh

We invite YOU to join US in Los Angeles in November.

Please check this web site at for updates!

NARPA 2007
November 14-17, 2007
Radisson Hotel Los Angeles Westside

Register  U.S. Mail, Fax, and Email registrations MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2007.  After November 9, registrations will be taken at the door.

Hotel Information - Rooms are still available for the 2007 NARPA Rights Conference. Please call Maura Williams directly at the Radisson L.A. Westside at 310-348-4587 to make reservations and you will receive the conference rate. Other hotel blocks are sold out.   

Schedule subject to change