Consumer Event Highlights Successful Mental Health Intervention

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<span>DETROIT, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 400 mental health consumers are<br />expected to attend "Empowerment Day," an event organized by consumers to<br />celebrate recovery from mental illness and advocate for improved mental health<br />services, on Friday, May 30, between 9 AM and 3 PM at The Samaritan Center at<br />5555 Conner Ave. Detroit, MI 48213.<br />    The third annual event will feature entertainment performances and<br />personal storytelling by consumers who have recovered from severe and<br />persistent mental illness and now live independently after mental health<br />intervention. Many of the consumers were once homeless.<br />    "We want to show that when consumers are supported in their long journey<br />to recovery, there is no telling what they can accomplish," said Gerald<br />Butler, chairperson of the Peer Support Empowerment Committee, which is<br />presenting the event. The Committee is a group of mental health consumers<br /></span>