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Dr. Alvah Byers honored by Mental Health Assn of Pueblo

Annual Robert Hawkins Award and MHAP Mission Awards Banquet

Mental Health Assn Board & Membership      Thu, May 24, 2007, 5:30p.

Event summary:

The MHA-Pueblo’s annual Robert Hawkins Award goes this year to Dr. Alvah Byers, co-founder of Associates for Psychotherapy and Education. MHA-P ‘Mission Awards’ will also be presented to Brenda LaCombe of Pueblo Step-up and Zane Grant of CASA. —0000-00-00

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Cost: $45/person; Corporate tables available

Registration: (719) 545-2746

Event location: CSU-Pueblo’s Occhiato Ballroom

Full details:

The MHA-Pueblo’s annual Robert Hawkins Award goes this year to Dr. Alvah Byers, co-founder of Associates for Psychotherapy and Education. MHA-P ‘Mission Awards’ will also be presented to Brenda LaCombe of Pueblo Step-up and Zane Grant of CASA.

The mission of Mental Health Associations, nationally and locally, is to reduce prejudice against those with mental illnesses and to promote affordable mental health services to all. During May, Mental Health Month, MHA-Pueblo recognizes one individual who has been central to this cause within Pueblo. Like the award's namesake, Robert Hawkins, these individuals are chosen for their leadership and service to humanity in general and to those with mental illness in particular.

Dr. Alvah Byers’ reputation for leadership and service extends throughout Pueblo County and well beyond, including the medical, psychological, and biofeedback professions, where he is well known for his use of hypnosis and for achievements with biofeedback and neurofeedback in treating Attention Deficit Disorder, closed head injuries, and chronic pain.

Reaching beyond the annual Hawkins award, MHA-Pueblo has also instituted the presentation of two annual ‘Mission Awards’ to recognize additional special contributions to our Mental Health Mission. This year we present one of these honors to Brenda LaCombe whose service to underinsured and high-risk adults and children spans years at both the Pueblo Coalition for the Medically Underserved and its new incarnation as part of Pueblo Step-Up. Another Mission Award goes to Zane Grant, Executive Director of CASA, the Court Appointed Special Advocates for youth in trouble because of their behavior, a program which has seen enormous expansion of its community impact during the years of his directorship.


 

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