PEORIA, IL -- From a news release:
The Peoria ACLU Chapter’s Annual Meeting is April 23, 2015
The Peoria ACLU Chapter’s annual meeting is scheduled for Thursday, April 23, 2015 at the IVY Club on 1502 N. Galena Road, Peoria Heights.
The event features Ms. Kate Mahoney, MSW, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker who has worked in the addiction prevention and treatment field for the past 30 years. She will speak on Addiction and Civil Liberties.
She is the Executive Director of PEER Services, a community-based substance abuse prevention and treatment agency serving the northern suburbs of Chicago. PEER Services has been providing specialized treatment services for opioid dependent individuals since 1975.
She serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence, is a past president the Illinois Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Association and has served as the president of the Illinois Association for Medication Assisted Addiction Treatment since 2008.
She is dedicated to combating the stigma that is often associated with drug dependence. This stigma interferes with individuals and families accessing treatment and leads to the loss of civil liberties though unnecessary incarceration, interfering with individuals being able to gain and maintain employment, access housing, access public benefits and to be included as valuable members of the community.
The event begins with a social hour at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. with the program and speaker, presentation of awards and election of officers to follow.
Reservations for the dinner are due by April 16. An invitation can be downloaded from the chapter’s website, at http://aclupeoria.org.
The public is invited, and welcome to attend the program free of charge. Media coverage is also welcome.
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