Fellowship Place

Mary A. Guerrera, Executive Director of the Fellowship Place ( www.fellowshipplace.org ), stopped by to talk to Teresa about their 9th annual Albert J. Solnit Memorial Lecture featuring Dr. Mark Vonnegut, a pediatrician, memoirist, and son of acclaimed Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fellowship Place is a full-service Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center, providing a broad range of supportive housing, vocational & educational services, as well as social activities, counseling, and case management services for adults with chronic mental illness.

The majority of the people served by Fellowship Place suffer from schizophrenia, major depression, or bipolar disorder, and 96% of them live below the federal poverty level and approximately half of them have been homeless at least once in their lives.

Fellowship Place ( www.fellowshipplace.org ) offers understanding, acceptance, and a safe place where those with chronic mental illness can ask for and receive help overcoming the challenges of living with their illness.  They serve over 600 Connecticut residents annually and they are the only agency of it’s kind in the Greater New Haven area supporting the severely mentally ill population 365-days a year.

On March 6 ^th, at their 441 Elm Street campus location, Dr. Mark Vonnegut, who has bipolar disorder, will be the featured guest speaker at the 9 ^th annual Dr. Albert J. Solnit Memorial Lecture.  He has written two books on his own personal struggles with mental illness, he will talk with the audience about living with bipolar disorder, managing a successful medical practice and having a famous last name.

For all the details on this informative event, please visit www.fellowshipplace.org .