Award winning author, speaker, and public relations consultant Patrice Dickey is the featured guest at Skyland Trail’s upcoming Community Education Series event Sept. 4.

Dickey’s book, Back to the Garden: Getting from Shadow to Joy
has won five inspirational and spiritual awards from Writer’s Digest, the IPPY’s and Best books. Since 1999, Dickey has led her class, “Get the Life You Love” at Emory University’s Center for Lifelong Learning, empowering many of her students to lead happier, more fulfilling lives. Additionally, she runs her own PR consulting firm, and is even a registered yoga teacher. Balance truly is everything for Patrice Dickey. If you would like to attend Patrice Dickey’s seminar, RSVP to
communityeducationseries@skylandtrail.org or 678-686-5901.

Skyland Trail’s Community Education Series offers quarterly interactive mental health programs open to the general public, held free of charge at the Dorothy C. Fuqua Center at Skyland Trail—located at the corner of North Druid Hills Road and Buford Highway in Atlanta. Through this community outreach, Skyland Trail will increase the awareness and understanding of mental illness, as well as reduce the stigma often associated with it. Please visit our website to view upcoming educational events: http://www.skylandtrail.org/education_series.html

Skyland Trail has been providing state-of-the-art mental health services to adults with severe mental illness since 1989. Through a full continuum of community-based programs delivered across three campus-like settings, Skyland Trail strives to help its clients reintegrate into the community and empower them to live with dignity and independence. In partnership with families, health care providers and the community, it is Skyland Trail’s mission to deliver excellence in mental health treatment, education and research.

www.skylandtrail.org