Join us for a day of learning and growth at our 24th Annual Empowering Community Wellness Symposium on May 7th!About this Event
Welcome to the 24th Annual Empowering Community Wellness Symposium!
Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Location: Bally's Dover Casino Resort
Join us for a day of exploring our identities! This full-day, in-person symposium will teach you how to develop your own identity and how to respect those with differing identities. Additionally, there will be opportunities to meet and network with other mental health professionals, organizations, and community members.
Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to empower yourself and your community!
**Photos will be taken at this event. By attending this event, you grant The Mental Health Association in Delaware permission to publish or display images of you. The images may be used in archival or promotional materials. Please talk to a MHA team member if you have questions or concerns.
Thank you, sponsors!
Core Sponsor ($5,000)
Authenticity Sponsor ($2,000)
Role Model Sponsor ($1,000)
Persona Sponsor ($750)
Character Sponsor ($500)
Schedule of the Day
🕑: 08:00 AM - 08:45 AM
Registration/Breakfast/Visit Exhibitors
🕑: 08:45 AM - 09:00 AM
Opening Remarks
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
Story: Lived Experience
Info: Golda Duncan, Peer Services Educator II at The Mental Health Association in Delaware, will share her story.
🕑: 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Keynote Address: "Identity Development Over a Lifetime"
Host: Dr. Ruth Robinson-Nelson
Info: "Identity Development Over a Lifetime: Theories, Research and Therapeutic Significance"
🕑: 10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
Break/Visit Exhibitors
🕑: 10:35 AM - 11:35 AM
Panel: Advocacy
Info: Leading advocates for the LGBTQ+, disability, and cancer survivor communities will share valuable insights on how individuals in these groups perceive themselves and what everyone should understand about their experiences.
🕑: 11:35 AM - 12:20 PM
Lunch/MHA's 2024-25 Development Committee Awards
🕑: 12:20 PM - 01:20 PM
Panel: Resilience
Info: Representatives of the recovery, former incarceration, neurodivergent, and mental illness communities will present how they allow their lived experiences or diagnoses define them.
🕑: 01:20 PM - 01:45 PM
Break/Networking Activity
🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:45 PM
Panel: Cultural Identity
Info: Delaware is a small state, yet the experiences of others, particularly ethnic minorities, such as the Haitian and Latinx/Hispanic communities, may be vastly different from one end of the state to another. Representatives of these communities in Northern and Southern Delaware will discuss their experiences.
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:00 PM
A Closer Look at the Nanticoke Indian Tribe
Info: Melissa Anderson & Kyle Harmon will share what it means to be Native American.
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Identity Web Activity
Info: Jennifer Clement, owner and lead strategist of Educere Institute, will lead us in a closing activity.
🕑: 03:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Wrap Up & Goodbye
Event Venue
Bally's Dover Casino Resort, 1131 North Dupont Highway, Dover, United States
USD 25.00
