NOTE: Due to Fourth Holiday, July meeting has been moved to WEDNESDAY, JULY 11!
Our guest speaker for the July 11 meeting will be Julie Zimmerman, Staff Psychologist in the North Carolina
Prison system for the last 14 years. She will share her experiences working within the penal system.
A Licensed
Psychological Associate, Julie earned her MA in Clinical Psychology from
Appalachian, completing her internship at a prison in 2003/2004. For the
first eleven years of her career, she worked in a close custody (maximum
security) prison in a program for inmates with severe mental illness at
Foothills Correctional Institution and then Alexander CI.
For the last
three years Julie has worked in a processing center (Piedmont CI) and will
explain how processing works, the typical type of person that comes into
prison, and what, if anything, is usually wrong with them.
Julie will also
talk to us about how the mental health system in prison works, and what
kinds of services are available. She will discuss the residential mental
health program she worked in, sharing with us interesting cases (mainly people
with schizophrenia) focusing on the cases that involved crimes in which
prisoners harmed others as a result of their mental illness and the reasons
behind their behavior.
As mentioned
above, our July Upstate SC SinC meeting will take place the second Wednesday of
the month, July 11, at The Runway Café, 21 Airport Rd, Greenville, SC. Be
there at 6:15 p.m. to meet the Julie and enjoy chapter fellowship. Supper
should be served at 6:30. Julie’s talk will begin after new and old business at
about 7 p.m. Both dinner and the meeting are open to the public.
In order for the
Runway Café to speed service, dinner orders must be emailed by noon the day of
the meeting. If you can't dine with us, we would still like to know you plan to
attend so we can be sure you have a seat. If possible, please join us for
dinner as our dinner orders help to ensure we can book our meeting room for
free.
The
special menu for our group, is on the Advance Order Menu tab at right. Make your selection and e e-mail your order to Ellis Vidler at ellisvidler1@gmail.com.
If you place an
order and do not attend or fail to cancel by noon, you will be charged for the
meal. And like always, we'll enjoy it. Happy Fourth of July!
