love, hope and healing mother's day luncheon features top autism experts

1

Click here to load reader

Upload: d-plump-consulting

Post on 30-May-2018

216 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: Love, Hope and Healing Mother's Day Luncheon Features Top Autism Experts

8/14/2019 Love, Hope and Healing Mother's Day Luncheon Features Top Autism Experts

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/love-hope-and-healing-mothers-day-luncheon-features-top-autism-experts 1/1

 

MEDIA CONTACT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS

Daphne Plump April 20, 200Email: [email protected]

TWO LEADING AUTISM EXPERTS GIVE ORANGE COUNTY FAMILIESLOVE, HOPE AND HEALING THIS MOTHER’S DAY

Newport Coast, CA, May 04, 2009 – Autism Care and Treatment (ACT Today!), a nonprofit organization thaprovides support to underprivileged children with autism, will host Love, Hope and Healing, A Mother’s Da

Luncheon held at The Resort at Pelican Hill on May 4th, in Newport Coast.

The ACT Today! fundraiser luncheon features Honorary Guest Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh, a world renowneautism researcher and psychologist, who has recently been noted for her award-winning documentar"RECOVERED: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back". Fellow autism expert and biomedicaclinician, Dr. Jeffrey Bradstreet is the Keynote Speaker.

"The gift of hope is the best gift a mother can receive. All the proceeds will go to grants for autistic children syou'll be giving hope to other mothers who need our support, " says ACT Today!'s Executive Director, NancAlspaugh-Jackson.

Tickets for the Love, Hope and Healing, A Mother's Day Luncheon, which begins with a champagne terracreception with the speakers at 11:00am, are $125 and can be purchased online at http://www.act-today.orgEach attendee will receive Gift Bags valued at over $500.

The Love, Hope and Healing, A Mother's Day Luncheon will include a silent auction with the following itemmade available: vacation and leisure items, beauty and health treatment, exquisite jewelry, and hyperbarioxygen therapy and consultation with Dr. Bradstreet.Sponsors to date include David and Sandy Stone anFamily, Newport / Naples Rib Companies, Oxy Health, and Reaction Audio Visual.

ABOUT DOREEN GRANPEESHEH, PhD, BCBA: Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh is the Founder and Executive Director of theCenter for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) and the Founder and President of the Board of Autism Care and Treatment. Dr.Granpeesheh is licensed in California, Texas and Arizona. She is a member of the Defeat Autism Now! Executive Council, on theScientific Advisory Board of the US Autism and Asperger's Association and is first Vice Chair of the National Board of Directors of the

  Autism Society of America. Dr. Granpeesheh is a member of the Autism Human Rights and Discrimination Initiative SteeringCommittee and on the Oversight Committee of the Department of Developmental Disabilities for the State of Arizona.

ABOUT JEFFREY BRADSTREET, MD, MD (H), FAAFP: Dr. Jeffrey Bradstreet is the Founder and Director of ClinicalPrograms of the International Child Development Resource Center (ICDRC). He is the author of numerous studies concerning thebiomedical aspects of autism and recently has finished a landmark study of critical biomarkers of oxidation and inflammation in autismspectrum disorders. His son, Matthew, is recovering from autism with the combined help of biomedical and behavioral interventions.Dr. Bradstreet has offices in Florida, Arizona and will soon open an Orange County office in 2009.

ABOUT AUTISM CARE AND TREATMENT (ACT Today!):   ACT Today! is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whosemission is to increase access to effective autism treatments. Since July of 2008, ACT Today! has given a total of approximately $200,000 in grants families seeking assistance. Grants range from behavioral therapy, bio-medical treatments and testing, safety equipment, school and camp programand social skills groups. For more information about ACT Today!, visit http://www.act-today.org.