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Guest Speaker Series
Join us on the 1st Thursday of the month at 6:30pm for our NAMI Boston Guest Speaker Series.
In collaboration with NAMI Boston, the MBRLC hosts guest speaker events each month via Microsoft Teams!
Our inspiring and enlightening guest speakers are people with lived and living experience who showcase their knowledge, offer mental health resources, and share their journey and experiences of healing.
The meetings are free and open to the public. All are welcome!
Learn more about the NAMI Boston Guest Speaker Series, including our past speakers at
https://namiboston.org/events/category/speaker-series
We now are using Microsoft Teams for our Guest Speaker Series!
The same meeting ID is used each month.
Join our Teams Meeting!
Meeting ID: 278 388 590 434 Passcode: Z2NY6bm2
Upcoming Guest Speakers
August 6th, 2026
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Julie Anne H. Entwistle, CPS
Julie Anne has worked in peer support and community mental health services for more than nine years, becoming a Certified Peer Specialist in 2018 and joining Vinfen as Director of Recovery Services in 2022. During this time, she has utilized her lived experience of mental health challenges to support others in their own recovery journeys and to implement peer support and recovery-oriented best practices at an organizational level. Julie Anne is passionate about elevating the voices of people with lived experience throughout the mental health treatment system, supporting career opportunities and growth for people in peer support roles, and promoting person-centered services. Outside of her work, Julie Anne loves to knit and take care of plants.
PRESENTATION:
In this talk, Julie Anne will share her recovery story with a focus on the role of employment in mental health and substance use recovery and career pathways for peer support workers. She will discuss employment opportunities for peer support workers, the value of peer support and lived experience roles at all levels of the mental health service and treatment system, and the importance of career growth opportunities within peer support work.
Meeting ID: 278 388 590 434
Passcode: Z2NY6bm2
Dial in by phone
+1 617-297-7925,,925045323#<tel:+16172977925,,925045323#
Phone conference ID:
925 045 323#
For more information email HowardDTrachtman@gmail.com
Our Guest Speaker Series uses the same
Microsoft Teams ID each month:
Join our Teams Meeting
Meeting ID: 278 388 590 434
Passcode: Z2NY6bm2
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For more information on upcoming and past speakers, please go to the NAMI Boston website.
https://namiboston.org/events/category/speaker-series/
Contact Howard Trachtman at howarddtrachtman@gmail.com for more information or to be a guest speaker.