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2024 Speakers
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Brian Cuban is an attorney, author, and mental health awareness and recovery advocate. He is the author of the best-selling memoir The Addicted Lawyer, Tales of The Bar, and Booze Blow & Redemption. His new novel, The Body Brokers, will take on the fentanyl epidemic and is set for release in December 2024.
He has spoken at law firms, conferences, non-profit events, colleges and universities across the United States and in Canada. He also writes extensively on these subjects. His columns have appeared on CNN.com, Foxnews.com, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and in online and print newspapers around the world.
Brian Cuban
Attorney & Author
Heather Palacios
Founder of Wondherful
Heather is married to Raul Palacios and together in South Florida, they are raising two boys and serving on staff at Church by the Glades. Heather is a graduate of Judson University with a degree in Business Management. Heather is the founder of Wondherful, Inc., an organization with a simple mission: one more suicide is one too many. Her mission is being accomplished through:
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an eclectic speaking circuit: corporations, prisons, law enforcement committees, churches, schools, halfway houses, psychiatric hospitals, colleges, charity events
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the dissemination of free Life Boxes to anyone, anywhere, going through anything, so they won’t give up.
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an educational and encouraging online presence through social media and website
Heather is a multiple suicide-attempt survivor who believes if you wake up breathing, that's your proof to keep going.
Social Media:
Website: Wondherful.com
Instagram/Twitter/Snapchat: @Wondherful
Facebook: /Wondherful
Youtube: /Wondherful
LinkedIn: /Wondherful
2024 Rockstar Of The Year
Recovery Rockstar of the Year
This is a person living a life in recovery who goes above and beyond on a regular basis to encourage and empower others to do the same.
Recovery Peer Rockstar of the Year
This is a person with lived experience who now holds the credential of CAPRC I or II, CPSP or CHW/CRS and either works or volunteers in a peer capacity to help remove barriers that hinder people from seeking treatment and to support others on their recovery journey.
Recovery Professional Rockstar of the Year
This is a person who is employed in the counseling, legal, social work or nursing fields OR as a physician, psychiatrist or psychologist who has developed or improved programs centered around mental health and/or substance use, has an exceptional approach to treating patients that could serve as a model for others or in a professional capacity has been a loud voice for ending the stigma associated with mental health and substance use.
Recovery Ally Rockstar of the Year
This is a person who does not have personal lived experience but is passionately devoted to being an advocate and ally for those who have a substance use disorder, are in recovery and/or have lived experience, along with their families, through vocation or volunteering
2024 Vendors
Yellow Tent Vendors
Trashy T'z by Tracy
SafeHaven Commodities
Sober Gang/ Wild Unicorn Designs
JCAP Knits
Cricket's Custom Creations
Cripe's Crafts
Gracefully Gourmet (a social enterprise of Place of Grace)
Bead Still & Know Co.
Erika's Creative Soul
Food Vendors
2024
SPONSORS
Stage Sponsor:
Allen County Sheriff's
Department JCAP
CleanSlate Outpatient Addiction Medicine
Fellowship Missions
Bay Mental Health LLC
Imagine More, LLC
The Refuge
Recovery Cafe Fort Wayne
Ohio Recovery Center
Jenny Westropp &
Rick Poinsatte
FW22
SourceOne Insurance
Groups Recover Together
AWRC Crisis Services
Maple Heights Behavioral Health
Pathway Community Church
Anthony Medical Associates, PC
Pro Wake Watersports
The Grove
Farrington Specialty Centers
A Better Life - Brianna's Hope
Peggy F. Murphy Community Grief Center
Hoagburg Orthodontics
The Rescue Mission
The Bustos/Ford Family
Thrivent Financial - Willie Smith
The Papers Incorporated
Special Thanks
Kids Area & Resource Table/Sponsor Check-In Tent Sponsor:
