One out of every four families is touched by mental illness. The challenges are 

  daunting.  P’tach Libeynu (Open Our Hearts) is working to educate people about  

  mental illness, to provide needed support to families and their loved ones with

  mental illness and to further this mission by helping Jewish synagogues and 

  agencies to make mental illness a recognized part of tikkun olam.

P’tach Libeynu Monthly Social-Sharing

For Family Members of Adults with Mental Illness

Fourth Monday of the Month

Next Meeting: Monday, August 23, 7 pm

Temple Isaiah, 3800 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette*

Info/RSVP: 925-945-7272 or karen@openourhearts.net

   *Drive across the upper parking lot and go down the hill to the first building on the right.

  Meeting room is the Beit K’nesset, 2nd floor.

Community Events of Interest

NAMI Contra Costa Presents

Writing Your Way Out of Darkness

      Peggy Kennedy, author of “Approaching Neverland,” her memoir of the

challenges of having a mother with bipolar disorder, is the presenter.

Thursday, August 19, 7 pm

  John Muir Medical Center Concord Campus

2540 East St., Concord

Info.: Lori Teller, loriateller@gmail.com

  P’tach Libeynu is sponsored by Congregations B’nai Tikvah and B’nai Shalom of Walnut Creek and Beth Chaim of Danville; Temple Isaiah of Lafayette, Contra Costa JCC, Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay, Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the East Bay and the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center.