Report Finds Mental Heath System Ill-prepared for Another Terrorist Attack
Reconciling Fear, Hope

UIC NEWS
Sept 10, 2003

     UIC psychiatrist Stevan Weine, director of the International Center on Human Responses to Social Catastrophes, will speak on "Reconciling Fear and Hope since Sept. 11, 2001" at a lunchtime ecumenical service at the First United Methodist Chicago Temple 77 W. Washington.

     Rev. Ralph Blackman, dean of St. James Episcopal Cathedral, will also speak at the event, held 12:45p.m. to 1:45p.m.

     The program, sponsored by the center in the psychiatry department, is the first of several planned events in partnership with Chicago's downtown places of worship and religious leaders, aimed at Loop working and business community and the general public.

     The monthly programs will explore "the public perception of urban terrorism and the crucial role of spiritual care and mental health in the face of urban catastrophes," said Weine, a specialist in trauma and post-conflict international mental health.

     For more information contact Vaughn Fayle, center associate director, at 312.355.5407, e-mail vfayle@psych.uic.edu, or visit the center's website at www.ichrsc.org.