Alternatives Conference 2017
Cookie Gant and Bill Compton - LGBT Leadership Award
Nomination Form
Alternatives
The Alternatives Conference offers life-changing opportunities to those in the mental health peer-recovery community. It helps mental health consumer/survivors make valuable connections, develop leadership skills, provide and receive peer support, and share expertise and resources. We honor those who have paved the way, provided leadership in promoting recovery, and kept the Alternatives Conference alive for three decades. We welcome emerging leaders and those who are new to the peer community to this conference. This year, our theme is Building Healing Communities Together. We can’t do it alone; together we can build healing communities for everyone.
Cookie Gant and Bill Compton LGBT Leadership Award
In honoring contributing members of our community, Alternatives has honored those who excel in certain fields. The Cookie Gant and Bill Compton LGBT Leadership Awardis rooted in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning(LGBT) participants caucusing atAlternatives conferences since 1985. From secret to official, people proclaimed theirplace of competenceand prominence in the mental health consumer/survivor community. The award recognizes leadership in a journey of comingout to make it safe tobe proud and diverse. It was first given at Alternatives 2007 in St. Louis, inmemory of Bill Compton ofCalifornia and Cookie Gant of Michigan, who led by example when it wasn’t safeto be “out.”
Selection Process
The Alternatives Diversity Committee will receive all nomination forms by July 21, 2017, and will select the awardees based on a thorough review of the nominations.
This year we are sending the nomination form to a wider audience to gather nominations from across the country to ensure those unsung leaders are considered.
If you are aware of someone that fits the criteria for this award please complete the following nomination form and return to by July 21, 2017.
Cookie Gant and Bill Compton - LGBT Leadership Award
Nomination Form
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