Ashley Rhodes-Courter, author of the New York Times best-seller, Three Little Words: A Memoir, will be the keynote speaker for a half-day workshop for mental health professionals and foster care workers/agencies and a dinner open to the public. Both events will address “the forgotten child” and the need to improve the children’s mental health system. The dinner is being presented by the Mental Health Association of Erie County, Inc. (MHA) and the workshop is jointly presented by the MHA and Baker Victory Services. The workshop and dinner will be held on Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, at Two Fountain Plaza in Buffalo. 

In response to recent news reports about the detection of prescription drugs in drinking water, Sisters of Charity Hospital, St. Joseph Campus, in conjunction with Catholic Health Go Green, DEA, and Erie County, is hosting a Drive-through Community Pharmaceutical Drop-Off program for unused household medications on Saturday, April 27, 2010 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

For the first time in American history on April 22, 2013, people in 200 cities and 45 states will join and will walk together in solidarity to raise awareness of child abuse and crimes against children at the inaugural Million March Against Child Abuse. Buffalo will be one of the participating cities.  Child advocate groups, churches, parents, teachers and many other concerned citizens from across Western New York (WNY) will take part in this national event and will converge on Lafayette Square in Downtown Buffalo and March to Niagara Square loudly voicing their collective outrage against child abuse along their route.