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18th
Annual Jim Dent Dinner Tuesday Oct 18, 2011, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Celebrating Health and Humor
A benefit for Kanawha Pastoral Counseling Center
and the KPCC Client Sponsorship Fund
Each year KPCC helps over 1000 individuals, couples, and
families
Over half of our clients have a great need help
and no resources for counseling
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2011 Dent Dinner features humorist Jeanne Robertson
Jeanne Robertson specializes in hilarious humor based
on her life experiences. Speaking to thousands of people annually, she
utilizes her positively funny style to illustrate that a sense of humor is
much more than a laughing matter. It is a strategy for success.
Other speakers might be as witty as Jeanne. Some might
even be as tall. (Barefooted with her hair "mashed" down, she's 6'2" in her
size 11B stocking feet.) But nowhere will you find a speaker so adept at
turning personal experiences into funny material that does more than elicit
laughter. This Miss Congeniality winner in the Miss America Pageant,
“Yearrrrrrrrrrrs ago,” quoting Jeanne, uses her down-home Southern drawl to
leave her audiences laughing . . . and thinking about her message.
You may have seen this Hall of Fame speaker being interviewed by CBS
correspondent Morley Safer on "60 Minutes" . . . or watched one of the six
humor DVDs she has produced in the last eleven years . . . or heard her
daily on Sirius/XM Radio’s Family Comedy Channels . . . or seen her
Youtube clips that have had millions of
hits. But only if you've seen Jeanne in person at one of the thousands of
speeches she has given over the past 45 years can you really appreciate why
she stands at the top of her profession.
The Jim Dent Dinner
is KPCC's main fund
raising event of
the year Proceeds from the Dent Dinner fund our client
assistance
program.
KPCC serves over 1000
clients a year. More than half of our clients have no health insurance. We offer more than $200,000 in
fee subsidies each year.
Individual Tickets
are $75 each. 50% of the cost of each ticket
is a charitable donation to
the work of the Center.
Corporate Sponsorships are also encouraged at the $400, $750, and $1500 level.
Kanawha Pastoral Counseling a place for healing and hope
...
for everyone.
Kanawha Pastoral Counseling Center celebrates 40 years of alternative care for Charleston
community’s mental health needs
(From the Charleston Gazette,
2000 - updated for 2010)
Retired Charleston physician Marshall Carper remembers when there were
few options for people who needed counseling. "Forty years ago here, you could see a
psychiatrist, but they didn’t provide counseling, just medication," said Dr.
Carper. "Or you could talk to your minister, but many times, the minister felt
ill-prepared for some issues. Clergy wanted someplace where they could refer." And
the idea for an alternative was born.
Kanawha Pastoral Counseling Center was founded as a nonprofit
organization in 1970 by a dedicated group of clergy and lay people from different
churches. "We saw a gap in services and an opportunity to help our community in
need,"said Jeanne Skaggs, another founding board member, at a meeting earlier
this month to reminisce about the beginning days of the center.
Their vision of an alternative to conventional care continues today.
"We continue to help people who would otherwise fall through the cracks,"
according to Sky Kershner, Executive Director of KPCC, who has been with the Center
for the past ten years. "Some cracks are economic, and others tend to do with ways
regular counseling does not include elements that are extremely important to people, like
their faith."
"Our mission is twofold," said Kershner, who is an ordained
United Methodist minister and holds both a Doctorate of Ministry degree and a
Master’s degree in Social Work. "First, we provide faith-based, confidential
counseling at an affordable cost. Contributions help subsidize the cost for clients who
can’t afford counseling otherwise."
"Secondly, we provide training opportunities for clergy and other
professionals in the art and science of pastoral counseling." Kershner continued,
"Our counselors are trained to help clients think in terms of the bigger picture of
life, and what meaning they find in life." Many of Kanawha Pastoral Counseling
Center’s staff are ordained or avowed and represent a broad spectrum of churches,
congregations and theological views.
Kanawha Pastoral Counseling Center will honor some of the founding board members in
recognition of the
40th anniversary at their annual benefit, the Jim Dent Memorial Dinner
on October 19th,
2010. The event saluting the late Gazette humorist.
"It’s fitting that Jim Dent be remembered with a night of laughter,"
says Kershner. Tickets are available by calling Kanawha Pastoral Counseling
Center at 346-9689.
more than just a quiet presencefor over 35 years and an accredited
samaritan counseling center
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