Safe Harbor Honors Dr. Doris Rapp October 7, 2004

Safe Harbor takes great pride in presenting our 2004 Lighthouse Award to legendary allergist Dr. Doris Rapp at 7:30 PM on Thursday, October 7, at our Fourth Annual Awards Benefit at the Glendale Hilton in the Los Angeles area. Dr. Rapp is the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller Is This Your Child? and the 2004 release Our Toxic World. She rose to prominence when her appearances on Donahue, Oprah, Larry King Live, and other shows raised national awareness that hidden childhood allergies often contribute to behavioral problems.

Safe Harbor's Lighthouse Award is presented to men and women who make outstanding contributions to humanity by forwarding truly safe and effective mental health treatments.

Helping us honor Dr. Rapp will be Dr. Laura Schlessinger, America's most popular radio therapist and author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including her current blockbusters The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands and Woman Power.

Los Angeles-based Safe Harbor, the nation's leading nonprofit for nondrug mental health education, is perhaps best known for their work sponsoring the world's largest web site on this topic at http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/. Safe Harbor emphasizes the role of underlying physical causes in mental disorders, such as medical problems, allergies, toxic conditions, and nutritional imbalances.

"Dr. Rapp has impacted a generation of children through her books, TV appearances, and clinical practice," said Dan Stradford, Safe Harbor's president. "She was the first to video children before and after being exposed to allergens such as foods and airborne substances, showing astonishing negative behavioral changes that some kids experience. After one Donahue show on which these videos appeared, she received 140,000 letters. She has saved countless children from being unnecessarily placed on psychotropic medication."

Also honored at the Safe Harbor Benefit will be nutritional psychiatrist Melvyn Werbach, M.D., internationally-recognized author and editor of seven texts, including such classic works as Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness and Nutritional Influences on Illness.

Music will be performed by rock gospel queen Robbie Brown and hors d'ouevres will be served.

Tickets are $95 in advance and $125 at the door. Some seating at Dr. Rapp's or Dr. Laura's table is still available at $500 per seat. Sponsors please call (323) 257-7338 or contact [email protected].

Note: This event will not be videotaped so don't miss the one chance to see it!

Seating is limited and there is a lot of buzz about this event so register early!! For ticket information or to register, contact Safe Harbor at (323) 257-7338, or http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/. Deadline for online registration is October 4, 2004,
at 12:00 a.m. Midnight. All purchases after that must be by phone - (323) 257-7338 up to noon the day of the event - or at the door.