Title: Executive Director & Founder

Company: People Improving Peer Empowering Recovery

Location: Hauppauge, NY

HAUPPAUGE, NY, October 28, 2011, Deb J. Damone, Executive Director and Founder of People Improving Peer Empowering Recovery, has been recognized by Elite American Business Owners for dedication, achievements, and leadership in teaching advocacy and mental issues through nonprofit services.

Ms. Damone is the executive director and the founder of PIPER. The company is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, which she has navigated without benefit of an attorney’s help. She was written in the tenth addition of The Women’s book of Who’s Who in the 90s, and she works as an emergency room counselor for the Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk County. Moreover, Ms. Damone works with the local Suffolk County police in their crisis intervention training services, speaking to every class about the perspective of a peer in crisis when dealing with the police. She facilitates and is the chapter leader for DBSA of Long Island. Ms. Damone created the PIPER training institute, which has three separate training classes, The ABCs of Advocacy, Advocacy 101 and Community Living. She puts together the conferences for PIPER, and she has spoken to special interest groups. In 1999, Ms. Damone was published as a poet; she is now a published author.

PIPER, People Improving Peer Empowering Recovery, is a Long Island-based family, friends and peer organization for those persons and their loved ones suffering from the effects of mental disorders. PIPER offers several individual, peer-to-peer, family, and friends support groups for those suffering from the effects of mental disorders. All PIPER support groups are offered at no cost or obligation to those who wish to attend. PIPER, as part of being innovative, recently begun a men’s support group, in recognition of difficulties men may have in speaking in an open group setting; Ms. Damone’s is the first and only organization to offer this unique support group. PIPER also offers, in conjunction with Touro Law Center, Advocacy Training designed to give individuals an understanding of how to navigate the mental health system and move beyond it to a full life of recovery. Each class offers experts in mental health issues, sharing pertinent information to assist attendees in achieving and sustaining good mental health.

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