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Show Social Workers- Mold Comfab consultant to the Colorado State Mental Health Program will participate par-ticipate in discussions based on reactions given by individuals helped by community welfare services. Reed Andrus, M.D., acting director of the M e n t a 1 Health Division, Utah State Department De-partment of Health, will talk on the "Impact of Federal Legislation Legis-lation in Mental Health Programs." Pro-grams." In addition, there will be two symposiums : the first will cover federally-sponsored anti-poverty programs and the second will deal with Utah's special services in mental health. The president of this year's conference is O. W. Farley, assistant as-sistant professor of social work at the University. Students in the school of social work will be excused from classes to attend the conference. The 41st Annual Utah State Conference on Social Welfare will be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Ramada Inn. The conference, co-sponsored by the Utah State Department of Health, will emphasize "Mental Health and the Utah Community." Communi-ty." "Developing The Links and Removing The Kinks in Community Com-munity Mental Health" will be the keynote address given by Edgar A. Perretz at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Perretz, of the National Na-tional Institute of Mental Health, urges day care centers for mental men-tal problems, largely because they do not remove the indivi dual from his family and community. com-munity. The traditional one-to-one doctor -patient relationship can be replaced by study and treatment of the whole family, neighborhood, and sphere of living. liv-ing. All social agencies could then offer synchronized services, rather than fragmentary help rendered in bits and pieces. The Association of Student Social So-cial Workers will sponsor a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. Wednes-day. Mrs. Orla Shaw, of the Salt Lake Community Mental Health Center, will speak on "A View of Community Health in Europe." On Thursday, James A. V. Galvin, M.D., psychiatric |