LOVE AFTER WAR: Saving Love, Saving Lives is a moving 57 minute documentary that introduces viewers to injured and wounded veterans and their partners who candidly share how they won the battle to restore emotional closeness and physical intimacy after surviving catastrophic combat-related injuries. The inspiring film also features insights from experts in the field of sexuality and disability.
People who return from deployment with a serious mental or physical disability experience more marital stress and divorce than their non-disabled peers.
Furthermore, failed intimate relationships contribute significantly to suicide, intimate partner violence, child abuse, substance abuse, and homelessness.
Dr. Mitchell Tepper, Executive Director, Director, Producer, and Writer, is a sexologist who has been living a full life with spinal cord injury for over 40 years. He has long been personally and professionally dedicated to ending the silence around sexuality and disabilities. Dr. Tepper has been working with wounded veterans since speaking at the Road to Recovery Conference for wounded veterans in 2006. Through spearheading the Wounded Troops and Partners: Supporting Intimate Relationships Conference in Washington DC in 2008, he was successful in getting the issue of sexual health and intimacy for wounded warriors on the national radar. He assisted the Bob Woodruff Foundation in organizing their High Impact Collaboration Conference, From Injury to Intimacy, in 2014. He has been instrumental in the implementation of couple’s retreats within the VA system and in training members of the Sexual Health and Intimacy Workgroup at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Dr. Tepper has published peer reviewed articles in medical and sexual health journals on comprehensive sexual health care for catastrophically injured warriors.
The Hilton Anatole in Dallas is an extraordinary venue & the perfect scene for the collaboration, in-depth learning, and connections made at the ACRM Annual Conference.
The space is lovely, showcasing the largest art collection of any American hotel, with works ranging from paintings and sculpture to a piece of the Berlin Wall.
Open and inviting, the Anatole is designed for artful collaboration. There’s plenty of public seating for impromptu meetings, two full-service restaurants, two counter-service cafes, a contemporary bar, shopping, spa, outdoor circuit trail, world-class gym, indoor pool and more—all onsite.
ACRM has secured incredible savings on Hilton with the negotiated rate of $250/night (and government rates as low as $164) — unheard of prices these days for a premium hotel.
As an additional bonus you may extend your stay at these fantastic ACRM-discounted rates for up to three days prior to and three days post-conference, subject to availability.
Book today at the headquarters Hilton, visit ACRM.org/venue.
ACRM Spring Meeting | ACRM Training Institute (ATI) #ACRMSpring24
DALLAS • 18 – 20 APRIL 2024
HILTON Anatole • 2201 North Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75207
*** Presenter and session information subject to change ***
ACRM Spring Meeting | ACRM Training Institute (ATI) #ACRMSpring24
HILTON Anatole • DALLAS • 18 – 20 April 2024
ACRM | 11654 Plaza America Drive, Suite 535 | Reston, VA 20190-4700
TEL: +1.703.435.5335 | FAX: +1.866.692.1619 | EMAIL: info@ACRM.org