June 12, 2001

OPEN MINDS Announces New Web Banner Advertising Venue For The Behavioral Health Market

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – OPEN MINDS announces that, for the first time, web banner advertising space is available in OPEN MINDS On-Line News. OPEN MINDS On-Line News, the weekly on-line news service, has a new format that offers advertising opportunities for reaching executives in the behavioral health and social service fields. The new Web banners are available in two sizes and allow a link to the sponsoring organization’s Web site. New subscriber features to OPEN MINDS On-Line News include 24/7 access to the weekly news from any computer through the use of the new password-protected subscriber-only link on the OPEN MINDS Web site and an OPEN MINDS news archive search tool that enables people to access an archive of up to twelve years of past news stories.

The new OPEN MINDS On-Line News Web banners are one of an array of custom multi-media advertising opportunities for the behavioral health and social service fields. Venues available to advertisers through OPEN MINDS include:

• Direct Mail - a 250,000 record database

• Advertising - Full, half or quarter page options in the industry's #1 weekly and monthly print and electronic newsletters and annual market data publications

• Advertorials - Customized multi-page special sections for effective product positioning and market differentiation

• Exhibiting - Elite opportunities to speak, do product demos and exhibit at OPEN MINDS Management Institutes

• Product demos - on our Information Technology Survey Publications CD-ROM

• On-line ads and Web banners - in our electronic publications and on the OPEN MINDS Web site with links to your organization's Web site.

OPEN MINDS is a behavioral health and social service industry research and management consulting firm. The company’s stock in trade is analyzing and disseminating information on the business, marketing, and financing aspects of behavioral health, child welfare, senior services, and human services. The firm was founded in 1987 and has three service divisions – information products, professional education, and research and management consultation services. The company commenced operations in April 1988 with the publication of the first issue of its flagship monthly publication. OPEN MINDS has developed a wide array of products and services – periodicals and books, datasets and database, education programs, research, and consultation services.

For more information contact: Vice President of Sales & Marketing, OPEN MINDS, 10 York Street, Suite 200,Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325-2301, 717-334-1329, fax: 717-334-0538, E-mail: openminds@openminds.com or visit the Web site at http://www.openminds.com.