[NYAPRS Enews] NYAPRS Releases April 21-2 Executive Seminar Program Details

Tue Feb 16 08:09:10 EST 2010

NYAPRS Note: Once more, NYAPRS is very proud to present our annual
Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation, a timely program developed
to inform and assist visionary leaders by bringing them together with
some of the state's and nation's leading agents for change. This year's
program offers a more implementation-based practical toolkit to bring
new policy to practice, focusing on the themes of service reform,
community integration, recovery innovations and integrated care. For
more details, please go to www.nyaprs.org. See you in April!

The NYAPRS Collective Presents

The NYAPRS 6th Annual Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation

Transforming Systems and Services: From Policy to Practice

April 21-22, 2010

Crowne Plaza    Albany, NY

Program Schedule: http://www.nyaprs.org/PDF/NYAPRS_ES_bro_final.pdf 

        Registration Materials:
http://www.nyaprs.org/PDF/NYAPRS_ES_registration_10_D.pdf 

Michael Hogan, PhD, NYS Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY

Robert Bernstein, PhD, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington,
DC

Margaret (Peggy) Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPR, Collaborative Support Programs
of New Jersey, Freehold, NJ

Charles Ingoglia, MSW, National Council for Community Behavioral
Healthcare, Washington, DC

Mark Ragins, MD, Mental Health America, Los Angeles, CA

Rick Baron, MA, UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration,
Pittsburgh, PA

Maria E. Restrepo-Toro, MS, CPRP, Boston University Center for
Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston, MA

Lisa Razzano, PhD, University of Illinois of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Also featuring:

Diane Grieder, Med, WNYCCP Consultant, Suffolk, VA

Janis Tondora, PsyD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale Program for
Recovery and Community Health Department of Psychiatry, 

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Dan O'Brien, Social Security Administration, Baltimore, MD

Allison Wishon Siegwarth, Policy Associate, Bazelon Center for Mental
Health Law, Washington, DC

In times of challenge and change, the NYAPRS Executive Seminar
introduces 'breaking news' of emerging new service and support models
that help demonstrate what the next wave of system and service
transformation can bring.

Included are presentations aimed at: 

v  Promoting individualized integrated person-centered support to help
people with psychiatric disabilities move from patient to homeowner,
worker, student, parent and investor

v  Overcoming fragmentation of care barriers to promote individualized,
integrated 'no wrong door' recovery focused physical and behavioral
health care 

2010 Program Tracks

*         Service Reform (SR)

*         Policy Reform (PR)

*         Community Integration (CI)

*         Recovery Innovations (RI)

*         Integrated Care (IC)

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The NYAPRS Collective Presents

NYAPRS 6th Annual Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation

 April 21, 2009

8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee with the Exhibitors

9:00am-9:15am          

Opening Remarks: Chacku (Mathew) Mathai, CPRP, Deputy Director and
Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY

9:15am-10:15am 

Morning Keynote - Implementing Policies and Practices to Advance
Recovery in Challenging Times

Michael Hogan, PhD, Commissioner, NYS Office of Mental Health, Albany,
NY 

10:15am-10:30am     Break

Workshops: Round I           10:30am-12:00noon

a.   Washington Report: National Healthcare and Medicaid Reform
PR

    Charles Ingoglia, Vice President Public Policy; and Technical
Assistance, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare,
Washington, DC

Allison Wishon Siegwarth, Policy Associate, Bazelon Center for Mental
Health Law, Washington, DC

    This session will offer a very timely and thorough review by experts
from two of the nation's leading mental health advocacy organizations of
three top national issues including the state and projected impact of
national health care reform efforts, emerging new Medicaid proposals and
trends and the federal budget. Discussions will focus particularly on
potential impact or changes Medicaid reform will have for New York State
government, providers and consumers, along with a special focus on
efforts to improve the Rehabilitation Option and the 1915.i Home And
Community Based Mental Health Services Option. 

b.   Successful Practice and Systems Change: Person-Centered Planning
Skill and Implementation    SR

Adele Gregory Gorges, Director, Western New York Care Coordination
Program, Rochester, NY

Diane M. Grieder, MEd, Principal, AliPar, Inc., Suffolk, VA and WNYCCP
Consultant

Janis Tondora, PsyD, Ass't Clinical Professor, Yale University, Dep't of
Psychiatry, Program for Recovery & Community Health, New Haven, CT

The Western New York Care Coordination Project (WNYCCP) is a
collaborative partnership among state and county governments, peers and
family members, and mental health provider agencies. This session will
demonstrate how leaders in the behavioral health community can begin to
move the system away from the previous emphasis on maintenance and
symptom management to recovery and community integration. Presenters
will share what they have learned during the implementation of the
WNYCCP including culture change, performance management, financial
strategies and best practices.

c.   Transforming Academic and Training Curricula to Promote Recovery
RI

    Mark Ragins, MD, Director, DSG Recovery to Practice Initiative, MHA
Los Angeles, Long Beach, CA 

     Lisa Razzano, PhD, Director of Training and Education Programs for
the UIC National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    This presentation provides details of two exciting new initiatives
designed to introduce and integrate recovery-oriented concepts into
academic training programs for the nation's behavioral healthcare
workforce. Dr. Mark Ragins will provide an introduction to Development
Services Group's new 5-year SAMHSA-funded Recovery to Practice
Initiative that he directs, which is aimed at reshaping academic
curriculum for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses and
other mental health counselors. Dr. Lisa Razzano will describe "Med Ed
Ed", a multi-level program large-scale, coordinated education and
training effort that includes principles of recovery and other
evidence-based practices that is designed to transform academic
curricula in the medical, social and behavioral sciences. 

d.   Living Into Wholeness
RI

Debbie Whittle, Director, Technical Assistance Center, The National
Empowerment Center, Lawrence, MA

Living Into Wholeness is an innovative non-pathological, wholeness-based
approach, which proposes that at our very core is a state of wholeness
that can be accessed in any moment.  Participants in this interactive
workshop will have an opportunity to learn the skills and principles of
wholeness as well as simple practices to look beyond appearances, learn
the power of words, understand the role of emotions, access innate
wisdom, learn to re-frame "mental illness," learn to be with what is and
to transform habitual thought and behavior patterns to experience an
intrinsic state of wholeness.  

12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch    

1:00pm -1:15pm Break

Workshops Round II 1:15pm - 2:45pm

a.   System Change Using a Performance Improvement Model
SR

Robert Bernstein, Executive Director, Bazelon Center for Mental Health
Law, Washington, DC 

Grant Mitchell, MD, Commissioner and 

Melissa Staats, Deputy Commissioner, Westchester County Department of
Mental Health, White Plains, NY 

This presentation describes how the Westchester County Department of
Mental Health has worked with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
to be one of five national demonstration sites of a new
performance-improvement initiative aimed at identifying and addressing
systemic barriers within mental health and other human services systems
that are exposed when encounters between people with psychiatric
disabilities and law enforcement are examined. 

b.   Implementing Collaborative 'Concurrent' Documentation
SR

William Schmelter, PhD, M.T.M. Services, LLC & National Council for
Community Behavioral Healthcare Consultant, Washington, DC

This session will share hands-on tools for implementing the innovative
collaborative documentation approach that is gaining considerable
national recognition. In concurrent documentation, staff form a more
collaborative partnership with those they serve to transparently
complete assessments, service plans and ongoing notes in ways that also
satisfy all documentation-related requirements. The benefits include
improved therapeutic relationships, service outcomes, staff morale and
"show" rates. 

c.   Soteria and Other Alternatives to Psychiatric Hospitalization
RI

     Susan Musante, Executive Director, Soteria-Alaska, Inc., Anchorage
Alaska a\nd CHOICES, Inc.

     Steve Coe, Chief Executive Officer, Community Access, New York, NY

     Peter Stastny, MD, Baltic Street Mental Health Clinic,
International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR),
Brooklyn, NY 

    This presentation offers details on how to develop and implement
innovative residentially based service approaches designed to provide
individuals in acute psychiatric distress the opportunity to recover in
a non-coercive, home-like environment, with choice about medication,
relying primarily on the creation of a sense of safety, support and
personal relationships.  

d.       Olmstead Update: Implications of the 2010 Most Integrated
Setting Coordinating Council (MISCC) Plan and Adult Home Lawsuit     CI 

       Ceylane Myers, Dir. of Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs,
NYS Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Albany,
NY  

       Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS and Representative
of MISCC, Albany, NY 

       Cliff Zucker, Executive Director, Disability Advocates, Inc.,
Albany, NY 

       This session will provide an informative review of state efforts
to advance the community integration of New Yorkers with psychiatric and
related disabilities statewide through coordinated interagency efforts
associated with New York's Most Integrated Setting Coordinating Council.
We will also hear an update on the outcome and anticipated impact of
federal litigation concerning efforts to place and support adult home
residents with psychiatric disabilities in the community. 

2:45pm-3:00pm Break

Workshops Round III         3:00pm - 4:30pm

a.       Taking Peer Services to Another Level
RI

       Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP, Institute for Wellness and
Recovery Initiatives, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey,
Freehold, NJ; University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, School of
Health Related Professionals, Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
and Counseling, Scotch Plains, NJ

       Tanya Stevens, Director, Peer Services Division, NYAPRS, Albany,
NY

       Steve Miccio, Executive Director, PEOPLe, Inc., Poughkeepsie, NY

       Amy Colesante, Executive Director, Mental Health Empowerment
Project, Albany, NY

      There has been a recent explosion in the successful application of
peer support and peer-run services to address a broad range of system
challenges. The presenters will describe nationally recognized peer
initiatives that help engage and serve people to successfully leave and
stay out of the hospital, manage crises, improve their health and
self-care, avoid incarceration, and achieve their employment and asset
development goals. 

b.   Achieving the Promise of Eliminating Disparities
PR

       Maria E. Restrepo-Toro, MS, CPRP, Boston University Center for
Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston, MA 

       Lisa Razzano, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of Illinois at Chicago Center on Mental Health Services
Research and Policy and Director of Training and Education Programs for
the UIC National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability,
Chicago, IL 

       Lenora Reid-Rose, MBA, Director, Cultural Competency & Diversity
Initiatives, Center for Excellence on Cultural Competence, Nathan Kline
Institute, Rochester, NY 

      This panel will offer a compelling presentation on what New York
State needs to accomplish and prioritize in order to advance cultural
competence across behavioral health systems. In addition, recognized
disparities in the mental health system will be addressed.

c.       Innovations in Integrated Physical and Behavioral Health Care
IC

Andrew Cleek, PsyD, Director, The Urban Institute for Behavioral Health,
Institute for Community Living, New York, NY

Judith Wimmer, RN, Executive Director, Live Healthy Care Management
Program, OptumHealth, Huntington, NY

Coleen Mimnagh, Peer Healthcare Coach, NYAPRS, Far Rockaway, NY    

Elizabeth R. Stone, MA, CASAC-T, Field Supervisor, NYAPRS, Rocky Point,
NY  

Last year, the NYS Department of Health funded seven "Chronic Illness
Demonstration Projects" aimed at increasing the engagement, coordination
and health care outcomes for groups of Medicaid beneficiaries with
complex medical and mental health conditions. The panelists will provide
details of new strategies that are working to help find, engage, enroll
and serve and support such individuals in ways that also advance the
integration of physical health and   behavioral health services and peer
support. 

d.       Mental Health Clinic Transformation
SR

Mark Ragins, MD, Medical Director, Mental Health America, Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, CA

As the New York State Office of Mental Health moves forward with the
implementation of new regulations, rates and services for all
OMH-licensed mental health clinics, the presenter will offer proven
strategies and approaches to mental health clinic transformation for
executive and clinical leadership. Participants of this workshop will
receive step by step direction towards achieving the highest standards
of clinical care by implementing day to day practices focused on
recovery-oriented, person-centered and integrated care. Dr. Ragins is a
leading psychiatrist in the international recovery movement with
considerable direct experience in building an integrated, recovery
centered approach to clinical services. 

The NYAPRS Collective Presents

NYAPRS 6th Annual Executive Seminar on System Transformation

April 22, 2010

7:30am - 8:30am Registration

8:30am      Opening Remarks 

Chacku Mathai, CPRP, Deputy Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY

8:30 am - 9:30 am   

Opening Plenary - 

Advancing Health and Financial Security for People with Psychiatric
Disabilities

Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP, Institute for Wellness and Recovery
Initiatives, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Freehold, NJ;
University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, School of Health Related
Professionals, Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling,
Scotch Plains, NJ 

Dr. Swarbrick is the Director of the Collaborative Support Programs of
New Jersey's Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives and is a
leading author and nationally recognized leader in the peer support and
recovery movement. She has been a tireless leader in the movement
focused on addressing the poverty and health disparities in our
community. Her recent work includes the development of innovative
integrated peer support approaches to increasing employment, economic
self-sufficiency, physical health and social inclusion outcomes for
people with psychiatric disabilities. 

9:30am-9:45am Break

Workshops Round IV          9:45 am - 11:15 am

a.     Innovations in Recovery
RI

      Donna Colonna, Chief Executive Officer/President,

      Yves Ades, PhD, Senior Vice President, and

      Ellen Healion, MA, Executive Director, Hands Across Long Island,
Central Islip, NY 

      Edythe Schwartz, DSW, Executive Director, Putnam Family and
Community Services, Carmel, NY 

      Michael Stoltz, MSW, Executive Director, Clubhouse of Suffolk,
Ronkonkoma, NY  

     Leaders from four innovative community agencies describe the
transformation process they have undertaken to assist their
organizations to move towards recovery oriented, person-centered and
culturally competent services. This presentation will highlight their
efforts from an implementation and leadership perspective. Strategies,
successes and barriers will be discussed so others may learn from their
innovations and take hands-on information back to promote organizational
transformation.  

b.   Community Integration Update: Asset Development, Employment and
Housing    CI

Rick Baron, MA, Collaborative Consultant, Director of Knowledge
Translation Activities both for the NIDRR-funded UPenn Collaborative on
Community Integration of Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities, and for
the NIMH-funded Center for Behavioral Health Services and Criminal
Justice Research, UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration,
Philadelphia, PA 

Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP, Institute for Wellness and Recovery
Initiatives, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Freehold, NJ;
University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, School of Health Related
Professionals, Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling,
Scotch Plains, NJ 

Oscar Jimenez, MPH, Director for Community and Economic Integration,
NYAPRS, Albany, NY

This panel presentation will offer participants an inside and detailed
look at national innovations and new projects that advance  the
community and economic integration of people with psychiatric
disabilities. 

c.   New York City's Mental Health Care Monitoring Initiative
SR

Thomas Smith, MD, Medical Director, NYC Mental Health Care Monitoring
Initiative, New York State Office of Mental Health and Associate
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of
Physicians & Surgeons, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York,
NY

John B. Allen, Jr., Special Assistant to the Commissioner, NYS Office of
Mental Health, Albany, NY

Trish Marsik, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Mental Health, New York
City Dep't. of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY 

Carole Taylor, RN, MSN, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization,
Pittsburgh, PA

Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY

The panelists will discuss details of recent efforts to encourage more
active, responsive and voluntary engagement and service strategies to
help "at risk" individuals who appear to be falling through the cracks
of our community mental health systems. The positive experience of the
Mental Health Care Monitoring Initiative in working with NYC community
agencies to advance their capacity to successfully engage, support and
respond to such individuals holds great promise for those looking for
alternatives to coercion.

Break 11:15-11:30

Workshops Round V  11:30 am - 1:00 pm

a.   OMH Update on Community Service Reform Initiatives
PR

Robert Myers, PhD, Senior Deputy Commissioner, Division Director, Adult
Services, 

Doug Ruderman, Director, Bureau of Program Coordination and Support,
Adult Services, 

David Bucciferro, Director of Rehabilitation Services, and 

John B. Allen, Jr., Special Assistant to the Commissioner, NYS Office of
Mental Health, Albany, NY

This session will offer a timely presentation on the status and future
direction of OMH's progressive new recovery initiatives including
Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS), Recovery Centers, and
clinic and ambulatory restructuring.  

b. Ticket to Work
CI

Dan O'Brien, Associate Commissioner, Social Security Administration,
Office of Employment Support Programs, Baltimore, MD

Tom Gloss, Program Specialist, Social Security Administration Ticket to
Work/CESSI, McLean, VA

Recent changes in federal regulations offer unprecedented opportunities
for people with disabilities to return to work. The Ticket to Work is a
voluntary employment program for people with disabilities administered
by the Social Security Administration (SSA) that offers disability
beneficiaries between the ages of 18-64 access to expanded opportunities
to obtain the services and supports that they need to work and to
achieve their employment goals. SSA does this by paying providers of
services, referred to as "Employment Networks" or "ENs", for assisting
beneficiaries to reach designated Milestones and Outcomes associated
with achieving self-supporting employment. An EN can be any agency or
organization that provides or is equipped to provide employment-related
services and supports to individuals who have disabilities, including
psychiatric disabilities. This presentation will offer direct guidance
on how to become an EN and maximize the combined revenue potential for
your agency through Medicaid, SSA and state aid for supporting people
with psychiatric disabilities to achieve employment and economic
self-sufficiency outcomes. 

c. Innovations in Integrated Dual Disorders Care IC

John Challis, Director of T and TA, Center of Excellence for Integrated
Care, New York, NY

Nancy H. Covell, PhD, Project Director, EBPTAC/Center for Practice
Innovations - Division of Mental Health Services and Policy Research,
New York, NY

Chacku Mathai, CPRP, Deputy Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY 

This session will present state-of-the-art advances and current
implementation efforts for integrated treatment for people with
co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions. 

d.   Connected Care - An Integrative Approach to Improving Health
Outcomes       IC

James Schuster, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Community Care
Behavioral Health Organization, Pittsburgh, PA

John Lovelace, MS, MSIS, President, UPMC for You, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

It has been widely published that people with psychiatric disabilities
often live significantly shorter lives than their peers without these
conditions. Working jointly, UPMC for You and Community Care Behavioral
Health Organization have joined in a partnership with the Allegheny
County Department of Human Services, PA Department of Public Welfare and
The Center for Health Care Strategies to design and implement an
information-sharing and outreach program to integrate health and
behavioral health care, involving teams of primary care, behavioral
care, human services and medical specialists to improve these outcomes.
This session will describe the design of the program, including
significant and continuing consumer participation and leadership,
implementation, goals, and results to date.

Program Schedule: http://www.nyaprs.org/PDF/NYAPRS_ES_bro_final.pdf 

        Registration Materials:
http://www.nyaprs.org/PDF/NYAPRS_ES_registration_10_D.pdf 

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