[NYAPRS Enews] NYAPRS Conference Focus: Peer Run Services

[Harvey Rosenthal]

NYAPRS Note: The NYAPRS Conference is just a week away but there're
still some rooms available at the Hudson Valley Resort and plenty more
at the nearby Honors Haven in Kerhonkson, NY! Here're details of
numerous workshops that provide exciting details about an array of
innovative peer run services. For more details about the conference and
how to register, please go to http://www.nyaprs.org/conference/. 

 


Wednesday, September 22

 

Round 1, Wednesday, 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Workshop Number #104       Track: peer services
Room: Dutchess

Peer Engagement Guide: For Peers Working with Women who are Trauma
Survivors

Darby Penney and Cathy Cave Advocates for Human Potential, Albany, NY

Trauma-informed peer support is an essential component of system
transformation. The presenters will introduce the content of a draft
manual for peer supporters working with women trauma survivors. This
manual is currently in development by the National Center for Trauma
Informed Care, funded by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA). Presenters will also request feedback
from participants of this workshop on the usefulness of the draft manual
content in peer support work. 

 

Workshop Number #105      Track: peer services
Room: Hudson II

The Role of Peer Specialists

Kathryn Cascio, CPRP, Shauna Reynolds, Federation of Organizations,
Patchogue, NY; Lester Cook, Dreamweaver's Peer Support, New York, NY

With so many people in recovery being hired within the mental health
system and in roles that may even be counter to the mission of the peer
specialist, it is important to get back to basics. It is easy for peers
working in the system to be swept up in the language and duties of
providers. Peer Specialists are in a unique position to share
experiences that most providers cannot access because they do not have
personal experience with a psychiatric diagnosis.

 

Thursday, September 23

 

Thursday, Round 3, 9:00am-10:15am 

 

Workshop Number #127      Track: peer services
Room: Ulster

Expanding the Horizon of Recovery through Peer Run Alternatives to
Hospitalization - Part 1 

(Part 2 is Workshop 182 on Friday)

Steve Miccio, PEOPLe Inc, Poughkeepsie, NY

Steve Coe, Community Access, New York, NY

Sheena Raji, BS, CPS, CPRP, Noor Recovery Consulting, North Cambridge,
MA

Alan Green, Mental Health Association of NE, Lincoln, NE

Klass Schilder, GGzE, Eindhoven, Holland

This two part presentation will discuss the topic of crisis alternatives
based on similar core values. The difference will be the discussion of
crisis alternatives in different geographic locations and cultures.
Attendees of this workshop will get a better understanding of how to
develop a diversion service and learn about the barriers and successes
in the development stages. Presenters from New York, Massachusetts,
Nebraska and Holland will share the experience of developing and
operating diversion services. Attendees will gain insight into the core
values that make diversion services work and see data that shows the
outcomes of at least two diversion houses in the USA.  

The Holland experience will also be of interest in discussing the levels
of challenges that exist in a socialized governmental system and learn
where the Dutch are with their "respite" houses. An additional topic of
great interest will be the development of "first break" services for
people experiencing one's first serious emotional experience where it
interferes with daily life and how a group in New York City is working
to address breaking the cycle of "learned crisis" so that people can
lead a more hopeful self determined and healthy lifestyle. 

 

Workshop Number #128      Track: peer services
Room: Columbia

Group Process Guidelines for Leading Groups and Classes

Cheryl Gagne, ScD, Boston University Center for Psychiatric
Rehabilitation, Boston, MA

Many group leaders are new to the process of leading groups; and many
group leaders were never formally trained in the skills of conducting a
group, but rather they learned how to run a group on-the-job by
observing a co-worker or a supervisor. This workshop provides some
guidelines to perform skills before the group, during the group, after
the group, and for promoting peer leadership.

 

Workshop Number #129      Track: peer services
Room: Hudson II

Recovery Learning Communities and The Healing Power of Peer Support

Howard D. Trachtman, BS, CPS, Metro Boston Recovery Learning Community &
Boston Resource Center, Boston, MA

Karen Kieffer and Ann Burgess, BA, North East Recovery Learning
Community (NERLC)/NILP, Lawrence, MA

Rachel Sommer-Hays, Boston Emergency Services Team (BEST), Boston, MA

Recovery Learning Communities (RLCs) are exemplary new practices working
to transform the delivery of mental health services away from
traditional models and towards peer-run and peer-driven services. A
special focus on peers in emergency services will be included.

 

Thursday, Round 4, 11:30am-12:45pm

Workshop Number #144      Track: peer services
Room: Hudson II

Sustainability in Peer Run Agencies

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

Develop your peer run (or not) program or agency into a successful,
exciting organization that can weather financial storms.  Find out how
to support a leaders' greatest asset, the employee and the participants
and create a life filled community.  Presenter will share 21 years of
experience, the good, the bad and the ugly and create a lively
discussion to help grow your program and/or agency.  Anyone in a
leadership position will learn from this presentation.

 

V  Thursday, Round 5, 2:45pm-4:00pm

Workshop Number #149       Track: peer services
Room: Sansui

Taking Peer Services to New Groups and Funders: NYAPRS/OptumHealth
Wellness Coaching and Bridger Initiatives

Tanya Stevens, NYAPRS Peer Services Division, Albany, NY

Elizabeth Stone, MA, CASAC, NYAPRS Peer Services Division, Rocky Point,
NY

Coleen Mimnagh, NYAPRS Peer Services Division, Rockaway, NY

National health care reform's emphasis on prevention, person-centered
and integrated care and alternatives to inpatient and emergency care
provides an unprecedented opportunity for peer wellness coaching and
diversion. This workshop will provide examples of how peer services are
partnering with OptumHealth to reach and help people before they get
into the public mental health system. This presentation will include a
background & definition of Peer Wellness Coaching, along with
descriptions of NYAPRS other peer services. Participants will be engaged
through opportunities for interaction and actively completing tools with
fellow participants. There will be several handouts, as well as
extensive opportunities to complete the tools and discuss them in pairs
and with the group as a whole.

 

Workshop Number #150       Track: advocacy & Empowerment
Room: Columbia

Radical Community Integration: Peer Partners in Recovery Research

Amy Colesante, Mental Health Empowerment Project, Albany, NY

David Brown, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY

Michael Miriello, NYAPRS, Albany, NY

Christina Pratt, Ph. D., Lester Cook and Judith Sugarman, Nathan Kline
Institute, Orangeburg, NY

Expanded capabilities and freedoms emerge when peers contribute to
research on recovery. This workshop examines lessons learned in the
first 8 months of peer partners in research; presents models of critical
thinking about community, participation, and research; and, engages
conference participants in problem solving around language, capabilities
and recovery paradigms.

 

Thursday, Plenary Round 6, 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Workshop Number #160      Track: peer services
Room: Manhattan Theatre

The Next Step in Sustainability: Helping Family and Consumer Run
Organizations Become a Part of Managed 

Sue Bergeson and Peter Ashenden, OptumHealth, Geneva, IL

Pamela B. Fox, OptumHealth, Brentwood, TN

OptumHealth/SAMHSA created a guide to teach consumer/family
organizations what to consider and how to approach joining a managed
care network. Joining a network allows consumer operated services &
programs to reach more people and receive referrals/payment by insurance
companies. It allows more consumers' access to consumer run services as
a part of their routine treatment plan while providing consumer groups
with sustainable income.

 

Friday, September 23

 

Round 8, Friday, 11:30am- 12:45pm

                                             Workshop Number #177 Track:
administration and management
Room: Columbia

Who Controls Disclosure at Work for Peer Providers? Issues in Self
Determination

Lauren B, Gates, PhD, and, James M. Mandiberg, MSW, PhD, Columbia
University School of Social Work, New York, NY

Who decides when and if peer staff members disclose their mental health
service user and recovery histories? Through an interactive discussion,
this workshop will explore this issue, help workshop participants
develop strategies to affect the policies and procedures of their
employers on this issue, and investigate career implications of
disclosure

 

Workshop Number #178      Track: peer services
Room: Manhattan Theatre

Improving Health & Wellness in Peer Support Settings

Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP, Collaborative Support Programs of NJ,
Inc., Freehold, NJ

Peer support settings are ideal places to offer services and support
that promote health and wellness. This session will examine wellness and
common barriers and challenges peers face. Learn to a  apply a wellness
framework of evolutionary change and examine other strategies to
maximize acceptance and success. Participants will learn and exchange
strategies and approaches they can apply to improve their health and
wellness. 

 

Workshop Number #182      Track: peer services
Room: Bentley 

Expanding the Horizon of Recovery through Peer Run Alternatives to
Hospitalization - Part 2 

Steve Miccio, PEOPLe Inc, Poughkeepsie, NY

Steve Coe, Community Access, New York, NY

Sheena Raji, BS, CPS, CPRP, Noor Recovery Consulting, North Cambridge,
MA

Alan Green, Mental Health Association of NE, Lincoln, NE

Klass Schilder, GGzE, Eindhoven, Holland

See description for Round 1, Workshop 127 on Thursday at 9AM.

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