[NYAPRS Enews] NYAPRS/NYSCCBH Care Management Training Preview at May Case Management Coalition Conference

[Harvey Rosenthal]

NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is proud to partner with the NYS Council for
Community Behavioral Healthcare in giving case managers a substantive
introduction (highlighted below) to our DOH-funded Care Managers
Training program at the upcoming annual conference of the NYS Case
Management Coalition. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more details
about the launch date of our 2-year training initiative. 

 

 

New York State Case Management Coalition

16th Annual Training Conference

Navigating Care Coordination Through Ever-Shifting Seas

 

http://www.nyscasemanagementcoalition.org/Case_Management_BrochureMay_12
_Final.pdf

 

May 1-2, 2012 * Holiday Inn * Wolf Road * Albany, NY

 

In cooperation with New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Services (NYAPRS)

and the NYS Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare's (NYSCCBH)
Health Workforce Retraining Initiative Healthcare's (NYSCCBH)

Health Workforce Retraining Initiative 

The Coalition mission offers case managers across New York State the
opportunity to become one voice on many issues facing behavioral health
and substance use field, which directly impacts the individuals we
serve. In addition, the Coalition strives to provide quality,
state-of-the art educational programming, information and networking
opportunities on best practices in care coordination for professionals
in behavioral health and substance use field.

Join your colleagues at the NYS Case Management Conference, May 1-2nd in
Albany, NY. A lot is NEW this year! A shorter 1 1/2 day conference,
which will allow you and your colleagues less time away from your office
to receive the information necessary to keep abreast of the many changes
facing the transformation of case management to care management for
professionals in the substance use and behavioral health field. A new
location - offering wonderful accommodations, pool and networking area,
and a convenient location in the heart of shopping, restaurants and
other activities. And, the opportunity to hear national and state
leaders on care management.

Register today! 

Discount Hotel Registration Deadline April 18, 2012

NEW.rr.com www.nyscasemanagementcoalition.org

New York State Case Management Coalition

2012 Annual Training Conference

Navigating Care Coordination Through Ever-Shifting Seas

May 1-2, 2012 * Holiday Inn * Wolf Road * Albany, NY

Program Agenda

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

8:30am - 9:45am       Registration

9:45am - 10:00am     Welcome

Jackie Negri, Director, NYS Case Management Coalition

Edye Schwartz, DSW, Director of Systems Transformation Initiatives, New
York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS)

Lauri Cole, Executive Director, NYS Council for Community Behavioral
Healthcare

 

10:00am - 11:30am

The Future Role of Care Coordination in Health Homes & Managed Care

Greg Allen, MSW, Director, Program Development and Management, NYS
Department of Health

Robert Myers, PhD, Senior Deputy Commissioner, Director of Adult
Services, NYS Office of Mental Health

Douglas Ruderman, LCSW-R, Director, Bureau of Program Coordination and
Support, NYS Office of Mental Health

 

11:45am - 1:00pm

Care Coordination and Health Homes: Phase I Providers' Lessons Learned

Diana Simons, Program Manager, Mental Health Care Coordination, Visiting
Nurse Service of New York

Jessica Manuel, Supervisor , Partnership of Hope, Brooklyn

Donnell Simon, MPA, PSCH Coordinator for Blended Case Management Queens 

Edward Butz, Managing Director, Rehabilitation Support Services, Inc. 

 

1:00pm - 2:15pm

NYS Case Management Coalition Awards Luncheon & Annual Meeting of
Corporation

Case Management Public Policy Award

Douglas Ruderman, LCSW-R, Director, Bureau of Program Coordination and
Support, NYS Office of Mental Health

Linda Fraser, Director of Coordinated Mental Health Services, New York
City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

 

Case Management Employees of the Year Award

Each agency will have the opportunity to nominate one employee to be
recognized as the Case Management Employee of the Year by the NYS Case
Management Coalition. Award nomination forms will be sent via the NYS
Case Management List Serve. If you are not signed up for the list serve,
please go to www.nyscasemanagementcoalition.org

 

2:30pm - 3:45pm

Concurrent Sessions

1. Life is a Journey, Not a Destination: The Seas Can Be Rough! 

Mary Lee Walawendar, Program Director, MH Residential Programs,
Transitional Living Services

 

2. The Right Services, Right Time: Successfully Working with Hard to
Serve Individuals

Chandra Banks, Director of Residential Services, Buffalo Federation of
Neighborhood Centers

Renee Parisi, Housing Specialist, Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood
Centers

Wayne Barnes, Transitional Case Manager, Buffalo Federation of
Neighborhood Centers

 

3. Person-Centered Care Management Practice

Valerie Way, Consultant, NYAPRS/NYSCCBH Health Workforce Retraining
Initiative and Senior Program Associate, New York Care Coordination
Program

 

4. How Care Coordinators Can Stay Abreast of Benefits & Employment
Opportunities: Understanding Linkages and Resources 

John Allen, Special Assistant to the Commissioner, Director - Bureau of
Recipient Affairs, NYS Office of Mental Health

 

5. Drumming and Recreational Music Making: Activities for Fun & Wellness

Kelly Darrow, LCSW, Vice President, Mental Health Association of
Westchester

 

6. Peer Support: A Bridger's State of Mind

Sylvia Gonzalez, Program Coordinator and William Brown, Peer Specialist,
PSCH

 

7. Cultural Competence the Transforming Variable: Improving the
Consumers Experience and Reducing Cost

Lenora Reid-Rose, MBA, Director, Cultural Competence & Diversity
Initiatives, Coordinated Care Services, Inc.

 

3:45pm - 4:00pm 

Break

 

4:00pm - 5:15pm Concurrent Sessions

1. Legal Issues in Agreements Between Behavioral Health Providers and
Health Homes & Managed Care Organizations 

Whitney Magee Phelps, Of Counsel, Greenberg Traurig

2. Adult Home Supportive Case Management: The Team - Individual
Supportive Case Management Combined with Interactive Groups, Gatherings
and Events all Promoting a Mindset Toward Wellness 

Siobhan DiDato, Supportive Case Manager & Joseph DeMatteo, Assistant
Case Manager, Human Development Services of Westchester

3. Recovery-Prevention-Treatment: A New Paradigm 

Betty Currier, BA, CASAC-R, CPP-R, Consultant to the Council on
Addictions of New York State (CANYS) and a founding Board Member of
Friends of Recovery New York (FOR-NY)

4. Critical Time Intervention Skills in Care Management 

These panelists are affiliated with NYAPRS/NYSCCBH Health Workforce
Retraining Initiative

Tara Karoleski , Coordinator, Adult Single Point of Access &
Accountability, Erie County, Department of Mental Health

Julie Notaro, Ms.Ed., CASAC, Director of Care Coordination Services,
Spectrum Human Services

Robert Cannata, LCSW, Director of Life Management Services, Buffalo
Federation of Neighborhood Centers

5. Kings Park - Stories from an American Mental Institution

Moderator: Andrea Kocsis, LCSW, Executive Director, Human Development
Services of Westchester

6. Yoga Kathleen Fisk, Yoga Instructor

 

5:15pm - 8:00pm

 

Dinner Is On Your Own

8:00pm 

Social Poolside Networking with Music

New York State Case Management Coalition

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Breakfast Is On Your Own

Special Session

 

9:00am - 12noon 

Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect  Kelly Darrow,
LCSW, Vice President, MHA of Westchester (3 hours)

 

8:30am - 9:45am

Care Coordination: Role in Promoting Health in Health Homes 

Daryl Sharp, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, NPP, NYAPRS/NYSCCBH Health Workforce
Retraining Initiative, and Associate Dean of Faculty Development and
Diversity, School of Nursing, University of Rochester

 

10:00am - 11:15am

Peer Services: Anticipating the New Healthcare Environment

Jason Erwin, Director of Peer Services, Onondaga Case Management
Services, Inc.

Laura Elliot-Engel, President of the Board of Directors, Friends of
Recovery New York (FOR-NY)

Thomas Lane, National Director Consumer & Recovery Services, Magellan
Health Services

 

11:15am - 11:30am  Break & Check Out

 

11:30am - 12:45pm

Concurrent Sessions

1. Class Standards - Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

Elatisha Kirnon, Acting Director, Bureau of Cultual Competence, NYS
Office of Mental Health

2. Developing Person Centered Recovery Plans

Valerie Way, Consultant, NYAPRS/NYSCCBH Health Workforce Retraining
Initiative and Senior Program Associate, New York Care Coordination
Program

3. Motivational Interviewing: The Spirit and the Skills 

Cheryl Lynn Martin, MA RN CASAC

Coordinator, Substance Use & Co-Occurring Disorders, Motivational
Interviewing Network Trainer, Monroe County Office of Mental Health

4. Understanding What Your Clients Are Recovering From 

Andrew O'Grady, LSCW-R, Director of Adult Services

Lisa Connolly, LMHC, Department Manager, Mental Health America in
Dutchess County 

5. Film - Killing Us Softly 4 - Advertising's Image of Women 

Moderator: Andrea Kocsis, LCSW, Executive Director, Human Development
Services of Westchester

 

12:45pm  Adjournment

Award Winners

Linda Fraser

Director of Coordinated Mental Health Services, New York City Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene

Ms. Fraser is a graduate of Baruch College/CUNY and N.Y.U. Wagner School
of Public Service and has worked in the field of mental health for over
30 years. Prior to coming to the then N.Y.C. Department of Mental
Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services in 1982, she worked
as Assistant Program Director and Grants Manager for the Trustees of
Columbia Community Support system Program in Central Harlem. Ms. Fraser
began her career at the Department as a Consultant, then Sr. Consultant,
monitoring and overseeing program services in The Bronx until 1995 when
she became Borough Coordinator and then Acting Director for the
Manhattan Borough Office providing direction and supervision for the
oversight of programs in that borough including the development of
several Reinvestment plans. She also functioned as the point person for
Geriatric mental health. In 2000, as an Associate Staff Analyst, Ms.
Fraser moved to the Department's Office of Managed Care and participated
in the implementation of the then hopeful Special Needs Plans for
seriously mentally ill New Yorkers. In this capacity she was
instrumental, in collaboration with SOMH, in setting the initial
structure of the Adult Single Point of Access for Assertive Community
Treatment and Case Management Programs (SPOA). When NYCDMH, MR & AS
merged with NYCDOH Ms. Fraser served on two groups that helped to forge
the successful merger: The NYC Department of Health Planning Council and
the Behavioral Science/Social Science Integration Taskforce. It was also
during this time that she began serving on the HIV Health and Human
Services Planning Council of New York, its Mental Health committee, and
its Priority Setting and Resource Allocation Committee. In 2002 Ms.
Fraser began functioning as Coordinator for SPOA, ACT and Case
Management for the Division and in July 2007 became Director of the
newly formed Office of Coordinated Mental Health Services. In this
capacity she has been instrumental in providing oversight and developing
policy and best practices for the programs under her office's purview
including ACT, Case Management (Intensive, Supportive and the Blended
models for Adults and Youth), Mobile Crisis, Crisis Outreach, Bridger,
as well as Geriatric mental health initiatives. OCMHC now focuses on ACT
and Behavioral Health Care Coordination and Bridger programs and
interfaces with the Office of Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) as
well as the NYS Office of Mental Health. 

 

Douglas Ruderman LCSW-R, Director,  Bureau of Program Coordination and
Support, New York State Office of Mental Health

Doug Ruderman is a graduate of the State University of New York at
Albany, with a M.S.W. from the School of Social Welfare and has worked
in the mental health for 30 years. Doug started his career at the local
level, working both at the Albany County Department of Mental Health and
the Capital District Psychiatric Center, in both mobile crisis and
intensive case management. In 2001, Doug started in the capacity of
Assistant Director of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Case
Management. His expertise and vision assisted in the development of the
blended case management model and managed the intensive and supported
case management model. His commitment to recovery under the leadership
of the Office, led to his involvement for the implementation of
Personalized Recovery Oriented Services Program (PROS) and the
implementation of evidence-based programs. As the Director of the Bureau
of Program Coordination and Support, a position he has held since 2006,
he is responsible for three units within the division of adult community
services. These include the Care Coordination Unit - Targeted Case
Management; Assertive Community Treatment Unit (ACT) and Rehabilitation
Unit. As behavioral health continues to go thru unprecedented changes,
Doug's commitment and leadership is an asset to all providers and peers
he works with on a daily basis. Currently, he is in charge of
implementing OMH's participation in Health Homes for Medicaid enrollees
with chronic conditions initiative. This involves managing all aspects
of this project to ensure clients of OMH's funded programs receive
improved coordination of care with the goal of better physical,
behavioral and mental health, and continued recovery. He is managing the
movement of the targeted case management programs into health homes,
working tirelessly with providers and peers around the state to assist
in a smooth transition. Doug is a sought after speaker, making his
rounds at all of the adult provider and peer associations' conferences
and board meetings. He is accessible for questions, advice and direction
which is always in the best interest of the client. His commitment,
passion and leadership is recognized by his colleagues, not only in
Albany, but across New York State.

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