[NYAPRS Enews] NYAPRS Announces Featured Speakers, Programs at 2019 Annual Conference; Register Today!

[Harvey Rosenthal]

NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is very pleased to announce some of our featured speakers and presentations at this year’s Annual Conference to be held September 24-26 at the Villa Roma Resort and Conference Center in Callicoon. Our power packed program will feature over 60 keynotes and workshops on themes ranging from Transformations, Innovations, Peer Services, Embracing Culture, Advocacy & Empowerment, Health, Healing & Recovery and Community Connections. See below for a sampling of this year’s presentations  and programs and tomorrow’s posting for a description of featured programs and speakers.

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SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER IN THE CATSKILLS!
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 KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

·        Moving personal and provocative presentations from a panel comprised of Lindsey Sizemore of the Georgia Consumer Mental Health Network, Sarah Felman of the Mental Health Empowerment Project and Vesper Moore of the Central Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community

·        Luis Lopez on Healing Trauma

·        Moving and uplifting presentations by this year’s panel of Awardees

EMBRACING CULTURE

·        Cultural Competency: Erasing Stigma Through Understanding and Compassion

·        Creating Sister Circles to Promote Health and Recovery for Women of Color

·        How to Implement Wellness and Resilience Story Circles within Your Organization

·        Cultural Dilemmas as Opportunities for Engagement

·        Innovative Solving Techniques for Your Organization’s Quality Improvement Challenges

·        Racism, Prejudice and Discrimination: Let’s Continue the Conversations

ADVOCACY & EMPOWERMENT

·        A Declaration of Behavioral Health Rights and Actions

·        History of the Movement

·        Facilitating Psychiatric Advance Directives

·        Empowering Recovery & Resilience with Mindfulness



PEER SERVICES

·        Integrating Peer Services within Traditional Medically Oriented Settings

·        Empowerment, Triumph and Hope Through Peer Run Groups

·        Putting ‘Career’ into Peer Career Development

·        Peer-Run Crisis Intervention and Hospital Diversion Programs

·        Opportunities and Challenges to Expand Peer Support Across Health Conditions

·        A Sneak Preview of the National Practice Guidelines for Supervisors of Peer Specialists

·        An Overview of Organizational Assessment Tools for Peer-Run Programs



INNOVATIONS

·        The Impact of Peers on Clinically Oriented Services

·        Data Driven Success in Clubhouses

·        Wellness Self Care : A Habit for Personal and Professional Practice

·        Recovery Learning Communities in Massachusetts

·        Forensic Peer Support Innovations

·        HCBS: What’s Working, What’s Needed

·        Harm Reduction Philosophy and Practice


TRANSFORMATIONS

·        Leading for Change: Building the Skills to be Successful in Managing Organizations and Services

·        The Transformative Impact of Self-Directed Care

·        A Peer Professional Approach to Engagement

·        Partnering to Build a Trauma-Informed NYS

·        Recovery-Oriented Outcome Measures

·        Rolling Out Mental Health Instruction in School: Year 1 Experience

·        EQ and You/Emotional Intelligence

·        Innovative Approaches to Real World Workforce Challenges


COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

·        Utilizing Social Media and Smart Phones to Provide Peer Support and Mobilize Peer Efforts

·        Life in the Community Like Everyone Else: The Essentials of Community Inclusion"

·        "Understanding Loneliness & Social Isolation: Impacts in People and Society at Large in a Connected World"

·        Families: Can’t Live with Them! Can’t Live Without Them!

·        De-Stressing Job Searching and Job Development

·        ACCES-VR and YOU:  Let's Talk About Vocational Services and Supports


HEALING, HEALTH AND RECOVERY

·        Food as Medicine: Discussions on Food, Health, and the Peer Movement

·        What Unhealed Place Within Did you Inherit?

·        Whole Person Mental Health Care and Holistic Healing

·        Recovering Art of Resilience

·        Self-Love and Self-Care

·        Rhythms for Wellness, Healing & Connection

·        Trauma-Informed Yoga for Every Body

EVENING PROGRAMS

Suicide: The Ripple Effect with co-director Greg DiCharry

Stand Up for Mental Health!

·        Promoting Recovery, Cultural Competency, & System Advocacy through Hip Hop

·        How Zumba Levels the Playing Field in a Behavioral Health Setting

·        Mike Skinner in Concert

·        Wellness and Resiliency Story Circles

·        Online Arts Training Curriculum for Peer Specialists

·        Open Mike

·        An array of Support Groups

HEALERS
Shiatsu  Massage  Acupuncture  Yoga  T’ai Chi   Reiki

QUESTIONS?
Contact us at eileenc at nyaprs.org<mailto:eileenc at nyaprs.org>
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