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"Rejuvenating Our Promise" - Community Mental Health Conference

Who Should Attend?
 
  • Mental health professionals
  • Health & human services staff
  • Psychologists & social workers
  • Psychiatrists & nurses
  • Marriage & family therapists
  • Practitioners & psychotherapists
  • Hospital-based staff
  • Community support & Rule 36 staff
  • Clinical directors & supervisors
  • CEOs & board members
  • Financial staff & administrators
  • Teachers & special ed providers
  • School psychologist & social workers
  • Managed care organizations
  • County social services staff
  • Case managers
  • Consumers & advocates
  • And others

Continuing Education Credits - Click Here for Updated CEU/CME Approval Information
The conference is designed to meet professional continuing education requirements. Certificates of attendance will be available for documentation. Prior approval has been requested for up to 25 Continuing Education Units for: social workers, psychologists, physicians, nurses, school administrators/educators, marriage and family therapists, alcohol and drug counselors, professional counselors and professional clinical counselors, psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners, certified counselors and others. Please click on the link above for updated CEU/CME approval information.

Opening Address
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Inspired to Change: From Personal Recovery to Organizational Transformation
xxxxxLori Ashcraft, PhD
xxxxxRecovery Opportunities Center / Recovery Innovations - Phoenix, AZ

The inspiration behind Dr. Ashcraft’s commitment to recovery stems from her own personal experience of recovering from mental illness. She will share her personal recovery journey and describe how it led to developing ways of helping organizations recover as well. The session will include descriptions of various tools and approaches that can be applied to organizational transformation and create irresistible programs. Dr. Ashcraft believes that recovery “takes a village,” so she will include the inspirational roles each person can play to promote personal and organizational recovery. The tools, approaches and roles all fit within a context of a wellness model described in her book, Offering Wellness.
xxxxxLearning Objectives:
xxxxx xxxxx* Review ways of using recovery approaches to inspire & support personal recovery.
xxxxx xxxxx* Apply recovery approaches to organizational recovery.
xxxxx xxxxx* Develop irrespirable programs that will inspire both staff and participants
xxxxx xxxxxx to bring their strengths to the table.
Lori Ashcraft, Ph.D., CPRP is the Executive Director of Recovery Opportunities Center based in Phoenix, Arizona with Peer Support training, consulting and system development operating in 30 states and three countries. Dr. Ashcraft recently served as a professor for the University of Arizona teaching psycho-social rehabilitation and managing one of eight SAMHSA funded employment demonstration programs. Her latest book, Offering Wellness, provides insight to the “whole person” wellness and Recovery approach.

Plenary Sessions (choose one)
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 8:30 am
Protecting Resilience: Supporting Developmental Competence & Confidence in Children
xxxxxAnne Gearity, PhD, LICSW
xxxxxIndependent Practice, Mpls
xxxxxCommunity Faculty, University of Minnesota
xxxxxConsultant, Washburn Center for Children
Resilience is described as the ability to keep growing despite adversity. Many children experience significant risks to their well-being and sometimes these risks cannot be eliminated. Mental health, often symptom-driven, must keep focusing on protecting children's developmental mastery and their sense of security within the social community. This imperative is necessary to assure our programs are truly helpful and do not add to harm. Learn about how children are protected in the face of risks, how interventions support overall development and how security can be restored so that resilience becomes a possibility for each child.

Anne Gearity is a clinical social worker in independent practice with children, adolescents and adults, as well as a consultant to community programs and community faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Anne is also consultant for Washburn Center for Children's day treatment program in Minneapolis, MN, where she has developed a treatment intervention model for young children at serious risk due to trauma and attachment disruption. Anne has been involved with infant mental health initiatives since the 1970’s and received a Ph.D. in Clinical Social Work from the Institute for Clinical Social work in Chicago.

Plenary Sessions (choose one)
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 8:30 am
Falling in Love with Your Own Life, Yet Again
xxxxxPete Feigal
xxxxxNational Speaker & Consumer Advocate
xxxxxTilting at Windmills; Art That Moves
Need a refresher course on finding that spark everyday, the way to keep going during tough times and how to develop relationships with everyone you meet? This session will delve into the issues of forgiveness, how humor can save your life, and taking the hard knocks and turn them to advantages in our lives. About 97% of success in life is how we deal with others; there are easy ways to make meaningful connections, even with relationships that last only 30 seconds. Pete will discuss how to: overcome impatience and crabbiness, open the way for more love and healing, and learn that there is no such thing as "normal life."

Pete Feigal will share insights gained from his own experience with mental illness and the wisdom he’s learned from others to find new meaning, purpose and hope. Pete Feigal has battling clinical depression for forty years, and MS for twenty-three and has lived to "tell the tale." He has spoken nationally over fifteen hundred times in the last thirteen years for schools, colleges, prisons, corporations, synagogues, churches, medical professionals and police forces around the nation. Pete has run workshops for the HQ’s of American Express, Northwest Airlines, Medtronic, Seagate, Lutheran Social Services, and many other corporations. He runs disability-related programs for city, county, states and on a federal level. He is the co-founder of ‘Tilting At Windmills’, a theater and arts program for clients. Pete has taught at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, and was the first client ever to do Grand Rounds for the Mayo Clinic’s psychiatric section. He served for six years as the President of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Hennepin County. He also served on NAMI-MN’s State Board, served on Mental Health Resource’s Board of Directors and People Incorporated’s Advisory Councils, and with Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church’s Mental Illness Task Force. He also works as an inspirational speaker and artist for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Closing Address
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 11:20 am
Looking Ahead & Changing the Air that We Breathe
xxxxxDavid Wellstone
xxxxxCo-Founder, Wellstone Action!
xxxxxCo-Chair, Wellstone Action Advisory Board
Join us for an empowering and inspiring message about getting involved in our democracy. Learn how, as mental health professionals, our personal and professional commitment to change can impact the direction of mental health policy. The session will emphasize the “how, when and why” to get involved in the democratic process.

Paul David Wellstone, Jr. is the son of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. Along with his brother, David is the Co-Founder of Wellstone Action, a national center for training and leadership development for the progressive movement. Founded in January 2003, Wellstone Action's mission is to ignite leadership in people and power in communities to win change in the progressive tradition of Paul and Sheila Wellstone.

 


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