"Rejuvenating
Our Promise" - Community Mental Health Conference
Who
Should Attend?
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- 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
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- 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
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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.
Please check back for further
detailed information coming soon.
