Washington Report: National Healthcare and Medicaid Reform Update

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Charles Ingoglia, MSW
VP, Public Policy and Technical Assistance
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, Washington, DC

Allison Wishon Siegwarth
Policy Associate
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Washington, DC

Mental Health Clinic Transformation

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Mark Ragins, MD
Medical Director
Mental Health America Los Angeles--The Village
Los Angeles, CA

Successful Practice and Systems Change:
Person-Centered Planning Skill and Implementation

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Adele Gregory Gorges
Director
WNY Care Coordination Project, Rochester, NY

Diane M. Grieder, MEd
Principal
AliPar, Inc., Suffolk, VA

Janis Tondora, PsyD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Yale University Department of Psychiatry,
New Haven, CT

Advancing Health and Financial Security for People with Disabilities

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Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP
Institute for Wellness & Recovery Initiatives
Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey
Freehold, NJ and
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Scotch Plains, NJ

Transforming Academic and Training Curricula to Promote Recovery

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Mark Ragins, MD
Director
DSG Recovery to Practice Initiative
MHA Los Angeles, Long Beach, CA

Lisa Razzano, PhD
Director of Training and Education Programs
UIC National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

Best Practice Innovations in Recovery

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Donna Colonna, MS
Chief Executive Officer/President and
Yves Ades, PhD
Senior Vice President
Services for the UnderServed
New York, NY

Michael Stoltz, LCSW
Executive Director
Clubhouse of Suffolk
Ronkonkoma, NY

Edythe Schwartz, DSW
Executive Director
Putnam Family and Community Services
Carmel, NY

System Change Using a Performance Improvement Model

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Robert Bernstein, PhD
Executive Director
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Washington, DC

Grant Mitchell, MD
Commissioner and
Melissa Staats
Deputy Commissioner
Westchester County Dept. of Mental Health
White Plains, NY

Community Integration Update:Asset Development, Employment and Housing

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Rick Baron, MA
Consultant and Director of Knowledge Translation Activities for the UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration of Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities and the Center for Behavioral Health Services and Criminal Justice Research
Philadelphia, PA

Oscar Jimenez, MPH
Director for Community and Economic Integration
NYAPRS
Albany, NY

Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP
Institute for Wellness & Recovery Initiatives Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey Freehold, NJ and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Health Related Professionals, Dept. of Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Counseling Scotch Plains, NJ

Implementing Collaborative "Concurrent" Documentation

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William Schmelter, PhD
M.T.M. Services, LLC &
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare Consultant
Washington, DC

New York City's Mental Health Care Monitoring Initiative

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Carole Taylor, RN, MSN
Chief Clinical Officer
Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
Pittsburgh, PA

Soteria and Other Alternatives to Psychiatric Hospitalization

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Susan Musante
Executive Director
Soteria-Alaska, Inc. and CHOICES, Inc.
Anchorage, AK

Steve Coe
Chief Executive Officer
Community Access
New York, NY

Peter Stastny, MD
Baltic Street Mental Health Clinic
International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery
Brooklyn, NY

OMH Update on Community Service Reform Initiatives

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Robert Myers, PhD
Senior Deputy Commissioner and Division Director for Adult Services,
Doug Ruderman, LCSW
Director, Bureau of Program Coordination and Support for Adult Services,
David Bucciferro
Director of Rehabilitation Services, and
John B. Allen, Jr.
Special Assistant to the Commissioner

NYS Office of Mental Health
Albany, NY

Olmstead Update: Implications of the
2010 MISCC Plan and Adult Home Lawsuit

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Ceylane K. Meyers
Dir. of Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs
NYS OMRDD
Albany, NY

Geoff Lieberman
Executive Director
Coalition of Aged Institutionalized and Disabled
New York, NY

Cliff Zucker
Executive Director
Disability Advocates, Inc.
Albany, NY

The Ticket to Work: An Update

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Dan O'Brien
Associate Commissioner
Social Security Administration Office of Employment Support Programs
Baltimore, MD and
Tom Gloss
Program Specialist
Social Security Administration Ticket to Work/CESSI
McLean, VA

Taking Peer Services to Another Level

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Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP
Institute for Wellness & Recovery Initiatives Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey Freehold, NJ and
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
School of Health Related Professionals
Scotch Plains, NJ

Tanya Stevens
Director, Peer Services Division
NYAPRS
Albany, NY

Integrated Dual Disorders Care Innovations

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John Challis, BA, BSW, DipTeach
Director of T and TA
Center of Excellence for Integrated Care
New York, NY

Chacku Mathai, CPRP
Associate Executive Director
NYAPRS
Albany, NY

Nancy H. Covell, PhD
Project Director, Division of Mental Health Services and Policy Research
EBTAC/Center for Practice Innovations
New York, NY

Innovations in Integrated Physical and Behavioral Health Care

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Judith Wimmer, RN
Executive Director
Live Healthy Care Management Program, OptumHealth
Huntington, NY

Jody Silver
Director of Consumer Affairs
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Connected Care:An Integrative Approach to Improving Health Outcomes

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James Schuster, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
Pittsburgh, PA and
John Lovelace, MS, MSIS
President
UPMC for You, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA