Breaking News on Key Mental Health Trends Featured at NYAPRS Executive Seminar April 21st - 22nd
Friday, March 5, 2010
NYAPRS Note: Once more, NYAPRS is very proud to present our annual Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation, a timely program developed to inform and assist visionary leaders by bringing them together with some of the state’s and nation’s leading agents for change. This year’s program offers a more implementation-based practical toolkit to bring new policy to practice, focusing on the themes of service reform, community integration, recovery innovations and integrated care. For more details, please go to www.nyaprs.org.
See you in April!
The NYAPRS Collective Presents
The NYAPRS 6th Annual Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation
Transforming Systems and Services: From Policy to Practice
April 21-22, 2010
Crowne Plaza Albany, NY
Program Schedule: http://www.nyaprs.org/PDF/NYAPRS_ES_bro_final.pdf
Registration Materials: http://www.nyaprs.org/PDF/NYAPRS_ES_registration_10_D.pdf
Michael Hogan, PhD, NYS Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY
Robert Bernstein, PhD, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington, DC
Margaret (Peggy) Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPR, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Freehold, NJ
Charles Ingoglia, MSW, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, Washington, DC
Mark Ragins, MD, Mental Health America, Los Angeles, CA
Rick Baron, MA, UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration, Pittsburgh, PA
Maria E. Restrepo-Toro, MS, CPRP, Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston, MA
Lisa Razzano, PhD, University of Illinois of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Also featuring:
Diane Grieder, Med, WNYCCP Consultant, Suffolk, VA
Janis Tondora, PsyD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health Department of Psychiatry,
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Dan O’Brien, Social Security Administration, Baltimore, MD
Allison Wishon Siegwarth, Policy Associate, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington, DC
In times of challenge and change, the NYAPRS Executive Seminar introduces ‘breaking news’ of emerging new service and support models that help demonstrate what the next wave of system and service transformation can bring.
Included are presentations aimed at:
Promoting individualized integrated person-centered support to help people with psychiatric disabilities move from patient to homeowner, worker, student, parent and investor
Overcoming fragmentation of care barriers to promote individualized, integrated ‘no wrong door’ recovery focused physical and behavioral health care
2010 Program Tracks
• Service Reform (SR)
• Policy Reform (PR)
• Community Integration (CI)
• Recovery Innovations (RI)
• Integrated Care (IC)
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The NYAPRS Collective Presents
NYAPRS 6th Annual Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation
April 21, 2009
8:00AM - 9:00AM Registration & Coffee with the Exhibitors
9:00AM - 9:15AM
Opening Remarks: Chacku (Mathew) Mathai, CPRP, Deputy Director and Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
9:15AM-10:15AM
Morning Keynote – Implementing Policies and Practices to Advance Recovery in Challenging Times
Michael Hogan, PhD, Commissioner, NYS Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY
10:15AM – 10:30AM BREAK
10:30AM–12:00PM Workshops: Round I
A. Washington Report: National Healthcare and Medicaid Reform - PR
Charles Ingoglia, Vice President 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
This session will offer a very timely and thorough review by experts from two of the nation’s leading mental health advocacy organizations of three top national issues including the state and projected impact of national health care reform efforts, emerging new Medicaid proposals and trends and the federal budget. Discussions will focus particularly on potential impact or changes Medicaid reform will have for New York State government, providers and consumers, along with a special focus on efforts to improve the Rehabilitation Option and the 1915.i Home And Community Based Mental Health Services Option.
B. Successful Practice and Systems Change: Person-Centered Planning Skill and Implementation - SR
Adele Gregory Gorges, Director, Western New York Care Coordination Program, Rochester, NY
Diane M. Grieder, MEd, Principal, AliPar, Inc., Suffolk, VA and WNYCCP Consultant
Janis Tondora, PsyD, Ass’t Clinical Professor, Yale University, Dep’t of Psychiatry, Program for Recovery & Community Health, New Haven, CT
The Western New York Care Coordination Project (WNYCCP) is a collaborative partnership among state and county governments, peers and family members, and mental health provider agencies. This session will demonstrate how leaders in the behavioral health community can begin to move the system away from the previous emphasis on maintenance and symptom management to recovery and community integration. Presenters will share what they have learned during the implementation of the WNYCCP including culture change, performance management, financial strategies and best practices.
C. Transforming Academic and Training Curricula to Promote Recovery - RI
Mark Ragins, MD, Director, DSG Recovery to Practice Initiative, MHA Los Angeles, Long Beach, CA
Lisa Razzano, PhD, Director of Training and Education Programs for the UIC National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
This presentation provides details of two exciting new initiatives designed to introduce and integrate recovery-oriented concepts into academic training programs for the nation’s behavioral healthcare workforce. Dr. Mark Ragins will provide an introduction to Development Services Group’s new 5-year SAMHSA-funded Recovery to Practice Initiative that he directs, which is aimed at reshaping academic curriculum for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses and other mental health counselors. Dr. Lisa Razzano will describe “Med Ed Ed”, a multi-level program large-scale, coordinated education and training effort that includes principles of recovery and other evidence-based practices that is designed to transform academic curricula in the medical, social and behavioral sciences.
D. Living Into Wholeness - RI
Debbie Whittle, Director, Technical Assistance Center, The National Empowerment Center, Lawrence, MA
Living Into Wholeness is an innovative non-pathological, wholeness-based approach, which proposes that at our very core is a state of wholeness that can be accessed in any moment. Participants in this interactive workshop will have an opportunity to learn the skills and principles of wholeness as well as simple practices to look beyond appearances, learn the power of words, understand the role of emotions, access innate wisdom, learn to re-frame “mental illness,” learn to be with what is and to transform habitual thought and behavior patterns to experience an intrinsic state of wholeness.
12:00PM – 1:00PM LUNCH
1:00PM - 1:15PM BREAK
1:15PM – 2:45PM Workshops Round II
A. System Change Using a Performance Improvement Model - SR
Robert Bernstein, Executive Director, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington, DC
Grant Mitchell, MD, Commissioner and
Melissa Staats, Deputy Commissioner, Westchester County Department of Mental Health, White Plains, NY
This presentation describes how the Westchester County Department of Mental Health has worked with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law to be one of five national demonstration sites of a new performance-improvement initiative aimed at identifying and addressing systemic barriers within mental health and other human services systems that are exposed when encounters between people with psychiatric disabilities and law enforcement are examined.
B. Implementing Collaborative ‘Concurrent’ Documentation - SR
William Schmelter, PhD, M.T.M. Services, LLC & National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare Consultant, Washington, DC
This session will share hands-on tools for implementing the innovative collaborative documentation approach that is gaining considerable national recognition. In concurrent documentation, staff form a more collaborative partnership with those they serve to transparently complete assessments, service plans and ongoing notes in ways that also satisfy all documentation-related requirements. The benefits include improved therapeutic relationships, service outcomes, staff morale and “show” rates.
C. Soteria and Other Alternatives to Psychiatric Hospitalization - RI
Susan Musante, Executive Director, Soteria-Alaska, Inc., Anchorage Alaska a
d CHOICES, Inc.
Steve Coe, Chief Executive Officer, Community Access, New York, NY
Peter Stastny, MD, Baltic Street Mental Health Clinic, International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR), Brooklyn, NY
This presentation offers details on how to develop and implement innovative residentially based service approaches designed to provide individuals in acute psychiatric distress the opportunity to recover in a non-coercive, home-like environment, with choice about medication, relying primarily on the creation of a sense of safety, support and personal relationships.
D. Olmstead Update: Implications of the 2010 Most Integrated Setting Coordinating Council (MISCC) Plan and Adult Home Lawsuit - CI
Ceylane Myers, Dir. of Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs, NYS Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Albany, NY
Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS and Representative of MISCC, Albany, NY
Cliff Zucker, Executive Director, Disability Advocates, Inc., Albany, NY
This session will provide an informative review of state efforts to advance the community integration of New Yorkers with psychiatric and related disabilities statewide through coordinated interagency efforts associated with New York’s Most Integrated Setting Coordinating Council. We will also hear an update on the outcome and anticipated impact of federal litigation concerning efforts to place and support adult home residents with psychiatric disabilities in the community.
2:45PM – 3:00PM BREAK
3:00PM – 4:30PM Workshops Round III
A. Taking Peer Services to Another Level - RI
Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP, Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Freehold, NJ; University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, School of Health Related Professionals, Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling, Scotch Plains, NJ
Tanya Stevens, Director, Peer Services Division, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
Steve Miccio, Executive Director, PEOPLe, Inc., Poughkeepsie, NY
Amy Colesante, Executive Director, Mental Health Empowerment Project, Albany, NY
There has been a recent explosion in the successful application of peer support and peer-run services to address a broad range of system challenges. The presenters will describe nationally recognized peer initiatives that help engage and serve people to successfully leave and stay out of the hospital, manage crises, improve their health and self-care, avoid incarceration, and achieve their employment and asset development goals.
B. Achieving the Promise of Eliminating Disparities - PR
Maria E. Restrepo-Toro, MS, CPRP, Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston, MA
Lisa Razzano, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy and Director of Training and Education Programs for the UIC National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability, Chicago, IL
Lenora Reid-Rose, MBA, Director, Cultural Competency & Diversity Initiatives, Center for Excellence on Cultural Competence, Nathan Kline Institute, Rochester, NY
This panel will offer a compelling presentation on what New York State needs to accomplish and prioritize in order to advance cultural competence across behavioral health systems. In addition, recognized disparities in the mental health system will be addressed.
C. Innovations in Integrated Physical and Behavioral Health Care - IC
Andrew Cleek, PsyD, Director, The Urban Institute for Behavioral Health, Institute for Community Living, New York, NY
Judith Wimmer, RN, Executive Director, Live Healthy Care Management Program, OptumHealth, Huntington, NY
Coleen Mimnagh, Peer Healthcare Coach, NYAPRS, Far Rockaway, NY
Elizabeth R. Stone, MA, CASAC-T, Field Supervisor, NYAPRS, Rocky Point, NY
Jody Silver and Marlene Reil, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, New York, NY
Last year, the NYS Department of Health funded seven “Chronic Illness Demonstration Projects” aimed at increasing the engagement, coordination and health care outcomes for groups of Medicaid beneficiaries with complex medical and mental health conditions. The panelists will provide details of new strategies that are working to help find, engage, enroll and serve and support such individuals in ways that also advance the integration of physical health and behavioral health services and peer support.
D. Mental Health Clinic Transformation - SR
Mark Ragins, MD, Medical Director, Mental Health America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
As the New York State Office of Mental Health moves forward with the implementation of new regulations, rates and services for all OMH-licensed mental health clinics, the presenter will offer proven strategies and approaches to mental health clinic transformation for executive and clinical leadership. Participants of this workshop will receive step by step direction towards achieving the highest standards of clinical care by implementing day to day practices focused on recovery-oriented, person-centered and integrated care. Dr. Ragins is a leading psychiatrist in the international recovery movement with considerable direct experience in building an integrated, recovery centered approach to clinical services.
The NYAPRS Collective Presents
NYAPRS 6th Annual Executive Seminar on System Transformation
April 22, 2010
7:30AM – 8:30AM Registration
8:30AM
Opening Remarks: Chacku Mathai, CPRP, Deputy Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
8:30AM – 9:30AM - Opening Plenary
Advancing Health and Financial Security for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP, Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Freehold, NJ; University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, School of Health Related Professionals, Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling, Scotch Plains, NJ
Dr. Swarbrick is the Director of the Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey’s Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives and is a leading author and nationally recognized leader in the peer support and recovery movement. She has been a tireless leader in the movement focused on addressing the poverty and health disparities in our community. Her recent work includes the development of innovative integrated peer support approaches to increasing employment, economic self-sufficiency, physical health and social inclusion outcomes for people with psychiatric disabilities.
9:30Am - 9:45AM BREAK
9:45AM – 11:15AM Workshops Round IV
A. Innovations in Recovery - RI
Donna Colonna, Chief Executive Officer/President,
Yves Ades, PhD, Senior Vice President, Services for the UnderServed, New York, NY
Ellen Healion, MA, Executive Director, Hands Across Long Island, Central Islip, NY
Edythe Schwartz, DSW, Executive Director, Putnam Family and Community Services, Carmel, NY
Michael Stoltz, MSW, Executive Director, Clubhouse of Suffolk, Ronkonkoma, NY
Leaders from four innovative community agencies describe the transformation process they have undertaken to assist their organizations to move towards recovery oriented, person-centered and culturally competent services. This presentation will highlight their efforts from an implementation and leadership perspective. Strategies, successes and barriers will be discussed so others may learn from their innovations and take hands-on information back to promote organizational transformation.
B. Community Integration Update: Asset Development, Employment and Housing - CI
Rick Baron, MA, Collaborative Consultant, Director of Knowledge Translation Activities both for the NIDRR-funded UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration of Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities, and for the NIMH-funded Center for Behavioral Health Services and Criminal Justice Research, UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration, Philadelphia, PA
Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP, Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Freehold, NJ; University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, School of Health Related Professionals, Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling, Scotch Plains, NJ
Oscar Jimenez, MPH, Director for Community and Economic Integration, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
This panel presentation will offer participants an inside and detailed look at national innovations and new projects that advance the community and economic integration of people with psychiatric disabilities.
C. New York City’s Mental Health Care Monitoring Initiative - SR
Thomas Smith, MD, Medical Director, NYC Mental Health Care Monitoring Initiative, New York State Office of Mental Health and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY
John B. Allen, Jr., Special Assistant to the Commissioner, NYS Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY
Trish Marsik, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Mental Health, New York City Dep’t. of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY
Carole Taylor, RN, MSN, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, Pittsburgh, PA
Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
The panelists will discuss details of recent efforts to encourage more active, responsive and voluntary engagement and service strategies to help “at risk” individuals who appear to be falling through the cracks of our community mental health systems. The positive experience of the Mental Health Care Monitoring Initiative in working with NYC community agencies to advance their capacity to successfully engage, support and respond to such individuals holds great promise for those looking for alternatives to coercion.
11:15AM - 11:30AM BREAK
11:30AM – 1:00PM Workshops Round V
A. OMH Update on Community Service Reform Initiatives - PR
Robert Myers, PhD, Senior Deputy Commissioner, Division Director, Adult Services,
Doug Ruderman, Director, Bureau of Program Coordination and Support, 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
This session will offer a timely presentation on the status and future direction of OMH’s progressive new recovery initiatives including Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS), Recovery Centers, and clinic and ambulatory restructuring.
B. Ticket to Work - CI
Dan O’Brien, Associate Commissioner, Social Security Administration, Office of Employment Support Programs, Baltimore, MD
Tom Gloss, Program Specialist, Social Security Administration Ticket to Work/CESSI, McLean, VA
Recent changes in federal regulations offer unprecedented opportunities for people with disabilities to return to work. The Ticket to Work is a voluntary employment program for people with disabilities administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) that offers disability beneficiaries between the ages of 18-64 access to expanded opportunities to obtain the services and supports that they need to work and to achieve their employment goals. SSA does this by paying providers of services, referred to as “Employment Networks” or “ENs”, for assisting beneficiaries to reach designated Milestones and Outcomes associated with achieving self-supporting employment. An EN can be any agency or organization that provides or is equipped to provide employment-related services and supports to individuals who have disabilities, including psychiatric disabilities. This presentation will offer direct guidance on how to become an EN and maximize the combined revenue potential for your agency through Medicaid, SSA and state aid for supporting people with psychiatric disabilities to achieve employment and economic self-sufficiency outcomes.
C. Innovations in Integrated Dual Disorders Care - IC
John Challis, Director of T and TA, Center of Excellence for Integrated Care, New York, NY
Nancy H. Covell, PhD, Project Director, EBPTAC/Center for Practice Innovations - Division of Mental Health Services and Policy Research, New York, NY
Chacku Mathai, CPRP, Deputy Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
This session will present state-of-the-art advances and current implementation efforts for integrated treatment for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions.
D. Connected Care - An Integrative Approach to Improving Health Outcomes - IC
James Schuster, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, Pittsburgh, PA
John Lovelace, MS, MSIS, President, UPMC for You, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
It has been widely published that people with psychiatric disabilities often live significantly shorter lives than their peers without these conditions. Working jointly, UPMC for You and Community Care Behavioral Health Organization have joined in a partnership with the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, PA Department of Public Welfare and The Center for Health Care Strategies to design and implement an information-sharing and outreach program to integrate health and behavioral health care, involving teams of primary care, behavioral care, human services and medical specialists to improve these outcomes. This session will describe the design of the program, including significant and continuing consumer participation and leadership, implementation, goals, and results to date.
Program Schedule: http://www.nyaprs.org/PDF/NYAPRS_ES_bro_final.pdf
Registration Materials: http://www.nyaprs.org/PDF/NYAPRS_ES_registration_10_D.pdf