Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Fighting Forced Treatment from Coast to Coast (Andrea Wegner, Cherene Caraco, Ruthanne Becker, Harvey Rosenthal)
Role Drift in the Peer Specialist Role (Elizabeth ‘Mya’ Haley, Abaigel ‘Abbe’ Duke)
Creating Cultures of Support & Recovery Across Diverse Chosen Families, Generations & Communities (Michelle Garcia)
Overshadowed: Stories of Stigma in the Healthcare System (Alex Frisina, Clarence Jordan)
PeerTAC Peer Specialist Listening Forum (Rita Cronise, Yvette Kelly)
Racial (In)Justice and Employment (Paul Margolies, Raymond Gregory, Gary Scannevin, Norman Kim)
Healing through Spiritual Practices with a Trauma Informed Lens (Patty Blum, Lori Ashcraft)
Learning from Each Other: Bringing Movement Elders and Young Leaders Together (Chacku Mathai, Tiara Springer-Love, Jessi Davis, Joe Powell)
Hospital Discharge Plans that Work (David Ruiz, Nicholas Coulter, Adam Selon, Alex Rowan-Hazlerigg)
Effective Individual and Group Peer Support Supervision Practices (Dillon Browne)
Contracting Peer Delivered Services with CCBHCs and Managed Care Organizations (Anthony Fox, Anna Gray, Shannon Higbee)
Employment – Expanding Outcomes, Building Success (Regina Kaiser, Ruth Gonzales)
New York’s Proposed Medicaid Changes: What They Could Mean for You (Lauren Tobias)
Trauma Informed Peer Support for Sexual and Gender Diverse Communities (Elise Diamond)
Rhythms for Resilience & Connection (Chrys Ballerano)
KEYNOTE: Healing Through Hip Hop (Christopher ‘Mic Handz’ Rogers, Jerald ‘DJ Kareen’ Jenkins, Luis ‘Dj LOL’ Lopez, Chacku Mathai, Elizabeth Breier, Amanda Saake)
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Moving Through Times of Personal Crisis (Cherene Caraco, Lori Ashcraft, Jeff McQueen)
What Can Your ILC Do For You? (Lindsay Miller, Stephanie Orlando, Aileen Martin, Doug Hovey)
Passing and Protecting Criminal Justice Reform Legislation (Chack Mathai, Victor Pate, Evelyn Graham-Nyaasi)
Intersected: Community Dialogue on Psychiatric Systems, Lived Experience and Intersections with Other Contexts of Lived Experience (Ro Speight, Danielle Lopez, Tracy Puglisi)
Listening to the Peer Workforce: Top Ten Recommendations (Jeremy Reuling, Jessica Wolf, Rita Cronise)
Wellness and Recovery (Resilience) Story Circle, Part I (Deborah Wilcox, Theresa Hall)
Trauma and the Workplace (Teena Brooks, LaVerne Miller, Patrice Peterson, Maryam Husamudeen, Cathy Cave, Helen ‘Skip’ Skipper)
The Personal is the Political (Vesper Moore, Leah Harris, Harvey Rosenthal)
KEYNOTE: Daryl McGraw
Keeping the Movement Moving (Laura Prescott, Gayle Bluebird, Laura Van Tosh)
Mental Health in the Schools (Kelly Davis, Dawn Yuster, Luke Sikinyi)
Did They Say That? Yes They Did! – Dealing with Microaggressions in Supervision (Jonathan Edwards, Jessica Wolf)
The Development of a Peer Crisis Continuum (Jeremy Reuling, Maria Kavouras, Shannon Higbee, Susan Musante)
The Power of Our Story (Patty Blum, Greg Parnell)
Clubhouses in the Recovery Continuum (Nicole Patton, Alex Rowan-Hazlerigg, Tiana Coleman, David Plotka, Kathleen Sanicola, Michael Finley, Katrina Grant)
Strategies for Developing the Justice Peer Workforce (LaVerne Miller, Helen ‘Skip’ Skipper)
KEYNOTE: Paolo del Vecchio
Federal Public Policy Panel (Jennifer Mathis, Dara Kass, Paolo del Vecchio, Harvey Rosenthal)
Strategies for a Successful Re-Entry (Helen ‘Skip’ Skipper, Stanley Obijuru)
No, Nothing, None! Answers to Three Critical Questions About Supervision of Peer Supporters (Joanne Forbes, Amy Spagnola, Rita Cronise, Gita Enders, Jonathan Edwards)
MyBody, MyLife: Physical Wellness Matters for Everyone (Kristopher Bly)
Multiple Pathways to Employment (Len Statham, Rob Statham)
Resilience in Recovery/Bathing in the Joy of Life (Neville Morris)
Creative Recovery (Rebecca Nelson, Ariel Rowland, Gayle Bluebird)
Zumba (Greg Parnell)
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Peer Service Innovations Across the Nation (Cherene Caraco, Patrick Hendry, Steve Miccio)
Approach Matters: What is Psych Rehab and Why Should I Ask for It? (Daniella Labate-Covelli, Steve Nawotniak, Brittany Higgins)
Radical Self-Care: A Springboard to My Higher Self (Emily Grossman)
Successful Aging of People with Major Mental Health Challenges (Michael Friedman, Carl Blumenthal, Harvey Rosenthal)
Empowering the Next Generation of Disability Human Rights Leaders Through Multigenerational Collaboration (Bianca Logan, Kevin Smith, Stephanie Orlando)
NYAPRS Anti-Racism Initiative: Steps Forward in the Journey We’ve Begun (David Ferencz, John FitzGerald, Nicole Rodriguez, Magaly Polo, Helen ‘Skip’ Skipper)
TOWN HALL: Ann Sullivan
Navigating Youth Recovery: Peer Support as a Cornerstone (Tiara Springer-Love)
Foundations of Change (Carrie Woodcock)
The View from the States (Amy Brinkley, Amanda Saake, Nanette Larson, Harvey Rosenthal)
Seat at the Table (Steve Coe, Christina Sparrock, Dawn Yuster, Luke Sikinyi)
Making Mental Illness Fun Again (Dan Frey)
Ancestral Healing Practices (Antoine Craigwell, Yaa Elombe, Chief Fasanmi Obaniyi Fayemi Adesanya)
Finding a Way: Peer Navigation to OMH CORE Services (Emily Childress, Ian Rodgers)