NYAPRS Note: Thanks to the STAR Center for sharing the opportunities below to learn more about wellness, peer supervision, poverty and mental health, and yoga and meditation for well-being!
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Upcoming Webinars:
Title: Promoting Family Wellness using WRAP®
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Time: 2 – 3:30 p.m. ET
Presenter: Matthew Federici
Description: Through this webinar, Matthew will discuss his recovery experience personally, professionally and as a family member despite challenges in the mental health system care. He will be supported by speakers in his own family from the experiential perspectives of the wellness journey in the family during difficult times and beyond. A key resource in his presentation is how the evidenced based Wellness Recovery Action Plan applies in the context of the individual’s and the family’s journey of recovery. Through this webinar participants will be able to:
1. Understand the key concepts and action plans of WRAP
2. Describe how WRAP may benefit a families wellness
3. Identify next steps to learning and sharing WRAP with other families
Title: Supervision Strategies for Peer Recovery Support Providers (BRSS TACS)
Date: Friday, November 7, 2014
Presenters: Beverly J. Haberle, MHS, LPC, CAADC and Tanya Stevens; NYAPRS
Who Should Attend: Consumers and people in recovery, behavioral health providers, peer providers, providers of other health and human services (primary health care, housing, employment), policymakers, and researchers.
Title: Poverty and Mental Health
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Time: 11am-12pm PST
Speakers: Judith Shiprack, Mulnomah County Oregon Commissioner, AJ French,CRSS, Sacred Creations Illinois
This webinar will focus on poverty and mental health with a presentation from renowned leaders in addressing poverty issues, Judith Shiprack, Mulnomah County Oregon Commissioner; and AJ French, Executive Director of Sacred Creations a Statewide non profit organization in Illinois.
Both speakers will offer background on their personal and professional experiences as it relates to poverty and mental health, provide relevant statistics on this issue and share best practices regarding successful methods to support individuals and communities as it relates to this topic.
Featured Resources:
Featured Resource:
The October issue of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Clinical Digest for Health Professionals, Yoga for Health, summarizes current scientific evidence about yoga for health conditions, including chronic low-back pain, asthma, and arthritis. The scientific evidence to date suggests that a carefully adapted set of yoga poses may help reduce pain and improve function in people with chronic low-back pain. Studies also suggest that practicing yoga (as well as other forms of regular exercise) might confer other health benefits such as reducing heart rate and blood pressure, and may also help alleviate anxiety and depression. Other research suggests yoga’s deep breathing is not helpful for asthma, and studies looking at yoga and arthritis have had mixed results.
Check out the Scientific Results of Yoga for Health and Well-Being Video
Live Online Chats:
Join the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in live online chats that cover a variety of health topics. NCCAM be focusing on complementary health approaches for a specific health topic. An expert in scientific and health issues will be available to answer your questions. Most chats will occur on the last Thursday of each month. Dates, times, and topics may change and will be announced on the NCCAM events page and through Twitter and Facebook.
To join a chat that we’re hosting, use the hashtag #nccamchat. If NCCAM is participating in another organization’s chat, they will share the hashtag where the conversation is taking place.
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The STAR Center is funded by a grant from the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.