NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is proud to partner with the NYS Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare in giving case managers a substantive introduction (highlighted below) to our DOH-funded Care Managers Training program at the upcoming annual conference of the NYS Case Management Coalition. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more details about the launch date of our 2-year training initiative.
New York State Case Management Coalition
16th Annual Training Conference
Navigating Care Coordination Through Ever-Shifting Seas
http://www.nyscasemanagementcoalition.org/Case_Management_BrochureMay_12_Final.pdf
May 1-2, 2012 – Holiday Inn – Wolf Road – Albany, NY
In cooperation with New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS)
and the NYS Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare’s (NYSCCBH) Health Workforce Retraining Initiative Healthcare’s (NYSCCBH)
Health Workforce Retraining Initiative
The Coalition mission offers case managers across New York State the opportunity to become one voice on many issues facing behavioral health and substance use field, which directly impacts the individuals we serve. In addition, the Coalition strives to provide quality, state-of-the art educational programming, information and networking opportunities on best practices in care coordination for professionals in behavioral health and substance use field.
Join your colleagues at the NYS Case Management Conference, May 1-2nd in Albany, NY. A lot is NEW this year! A shorter 1 1/2 day conference, which will allow you and your colleagues less time away from your office to receive the information necessary to keep abreast of the many changes facing the transformation of case management to care management for professionals in the substance use and behavioral health field. A new location – offering wonderful accommodations, pool and networking area, and a convenient location in the heart of shopping, restaurants and other activities. And, the opportunity to hear national and state leaders on care management.
Register today!
Discount Hotel Registration Deadline April 18, 2012
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New York State Case Management Coalition
2012 Annual Training Conference
Navigating Care Coordination Through Ever-Shifting Seas
May 1-2, 2012 – Holiday Inn – Wolf Road – Albany, NY
Program Agenda
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
8:30am – 9:45am Registration
9:45am – 10:00am Welcome
Jackie Negri, Director, NYS Case Management Coalition
Edye Schwartz, DSW, Director of Systems Transformation Initiatives, New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS)
Lauri Cole, Executive Director, NYS Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
10:00am – 11:30am
The Future Role of Care Coordination in Health Homes & Managed Care
Greg Allen, MSW, Director, Program Development and Management, NYS Department of Health
Robert Myers, PhD, Senior Deputy Commissioner, Director of Adult Services, NYS Office of Mental Health
Douglas Ruderman, LCSW-R, Director, Bureau of Program Coordination and Support, NYS Office of Mental Health
11:45am – 1:00pm
Care Coordination and Health Homes: Phase I Providers’ Lessons Learned
Diana Simons, Program Manager, Mental Health Care Coordination, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Jessica Manuel, Supervisor , Partnership of Hope, Brooklyn
Donnell Simon, MPA, PSCH Coordinator for Blended Case Management Queens
Edward Butz, Managing Director, Rehabilitation Support Services, Inc.
1:00pm – 2:15pm
NYS Case Management Coalition Awards Luncheon & Annual Meeting of Corporation
Case Management Public Policy Award
Douglas Ruderman, LCSW-R, Director, Bureau of Program Coordination and Support, NYS Office of Mental Health
Linda Fraser, Director of Coordinated Mental Health Services, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Case Management Employees of the Year Award
Each agency will have the opportunity to nominate one employee to be recognized as the Case Management Employee of the Year by the NYS Case Management Coalition. Award nomination forms will be sent via the NYS Case Management List Serve. If you are not signed up for the list serve, please go to www.nyscasemanagementcoalition.org
2:30pm – 3:45pm
Concurrent Sessions
1. Life is a Journey, Not a Destination: The Seas Can Be Rough!
Mary Lee Walawendar, Program Director, MH Residential Programs, Transitional Living Services
2. The Right Services, Right Time: Successfully Working with Hard to Serve Individuals
Chandra Banks, Director of Residential Services, Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers
Renee Parisi, Housing Specialist, Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers
Wayne Barnes, Transitional Case Manager, Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers
3. Person-Centered Care Management Practice
Valerie Way, Consultant, NYAPRS/NYSCCBH Health Workforce Retraining Initiative and Senior Program Associate, New York Care Coordination Program
4. How Care Coordinators Can Stay Abreast of Benefits & Employment Opportunities: Understanding Linkages and Resources
John Allen, Special Assistant to the Commissioner, Director – Bureau of Recipient Affairs, NYS Office of Mental Health
5. Drumming and Recreational Music Making: Activities for Fun & Wellness
Kelly Darrow, LCSW, Vice President, Mental Health Association of Westchester
6. Peer Support: A Bridger’s State of Mind
Sylvia Gonzalez, Program Coordinator and William Brown, Peer Specialist, PSCH
7. Cultural Competence the Transforming Variable: Improving the Consumers Experience and Reducing Cost
Lenora Reid-Rose, MBA, Director, Cultural Competence & Diversity Initiatives, Coordinated Care Services, Inc.
3:45pm – 4:00pm
Break
4:00pm – 5:15pm Concurrent Sessions
1. Legal Issues in Agreements Between Behavioral Health Providers and Health Homes & Managed Care Organizations
Whitney Magee Phelps, Of Counsel, Greenberg Traurig
2. Adult Home Supportive Case Management: The Team – Individual Supportive Case Management Combined with Interactive Groups, Gatherings and Events all Promoting a Mindset Toward Wellness
Siobhan DiDato, Supportive Case Manager & Joseph DeMatteo, Assistant Case Manager, Human Development Services of Westchester
3. Recovery-Prevention-Treatment: A New Paradigm
Betty Currier, BA, CASAC-R, CPP-R, Consultant to the Council on Addictions of New York State (CANYS) and a founding Board Member of Friends of Recovery New York (FOR-NY)
4. Critical Time Intervention Skills in Care Management
These panelists are affiliated with NYAPRS/NYSCCBH Health Workforce Retraining Initiative
Tara Karoleski , Coordinator, Adult Single Point of Access & Accountability, Erie County, Department of Mental Health
Julie Notaro, Ms.Ed., CASAC, Director of Care Coordination Services, Spectrum Human Services
Robert Cannata, LCSW, Director of Life Management Services, Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers
5. Kings Park – Stories from an American Mental Institution
Moderator: Andrea Kocsis, LCSW, Executive Director, Human Development Services of Westchester
6. Yoga Kathleen Fisk, Yoga Instructor
5:15pm – 8:00pm
Dinner Is On Your Own
8:00pm
Social Poolside Networking with Music
New York State Case Management Coalition
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Breakfast Is On Your Own
Special Session
9:00am – 12noon
Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect Kelly Darrow, LCSW, Vice President, MHA of Westchester (3 hours)
8:30am – 9:45am
Care Coordination: Role in Promoting Health in Health Homes
Daryl Sharp, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, NPP, NYAPRS/NYSCCBH Health Workforce Retraining Initiative, and Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity, School of Nursing, University of Rochester
10:00am – 11:15am
Peer Services: Anticipating the New Healthcare Environment
Jason Erwin, Director of Peer Services, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc.
Laura Elliot-Engel, President of the Board of Directors, Friends of Recovery New York (FOR-NY)
Thomas Lane, National Director Consumer & Recovery Services, Magellan Health Services
11:15am – 11:30am Break & Check Out
11:30am – 12:45pm
Concurrent Sessions
1. Class Standards – Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
Elatisha Kirnon, Acting Director, Bureau of Cultual Competence, NYS Office of Mental Health
2. Developing Person Centered Recovery Plans
Valerie Way, Consultant, NYAPRS/NYSCCBH Health Workforce Retraining Initiative and Senior Program Associate, New York Care Coordination Program
3. Motivational Interviewing: The Spirit and the Skills
Cheryl Lynn Martin, MA RN CASAC
Coordinator, Substance Use & Co-Occurring Disorders, Motivational Interviewing Network Trainer, Monroe County Office of Mental Health
4. Understanding What Your Clients Are Recovering From
Andrew O’Grady, LSCW-R, Director of Adult Services
Lisa Connolly, LMHC, Department Manager, Mental Health America in Dutchess County
5. Film – Killing Us Softly 4 – Advertising’s Image of Women
Moderator: Andrea Kocsis, LCSW, Executive Director, Human Development Services of Westchester
12:45pm Adjournment
Award Winners
Linda Fraser
Director of Coordinated Mental Health Services, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Ms. Fraser is a graduate of Baruch College/CUNY and N.Y.U. Wagner School of Public Service and has worked in the field of mental health for over 30 years. Prior to coming to the then N.Y.C. Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services in 1982, she worked as Assistant Program Director and Grants Manager for the Trustees of Columbia Community Support system Program in Central Harlem. Ms. Fraser began her career at the Department as a Consultant, then Sr. Consultant, monitoring and overseeing program services in The Bronx until 1995 when she became Borough Coordinator and then Acting Director for the Manhattan Borough Office providing direction and supervision for the oversight of programs in that borough including the development of several Reinvestment plans. She also functioned as the point person for Geriatric mental health. In 2000, as an Associate Staff Analyst, Ms. Fraser moved to the Department’s Office of Managed Care and participated in the implementation of the then hopeful Special Needs Plans for seriously mentally ill New Yorkers. In this capacity she was instrumental, in collaboration with SOMH, in setting the initial structure of the Adult Single Point of Access for Assertive Community Treatment and Case Management Programs (SPOA). When NYCDMH, MR & AS merged with NYCDOH Ms. Fraser served on two groups that helped to forge the successful merger: The NYC Department of Health Planning Council and the Behavioral Science/Social Science Integration Taskforce. It was also during this time that she began serving on the HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council of New York, its Mental Health committee, and its Priority Setting and Resource Allocation Committee. In 2002 Ms. Fraser began functioning as Coordinator for SPOA, ACT and Case Management for the Division and in July 2007 became Director of the newly formed Office of Coordinated Mental Health Services. In this capacity she has been instrumental in providing oversight and developing policy and best practices for the programs under her office’s purview including ACT, Case Management (Intensive, Supportive and the Blended models for Adults and Youth), Mobile Crisis, Crisis Outreach, Bridger, as well as Geriatric mental health initiatives. OCMHC now focuses on ACT and Behavioral Health Care Coordination and Bridger programs and interfaces with the Office of Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) as well as the NYS Office of Mental Health.
Douglas Ruderman LCSW-R, Director, Bureau of Program Coordination and Support, New York State Office of Mental Health
Doug Ruderman is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, with a M.S.W. from the School of Social Welfare and has worked in the mental health for 30 years. Doug started his career at the local level, working both at the Albany County Department of Mental Health and the Capital District Psychiatric Center, in both mobile crisis and intensive case management. In 2001, Doug started in the capacity of Assistant Director of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Case Management. His expertise and vision assisted in the development of the blended case management model and managed the intensive and supported case management model. His commitment to recovery under the leadership of the Office, led to his involvement for the implementation of Personalized Recovery Oriented Services Program (PROS) and the implementation of evidence-based programs. As the Director of the Bureau of Program Coordination and Support, a position he has held since 2006, he is responsible for three units within the division of adult community services. These include the Care Coordination Unit – Targeted Case Management; Assertive Community Treatment Unit (ACT) and Rehabilitation Unit. As behavioral health continues to go thru unprecedented changes, Doug’s commitment and leadership is an asset to all providers and peers he works with on a daily basis. Currently, he is in charge of implementing OMH’s participation in Health Homes for Medicaid enrollees with chronic conditions initiative. This involves managing all aspects of this project to ensure clients of OMH’s funded programs receive improved coordination of care with the goal of better physical, behavioral and mental health, and continued recovery. He is managing the movement of the targeted case management programs into health homes, working tirelessly with providers and peers around the state to assist in a smooth transition. Doug is a sought after speaker, making his rounds at all of the adult provider and peer associations’ conferences and board meetings. He is accessible for questions, advice and direction which is always in the best interest of the client. His commitment, passion and leadership is recognized by his colleagues, not only in Albany, but across New York State.