Please see below for some of the health and wellness workshops NYAPRS will be featuring at our annual conference this September 19-21. Also included will be a keynote address from CMHS Acting Director Paolo del Vecchio and our Healing Fair that includes free shiatsu, acupuncture and massage treatments. For more details, please go to: http://www.nyaprs.org/conferences/annual-conference/index.cfm.
NYAPRS Conference 2012 Health and Wellness Workshops
Integrated Health & Behavioral Health Track
Wednesday, September 19 – 1:15PM-2:30PM
WORKSHOP # 105 Re-Attaching the Body to the Mind and the Heart – Mike Stoltz, Clubhouse of Suffolk, Ronkonkoma, NY
WORKSHOP # 106 Center for Practice Innovations Brings Best Practices to NYS: Focus on Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders (FIT) – Nancy Covell, PhD, Forrest Foster, PhD, Paul Margolies, PhD & Lisa Dixon, MD, PhD, NYS Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY
Thursday, September 20 – 11:30AM-12:45PM
WORKSHOP # 131 Building Collaborations between Mental Health & Addiction Recovery Movements
Tom Hill, Faces and Voices of Recovery, Washington, DC; Joe Powell, Association of Persons Affected by Addiction, Dallas, TX;
Samuel Wiggins, AAS, BA, Friends of Recovery-New York, Albany, NY; Chacku Mathai, CPRP, NYAPRS, Webster, NY
Thursday, September 20 – 4:00PM-5:15PM
WORKSHOP # 150 SAMHSA Wellness Initiative: A Call to Action
Lauren Spiro, MA, Vanguard Communications, Kensington, MD; Carlton Whitmore, NYC Department for Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY
WORKSHOP # 153 Integrating the Role of the FCNS to Promote Recovery: What’s it All About?
Linda Carroll, RN, MSN, FCNS, Mental Health Association of Westchester, Tarrytown, NY
WORKSHOP # 154 NYS Department of Health Integration Project with Primary Care
Lloyd Sederer, MD, NYS Office of Mental Health, New York, NY
Friday, September 21 – 9:00AM – 10:15PM
WORKSHOP # 157 Wellness Coaching: An Emerging Practice in Integrated Behavioral and Physical Health
Tracy Carney, CPRP, CPS, Columbia, Montour, Snyder, Union County Behavioral Health Services, Danville, PA; Susan O’Toole, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, Pittsburgh, PA
WORKSHOP # 158 Collaborating Toward Recovery
Martha Ehlert, Onondaga Case Management Services Outpatient Behavioral Clinic, Syracuse, NY; Jason Erwin & Joan Conley, Onondaga Case Management Services Inc., Syracuse NY
Health, Healing & Recovery Track
Wednesday, September19 – 1:15PM-2:30PM
WORKSHOP # 107 Peace Work
Noelle Pollet, Heart Circle Consulting, West Camp, NY
WORKSHOP # 108 Yoga: Discovering Your True Nature as Bountiful, Beautiful, and Blissful
Dagny Alexander, LMY, CYT, Voorheesville, NY
Wednesday, September 19 – 2:45PM-4:00PM
WORKSHOP # 112 Recover the Joy Within and Then Claim the Joy That’s out There for You
Neville Morris, Endwell, NY
WORKSHOP # 118 Open Dialogue: An Alternative Approach to Healing
Nick Luchetti, MS, Windhorse Integrative Health, North Hampton, MA
WORKSHOP # 120 Making Ointment and Lotion for Health: Hands-on Self-Care
Grace Nichols, Albany, NY
Thursday, September 20 – 9:00AM-10:15AM
WORKSHOP # 128 Learning the Art of Resiliency
Sara Goodman, CPRP, Baltic Street AEH, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
WORKSHOP # 129 If I Can Do It, You Can Do It: Using Lived Experience to Improve Wellness
Jeremy Reuling, LCSW, Linda Carroll, RN, MSN, FCNS & Jeffrey Zitofsky, MHA of Westchester, Tarrytown, NY
Thursday, September 20 – 2:30PM-3:45PM
WORKSHOP # 142 Tobacco Dependence Treatment and Recovery: The New York State Partnership
Teresa Armon, RN, PMHNP-BC NYS Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY
Friday, September 21 – 9:00AM – 10:15PM
WORKSHOP # 156 The Power and Principles of Intentional Peer Support
Chris Hansen, BSW, LQSW, NZASW, ELMP
WORKSHOP # 162 Finding Peace and Standing on Solid Ground in a Changing World
Deborah Trueheart, Consultant, Sandown, NH
Friday, September 21 – 11:30AM – 12:45PM
WORKSHOP # 164 Self-Discovery through Theatre –
Kathleen Flynn-Bisson, MA, MCHES & Lisa Koop, Clubhouse of Suffolk County – Synergy Center PROS, Riverhead, NY
WORKSHOP # 166 Elephant Bites
Julie Desfosses, Creative Wellness Coalition, Rochester, NY
WORKSHOP # 167 The 3 Steps to a Quiet Mind
Brett Cotter, BA, Stress is Gone, LLC, Bayside, NY
WORKSHOP # 168 Healthy Living: An Approach Toward Self-Management and Wellness Integration
Marcia Prescott, Institute for Community Living, Inc., New York, NY
WORKSHOP # 170 Emotional CPR: Assisting People through an Emotional Crisis and Also As a Way of Life
Lauren Spiro, MA, Vanguard Communications, Kensington, MD