NYAPRS is very pleased to announce our featured speakers at this year’s NYAPRS Annual Conference, “A New Alliance: It Takes a Community” to be held September 21-3, at the Villa Roma Resort and Conference Center at Callicoon, NY:
The Courage to Disrupt: Being a Peacock in the Land of Penguins
Cherene Caraco, Chief Executive Officer Promise Resource Network
Explore what it would take to flip the script and develop alternatives to illness-based approaches, criminalization, coercion and incarceration from the 2021 Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law’s Innovator of the Year.
NYS Public Policy Town Hall
Jihoon Kim, Deputy Secretary for Human Services and Mental Hygiene
Ann Sullivan MD, Commissioner NYS Office of Mental Health
Amanda Saake, Special Assistant to the Commission; Director, Bureau of Recipient Affairs
Come join a candid discussion about mental health and disability policy with New York’s top officials: no topic is off limits!
Healing and Social Change Through Hip Hop
Luis O. Lopez (DJ LOL), DJKareem (Jerald Jenkins), Celia Brown, Chacku Mathai, Amanda Saake, Liz Brier and Hip Hop artist and organizer Mic Handz,
Hip Hop emerged out of trauma. There are deep parallels between the “why” of Hip Hop and the “why” of our consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement in mental health. Our presenters will inspire us all to value our diversity and intersectionality, engage our collective power, and change the social conditions that outraged us in the first place.
Lessons of the Movement
Gayle Bluebird, Laura van Tosh, Moe Armstrong, Celia Brown; Moderator: Harvey Rosenthal
Share in the wisdom and inspiration of 3 of the movement’s most important pioneers and winners of this year’s NYAPRS Sally Zinman Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Way Forward: A New Generation of Leaders
Jalyn Radziminski, Bazelon Center; Lydia X.Z. Brown, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, Kelly Davis, Associate Vice President of Peer and Youth Advocacy at Mental Health America; Vesper Moore, COO, Kiva Centers
Meet some of the movement’s most respected new leaders, and hear how they are offering a new vision and sharing new strategies to lead us forward to address our most pressing priorities.
Dear Me. Life is Short. Talk Ugly
Joseph Green, CEO, LMS Voice Spoken Word Artist
A professional storyteller, award-winning spoken word artist, educator, narrative disruptor, and person in sustained recovery, Joseph will offer a very powerful performance that will inspire and support people engaged in the often daunting process of recovery.
Please note that we have worked closely with the hotel to provide the following COVID RELATED PROTECTIONS:
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We will only admit those who show proof of both vaccines and the first booster.
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All hotel staff required to wear masks and gloves
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All common areas will be disinfected on an hourly basis
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Staff’s temperatures are taken before they start their shift
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Health & Hygiene reminders are posted throughout the resort
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We will make NYAPRS Conference designed masks available for everyone, and people will be encouraged to mask up.
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Social distancing personal preferences will be honored
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Please use the REGISTRATION LINK to be found in the flyer below or at https://tinyurl.com/2p9he5wt. Note that:
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If you are looking to register more than one person, you must register them individually. If you are registering people and want them to share a room, you can go ahead and register them together.
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If you are registering 5 people, make sure you take advantage of our BUY-5-GET-1 Free Promotion by contacting the hotel directly at 1-800-727-8455 and select #1 for reservations.
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To register for one-night only, contact the hotel directly at 1-800-727-8455 and select #1 for reservations.
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We have 1 bus leaving Long Island and 2 from NYS
NEW YORK CITY: Contact ICL’s Charles Sanchez at csanchez@iclinc.net2 to reserve your seat on 1-2 buses leaving Union Square at 8:00 am on Wednesday September 21.
LONG ISLAND There will be a bus leaving on Wednesday September 21 as follows:
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5:30 am from the Association for Mental Health and Wellness at 1380 Roanoke Ave, Riverhead 11901 and then
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6:30 am at 939 Johnson Avenue Ronkonkoma, NY 11779 and then making a stop at
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7:30 at the Mental Health Association of Nassau County at 16 Main Street Hempstead, NY 11550
Cost is $52.00 per person
Contact Aleeyah Page apage@mhanc.org or at 516-361-9086 or
Keyonna Hill khill@mhanc.org or at 516-361-7048
Contact them today: Seats are limited!
Come on back home: we can’t wait to see you in September!
