NYAPRS Note: This is a defining moment for our work and our field, inthe midst of the most fundamental and fastest changes we have ever seen.
Such times demand vision, insight and input from across our communities.
NYAPRS’s upcoming April 25-6 Executive Seminar gathers together a
stellar array of national and state experts and state policy, provider
and peer leaders to help us shape and prepare for what lies ahead.
This year’s Seminar panels are comprised of experts who typically
keynote national conferences these days….but you won’t have to travel
beyond Albany to see them all in the same place.
Our program includes national leaders like:
* Paul Appelbaum, Ron Manderscheid and Dan Fisher discussing the
impact of increased national and state attention on mental health issues
* Arthur Evans, Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health
and Intellectual disAbility Services Commissioner on healthcare
transformation and grounding multicultural competencies
* Delaware Commissioner Kevin Huckshorn, former US Dep’t of
Justice attorney Sam Bagenstos and the Bazelon Center’s Bob Bernstein
providing an exciting example of the transformational impact of a state
Olmstead plan
* Larry Fricks, Peggy Swarbrick, Tom Hill, Joe Powell and Alan
Rabideau describing the latest in peer service innovations
* Open Minds’ Monica Oss, noted expert on the implications of
financing changes on behavioral health delivery systems
* Cheri Dolezal (Washington), Joe Powell (Texas) and Tom Lane
(Pennsylvania) detailing some impressive managed care designs that have
enhanced recovery and peer support initiatives
* NDRI’s Stan Sachs on innovations in integrating addiction,
mental health and medical care
* National consultant Dick Dougherty taking a look at promising
national healthcare innovations
* SAMHSA’s Wilma Townsend and Dennis Romero
The Seminar also features a broad array of New York State officials,
including Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson, OMH Acting Commissioner
Kristin Woodlock and OASAS Commissioner Arlene Gonzalez-Sanchez, and
leading state change agents who will help us stay on top of prominent
state policy changes and programmatic innovations.
Please see program schedule details below and go to
https://registration.nyaprs.org/ to register today!
NYAPRS Collective Presents 9th Annual Executive Seminar on Systems
Transformation
Mastering the Opportunities in Healthcare, Olmstead and Budget Reforms
in New York State
April 25-26, 2013
Hotel Albany State and Lodge Streets, Albany, NY
Register Today at https://registration.nyaprs.org/
Program Schedule Day 1 – April 25, 2013
9:30 am – 9:45 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Edye Schwartz, DSW, LCSW-R, Director for Systems Transformation, NYAPRS,
Mahopac, NY
Chacku Mathai, CPRP, Associate Executive Director, NYAPRS, Rochester, NY
Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
9:45 am – 11:00 am Tools for Today and Tomorrow: Inspiration,
Innovation, Integration and Adaptation
Wilma Townsend, MSW, Consumer Affairs
Specialist, SAMHSA, Washington, DC
Larry Fricks, Deputy Director, SAMHSA-HRSA, Center for Integrated Health
Solutions, Cleveland, GA
Stanley Sacks, PhD, Director, National Development & Research
Institutes, Inc. (NDRI), Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network,
New York, NY
Monica Oss, CEO and Senior Associate, Open Minds, Gettysburg, PA
Moderator: Richard Dougherty, PhD, DMA Strategies, Lexington, MA
11:00 am – 11:05 am Break
11:05 am – 12:15 pm Olmstead: Policies that Advance Full Community
Integration
Robert Bernstein, PhD, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington,
DC
Samuel Bagenstos, JD, University of Michigan Law School, Former
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of
Justice, Ann Arbor, MI
Kevin Huckshorn, RN, MSN, CADC, ICRC, Director, Division of Substance
Abuse and Mental Health, Delaware Health and Social Services, New
Castle, DE
Moderator: Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
12:15 pm -1:15 pm Lunch (Exhibitor Room open)
1:30 pm – 2:30pm From Policy to Implementation: A View from the
State
Jason Helgerson, Medicaid Director, NYS Department of Health, Albany, NY
Kristin Woodlock, Acting Commissioner, NYS Office of Mental Health,
Albany, NY
Arlene Gonzalez-Sanchez, Commissioner, NYS OASAS , Albany, NY
Moderator: Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
2:30 pm – 2:40 pm Break
2:40 pm – 3:50 pm Workshops Round I
A. Innovations in Peer Run Services
Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OTR, CPRP, Director, Institute for Wellness and
Recovery Initiatives, Freehold, NJ
Larry Fricks, Deputy Director of the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated
Health Solutions, Cleveland, GA
Tom Hill, MSW, Director of Programs, Faces and Voices of Recovery,
Washington, DC
Alan Rabideau, First Nations Behavioral Health Association
Steve Miccio, Executive Director, PEOPLe Inc., Poughkeepsie, NY
Moderator: Amy Colesante, Executive Director, Mental Health Empowerment
Project, Albany, NY
B. Innovations in Integrated Care: A National Perspective
Richard Dougherty, PhD, DMA Strategies, Lexington, MA
Edye Schwartz, DSW, LCSW-R, Director of Systems Transformation, NYAPRS,
Mahopac, NY
C. Finding the Opportunities in Healthcare Reform: The Inside Track
Monica Oss, CEO and Senior Associate, Open Minds, Gettysburg, PA
3:50 pm – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Workshops Round II
A. Managed Care Financed Innovations
Cheri Dolezal, RN, MBA, Executive Director, OptumHealth, Pierce RSN,
Tacoma, WA
Joe Powell, LCDC, CAS, Executive Director, Association of Persons
Affected by Addiction, Dallas TX
Thomas Lane, National Director Consumer & Recovery Services, Magellan
Health Services, Ft. Pierce, FL
Moderator: Chacku Mathai, CPRP, Associate Executive Director, NYAPRS,
Rochester, NY
B. Update on Medicaid/Medicare, Managed Long Term Care and Community
First Choice Initiatives
Mark Kissinger, Long Term Care Division Director, NYS Department of
Health, Albany, NY
Leah Farrell, Manager of Government Affairs, Center for Disability
Rights, Albany, NY
Lindsay Miller, Deputy Director, New York Association on Independent
Living, Albany, NY
Moderator: Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
C. Preparing Clinic Programs for Managed Care
Gary Weiskopf, Project Director, NYS Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY
Andrew Cleek, PsyD, Executive Officer, Senior Research Scientist,
McSilver-Urban Institute for Behavioral Health, New York, NY
Carla Lisio, LCSW, Executive Vice President, Mental Health Association
of Westchester, Tarrytown, NY
Moderator: Edye Schwartz, DSW, LCSW-R, Director of Systems
Transformation, NYAPRS, Mahopac, NY
Program Schedule Day 2 – April 26, 2013
8:30 am – 10:00 am Rethinking the Mental Health System in Response to
the Newtown Legacy
Ron Manderscheid, PhD, Executive Director, National Association of
County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Directors
(NACBHDD), Washington, DC
Paul S. Applebaum, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of
Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics, Department of Psychiatry, College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY
Daniel B. Fisher, MD, PhD, Executive Director, National Empowerment
Center, Lawrence, MA
Steve Coe, Executive Director, Community Access, New York, NY;
Co-President, NYAPRS Board of Directors
Moderator: Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, NYAPRS, Albany, NY
10:00 am – 10:10 am Break
10:10 am – 11:15 am Systems Transformation in the Era of Healthcare
and Budget Reforms
Dennis O. Romero, MA, SAMHSA Regional Administrator, Region II, New
York, NY
Arthur C. Evans Jr., PhD, Commissioner, Philadelphia’s Department of
Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS),
Philadelphia, PA
Moderator: Chacku Mathai, CPRP, Associate Executive Director, NYAPRS,
Rochester, NY
11:15 am – 11:30 am Break
11:30 am – 12:45 pm Workshops Round III
A. Opportunities for Employment and Economic Self Sufficiency
John B. Allen, Jr., Special Assistant to the Commissioner, NYS Office of
Mental Health, Albany, NY
Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OTR, CPRP, Director, Institute for Wellness and
Recovery Initiatives, Freehold, NJ
Maura Kelly, WNYILC, Buffalo, NY; Co-President, NYAPRS Board of
Directors, Chair, Employment Committee
Moderator: Len Statham, MS, CBP, Employment and Economic Development
Specialist, NYAPRS, Rochester, NY
B. Grounding Multicultural Competencies in Healthcare Reform
Initiatives
Arthur C. Evans Jr., PhD, Commissioner, Philadelphia’s Department
of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS),
Philadelphia, PA
Jennifer L. Humensky, PhD, Research Director, NYS Psychiatric
Institute, Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence, New York, NY
Lenora Reid Rose, MBA, CCSI, Rochester, NY; Nathan Klein Center
for Excellence in Cultural Competence
Moderator: Hextor Pabon, NYS OMH, Bureau of Cultural Competence,
Albany, NY
C. New Partnerships: Behavioral and Medical Health Innovations
Elizabeth Swain, MA, Executive Director Community Health Care
Association of NYS (CHCANYS), New York, NY
Peter Campanelli, PsyD, Executive Director, Institute for Community
Living, New York, NY
James Schuster, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Community Care
Behavioral Health, Pittsburg, PA
Moderator: Edye Schwartz, DSW, LCSW-R, Director of Systems
Transformation, NYAPRS, Mahopac, NY
D. Addictions Treatment and Recovery Services under Managed Care
John Coppola, MSW, Executive Director, New York Association of
Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Providers, Albany, NY
Sam Wiggens, Field Director, Friends of Recovery-New York, Albany, NY
Michael Chaple, PhD, Deputy Director of the Center for the Integration
of Research and Practice (CIRP) at National Development and Research
Institutes (NDRI), New York, NY
Moderator: Chacku Mathai, CPRP, Associate Executive Director, NYAPRS,
Rochester, NY
12:45 pm Adjournment
Register Today at https://registration.nyaprs.org/