NYAPRS Note: Join Hutchings Psychiatric Center staff and community members as they bring the focus of recovery into institutional care. The process of creating a hospital-based healing experience will be discussed, including tools that can promote inclusion and recovery. The symposium will also include a discussion about involuntary treatment. See more information below to learn how to register. These provocative issues could help providers of hospital and other programmatic services understand their role in facilitating recovery.
Recovering in the Hospital: Creating a Healing Experience
April 29, 2015; 8:30 am– 4:00 pm; Hutchings Psychiatric Center Auditorium
CMEs: 5.75
WHERE: The conference is being held in
the Hutchings Psychiatric Center Auditorium located at 810 East Genesee Street, Syracuse.
PARKING: Please take advantage of the commercial parking readily available in the neighborhood. There is no public parking available on the Hutchings campus.
LUNCH: will be offered on site, including an assortment of sandwich wraps, fruit salad, a bag of chips, a large fresh-baked cookie and assorted sodas & bottled water, all for just $8 (due at sign-in). Please specify whether you will be purchasing an on-site lunch when registering.
REGISTRATION IS FREE: Please register by email, including your name, discipline and agency affiliation (if any), and whether you plan to purchase lunch on-site, to: Louis.Litchison@omh.ny.gov.
For more information, call Lou at 315- 426-6873.
Schedule for the Event:
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-8:45 Welcome and Introduction, HPC Exec. Director Mark Cattalani, MD
8:45-9:45 Healing Spaces, Dr. Lori Ashcraft
9:45-10:45 Psychiatric Advance Directives: Tools for Recovery and Empowerment, Dr. Rachel Zinns
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Recovery a Life: The Journey from Child Abuse, Serious Mental Illness, Addiction and Trauma to Redemption Eric Arauz
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-2:30 Panel Discussion: Involuntary Commitment, Dr. Lori Ashcraft, Dr. James L. Knoll, Eric Arauz, Carole Hayes-Collier, Kevin Lioto and NAMI rep Marla Byrnes
2:30-2:45 Starfish and Recovery Award presentation
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00- 4:00 Wrap-up including Q&A with Eric Arauz and Lori Ashcraft
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:00 Presentation of Starfish Award and Keys to Recovery Award
3:00- 4:00 Final Reflections with Eric Arauz and Dr. Lori Ashcraft
Presenters For the Event:
Lori Ashcraft, Ph.D, Consultant and Former Executive
Director, Recovery Opportunity Center. Dr. Ashcraft’s commitment to those with mental illnesses began during the mid 60’s when she developed a new program for people returning to communities from State hospitals.
Her passion for recovery stems from personal experience with depression. Among her many roles, Dr. Ashcraft has developed psychosocial rehabilitation programs and affordable housing opportunities for people with serious mental illnesses, taught psychosocial rehabilitation, and worked on evolving treatment programs. Today she pro- motes recovery principles, practices, and growth through training staff and consumers.
Rachel Zinns, M.D., Ed.M is Assistant Director of Medical Education at Rockland PC, and Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed a Public Psychiatry fellow- ship at Columbia University. As an outpatient psychiatrist at Rockland PC, Dr. Zinns developed the New York State Office of Mental Health’s first clinic program to provide adult psychiatric services solely through telepsychiatry.
Dr. Zinns has been an advocate for the use of psychiatric advanced directives (PAD). She also practices psychiatry at Riker’s Island Correctional facility.
Eric Arauz is the owner/publisher of An American’s Res- urrection; a consultant for North American Center Continuing Medical Education; Steering Committee Member of Psych Congress Network. Eric is an inspiring speaker, and motivator who keynoted, lectured, hosted at the Menniger Clinic; UPenn; PsychCongress National Las Vegas, NV; and at UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiactric Hospital. He also hosted national webinars for the International Bipolar Foundation and the National Council on Behavioral Health.
James L. Knoll, IV, M.D. is the Director of Forensic Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate
Medical University. Dr. Knoll is board certified in both adult and forensic psychiatry. He has served as a consulting forensic expert for the DEA, FBI, NASA, DOJ, ACLU, and law enforcement. He is the training director of the SUNY Upstate forensic psychiatry fellowship training program since 2006. He is Emeritus Educator-in-Chief of the Psychiatric Times. Dr. Knoll has over 130 publications in journals and book chapters. His main areas of research include suicide, violence prevention, and psychoanalytic theory.
Carole Hayes-Collier founded the psychiatric survivor’s movement and helped to found the Mental Patients’ Liberation Project in Syracuse. She became an activist for civil, human and legal rights and worked with the Center on Human Policy to help establish alternatives to the drugging, shock treatments and depersonalizing realities that fueled the mental health system. She has been active in the organizing of recipients in the mental health system through Recipient Affairs and now in the areas of Person Centered Planning. She was instrumental in founding Transitional Living Services in the 70’s and continues in the development of alternatives for peers who seek recovery and finding their own paths.
Kevin Lioto has lived experiences with the forensic mental health system and recovery is the basis of his honest and genuine desire to share his story. Kevin is in training with Peer Services at Sunrise Recovery Center, an Independent Worker Program with HPC.
Marla Byrnes RN/ BSN is trained in multi-family psycho-educational model. She has 30 years of experience in psychiatric nursing on inpatient and outpatient services. Marla is the mother of a young man with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type. He has been homeless, involved with the criminal justice system, hospitalized numerous times in private and state hospitals. She has advocated
for him in court, hospitals, residences, and with social services and has been involved with NAMI for over 20 years.