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Upcoming Webinars:
Title: The Zero Suicide Movement and How Peers and Family Members Can Get Involved
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Time: 3 – 4:30 p.m. ET
Presenters: Michael Hogan, PhD, Hogan Health Solutions; Leah Harris, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors; Julie Goldstein Grumet, PhD, Suicide Prevention Resource Center.
Description:
As suicide rates among young people and veterans continue to rise, people with mental health conditions remain at the highest risk. This includes people and families in crisis who are already relying on mental health services. Such services need to do a much better job of engaging their needs and wellness while minimizing the use of coercive and institutional “solutions.” The presenters will highlight several new national initiatives: the Zero Suicide movement that seeks to make health care safer, and a just-released national report, “The Way Forward: Pathways to Hope, Recovery and Wellness with Insights from Lived Experience,” that seeks to bridge the gaps between suicide attempt survivors, mental health policy makers, suicide prevention leaders, and program implementers.
Title: Understanding the Role of Hip Hop Culture In Engagement, Outreach and Recovery
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Time: 2– 3:30 p.m. ET
Presenters: Celia Brown, New York State Office of Mental Health Office of Consumer Affairs; Luis Lopez, Center for Practice Innovations at Columbia Psychiatry; Matthew Petite, Mental Health Association; Josh Trujillo, Inside Out Recovery.
Description:
“When we made Hiphop, we made it hoping it would be about peace, love, unity and having fun so that people could get away from the negativity that was plaguing our streets….” Afrika Bambaataa, the universal Zulu Nation
Emerging from the streets of the Bronx in New York City over 45 years ago, Hip Hop culture is now a world-wide platform for self-expression and cross-cultural connection. Hip hop is now recognized as an effective medium for mental health and addiction recovery engagement and recovery support. For example, the Lancet recently published an article (December, 2014) about the University of Cambridge’s Hip Hop Psych initiative that recognizes hip-hop as helping to positively transform lives and achieve a sense of empowerment, street knowledge, resilience, and self-healing. Join us for an exciting dialogue with members of our recovery communities in New York and New Mexico as they review their personal and professional experience in applying Hip Hop as a means for cultural engagement and meaningful recovery support.
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The STAR Center is funded by a grant from the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.