NYAPRS Announces Featured Speakers, Programs at 2019 Annual Conference; Register Today!

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

• Moving personal and provocative presentations from a panel comprised of Lindsey Sizemore of the Georgia Consumer Mental Health Network, Sarah Felman of the Mental Health Empowerment Project and Vesper Moore of the Central Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community

• Luis Lopez on Healing Trauma

• Moving and uplifting presentations by this year’s panel of Awardees

EMBRACING CULTURE

• Cultural Competency: Erasing Stigma Through Understanding and Compassion

• Creating Sister Circles to Promote Health and Recovery for Women of Color

• How to Implement Wellness and Resilience Story Circles within Your Organization

• Cultural Dilemmas as Opportunities for Engagement

• Innovative Solving Techniques for Your Organization’s Quality Improvement Challenges

• Racism, Prejudice and Discrimination: Let’s Continue the Conversations

ADVOCACY & EMPOWERMENT

• A Declaration of Behavioral Health Rights and Actions

• History of the Movement

• Facilitating Psychiatric Advance Directives

• Empowering Recovery & Resilience with Mindfulness

PEER SERVICES

• Integrating Peer Services within Traditional Medically Oriented Settings

• Empowerment, Triumph and Hope Through Peer Run Groups

• Putting ‘Career’ into Peer Career Development

• Peer-Run Crisis Intervention and Hospital Diversion Programs

• Opportunities and Challenges to Expand Peer Support Across Health Conditions

• A Sneak Preview of the National Practice Guidelines for Supervisors of Peer Specialists

• An Overview of Organizational Assessment Tools for Peer-Run Programs 

INNOVATIONS

• The Impact of Peers on Clinically Oriented Services

• Data Driven Success in Clubhouses

• Wellness Self Care : A Habit for Personal and Professional Practice

• Recovery Learning Communities in Massachusetts

• Forensic Peer Support Innovations

• HCBS: What’s Working, What’s Needed

• Harm Reduction Philosophy and Practice

TRANSFORMATIONS

• Leading for Change: Building the Skills to be Successful in Managing Organizations and Services

• The Transformative Impact of Self-Directed Care

• A Peer Professional Approach to Engagement

• Partnering to Build a Trauma-Informed NYS

• Recovery-Oriented Outcome Measures

• Rolling Out Mental Health Instruction in School: Year 1 Experience

• EQ and You/Emotional Intelligence

• Innovative Approaches to Real World Workforce Challenges

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS 

• Utilizing Social Media and Smart Phones to Provide Peer Support and Mobilize Peer Efforts

• Life in the Community Like Everyone Else: The Essentials of Community Inclusion”

• “Understanding Loneliness & Social Isolation: Impacts in People and Society at Large in a Connected World”

• Families: Can’t Live with Them! Can’t Live Without Them!

• De-Stressing Job Searching and Job Development

• ACCES-VR and YOU: Let’s Talk About Vocational Services and Supports

HEALING, HEALTH AND RECOVERY 

• Food as Medicine: Discussions on Food, Health, and the Peer Movement

• What Unhealed Place Within Did you Inherit?

• Whole Person Mental Health Care and Holistic Healing

• Recovering Art of Resilience

• Self-Love and Self-Care

• Rhythms for Wellness, Healing & Connection

• Trauma-Informed Yoga for Every Body

EVENING PROGRAMS

Suicide: The Ripple Effect with co-director Greg DiCharry

Stand Up for Mental Health!

• Promoting Recovery, Cultural Competency, & System Advocacy through Hip Hop

• How Zumba Levels the Playing Field in a Behavioral Health Setting

• Mike Skinner in Concert

• Wellness and Resiliency Story Circles

• Online Arts Training Curriculum for Peer Specialists

• Open Mike

• An array of Support Groups

HEALERS

Shiatsu  Massage  Acupuncture  Yoga  T’ai Chi   Reiki

 

QUESTIONS?

Contact us at eileenc@nyaprs.org