NYAPRS Note: Only 4 days Away! Don’t miss Pathways to Recovery: Multiple Roads to Well-Being, next week’s 10th Annual Recovery & Rehabilitation Academy, a program developed by NYAPRS and the NYS Office of Mental Health, in collaboration with our partners at the Center for Practice Innovations and the Coalition for Behavioral Health to be held November 14-15, 2019 at the Gideon Putnam in Saratoga Springs, NY.
This year’s information packed program features the following special General Sessions:
BEYOND RECOVERY: PROMOTING WHOLE HEALTH AND FULL LIVES
Across New York and the nation, new program designs, service innovations and raised expectations, are supporting people to advance their full health and whole lives. Mark Salzer is one of the nation’s most prominent proponents and researchers in these areas and will open this session with examples of how states and providers are successfully addressing challenges in these areas. Our responder panel of key New York officials and experts will look at New York’s experience, the progress we’ve made and the work that lies ahead.
Mark Salzer, PhD, Director of the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
Robert Myers, PhD, Senior Deputy Commissioner NYS Office of Mental Health
Denard Cummings, MPA, Director, Bureau of Social Determinants, NYS Deportment of Health
Kelly Sutton, LCSW, PROS Program Director, Best Self Behavioral Health
Jean Bennett, MHC, MFT, Director of Housing & Homeless Services, Restoration Society
Facilitator: Edye Schwartz, DSW, LCSW, Edye Schwartz Consulting
PEER SERVICE INNOVATIONS THAT PROMOTE WHOLE HEALTH
A new generation of peer service initiatives are showing great progress in helping people to successfully advance their mental, physical and spiritual health and their lives in communities of choice. The presenters will discuss why and how these approaches are working and the barriers they face in bringing fidelity level peer support to the individuals they serve. We’ll also discuss successes and challenges that more traditional agencies face in the incorporation of peer staff and peer-delivered services.
Amanda Saake, LMSW, CPRP, Special Assistant to the Commissioner, Office of Consumer Affairs, NYS Office of Mental Health
Isaac Brown, CEO, Baltic Street AEH
Ellen Healion, Director of Quality Improvement, Mental Health Empowerment Project
Kirsten Vincent, PhD, LMHC, Interim CEO, Housing Options Made Easy
Joseph Swinford, Executive Director, Wellness Collaborative of NY
Facilitator: Harvey Rosenthal, CEO, NYAPRS
