Wednesday, October 5, 2011
FAMILY EDUCATION WEEKEND Schedule of Events, October 14-16, 2011
FAMILY
EDUCATION WEEKEND
Schedule
of Events
Friday,
October 14
85Z
families will be at 85Z Campus
7:30
AM ~ Breakfast
8:35 AM
~ Community Morning Meeting
9:00 AM
~ Centering
9:45 AM
~ Welcome from Todd Weatherly, Managing Director
10:15
AM ~ Life Skills with Corinne Wullimann and Crew
11:00 ~
Recovery Coordination with Ellen Howe and 85Z RCs
12:00 -
12:45 PM ~ Lunch
1:00 PM
~ Dual Recovery at CooperRiis with April Easter
2:00 PM
~ Ask the Therapists and the Psychiatrist
3:30 ~
Residential Life with Andrew Bednarzik and Hall Advisors
5:00 PM
~ Meet & Greet hosted by Lisbeth Riis Cooper
6:00 PM
~ Dinner
7:30 PM
Evening Activities hosted by 85Z
Farm
families will be at the Farm Campus in the Art Barn
7:30
AM ~ Breakfast
8:35 AM
~ Community Morning Meeting
9:00 AM
~ Centering
9:45 AM
~ Welcome from Jeff Byrd, Managing Director
10:00
AM ~ Dual Recovery at CooperRiis
11:00
AM ~ Recovery Coordination
12:00 -
12:45 PM ~ Lunch
1:00 PM
~ Residential Life
2:00 PM
~ Ask the Therapists and the Psychiatrist
3:30 ~
The Thrills, Chills, Drills, Spills and Frills of Life Skills
5:00 PM
~ Meet & Greet hosted by Don Cooper
6:00 PM
~ Dinner
7:30 PM
Music Around the Bonfire
Saturday,
October 15
All
presentations will be at the Farm Campus in the Art Barn
(for both
Farm and 85Z families)
7:30 AM
~ Breakfast
9:00 AM
~ The Enhanced Recovery Model, Dr. Sharon Young
11:45
AM ~ A Few Words from our Executive Director, Virgil Stucker
12:00 -
12:45 PM ~ Lunch
1:00 PM
~ The CR Community Programs
2:00 PM
~ CR Through the Eyes of the Camera with Lisbeth Riis Cooper
2:30 PM
~ Optimal Health with Mary Kreider
4:00 PM
~ Family Sharing facilitated by Don & Lisbeth
6:00 PM
~ Dinner
7:30 PM
~ Talent Show in the Art Barn on the Farm Campus
**Art
Show and Sale all day in the Main House**
(a
portion of the proceeds will go to the CR Scholarship Fund)
Christine
Smith of NAMI Western North Carolina, Inc will be attending and available for
questions on Saturday.
Sunday,
October 16
10:00
AM - 12:00 PM ~ Brunch at Farm hosted by Don & Lisbeth Cooper
1:00
and 4:00 PM ~ Tours of Community Programs
A tour
of each program (Asheville and Tryon/Mill Spring) will be offered at 1:00 PM
and 4:00 PM. The timing will allow for a tour of both programs, if desired.
Please
be aware that participants will need to drive themselves. Directions and more
details will be provided at the registration table.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Lisbeth Riis Cooper: Honoree of the Year
20th Annual YWCA, Asheville Tribute To Women of Influence a Success
http://ywcaofasheville.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/20th-annual-ywca-tribute-to-women-of-influence-a-success/16 Sep, 2011
25 women/groups of women were honored in the categories of Equality, Empowerment and Transformation. Each of the honorees were featured on this blog in the weeks leading up to the event. You can also find a list of the 2011 Honorees here. Each category had an “Honoree of the Year.” The 2011 Honorees of the Year were Yaira Andrea Arias Soto, Women for Women: A Giving Circle of the Community Foundation of WNC, and Lisbeth Riis Cooper. They were presented with custom ceramic awards, created by artist Catharine Brown and underwritten by John Cram and Matt Chambers of New Morning/Bellagio Art to Wear (see photo). Videos by Bourne Media about each Honoree of the Year are posted below.
Proceeds from the event will go to support the YWCA’s programs aimed at bridging gaps in health care, child care, education and earning power.
Congratulations to all of the Honorees!
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
2011 TWIN Honoree Spotlight: Lisbeth Riis Cooper
2011 TWIN Honoree Spotlight
5
Sep, 2011
The YWCA’s Tribute to Women of Influence (TWIN) event honors
women who have made significant contributions to their fields, and
recognizes those organizations that support such achievements. 2011
marks the 20th anniversary of TWIN. Leading up to this year’s September
15th event, we will highlight each of our 25 incredible TWIN Honorees.
If you would like more information about the TWIN event, or would like
to reserve a ticket, please visitwww.ywcaofasheville.org.
Lisbeth Riis Cooper, CooperRiis Healing Community
CooperRiis is a Mental Health Recovery Program centered on a ‘healing farm’ in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and a recently added urban-based campus near Asheville. Individuals with mental illness arrive at CooperRiis’ doorstep, often dis-empowered, dis-engaged, dis-eased and stuck. As Co-Founder of CooperRiis, Lisbeth has played a leading role in empowering almost 500 individuals over the last 8 years, since CooperRiis opened. She has led the building of an entire organization that empowers individuals whom most of society would have relegated to a state of hopelessness rather than empowerment. Renowned author Oliver Sacks wrote about CooperRiis saying that it has helped to revive the (nearly) lost virtues of community and compassionate care for the field of mental health care.
http://ywcaofasheville.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/2011-twin-honoree-spotlight-19/
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
OPTIMIZING MENTAL HEALTH CHOICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
OPTIMIZING MENTAL HEALTH CHOICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
SEPTEMBER 30TH AND OCTOBER 1ST, 2011
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
SHERATON CHAPEL HILL HOTEL, One Europa Drive
| Thursday, September 29th
1pm to 5pm – Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee – members/invitation only
Friday, September 30th
| |
| 8:30am | Welcome/History of the Foundation, Gina Nikkel, Ph.D., Foundation Executive Director; Virgil Stucker, Foundation President and Chairman; Bob Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic; Jack Naftal, MD, Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Child and Adolescent Services, UNC-Chapel Hill
|
| 9:00am
| Introductions- Gina Nikkel |
| 10:00am | Children and adolescent mental health – medication use/management. What are the social, political, economic pressures on the system? How do we support resilience and maximize strengths? What accounts for the reliance on psychiatric diagnosis and what are its consequences? Why does poly-pharmacy happen? What innovations, research and information is needed?
Facilitated discussion by Connie C. Revell, a consultant and facilitator who helps groups focus on results and make measurable progress toward achieving them. Her work has taken her to a number of states and several countries. A former journalist with degrees from the University of Montana and Stanford University, she has worked in the Clinton-Gore Administration as part of the reinventing government and most recently in the federal government at the Office of Management and Budget.
|
| 12:00n | Lunch provided – short presentation on DSM categories for children – Paula Caplan, Ph.D., clinical and research psychologist; methodology specialist; Fellow Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; author of They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’sNormal and editor of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis.
|
| 1:00pm | Selected Early Psychosis Interventions –
· Open Dialog – Mary Olson, Ph.D., Smith College social worker and Fulbright scholar Mary Olson discusses the innovative work of Jaakko Seikkula's Open Dialog Approach in Finland, which has achieved dramatic success helping people through extreme states labeled 'psychosis' and 'schizophrenia' -- while relying much less on medication and hospitalization.
· Early Assessment and Support Team (EAST) - Ryan Melton, Clinical Supervisor for BCN’s Early Assessment and Support Team (EAST), has been recognized for his role in promoting early intervention services across Oregon. He provides training and consultation for teams in seven other Oregon counties which are replicating the EAST model. Ryan teaches at several local colleges, supervising interns, leading multi-family education training, and chairing Oregon’s Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists. He is completing work on his Ph.D.
· OASIS PROGRAM- Diana Perkins, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at UNC–Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is the Medical Director of OASIS (Outreach and Support Intervention Services) at UNC Hospitals and the UNC–Chapel Hill School of Medicine. OASIS is an innovative program for individuals recovering from a first psychotic episode or individuals at risk of psychosis. She is currently investigating pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments in the treatment of psychosis; focusing on managing the side effects of atypical antipsychotic medications, and the weight gain mechanism in patients taking psychotropic medications including the health risks associated with weight gain. Dr. Perkins is also investigating the genetic basis of schizophrenia. She has authored numerous publications on these and other topics.
· FEP - Peter Stastny, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Senior Psychiatrist at South Beach Psychiatric Center. He is the author of numerous scholarly papers on psychosocial treatments, advance directives, self-help and empowerment, film history and mental health, and subjective experiences. Peter was a founder of the International Network of Treatment Alternatives for Recovery (INTAR). He was Guest Curator of a major exhibit at the New York State Museum in 2004, “Lost Cases, Recovered Lives: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic.”
Kim Hopper, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist who works as a Research Scientist at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, where he co-directs the Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health. He is the author of Reckoning with Homelessness (Cornell University Press, 2003), and co-editor of the forthcoming Recovery from Schizophrenia: An International Perspective, a WHO report on the long-term course and outcome of schizophrenia. Dr. Hopper is currently co-investigator on a number of NIMH-funded studies and from 1999 to June 2003, he was a member of the NIMH Services Research Scientific Review Committee.
|
| 3:15pm | Break
|
| 3:30pm | Break Out Sessions
Working with Children/Adolescents in Social Networks: The Paradigms of Family Therapy
Lee Combrinck-Graham, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut. She is the author of many books, including Children in Family Contexts: Perspectives on Treatment and Children in Families at Risk: Maintaining the Connections.
Will Hall, MA, DiplPW is a therapist and consultant in private practice in Portland Oregon, with a Masters Degree in Process Work. A survivor of a schizophrenia diagnosis and longtime leader with the peer recovery movement, Mr. Hall has gained international recognition for his work with mental diversity, taught in more than 8 countries, and been featured widely in the media, including the New York Times and Newsweek magazine. Mr. Hall co-founded the Massachusetts support and activism community Freedom Center, received the Disability Advocacy Award from the Center for Independent Living, was a featured philanthropic project by Forbes magazine, and has consulted in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru for Disability Rights International. He directs Portland Hearing Voices, hosts the FM show Madness Radio, and is author of The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Medications, translated into 4 languages. While not a medical provider, Mr. Hall's work educates clients and families about safely reducing and coming off medications, helps them find new ways to work with voices, paranoia, and "psychotic" experiences, and gain more control of their lives. He has also led trainings for agency staff and case supervision with psychiatrists and counselors.
Research outcomes; children and psychiatric medications – Bob Whitaker is a journalist who has specialized in covering medicine and science. His articles on psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry have won a George Polk Award for Medical Writing, and a National Association of Science Writers' Award for best magazine article. In 1998, he co-wrote a series on abuses in psychiatric research that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. He is the author of four books. His most recent one is Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America.
A+ Kids – Brian Sheitman, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Sheitman is a clinical professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry. He is also Medical Director of the CECMH and an attending psychiatrist at STEP. Prior to working at UNC, Dr. Sheitman worked at Dorothea Dix State Psychiatric Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he held various leadership positions, including clinical director for approximately five years. He has co-authored over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals with a primary emphasis on improving treatment for persons with severe and persistent mental illness.
|
| 4:30pm
| Building Connections and networking |
| 6:00pm
| Dinner provided- evening with Bob Whitaker |
|
Saturday, October 1st
| |
| 8:30am | Research to Practice – William Anthony, Ph.D. Anthony served as the founding Director of Boston University's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, beginning in 1979 until his retirement from that position in June, 2011. He continues as a Professor in the College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University
For the past 40 years, Anthony has worked in various roles in the field of mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation, and has been honored for his performance as a researcher, an educator, and a clinician. In 1988 Anthony received the Distinguished Services Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in recognition of "...his efforts that challenge outdated ideas which limit the potential of mentally ill people. The innovative programs created through Bill Anthony's leadership offer hope and opportunity." Anthony has appeared on ABC's Nightline, which featured a rehabilitation program developed and implemented by Boston University's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Ted Koppell characterized it as a model program: "a small beacon of sanity in dealing with the problems of those whose sanity has crumbled."
In 1992 Anthony received the Distinguished Service Award from the President of the United States for his efforts "...in promoting the dignity, equality, independence and employment of people with disabilities."
Anthony has authored over 100 articles in professional journals, 18 textbooks, and several dozen book chapters. Anthony's latest professional books were published in 2002, 2008 & 2011. A completely updated and revised second edition of Psychiatric Rehabilitation was published in 2002. In 2008, the Toward a Vision of Recovery (book & cd) was published. Also in 2008 Principled Leadership was co-authored with Kevin Huckshorn, and in 2011 Readings in Psychiatric Rehabilitation was co-edited with Kathy Furlong Norman.
In a departure from his professional writing, Anthony has written two trade books. They are: The Art of Napping and The Art of Napping at Work. These books are a whimsical, light-hearted look at a skill that does merit serious attention -- especially in our sleep-deprived, “nap-ready” culture. Anthony has discussed napping on numerous TV and radio shows, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox, The Osgood File, and the BBC; the Art of Napping and The Art of Napping at Work have been featured in numerous print media, such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, the London Daily Express, and dozens of local newspapers and national magazines.
|
| 10:00
| Break |
| 10:15
| “What is our responsibility?” Strategy Groups - building from our discussions, we will develop plans to implement identified innovations, research and information. This section will be led by members of the Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee. |
| 12noon
| Lunch provided |
| 1:00
| Tour of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – John Gilmore, MD Dr. Gilmore is a Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Research and Scientific Affairs. He is Director of the UNC Schizophrenia Research Center, an NIMH-sponsored Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders, and Director of the Clinical Neuroscience and Pharmacology Research Fellowship Program. |
| 2:30
| “What is our responsibility?” Strategy Groups continued |
| 3:45
| Break |
| 4:00 | Wrap up – next steps |
|
*To confirm your space at the symposium, please contact Gina Nikkel, Ph.D., gina@mentalhealthexcellence.org, 503-930-0349.
The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care is a non-profit entity that relies on donors to provide its resources. At this symposium, the Foundation plans to cover all costs associated with meals and meeting room rental. It is our hope that you will be willing to provide for your own travel and hotel room costs (where we have secured a special rate of $86.00/night plus tax). Very limited funding is available for help with travel expenses. If you need help, please include travel stipend request. Please make your own hotel reservations by calling the Sheraton Hotel at 919-968-4900 or going online at www.sheraton.com/chapelhill Ask for the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care block rate of $86 per night plus tax and other applicable charges.
The Sheraton Hotel also has a Fitness Center and Pool for your use.
| |
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
OPTIMIZING MENTAL HEALTH CHOICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
FALL SYMPOSIUM:
OPTIMIZING MENTAL HEALTH CHOICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
SEPTEMBER 30TH AND OCTOBER 1ST, 2011
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
SHERATON CHAPEL HILL HOTEL, One Europa Drive
| Thursday, September 29th
1pm to 5pm – Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee – members/invitation only
Friday, September 30th
| |
| 8:30am | Welcome/History of the Foundation, Gina Nikkel, Ph.D., Foundation Executive Director; Virgil Stucker, Foundation President and Chairman; Bob Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic; Jack Naftal, MD, Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Child and Adolescent Services, UNC-Chapel Hill
|
| 9:00am
| Introductions- Gina Nikkel |
| 10:00am | Children and adolescent mental health – medication use/management. What are the social, political, economic pressures on the system? How do we support resilience and maximize strengths? What accounts for the reliance on psychiatric diagnosis and what are its consequences? Why does poly-pharmacy happen? What innovations, research and information is needed?
Facilitated discussion by Connie C. Revell, a consultant and facilitator who helps groups focus on results and make measurable progress toward achieving them. Her work has taken her to a number of states and several countries. A former journalist with degrees from the University of Montana and Stanford University, she has worked in the Clinton-Gore Administration as part of the reinventing government and most recently in the federal government at the Office of Management and Budget.
|
| 12:00n | Lunch provided – short presentation on DSM categories for children – Paula Caplan, Ph.D., clinical and research psychologist; methodology specialist; Fellow Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; author of They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’sNormal and editor of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis.
|
| 1:00pm | Selected Early Psychosis Interventions –
· Open Dialog – Mary Olson, Ph.D., Smith College social worker and Fulbright scholar Mary Olson discusses the innovative work of Jaakko Seikkula's Open Dialog Approach in Finland, which has achieved dramatic success helping people through extreme states labeled 'psychosis' and 'schizophrenia' -- while relying much less on medication and hospitalization.
· Early Assessment and Support Team (EAST) - Ryan Melton, Clinical Supervisor for BCN’s Early Assessment and Support Team (EAST), has been recognized for his role in promoting early intervention services across Oregon. He provides training and consultation for teams in seven other Oregon counties which are replicating the EAST model. Ryan teaches at several local colleges, supervising interns, leading multi-family education training, and chairing Oregon’s Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists. He is completing work on his Ph.D.
· OASIS PROGRAM- Diana Perkins, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at UNC–Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is the Medical Director of OASIS (Outreach and Support Intervention Services) at UNC Hospitals and the UNC–Chapel Hill School of Medicine. OASIS is an innovative program for individuals recovering from a first psychotic episode or individuals at risk of psychosis. She is currently investigating pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments in the treatment of psychosis; focusing on managing the side effects of atypical antipsychotic medications, and the weight gain mechanism in patients taking psychotropic medications including the health risks associated with weight gain. Dr. Perkins is also investigating the genetic basis of schizophrenia. She has authored numerous publications on these and other topics.
· FEP - Peter Stastny, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Senior Psychiatrist at South Beach Psychiatric Center. He is the author of numerous scholarly papers on psychosocial treatments, advance directives, self-help and empowerment, film history and mental health, and subjective experiences. Peter was a founder of the International Network of Treatment Alternatives for Recovery (INTAR). He was Guest Curator of a major exhibit at the New York State Museum in 2004, “Lost Cases, Recovered Lives: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic.”
Kim Hopper, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist who works as a Research Scientist at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, where he co-directs the Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health. He is the author of Reckoning with Homelessness (Cornell University Press, 2003), and co-editor of the forthcoming Recovery from Schizophrenia: An International Perspective, a WHO report on the long-term course and outcome of schizophrenia. Dr. Hopper is currently co-investigator on a number of NIMH-funded studies and from 1999 to June 2003, he was a member of the NIMH Services Research Scientific Review Committee.
|
| 3:15pm | Break
|
| 3:30pm | Break Out Sessions
Working with Children/Adolescents in Social Networks: The Paradigms of Family Therapy
Lee Combrinck-Graham, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut. She is the author of many books, including Children in Family Contexts: Perspectives on Treatment and Children in Families at Risk: Maintaining the Connections.
Will Hall, MA, DiplPW is a therapist and consultant in private practice in Portland Oregon, with a Masters Degree in Process Work. A survivor of a schizophrenia diagnosis and longtime leader with the peer recovery movement, Mr. Hall has gained international recognition for his work with mental diversity, taught in more than 8 countries, and been featured widely in the media, including the New York Times and Newsweek magazine. Mr. Hall co-founded the Massachusetts support and activism community Freedom Center, received the Disability Advocacy Award from the Center for Independent Living, was a featured philanthropic project by Forbes magazine, and has consulted in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru for Disability Rights International. He directs Portland Hearing Voices, hosts the FM show Madness Radio, and is author of The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Medications, translated into 4 languages. While not a medical provider, Mr. Hall's work educates clients and families about safely reducing and coming off medications, helps them find new ways to work with voices, paranoia, and "psychotic" experiences, and gain more control of their lives. He has also led trainings for agency staff and case supervision with psychiatrists and counselors.
Research outcomes; children and psychiatric medications – Bob Whitaker is a journalist who has specialized in covering medicine and science. His articles on psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry have won a George Polk Award for Medical Writing, and a National Association of Science Writers' Award for best magazine article. In 1998, he co-wrote a series on abuses in psychiatric research that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. He is the author of four books. His most recent one is Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America.
A+ Kids – Brian Sheitman, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Sheitman is a clinical professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry. He is also Medical Director of the CECMH and an attending psychiatrist at STEP. Prior to working at UNC, Dr. Sheitman worked at Dorothea Dix State Psychiatric Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he held various leadership positions, including clinical director for approximately five years. He has co-authored over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals with a primary emphasis on improving treatment for persons with severe and persistent mental illness.
|
| 4:30pm
| Building Connections and networking |
| 6:00pm
| Dinner provided- evening with Bob Whitaker |
|
Saturday, October 1st
| |
| 8:30am | Research to Practice – William Anthony, Ph.D. Anthony served as the founding Director of Boston University's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, beginning in 1979 until his retirement from that position in June, 2011. He continues as a Professor in the College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University
For the past 40 years, Anthony has worked in various roles in the field of mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation, and has been honored for his performance as a researcher, an educator, and a clinician. In 1988 Anthony received the Distinguished Services Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in recognition of "...his efforts that challenge outdated ideas which limit the potential of mentally ill people. The innovative programs created through Bill Anthony's leadership offer hope and opportunity." Anthony has appeared on ABC's Nightline, which featured a rehabilitation program developed and implemented by Boston University's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Ted Koppell characterized it as a model program: "a small beacon of sanity in dealing with the problems of those whose sanity has crumbled."
In 1992 Anthony received the Distinguished Service Award from the President of the United States for his efforts "...in promoting the dignity, equality, independence and employment of people with disabilities."
Anthony has authored over 100 articles in professional journals, 18 textbooks, and several dozen book chapters. Anthony's latest professional books were published in 2002, 2008 & 2011. A completely updated and revised second edition of Psychiatric Rehabilitation was published in 2002. In 2008, the Toward a Vision of Recovery (book & cd) was published. Also in 2008 Principled Leadership was co-authored with Kevin Huckshorn, and in 2011 Readings in Psychiatric Rehabilitation was co-edited with Kathy Furlong Norman.
In a departure from his professional writing, Anthony has written two trade books. They are: The Art of Napping and The Art of Napping at Work. These books are a whimsical, light-hearted look at a skill that does merit serious attention -- especially in our sleep-deprived, “nap-ready” culture. Anthony has discussed napping on numerous TV and radio shows, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox, The Osgood File, and the BBC; the Art of Napping and The Art of Napping at Work have been featured in numerous print media, such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, the London Daily Express, and dozens of local newspapers and national magazines.
|
| 10:00
| Break |
| 10:15
| “What is our responsibility?” Strategy Groups - building from our discussions, we will develop plans to implement identified innovations, research and information. This section will be led by members of the Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee. |
| 12noon
| Lunch provided |
| 1:00
| Tour of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – John Gilmore, MD Dr. Gilmore is a Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Research and Scientific Affairs. He is Director of the UNC Schizophrenia Research Center, an NIMH-sponsored Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders, and Director of the Clinical Neuroscience and Pharmacology Research Fellowship Program. |
| 2:30
| “What is our responsibility?” Strategy Groups continued |
| 3:45
| Break |
| 4:00 | Wrap up – next steps |
|
*To confirm your space at the symposium, please contact Gina Nikkel, Ph.D., gina@mentalhealthexcellence.org, 503-930-0349.
The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care is a non-profit entity that relies on donors to provide its resources. At this symposium, the Foundation plans to cover all costs associated with meals and meeting room rental. It is our hope that you will be willing to provide for your own travel and hotel room costs (where we have secured a special rate of $86.00/night plus tax). Very limited funding is available for help with travel expenses. If you need help, please include travel stipend request. Please make your own hotel reservations by calling the Sheraton Hotel at 919-968-4900 or going online at www.sheraton.com/chapelhill Ask for the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care block rate of $86 per night plus tax and other applicable charges.
The Sheraton Hotel also has a Fitness Center and Pool for your use.
| |
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