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CooperRiis News and Events: FAMILY EDUCATION WEEKEND Schedule of Events, October 14-16, 2011

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CooperRiis News and Events: FAMILY EDUCATION WEEKEND Schedule of Events, October 14-16, 2011

2011-10-05T17:17:00.000-04:00

CooperRiis News and Events: FAMILY EDUCATION WEEKEND Schedule of Events, October 14-16, 2011

FAMILY EDUCATION WEEKEND Schedule of Events, October 14-16, 2011

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FAMILYEDUCATION WEEKEND

Scheduleof Events

Friday,October 14

85Zfamilies will be at 85Z Campus

7:30AM ~ Breakfast

8:35 AM~ Community Morning Meeting

9:00 AM~ Centering

9:45 AM~ Welcome from Todd Weatherly, Managing Director

10:15AM ~ 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 PMEvening Activities hosted by 85Z

Farmfamilies will be at the Farm Campus in the Art Barn

7:30AM ~ Breakfast

8:35 AM~ Community Morning Meeting

9:00 AM~ Centering

9:45 AM~ Welcome from Jeff Byrd, Managing Director

10:00AM ~ Dual Recovery at CooperRiis

11:00AM ~ 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 PMMusic Around the Bonfire

Saturday,October 15

Allpresentations will be at the Farm Campus in the Art Barn

(for bothFarm and 85Z families)

7:30 AM~ Breakfast

9:00 AM~ The Enhanced Recovery Model, Dr. Sharon Young

11:45AM ~ 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

**ArtShow and Sale all day in the Main House**

(aportion of the proceeds will go to the CR Scholarship Fund)

ChristineSmith of NAMI Western North Carolina, Inc will be attending and available forquestions on Saturday.

Sunday,October 16

10:00AM - 12:00 PM ~ Brunch at Farm hosted by Don & Lisbeth Cooper

1:00and 4:00 PM ~ Tours of Community Programs

A tourof each program (Asheville and Tryon/Mill Spring) will be offered at 1:00 PMand 4:00 PM. The timing will allow for a tour of both programs, if desired.

Pleasebe aware that participants will need to drive themselves. Directions and moredetails will be provided at the registration table.

Lisbeth Riis Cooper: Honoree of the Year

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20th Annual YWCA, Asheville Tribute To Women of Influence a Success

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16 Sep, 2011

Last night we held our 20th Annual Tribute to Women of Influence (TWIN) awards event at Pack Place/Diana Wortham Theatre. The evening was a great success. Approximately 430 people gathered to celebrate the 2011 Honorees. The food at the reception was by Corner Kitchen. Entertainment was provided by the Jonathan Scales Fourchestra and the Mason Ensemble. The emcee was Lisa Gatewood-McMillan. Remarks were also given by YW Executive Director Holly Jones and YW Board President Nancy Ackermann Cole. 2010 Honoree of the Year Kitty Schaller handed out the awards. The Lead Sponsor was First Citizens Bank. There is a list of 2011 TWIN sponsors on our website.

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!

2011 TWIN Honoree Spotlight: Lisbeth Riis Cooper

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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/

OPTIMIZING MENTAL HEALTH CHOICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY

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OPTIMIZING MENTAL HEALTH CHOICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY

SEPTEMBER 30^TH AND OCTOBER 1^ST, 2011

CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA

SHERATON CHAPEL HILL HOTEL, One Europa Drive

Thursday, September 29^th

1pm to 5pm – Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee – members/invitation only

Friday, September 30^th

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 1^st

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.

CooperRiis News and Events: OPTIMIZING MENTAL HEALTH CHOICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY

OPTIMIZING MENTAL HEALTH CHOICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY

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