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The following schedule for the 2016 Recovery Workforce Summit is subject to change:
Sunday, May 22, 2016 | ||
12:00pm – 7:00pm | Summit Registration Opens | |
1:00pm – 4:00pm | ||
| 3:00pm - 5:00pm | Consortium of Psych Rehab Educators Meeting by Invitation Only | |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm | New Member and First Time Attendee Welcome Reception by Invitation Only | |
5:30pm – 7:30pm | Flavor of BostonvWelcome Celebration - Hosted by MassPRA | |
Monday, May 23, 2016 | ||
7:00am – 8:00am | Health and Wellness: Water Aerobics - Sponsored by the Illinois Chapter of PRA | |
| 7:15am - 8:15am | Public Policy Committee Meeting | |
7:00am – 5:00pm | Summit Registration Open | |
7:30am – 8:30am | Continental Breakfast - Sponsored by: Crestwood Behavioral Health Inc. | |
| 7:30am - 8:30am | Poster Presentations | |
8:30am – 10:00am | ||
8:30am-10:00am | Concurrent Sessions #1 | |
Session #1 | The Peer Support Workforce: Results of a Survey of Roles, Training, Compensation, and Satisfaction | |
Session #2 | The Role of PSR Staff in Facilitating Entry into Supported Employment: A Motivational Interviewing Intervention | |
Session #3 | Do Not be Afraid to Be New: Supporting and Promoting Recovery Through the Philosophy and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation | |
Session #4 | The Panorama of Parental Mental Illness: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Family Experience - Part 1 | |
Session #5 | Nothing About Us Without Us: Growing Meaningful Youth Involvement in Your Organization | |
Session #6 | Dynamic and Effective Employee Development, Supervision and Support Strategies for Rehabilitation Practitioners | |
Session #7 | Beyond Recovery: Positive Psychology & the Science of Happiness | |
Session #8 | The Bounce Back Factor – Creating a Resilient Workforce | |
Session #9 | The Acceptance Process: Promoting Recovery Across Culturally Diverse Groups | |
10:00am-10:30am | Networking Break with Exhibitors in Summit Hub | |
10:30am-12:00am | Opening General Session: Kimberly A Johnson, PhD, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) | |
| 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Chapter Representatives Committee Meeting by Invitation Only | |
12:00pm – 1:30pm | Lunch on Your Own | |
12:15pm – 1:15pm | Lunch ‘N’ Learn – Making Recovery-Oriented Practice Everyone's Business: SAMHSA's Recovery to Practice Initiative | |
1:30pm – 3:00pm | ||
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | CFRP Kickoff Course | |
1:30pm – 3:00pm | Concurrent Sessions #2 | |
Session #1 | Reiki Session | |
Session #2 | Conversations that Matter: Who Does the Recovery Movement 'Belong To'? Is There a Role for Professionals in the Movement? | |
Session #3 | Public Policy Session | |
Session #4 | A “One of a Kind” Approach to the Training and Support of Police in their Interactions with Persons with Mental Health Conditions | |
Session #5 | Ted-like Talks | |
Session #6 | ||
Session #7 | Supporting our Promising Young Adult Leaders: How the G.I.F.T. is Training Young Adults to Pass the Baton. (Gathering and Inspiring Future Talent - training young adults aspiring to be peer mentors) | |
Session #8 | Helping your Helpers: Strengthening Your Agency & Improving Staff Morale | |
Session #9 | Recovery of Valued Social Roles | |
3:00pm – 3:30pm | BREAK | |
3:30pm – 5:00pm | ||
3:30pm – 5:00pm | Concurrent Sessions #3 | |
3:00pm-5:00pm | Health and Wellness: Reiki Clinic - Sponsored by the Illinois Chapter of PRA | |
Session #1 | Using Telehealth Technologies For Community Behavioral Health | |
Session #2 | Resilience Action Planning: Creating Resilient Teams | |
Session #3 | WORLD CAFÉ | |
Session #4 | Recovery Behind Bars: Community Reintegration Programming on a Therapeutic Prison Unit | |
Session #5 | Ted-like Talks | |
Session #6 | Tools for Managing Chronic Health Conditions and Comorbidities | |
Session #7 | Supported Education | |
Session #8 | Cultural Humility and Supervision: Addressing the Cumulative effect of Microaggressions at the Workplace. | |
Session #9 | Recovery Through Community Membership | |
| 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Experience PhotoVoice | |
7:00pm – 9:15pm | Movie Showing: Beauty Salon | |
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 | ||
7:00am – 8:00am | Health & Wellness: Mind, Body & Soul - Sponsored by: Illinois Chapter of PRA | |
7:00am – 5:00pm | Summit Registration | |
| 7:15am - 8:15am | Academy Advisory Council Meeting by Invitation Only | |
7:30am – 8:30am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 7:30am - 8:30am | Poster Presentations | |
8:30am – 10:00am | ||
8:30am – 10:00am | Concurrent Sessions #4 | |
Session #1 | Rationale, development, properties, usage and utility of the Support Needs | |
Session #2 | Developing Leaders: An Innovative Approach to Mutual Learning Environments | |
Session #3 | Psychiatric Rehabilitation Law in Israel: 15 Years of Development | |
Session #4 | Public Policy Session | |
Session #5 | The Person at the Center of Person-Centered Recovery Planning (PCRP) | |
Session #6 | Making Peace With The Past: One Story at a Time | |
Session #7 | Innovative Postsecondary Transition Programs for College Students with Serious Mental Health Illness: NITEO and College Re-Entry | |
Session #8 | Promoting Participation and Partnership with Photovoice | |
Session #9 | All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Psychiatric Rehabilitation | |
10:00am – 10:30am | Networking Break with Exhibitors in Summit Hub | |
10:30am – 12:00pm | General Session: Paul Gionfriddo, President and CEO, Mental Health America | |
12:00pm – 1:30pm | Lunch on Own | |
12:15pm – 1:15pm | Learn More: Become an Item Writer for the CPRP | |
12:00pm – 2:00pm | Health & Wellness: Reiki Clinic – Sponsored by: Illinois Chapter of PRA | |
| 12:30pm - 1:15pm | People In Recovery Roundtable Meeting - All are Welcome | |
1:30pm – 3:00pm | ||
| 1:30pm - 3:30pm | CFRP Kickoff Course | |
1:30pm – 3:00pm | Concurrent Sessions #5 | |
Session #1 | Peer Career Development Toolkit 1.0 | |
Session #2 | Transforming Veterans Health Administration's Therapeutic and Supported Employment Programs | |
Session #3 | TAY Career Development Program | |
Session #4 | Mindful Eating: A Practice to Enhance Hope, Health, & Empowerment One Bite At A Time | |
Session #5 | IGNITE | |
Session #6 | Public Policy Session | |
Session #7 | Using Resistance as an Engagement Tool with Transition Age Youth | |
Session #8 | Health Literacy in Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Promoting Health through Effective Communication | |
Session #9 | The Critical Role of Diversity and Inclusiveness in Recovery Transformation for Community Mental Health | |
3:00pm – 3:30pm | Networking Break with Exhibitors in Summit Hub | |
3:30pm – 5:00pm | ||
3:30pm – 5:00pm | Concurrent Sessions #6 | |
Session #1 | Psychiatric Rehabilitation in a Non-Western Context: The Pakistan Experience | |
Session #2 | Conversations that Matter: Empowering LGBT Veterans as Agents of Change in the Veterans Administration: Perils and Possibilities | |
Session #3 | Honest, Open, Proud to Erase the Stigma of Mental Illness | |
Session #4 | Ted-like Talks | |
Session #5 | Creating a State-Wide Peer and Family Career Advancement Academy | |
Session #6 | Whole Body Awareness: For Presence, Attention, Grounding and Listening Skills and for Developing Inner Silence | |
Session #7 Session #8 | The Panorama of Parental Mental Illness: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Family Experience - Part 2
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Session #9 | Good Groups: Connection, Construction, and Content | |
| 5:30pm - 6:30pm | PRA & PRF Annual Business Meeting | |
| 6:30pm - 7:30pm | International Reception Sponsored by RI International by Invitation Only | |
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016 | ||
| 5:30am | Departure for Health & Wellness: The November Project™ - Sponsored by: Illinois Chapter of PRA | |
7:00am-8:00am
| Health and Wellness: Eat More, Weigh Less - Sponsored by the Illinois Chapter of PRA Summit Registration | |
7:30am – 8:30am | Continental Breakfast | |
8:30am – 10:00am | Concurrent Sessions #7 | |
Session #1 | Combining Strategies: How to Add Young Adult Specific Techniques and at the Elbow Coaching to Promote Great Job Matches and Resiliency in Young Adults. | |
Session #2 | Lessons from the NIMH Recovery After Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) Initiative: Evaluation of the NAVIGATE Program for First Episode Psychosis | |
Session #3 | Evidence-based Practices for Living, Learning, Working, and Socializing | |
Session #4 | Back to the future: Old School Approaches that are Still Relevant Today | |
Session #5 | Ted-like Talks | |
Session #6 | Successful Rehabilitation for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders: Alternative Programming and a Coordinated System of Care | |
Session #7 | Improving Providers’ Competencies to Promote Vocational Recovery Among People with the Lived Experience of a Psychiatric Condition | |
Session #8 | Let’s Talk about Suicide | |
| Session #9 | The New You: Promoting Health with the Nutrition and Exercise for Wellness and Recovery (NEW-R) Program | |
10:00am – 10:15am | Networking Break with Exhibitors in Summit Hub | |
10:15am – 11:45am | General Sessions | |
| 11:45am-12:45am | Lunch ‘N’ Learn – The Winds of Change: Stories of Recovery | |
11:45am-12:45am | Lunch on Own | |
12:45pm – 2:15pm | Concurrent Sessions #8 | |
Session #1 | Building and Supporting Self-Efficacy | |
Session #2 | From Adolescence to Adulthood: A Collaborative Approach to Engaging Transition Age Youth | |
Session #3 | How Trauma-Informed Relationships Support Person-Centered Approaches | |
Session #4 | Madness: Heroes Returning From the Front Lines . Published Storytelling Defeats Stigma, Creates Respect and Ignites Recovery | |
Session #5 | Ted-like Talks | |
Session #6 | Walking for Wisdom: A River Runs Through It: Walking through the crisis of college suicide | |
Session #7 | Are You Ready for the Era of Home & Community Based Services (HCBS)? | |
Session #8 | Bringing Hearing Voices Movement to Your Organization: What it is, its Value and Where to Begin! | |
Session #9 | Guidelines for Ethical Online Mental Health Practices | |
2:15pm – 2:30pm | Networking Break with Exhibitors in Summit Hub | |
2:30pm – 4:00pm | Concurrent Sessions #9 | |
Session #1 | Creating a Culture for Developing Peer Run Services, Lessons Learned from USA and Netherlands | |
Session #2 | Engaging Young Adults in Services: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Isn't Enough | |
Session #3 | Using Open Dialogue principles to craft a Collaborative Pathway for young people experiencing early psychosis, and to enhance collaboration and voice for adults with established psychiatric diagnoses. | |
Session #4 | Supported Employment for Consumers with Criminal Records – Specific Service Recommendations | |
Session #5 | Moving Beyond Traditional Mental Health Services to Promote Community Integration and Civic Engagement | |
Session #6 | Peer Specialists as Cultural Brokers | |
Session #7 | Real World, Real Issues, Real Strategies, Real Skills: Creating Recovery Oriented Services | |
Session #8 | Super-Engagers: Overcoming Barriers to Change | |
Session #9 | Harm Reduction Strategies for People with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions | |
4:00pm | Summit Concludes | |
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