Alliance Alert: Our Alliance for Rights and Recovery is very pleased to announce some details of this year’s Executive Seminar program, entitled “Urgent Actions, Bold Solutions: Leadership in Unprecedented Times,” to be held April 24-25 at the Albany Marriott Hotel. We are very pleased that former director of SAMHSA’s Office of Recovery Paolo del Vecchio will be joining our panel of experts in a candid discussion of where things are in April and in the coming year!
4 of the nation’s leading mental health policy experts will be taking a deep dive discussion into how the fast and frequently changing federal policy changes are and will be affecting federal mental health policies and funding as relates to community behavioral health services, criminal justice policies, Medicaid and Medicare, Olmstead policy and and a variety of related themes. We are proud to feature:
- Chuck Ingoglia, National Council for Mental Wellbeing
- Jennifer Mathis, Deputy Director, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Justice Department
- Caren Howard, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy at Mental Health America
- Paolo del Vecchio, former Director of the Office of Recovery at SAMHSA
Our program will also feature a State and City based panel looking at both the impact of federal changes and the 2025 enacted state budget that will feature OMH’s Moira Tashjian, Medicaid Matters’ Lara Kassel, InUnity Alliance’s Jihoon Kim, NY Lawyers for the Public Interest’s Ruth Lowenkron and more and include a Thursday late afternoon award ceremony honoring the extraordinary efforts of Emil Slane, former Chief Fiscal Officer, NYS Office of Mental Health and Patrick Wildes, former Assistant Secretary for Human Services and Mental Hygiene
We’ll be sharing details on Monday and throughout the coming weeks.
In the meantime, don’t delay, register today!ng weeks.
In the meantime, don’t delay, register today!