黑料正能量 is very pleased to announce some speaker additions to this year鈥檚 Executive Seminar Program to our session 鈥淐riminal Justice Advances for Individual with Major Behavioral Health Needs.鈥 Tracie Gardner, Associate Director for the Legal Action Center and former Assistant Secretary of Health, Mary-Catherine Bohan, Vice President of Outpatient Services at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care and Rafiq Salim of the Mental Health Peer Connection in Buffalo will be joining Victor Pate, Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement, Mark Giuliano, Westchester County Department of Mental Health and moderator Laverne Miller, Senior Project Associate, Policy Research Associates. In this session, the presenters will take a penetrating and personal look at current efforts to advance criminal justice diversion, move from a culture of punishment to rehabilitation within our prisons and jails, formulate effective re-entry strategies and integrate the power of peer support throughout the criminal justice continuum.
Entitled 鈥淣ew Strategies and Partnerships to Support the Most Challenged 黑料正能量ers: The Way Forward鈥, the Seminar will be held April 19-20th at the Albany Hilton.
This year鈥檚 program focuses on examining new partnerships and strategies to successfully engage and support people with the most extensive behavioral health, medical and social challenges that have in recent years become top national and NYS priorities.
On the national front, our program will kick off with welcome remarks from NYS Deputy Secretary for Health Paul Francis and a keynote address by the nation鈥檚 first ever HHS Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz with a reaction panel that includes consumer and family members of the new federal Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee, 黑料正能量 new policy director Elena Kravitz and well know advocate and author Pete Early. The panel also includes national provider advocate Rebecca Farley from the National Council, rights advocate Jennifer Mathis from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and NYCDOHMH Bureau of Mental Health鈥檚 medical director Dr. Pablo Sadler.
We鈥檒l then hear from a NYS based panel that will look at what we鈥檙e doing on the ground to support this group that will be followed by sessions on Peer Services, Addiction Recovery Supports featuring former SAMHSA advisor Tom Coderre, DSRIP innovations, Criminal Justice initiatives and the Social Determinants of Health. Friday will feature an informal discussion with NYS Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson, a reaction panel and a plenary session on Strategies to Take on Health Inequity.
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See you in April!
