CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

On this day you will select two workshops to attend: one for the morning and a different one for the afternoon. Wednesday’s sessions are numbered 1-15 and do not repeat except for workshop #4.

8:00 – 8:30 am

Registration/Continental Breakfast & Exhibits

8:30 – 9:45 am

Welcome and Keynote Presentation

Welcome: Alvin Warren, Cabinet Secretary,

New Mexico Indian Affairs Department

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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Creating A Front Porch For Services: Strategies for Transforming Communities

Mario Hernandez, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Child & Family Studies at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Creating people-friendly places and other mechanisms for accessing mental health and related services is the foundation of community-based services and supports for all children and their families. This foundation must be driven by the cultural characteristics of the populations our formal and informal systems/providers intend to serve. Since every person is part of a culture, building local services and supports should consider the impact culture has on the design of community-based approaches that emerge from the way people seek and define mental health/behavioral problems. Creating local front porches for access requires commitment from local and state leaders and a willingness to shape funding to support people rather than organizational mandates. In order to do this there has to be a common vision with a set of guiding principles that allow for local variation in how services/supports as well as access is designed. Sharing such a common understanding regarding local and state change should not create “sameness” in approach but rather “sameness” in intent with local communities shaping the way their services/support are chosen and how they are organized in order to create access. This presentation aims to share framework that can energize and organize the efforts of local and state reformers as they reach people with special challenges and later become involved in their lives.

10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Concurrent Workshops 1 - 8

1. Consensus and Collaboration
Presenters: Wanda Finch, LICSW, Public Health Advisor, SAMHSA/CMHS Community Support Programs Branch, Rockville, MD Program Manager, The National Center for Trauma-Informed Care, Bethesda, MD; LaVerne Miller, Esq., Director, Howie T. Harp Peer Advocacy Center, New York, NY; representatives from Doña Ana County Health and Human Services 

This workshop is designed to enhance skills and understanding in the utilization of collaborative, consensual processes necessary to create an integrated and cohesive team of diverse stakeholders who are able to effectively plan, design, create, manage and/or evaluate complex multifaceted human service systems. Emphasis is placed on exploring the use of specific skill sets and knowledge necessary to inhibit strife, territoriality, and personal agendas; enhance negotiation, cooperation, conflict resolution, effective communication, compromise and consensus building. The consensus building processes will be related to the development complex integrated human service system building within Doña Ana County New Mexico.

Participants will learn

• skill sets to enhance consensus-based collaboration.
• a basic understanding of the consensus process that facilitates integrated activities within the completion of complex tasks by varied stakeholders.
• skill sets to identify and inhibit dynamics that subvert goal oriented team building.

2. Co-Occurring Disorders (COD) Treatment for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness  and Substance Use Disorders: What We Know About What’s Working….And What Isn’t.

Presenter: Richard Kruszynski, MSSA, LISW, LICDC, Director of Consultation and Training, Ohio Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Coordinating Center of Excellence, Cleveland, OH

This session reviews key treatment principles, treatment models and systems of care that have been demonstrated to be effective for individuals with severe mental illness and a substance use disorder. Material draws from current literature and the Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment implementation experiences of 40+ organizations in Ohio, as well as numerous other partnering states served by the Ohio Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Coordinating Center of Excellence over the past eight years. Discussion explores barriers to successful outcomes and lessons learned from providers and communities who are serving this population.

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Participants will learn

• the 10 key treatment principles for individuals with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders, and the implications of these principles for program design, staff selection, and community and consumer outcomes.
• how these principles translate in the context of the New Mexico system of care and how to identify next steps necessary to develop infrastructure that supports effective treatment for co-occurring disorders.
• about the tools such as IDDT Fidelity scales and DDCAT/DDMHT scales for their application and utility in developing co-occurring treatment programs.

3. Stories of Recovery: Adapting Substance Use Treatment Practices for Native American Clientele

Presenter: Kamilla Venner, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico Psychology Department, Albuquerque, NM 

In over a decade of clinical work and research, Dr. Venner has explored how Native Americans overcome alcohol dependence. Her research has included the collecting of recovery success stories, which have supported the adaptation of substance use treatment modalities such as motivational interviewing to be more effective with Native Americans. In this session, Dr. Venner shares the findings of her research and adapted tools.

 

Participants will learn

• to understand unique clinical issues that Native American clients face.
• ways in which widely accepted treatment models can be adapted to become culturally appropriate treatments for these clients.
• techniques, such as motivational interviewing, to assist Native American clients in overcoming substance dependence.

4. Illness Management and Recovery (IMR)

Presenters: Susan Gingerich, MSW, clinician and consultant, Narberth, PA; with Corrine F. Dominguez, Director, New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute - Community Based Services, Las Vegas, NM

This session demonstrates the collaborative process for developing person-centered goals using the Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) Program. In IMR, people define recovery for themselves, identify personally meaningful goals, and learn strategies and skills related to achieving their goals. A brief overview of IMR is provided, followed by a practical focus on the aspects of the program that involve goal-setting and which can be used in non-IMR programs. Participants will view a DVD showing an IMR session in which an individual defines recovery for himself and identifies personal recovery goals in partnership with a professional. Participants also have an opportunity to take part in exercises in which they practice using the “Satisfaction with Areas of My Life Worksheet” and the “IMR Goal-Tracking Sheet.”

 Participants will learn

• key concepts of recovery.
• to describe a conversation that helps people define recovery for themselves.
• examples of goals based on the person’s own definition of recovery.  

5. Making it Work: A Supportive Housing Workshop for Agency Management Staff and Supervisors, Community Leaders and State Agency Staff

Moderator: Marti Knisley, MA, Director of the Community Support Initiative, Technical Assistance Collaborative, Boston, MA; Presenters: Susan Curran, Program Consultant, Louisiana Permanent Supportive Housing Program, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Navarre, FL; Christy Repress, Director of Programs and Development, Pathways to Housing, Washington DC and Andrea White, LMSW, Chief Program Officer, Center for Urban Community Services Housing Resource Center, New York, NY

This workshop for agency directors, managers, community leaders and state program staff focuses on describing how to develop supportive housing in your community and agency and the cost benefits and other outcomes you can expect when implementing supportive housing programs. Workshop leaders share information on best practices including Housing First programs, utilizing peer specialists in supportive housing and securing support from the housing community for your program. Presenters will also review how to use Comprehensive Community Support Services (CCSS) as a funding source for housing support services.

Participants will learn

• how to educate the broader community and program partners about the cost effectiveness of supportive housing and Housing First.
• what new opportunities are available for your service agency to become a partner in the supportive housing initiative in New Mexico.
• how to effectively use CCSS as a service model to get and keep consumers housed.

6. Changing Agency Culture to Best Serve Youth & Families
Presenter: Mary Jo Meyers, MS, Deputy Director, Wraparound Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

Much has been said and written about the importance of incorporating the Wraparound principles and values into the way we do business to best serve families. Wraparound Milwaukee, in its thirteenth year of existence, has taken the challenge of doing just this, and has learned many lessons on what it actually takes to operationalize these values and principles into everyday practice.  This workshop provides participants with information on the necessary changes and new practices agencies can begin to incorporate to improve the culture of their agency and ultimately improve outcomes for children and families through best practice.

Participants will learn

• the operations of Wraparound Milwaukee and lessons learned.
• how to apply the Wraparound principles to agency operations.
• the tools for supervision and agency performance indicators that support Wraparound values and principles.

7. Moving Toward Trauma Informed Care

Presenter: Beth Caldwell, MS, Caldwell Management Associates, Housatonic, MA 

This workshop provides a general understanding of the history of the national movement to promote recovery, resiliency and trauma informed care, and prevent the need for coercive interventions, including restraint and seclusion, with persons served. Participants learn about the six core constructs and strategies that have been utilized successfully in programs reflective of this movement. Additionally,  this workshop supports a deeper understanding of the neurobiological and psychological effects of trauma, and identifies elements that are important for programs to implement to move their programs towards operationalizing trauma informed care. Finally, specific interventions, such as sensory modulation approaches and individual soothing strategies are described.

Participants will learn

• about history of the national movement to promote recovery, resiliency and trauma informed care, and prevent the need for coercive interventions, including restraint and seclusion, with persons served.
• about the National Association of State Mental Health Program Director’s six core constructs or six core strategies.
• neurobiological and/or psychological effects of trauma.
• an introduction to characteristics of and practices used by programs that have implemented trauma informed system of care.
• primary prevention tools that can be used in supporting persons with histories of trauma.
  

8. Evidence-based Practices (EBP) For Homeless Persons

Presenter: Judith Magnon, RN-BC, BS, CAC, Home 2 Recovery ACT Team Leader, Coastal Behavioral Healthcare,Inc., Port Charlotte, FL

EBPs help us identify approaches that achieve the best results, like stability in permanent housing, increased income, and improved physical and mental health. Many of the practices that are considered evidence-based are psychotherapeutic in nature and are offered within traditional, clinical environments. In homeless services, interventions happen in non-traditional settings—shelters, mobile vans, the streets. With limited outcomes-based evidence, it can be difficult to know exactly what practices work for whom. The homeless population presents a distinct challenge to clinician’s skills and requires a wide variety of knowledge that includes specific mental illness diagnosis, and also addictions issues, sexual abuse issues, children of alcoholics issues, medical issues and others.

This workshop explores two evidence-based practices, Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) and Assertive Community Treatment (ACT). IDDT, an evidence-based practice, has great benefits for consumers dealing with both mental illnesses and substance use problems. IDDT is a treatment where a clinician or treatment team not only focuses on treating mental illness, but substance use as well. ACT is a multi-disciplinary team-based approach to providing support for people with mental health problems.

Participants will learn about

• ACT and IDDT models of care.
• the differences in the models of care.
• stage wise interventions.

12:30 – 1:45 pm LUNCH (provided)

2:00 – 4:30 pm   CONCURRENT SESSIONS 9 - 15

9. Recovery-Based Responses in Crisis
Moderator: Karen Meador, JD, Senoior Policy Director, NM Behavioral Health Collaborative Presenters: William Daumueller, MSSW, ACSW, LISW, Chief Executive Officer, Southwest Counseling Center, Inc., Las Cruces, NM; Zach Hughes, Washington County Mental Health Services, Montpelier, VT; Mary Moulton, BA, Director of Intensive Care Services, Washington County Mental Health Services, Montpelier, VT; Laurie Pontbriand, MS, Program Manager, Washington County Mental Health Services, Montpelier, VT

National recognized staff from Intensive Care Services of Vermont, in partnership with the Southwest Counseling Center, demonstrate the implementation of best practices in crisis response services and how mobile crisis, pre- and post crisis, peer support, and in home interventions are integrated into a crisis system. This workshop explores how a comprehensive crisis system can reduce the use of more restrictive and unnecessary, as well as expensive, levels of care and incarceration and the use of overtaxed emergency room and inpatient facilities.

Participants will learn

• practical successes and errors in setting up a mobile crisis service.
• on-the-ground essentials for implementing national best practice models for recovery-based crisis systems.
• key elements for improving the use of community resources.

 

10. Assessing the Needs of Your Native American Provider Agency: How to Create Training and Develop Your Workforce

Presenters: Beverly Gorman MSW, Native American Behavioral Health Assistant, Center for Rural & Community Behavioral Health, Albuquerque, NM; Charlene Poola, LMSW, Social Worker, University of New Mexico, Department of Psychiatry, Albuquerque, NM  

The availably of behavioral health services for Native Americans has always been a concern for the state. However, the actual service array, location of services and capacity of providers remained unquantified until 2007, when a survey was conducted by the University of New Mexico’s Rural Psychiatry Department.

Hear the survey findings and discuss the training that was implemented based on these findings. The presenters also discuss strategies for participants to assess their own agency’s training needs and how to create appropriate trainings to meet these needs.

Participants will learn

• about the steps recently taken in New Mexico to identify training needs of Native American providers.
• how a series of trainings was subsequently provided to providers across the state.
• to identify and meet the training needs in their own agencies.

11. Illness Management and Recovery (IMR)

Presenters: Susan Gingerich, MSW, clinician and consultant, Narberth, PA with Staci Lariviere, BS, Community Support Worker, Carlsbad Mental Health Center, Carlsbad, NM

REPEAT of session W4.

Please note presenters are different for this presentation. Ms. Gingerich will be joined by staff and consumers from Carlsbad Mental Health Center, demonstrating the collaborative process of establishing person centered goals using Illness management and recovery.

12. Making it Work: A Supportive Housing Workshop for Agency Direct Service Supervisors and Program Staff

Moderator: Marti Knisley, MA, Director of the Community Support Initiative, Technical Assistance Collaborative, Boston, MA; Presenters: Susan Curran, Program Consultant, Louisiana Permanent Supportive Housing Program, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Navarre, FL; Christy Repress, Director of Programs and Development, Pathways to Housing, Washington DC; Andrea White, LMSW, Chief Program Officer, Center for Urban Community Services Housing Resource Center, New York, NY

This workshop is for direct services supervisors and direct services staff and offers information on best practices including Housing First and housing-based community support programs, utilizing peer specialists in supportive housing and securing support from the housing community for your program. Presenters also review how to use Comprehensive Community Support Services (CCSS) as a funding source for housing support services.

Participants will learn how to

• get consumers rapidly housed by doing a thorough needs assessment and service planning.
• develop comprehensive services and effective consumer engagement techniques using a team approach.
• help consumers maintain tenancy. 

13. But This Family Doesn’t Have or Want a Team!
Presenter: Mary Jo Meyers, MS, Deputy Director, Wraparound Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

Throughout  the literature describing the Wraparound Process written by numerous authors such as John Van Den Berg, John Burchard and Barbara Burns, Child and Family Teams (CFT) are viewed as one of the most essential components defining Wraparound. The rationale being, such teams that include people who know the family best, allow service providers to create a meaningful plan and promote a sustainable support system for families once formal system involvement has ended. Along with the development of teams, including natural and informal helpers with formal system representatives, the value of utilizing community-based services is also recognized as one of the best ways to assure families get what they need to support their children with ongoing needs in an accessible and natural setting.

Although the benefits of forming CFTs and using community resources are easily understood, systems of care throughout the United States continue to struggle with operationalizing these concepts for families who are isolated for a variety of reasons. This presentation, designed in partnership with the families of Wraparound Milwaukee, will impart the methods implemented to assist care coordinators, families and providers in enhancing the number of natural and informal members on CFTs, as well as increasing the use of community resources.

Participants will learn

• how engagement skills will affect their ability to build teams and how to improve them.
• new skills for increasing natural and informal supports for families and how to build sustainable plans.
• how feedback and performance tools assist in improving their practice with families.

14. Recovery: The New Mexico Monologues
Facilitator: Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, Artistic Director of Project Life Stories, Santa Fe, NM

This performance art presentation showcases the personal monologues of people in recovery from mental health issues and/or their family members. These authentic and heart opening monologues reflect diverse experiences from consumers and their families from around the state.

The monologists will prepare themselves and their pieces in a two-weekend writing and performance workshop with presentation facilitator, Ms. Rubinstein. Their process culminates in this one time only performance. Moving beyond the intellect, into the emotionally-based stories of pain and transformation that live in the body, audience members can expect to be engaged and moved by these very personal performances.

Participants will learn to

• move beyond theory, into the experience of empathy and compassion.
• engage more deeply with unfamiliar communities/circumstances and to find a common ground to enact solutions for progress.
• validate the “wholeness” of each person from the level of the soul, regardless of the struggles and/or illness they have experienced; to move beyond objectification toward true connection.

15. Building Integrated Culturally Competent System of Care

Presenters: Jamie Bartgis, PhD, Project Coordinator, Circles of Care, Tulsa, OK; Keith Pirtle, State Project Director for Oklahoma’s System of Care and Co-Chair of the SAMHSA System of Care Technical Assistance and Quality Improvement Committee, Norman, OK

Based on the experiences of the presenters in developing a statewide System of Care in Oklahoma and how they can be translated to New Mexico, this workshop addresses the critical components of implementing a System of Care in rural and frontier areas. This includes developing the infrastructure and governance, reaching out to rural communities, and addressing the challenges of implementing System of Care in rural areas. Emphasis is placed on reaching out and partnering with Native American Communities, and incorporating Native practices and healing into a System of Care.

Participants will learn

• the critical functions of implementing a Wraparound process in rural areas.
• typical barriers to implementing Systems of Care in rural and frontier areas and learn ways of addressing these barriers.
• ways to partner with Native American communities and how to incorporate native practices into their System of Care.
  

4:30 – 6:30 pm NETWORKING RECEPTION(refreshments provided)

A Word to the Wise!

Its time to network, nosh and get down to one of Santa Fe’s hottest dance bands – The Wise Guys!

Don’t Miss This Prime Networking Opportunity!

On Wednesday, December 3 seize this chance to make those new connections with peers and colleagues, meet the day’s presenters, renew old acquaintances, and just plain have fun.

Don’t forget your business cards!

The Wise Guys

Native New Mexicans, the Guys grew up listening to the music of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. These five talented musicians have played with various bands on the local music scene for the past fifteen years. 

Variety is a key element of their music, steeped in the great rock’n roll tradition of the past half century.  Versatile musical abilities,

rich three-part harmonies, and powerful guitar

leads, allow for distinct vocal arrangements and

the ability to cover many old rock n' roll favorites.

A definite crowd pleaser, their music appeals to audiences of all ages.

Program Content: The information, comments, and opinions expressed in the workshops and general sessions as well as the content of any material utilized or distributed during the programs do not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of the Behavioral Health Collaborative, conference sponsors, or Kesselman-Jones, Inc. Therefore, no organization endorses nor assumes responsibility for the concepts expressed during these programs.