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Thursday, April 16, 2009
7:30 am
Continental Breakfast provided in Ground Level Atrium/Registration Opens
8:00 - 9:15 am
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
37. Behind Happy Faces
This breakout is a first-hand account of bipolar disorder and the process Ross Szabo went through to find balance and recovery. Learn about bipolar disorder, the barriers that prevented Ross from seeking help, the steps he took to deal with bipolar disorder and what he does today to manage the disorder. While no single treatment for bipolar disorder is effective for everyone this breakout offers commonalities that extend to most people with mental health issues. Due to space limitations this session is for YOUTH only.
Presenter: Ross Szabo, Director of Youth Outreach, National Mental Health Awareness Campaign
38. The Power of Positive Youth Development: Creating Change Agents and Impacting Policy
 For decades, youth have been recognized as deficits, problems to be fixed. The Positive Youth Development approach shifts this thinking to recognize youth as assets by building on their strengths. By not underestimating the abilities of youth, they can become change agents in their communities by discussing and identifying solution based action plans to address important issues in their communities. Two youth presenters co-lead this workshop and teach participants about the role of authentic (true) youth voice, mobilizing youth, leadership skills and strategies to positive youth development. The session includes a discussion on how youth can connect with elected officials to create policies to help support their solution based action plans.
Presenters: Moneka Stevens Cordova, BA, Project Director, New Mexico Youth Alliance - Calle Treppiedi, Bethany Trujillo, New Mexico Youth Alliance members
39. Radio Voices
Have you ever wanted to be on the radio? In this session you will learn what goes into putting a show together. Listen to youth-produced pieces, conduct interviews, do voice exercises, and participate in youth-lead panel discussions for broadcast on Youth Media Project's show on KSFR, 101.1 FM. Come ready to tell stories and pose questions concerning how change happens in your community and how it affects the choices you make. Youth perspectives and imagination are encouraged.
Presenter: Judy Goldberg, Executive Director, Youth Media Project
40. Burnout Free Crisis Intervention: Intervening In A Crisis Without Creating A Crisis For Yourself
Successfully intervening in a crisis means enhancing the abilities of everyone involved in  coping with a crisis: students, families, and staff. This workshop provides tools for assessing and intervening in school crises while identifying risk factors for staff burnout so it can be handled in the present and prevented in the future. In-session group problem-solving and role play give you the opportunity to practice the skills covered.
Presenter: Avron Kriechman, MD, Department of Psychiatry, CRCBH, UNM
41. Mental Health Diagnosis and Clinical Techniques 101
This workshop offers introductory information on mental health diagnosis and a starting point for utilization of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM IV-TR). In addition to being introduced to clinical techniques for common child and adolescent mental health problems, you will experientially learn to implement at least one of these techniques within the session. Case scenarios relevant to a school-based health center or school-linked setting are shared to engage audience participation and discussion in working through the diagnostic and treatment process.
Presenters: Delia Mendoza, LISW, Region 4 School Mental Health Advocate, Office of School & Adolescent Health; Amanda Lopez, MS, Region 5 School Mental Health Advocate, DOH-Office of School and Adolescent Health
42. The School Nurse: Obesity Prevention and Wellness
The session is an interactive experiential-based learning session in which school nurses can learn how to integrate the four key messages integral to pediatric overweight prevention and treatment (Play Hard!, One hour daily of physical activity; Eat Well!, Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily; Turn It Off, One hour or less of screen time daily; Drink Water!, Drink more water, and less sweetened beverages) into their school setting.
Presenters: Kirsten Bennett, MS, RD, LD, Envision New Mexico; Suzanne Gagnon, CFNP, Envision NM Provider Outreach and Training Coordinator, UNM and NM Department of Health, Office of School & Adolescent Health
43. Creatively Promoting Healthy Lifestyles from a School Based Health Center
Due to unforeseen events, this presentation has been cancelled.
44. Finding the Right Fit: The Importance of Targeting Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs
There are many effective programs available to prevent initial and subsequent pregnancies and to improve the outcomes for the youth and their babies. However, many of these programs are not “one size fits all.” With our state’s extremely diverse population - economically, culturally, educationally and demographically – it is important to identify the best approach for success. In this session, program administrators and advocates working with youth to prevent teen pregnancy will learn about the array of programs available and how to match the correct program to appropriately address the diverse needs of youth and families.
Presenters: Enriquetta Benitez, Coordinator, Plain Talk/Hablando Claro; Sylvia Ruiz, BS, Executive Director, New Mexico Teen Pregnancy Coalition; Robert Valencia, Case Manager, Young Fathers Project
45. Using Experiential Education for Transition to Adolescence
Experience the opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and empower yourself to empower others. Learn about the experiential education model and participate in a number of activities to spark your interest in using and creating experiences to educate. Find out how this non-traditional way of learning can provide tools for providing youth with life skills such as communicating, problem solving, decision making and understanding risk taking, as well as goal setting.
Presenter: Beverly Ann Billie, AA, Experiential Educator
46. Sexually Transmitted Infections and Adolescents: Epidemiology, Counseling, Treatment, and Prevention Issues
Most New Mexico teens have had sexual intercourse by the time they graduate from high school. A recent study found that one in four adolescent girls in the US have one or more sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This session discusses the epidemiology, counseling, treatment and prevention of STIs in young people.
Presenter: Bruce G. Trigg, MD, Medical Director, STD Program, Regions 1 & 3, New Mexico Department of Health
47. Make It Beautiful: Creating a Patient Centered Environment
Did you know that the way your school nurse, counselor or SBHC office LOOKS directly affects the way your patients perceive the quality of the health care and impacts their anxiety level? It's true! This session provides practical ideas on how to create a beautiful, patient friendly environment as well as show you a real life makeover success from the Chaparral School-Based Health Center.
Presenters: Amanda Gallivan, SBHC Coordinator, Chaparral School-Based Health Center; Gabriella Gutierrez, Professor, University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning; Nissa Patterson, MPH, Program Manager, NM Alliance for School-Based Health Care
9:15 - 9:35 am
BREAK
9:35 - 10:50 am
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
48. Empowering Kids to Take Charge of Their Own Health
Learn how the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is helping empower the youth of America and New Mexico to eat healthier and lead more active lives. Learn about the Alliance Kids’ Movement created “by kids, for kids” to empower all kids to make healthy behavior changes and become leaders and advocates for healthy eating and physical activity. Join two enthusiastic youth trainers who will show you how to engage youth to fight in the battle in obesity prevention in their schools and communities.
Presenters: Youth Advocates for The Alliance for A Healthier Generation - Carson Miller; Rose Daniel
49. Not Another Lecture About Drugs
The presentation is a youth facilitated/ adult supervised interactive activity geared towards uncovering the consequences and emotional realities of drug and alcohol abuse. It is done by teens for teens to spread awareness that drug abuse and underage drinking is bad! This role-play involves a student who is experimenting with drugs and alcohol showing the effects it has on the student (himself/herself) and his/her peers. The drug/alcohol use starts with inhalants, marijuana, liquor, beer, ecstasy and ends with mushrooms, cocaine, heroin, crack, and methamphetamines ultimately leading to the student’s death.
Presenters: Harry Montoya, CEO of Hands Across Cultures; Jude Anthony Sanchez, Student, CNM
50. Community Healing Through Youth Empowerment
When communities are defined by their strengths, resources, and assets, they begin to heal from within. Youth are an often overlooked asset of our communities, and can rise to become leaders of efforts that improve the health and well-being of our communities if we allow them. This session, hosted by the Native Health Initiative coordinators, begins with an introduction to community asset mapping (CAM), and then highlights youth who are healing their communities through their activism. Two local youth-led efforts - one to create a community wellness event, and the other to advocate for improved recreational facilities - are showcased as examples of CAM in practice, with the youth presenting their own work. You will come away from this informed and inspired to create opportunities for youth to lead the way through their service to their communities.
Presenters: From the Native Health Initiative, Coordinators Anthony Fleg, MD, MPH, and Shannon Fleg
51. Signs and Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Studies show that 1 in 5 children may be suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Unfortunately, symptoms of PTSD are often ignored, overlooked, or misdiagnosed. This workshop educates about PTSD in children and teens. Receive information about prevalence, symptomatology, including differential diagnosis, and treatment of PTSD. The presentation also includes discussion of the types of traumatic situations that children and teens encounter, how PTSD presents itself at different developmental stages, and cultural considerations.
Presenter: Kate Latimer, MA, LMHC, Therapist and Training Services Coordinator, Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Treatment Center
52. Investigating Environmental and Individual Prevention Strategies
Throughout the nation and New Mexico there appears to be two very prominent schools of prevention methodology: environmental and individual strategies. Depending on which prevention training class you attend, there may be differing points of view presented by experts as to which practice is the most effective, leaving many prevention professionals confused. Does prevention have to be an either or? Find out the strengths and short-comings of both environmental and individual prevention strategies and how these strategies can complement each other to create the strongest prevention program.
Presenters: Ginny Adame, BS, CPS, DWI Prevention/Enforcement Coordinator, The Village of Los Lunas; Frank Magourilos BS, SCPS; Jim Roeber, MSPH; Glen Wieringa, MRC, Underage Drinking Prevention Coordinator, NM DOT Traffic Safety Bureau
53. Seeking Agreement, Making Wellness and Partnering with a Plan: A Collective Commitment to Building Alternative Outcomes through Relational Collaboration
This workshop inspires participants to facilitate wellness meetings that provide conversations between students, parents and school staff designed to identify desired outcomes, resources and follow-up plans to effectively improve wellness and school performance. Participants will be reminded of how much they care about the wellness of their students and families, how deeply they feel committed to making resources available to assist students and families in their efforts to improves their lives and school performance, and how genuinely they strive to collaborate with other school staff to address the needs of their students.
Presenters: Albuquerque Public Schools - Melody Fill, MSW, School Social Worker; Nancy Lacher, Elementary School Principal; Antoinette Najera, School Social Worker; Kathy Sallee, School Nurse; Veronica Valdez-Anderson, School Counselor
54. Suicide – Can We Help Prevent It?
Everyone working with youth in a school or community setting can play an important role in helping to identify young people at risk of suicidal behaviors and refer them to the appropriate sources for help. Community Gatekeepers are trained to recognize behavioral patterns and other warning signs that indicate that a young person may be at risk for suicide, actively intervene, and ensure that young people at risk access the services necessary to reduce that risk. Learn about the components of a successful Community Gatekeeper program, why your school should have one and why it works.
Presenters: Avron Kriechman, MD, Department of Psychiatry, CRCBH, UNM;
Norma Rey Vázquez de Houdek Youth Suicide Prevention Coordinator, NM DOH Office of School & Adolescent Health
55. Hand Hygiene in the School Setting
A look at the current literature regarding the importance of hand hygiene practices in the school setting. Specifically, we'll review the latest information regarding the use of antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizing gels. A preliminary report from the pilot project, “Inspections to Support Hand Washing Facilities in Public Schools” is also provided.
Presenters: NM Department of Health - Mary Ramos, MD, MPH, School Health Officer; Rebecca Trujillo, RN, MSN, School Health Advocate
56. The PASS Project: Positive Assistance for Student Success
Positive Assistance for Student Success (PASS) is a school-based intervention designed to address critical student and family issues that impact negatively on a student’s academic performance. PASS is based on case management functions using existing school district staff to serve as advisors and coaches for students and families, assisting them to build on their strengths to find solutions to their problems. The process, developed by a team of professionals working with the New Mexico Public Education Department, School and Family Support Bureau, has been outlined in a new comprehensive toolkit that can be used by any school employee who has been assigned to support a student of a family in need. Learn how your school can use the PASS toolkit to help increase the capacity of school district staff to serve in the role of advisor and coach for students and their families in need of support.
Presenters: From the NM Public Education Department, School and Family Support Bureau- Georgia Glasgow, Health Services and School-Based Medicaid Program; Laurie Mueller, Professional Development Coordinator;Joseph P. Sanchez, MBA, Education Program Coordinator and Contractor to the Department, Patsy Nelson, BSN, MA
57. SPARK Your Schools Coordinated School Health Efforts
Connect with resources and strategies to help your school achieve a healthy school environment. This hands-on session will have you taking part in a collaborating scope and sequence event of physical activity, nutrition and health. Learn about SPARK (Sports, Play, and Active Recreation for Kids), a research-based organization dedicated to creating, implementing, and evaluating programs that promote lifelong wellness. Leave with the "pieces" to support your coordinated school health efforts.
Presenter: Julie Frank, MPH, CHES Project Specialist, The SPARK Programs
58. On the Street Where You Live: Understanding Environment’s Impact on Student Health
Every student that walks into New Mexico classrooms embodies the environment that they live in, their homes, their communities. They carry the footprint of the lived realities of their communities. Healthy behaviors, molecular research, and of course, universal health care are all important. But evidence suggests they miss the most vital factor of all: how the social circumstances in which we are born, live and work can get under our skin and disrupt our biology as surely as germs and viruses. Learn how we need to go beyond medical treatment of conditions and understand how social determinants play a significant role in determining the health outcomes of young people including the early development of minds and bodies and the student’s ability to overcome societal inequities to succeed in this society.
Presenters: Magdalena M. Avila, DrPh, MPH, MSW, Assistant Professor, Health Education Program, COE, University of New Mexico; Nancy Kirkpatrick, BS, Health Service Administrator, Office of School and Adolescent Health, NM Department of Health; Beth Pierson Klugman, MS, CHES, Visiting Faculty, HED, School Health, University of New Mexico
10:50 - 11:15 am
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11:15 am
Drawing for FREE registration to Head to Toe 14! You must be present to win.
11:20 - 12:30 pm
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Ross Szabo
New Ways to Create Mental Health Education 
This keynote presentation explores new ways to educate all people about mental health. Ross Szabo has spent the last 6 years speaking to well over half a million young people. Through his personal experience with bipolar disorder and his professional experience running the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign he has developed new ideas for the future of mental health education. He will examine the history of mental health education, the public’s perception of mental illness, and what can be done to increase the amount of people actively seeking ways to take care of their mental health. Ross’s recovery with bipolar disorder has given him insight and a unique perspective on some of the most pressing needs of our culture.
12:30 - 2:00 pm
LUNCH A: General Attendance (Convention Center Ballroom)
LUNCH B: New Mexico Alliance for School-Based Health Care (NMASBHC) Lunch and Annual Meeting (Doubletree)
The annual meeting for the New Mexico Alliance for School-Based Health Care will be held at the Doubletree Hotel. Highlights of the meeting will include membership input, the election of new board members, modifications to the bylaws, and recognition and awards. If you are not a member, you can join by going to http://www.nmasbhc.org/pages/membership.html or by stopping by the NMASBHC booth. Membership is free.
2:00 - 3:30 pm
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Next Steps - For Youth Attendees Only
In this session youth will meet with the NM Department of Health – Adolescent Health Coordinator to discuss “next steps.” How to use the information learned, plans to conduct workshops or presentations in schools and communities. Youth Teams will receive a resource manual. Time for door prizes and fun and time to say good-bye to new and old friends.
Facilitated by: Tessa Medina-Lucero,Adolescent Health Coordinator, NM Department of Health, Office of School & Adolescent Health
59. Psychiatric Consultation for New Mexico SBHC Providers
Back by popular demand, this workshop explores how psychiatric consultation enhances integrative behavioral health services delivered by primary care and mental health providers in school-based health centers (SBHCs). Join other SBHC providers consulting with the psychiatrist about clinical assessment, treatment, systems-of-care, consent & confidentiality, and other challenges. The Office of School & Adolescent Health (OSAH), New Mexico Dept of Health (DOH), makes this psychiatric consultation available, usually via telehealth, to providers serving students in those New Mexico SBHCs that do not have psychiatric services.
Presenter: Dan Rifkin, MD, Consulting Psychiatrist, Envision NM/OSAH/UNM & FCCH SBHCs
60. How to Support Children and Teens after a Death
When a student experiences the death of a family member or friend, a caring teacher, counselor or nurse who knows what to do can make a huge difference in that child’s life. Learn what to expect from the grief process and how to help children and teens through it, including: signs and symptoms of grief, the top three misconceptions about grief, and the top seven things adults can do to help.
Presenter: Katrina Koehler, BA, Program Director, Gerard's House
61. Transmitted Infections and Adolescents: Epidemiology, Counseling
and Prevention Issues
Most New Mexico teens have had sexual intercourse by the time they graduate from high school. A recent study found that one in four adolescent girls in the US have one or more sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This session discusses the epidemiology, counseling, treatment and prevention of STIs in young people.
Presenter: Bruce G. Trigg, MD, Medical Director, STD Program, Regions 1 & 3, New Mexico Department of Health
62. Collaboration to Help Our Children Breathe Better
The prevalence rate of asthma in children 5-17 years of age is 9.6% and rising yearly, resulting in more missed school days. Can we curb this trend by coordinating efforts between the schools and community? Collaboration in asthma care is essential in preventing asthma symptoms and severe exacerbations. Reinforcement of asthma education is critical at every level. This session reviews asthma basics, the importance of addressing asthma within the schools and the necessity of coordination with family and community providers. Plan to explore options to establish a comprehensive asthma management program.
Presenters: Odile Ball, RN, Specialty Nurse, UNM Pediatric Pulmonary Center; Theresa Belanger, MA, BSW, Medical Management Social Worker,
Region 2 Children’s Medical Services, Region 2 Pediatric Specialty Outreach Clinic Coordinator; Madelyn Krassner, LISW, Program Manager, Region 2 Children’s Medical Services Program
63. Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and EnVironmental Change (ACHIEVE)
Many New Mexicans face a variety of socioeconomic challenges that discourage physical activity and reduce access to healthy foods. Using a partnership-building framework as well as specific examples from the Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and EnVironmental Change (ACHIEVE) initiative’s partnership-building experiences, we will examine steps towards developing effective and sustainable school-community partnerships. Participants will break out into small groups to evaluate how to apply the framework to their own schools, and to identify barriers as well as strengths that may affect the success of their own school-community partnerships.
Presenter: Erin Crotty Phipps, DVM, MPH, Health Promotion Specialist, NM Department of Health
64. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, The Hidden Disability
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is often called a “hidden” disability because its physical characteristics can be subtle and may go unrecognized. Many qualities can mask the seriousness of this lifelong neurological disability. Are you a teacher, nurse or counselor who is baffled by a student with FAS? This session gives you tools and strategies to build a program of success for students who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
Presenters: Cheryl Brubaker, MSN, FNP-BC, Resource Nurse for Special Education/Special Needs, Albuquerque Public Schools; Wendy Kalberg, MA, LED, UNM/CASAA
65. Techniques for Multicultural Competence in the Classroom
Diversity in the classroom is continually increasing. Multicultural identities include gender; race/ ethnicity; ability/ disability; body size; religion; sexual orientation; age; nationality/ citizenship; socioeconomic status; education; family; and other identities. This workshop outlines the importance for multicultural competence, identifies key strategies to explore multicultural identities, and teaches school professionals how to implement techniques that enhance multicultural competence. Within these objectives, the workshop also examines issues of privilege and oppression, aspects of cultural context, and the impact of socialization, along with specific techniques to implement strategies in the classroom that demonstrate multicultural competence.
Presenter: Linda Najjar, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Inner Wisdom Counseling, L.L.C.
66. Best Foot Forward: Learning to Present with Confidence
This interactive session uses information about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Second Hand Smoke effects to learn techniques to overcome the fear of being a peer presenter. In this session for peer educators or those who train peer educators, learn the importance of being prepared and passionate about your topic. Techniques to ease the fear of presenting and to make your presentation credible by incorporating personal life experiences are demonstrated.
Presenters: Sally Kosnick, MS, Executive Director, NM GRADS; Jerome Romero, BA, Program Coordinator, UNM CASAA
67. Excellence and Equity in Comprehensive School Health Education
Education and health are interrelated. Education can contribute substantially to improving health and economic development. Conversely, poor health status is a major determinant of educational and economic achievement. There is a strong relationship between learning and health status. Demographic trends from the U.S. Census Bureau show the growing emergence of people of color as an emerging majority in the U.S. Find out about the extent of the problem, trends and outcomes and how without multicultural health education in pre-service training for teachers, many students will not have fair access to having the health of the educated nor their protective factors.
Presenter: Jamal Martin, MPH, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Family & Community Medicine and Africana Studies, University of New Mexico
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