CASRA 3.0 Fall Conference 2020
Event Program
DAYS:
October 15 - October 22 - October 29
October 15, 2020
| Title | Speaker | Description | Goals | CEU |
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A Rebellious Guide to Psychosis |
For too long our approach to ongoing psychosis is to describe it as hopeless, incomprehensible, unrelatable, and frightening. We need to rebel against these perspectives to appreciate psychosis as a relatively common response when someone has serious difficulty in all three dimensions of a “psychosis triangle”: experiencing reality, self-identity, and relationships. Many “strange facts” about psychosis make sense when we take off our narrow-minded blinders and look at all three interacting dimensions in someone’s life. Using a truly person-centered biopsychosocial approach instead of an illness-centered approach, we can understand the journeys people are going through, we can relate to them and travel with them, we can make collaborative recovery plans (often including using medication more effectively), we can avoid chronicity and disability, and it’s likely we can even prevent a good deal of psychosis from emerging in the first place. We’ve had enough expensive focus on brain scans and genetics. Let’s really listen to people and let our experiences together guide us. |
Participants will be disabused of four common barriers to working with recovery with psychosis and be open to a comprehensive, holistic, model of psychosis that encompasses a variety of hopeful, effective services and supports.
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Facilitated Discussion |
Ed Herzog, Co-Founder of the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network. |
See "A Rebellious Guide to Psychosis" |
See "A Rebellious Guide to Psychosis" |
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The Power of Hearing Voices Groups |
Ed Herzog, Co-Founder of the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network. |
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the history of the hearing voices network. It will provide and example of a person’s lived experience and consider the value of further explorations into the meaning and content of the experience. It will also consider the power of doing so in groups and how collaborating with other can heal. Finally, it will consider ways this information can be useful to family members to preserve and maintain good relationships with their loved ones. |
This presentation will explore the history of the hearing voices movement and the value of peer support groups. Not only will it demonstrate the vitality of reviewing stories in group, it will provide participants with an example that will help challenge providers. Providers will learn about what questions to ask to uncover stories and events that can assist healing. It will help providers understand how these groups challenge the mainstream approach of suppression. Then it will explore the family member experience and the support they can use to maintain relationships with those who hear voices and have other types of taboo experiences. |
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October 22, 2020
| Title | Speaker | Description | Goals | CEU |
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Creating an Antiracism Framework in the Rehabilitation and Recovery Movement |
Chacku Mathai, Project Director with the Center for Practice Innovations OnTrackNY. |
The Recovery and Rehabilitation Movement certainly recognizes and pursues social justice and liberation in our communities. Our demonstration of the transformative shift from a more traditional stance of therapeutic neutrality to our engaged and liberating practices of restoring personhood and social justice for individuals and families confirms this. Despite this, however, we remain at risk of recreating the qualities of society that outraged us in the first place. How do we avoid the trap of unconsciously carrying the conditions of racism, white supremacy, and psychiatric oppression into our vision and construction of a liberated society? Embracing what we already know about the qualities of love, compassion, empathy, and respect is a good place to start. Yet, this, and even love, will still not be enough to be an antiracist movement. We are called to challenge what we know, believe, and set as policy in order to address racial inequities, and the racialized, collective trauma of our oppression and colonization. We can start with the limiting beliefs we hold about ourselves and each other. Why do we cling to these beliefs, even if they seem to oppress us and those we love? In this workshop presentation, Chacku Mathai offers some compelling stories of key principles, strategies, and practices for individual and collective healing and justice, as well as our collective commitment to an antiracist, pluralistic identity. |
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Incarceration: A Public Health issue |
Tanya Mera, Director of Jail Behavioral Health and Reentry Services, San Francisco. |
This workshop will discuss the overlap between the determinants of poor health outcomes and risk factors for criminal justice involvement. It will also address public health’s ability and responsibility to help prevent criminal justice involvement for the population it serves and how by addressing risk factors for criminal justice involvement we are simultaneously preventing poor health outcomes that result from incarceration. |
A general educational goal references overall professional growth, improved sophistication or greater clinical skills which would occur later (after the workshop) in future work. |
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The Transgender Experience: Supporting our Transgender Family |
Penny Lane, Embracing Identity Program. |
LGBTQ+ individuals are 3 times more likely than the general population to experience a mental health condition. Up to 65% of transgender people have experienced severe suicidal ideation. The LGBTQ+ Community needs skilled practitioners that they can turn to for support. This workshop will give attendees an introduction to the LGBTQ+ Community, as well as provide more in-depth information about the transgender experience. By including videos and activities, this interactive workshop will increase attendee’s competence when working with transgender clients. |
Participants will have a fundamental base of knowledge and skills necessary to work competently and respectfully with transgender clients.
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October 29, 2020
| Title | Speaker | Description | Goals | CEU |
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Supporting Transition-Age Youth in School During Covid-19 |
Michelle Mullen, Senior Research Director at University of Massachusetts Medical School. |
This workshop will outline the changing post-secondary educational environment in these Covid times. Learn about the common barriers to success for TAY students, including the role that executive functioning plays in success. Participants will explore ways to mitigate barriers and how a new program – HYPE – is making a difference. |
The overarching goal of this course is to define the problems that have resulted from the stigmatization and discrimination of students with mental health conditions in post-secondary education and the difficulties they face broadly, and in the context of COVID-19, and explore possible ways of addressing these concerns, predicated on empirical mental health services research. |
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Supervisor's Guide to Peer Support |
Shannon McCleerey, Consumer Peer Support Programs Riverside University Health System-Behavioral Health. |
Join Shannon to explore the issues that can come up in the supervision of peer staff. The course allows space for participants to discuss and problem-solve in-clinic challenges and HR concerns. It encourages administrators to create Peer Support Leadership roles that can foster more reciprocal learning environments. You’ll hear about concrete examples of policies, role definitions, duty statements and procedural strategies to support that learning environment. This is a recovery-focused approach, that leans more on SAMHSA Guidelines to Peer Support than on traditional HR disciplinary processes. It is a mentorship process for supervisors to be empowered to mentor and supervise, understanding the difference between being a person’s employer vs. being their therapist or social worker. |
To provide supervisors and administrators of behavioral health systems with concrete strategies to successfully implement recovery-focused mentorship and supervision for consumer peer providers. |
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Support through Difficult Times: What Peer Respite Teaches Us |
Guyton Colantuono, Project Return Peer Support Network. Jessica Oyerzides, Project Return Peer Support Network. Vanessa Roque, Project Return Peer Support Network. |
Feeling vulnerable and afraid – unsure of how to cope with all the stresses of these times? Peer respite programs are providing much needed support, space and community healing for individuals struggling with mental health issues on top of the world’s pile up of stress in 2020. Find out about the key strategies used in peer respite programs to assist one another on this journey to wellness. |
Participants will analyze the elements of peer respite which create a healing environment and be able to utilize these elements in standard practice with people who are in a mental health crisis. |
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