Current Projects and Schedule of Training

 

 

Schedule for 2007-08:

 

 

September 5-6-NASMHPD Technical assistance team, Delaware State Hospital, Wilmington DE

 

September 19-20-Nebraska State Consumer Conference

     Keynote Speaker on Recovery and the Arts

 

September 21–Consultation at Nebraska State Hospital

 

September 28-29—Intergenerational Dialogue between young and adult mental health consumers

     Washington, DC

 

October 1-Recovery Conference, Staunton, VA

     Keynote Speaker:  From Coercion to Communication to Collaboration

 

October 10-14- Alternatives’ Conference, St. Louis MO 

     Plenary Speaker:  Presenting the Arts as Consumer Movement History, Workshop on Poetry, Art Caucus

Presenting this year’s Howie the Harp Award to Jerome Lawrence, from Atlanta, GA and Sybil Noble, Kansas City, MO as Outstanding Visual Artists.

October 15-Fulton State Hospital, Fulton, MO, Consultation on Comfort Rooms

November 13, 2007-Allentown State Hospital Consultation: Review of Seclusion and Restraint program.

    Presentation on Peer Specialists in Inpatient Settings  

 

November 29-30 -Dorothea Dix Hospital in Bangor, Maine, Consultation with NTAC Review Team

March 16-18— Center for Mental Health Services Subcommittee, Rockville, MD.  History project for SAMHSA Lobby.

April 1-2 — NTAC (National Technical Assistance Center)  NASMHPD training in Baltimore, MD.  Meeting scheduled for the new grantee states for reduction of seclusion and restraint.

April 3 — Shepherd Pratt Health Center:  Consultation re: Peer Specialist Role, Baltimore, MD   

May 29-30 , Berlin, Vermont:  "Forum on Integration of Peer Services and Community Mental Health Provider Services"-- Gayle, with Holly Dixon of Maine,  to provide training to peers and providers on the subject of integrating peers in the inpatient and outpatient workforce with a focus on needed guidelines, boundaries and ethics, supervision, etc.

 

May 13-15 — NAMI Convention, Orlando, FL, Facilitator of Arts Forum and Coordinator of Open Mic Talent Show

 

June 19-20 — Transformation Leadership Institute, Panelist Presenter, Arlington, VA

 

July 9 — Leadership Mentoring Program, Washington, DC

 

July 10 — Experts Meeting on Trauma, WDC 

 

July 11-12 — "Dare to Transform"  --Conference on Trauma Informed Care, WDC

 

July 17-20 —  “MAD heARTS Festival, Altered States of the Arts, Sarasota, FL

 

August 20-23 — Peer Specialists Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Workshop presenter