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Thursday

 November 13, 2008

 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.       Check-in.  Continental Breakfast

 9:00 – 9:30 a.m.        Welcome and Awards Presentation by Anthony Lucibello, President of NJPRA

 9:30 – 10:30            KEYNOTE ADDRESS

 

Darby Penney

The Community Consortium

“The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic”

 

10:45 – 12:15                       FEATURED WORKSHOPS

Darby Penney 

 

Since the Willard Suitcases: How Are Things Different Today?

John Fossella and Dave D’Antonio

 

 

Changing the Brain? Social Isolation to Interaction

 

 

12:30 – 1:30             Lunch                                               

 

1:45 – 3:00                                                    WORKSHOPS

 

A1-1

B1-1

C1-1

D1-1

E1-1

F1-1

Career Training: Building a County Wide Consensus 

 

 

Rick Baron UPENN COLLABORATIVE ON COMMUNITY INTERGRATION

Using a Community Participatory Action Research Model to Evaluate a State-Wide Consumer Operated Mental Health Program

 

Jeanette Ellis CSPNJ

Part 1 Motivational Interviewing in IMR and Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment

 

Michael Giantini

UMDNJ - SHRP

Living Full & Free: Supporting Others to Embrace Who They Are 

 

 

Kathleen O’Donnell

 

Leading a Healthier Lifestyle in a Residential Setting

 

 

Patty Duerr

SERV

 

Illness Management & Recovery (IMR): Collaborating with People in Recovery from Psychiatric Illness

Nicole Swain

UMDNJ - UBHC

 

3:15 – 4:30                                                    WORKSHOPS

 

A1-2

B1-2

C1-2

D1-2

E1-2

F1-2

The Mental Health Treatment Study: A National Study on Moving SSD Recipients Into the Workforce:  Observations, Obstacles, and Lessons Learned

Neil Harbus PATHWAY TO HOUSING

 

Supported Education: Developing Accommodations that Lead to Academic Success

 

  

Brittany Stone BRIDGEWAY

 

Part 2 Motivational Interviewing in IMR and Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment

 

 

Michael Giantini UMDNJ - SHRP

 

PSR: It’s Not Just for Serving Grown-ups Anymore

 

 

  

Rhoda Dompier CATHOLIC CHARITIES

 

Implementing an Illness, Management and Recovery Module in a Residential Program

  

Derek Malenczak TRIPLE C HOUSING

 

Assessing Mental Health Professionals’ Perception of Consumer Providers: The Baltic Street Program Evaluation

 

William Waynor  UMDNJ - IEI

 

4:30    Unwind and Network with Drinks and Hors D’oeuvres

View the Art and Poetry Display

New Jersey Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association

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