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ThursdayKeynote SpeakerDarby PenneyDarby Penney is a national leader in the human rights movement for people with psychiatric disabilities and a former official at the New York State Office of Mental Health. She has presented nationally and internationally on a variety of mental health issues from a consumer/survivor perspective. A founder of the International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR), she is currently a Senior Research Associate with Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. With Peter Stastny, MD, she is co-author of The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from A State Hospital Attic (Bellevue Literary Press, 2008). Darby Penney is a 2007 Fellow in Nonfiction Literature of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Featured SpeakersJohn Fossella, PhDDr. Fossella directs the Laboratory of Molecular Imaging Genetics as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The main focus of the laboratory is to explore how genetic information can be used to improve diagnosis and treatment outcome in neuropsychiatric and brain developmental disorders. Dr. Fossella's findings, such as those published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal how genetic variation can influence neural network dynamics in brain areas that are disrupted in many brain disorders and are targets for cognitive remediation. In addition, Dr. Fossella is active, through his 501(c)(3), in the development of biomarker-based and informatic tools to aid consumers in a shift to “consumer-directed” healthcare. Dave D’Antonio Dave D’Antonio – Is a Program Director with Bridgeway Rehabilitation Services, Elizabeth, N.J. He has a MA in Clinical Psychology and is a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor as well as a Certified Co Occurring Disorder Specialist. He has extensive experience in the fields of psych rehab and addictions and the provision of direct care services. He served on the NJPRA Board since 2006. Dave oversees Partial Care, Employment Services, Supported Education, Middlesex County Residential Intensive Support Team and CO-Occurring Disorder programs at Bridgeway and is a staff trainer in Motivational Interviewing and Evidence Based Practices. He is the Chairperson of the NJPRA Partial Care Providers Group.
FridayKeynote SpeakerLori Ashcraft, Ph.D. During her 35 year behavioral health career, Lori has had a strong interest in the therapeutic effects of self-determination, choice, and personal freedom. She did her dissertation on freedom, spending a month in Russia at the time the Soviet Union collapsed, and focused her inquiry in Soviet mental hospitals, where the lack of freedom and choice was pervasive. After a full career in California that included the Deputy Director for Community Programs of state Department of Mental Health, she re-located to Arizona where she accepted the position as Director for Adult Services for the Regional Behavioral Health Authority and served as a professor for the University of Arizona teaching psycho-social rehabilitation and managing one of eight SAMHSA funded employment demonstration programs. It was during this time that Lori became involved in the recovery movement. Through training with Mary Ellen Copeland and help from colleagues at Boston University, her commitment to recovery principles became a passion. When META Services opened the Recovery Education Center in the fall of 2000, Lori accepted the position as Executive Director of the Center. Lori’s vision for the future is to continue teaching recovery principles and practices, assuring people that they can recover. She has recently developed curriculum to help individuals with psychiatric experiences move beyond recovery by finding their purpose, making their own unique contribution, and using their experiences to help others grow and recover. Her own passion for recovery stems from personal experience having struggled with severe depression most of her life. Having her own WRAP puts her in a position of knowing she never has to be a victim of her symptoms. Featured SpeakersNancy Pinkin Nancy Pinkin is a “translator” between the world of medicine and the worlds of politics and public policy. As an Associate at MBI/GluckShaw her specialty is the health care arena. She has a strong background in healthcare administration with expertise in matters of ambulatory care and medical practice management. She represents individuals, associations and teaching hospitals before the Legislature and in the departments of state. Nancy is a local officeholder having been elected to the East Brunswick town council where she also serves on the planning board. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Science from Rutgers University; a Masters of Public Administration from NYU in Health Administration and has completed a post graduate fellowship in Health Policy and Research at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey. Nora Barrett Nora Barrett is an Associate Professor in the UMDNJ Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation. As director of the Undergraduate Degree Programs, she is responsible for overseeing the curriculum and ensuring that it reflects current best practices in the field. Ms. Barrett is a co-author of the textbook, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, now in its second edition, and has also published a number of articles. She is one of the founders of the Consortium of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Educators, a group affiliated with the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA). She is currently a board member of both NJPRA and USPRA. Ms. Barrett frequently presents at conferences throughout the United States and also provides consultation and training on topics such as curricula development, individualized service planning and ethical practice. Prior to coming to UMDNJ, Ms. Barrett worked in the fields of psychiatric rehabilitation and mental health for more than 10 years as a direct practitioner, supervisor and administrator.
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