Agenda at a Glance
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
12:00 p.m. Registration
1:00 - 1:45 p.m. General Session
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Workshops
3:30 - 3:45 p.m. BREAK
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Workshops
Thursday, September 21, 2006
8:00 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Workshops
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. BREAK
10:30 - 12:00 p.m. Workshops
12:00-1:30 p.m. LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Workshops
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. BREAK
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Workshops
5:00 p.m. RECEPTION and Art Show,
Hosted by Wichita State University
Friday, September 22, 2006
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Workshops
10:00 - 10:15 a.m. BREAK
10:15 - 11:45 a.m. Workshops
Attire is Business Casual
Due to the fluctuation in temperature, please bring a sweater or jacket in order to keep yourself comfortable. Staff can-not be responsible for temperature control at the conference facility.
Continuing Education Credits
CEUs will be given for each session. Please see the designated Ambassador following each session to receive a copy of the form. No partial CEUs will be given.
Refund/Cancellation Policy
The registration deadline is September 1, 2006.
No refunds will be made after September 2, 2006, unless requested in writing and received before September 15, 2006. Telephone requests will not be accepted. Cancellations will be charged a $40.00 fee and refunds will be processed after the conference.
Registration Policy
All registration forms received after September 2, 2006, will be subject to a late fee of $40.00.
Accreditation Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented through joint sponsorship of the KU Medical Center Office of Continuing Medical Education, KU Medical Center, AHEC-East and the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, Inc. The KU Office of Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 12.75 AMA PRA Category I Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of the participation in the activity.
Nurses
The University of Kansas Medical Center School of Nursing, Continuing Nursing Education is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission of Accreditation. This educational activity is approved for 16.5 contact hours (2006).
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact Vickie Johnson via e-mail at
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
General Session
1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Keynote Speaker: Connie Hubbell, Chair, Kansas Health Policy Authority
CMHC Governing Boards-
Forum for Sharing Ideas and Issues
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters: To be announced
There are many challenges facing the CMHCs and their Governing Boards. While the CMHC Directors meet monthly to share ideas and discuss current topics in the public mental health system, there is not an opportunity for Governing Board members to gather and share information, ideas, problem solve among their peers across the State. This workshop will provide such an opportunity and will cover current trends and issues within the Kansas public mental health system.
Family Solutions Program
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters: Jennifer Williams
The Family Solutions Program is an intensive evidenced based group oriented ten-week program designed to help first-time juvenile offenders and their families find solutions that will assist them to (1) prevent repeat criminal offenses, and (2) achieve personal and family well-being.
In offering this program, we feel that families must be included in helping solve the problems of youth, families coming together can provide a means to find solutions that will improve functioning within in the family, youth and families can do better when they express their ideas to others in a friendly and cooperative atmosphere, and families and individuals do best when they feel a part of their local community.
The ten-week Program focuses on improving decision making skills, cooperation within the family, communication within the family, conflict resolution and anger management skills, family and individual self esteem, positive parenting skills, peer pressure, potential consequences, and taking responsibility for one’s actions.
The Program is a Diversionary requirement for all first-time offenders in the 5th Judicial District. The youth must attend with a parent, and siblings are recommended to attend as well. Prior to the initiation of the Family Solutions Program the recidivism rate in Lyon County was approximately 50%. The recidivism rate currently for first-time offenders completing the Program is 11%.
Tools for Successful Advocacy
How Consumers (anyone) can Impact Public Policy
3:45 - 5:15 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters: Michael Hammond, Executive Director, Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas Inc.; Sheli Sweeney, Policy Analyst, Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas Inc.; Consumers, Tell Their Stories; Legislators, Kansas House and Senate Members invited
Mental health policy is set at the local, state and federal levels. It is critical that consumers, family members and advocates take on the role of providing information to these policy makers, and to educate them about the impact that their decisions have on the lives of those in their own communities. County Commissioners, Legislators and Congressmen rely on information from their constituents in making policy decisions, and if not, policy makers are left to act without adequate information in making decisions about people’s lives and their mental health. The voices of consumers of mental health, their families, and their advocates should be heard at all levels of government.
This session will give some tips and techniques for speaking with policy makers, writing to policy makers, and presenting testimony for advocates for people with mental illness.
Session Goals and Objectives:
1. To provide participants with a toolbox of resources for consumers, families and advocates on how to impact policy at the local, state and federal level.
2. To provide participants with a basic understanding of the policy making process—at the local, state and federal level.
3. To provide participants with techniques on how to speak with, write to and present testimony and tell their stories to policy makers at all levels of government.
Emerging Infections
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: KU Medical Center Faculty
Session Goals and Objectives:
State examples of appropriate treatment modalities, and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s guidelines for containment and disease surveillance for Avian Flu and Tickborne Diseases.
Mental Health Issues and Pandemic Disease Outbreaks
3:45 - 5:15 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: KU Medical Center Faculty
Session Goals and Objectives:
Discuss the toll on the emotional and socio-economic capabilities of communities coping with losses resulting from pandemic disease outbreaks.
Helping Veterans and their Families
Helping Veterans and families during deployment and return home reintegrate into the community and family.
2:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters:
Facilitator: Walt Hill, CEO, High Plains Mental Health Center, Hays, Kansas; Lt Col Byrd, Air National Guard Behavioral Health Consultant; Office of the Surgeon General (invited)
The Adjutant General of Kansas; Lt. Col. Bruce Klosterhoff, M.D. (invited); Kansas National Guard Medical Detachment and
Medical Director, Horizons Mental Health Center, Hutchinson, KS; Representative from the Kansas National Guard Association of Kansas; Representatives from the Army and Air Force Family Support Offices; Representative from Veteran’s Affairs Administration; Representative from the National Mental Health Association; Soldiers and Airmen deployed/returned to Kansas
Our Nation faces a serious challenge, as we welcome our troops back from deployment and war. After bravely serving their nation, these heroes often return to strained relationships, broken homes, depression and even post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The response these individuals and their families receive from a grateful nation should be to ensure that they have the support they need to live productive and successful lives.
The Facts:
(Published by the National Mental Health Association)
• Mental disorders reported in more than 26% of returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Government Accountability Office
• 1 in 6 troops from Iraq met the screening criteria for major depression, generalized anxiety disorder or PTSD. Department of Defense
• There is a sharp rise in divorce rates for military personnel: a 28% increase last year, and a 53 % increase since 2000. USA Today
• The Army National Guard, Army Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve has accounted for one-quarter of all U.S. deaths since the Iraq war began.
• More than one in four U.S. troops have come home from the Iraq war with health problems that require medical or mental health treatment, according to the Pentagon’s first detailed screening of service members leaving a war zone.
• Almost 1,700 service members returning from the war this year said they harbored thoughts of hurting themselves or that they would be better off dead. More than 250 said they had such thoughts “a lot.” Nearly 20,000 reported nightmares or unwanted war recollections; more than 3,700 said they had concerns that they might “hurt or lose control” with someone else. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.
Session Goals and Objectives:
1. To provide participants with resources, guidance and tools to use in providing assistance, treatment, and services to veterans, their families and children of veterans who are dealing with the issues of deployment and reintegration into their communities.
2. To provide participants with tools, information, and resources for veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and other deployments and their families as they prepare for deployment and reintegration into their communities upon return.
3. To provide participants with tools, information, and resources for employers, education personnel, and others in working with and referring veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and other deployments for services and treatment for them and/or their families.
There will be an opportunity after this presentation to preview the presentation kits, “Preparing for Deployment; A Presentation Kit” and “Preparing for Reunion; A Presentation Kit”.
Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health (KAHBH) Program
Note: This is an 8 hour training, so attendees must attend this session as well as the six hour session on Thursday.
2:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters: Stephanie Wick and Briana Nelson Goff
It is required that all Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health (KAHBH) network members and Community Mental Health Center coordinators receive the KAHBH Core Training in order to respond to a Presidentially declared disaster. An additional training for the CMHC coordinators will be available during the 2006 Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health Symposium to be held October 17-18, 2006 at the Kansas Highway Patrol Academy in Salina.
The Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health (KAHBH) Program is a project funded by a contract between Kansas State University, The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Mental Health and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. KAHBH provides State-wide organization and coordination for behavioral health response to disaster and other all-hazards events. The KAHBH Network includes coordinators in each of the 29 Community Mental Health Centers plus over 200 people across Kansas who are trained members of local crisis counseling teams. Network members include mental health and substance abuse professionals, but the KAHBH Network also includes other members, including clergy, school teachers and counselors, health care providers, law enforcement, and others interested in being a part of the KAHBH network. In order to receive federal FEMA/SAMHSA Crisis Counseling Program funding during a Presidentially declared disaster, all KAHBH network members much complete the KAHBH Core Training. This full training will be available during the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, annual conference and includes the following modules:
• KAHBH Program Overview
• FEMA/SAMHSA Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program
• Behavioral Health and All-Hazards Disaster Response System
• KAHBH Community Outreach Teams: Structure, Procedures and Documents
• Disaster Classifications and Phases
• Traumatic Reactions Disasters
• Providing Support During Disasters
• Considerations for Special Populations Cultural Competence and Ethical Issues
Ethics for Case Managers
2:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Ron Denney
Purpose: To develop a foundation of knowledge regarding ethical principles and professional standards and their application to case managers in community mental health centers. Special attention will be paid to how ethical principles are applied in the comprehensive delivery of home and community based services.
Why professional ethics? To provide protection to society (or in this case, consumers and their families) from abuse and exploitation.
Define “customers”.
Standards of Conduct: Defined by limits and boundaries.
1. Ethical principles: American Psychological Association (APA), National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services (IAPSRS).
2. Agency policies and procedures.
3. Statutes, rules and regulations: Regulatory Boards
4. “Common sense”
Standard of Care:
Defined vs. Undefined Professional Standards
1. Responsibility to clients and their families:
Customer service
Client first
Clients’ rights, dignity and choice
Confidentiality/privacy
Fee setting
2. What they “need” – no more, no less
3. Responsibility to colleagues
Respect, fairness, courtesy
Colleagues’ clients
4. Responsibility to employers.
5. Professional responsibility
Integrity
Community service
6. Responsibility to society
Responding to Ethical Dilemmas
1. Recognition!
2. Exploration
Peers
Supervisor
Other resources
3. Thoughtful, documented, decision
Professional Competence
1. Education, training, experience
2. Screening of employees and volunteers (drugs, abuse registry, KBI, driving record, credentials, etc.)
3. Understand role, boundaries, limits (24 hours)
4. Dress/Appearance
5. Cultural Competence
Gifts
1. $$$$$$$
2. Garden vegetables, cards, souvenirs, crafts, etc.
3. Defining “substantial value” (actual, perceived, frequency, diagnosis, purpose, etc.)
Confidentiality in Mental Health
1. What is confidential?
2. Advising clients
3. Client access to records
4. Informed consent to tape, record, or observe.
5. Exceptions: “Examples”.
Court orders
Suspected child abuse (where to draw the line)
Release of information
Danger to self or others
6. Legal limits vs. ethical limits
7. How to deal with my own family and friends
8. Managing confidentiality “on the streets”
(rural vs. urban)
Dual or Multiple Relationships
1. Power imbalance (and potential for exploitation)
2. Prevention
3. Business: exchange of goods, money, services
Client selling
Professional selling
Business related (e.g. Partnerships)
Urban vs. Rural
Client Events
1. Weddings, graduations, housewarming, etc.
2. Funerals
3. Church dinners, father-son/mother-daughter events, etc.
Social/Intimate/Sexual Relationships
1. Pre-existing, concurrent, post treatment
2. Past client
Duration of professional relationship
Time since last contact
Client’s personal history
Client’s current mental status
Likelihood of adverse reaction
Reference for employment, housing, loan, etc.
Consumers and family members as providers (employees and volunteers)
Informed Consent/Competence
Documentation Do’s and Don’ts
Personal Problems
1. Client Impact
2. Self help
3. Reference
Reporting Ethical Violations
Fetal Alcoholism Syndrome
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
2:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Facilitator: Wes Jones
1-3 per 1,000 live births in this country are FAS, in addition 8-9 per 1,000 live births are FASD. These children are most commonly diagnosed as ADHD by the age of seven. 97-99% of these children will not have the full facial features oF FAS present. Most are not accurately identified as FAS/FASD until a thorough diagnostic evaluation is completed.
This presentation will focus on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and provide an overview of the disorder. Those attending the workshop should be aware of the following learning objectives after attending the presentation:
• History of FAS/FASD
• Differential Diagnosis
• The need for the diagnosis to be a multi-discipline process
• The four diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of FAS
• Treatment interventions for FAS/FASD
• Referral process for Flint Hills Community Health Center FAS Clinic
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Human Resources Update 2006-
Fulfilling the Mission While
Avoiding Pitfalls
8:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Timothy Davis
The goal of this three-hour presentation is to arm Human Resource Professionals, managers and supervisors of the changing landscape of employment law so that legal challenges and personnel issues can be resolved, monitored and avoided.
Zapping Conflict in the Workplace
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Judith Briles
Based on the best-selling book, ”Zapping Conflict in the Health Care Workplace,” attendees will learn why there is a high level of conflict in today’s health care workplace, what the contributing factors are; why there are unique differences in female dominated workplaces; how to carefront™ another, why change is resisted; how to create a realistic action to grow through and survive with change; Woven around the “10 Steps to Zapping Conflict in the Workplace,” this stimulating and humorous speech is guaranteed to motivate and inspire audiences. Not dealing with conflict is one of the greatest problems managers experience today; it’s one of the key reasons good employees leave their workplaces.
Objectives:
Identify sources of conflict and sabotage
• Describe behaviors that constitute sabotage
• Describe impact of sabotage, both professional and personally
• Describe impact of sabotage on the workplace
• Take Sabotage Savvy Quiz
Describe Unique Factors in female dominated workplaces
• Results of 3000 male/female study revealed
• Differences of overt/covert behaviors in male/female
• Differences of victim/perpetrators in male/female populations
• Examples of case studies of sabotaging behavior
Identify Red Ink Behavior
• Define and describe Red Ink Behaviors
• Identify factors for quantifications of Red Ink Behaviors
• Describe formula for calculating financial impacts of Red Ink Behavior
Identify “Unwritten Rules”
• Present case scenarios that require groups of 3-5 for resolution
• Groups of 3-5 will identify written and unwritten rules within their workplace
• Spokesperson for each group will present findings
Determine factors of influence for change agents in the workplace
• Presentation of “bell curve” of percentages in the workplace that are change agents vs. Those who are “stuck” and how to work with them
Identify 10 steps to reduce conflict and sabotage in the workplace
• Identification and support cases focusing on confidence, trust, friendship, unwritten rules, overt/covert behavior, revenge, team play, giving credit, networking and confrontation
Describe confidence
• Defining the difference between self-esteem and self-confidence
• Effect of low self-confidence on health care professionals at work and at home
Develop a 10 step action plan in building confidence
• Impact of crises at work focusing on rebuilding confidence and self-esteem
• Identification of and support cases focusing on self-awareness, working environment, support, learning, achieving and personal health
Aliens in the Workplace
1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Judith Briles
Today’s workplace is nothing like last year’s or even the previous decades. Today’s workplace consists of more variables than any employee or manager envisioned just a few years ago. Multi-generations, multi-cultures, multi-upbringings and different genders all contribute to a radically diverse workplace. Participants will meet the players in the workplace and will learn their assets, limitations, what makes them tick and how to manage them.
Define Generations
• Identify the assets and liabilities of each generation
• Describe key influences factors of generations
Describe traits of different generations
• Describe the myths and realities of each generation
Identify 5 ways to manage generations
• Learn how to manage and motivate each generation
Define Communication
• Take Communication Quiz
• Identify generational differences in communication
• Describe methods of communication
• Identify four steps to communicate effectively
• Describe difference in male/female listening techniques
Functional Family Therapy at Family Consultation Services
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Liane Felton
The Functional Family Therapy (FFT) program provided by Family Consultation Services is a Blueprint for Violence Prevention. FFT reflects core theoretical principles, which represent the primary focus (family), and a model that understands both positive and negative behavior as representations of family relational systems (functional). The therapy is an average of 12-15 sessions, which may be conducted in the home or on an outpatient basis. The model is very structured and calls for complete fidelity of treatment to produce high levels of success. This presentation will provide an overview of (1) the Functional Family Therapy (FFT) model; and (2) the FFT program at Family Consultation Services including outcomes, successes and challenges.
Current Treatment in Bipolar Disease
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Tahir Rahman, M.D.
Session Goals and Objectives:
Relate strategies that combine medication and psychosocial treatment optimal management of Bi-Polar Disease.
Assessing Client Functioning Can
Improve Outcomes and Identify Need for Evidence-Based Practices
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Kay Hodges
Using information about the client’s day-to-day functioning to influence practice and policy will be the focus of this presentation. At the level of the individual client, a functional assessment can assist determining interventions that might be most efficacious. Procedures for matching client needs to evidenced-based practices will be discussed. In addition, evidenced-based practices that have been established for treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, conduct disorder, and behavioral noncompliance will be described. If clients are re-assessed during treatment, parents and practitioners can use this information to guide, and as needed, revise treatment decisions. At the level of the administrator or clinical supervisor, information on client functioning can be used to determine staff training needs, to garner support for programs that are valued by the community, and to guide policies that have implications for clinical care. At the level of the community’s system of care, functional assessments can lead to identifying the needs of clients, regardless of agency from which services are assessed, and for evaluating cross-agency initiatives. Practical suggestions for implementing these ideas and for addressing barriers will be offered.
Parkinson’s Disease
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: KU Medical Center, Neurology Department
Session Goals and Objectives:
Discuss the differential diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease and the advance in its treatment.
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Mary Ryan, ARNP St. Joseph’s Family Practice
Session Goals and Objectives:
1. Describe practical methods and available resources to be utilized by the caregiver of an Alzheimer’s patient.
2. Describe treatment modalities and the latest drug therapies in treating Alzheimer’s patients.
Agitated Patients
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Sharee Wiggins,ARNP KU Medical Center
Session Goals and Objectives:
1. Define the different forms of agitation.
2. Discuss common potential causes of agitation and the basic treatment algorithm.
3. Relate behavioral strategies, the role of antidepressants and mood stabilizers.
4. Discuss prescribing considerations including FDA warnings for treating agitation with atypical antipsychotics.
Caregiver Stress
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Linda Redford, RN, Ph.D.
Session Goals and Objectives:
Describe the challenges that families encounter when managing various illnesses in the home, including dementia.
Sarbane-Oxley Act
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: To be announced
Learning Objectives:
Navigating Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Evaluation of Internal Controls
• Overview of SOX
• Selecting An Internal Control Framework
• Internal Controls At the Business Unit Levels
• Internal Controls At the Process Levels
• IT Control Considerations
• Potential Benefits of SOX
Successful Techniques for Implementing SOX Projects
• Process Planning and Preparation
• Process Reporting and Monitoring
• Gap Identification and Readiness Training
• Review of Sample Approaches and Documents
• Overview of Tools/Resources Available
Assessing and Managing Risk
• Documenting How Compliance Still Leaves An Organization Open to Risk
• How To Put Risk Management Ahead of Regulatory Compliance
• How To Demonstrate The Financial Risk of Poor Information Management
• What Does Information Management For Risk Mitigation Look Like?
• What Should Information Managers Be Doing To Comply With Sarbanes-Oxley?
The Legal Aspects of SOX
• Corporate Governance and Accountability
• Fraud Prevention
• Accounting Practices and Financial Transparency
• Derivative Legal Enactment
Corporate Governance Issues
• Overall Board Responsibilities Under SOX
• Internal Certification Requirements
• Audit Committee Requirements
• Disclosure Committee Requirements
• Auditor Independence
• Documentation Standards
Lesson Learned – Round Table Discussion
• Lessons Learned
• Year Two and Three Expectations
• Tips and Traps
Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health (KAHBH) Program
Note: This is an 8 hour training, so attendees must attend this session as well as the three hour session on Wednesday.
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters: Stephanie Wick and Briana Nelson Goff
It is required that all Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health (KAHBH) network members and Community Mental Health Center coordinators receive the KAHBH Core Training in order to respond to a Presidentially declared disaster. An additional training for the CMHC coordinators will be available during the 2006 Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health Symposium to be held October 17-18, 2006 at the Kansa Highway Patrol Academy in Salina.
The Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health (KAHBH) Program is a project funded by a contract between Kansas State University, The Kansas department of social and Rehabilitation Services, Mental Health and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. KAHBH provides State-wide organization and coordination for behavioral health response to disaster and other all-hazards events.
The KAHBH Network includes coordinators in each of the 29 Community Mental Health Centers plus over 200 people across Kansas who are trained members of local crisis counseling teams. Network members include mental health and substance abuse professionals, but the KAHBH Network also includes other members, including clergy, school teachers and counselors, health care providers, law enforcement, and others interested in being a part of the KAHBH network. In order to receive federal FEMA/SAMHSA Crisis Counseling Program funding during a Presidentially declared disaster, all KAHBH network members much complete the KAHBH Core Training. This full training will be available during the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, annual conference and includes the following modules:
• KAHBH Program Overview
• FEMA/SAMHSA Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program
• Behavioral Health and All-Hazards Disaster Response System
• KAHBH Community Outreach Teams: Structure, Procedures and Documents
• Disaster Classifications and Phases
• Traumatic Reactions Disasters
• Providing Support During Disasters
• Considerations for Special Populations Cultural Competence and Ethical Issues
Traumatized Children and Play Therapy
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters: Paris Goodyear Brown
Practitioners will leave this workshop with a tool box full of new techniques for helping children work through many forms of trauma (abuse, domestic violence, death and divorce). Child symptomatology related to trauma will be discussed. New play therapy interventions will be demonstrated and tied to specific treatment goals. Videotape segments, examples of children’s art and sand trays as well as case vignettes will augment the experiential, prop-based activities. Clinicians will be able to make immediate applications of these techniques to their work with clients. Goody bags are included, so come prepared to play!
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• identify several physical, behavioral and cognitive symptoms that traumatized children exhibit;
• describe the “continuum of disclosure” in play therapy;
• list four interventions aimed at integrating sensory memories into a child’s narrative of the trauma;
• describe four play therapy strategies aimed at stress inoculation;
• list six interventions aimed at helping clients restructure faulty trauma-induced cognitions.
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk
Note: This training is provided by the American Association of Suicidology
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters: Pamela Greene
Learning Objectives:
By completing the pre-workshop reading, you will become familiar with core competencies that enable mental health therapists to assess and work more effectively with individuals at risk for suicide.
• Define terms related to suicidality
• Become familiar with suicide-related statistics
• Identify major risk and protective factors
• Understand the phenomenology of suicide
By the end of this course, you will increase your knowledge in the following core competencies:
• Manage one’s own reactions to suicide
• Reconcile the difference (and potential conflict) between the clinician’s goal to prevent suicide and the client’s goal to eliminate psychological pain via suicidal behavior
• Maintain a collaborative, non-adversarial stance
• Elicit suicide ideation, behavior, and plans
• Make a clinical judgment of the risk that a client will attempt or complete suicide in the short and long term
• Collaboratively develop an emergency plan
• Develop a written treatment and services plan that addresses the client’s immediate, acute, and continuing suicide ideation and risk for suicide behavior
• Develop policies and procedures for the following clients closely, including taking reasonable steps to be proactive
• Follow principles of crisis management
Experience a shift in perspective in working with suicidal clients.
• We expect that you will experience changes in perceptions of working clients. For example, you may experience an increased willingness, confidence, or clarity in working with individuals at risk for suicide.
Identify changes to make in your practice specific to the assessment and management of individuals at risk for suicide.
Note: There will be an additional $30 charge to attend this workshop. The $30 is to purchase a manual for each participant.
Introducation to DC:0-3R
Developmentally Based Diagnosis of the Mental Health and Developmental Disorders in Infancy and Early Childhood
Audience: This workshop is for mental health practitioners and other clinicians who treat disorders of infancy and early childhood.
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters: Beth Limberg
Summary:
This interactive session prepares mental health clinicians to diagnose the mental health and developmental disorders of very young children. Mental health clinicians are introduced to and prepared to use this multi-axial system to diagnose the mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood.
Description:
DC: 0-3R responds the need for a diagnostic system that accounts for the unique developmental and relational needs of infants in the context of their families. The newly revised manual offers clarified diagnostic criteria, revised diagnostic guidelines, and user-friendly checklists and rating scales. Participants discuss the unique developmental needs of very young children and apply clinical reasoning in developing diagnoses using clinical videotapes or print case examples.
Participants learn through case examples, lecture, videotape, and discussion. The session addresses how and why DC: 0-3R was developed; it’s underlying philosophy and approach; principles of effective mental health and developmental assessment of infants and toddlers; the five axes and the major diagnostic categories in DC: 0-3R™; and use of decision trees and crosswalks to DSM-IV-TR or ICD 9/10. Suggestions for continuing the learning process, and follow up to this session are discussed.
Agenda
1. Background and history of the development of DC: 0-3R
2. Updates on what is new in the “R” Version
3. Overview of the 5 axes in DC: 0-3R
4. Clinical examples and discussion
5. Use of decision guidelines, decision trees, and crosswalks.
Learning Objectives: Participants will:
1. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of making diagnoses of infants and young children.
2. Learn the recommended process for diagnosing very young children.
3. Become familiar with the mulitaxial diagnostic system for infants and toddlers.
4. Become familiar with the similarities and differences between DSM-IVTR and the DC: 0-3R diagnostic system.
5. Be able to use DC: 0-3R’s checklists and rating scales.
6. Understand stressors affecting young children from a developmental perspective.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Suicide Prevention Plan for Kansas
Teen Suicide Prevention by Enhancing School and Mental Health Integration
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: William Art and Bill Geis
The Governor’s Mental Health Services Planning Council Subcommittee for Suicide Prevention submitted a grant for suicide prevention for young people ages 15 to 24. The grant is using the state plan to implement the grant. Much energy is being spent currently in using warning signs and risk factors to identify at-risk, suicidal adolescents. But identifying suicidal adolescents is only a small part of the action needed to resolve demoralization and suicidal ideation among youth at risk. Our studies suggest that barely half of teens are willing to go for help from an adult, if they become suicidal. Our studies also suggest that negative attitudes about mental health, fears of burdening parents, concerns that their parents will not support their needs and fears of being stigmatized are at the heart of this unwillingness to seek help. This presentation will highlight the process of 1) changing student and parent attitudes about getting help for depression and suicide, 2) enhancing support for school counselors and parents via a website linking these groups to mental health resources, 3) systemizing school procedures and 4) using school data to tailor school interventions to the unique differences inherent in urban, rural and suburban settings.
Effectiveness of Olanzapine, Quetiapine, Risperidone and Ziparasidone in Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia Following Discontinuation of a Previous Atypical Antipsychotic
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Paul Murphy, M.D.
The “American Journal of Psychiatry” published results of the Phase 2 CATIE trials in April 2006. NIMH sponsored the trial evaluating the comparative effectiveness of antipsychotics in schizophrenia. Murphy will present an overview of the CATIE 2 study for participants.
Safe Medical Prescribing in the Elderly
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Ken Mishler, PharmD,
KS Foundation for Medical Care
Session Goals and Objectives: Discuss effective pharmacologic guidelines for safe prescribing in the elderly.
Testifying in Court
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Reid Holbrook, Holbrook and Osborn
Session Goals and Objectives: Formulate a plan for dealing with patient complains, subpoenas, deposition and testifying at trial.
Community Support Medication Program
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters: Eric Atwood and Cornelia Jeffery
This session will provide an overview of the CSMP including eligibility criteria, covered medications and utilization of the program. There will also be discussion about the impact, challenges of Medicare Part D on the CSMP.
The Electronic Health Record and
E-Prescribing
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Ken Mishler, PharmD
Session Goals and Objectives: Explore the future of ambulatory care practice and healthcare information.
Child Medical-Legal Issues
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Reid Holbrook, Holbrook and Osborn
Session Goals and Objectives: Discuss legal issues regarding treatment of a child including: child custody, informed consent and black box warning; adolescents with no caregiver present and various issues pertaining to a minor.
Parent Support Specialist of Kansas/Planting the Seeds of Hope and Empowerment to Families
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Sherri Luthe and Gail Whitley
This workshop will focus on Parent Support Specialists. These positions are staffed by Parents of SED children who understand the needs and frustrations families face. They empower caregivers to understand and implement what Parent Driven Service means. It is a support for caregivers to benefit them as well as the child through activities in their home and community, for example:
• Coaching and assisting the family with increasing their knowledge and awareness of their child’s needs.
• Connecting with services and resources that are available to the child/family.
• Providing information about the process of policies and procedures and regulations that impact the child going to school and living in the community.
Dosing and Patient Selection: Medication Optimization of ATypicals
8:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenters: Doug Geenenf, M.D.
Geenenf will review receptor profile binding properties of atypicals to maximize efficacy and minimize side effects.
Ethics for Professionals
8:30 - 11:45
Room: To be announced
Presenters: Rick Spano and Terry Koenig
This workshop focuses on the impact of current culture wars on professional behavior. Specifically, we will discuss the impact of personal worldviews (e.g., some forms of Christianity) on professionals’ ethical decision making. The authors propose that professional codes of ethics provide guidance for the inclusion or exclusion of personal values in our roles as practitioners. (Social work will be used as the example for the application of these ideas.) Upon the completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
• Understand how the context of practice shapes ethical decision making;
• Identify value conflicts between personal and professional values, i.e., codes of ethics and personal Christian beliefs
• Understand the nature of professional relationships;
• Utilize the codes of ethics as screens through which practitioners can examine the .t between their personal worldviews and ethical practice; and
• Apply a six-stage model for addressing value conflicts between personal worldviews and the codes of ethics.
Workforce and Benefit Management
8:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Bert Oberbroeckling
Three areas to be addressed:
• How to reduce employee turnover
• How to increase employee retention and communication
• How to reduce benefit costs
Compliance with Federal Tax Reporting for Governmental and Not-for-Profit Agencies
8:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Representatives from Internal Revenue Services
Representatives from the Internal Revenue Services will provide participants with practical information on preparing the Tax Exempt Organization Form 990 and Retirement Plan Reporting Form 5500. The presenters will also cover disclosure requirements and which information returns are necessary for governmental and non-profit agencies. Taxable and non-taxable fringe benefits provided to employees, such as personal use of cellular phones, vehicles and computers will also be covered during this session.
Who Should Attend? Executive Directors, Financial Managers, Accounting Staff responsible for IRS compliance, Board Members
Early Manifestations of Psychopathology and Mental Health Interventions
8:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Room: To be announced
Presenter: Martin Maldonado
Part 1 – What are the early manifestations of emotional and behavioral disturbances?
This session will describe the main manifestations of difficulties in the first three years of life including: regulatory disturbances, feeding and sleeping problems,
disturbances in relating and communicating, and the effects of emotional trauma and anxiety problems. Also, the effects of maternal depression will be covered. Epidemiological and phenomenological issues are described. Brief videotaped vignettes are shown to illustrate the situations.
Part 2 – The context of infant psychopathology: relationships and relationship disturbances in infancy.
The interactive effects between infant and parents are described in this session, emphasizing what has been called “relationship disturbances” or disorders. Focus will be on under-involved, over-involved, angry and hostile patterns and “lack of experience” in parenting. Brief vignettes are presented of videotaped material to illustrate the different patterns.
Part 3 – Parent-infant psychotherapeutic modalities. How to intervene with infants and families.
The main techniques of parent-infant psychotherapy are described, emphasizing practical interventions and a continuum of flexible maneuvers to .t the clinical situation. These are also illustrated with videotaped material.
Presenters Bio’s
William Art
William Art is employed by Johnson County Mental Health Center as a bilingual Spanish speaking mental health crisis counselor. Mr. Art is a member of the mental health center’s crisis team in Olathe, Kansas and works on the After Hours Crisis Line. He conducts debriefings for first responders on the Critical incident Stress Management team for Johnson County. Mr. Art is a member of the Kansas Suicide Prevention Committee. The goal of the committee is to write the suicide prevention plan for Kansas. He has a Masters Degree in Social work from the University of Kansas. Mr. Art is a member of the American Association of Suicidology and the National Association of Social Workers.
Eric Atwood
Dr. Eric Atwood is a graduate of the University of Kansas and at-tended medical school at the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, graduating in 1986. Following a year of general internship, he attended the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences in Topeka, Kansas, where he graduated from both the general Psychiatry Residency and the Child Psychiatry Fellowship. Atwood is board certified in both special-ties. He subsequently worked as a Staff Psychiatrist and Unit Di-rector at the Menninger Children’s Hospital and Outpatient Clinic for three years. He relocated to Bismarck, North Dakota, in 1994 to develop a Child Psychiatry program at a community hospital. In 1998 he accepted the position of Medical Director for Family Service & Guidance Center in Topeka, Kansas. The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at FSGC has since grown to include a total of five board certified Child Psychiatrists and three Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Atwood currently serves as the Chairman for the Kansas Community Mental Health Centers’ Organization of Medical Directors and Psychiatric Staff (KCOMPS: www.kcomps.org)
Judith Briles
Judith Briles is known as a catalyst for change and believes that every pitfall experience leads to an opportunity and greater success. Judith is an honorary member of the Association of Women Surgeons. She is the president of Colorado Independent Publishers Association and is a past board member of the National Speakers Association and the Women’s Bank of San Francisco. Although she holds both Masters and Doctorate degrees in Business Administration, her real degrees come from life. In 2004, she was named the Women of Distinction by the Girl Scouts. She is featured frequently on radio and television and several internet sites. Her work and articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, Money, The New York Times, People, and other publications. She has appeared on over 1,000 programs including MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, CNNfn, and Oprah. She writes The Career Moves column for the Denver Business Journal, and contributes to Colorado Woman News and Zenith magazine.
Dr. Briles is the author over more than 24 books, including Money $marts-Personal Finance in 30 Days, Stop Stabbing Yourself in the Back, The Dollars and Sense of Divorce, The Workplace, Gender Traps and many more.
Paris Goodyear Brown
Paris Goodyear Brown is a Licensed Clinical social worker and a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor with specialized training in work with children, adolescents and their families. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and received her MSSW from the University of Tennessee. She pioneered the first play therapy program for the Therapeutic Preschool at Dede Wallace Center before joining Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic where she worked in both the outpatient setting and the school based program. She currently sees children of all ages in private practice and serves as adjunct faculty for graduate programs at the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University and Trevecca Nazarene University. Paris has an international reputation as a dynamic and original speaker. She provides supervision, organization consultation and training on many topics related to child treatment. She is the author of Gabby the Gecko, a new bibliotherapy material aimed at helping children disclose and heal from traumatizing experiences. She has also authored a book entitled, Digging for Buried Treasure: 52 Prop-Based Play Therapy Interventions for Treating the Problems of Childhood and co-authored an original DVD, 10 Peas in a Pod, a resource that help clinicians immediately replicate empirically informed prescriptive play therapy strategies.
Timothy A. Davis
Timothy A. Davis, Member, Kansas City. University of Iowa, J.D. with High Distinction 1992; Bachelor of Arts, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 1989; Honors Graduate in Political Science. Mr. Davis has concentrated his practice in the area of labor and employment law in the exclusive representation of management since 1992. Mr. Davis advises clients on all aspects of the employer/employee relationship, including compliance with the NLRA, FMLA, Title VII, ADA, FLSA, EPA, OSHA, Executive Order 11246, ERISA and state and local employment statutes. He has assisted numerous clients in proactively addressing issues involving the maintenance of union-free operations, the development of non-discrimination policies, investigation procedures and training materials, the development of FMLA and ADA compliance policies, the design and implementation of internal FLSA and EPA audits and the preparation of employee handbooks and procedure manuals. Mr. Davis is also very active in the human resources community as a member of the Society of Human Re-source Management. He has given numerous training seminars and speeches to human resources, trade and employer groups, including the 2006 National Society for Human Resources convention, Council on Education in Management, the Topeka chapter of SHRM and the Hotel and Motel Association of Greater Kansas City.
Ron Denney
Ron Denney has presented over 500 seminars/workshops on topics such as professional ethics, stress and time management, parenting, depression, loss, anger management, assertiveness, and personnel management. Since 1996, his specialty has been on professional ethics for outpatient and community based caregivers, with focus on providers of CSS and CBS services in Kansas. Ron has also consulted with Community Mental Health Centers and other community agencies regarding program development, staff development, management, Medicaid, Family Centered System of Care, and administration of community based services. Programs Ron has developed since 1996 include Parent Education, Family Preservation, Case Management for children and adults, Teen Pregnancy programs, SEK Academy, after-school and summer programs for SED children, community integration programs for SPMI adults, attendant care, respite care, parent support, enhance medical and outpatient services. Ron was the Deputy Secretary of SRS until May, 2006, has served as the Executive Director for Four County Mental Health Center in Independence, Kansas, and is currently the Productivity and Efficiency Specialist for Four County Mental Health Center. He has been very active on the boards of the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, and the Mental Health Consortium (TMHC).
Liane Felton
Liane Felton is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker at Family Consultation Service in Wichita, KS. For the past five years she has supervised the Functional Family Therapy program in Sedgwick County, which works with the families of youth who are either at risk of entering the Juvenile Justice System, or who are in the system. She has extensive training and experience in family therapy with youth from this population. Previously she has worked in the fields of substance abuse, corrections, mental health, and child welfare.
Bill Geis
Bill Geis is the Director of Behavioral Health Research and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. He has spent over 20 years in Kansas providing clinical services and supervising psychology interns and psychiatry residents for the Department of Mental Health and UMKC Medical School in the treatment of persons with serious mental illness and behavioral health problems. He does research on suicide, domestic violence, early life trauma, bariatric surgery and homelessness. He lives in Shawnee with his wife and two children and conducts a private practice in psychology and psychotherapy at the West Plaza Clinic in Kansas City, Missouri.
Briana S. Nelson Goff
Briana S. Nelson Goff is an associate professor of Marriage and Family Therapy in the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University and Interim Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Human Ecology. She earned her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Kansas State University and her doctorate from Texas Tech University. Dr. Nelson-Goff’s clinical experience and research specialization is with traumatic stress symptoms in trauma survivor couples, families and children. Her work has expended to international trauma, as she traveled to Bosnia as part of a team through National Research Council grants to work with survivors of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, particularly children without parental care. One of the most unique aspects of her work at K-State is her development of the Trauma, Research, Education and consultation at K-State (TRECK) Team. This program includes graduate and undergraduate students and over 70 students have been involved in the TRECK Team research and projects since it began. Members of the team have conducted research on trauma in couples; submitted and published professional journal articles; presented workshops at state, national and international conferences; provided workshops and education for non-professionals and community members throughout Kansas; and provided clinical therapy services for trauma survivors and their family members. Over the past 2 years, Dr. Nelson Goff and the TRECK Team have focused their research on soldiers who have served in Operation Iraqi Freedom (IRAQ) and Operation Enduring Freedom (AFGHANISTAN) and their partners to understand the individual and systemic effects of war deployments and trauma in couples.
Beginning in January, 2005, Dr. Nelson Goff was named as project coordinator in charge of developing a State plan for disaster behavioral health in Kansas. This project, The Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health Team (KAHBH Team) is funded by a contract between Kansas State University and the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Mental Health Services. This project addresses behavioral health preparedness activities, response coordination, and recovery services in the event of a Presidentially declared disaster or other public health emergency within Kansas.
Pamela Greene
Pamela Greene is the Vice President of Patient Care Services at the Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas. Pam has thirty years experience as a psychiatric nurse in a variety of settings. Her dissertation focused on inpatient psychiatric nursing care for suicidal adolescents. Pam has presented in local, regional and national venues and has a knack for connecting with audiences.
Mike Hammond
Mike Hammond has over 18 years of experience in the field of mental health-crossing multiple public policy arenas as well as all service areas – such as children, adolescents and adults. Hammond began his professional career in 1987, serving Governor Mike Hayden of Kansas in several staff capacities. From 1991 until 1995, Hammond served in various roles with the Kansas Department of Corrections – as a State Parole Officer for special needs offenders (mentally ill and sex offenders); Parole Services Accreditation Manager and Interstate Compact. From 1995 until 1999, Hammond served in various roles with the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, within the Com-mission on Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (now known as Health Care Policy) as a Program Consultant, Director of Research and Planning, Acting Children’s Mental Health Director and later as Special Assistant and Director of Communications to the Assistant Secretary for Health Care Policy. From 1999 until 2001, Hammond served as special Assistant and Director of Communications to the Secretary of Aging. In this role, Hammond helped the Department develop a focus on meeting the mental health needs of older adults. Hammond joined the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, Inc.; in 2001, as the Director of Policy and Planning. In July of 2002, he was names the Interim Executive Director. In April of 2003, Hammond was named the permanent Executive Director. Hammond also serves as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Mental Health Services, a division within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Washburn University and a Master of Science Degree from Baker University.
Kay Hodges
Kay Hodges is Professor of Psychology at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) and Director of the Level of Functioning Project at the Applied Research Unit at the Institute for the Study of Children, Family and Communities at EMU. Before joining EMU in September, 1989, she was an Associate Professor in the Division of Medical Psychology at Duke University Medical Center. Previously at the University of Missouri Medical School, she directed the Mid-Missouri Psychology Internship Consortium and directed the child and adolescent outpatient unit at the Community Mental Health Center. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Maryland and did her internship training at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She has also received post-doctoral training at Washington University School of Medicine and the Menninger Foundation. She is a diplomat in clinical psychology and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. In 2003, she was appointed for a 3-year term to the Task Force on serious Mental Illness/Serious Emotional disturbance sponsored by the American Psycho-logical Association. In addition, she has been active in several SPA Divisions, including her role as secretary of the Division of Child, Youth, and Family. Her numerous publications are in the areas of treatment outcome, use of outcome data to inform pubic policy, assessment of children and adolescents, childhood depression and psychosomatic illness. Before developing the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS), which is a multi-dimensional measure of level of functioning, she authored the Child Assessment Schedule (CAS), a semi-structured diagnostic interview for children and adolescents that has been widely used in research.
Cornelia Jeffery
Cornelia Jeffery is Health Care Policy/Mental Health Program Director for the Community Support Medication Program. She has a background in social work and has worked for SRS for 30 years, with past work experience at KNI and Topeka State Hospital. She has been a Program Consultant with Mental Health for 9 years.
Wes Jones
Dr. Jones has been working with trauma victims for more than 25 years. He received his Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Kansas State University and has been employed by the Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas for 28 years. At the center, he serves as the Director of Program Evaluation and Development and Director of Children’s Services. He also maintains a private practice. Teaching experiences include under-graduate, graduate Clinical Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy course work, and various conferences and workshops on traumatic stress and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Dr. Jones is a combat veteran who served as a paratrooper with the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division in Viet Nam. He is a Diplomat, American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and Board Certified in Traumatic Stress. Dr. Jones is also a Clinical and Supervisory member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr. Jones served as a Disaster Mental Health Tech through the Red Cross at the Pentagon following September 11, 2002. He is currently serving on the Behavioral Science Regulatory Board as the Marriage and Family Therapy Board representative. Dr. Jones serves as the team psychologist for the Flint Hill Community Health Center’s Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diagnostic Clinic. He is the past Chairman of the Local Emergency Planning Council for Lyon County and the chairman of the Community Corrections Advisory Board, and as Co-Chair of the Governor’s Mental Health Planning Council – Children’s Subcommittee. Dr. Jones also serves on the Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral health Stakeholders committee.
Terry Koenig
Terry Koenig is an Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas. She has conducted numerous workshops and written extensively about professional ethics in social work practice and specifically in the area of gerontological social work.
Beth Limberg
Beth Limberg, Ph.D., RPT-S has been working with children and families for 16 years. Currently, she is the Assistant Director of the Clinical PsyD Program at the California School of Profession-al Psychology, Alliant International University in Sacramento, where she also teaches in the Infant-Preschooler Mental Health Certificate Program. Dr. Limberg provides ongoing professional training and consultation on infant- preschool mental health and is a Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor.
Sherri Luthe
Sherri Luthe is a parent of two SED Children. She is the Director of Parent Advocacy & Services and been employed by the Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas for the past seven years. She has worked as a Parent Support Specialist for the P.A.S.S. program. She is the program director for the Youth Violence Prevention Program. Sherri is the President of the Parent Support State Wide Network. She is a State Advocate rep-resenting foster care, mental health and the education systems. Sherri is an Apprentice, Mental Health Parent Support Worker. Sherri also serves on several stakeholder boards and task forces concerning families, children and mental health. Sherri is serving her second term on the Sedgwick County Advisory Board for mental illness.
Martin Maldonado-Duran
Martin Maldonado-Duran is an infant, child and adolescent psychiatrist and a family therapist. He has conducted research at the Menninger Clinic on a number of problems in infancy. He is the editor of the book, “Infant and Toddler Mental Health” published by American Psychiatric Press (2002). He has written numerous papers and book chapters on topics of early childhood emotional and behavioral problems, and has co-edited three books in Spanish on similar topics. He is adjunct professor for infant psycho-pathology at Kansas State University and Clinical Professor at Kansas University Medical School. He currently works at Family Service and Guidance Center in Topeka, Kansas.
Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy is the Medical Director and President of Wichita Psychiatric Consultants. He is also Director of a specialty group of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants providing child, adolescent and adult and geriatric services in inpatient, outpatient and long term care settings.
Susan Smiley
Susan Smiley is an award winning documentary .lm producer and director. Her acclaimed feature, “Out of the Shadow,” screened at .lm festivals worldwide. After making documentaries for seven years about other people, she was compelled to turn the camera on her own family. Her .lm chronicles her mother, who suffers from schizophrenia, over the course of five years as she is shuffled through the terribly deficient public health system. Smiley has traveled world-wide exploring a wide range of subjects, from “Ice Road Truckers,” which she directed, wrote and produced (and survived the Arctic Winter) to “Minesweepers,” about de-miners working in Bosnia. She has produced films for the Discovery Channel, History channel, Sci-Fi channel, MTV and FRONTLINE on PBS. She is currently working on a new .lm about youth in California’s juvenile justice system.
Rick Spano
Rick Spano is the Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. Spano has over 40 years of practice and experience and 18 years of teaching ethics in social work.
Michelle (Sheli) Sweeney
Sheli Sweeney serves as the Research and Policy Analyst for the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, Inc., whose membership is made up of 29 Community Mental Health Centers and Affiliates in Kansas. She has 22 years experience in public administration, including legislative liaison for the State Department on Aging, Director of Research and Information Systems at the Division of Worker’s Compensation, and in the fields of human resources, equal opportunity law and compliance, and management systems and planning. She serves in the Kansas Air National Guard as a reservist and is Executive Officer for the Maintenance Group of the 190th Air Refueling Wing, Forbes Field, Topeka, Kansas. She is a veteran of Operations Deny Flight, Northern Watch, Enduring Freedom and Desert Shield/Storm. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Kansas and is a Certified Mediator with the Kansas Office of Judicial Administration.
Stephanie Wick
Stephanie Wick received her masters degree from Kansas State University in marriage and family therapy. Her involvement with the Kansas All-Hazards Behavioral Health Program began as a graduate assistant position in January, 2005 and has extended into a post-graduate position. This project addressed behavioral health preparedness activities, response coordination and recovery services in the event of a Presidentially declared disaster or other public health emergency within Kansas. In addition to her involvement in the KAHBH program, Stephanie recently completed work on her masters degree in marriage and family therapy and is building a practice in Manhattan. She has established a therapy practice at her church and is also building clientele through a respectable private practice in Manhattan. Stephanie’s clinical specialization is in death, dying, grief and loss. She has received her certification in grief counseling and is working to-ward her certification in Thanatology.
Jennifer Williams
Jennifer Williams, M.S., L.C.P.C., is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with the Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas. She received her Bachelor of Science in Sociology in 1996, and Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling in 1998 from Emporia State University. She began her career at the Mental Health Center as a case manager for Severely Emotion-ally Disturbed children in 1997. In 2000, she became program coordinator for the Family Solutions Program, and also serves as a child and family therapist in children’s outpatient services.
Gail Whitley
Gail Whitley is a Parent Support Specialist in North Central Kansas and has worked at Pawnee Mental Health in Concordia, Kansas for 5 years. She is married to Randy Whitley and they have 6 children. They include 2 biological boys, 2 adopted girls, and 2 boys in foster care with plans to adopt. Out of their 6 children, 4 are SED. Gail is a member of NAMI Kansas and runs an affiliate support group in NCK. She sits on several State of Kansas Committees which includes Best Practices Committee, The Children’s Task Force under the Governors Mental Health Planning Council and The Consumer Satisfaction Survey Advisory Board. On all these committees she represents Kansas families particularly the economic, educational and mental health needs of rural Kansas. Gail and her husband teach “Visions for Tomorrow”, a NAMI curriculum to teach caregivers of children with brain disorders. She, also with her husband, does workshops for educators in the local school district and speaks to a variety of college classes concerning their experiences as parents of SED children.
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