Workshops 99

1999 WORKSHOPS

November 18-21, 1999, Hyatt Regency Louisville

Friday 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM -- Plenary

Diagnosis: Injustice: Discrimination Against People with Psychiatric Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act - Susan Stefan, J.D., Professor, University of Miami School of Law

Workshops I (Friday 10:30 AM to noon)

  • Resistence to Forced Outpatient Drugging - David Oaks, Coordinator, Support Coalition International; Vicki Fox Wieselthier, Coördinator, MadNation
  • Advance Directives - Melanie Shaw, J.D., Disability Advocates, Inc.; Victor Pagano; Thomas Behrendt, J.D., Legal Director, Connecticut Legal Rights Project
  • Between a Rock and A Hard Place - Darby Penney, Director of Recipient Affairs, New York State Office of Mental Health, Chairperson, Consumer Advisory Committee for the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors; Cathy Bustin-Baker, Director of Consumer Affairs, Maine Dept. of Mental Health, Mental Retardation & Substance Abuse
  • Team Building - Ed Kramer, Deputy Director, Advocacy Unlimited, Inc. (CT)
  • Advocacy in Prisons and Jails - Peter Cubra, J.D., NARPA Board & President, NM Ass'n of Counsel for Children; Emmett Dwyer, J.D., Managing Attorney, Connecticut Legal Rights Project
  • All Those Good and Just Fights Make Us Stronger - Ron Bassman, Ph.D., NARPA Vice President, Bureau of Recipient Affairs, NY State Office of Mental Health

Workshops II (Friday 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM)

  • Recent Developments in Mental Health Law - Susan Stefan, J.D., Professor, University of Miami School of Law
  • Serving Effectively on P & A Boards - Rae Unzicker, member NARPA Board, National Council on Disability
  • Strengthening Movement Advocacy through Diversity and Inclusion - Celia Brown, Director, Peer Specialist Services, Bureau of Recipient Affairs, NY State Office of Mental Health; Ken Schlosser, M.S.W.; Jacki McKinney, National Women and Violence Research Project, National People of Color Network
  • Inter-Faith Spirituality: Tool for Social Change and Alternative to Psychiatry C/S/X-Run Hospital Diversion Program - Phil Schulman, M.Div.

Workshops III (Friday 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM)

  • The Elimination of Over-representation of Minorities on Locked Wards Using a Culturally Competent Service Delivery Model - Jan Powe, Mental Health Advocate, Kentucky P&A; Susan Terrell, Mental Health Advocate, Kentucky P&A; Victoria Scott; Jimmie Persley, KY DMHMR (retired)
  • Developing a Proactive Employment Strategy for Social Security Beneficiaries - Reggie Sajauskas, Social Security Administration
  • Combatting Psychiatric Oppression - Janet Foner, Coordinator, Support Coalition International Women's Rights, Women's Truth - Laura Prescott, NARPA Board; Laurie Ahern, National Empowerment Center; Judi Chamberlin, National Empowerment Center, Boston University, member, NAPAS Board; Rae Unzicker, member, NARPA Board, National Council on Disability; Celia Brown, Director, Peer Specialist Services, Bureau of Recipient Affairs, NY State Office of Mental Health
  • C/S/X -run Hospital Diversion Programs - Phil Schulman, M.Div.
  • How Private Lawyers Can Keep Body and Soul Together While Doing Good Work - Aaron David Frishberg, J.D. (NY); Peter Cubra, J.D., NARPA Board

Saturday 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM -- Plenary

Your Drug May be Your Problem - David Cohen, Ph.D., University of Montreal; Peter Breggin, M.D., Center for the Study of Psychiatry & Psychology

Workshops IV (Saturday 10:30 AM to noon)

  • Psychiatric Malpractice Update - Peter Breggin, M.D., Center for the Study of Psychiatry; Pam Clay, J.D.
  • Advocacy Techniques - David Popiel, J.D., Community Health Law Project (NJ)
  • The Exercise of Procedural Rights in Mental Health Hearings - Terri Berge, J.D., Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, Inez Toldeo-Hansen, J.D., Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission
  • A Recovery-Based Alternative to Coercive PACT Systems: PACE (Personal Assistance in Community Existence); Laurie Ahern, Director, National Empowerment Center, MA; Daniel Fisher, M.D., Executive Director, NEC
  • International Issues - Judi Chamberlin, NEC, member NARPA Board; Hélène Grandbois, member NARPA Board; Laura Prescott, member NARPA Board

Workshops IV (Saturday 1:45 PM to 3:15 PM)

  • Housing Discrimination: Update and Look to the Future - David Popiel, J.D., Senior Managing Attorney, Community Health Law Project, South Orange, NJ
  • Outpatient Commitment and the Criminalization of Psychiatric Treatment - Dennis Feld, J.D., and Kim L. Darrow, J.D., MHLS Special Litigation & Appeals Unit.
  • Class Action Litigation to Combat Medicaid Managed Care - Michelle Johnson, Staff Attorney, TN Justice Center; Peter Cubra, J.D., NARPA Board
  • Psychiatric Abuse & Malpractice: Experiences of an Expert Witness - Peter Stastny, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Project Specialist, Bureau of Recipient Affairs, New York State Office of Mental Health

And More!

  • workshops subject to change

Note: The conference begins Thursday and ends Sunday.

Last updated November 14, 1999 by NARPA