OCTOBER 25, 2022
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Ron Manderscheid, Ph.D., has a life-long commitment to social-justice, particularly racial, gender, and health equity. This is reflected through a career that spans national work with the Congress and Administration, federal agencies, NGOs, and university teaching. He serves currently as Principal at Capstone Solutions Consulting Group and as Adjunct Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California. Until recently, he was President/CEO, National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors and National Association for Rural Mental Health. Both organizations represent county and local authorities in the DC community. Concurrently, Dr. Manderscheid serves on the boards of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, the National Grand Challenge for Social Work Initiative, the Danya Institute, and the NASMHPD Research Institute. He also served until recently as the Co-Chair of the National Coalition for Whole Health. Past appointments include Director of Mental Health and Substance Use Programs at the Global Health Sector of SRA International and several federal leadership roles at the National Institute of Mental Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of HHS. Throughout his career, he has emphasized and promoted the concerns of peers with behavioral health conditions and their family members. Dr. Manderscheid was a Member of the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Healthy People 2020; the Clinton Healthcare Reform Task Force; President of the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association (FEIAA) and Foundation; Chair of the APHA Mental Health Section and Governing Council, and a member of the post-9/11 Work Group; Chairperson of the Sociological Practice Section of the American Sociological Association; President of the Washington Academy of Sciences and the District of Columbia Sociological Society; and President of The College for Behavioral Health Leadership. He edited eight editions of Mental Health, United States, co-edited Outcome Measurement in the Human Services, and contributed to Public Mental Health, First and Second Editions. He also published more than 550 papers on services to persons with mental illness and substance use conditions. He serves on several editorial boards and prepares a periodic blog for Behavioral Healthcare Executive (www.behavioral.net). His email address is rwmanderscheid@gmail.com. Role of Social Determinants in Prevention, Trauma, Crisis, and Recovery |
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Blue Shield
Bukata Hayes - VP of Racial and Health Equity at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Visionary leader, author and innovative professional offering expertise in leadership, grassroots organizing, program development, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement with a steadfast commitment to equity and inclusion. Twenty years of progressive experience within large and small systems such as non-profit, K-12, higher education and rural communities. Effectively structuring, developing, implementing and evaluating performance-based, grant funded, and collaborative programs.
Racial Health Equity in Minnesota
The impact of systemic racism has taken a damaging toll on the health of our state, affecting the physical and mental health of thousands of Minnesotans. It's important for all of us to take an anti-racist approach to help dismantle racism and contribute to a more fair and just society. In this session, you will learn about health inequities in Minnesota and action steps you can take to be part of the solution.
Monica Kramer McConkey has 25 years of experience in the behavioral health field as a counselor, program supervisor and administrator. She has a Masters Degree in Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Minnesota. Her focus throughout her career has been to increase access to, and remove the stigma often attached to mental health services in rural underserved areas. Monica grew up on a farm in northwestern Minnesota and has intimate understanding of the dynamics leading to farm stress and its impact on farm families. She currently works as one of two Rural Mental Health Specialists in Minnesota providing support to farmers and their families. Monica also travels throughout the country educating and speaking on rural mental health and resilience through her business Eyes on the Horizon Consulting, LLC.
Harvesting a Bright Future will explore social factors (generational differences, economics, loneliness) that exist within rural communities and how policy changes over the course of past decades have saved lives.
Robyn Schumacher, MS, LMFT, LPCC has been employed in the mental health field at some capacity for the past 15 years from delivering an art class to at-risk youth to providing clinical services to children and their families to providing reflective supervision to interns, clinical trainees, and licensed mental health professionals. She is trained in DC 0-5 assessment for children ages birth to 6. She is Nationally Certified in PCIT, certified in ABC, and rostered in CPP, all evidenced based dyadic interventions. She managed the Infant Early Childhood Program as the Clinical Supervisor at CSSM.
Developmental Understanding of Infants and Young Children’s Well-Being
A concise focus on social and emotional development
The purpose of our panel discussion it to identify how an incongruence occurs when an individual’s ability is not accommodated or affirmed within their relationships and environments. We would like to introduce and explain the Bronfenbrenner model to solidify significant protective factors to adapt and integrate within their relationships and environments. While focusing on intergenerational patterns that pass along in families (epigenetics, trauma, substance abuse, developmental disabilities) and identify protective factors and preventative/rehabilitative services. Additionally, we would like to identify and expand upon the influence of psychosocial stressors on the developing mind of infants and young children; and identify the progressive measures that create prevention. Lastly, to emphasize how to utilize the power of our focus to achieve goals to improve social, emotional, and cognitive functioning from birth to 100.
Developmental Understanding of Infants and Young Children’s Well-Being
Dr. Katie Stadther, PsyD, LP is a licensed child psychologist and the Lead Psychologist at CSSM. Dr. Stadther’s training has focused on comprehensive psychological evaluations for children birth to 18 years. She has specialized in training in assessment of autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopment disorders (i.e. ADHD and learning disabilities) and assessment of children birth to five years old. She is trained in DC:0-5 Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood.
Developmental Understanding of Infants and Young Children’s Well-Being
A concise focus on social and emotional development
The purpose of our panel discussion it to identify how an incongruence occurs when an individual’s ability is not accommodated or affirmed within their relationships and environments. We would like to introduce and explain the Bronfenbrenner model to solidify significant protective factors to adapt and integrate within their relationships and environments. While focusing on intergenerational patterns that pass along in families (epigenetics, trauma, substance abuse, developmental disabilities) and identify protective factors and preventative/rehabilitative services. Additionally, we would like to identify and expand upon the influence of psychosocial stressors on the developing mind of infants and young children; and identify the progressive measures that create prevention. Lastly, to emphasize how to utilize the power of our focus to achieve goals to improve social, emotional, and cognitive functioning from birth to 100.
Developmental Understanding of Infants and Young Children’s Well-Being
Andrew Archer, LICSW is a psychotherapist in private practice. Minnesota Mental Health Services is the clinic he founded and practices out of since 2017. In addition, Andrew is a Zen instructor, author, and national speaker. Andrew has held academic positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Minnesota. Andrew lives with his wife Lindsay and three children (ages 5, 3, and 1) in Mankato where he teaches meditation in the community, including with preschool children.
American Despair
Cultural Forms of Passivity & Violence
The digital world keeps us stuck in a hyper-present sense of fear as the history of the past disappears into data. Meanwhile, we are hopeless about the future of the world. Conscious reasoning without the ability to dialogue in “the world” results in despair. Franco Berardi (2015) defines despair as comprehending the truth of the present situation: endless war, record annual global temperatures, carbon-filled air, economic precarity, mass murder, and suicide. Feeding the despair is the reigning American ideology of hyper-individualism: the mythical doctrine of survival of the fittest, i.e., kill or be killed, winner-take-all mentality. The consequence of unmet despair is an acceleration of forms of incapacitation, e.g., suicide, as well as violence, e.g., mass shootings. Why? Because if one is not “making it”, it is their own personal moral failings, so goes the logic of our American system. Monetizing oneself via digital media has become a whole generation’s aspiration. This lecture will examine—from a cultural perspective—the passive strategies, e.g., over-adaptation, of the present circumstances and offer solutions to a collective way of meeting despair. Only through communal solidarity, i.e., social movements (friendship), and self-study, e.g., meditation (compassion), will we be able to imagine new ways of being.
Peer Specialists Panel
Amy Haas - Amy is a Certified Peer Support Specialist working at the South Central Crisis Center through Horizon Homes. She's dealt with mental health issues for over three decades. As a Certified Peer Support Specialist, Amy works with individuals one-on-one or in a group setting and assists them in connecting with community resources.
Ricky Sullivan - Ricky is a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist Reciprocal for Beyond Brink/WEcovery and is the Program Manager for the Minnesota Harm Reduction Team. He identifies as someone who has been in long-term recovery from substance use disorder.
Louise Henderson - Louise is a Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist, Certified Peer Support Specialist and Mental Health Practitioner for Inspire Services LLC. She works with a variety of clients including individuals through Inspire Services LLC programs, Le Sueur County Child Protection and Drug Court. Louise has been in mental health recovery since she was a teenager and substance abuse recovery for over 10 years.