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2024 DMH Awards

Paradise Ballroom ABC

 

The Department of Mental Health, Division of Behavioral Health, is recognizing three Outstanding Performers for Housing, Supported Employment, and Recovery Support Services.  These awards go to agencies that exemplify the DMH Mission of serving, empowering, and supporting Missourians to live their best lives.

Landmark Recovery Center prioritizes reaching people where they are at and providing support to build their recovery capital for long term recovery success. They distribute NARCAN; visit local shelters; provide transportation; offer numerous support groups and individualized peer coaching services; and offer various pro-social activities such as art classes, sporting tournaments, float trips and barbecues.  Many of the services provided are designed to provide support to the entire family.

 

Landmark Recovery Center has been successful in creating numerous partnerships to better serve and unite the local recovery community. The partnerships include Probation & Parole Officers using their RCC space to connect clients to their services; the local Cole County Jail Pretrial Services utilizing staff for release resources and connections to treatment; collaboration with local treatment providers; a strong partnership with National Alliance for Mental Illness; weekly attendance at local municipal court; attending resource fairs at local prisons; and creating a Recovery Week with the local Treatment Court team. Additionally, Landmark has contracts in place to provide peer services for the Callaway County Drug Treatment Court and family services for the Callaway Family Court.  Landmark has founded the Capital City Recovery Coalition where community partners meet every other month to discuss community issues and is working towards becoming an official chapter of the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers.

This year’s Outstanding Performer for Supported Employment Award goes to Burrell Behavioral Health – Springfield.

Burrell Springfield has been an Individual Placement and Support provider for over six years. They have consistently scored in the highest range of fidelity, which is the exemplary range.  They have strong leadership support that has instilled a culture of employment throughout the agency.  The leadership and guidance provided by the IPS supervisor has been highly praised.

Their team was one of the first to qualify for an abbreviated fidelity review process, which is reserved for only the highest performing teams with lower turnover.  At their last review, the program was highlighted for their integration and collaboration with the treatment team, strong documentation, and creative strategies for supporting people with the career goals.  Their annual employment rates have consistently been higher than state and national averages.

Their employment program really embodies the spirit of “Employment is Recovery.”

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Supported Employment IPS Strategies for Assisting Individuals with Substance Use Disorders Obtain Employment

Room Leeward 76-77

Speaker(s): 

Sandra Reese, BS

Description: 

Research shows that people with dual disorders (i.e., a co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder) are successful in supported employment programs and that employment can be a crucial step in their recovery. This session will describe the eight practice principles of evidence-based supported employment and then discuss specific guidelines that apply to people with co-occurring disorders.

Objectives

1. List at least two ways that employment can help people recover from substance use disorders.
2. Describe two common myths and facts regarding co-occurring disorders.
3. List four strategies that IPS practitioners use to help people work despite substance use disorders.

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Ask DMH

Room Parasol I

Speaker(s): Multiple

Description:

Stop by anytime during this session time to ask DMH questions.  Answers will be from experts in the following departments.

  • Children’s Services
  • Community Operations
  • Support Services
  • Integrated Care
  • Operations
  • Prevention and Crisis Services
  • Quality and Compliance
  • Recovery Services
  • Research & Data Analysis
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Keynote: Tracking Our Destiny With Stories

Room Paradise Ballroom A

Speaker(s)

David Strabala, MSW, LCSW

Description

Long before GPS, there was a guidance system for our souls that tracked the heart’s path through unseen lands. Such guidance is mostly hidden now, like antiques in the attics of our minds. But when the right one is held it can be like a magic lamp shining just for you in the darkness. That guidance is found in stories—fairy tales, myths and such–especially the ones that fit the time, place and purpose we are navigating. The presenter has chosen a dozen brief stories relevant for our uncertain times that might light the path for clients, young and old. We will explore how to unpack the themes or archetypes of stories for sharing the right one at the right time.

Objectives

  • Utilize short stories relevant to uncertain times to provide guidance
  • Unpack the themes or archetypes of stories for sharing the right one at the right time
  • Discuss how stories may be relevant to navigating real life situations
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Recognizing and Responding to Signs of Early Psychosis

Room Paradise Ballroom C

Speaker(s)

Rebecca Preston, PhD

Description

This session will provide an overview of what early psychosis is, including signs and symptoms, how symptoms occur on a continuum, and the importance of linking individuals to appropriate services.

Objectives

  • Describe the building blocks of psychosis spectrum disorders
  • Evaluate psychosis — establishing the threshold
  • Discuss the importance of early identification and intervention
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Psychiatry for All: Considerations in Psychiatric Care for the Gender Diverse

Room Parasol I

Speaker(s)

Ethan Johnston, MD

Description

The transgender and gender nonconforming community faces numerous barriers. Structural, interpersonal, and individual stigmas against this community have led to health disparities, many of which are particularly relevant to the psychiatric community. Rates of most mental health diagnoses are much higher in the transgender community than in the general population, including mood disorders, psychotic disorders, and substance use disorders, giving psychiatric clinicians ample opportunity to intervene for the good of our patients. Provider discrimination, historical stigma from the psychiatric community, and previous poor experiences from medical providers lead to continued hesitancy to best help this population. In this presentation, we explore literature surrounding this topic, understand current views from the American Psychiatric Association on the transgender community, and evaluate ways that we can help this community. We define appropriate vocabulary, explore hormone replacement therapy and surgical options, and evaluate letters of support. We review the national transgender survey outlining current trends amongst the transgender community and what we as mental health providers can do to advocate for our patients. There is evidence behind hormone replacement therapy and gender affirming surgeries in this community, and as providers with a very high likelihood of encountering several members of this community in our practices, this presentation is a call for action to provide appropriate care, referrals, and advocacy for this patient population.

Objectives

  • Discuss the historical stigmatization of gender diverse individuals as related to the psychiatric community
  • Analyze the prevalence of mental health disorders in this community, current thoughts towards psychiatry from transgender and gender nonconforming individuals and how we can improve
  • Integrate the role of a mental health provider in aiding those seeking gender affirming care
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Utilizing the Transformative Model of Internal Family Systems in the Treatment of Risky Behaviors: Substance Use Disorder, Self-Injury, and Eating Disorders

Room Paradise Ballroom C

Speaker(s)

Megan Colvin MA & Andrea Wiele PLPC

Description

Although the model has been in existence and practice for several decades, Internal Family Systems has gained tremendous ground in the treatment of risky behaviors in recent years. This integrative treatment approach includes evidence-based interventions drawing from CBT, somatic, psychodynamic, and Gestalt frameworks.
This presentation will give participants a hands-on opportunity to practice IFS and to learn how to apply the IFS principles in their respective practices. There will be ample research-based case studies presented, as well as anecdotal.

Objectives

  • Identify the main components of the IFS model and apply them in practice
  • Utilize IFS interventions in practice as they pertain to risky behaviors
  • Practice somatic exercises while discussing complex trauma case studies
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Psilocybin use in Psychiatric Disorders

Room Parasol I

Speaker(s): 

Ali Mahmoud, MD

Description: 

Recent researches have proven that psilocybin has a wide rage of therapeutic benefits especially in Treatment- Resistant depression. FDA has recently gave psilocybin a ” breakthrough therapy designation” for treatment-resistant depression. In my presentation will talk in detail about psilocybin pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and will give overview on its therapeutic benefits based on recents studies.

Objectives

  • Obtain knowledge on history of psychedelic therapy from the past to the present time
  • Define psilocybin pharmacology
  • Discuss therapeutic benefits of psilocybin especially in treatment resistant depression
  • Discuss “assistant therapy ” and its phases
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How Does Providing Evidence-based Supported Employment IPS Impact Social Determinants of Health?

Room Leeward 76-77

Speaker(s): 

Sandra Reese, BS

Description: 

According to the World Health Organization, people with serious mental health disorders die 10-25 years earlier than the general population. This session will explore why employment is a critical mental health intervention and what leadership and mental health practitioners can do to promote employment.

Objectives

  • List at least two reasons why employment is a critical mental health intervention
  • List at least three reasons why employment isn’t seen as a central focus of the public mental health system.
  • List four strategies for how to promote employment within the public mental health system.
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Supporting Complex Needs using Tiered Supports

Room Nautical Wheeler

Speaker(s): 

Kathleen Deppeler, BA

Description: 

The Missouri Department of Mental Health uses Tiered Supports, based on a public health model created by the CDC. This model supports the health of an entire population of people by providing a continuum of supports that are layered on top of one another as a person’s needs increase. Learn more about how structuring supports by tiers relates to individuals, strategies, and organizations as a whole.

Objectives

  • Participants will understand how a tiered framework relates to people, interventions, and organizations
  • Participants will understand how a tiered framework improves outcomes community wide
  • Participants will know how to access free PBS resources from the Department of Mental Health to improve relationships, behaviors, and environments through positive practices.