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Gray, Angela, MSW, EdS

I am a School Social Worker of seventeen years for the Alton School District at Alton High School. I am also the Executive Director of Empowered 2b Me, an educational consulting organization. I have a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Social work with a Specialization in School Social work. In 2014, I obtained a Specialist degree in Education Administration. I  have extensive knowledge with working with students from diverse socio -economic backgrounds. In addition, I have knowledge with working with at-risk students, especially female students.

I am an author of two books to help teen girls overcome negative attitudes, “Help! I Have an Attitude Problem! A Self-Help Book and Journal to Help Teen Girls Overcome Negative Attitudes” and Check that Attitude!”, a book designed to provide strategies for educators when dealing with girls with negative attitudes. 


Presentation(s): 

1. Best Practices for Working with Urban Girls with Challenging Attitudes

2. Trauma Awareness: Invisibility and Victimization of Black Girls

 

 

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Dellenbaugh, Timothy, MD

Dr. Dellenbaugh attended medical school at the University of Illinois, and completed his residency in psychiatry at Kansas University School of Medicine. After residency he worked in community mental health before joining Western Missouri Mental Health and the faculty at University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Dean representing Center for Behavior Medicine to the School of Medicine and Assistant Medical Director for CBM. He is on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Pilot MOC committee and previously was on the exam writing and assembly committee for general psychiatry. He has chaired a committee on psychiatric pharmacogenomics for the Missouri Department of Mental Health. He has collaborated with faculty from the UMKC-School of Pharmacy on more than 15 clinical trials in the area of schizophrenia and has given more than 24 invited lectures on topics related to schizophrenia, memory, learning, pharmacogenomics, and psychiatric genetics at local, regional and national meetings.

Presentation(s): 

Psychiatric Genetics 101


 

 

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Cooley-Bennett, Terri, MSW, LCSW, LSCSW, CCDP-D, TTS

Ms. Terri Cooley- Bennett is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (MO), a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (KS), a Co-occurring Disorders Professional-Diplomate (MO) and a Tobacco Treatment Specialist. Ms. Cooley-Bennett is the Outreach Services Manager at Swope Health Services. She is experienced as a presenter, workshop leader, and educator and served as an Adjunct Professor for the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. She provides field instruction for social work students. In addition, she provides Continuing Education for professionals and has been a speaker and workshop presenter for various agencies and groups for over 20 years. Ms. Cooley-Bennet speaks and serves on the board of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Missouri Chapter and is trained with the National NASW Office of Ethics and Professional Review.

Presentation(s): 

Vicarious Liability and Ethics in Healthcare

 

 

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Diverse Families: Cultural Competency in Working with LGBT Parents

Speaker(s):

Ryan Barker, MSW, MPPA

Presentation: In the 2000 U. S. Census, 33 percent of female same-sex couple households and 22 percent of male same-sex couple households reported at least one child under the age of 18 living in the home. These numbers have only continued to grow as more and more members of the LGBT community are building families, both as single adults or as couples. This session will explore providing culturally competent care to these families and address issues such as language, paperwork, access to care, discrimination, and existing disparities. Health providers should be familiar with the strengths and challenges experienced by these families and how state and federal policies can affect the health of LGBT families. In this session, Ryan Barker, will share his own story of raising a foster/adoptive child with his husband and how his own experiences translate to providing culturally competent care to the diversity of LGBT families throughout Missouri.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the diversity of LGBT families and the unique challenges experienced by these families within the health system, especially the mental health system
  2. Discuss how state and federal policies impact the health and security of LGBT families
  3. Provide tangible actions that can be taken to provide culturally competent care to LGBT families

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Successfully Implementing a Statewide Roll-out of an Evidence-Based Family Strengthening Curriculum Series in a Community Reentry System

Speaker(s):

Ted Strader, MS

Christopher Kokoski, BS, CPS

Presentation: Learn how the evidence-based Creating Lasting Family Connections® (CLFC) Curriculum Series developers successfully conducted a statewide roll out as the focal point of the Children of Incarcerated Parents (COIP) project. The Series includes the Original CLFC Program for youth and adults, the CLFC Marriage Enhancement Program for re-entering couples and the CLFC Fatherhood Program: Family Reunification for men and their families. The overarching goal of COIP is to mobilize service systems throughout the state to build resiliency, develop resistance skills for substance use and address trauma in children of incarcerated parents and their families using the CLFC Curriculum Series. CLFC developers trained professional and passionate grass roots community members through the Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program (UMADAOP), a federation of 11 agencies across Ohio strategically poised to fulfill the ambitious goals of the project. Come learn how this can be done!

Objectives:

  1. Identify the key components of an effective statewide roll-out of an evidence-based program in a community reentry system
  2. Describe the essential elements of an effective statewide rollout of an evidence-based approach to serve reentry men, women and their children
  3. Apply insights on lessons learned from the state-wide scaling of evidence-based programs
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Postpartum Depression & Anxiety: How to Identify & Treat Struggling Parents

Speaker(s):

Beth Orns, MSW, LCSW

Abby Underwood, MSW, LCSW

Francesca Tocco, MSW, LCSW

Presentation: This presentation will provide information about postpartum mental health issues. Information on evidence-based assessment tools will be provided. In addition to ensuring participants understand postpartum mental health issues we will discuss strategies for support. We will also provide information about a support group we facilitate for parents with Postpartum Depression or Anxiety. We will share lessons we have learned from our experience with this group and provide information on how to facilitate a support group in your community.

Objectives:

  1. Deliver an understanding of postpartum mental health issues
  2. Increase comfort in assessing and addressing postpartum mental health issues in practice
  3. Provide a road map for how to provide a support group for postpartum mental health issues in your community

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Substance-Induced Neurocognitive Disorder

Speaker(s):

Ambika Kattula, MD

Presentation: Ms. T is a 27-year-old Caucasian female with a past medical history of bipolar disorder with psychotic features, methamphetamine use disorder and cannabis use disorder admitted to our forensic inpatient unit after she was found incompetent to stand trial on charges of burglary and stealing related offense. She was misusing multiple substances including methamphetamine, marijuana, inhalants, opioids and benzodiazepines on daily basis for several years starting at the age of 18 until incarceration a few months before the current admission. Her main presenting symptoms including mood symptoms and anxiety were well controlled during first month of hospitalization with medication regimen of oral valproic acid 1000mg at bed time for mood stabilization and oral paliperidone 6mg daily for psychosis. However, cognitive deficits of memory and attention became apparent gradually. Psychology testing demonstrated impairment in multiple cognitive domains. Medical diagnoses as cause of cognitive impairment were excluded with the help of laboratory testing and MRI brain. She was finally given diagnosis of Substance/Medication-Induced Major Neurocognitive Disorder. This presentation gives an overview of this case followed by discussion of diagnostic criteria and risk factors of substance induced neurocognitive disorder with a brief view of cognitive deficits due to few specific substances, consequences of cognitive impairment and lastly, therapeutic strategies.

Objectives:

  1. Review DSM 5 criteria for Substance/Medication-Induced Major Neurocognitive Disorder
  2. Identify risk factors for Substance/Medication-Induced Major Neurocognitive Disorder
  3. Describe cognitive deficits caused by few commonly misused substances
  4. Identify feasible therapeutic strategies that can be acquired to help patients

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SOAR can work for YOU! How SOAR can Improve Engagement, Outcomes & Community Alliances

Speaker(s):

Sara Schwab, MS, LPC

Jared Reck, BA

Eric Godfroy

Presentation: SOAR is used throughout Missouri to assist individuals experiencing SMI and homelessness with accessing financial benefits, but the reach of SOAR expands far greater than increasing clients’ income. By developing a consistent practice for utilizing SOAR in local communities, providers will see improvements in client engagement and retention, improved outcomes at the client and program level, and strengthened partnerships with agencies, leading to a more collaborative and coordinated system. This presentation provides an overview of the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) process in both theory and practice. Strategies for working with challenging circumstances (substance use disorders, initial episodes, institutional barriers) will be discussed and attendees will have an opportunity to talk through barriers that they have experienced when establishing or maintaining a SOAR program. The benefits of maintaining traction through those challenges are impactful to clients, providers, and the local community and each of those areas will be covered in detail.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the SOAR process in Missouri
  2. Utilize specific strategies for working with challenging circumstances during the SOAR process
  3. Identify several benefits of using SOAR at the client, program, and community levels

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Suicide Risk Assessment: A Review of Risk Factors for Suicide in Bipolar Disorder

Speaker(s):

Anchana Dominic, MD

Presentation: In 2016, 45,000 Americans lost their lives to suicide (CDC Data). Since 1999, suicide rates have gone up by more than 30%. Mental illness is a known contributing factor to suicide. In clinical samples, about 50% of individuals with bipolar disorder were found to have a history of a suicide attempt. The rate of suicide attempts in those with bipolar disorder was twice that of individuals with unipolar depression. In this presentation, Dr. Dominic will review empirically researched risk factors associated with suicide in individuals with bipolar disorder. Specific symptoms and clinical presentations associated with risk of suicide will be discussed. Some of the risk factors include family history of suicide, early onset of bipolar disorder, rapid cycling, and abuse of alcohol and/or drugs. Dr. Dominic will discuss how to evaluate for these risk factors and the clinical application to preventing suicide in this population.

Objectives:

  1. Explain the prevalence of suicide in bipolar disorder
  2. Identify risk factors for suicide in bipolar disorder
  3. Describe how to assess for risk factors in bipolar disorder

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