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Keynote: Unbreaking Broken Trust – a Holistic Approach to Trauma Healing and Prevention.

Paradise Ballroom ABC

 

Speaker(s): LJ Punch, MD

Description:

Power4STL is the home of The Bullet Related Injury Clinic and The T, a holistic harm reduction program. During this presentation, founder and executive director, Dr. LJ Punch, will share the Power4STL theory of trauma and approach to holistic healing care. This includes a narrative shifting approach to the impact of bullets and needles in the lives of communities experiencing acute and chronic violence.

Objectives

  • Identify the unique impact of community violence
  • Define Bullet Related Injury
  • Acknowledge symptoms of broken trust
  • Identify opportunities to create a healing environment for those experiencing community violence
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Keynote: Living Your Best Life: Elevate Your Professional and Personal Well-being!

Paradise Ballroom ABC

 

Speaker(s): Susie Arbo

Description:

“Living Your Best Life!” is an energizing and motivating presentation, focusing on how to be the best version of yourself you can be. Whether you work in community mental health, a substance abuse field, a school, private practice, a prison, or a hospital setting, “Living Your Best Life” is designed to help even the most seasoned clinicians and administration professionals continue to learn to care for themselves mentally and emotionally and find joy in their career.  

This motivating session will focus on self care, time management skills, stress reduction, and learning to find a balance between your work and home life.  With the demand being so high since the pandemic in mental health professions, we don’t want to see our fellow colleges burnout.   This presentation will give attendees valuable tools they can use immediately in their professional and personal life, which in turn, not only helps themselves, but also benefits the people they live and work with.  This is an empowering presentation that will inspire mental health professionals to feel positive about their life and rekindle and enhance their passion for this caring profession. 

Objectives

  • After participating in the session, attendees will have learned 10 self care strategies.  
  • After participating in this session, attendees will learn 5 coping strategies to manage stress and their time effectively.  
  • After participating in this session, attendees will learn 5 techniques to help them identify balance between personal and their professional life. 
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Keynote Address – A Spectrum of Clinical and Practical Applications Derived from Behavior Analysis

Speaker(s):

Friman, Patrick, Ph.D., ABPP

Presentation:

The core idea of behavior analysis is revolutionary in that it attributes the source or cause of behavior not to the behaving person him or herself but to what has happened to that person up to the exhibition of the behavior. This is one of the most powerful ideas ever invented by mankind for understanding, knowing, and dealing with human behavior, especially when it is a problem (because it seeks not to fix the blame but rather seeks to fix the problem instead). And virtually everything this idea touches improves. It has revolutionized approaches to habit disorders, incontinence, addictions, delinquency, and numerous other major concerns of our time. Still, the idea has only begun to be harnessed. Not only can it be used to improve the lives of clients in need, but it can also be used to improve the lives of their providers, and indeed the lives of all people. This talk will describe several options derived from behavior analysis the application of which could exert a powerful beneficial influence on everyday life. Examples range from reducing stage fright to improving relations with significant others and much in between.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the core idea of behavior analysis.

  2. Identify a way to use emotion to enhance persuasion.

  3. Describe a way to use choice to reduce inappropriate responses to aversive circumstances

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Keynote Address – Creating Change in a Divided World

Speaker(s):

Ranney, Megan, MD

Presentation:

Over the last decade, Dr. Ranney has emerged as one of the nation’s strongest voices for innovative solutions to seemingly intractable public health crises. In this talk, she takes the audience on a journey from possibility to action. She outlines how to see beyond the limits of the possible; provides concrete examples of success and failure in work on gun violence, opioids, COVID, and digital health; and shares her core lessons about the key ingredients for action (inclusivity, persistence, shared power, high-quality data). This talk has been given to audiences ranging from healthcare to higher education to associations.

Objectives:

  1. Discuss innovative solutions to seemingly intractable public health crises
  2. Provide concrete examples of success and failure in work on gun violence, opioids, COVID, and digital health
  3. Share core lessons on key ingredients of action for creating change in a divided world
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Keynote Address – Champion of Change: A Journey of Healing & Resilience

Speaker(s):

William Kellibrew

Presentation:

At age 10, William witnessed the murders of his mother, Jacqueline and 12-year-old brother, Tony, in their family living room on July 2, 1984, by his mom’s ex-boyfriend. The killer died by suicide that day, but not before making William beg for his life at gunpoint.

In this presentation, William shares his personal and professional journey of healing.  From experiencing multiple childhood traumas including child sexual abuse, domestic and gun violence, bullying, and other victimizations, William has emerged as a global advocate and respected authority on addressing violence and trauma throughout multiple systems and settings. His synergy with the audience is inspiring and motivating as he provides a practical trauma-sensitive healing-centered approach to supporting individuals, families, and communities impacted by violence and trauma.

Objectives:

  1. Identify key elements in healing after being impacted by childhood trauma.
  2. Use William’s story as a catalyst to continue the conversation on supporting children and families affected by violence and trauma in multiple systems and settings.

Slides and Handouts:

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Ranney, Megan, MD

Dr. Ranney is a practicing emergency physician, researcher, and national advocate for innovative approaches to public health. She holds the Warren Alpert Endowed Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University, is Founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, and is Associate Dean of Strategy and Innovation at the School of Public Health at Brown University. Dr. Ranney’s funded research focuses on developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence, mental illness, and related epidemics. During the COVID-19 pandemic she has been a CNN Medical Analyst, as well as having frequent appearances on MSNBC, BBC, Good Morning America, NBC, PBS, NPR, and others. She has been published in print media ranging from the Atlantic to the New York Times regarding the value of a national public health strategy. She also developed and co-leads, with Dr. Ashish Jha, the “Surviving And Thriving in The Age of Pandemics” online course at the School of Public Health at Brown University.

She serves multiple national leadership roles, including as Chief Research Officer of AFFIRM Research, the country’s leading non-profit committed to ending the gun violence epidemic through a non-partisan public health approach, and Co-Founder and President of the Board of GetUsPPE.org, a start-up non-profit that is delivering donated personal protective equipment to those who need it most. She is a Fellow of the fifth class of the Aspen Institute’s Health Innovators Fellowship Program, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She has received numerous awards for technology innovation, public health, and research, including “Rhode Island Woman of the Year” (2021), the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Policy Pioneer Award (2018), and “50 Experts to Trust In A Pandemic” (Elemental/Medium, 2020).

Dr. Ranney earned her bachelor’s degree in History of Science, graduating summa cum laude, from Harvard University; her medical doctorate, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha, from One Gateway Center, Suite 751 | Newton, MA 02458 | Phone: 617.614.1600 | Fax: 617.965.6610 | apbspeakers.com Columbia University; and her master’s in public health from Brown University. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research at Brown University. She was previously a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote d’Ivoire. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and two children.


Presentation(s): 

Keynote Address – Creating Change in a Divided World


 

 

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Keynote Address – The Importance of Recognizing Trauma as a Superpower

Speaker(s):

Stephanie Foo

Presentation:

Mental health professionals are trained to spot destructive symptoms and pathologize their client’s mental illness. But what we often forget is that what we think of as “mental illness” can often potentially be a collection of adaptive skills that have value during tough times. During the COVID-19 crisis, for example, many people with OCD and PTSD have found their former “disabilities” to be helpful traits that keep them alive. 

Objectives:

  1. To recognize the power of stigma and shame, and to engage in conversation about how to alleviate that stigma and shame through nuanced storytelling
  2. To talk about how we can alleviate stigma and shame in sessions with clients, especially during diagnosis, instead empowering them to see their talents
  3. To acknowledge the adaptive and positive power of some mental illnesses
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Kellibrew, William

William Kellibrew is a global advocate for human, civil, children and victims’ rights. Kellibrew works closely with top leaders and communities to address trauma and violence across multiple fields including local, state, and federal agencies, Native American reservations and communities that impact children, youth, and families.

Kellibrew is no stranger to violence. At age 10, he witnessed the murders of his mother, Jacqueline, and 12-year-old brother, Anthony, in their family living room in July 1984. The killer died by suicide, but not before making young William beg for his life at gunpoint.

In 2008, Kellibrew was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show discussing his pathway to healing and resiliency. In 2011, Kellibrew was recognized by the White House as a ‘Champion of Change’ and in 2013, he received the Voice Award from SAMHSA for his work across the country as a peer/consumer leader.  In 2014, he accepted the Capitol Probe Award at the District of Columbia Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and in 2015 he received the U.S. Congressional Victims’ Rights Caucus Eva Murillo Unsung Hero Award.

Kellibrew credits his grandmother, family and those who created a safe space for him to heal and thrive. Follow Kellibrew on Twitter/Facebook.com/willkelli or on Instagram @nxgleaders.


Presentation(s): 

Keynote Presentation – Champion of Change: A Journey of Healing & Resilience

 

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Keynote Address – Addiction: A Futurist’s Perspective

Speaker(s):

Omar Manejwala, MD

Presentation: Healthcare, in general, and addiction treatment specifically, are poised to experience dramatic shifts over the next 5-10 years. Increasing payer pressure to capture, report and improve outcomes, and to control costs and alter the trajectory of the illness will result in wholesale shifts in the way addictions are managed.  Broader societal goals of increasing access to care, improving the efficacy and utilization of screening, prevent the onset of these disorders, and manage the widespread criminalization of substance use disorders can be achieved if philosophical objections and technological hurdles can be negotiated. 

In this talk, a futurist’s perspective on addiction will be presented, with an eye to briefly describing the forces that led us to our current state, and describing changes that might allow us to navigate to improved global addiction outcomes. In particular, an emphasis on broader, well-defined principles of healthcare innovation and their potential application to addiction will be discussed.  Attendees will leave with a broader perspective on how they themselves can participate in defining the future of addiction treatment.

Objectives:

  1. Describe several trends in addiction epidemiology, prevention and treatment, and describe potential future trajectories.
  2. Appraise sociopolitical forces that may serve to shape future approaches to addiction management
  3. Estimate/predict the role of “big data” in defining future approaches to addiction management
  4. Forecast potential technological innovations and their impact on addictions, including, for example, the Internet of Things.
  5. Review the central features of healthcare innovation and propose how these might manifest in the future of addiction prevention and treatment.

 

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Keynote Address: The Coffee Bean

Speaker(s):

Damon West

Presentation Description: West’s presentation will center upon the theme that the ability to change our environments is within each of us; and, that for true progress to be made in this country, attitudes towards mental health and recovery must change.

Objectives:

  1. Describe The Coffee Bean (back story and applications)
  2. Share lessons learned in recovery
  3. Discuss ways to improve mental health and substance use in corrections (which is where many mental health and substance use patients reside, unfortunately)