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Benefits & Employment – You Have the Knowledge with MO DB101

Speaker(s):

Love, Nicholas, SME

Presentation:

Lack of information or worse misinformation on how benefits and employment interact does not lead to informed decisions. Accurate information on health coverage and disability benefits is a key factor for people who have disabilities when making career decisions. Missouri Disability Benefits 101 (DB101) is an online tool that can help navigate the complexity of benefits and employment interactions. DB101 provides information and tools on employment and career planning, health coverage, disability benefits, and more all in one location. Learning how to incorporate Missouri DB101 (www.mo.db101.org) is vital for all service providers. Come learn how to embed MO DB101 into the work you already do to motivate and support people in competitive integrated employment decisions without having to learn a whole new skill-set.


Objectives:

  1. Learn how to access the rules governing SSDI/SSI, Social Security work incentives, Medicare and Medicaid, employment impact on state/federal benefits, and other work-related concerns through MO DB101.
  2. Increase knowledge of all service providers on the complex interaction of public disability benefits and competitive integrated employment without having to learn a whole new skill-set.
  3. Understand how the utilization of MO DB101 responses to federal and state directives – ex. WIOA.
  4. Incorporate MO DB101 as a supplement existing work to motive and support for competitive integrated employment without having to learn a whole new skill-set.

 

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Effective Experiential Exercises for Assessment and Therapy

Speaker(s):

Carpenter, John, MSW, LCSW

Presentation:

Clients do not always reveal their true feelings and dynamics just in words alone. What they can show you in visual ways or physical demonstrations or metaphoric imagery can be more memorable, valid, and useful than hundreds of words could. This presentation will describe the clever and creative ways to reveal emotional distance and work with it to heal that undesired distance. This talk will also demonstrate the use of props and visual aids to make visible those invisible forces that impact and influence our clients and their families. Once those invisible factors become tangible and visible to work with effective therapy can happen. We will also have many examples of metaphoric imagery techniques to elicit hidden emotions and dynamics that seemingly innocent images can reveal. Like play therapy for adults, these indirect techniques can be a safer way to explore difficult topics. Even a consideration of emotional ages as perceived by a family can shed more light on difficult dynamics. These approaches have served me well during my 43 years of clinical practice.




Objectives:

  1. You will learn experiential exercises that are easily used in therapy sessions.

  2. You will learn how to make good use of emotional distance and empty chairs.

  3. You will learn metaphoric imagery techniques as assessment and treatment tools.

  4. You will learn how to use props effectively for creating change within relationships.

 

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Welch, Tim, PhD, LMFT

Tim Welch is an assistant professor at the University of Central Missouri in the Human Development and Family Science program. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who completed his doctorate in Couple and Family Therapy at Michigan State University. His dissertation focused on alcohol use and resiliency from adverse childhood experiences. He has published articles in scientific journals on the process of change in empirically supported couple and family therapy treatments and has presented at regional and national conferences on divorce, the transition to parenting, ACEs and family therapy interventions. He has experience working in an inpatient psychiatric hospital with children, a large outpatient non-profit for at-risk youths, delivering home-based family therapy services for families working towards family reunification and in private practice working with adult survivors of child abuse. Dr. Welch has received trainings in multiple evidence based practices including Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS).

Presentation(s):

Risk and Resiliency in Adverse Childhood Experiences: Implications for Prevention and Intervention

Adolescent Social Media: Myths Managing Risks and Maximizing Benefits

 

 

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Williams, Stacey, MSW, LCSW

Stacey Williams is the State Suicide Prevention Coordinator for Missouri Department of Mental Health and serves as the suicide prevention lead for the department. She is the Project Director for the Youth Suicide Prevention Grant, the Zero Suicide in Health Systems grant, oversees the Emergency Suicide Response for COVID-19 Project as well as numerous other statewide crisis services activities. Stacey has a Masters in Social Work, with an emphasis in Policy, Planning and Administration from the University of Missouri and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology. Stacey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over twelve years’ experience working in mental health. She brings forth experience in state government, residential and community mental health settings as well as experience in both policy and clinical practice. Stacey is passionate about helping people through the process of bringing about systems change. In her free time, you can catch her baking, spending time outdoors or spending time with her teenage son Camden and German Shepherd Bella. 

Presentation(s): 

What you need to know about 988 in Missouri

Effectiveness of a Suicide Prevention Follow-up Program Linking Hospitals and Mental Health Care Providers in St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri


 

 

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Muckler, Casey, MPH

Casey Muckler is a suicide prevention specialist at the Department of Mental Health. She assists with oversight and monitoring on all suicide prevention grants, projects, and programs. She is the project director of the 988 planning grant and co-facilitates 988 implementation efforts in Missouri. She is also the project director for Missouri’s mobile crisis planning grant. She serves as an executive member of the Missouri Suicide Prevention Network to collaborate with statewide suicide prevention leaders to oversee the implementation of the Missouri Suicide Prevention Plan.

Presentation(s): 

What you need to know about 988 in Missouri


 

 

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Love, Nicholas, SME

   Nicholas Love is the Community Inclusion Director at the World Institute on Disability (WID). WID strives to eliminate the barriers to full inclusion of people with disabilities by addressing and influencing policies, systems, and tools. Nicholas’ work at WID focuses on the identification, creation, and utilization of technology, training, technical assistance and tools that drive and respond to policies that direct systems change. Nicholas’ main focus at WID is the management of Disability Benefits 101 (DB101). DB101 is a comprehensive, state-specific digital tool that enables people with disabilities to make informed decisions about competitive integrated employment becoming a part of their lives. (www.mo.db101.org)
   
  Nicholas’s passion is education on diversity and equality. He has been speaking on and fighting for disability issues as national speaker and advocate for diversity and social justice for over 25 years. He is a Certified Community Work Incentive Coordinator and a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner with a degree in Holistic Healthcare with a concentration in Mind Body Transformational Psychology. Nicholas likes to combine knowledge and entertainment to change cultural perceptions.

Presentation(s): 

Benefits & Employment – You Have the Knowledge with MO DB101


 

 

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Shoemaker, Drew, MD

I was born in Iowa, and then moved to Missouri in 1982, and have been here since.  I graduated from Missouri State University, and went to Medical School at the University of Missouri in Columbia and did my residency in Family Medicine at Cox Medical Centers in Springfield.  I previously practiced Bolivar and Boonville, Missouri before joining Burrell to practice Family and  Addiction Medicine in March of 2020 where I am the medical director of the Fordland Clinic (a Burrell affiliate) and the Behavioral Crisis Center at Burrell. 

I am married with six children, and three grandchildren.  My wife and I enjoy any outside activity, and travel. 

I have a Bachelor’s degree from Southwest Baptist University, a Master’s degree from Missouri State University and my Medical Doctorate from the University of Missouri in Columbia.  I am board certified in Family Medicine, and will sit for addiction boards this fall. 

Presentation(s): 

Opioid Use Disorder ECHO

 

 

 

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Menzies, Percy, M. Pharm.

Percy Menzies is the president of Assisted Recovery Centers of America, LLC, a center for the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction based in St. Louis, Missouri which was established in 2001.

Percy’s interest and passion for pharmacological treatment of drug addiction and alcoholism goes back to the early eighties when naltrexone was first introduced for the treatment of heroin addiction. He worked for over 18 years for DuPont Pharmaceuticals in various positions and had responsibility for naltrexone as the associate product director.

He has worked closely with drugs courts and provided training on the use of anticraving medications to reduce recidivism within the criminal justice population addicted to alcohol and opioids. He has conducted workshops for a wide range of audiences both in the US and overseas on evidenced-based treatments for addictive disorders.

He has been invited to serve on expert committees to develop guidelines for the treatment of addictive disorders and alcoholism.

He has been invited to serve on advisory boards both in the private and government sectors.

Percy holds a master’s degree in pharmacy from India. Percy immigrated to the United States in 1977.


Presentation(s): 

Opioid Use Disorder ECHO

 

 

 

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Arteaga, Dayana, DO

My name is Dayana Arteaga and I am a fourth year psychiatry resident. I will be graduating as a psychiatrist from UMKC in June of this year, and I am immensely excited about this. I completed my psychiatry training in both the University of Oklahoma and University of Missouri-Kansas City. Following graduation I will start a job with the Cox inpatient psychiatric hospital in Springfield, Missouri.

My dream growing up was to become a physician, and every day I wake up smiling because with hard work and dedication I made this dream a reality. I graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in Microbiology and Magna Cum Laude Honors in 2012, and shortly after began my medical studies at the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. I graduated with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine in 2016. I enjoy Psychiatry very much, and feel honored to care for psychiatric patients every day. I also enjoy the arts, classical music, and books that speak to my soul. I believe that hope can make all the difference! 


Presentation(s): 

Opioid Use Disorder ECHO

 

 

 

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Schwarz, Evan, MD

Evan Schwarz attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch prior to completing a residency in Emergency Medicine at Washington University. He then completed a Medical Toxicology Fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine. Additionally, he is board certified in Addiction Medicine. He is presently an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Division Chief for Medical Toxicology at Washington University School of Medicine. He also directs the inpatient addiction consultation service and co-directs the outpatient toxicology and addiction medicine clinic.


Presentation(s): 

Opioid Use Disorder ECHO