Katie Thumann, LCSW, is the Chief Operating Officer at St. Louis Forensic Treatment Center. Ms. Thumann is a BSW and MSW graduate of the St. Louis University School of Social Work. Ms. Thumann is a certified Green Belt and graduate of the Spring 2020 Governor’s Leadership Academy. She has over 13 years of experience working in mental health and leadership roles.
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Race Matters – Creating & Implementing Racial Equity Sessions in the Workplace
Pat Coleman is President and CEO of Behavioral Health Response, Inc. (BHR), a professionally staffed and accredited clinical call center that provides expert behavioral health, crisis response, and corporate feedback services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to agencies and companies worldwide. She earned her MBA from Fontbonne University and her Bachelor of Science from St. Louis University. Working her way to Entrepreneur, Mrs. Coleman utilized her skills, education and fortitude to offer Human Resources services to small businesses by founding The Coleman Group and in 1997 joined BHR as Manager of Human Resources. Since this date 20 years ago, Pat has held various positions and in December 2012 accepted the offer to continue serving BHR in her current role as President & CEO. Pat is alumni of both the St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative Fellows and the Focus St. Louis Leadership programs and serves as Chair of the Workforce Investment Board (City of St. Louis), board member of Mental Health America of Eastern Region and Executive Committee Member of the St. Louis Regional Chamber.
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TEAMwork makes the Dream Work: Building a High Performing Leadership Team
Bart Andrews, PhD, is the Chief Clinical Officer at Behavioral Health Response. Dr. Andrews is the chair of the American Association of Suicidology’s Advisory Council, facilitator of Missouri’s Suicide Prevention in Healthcare ECHO, a member of the Missouri Suicide Prevention Network, a recipient of the 2022 American Association of Suicidology Roger Tierney Service Award and a ZeroSuicide Academy Faculty member. Dr. Andrews is a suicide attempt survivor and a proponent of embracing of lived expertise in our suicide prevention efforts. Dr. Andrews is also known far and wide for his mastery of Facebook memery (meme-ory).
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The Suicide Continuum Unmasked: Understanding Suicide Through a New Lens
Angela M. Tate currently serves as the Vice President of Operations. She has been with Behavioral Health Response since 2007. Angela has a BA in Psychology from Maryville University – St. Louis and a MEd in Counseling from University of Missouri St. Louis. She is also a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in the State of Missouri. Angela is an accomplished trainer and is certified as a Youth Mental Health First Aid trainer and an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) trainer. She chairs the Program Committee on Paraquad’s Board of Directors, serves on the Executive Committee in addition to serving on Great Circle’s Regional Council – Eastern Region.
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TEAMwork makes the Dream Work: Building a High Performing Leadership Team
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Presentation: At the heart of every thriving organization is a strong and well-functioning team. What makes such a team? Behavioral Health Response provides contact center services including crisis intervention across the Eastern Region of Missouri and worldwide. Over the past 23 years of its existence, BHR has built a high-performing front line team focused on BHR’s mission of saving lives. Behind every high-performing front line team is a senior level management team that has to be just as high-performing. BHR has built such a team. This presentation will focus on the aspects associated with building a strong leadership team including effective management through strong working relationships, clearly communicating leadership’s vision and utilizing conflict to strengthen the team.
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Presentation: Individuals with mental illness are at a higher risk for developing chronic health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and are more likely to engage in behaviors, such as smoking, that increase the risk of developing such conditions. Mental illness has been shown to be related to specific cognitive deficits. Similarly, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity are also associated with declines in cognitive function or cognitive impairment. In order to assist a person in the process of recovery it is important to be able to identify cognitive deficits, develop the strengths of the individual and appropriate supports to manage cognitive challenges. This will help individuals properly manage their chronic health conditions and move towards recovery.
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Dr. Heaps-Woodruff is a research neuropsychologist and mental health services researcher with expertise in disease and mental illness comorbidities. The majority of her work has been focused on HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders and aging research using novel methods to identify risk to develop cognitive impairment, treatment effects, and predict health outcomes using cognitive measures and neuroimaging tools. Her current work has been focused on evaluation of service delivery improvement for individuals with SMI and comorbid chronic illness in the Missouri Medicaid population.
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Understanding the Impact of Chronic Health Conditions on Cognitive Function and Recovery
Kelsey Prather, Youth Suicide Prevention Specialist at Tri-County Mental Health, has a Bachelor of Science in family studies and human services, with a minor in conflict analysis and trauma studies. Her background and passion is in working with youth, raising mental health awareness, as well as implementing suicide prevention for youth, parents, adults, school staff, and community members.
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Kirsti Millar is the Suicide Prevention Liaison at ReDiscover where she coordinates the Show Me Zero Youth Suicide Grant which serves clients ages 10-24. She has dynamic experience in crisis work and has utilized her creativity in program expansion and client engagement at ReDiscover for three years. She has five years in the field working with both adults and youth alike in therapeutic, case management and crisis like settings. She completed her master’s degree in counseling from Missouri State University with an emphasis in Play Therapy. Kirsti enjoys working with youth and has a passion for community engagement. Kirsti has extensive training across multiple modalities including: motivational interviewing, positive youth development, harm reduction, assessing and managing suicide risk, trauma informed care, vicarious trauma, EMDR and play therapy.
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Stacey Williams is the State Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH). She serves as the Project Director for the Show Me Zero Youth Suicide Prevention Grant and is the suicide prevention expert for DMH. Stacey has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Master of Social Work degree, with an emphasis in Policy, Planning and Administration from the University of Missouri. She is a Licensed Master level Social Worker and one of two nationally certified Advanced Level WRAP® Facilitator’s in the state of Missouri. Stacey has over ten years’ experience working in the mental health field. She brings forth experience in state government, residential settings and community mental health settings as well as experience in both policy and clinical practice. Stacey is passionate about prevention and recovery as well as helping people through the process of bringing about systems change.
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