Juliana Wallace’s Presentation Power Point

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Trauma Stewardship Institute Map

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Role of the Psychiatric Provider on the ACT Team Power Point Presentation

Juliana Wallace BSW, MSW, LCSW with over eighteen years experience working in social services and eight years in health care leadership. Juliana has held leadership roles at Outside In, OHSU, Unity Center for Behavioral Health and now Central City Concern. A life long learner of Trauma Informed Care, recovery, and the power of love. Juliana has over ten years experience as a trainer and presenter; speaking at numerous national conferences. Starting in the fall of 2017 she taught Trauma Informed Care at Portland State University and continues as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Work. Her current clinical practice is grounded in the connection of trauma and stress to coping skills, self-reflection, and promotion of safe spaces to practice vulnerability. Focusing on an open heart, humanistic, and somatic based approach to both clinical care, leadership and training.

To understand the benefits of trauma informed care it is necessary to understand how behaviors can be related to people’s trauma experiences in life. In this training we will learn about the principles of Trauma Informed Care and a focus on understanding how trauma shows up in the most unexpected places. Participants will review the emerging best practices if providing supervision grounded in the trauma informed framework.

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. She is the host of the podcast Future Tripping, which is dedicated to conversations about overwhelm. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of trauma exposure, she has worked nationally and internationally for more than three decades. Much of her work is being invited to assist in the aftermath of community catastrophes – whether they are fatal storms or mass shootings. Simultaneously, she has long been active in community organizing and movements for social and environmental justice and has taught on issues surrounding systematic oppression, structural supremacy, and liberation theory. Laura is on the advisory board of ZGiRLS, an organization that supports young girls in sports. She is a founding member of the International Transformational Resilience Network, which supports the development of capacity to address climate change. Laura also served as an associate producer of the award-winning film A Lot Like You, and was given a Yo! Mama award in recognition of her work as a community-activist mother.

Setting the Context for Cumulative Toll: We will discuss the context for how a cumulative toll arises and how we’ll engage in this conversation. We’ll discuss some principles that may be helpful in taking in the information.
The Trauma Exposure Response: These are the specific manifestations of cumulative toll. From numbing to anger to cynicism we’ll dive deeply into how one is impacted individually and collectively.
How to Sustain Individually: We’ll look at very concrete strategies for how to create sustainability for oneself individually.
How to Sustain Collectively: We’ll broaden the conversation by looking at how to create sustainability for oneself within a larger context as well as how to create larger organizational, institutional, and movement-level change.

Andrea Redeau, MA, LPC, is a licensed mental therapist, drug and alcohol counselor and clinical supervisor for those seeking supervision in the state of Oregon. She currently stands as an appointed board member on the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists, fostering representation in all aspects of the mental health field.
Her practice Uniquely You Counseling, LLC primarily serves BIPOC individuals and those desiring to explore the intersectionality between race, privilege and presenting mental health conditions. Andrea strives to use a lens of equity and social justice, ensuring that all clients are served from a place of understanding and healing. Through levity and a little humor, Andrea is focused on providing education in a collaborative and inviting approach.

Supremacy is intricately woven into the fabric of society, creating hierarchies that are often constructed by and catered to the dominate culture. This training aims to support providers in combatting the systemic and intuitional ISMs our clients face on a daily basis. Utilizing an anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens, we will explore the systemic issues that incumber client success, ways to dismantle oppressive constructs that inhibit both clinicians and clients, and opportunities for ongoing collegial support to shift perceptions of hierarchy in the field. With a psychoeducational approach, we will explore the concepts through visuals, dialogue and collegial support.

This session is dedicated in providing support to BIPOC providers in the mental health field. There is a unique challenge that comes with serving a community that also is representative of our marginalized identities. While providers are tasked to show up for clients, it can be challenging when the experiences clients are sharing mimic our own experiences of oppression, racism or prejudice. We will explore the complexity of power, privilege and challenge that comes with being a BIPOC provider working with marginalized folx. As well as the unique challenge of attempting to make change in a system for clients that simultaneously impacts us.

Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, FAOTA, has worked for many years at CSPNJ, where she developed the strengths-based 8-dimensional wellness model to promote recovery from mental health and substance use. She is known for collaborating with the peer community and family groups to identify and address social determinants that are barriers to recovery and wellness.

Building Financial Wellness is a peer developed, peer led curriculum designed to assist people with mental health and/or substance use issues to increase their sense of control over their personal finances, develop the knowledge they need to better manage the financial resources they have, and use tools to improve their overall financial situation.
Building Financial Wellness helps people learn together and share experiences to reframe self-defeating narratives and build hope.
This workshop will highlight this exciting new program. People in recovery, peer providers and others who have developed, implemented, and benefited from the program will share testimonies and inspiration to help workshop participants consider how and where to access and share this exciting new program to build hope and empower others.

Adam Chrone, Resource Specialist, Park Avenue Community Wellness Center, CSPNJ Plainfield, NJ Adam first developed an interest in peer support at the IOP program at Organization for Recovery in Plainfield, NJ. After becoming inspired by one of his counselors he then became a staunch participant and volunteer within the program. He played a large role as master of ceremonies for their open house and continued to attend even after graduating the program. During this time, he was also a member of the Park Avenue Community Wellness Center in Plainfield, NJ. Adam eventually was hired for the position of Wellness Mentor and began his employment with Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey. During the past 4 years of his employ, the Park Ave CWC has seen significant improvements and continues to progress. Adam was this year promoted to the position of Resource Specialist.  He looks forward to making even bigger impacts within his community while continuing his support of the Park Ave CWC membership.  Adam has a plethora of experience to call upon when aiding those facing challenges in mental health, substance abuse, homelessness, and reintegration. He is a strong advocate for displaced individuals as he himself was once displaced.  Adam has participated in Peer Support Training and the Building Financial Wellness Training offered by CSPNJ. Currently he is taking SOAR training offered by SAMHSA. His current focus is employment supports and promoting financial wellness.

This workshop will highlight the exciting new program: Building Financial Wellness. People in recovery, peer providers and others who have developed, implemented, and benefited from the program will share testimonies and inspiration to help workshop participants consider how and where to access and share this exciting new program to build hope and empower others.

After completing the building financial wellness classes in 2021, Justina decided to get employment services. She is actively seeking work and has an interest in becoming a peer mentor. Justina plans to use what she learned from the building financial wellness class to build a better financial future for herself and her family. Justina wants a job where she can move out of supported housing into her own place even though the housing is a very nice place to live in. Justina wants to become a homeowner and is excited to work toward more financial security rather than relying on social security benefits and supported housing. She wants to better provide for herself and young daughter and their future needs. Previously Justina worked as a medical assistant for 10 years by graduating from Lincoln Tech.

This workshop will highlight the exciting new program: Building Financial Wellness. People in recovery, peer providers and others who have developed, implemented, and benefited from the program will share testimonies and inspiration to help workshop participants consider how and where to access and share this exciting new program to build hope and empower others.

George H. Brice Jr., MSW has worked for many years in a variety of roles including coordinator of a peer recovery and wellness education program, wellness coach, wellness trainer and supported education and employment specialist. George worked 10 years on faculty including Rutgers University. George works for Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Inc.-CSPNJ as a part-time Program Development Specialist.. George earned associate degrees in criminal justice/psychology at Burlington County College; and both a bachelors and master’s degree in social work at Rutgers University-Camden.

This workshop will highlight the exciting new program: Building Financial Wellness. People in recovery, peer providers and others who have developed, implemented, and benefited from the program will share testimonies and inspiration to help workshop participants consider how and where to access and share this exciting new program to build hope and empower others.

Abbe Duke is a NYS Certified Peer Specialist and the Recovery Specialist Trainer & Supervisor for the OnTrackNY Initiative. She is a person with her own lived & living experience and deeply believes in the transformative role of Peer Specialists within interdisciplinary teams in the Mental Health System. She has worked as a Peer Specialist for over a decade in a variety of settings, including an NYS Assertive Community Treatment team.

This 90 minute session will be a celebration of the role of Peer Specialist, through the lens of Supervisory practice.

We know that Peer Specialists are a necessary role within the Mental Health system; they bring a needed voice of lived experience, non-clinical perspective, and build relationships, which seek to minimize power imbalances.

As Peer Specialists, we strive to support participants in their self-determination by walking alongside them on their journey through systems. We offer mutuality, non-judgmental spaces of self-discovery, and opportunities for mutual disclosure. We work outside of clinical practice, so we need to have non-clinical supervision to support us in these roles.

This presentation will offer a glimpse into the Peer Specialist Supervision support at OnTrackNY, suggested structures and tools for supervisory support, and dialogue about how to best support this role within your team, agency, and community.

Morgyn Beckman, MD graduated from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and went on to complete a residency in Psychiatry and a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry. She has been practicing medicine in the Portland area since completion of her Forensic Psychiatry fellowship at OHSU in 2016 and is currently working as the Licensed Medical Provider for the Forensic ACT program at Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare. She previously worked as an inpatient psychiatrist at Oregon State Hospital, a certified forensic evaluator, and a psychiatrist with the Multnomah County Detention Center.

This session will discuss the importance of community-based outreach in provision of psychiatric services as part of the ACT model. Compared to the typical practice of psychiatry in which patients are seen primarily in a clinic or hospital setting, the majority of patients seen by an ACT psychiatrist are seen in the field. This requires providers to be comfortable with providing a range of duties in the community that would typically be provided in a more controlled setting. Being able to provide these services leads to improved patient outcomes and decreased high-cost hospitalizations as well as improvements in other measures specific to forensic ACT teams.