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“PARTNERS IN RECOVERY”

October 18—20, 2013

Westin Chicago Northwest

Itasca, Illinois

Celebrating 50 Years

of Community Mental Health

2013 Statewide Conference

Supported Employment: Individual Placement

An evidenced-based approach to helping people with mental illnesses attain and maintain employment.

Core Principles of IPS Supported Employment Research has helped to identify the core principles of Evidence-Based Supported Employment.

These principles include:

Helping people diagnosed with severe mental illness find competitive jobs in the community that fit their individual needs and interests.

Fully integrating Mental Health Services and Vocational Rehabilitation Services.

Creating easy access to employment services when a consumer expresses an interest in employment; consumers are not required to complete work readiness or other vocational assessments before seeking employment in the community.

Providing employment services to all consumers interested in employment.

Designing goals and plans that are based on each individual's preferences, strengths, abilities, and experiences.

Assisting consumers and family members with benefits counseling.

Families & Supported Employment What Family Members are Saying “I feel that employment is critical to help my son cope better in society. Next to a cure for his illness, work has as much impact as anything.”

“My son has been working for about four years. I see improvement in mixing with people and I see some independence. Best of all, he is earning money to spend as he pleases.” “Since starting a job, my family member has blossomed! Of course, the money is nice, but even nicer are the compliments she gets from her boss

and the friendships she has developed. Those are priceless.” “My family member’s whole deportment changes when he is working; he is more positive, easier to talk with, and more confident. He just glows!”

For more information contact

NAMI Illinois at 217-522-1403

[email protected]

http://il.nami.org

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NAMI Illinois

Board of Directors

2012-2013

President • Hugh Brady

Vice President • Brian Allen

Secretary • Cindy Janicak

Treasurer • Bob Barger

Member At Large • Mary Garrison

Member At Large • Shirley Helm

Past President • Verla Demopoulos

Director • Mike Bach

Director • William Bott

Director • Kate Connor

Director • Greg Coughlin

Director • John Fallon

Director • Richard Martin

Director • Bill Meade

Director • Arun Pinto, M.D.

Director • Suzanne Spears

Director • John Shustitzky

Table of Contents

Welcome 3

Keynote and Plenary Presenters 4—6

Workshop Presenters 7—17

Conference Session Descriptions 8—13

Conference Schedule At A Glance 10—11

Hotel Map 19

Welcome to the 2013 NAMI Illinois

Educational Conference, “Partners in

Recovery.” We are delighted you are here!

This conference has been planned to

provide you with opportunities to create

new partnerships that will benefit your

community. This year’s conference theme

focuses on “Celebrating 50 Years of

Community Mental Health” and “Focus on

the Future of Health Care.” You will leave

the conference with tools that will help you

to make an even greater impact in your

affiliate and in your community.

The extraordinary group of speakers at this

year’s conference have made significant

contributions in treatment, justice,

advocacy, housing, and related areas. It is

an honor to have each one with us; and we

thank them for their participation! The

presenters demonstrate the impact an

individual can have and the exponential

multiplication of that impact through

collaboration.

Have fun networking, learning and

sharing, and commit to leaving this event

energized to make your community

partnerships stronger and more effective

than they are today.

We’re glad you’re here!

Best wishes from the NAMI Illinois staff,

Lora, Holly, Robin & Monica

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NAMI Illinois Staff Executive Director • Lora Thomas

Asst. Executive Dir. • Holly McCaffrey

Education Coord. • Robin Garvey

Office Manager • Monica Hudson

Keynote Speaker Pete Earley Pete Earley is best known as the author of CRAZY: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness, which was one of two finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. His book tells two stories. The first is his struggle to get his son help after he develops a severe mental illness. The second story is based on nine months that Mr. Earley spent inside the Miami Dade County jail where he followed persons with mental disorders through the criminal justice system and out into the streets to see what happened to them. His book has won awards from the American Psychiatric Association, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Washington Psychiatric Association, and Mental Health America. Because of his expertise, Mr. Earley has been asked three times to testify before the U.S. Congress about the need for mental health reform and has given lectures to the Icelandic Psychiatric Association in Iceland, the national parliament in Brazil, and at an academic conference hosted in Porto, Portugal by that nation's leading mental health advocacy group. His book was used by the Chinese government in Beijing to help draft China’s new mental health statutes. He has served on the board of directors of the national Corporation for Supportive Housing, which finds innovative ways for states to finance housing projects to help eliminate homelessness. He was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court to a task force charged with rewriting that state's involuntary commitment laws. A former reporter for The Washington Post, he is the author of ten nonfiction books and five novels. His first book, Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring, was a New York Times bestseller and was made into a five hour miniseries, which won three Emmys, and was shown on CBS television. For his book, The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison, Earley spent a full year as a reporter inside a maximum security prison. His book, Circumstantial Evidence helped lead to the release of a black man from death row after he had been wrongly convicted of murdering a white teenager in Alabama.

Before writing books full-time, Mr. Earley worked at The Washington Post for seven years. He was hired there initially by Bob Woodward of Watergate fame, but soon moved from the paper's Metro staff to its National staff where he covered a variety of federal agencies. His last assignment was at the Post's Sunday magazine where his stories won a variety of awards. Mr. Earley first came to Washington D.C. in 1978 as the lone correspondent for The Tulsa Tribune. He covered the Oklahoma congressional delegation and, on occasion, the White House and U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for two years in Tulsa where he was repeatedly honored for his feature writing and investigative reporting. A series of stories that he wrote led to the release of two men from prison who had been wrongly convicted. Another series exposed shoddy treatment of the mentally ill in state institutions. Mr. Earley graduated with honors in 1973 from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. He has a B.S. degree in mass communication and business administration. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at William Allen White's Emporia Gazette in Kansas.

Plenary Presenters Linda Virgil has been an active advocate for people with mental illness for the past 25 years. Linda and her husband are the parents of an adult son with mental illness. Ms. Virgil has held various positions in the mental health arena including President, NAMI Illinois; Co-Chair, Illinois Mental Health Planning and Advisory Council; Board Member and President, Heritage Behavioral Health Center Board of Directors, Decatur, Illinois; Board Member, Macon County Mental Health Association; Board Member, Illinois Office of Inspector General, Quality Care Board; Board Member and past President, Webster-Cantrell Hall, Decatur, Illinois and has served on numerous local, state, and national committees concerned with mental illness issues. Ms. Virgil has received several awards for advocacy within the mental health field, including NAMI Ad-

vocate of the Year, 1995; Mental Health Association Individual Achievement Award, 1995; NAMI Spe-

cial Recognition Award, 1997; Harlow Piper Dedication Award, 2001; Illinois Community Behavioral Health Association Lifetime

Achievement Award, 2002; Eli Lilly Heroes in the Fight Award, 2004.

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Michelle Rock, J.D., is the Director of the Illinois Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health and Justice. Ms. Rock was a Specialty Courts Administrator for Winnebago County, Illinois, where she oversaw the Mental Health Court, Drug Court, Veteran’s Court, Family Drug Court, and Juvenile Mental Health Court. Ms. Rock served as an assistant state’s attorney for 16 years and was involved with the development of mental health court for Winnebago County. She is the past president and

past board member of the Mental Health Court Association of Illinois and a past board member of the Illinois Association of Drug Court Professionals. These two Associations recently combined to form the Illinois Association of Problem-Solving Courts and she is a current board member of the Association. She is the past president of the Winnebago County Bar Association.

Mr. Block has a Master’s Degree in counseling, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor, and a Certified Criminal Justice Addictions Professional. He is the current Director of Special Projects for the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court of McHenry County, overseeing the Mental Health Court, Drug Court, and Domestic Violence Court programs. Mr. Block also is an Adjunct Professor for Aurora University’s Graduate Addictions Program. Mr. Block sits on numerous local/state committees, and is the Vice President of the Illinois Association of Problem Solving Courts and a Board Member of the McHenry County Behavioral Health Foundation.

William Emmet is a longtime mental health advocate and policy consultant. As Director of the Campaign for Mental Health Reform from 2006 through 2009, he was responsible for coordinating the efforts of eighteen national organizations to make effective mental health services a national priority and to ensure the integration of mental health into national health reform. On behalf of the Campaign, he testified before the Senate HELP Committee and participated in the White House Forum on Health Reform. Mr. Emmet provides consultation as Senior Policy Advisor for Magna Systems, Inc. Previously, Mr. Emmet served for seven years as Project Director for policy analysis and technical assistance at the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), working with partners in the mental health

community to provide technical assistance in policy formulation and implementation to multiple mental health stakeholders at the state level. He also coordinated the mental health community’s contributions to the Council of State Governments’ Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project and contributed to the report of CSG’s Re-Entry Policy Council. Previously, Mr. Emmet worked at the state and national levels of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), as Executive Director of NAMI’s state organization in Rhode Island, then as Chief Operating Officer/ Deputy Executive Director of NAMI’s national office. He has served on numerous volunteer boards and councils and is the current Board Chair of Fellowship Health Resources, Inc., a multi-state behavioral health care provider.

A former journalist and teacher, Mr. Emmet became active in mental illness advocacy when his brother was diagnosed with a mental illness in the early 1980s.

Plenary Presenters

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Nadeen Israel, MSW, BS, has

worked for Heartland Alliance since

2009, and her current focus is health

care policy. In this position, Nadeen

advocates for a health care system

that fosters innovative, cost-effective,

and integrated models of coordinated

care and addresses the needs of

vulnerable populations. Prior to

joining the policy and advocacy team

at Heartland Alliance, Nadeen

worked with the Social IMPACT

Research Center where she served as

the Research Manager for a needs assessment study. Nadeen

has experience advocating for policy including health care,

domestic violence and state budget and tax policy. Her work is

informed by Heartland Alliance’s service-based expertise,

with the belief that effective policy change occurs when based

on realities at the direct service level. Nadeen holds a Master's

in Social Work from the School of Social Service

Administration at the University of Chicago, and a BS in

Business Administration from the School of Business at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Plenary Presenters

Peter J. Weiden, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychotic Disorders Program at the Center for Cognitive Medicine at University of Illi-nois Medical Center (UIC) in Chicago. He received his undergraduate degree at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and his medical degree at SUNY Stony Brook. Dr. Weiden com-pleted his psychiatric residency at Payne Whitney Clinic–New York Hospital in 1985 and a psychiatric epidemiology

fellowship at Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in 1999. Dr. Weiden has focused on improving clinical outcomes for patients with schiz-ophrenia. In particular, his research ca-reer has focused on bridging psycho-pharmacology and public health issues in the treatment of schizophrenia. He has published extensively on the problem of medication nonadherence (noncompliance) in schizophrenia and has helped develop some of the current models and measures for nonadherence.

Heather O'Donnell, Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy—Thresholds Heather spearheads an advocacy coalition of over 150 mental and behavioral health organizations across Illinois. She has extensive experience in advocacy and coalition-building, particularly for causes related to health and human services for low-income individuals. She most recently served as Director of Planning for Health Care Reform at CJE SeniorLife, where she designed and implemented a federal health care reform demonstration program that included major Chicago area hospitals and numerous care providers. She served as the Policy Director for Health Care and Human Services at the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability with a focus on public health care finance for over six years. Heather holds a J.D. from the South Texas College of Law and a LL.M. in Taxation from the John Marshall Law School.

Susan Gaffney has been with NAMI in several roles--first as the Manager of External Relations

focusing on corporate and foundation fundraising and currently as the Senior Project Manager for

Operations. In this role, Susan manages and oversees progress, facilitates communication, and

orchestrates activities to reach organizational deadlines and goals related to NAMI Standards of

Excellence, a process in which NAMI is strengthening its organizational capacity at the state and local

level. Previously, Ms. Gaffney has worked on mental health issues at the Mount Sinai School of

Medicine and at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She earned a Master of

Science degree in Nonprofit Management and Urban Policy from The New School for Social Research,

and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from St. Bonaventure University.

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Angela Adkins, BA. Since early 2009, Angela has led NAMI

DuPage, bringing over 20 years of solid management,

philanthropic and community service experience to the

agency. Angela and her family moved to the USA from

England in 1990 and very quickly became involved in the

PTA and local fundraising events. In 2006 she was recognized

by the City of Pleasanton, CA for her contribution to the high

school music program, raising over $100,000 over three years

to keep the program solvent. Angela has a business degree

from St. Mary's College in Moraga California, and holds a real

estate license. She has served on a number of philanthropic

boards and she also has the lived experience of being a family

member to someone with a mental illness.

Christina Bieche, MSEd, LPC, NCC, QMHP, is the Crisis

Residential Coordinator at Rosecrance Ware Center. She has

a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from

Northern Illinois University, with an emphasis on trauma work

and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She has worked in

domestic violence shelters, a children’s advocacy center, and

community mental health.

Andrea Bink is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology with an

emphasis on rehabilitation at the Illinois Institute of

Technology. She received her BA with highest honors from

the University of California Riverside in 2011. Her research

interests include stigma of mental illness and resilience in the

face of adversity.

Hugh Brady, MA, is a retired school teacher. He has a BA

and an MA in history from NIU. During his teaching career,

Hugh was active in the Illinois Education Association (IEA),

the local teachers union. Another of Hugh’s IEA interests was

political action. He helped found the NAMI Barrington Area

affiliate in 2006 and served as affiliate President for a number

of years. Hugh has been on the NAMI Illinois Board of

Directors for five years, currently as Board President. He also

serves on the Board of the Alliance to End Homelessness in

Suburban Cook County, and is also the Co-President of the

North/Northwest Suburban Task Force on Supportive Housing

for Individuals with Mental Illness.

Blythe A. Buckholz is a doctoral student in Clinical

Psychology researching mental illness stigma. She is

interested in reducing self-stigma through disclosure, or

“coming out” with lived experience. She assisted in

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You Are Not Alone!

Recovery International meetings help individuals lead more peaceful

and productive lives and cope with issues such as anxiety, depression,

bipolar disorder, panic attacks, stress, and obsessive compulsive

disorder.

Recovery International meetings offer peer-to-peer support and provide cognitive behavioral self-help

training to participants.

Recovery International meetings are held via telephone, online, and in communities across the nation. All

Recovery International meetings are free of charge to participants and are kept confidential. Any

information shared is kept within the group.

To find out more information on Recovery International meetings, volunteering opportunities, and how

you can donate visit www.recoveryinternational.org

105 W. Adams St, Ste. 2940 ● Chicago, IL 60603

Phone: 866.221.0302 ● Website: www.recoveryinternational.org

Find Us On Facebook Follow Us On Twitter

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Understanding Mental Health Courts

We can improve access to mental health services for people who come into contact with the criminal justice system through education, early identification and specially trained teams. Participants will gain knowledge of mental health courts and the Mental Health Court Treatment Act, gain an understanding of the essential elements of a mental health court, and gain knowledge of evidence-based practices applicable to mental health courts. A mental health court is a specialized court docket for certain defendants with serious mental illnesses that substitutes a problem-solving model for traditional criminal court processing. By combining access to treatment with court oversight and accountability, mental health court participants can achieve and maintain recovery and dramatically decrease their risk of recidivism.

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Mental Illness and the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act): What Employees and Applicants Need to Know and the Lat-est Legal Developments

Although the ADA was enacted in 1990, many misconceptions about the ADA continue to exist, and many people do not know their rights and responsibilities. We have designed a training session that discusses the employment provi-sions of the ADA, emphasizing issues that are particularly important to people living with mental illness. Through the use of recent case law and real world examples, this session will help participants better understand and apply the em-ployment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. We will discuss aspects of Title I that are important to employees and applicants, including reasonable accommodations, medical exams and inquiries, confidentiality, harass-ment, and the impact of the ADA Amendments Act.

Criminal Justice and Jail Diversion

In recent years, law enforcement and criminal justice professionals have become first responders to individuals who have mental illnesses. Jails and prisoners strain under the weight of the disproportionate number of people that are inappropriately sentenced to Illinois judicial/correction system. Upon release, scarce community services and treat-ments often pave the way to recidivism back into corrections systems. John will discuss what must be done, and how we can do it, to break the cycle and create effective re-entry programs back into communities.

A New Look at Supported Employment: Modernizing Evidence Based Practices

Evidence-based supported employment (SE) services promote recovery, quality of life, and community inclusion. Speakers will detail contemporary themes in SE in an effort to promote a better understanding of the clinical and support services required to promote and sustain workforce participation among individuals in recovery.

NAMI 360

NAMI 360 is NAMI’s Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system. It is a central database providing a 360 degree view of NAMI’s constituents. It offers a common portal for NAMI members and donors, as well as NAMI State Organizations and NAMI Affiliates. NAMI 360 tracks individuals’ profiles, memberships and a range of other attributes. Learn from an affiliate leader about the use of this important tool.

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Coming Out Proud: Exercises Meant to Reduce Mental Illness Stigma

Self-stigma is a barrier to achievement of life goals and causes diminished self-esteem. Disclosing one’s experiences with mental illness might protect against the effects of self-stigma. The Coming Out Proud program helps facilitate disclosure decisions by considering the pros and cons, types of disclosure, and utilizing personal narratives.

Outpatient Commitment: Helpful Treatment Tool, Inappropriate Deprivation of Liberty or Merely a Distraction?

Mental health advocates across the country have been fighting for decades over whether outpatient commitment is a useful and appropriate mechanism for ensuring that person with serious mental illnesses obtain timely and effective mental health services or whether it needlessly deprives persons of their liberty. This presentation will discuss the research on outpatient commitment, the Illinois law governing outpatient commitment, and whether the use of outpatient commitment could im-prove mental health services in Illinois. The presentation will suggest that: (1) the benefits of outpatient commitment have been exaggerated by proponents; (2) the harms associated with outpatient commitment have been exaggerated by opponents; and (3) the often acrimonious debate over outpatient commitment has needlessly divided mental health advocates who should be united in their efforts.

Innovative Approaches to Community-Based Crisis Intervention

This workshop on the Rosecrance Ware Triage Center and Crisis Residential programs will discuss two unique programs dedicated to providing care in the least restrictive environment to individuals experiencing a psychiatric crisis. An overview of each program will highlight how community-based early intervention during crisis promotes recovery.

Program Development: Teen Support Group

Learn how NAMI of Greater Chicago is currently implementing a teen support group for both teens living with mental ill-ness and those who have a family member with mental illness. The presentation will cover three steps: 1) Developing a needs assessment for program development; 2) Finding funding and writing a grant; and 3) Program implementation.

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Journaling for Mental Health and Addictions Recovery

An interactive PowerPoint presentation, this therapeutic learning module focuses on: (1) identifying, feeling, and heal-ing the eleven foundational emotions and (2) integrating engaging discussion with journaling activities. Individually and in breakout groups, participants write creatively about at least one emotion, exploring how unconscious sorrow, despair, fear, etc. may profoundly impact recovery. Sharing/disclosing from writing exercises is optional.

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Let’s Partner in Making a Recovery Quilt

The Awakenings Project invites attendees to express their messages of recovery on a 12” square fabric panel (provided), either by writing, drawing, painting, or a combination. This activity will provide people from all over Illi-nois with a starting point in creating their very own recovery quilts for themselves or their affiliates.

Bad Habits, Not Bad People: Progress in Impulsive, Eating, and Personality Disorders

Important scientific progress has been made in understanding the mechanism of impulsive, addictive, eating, and per-sonality disorders. Brain based models point the way to improved treatments and decreased stigmatization. Important commonalities and differences between impulsive, addictive, eating, and personality disorders have recently been dis-covered. The implications of these transitional neuroscience advances are important for consumers, families, advocates and practitioners. A foundation now exists for a scientific understanding of these important disorders which have hitherto been neglected by the medical and scientific community.

What is Olmstead & Why is it Making Housing for Persons with Mental Illness So Complicated?

Housing experts will describe the Olmstead Decree followed by a moderated discussion. Hugh Brady, Co-President of the Northwest Suburban Task Force on Supportive Housing for individuals with metal illness, will discuss the Task Force’s progress in creating independent apartments for the first time in the northwest suburbs, including the struggle and resistance. This will be followed by an explanation of the Olmstead Decree and the struggle to achieve full com-munity integration. Is someone really saying this is not enough and why?

NAMIWalks

Every journey begins with that first step. In 2013, tens of thousands of concerned citizens in more than 84 communities across the nation will join NAMI and walk together to raise money and awareness about our country's need for a world-class treatment and recovery system for people with mental illness. Session will include a discussion of the “how to” of doing a Walk independently and also as part of the NAMIWalk franchise program.

Putting the FUN Back in Fundraising

This is an opportunity for affiliates who struggle to raise funds to learn some new ideas and have your questions an-swered on how to maximize limited resources to make the most impact. Each attendee with leave with an A-B-C of easy fundraising tips broken down into Special Events, Grants, Individual Donors, and Board Fundraising.

NAMI…Then, Now, & Moving Forward Together!

Linda Virgil shares her poignant journey of more than 20 years of NAMI involvement. No shrinking violet, Linda fought for a better life for her son and her family and found that and more through NAMI. Her personal journey led her to her passion of advocacy and system change. Linda is a determined advocate; a progressive leader, a compassionate collaborator to all who share her goals, and a fierce force to be reckoned with when systems/visions clash. Be inspired!

NAMI Illinois Board of Directors – “Now, & Moving Forward Together!” The NAMI Illinois Board of Directors is passionate about ensuring that NAMI Illinois is a positive force for change as we move forward into unchartered terri-tory with continuing conversations about mental health, health care and breaking down silos to create responsive sys-tems to meet needs of individuals, families and communities. Hear their visions and ideas and share their passion and energy for improving systems to better serve people in need. Join them in making change happen!

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“Ending the Silence” becoming a “Ending the Silence” becoming a

NAMI Signature Program!NAMI Signature Program!

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Opening Plenary: “Understanding Mental Health Courts”

Hugh Brady

Michelle Rock

Scott Block

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10:15 am — 10:30 am Morning Break with Book Fair Raffle Ticket handout all day

Lakeshore Ballroom

10:30 am — 11:45 am

“Criminal Justice and Jail Diversion” John Fallon 1.25 Abricot Ballroom

“A New Look at Supported Employment: Modernizing Evidence-Based Practices”

Nicole J. Pashka

Lisa A. Razzano 1.25 Barrington

“Mental Illness and the ADA: What All Employees and Applicants Need to Know

and the Latest Legal Developments”

Barry C. Taylor Rachel M. Weisberg 1.25 Radcliffe

“NAMI 360” Roger Mohn N/A Stanford

12:00 — 1:15 pm Lunch—“Celebration of 50 Years of Community Mental Health”

William Emmet, The Kennedy Forum & Special

Guest Panel 1.0 Lakeside Pavilion

1:15 pm — 2:30 pm

“Outpatient Commitment: Helpful Treatment Tool, Inappropriate Deprivation

of Liberty or Merely a Distraction?” Mark J. Heyrman 1.25 Abricot Ballroom

“Innovative Approaches to Community-Based Crisis Intervention”

Lindsay Gjoni

Christina Beiche 1.25 Barrington

“The Coming Out Proud Program; Exercises Meant to Reduce Mental Illness Stigma”

Blythe Buchholz

Kristin Kosyluk

Karina Powell Andrea Bink

1.25 Radcliffe

“Program Development: Teen Support Groups”

Alexa James 1.25 Stanford

2:30 pm — 3:00 pm Afternoon Break with Book Fair

Laughing Yoga with Lynda Tourloukis, DOF, QOC Lakeshore Ballroom

3:00 pm — 4:30 pm

“Bad Habits, Not Bad People: Progress in Impulsive, Eating, and Personality

Disorders”

Emil Coccaro Andrea Goldschmidt

Jon Grant Royce Lee


“Journaling for Mental Health and Addictions Recovery”

and “Let’s Make a Recovery Quilt”

Robert Talkie

Irene O’Neill

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“NAMI Walks”

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“Put the “FUN” Back in Fundraising”

Nancy Carstedt Susan Ockerlund

Angela Adkins, BA

N/A Radcliffe

“What is Olmstead & Why is it Making Housing for Persons with Mental Illness So

Complicated?”

Moderator: John Fallon Hugh Brady

Patti Werner 1.5 Stanford

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Dinner Raffle Drawing

“NAMI…Then, Now, & Moving Forward Together!” “Then” — Linda Virgil

“Now and Moving Forward Together!” — NAMI Illinois Board of Directors

Gallery Ballroom

Friday, October 18, 2013

8:00 am — 9:00 am Registration—Second Floor Balcony Lakeshore

Ballroom Continental Breakfast

9:00 am — 3:00 pm “Re-chartering Your NAMI Affiliate”

Susan Gaffney John Schladweiler

N/A Stanford

9:00 am — 10:30 am “Faith Service” N/A

Trafalgar 10:30 am — 12:00 noon “Finding Meaning and Purpose

through Faith and Spirituality” Mary Messamore

Robert Talkie 1.5

Noon– 1:00 pm Lunch Lakeside Pavilion

1:00 pm — 2:30 pm “Mindfulness and Gratitude as

Skills for Promoting Contentment

and Balance”

Chelsie R. Scoggin-Chang Michelle Kamin-Lindsay

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9:00 am — 9:45 am Opening Plenary

“Healthcare: Focus on the Future”

Nadeen Israel


10:00 am — 10:45 am “Focus on the Future:

Behavioral Healthcare in Illinois”

Heather O’Donnell

10:45 am — 11:15 am Meet the Experts Panel

11:15 am — 11:45 am Morning Break with SPECIAL EXHIBITORS and Book Fair Abricot Foyer

RECOVERY QUILT Activity & Raffle Ticket Handout Lakeshore Ballroom

11:45 am — 12:45 pm General Session:

“Schizophrenia Research” Update”

Peter Weiden 1.0 Abricot Ballroom

12:45 pm — 1:45 pm Lunch Lakeside Pavilion

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“NAMI & Social Media” Kip Russell N/A Carlyle

“The New Age of Psychosocial Rehabilitation” Bob Zima 1.0 Hampton

“Consumers as Providers” Mary Garrison 1.0 Radcliffe

2:45 pm — 3:15 pm Afternoon Break with Book Fair RECOVERY QUILT activity & Raffle Drawing Lakeshore Ballroom

3:15 pm — 4:15 pm

“CRSS Workforce Development”

Mohammed Chowdhury Christine Elvidge

AJ French Jennifer Satchwell

Robert Talkie

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“Supportive Housing: the Hows and Whys”

Hugh Brady The Northwest Task Force on Supportive Housing Members

1.0 Hampton

“Building Medication Relevance in Recovery”

Hank Schneider 1.0 Radcliffe

4:15 pm — 5:45 pm

Reception: A Taste of Chicago Abricot Ballroom

5:45 pm — 7:00 pm

Keynote Address: “CRAZY: A Father’s Journey through America’s Mental

Health Madness”

Pete Earley 1.25 Abricot Ballroom

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Sunday, October 20, 2013

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Health Care: Focus On the Future

A major transformation of America’s Health Care system is in effect as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) opens the way for new health coverage options and stronger mental health parity requirements for insurers. Medicaid Expansion adds another complex dimension to fully understanding options, so even as 2014 nears, facts remain hard to come by and myths abound. Join Nadeen Israel, Policy Associate - Policy & Advocacy, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights to capture the vision of the Affordable Care Act and learn what it means for you, your family and the community-at-large.

• ACA Vision • Mental Health Parity • Network Adequacy – Care Coordination Entities and Deciphering the Alphabet Soup of Care Coordination in Illinois • Ensuring Access to Needed Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

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The Future of Behavioral Healthcare in Illinois

Illinois’ Implementation of the ACA—Essential Health Benefits

• Rule 132 Services – Advocacy Opportunities

• Network Adequacy - What It Means to Individuals and Families Throughout the State, Including Possible Choices

• State and Community Advocacy Opportunities for Individuals/Families and Affiliates Illinois faces unparalleled opportunity for improving access to mental health care. Heather O’Donnell, Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy, Thresholds will help us focus on our priorities and expectations in moving toward integrated health care systems that meet the full array of health care needs and improve both mental and physical health. Not only can we expect change, but we should also have outcome measures in mind so we can advocate and ensure that positive change happens. Major policy shifts must encompass prevention, early intervention for mental health treatment, expansion of evidence-based behavioral health services and person-centered planning, care and supports. Unique opportunities abound for us to work together to ensure a better coordinated system of services and supports that truly meets the needs of Illinois citizens. Heather will note opportunities and challenges to moving Illinois’ mental health system in that positive direction.

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Consumers as Providers: An Essential and Valuable Practice in Mental Health

This workshop will discuss recovery, the consumer movement and consumer providers while highlighting the practice of consumers as providers within the mental health system. Discussion related to challenges and successes of this practice and appropriate implementation of employment models ensuring integrations of consumer providers and agency success of this practice.

NAMI & Social Media

Q & A with Kip Russell, Social Media Director of ALYCE Paris and NAMI Cook County North Suburban. Kip will discuss targeting your demographics on a limited budget using a combination of social media strategies.

The New Age of Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR)

In the changing payer environment in social services, the ability to deliver high quality treatment through an empirically-based program that is also able to measure outcomes takes planning. Agencies are struggling to provide PSR programs that meet payer standards. Ecker Center has a nationally recognized program that works. PSR is a vital treatment option for a variety of people who manage mental wellness. In an environment where payers require outcome measures for treatment, offering PSR can seem overwhelming. Ecker Center for Mental Health has developed and delivers a PSR program that is evidence-based, curriculum-driven, and outcome oriented. Ecker’s PSR helps people improve their lives, meets payer standards and maintains income flow on a variety of therapeutic levels through innovative treatment programming.

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CRSS (Certified Recovery Support Specialist) Workforce Development

CRSS is HOT! If you are building or growing recovery support services, this presentation is for you! Learn basic information about the CRSS credential and hear compelling testimony from individuals with their credentials who are practicing in diverse work settings. Learn how to maximize this unique position in your profession.

Beyond Compliance: Building Medication Relevance in Recovery

This presentation looks at key challenges in the recovery process and the relevance of medication in each of these areas. Depending upon the recovery challenge, medication can be understood as needed, useful, protective, or irrelevant. This presentation can empower the consumer to choose medication that is relevant, not required.

Supportive Housing for People with Mental Illnesses: the Hows and the Whys

Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is an effective way to provide housing and treatment for people with mental illness. There is a great need for PSH and local NAMI chapters can make it happen in their areas. The successes and failures of four NAMI chapters can show how your affiliate can make a difference.

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Exhibits in the Lakeshore Ballroom will be open Saturday from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Be sure to visit the Barnes & Noble Book Fair!

Saturday Evening, October 19, 2013

Crazy: A Father’s Search through America’s Mental Health Madness

Pete Earley will use his personal story to illustrate why persons with mental illness, such as his son, often end up in our criminal justice system and why that is wrong. In addition to telling his son's story, he will describe the results of a nine month investigation that he conducted as a journalist inside the Miami Dade County jail where he followed persons with severe mental illnesses through the criminal justice system and out into the community to observe what services were available to them. The goal of his presentation is to explain why jails and prisons have become our new asylums, why this wastes money, and how communities can better serve persons with mental illnesses by focusing on a variety of successful programs that help people recover rather than punish them for being ill. He will specifically discuss Crisis Intervention Training, Mental Health Courts, jail diversion programs, and re-entry programs in the criminal justice system. He will stress the importance of recovery, the effectiveness of evidence based practices and, most importantly, of the need to ade-quately fund mental health services so that meaningful help can be offered to persons in need.

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Re-Chartering Your Affiliate This workshop will cover:

The NAMI Standards of Excellence and the NAMI Re-affiliation Process

One NAMI: “Better Together”

Categories of NAMI Affiliates

Affiliate Assessment

Affiliate Organizational Structure

How to Begin

Required Documents

NAMI Profile Center

NAMI Illinois has planned this workshop based on the questions and input received from affiliates. Our goal is to meet your needs, expectations and desires.

Focusing Your Resources

A NAMI Cook County North Suburban case study of using a strategic planning process to re-energize the Board and Staff, to gain concurrence on activities of most value consistent with the NAMI mission, to focus resources on those activities, and to clarify funding and governance requirements. “Focusing Your Resources”

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Find Meaning and Purpose through Spirituality Have you identified what brings meaning and purpose to your life? Do you feel accepted in your faith communi-ty? In this workshop, individuals will learn how to explore their own spirituality and how to influence cultural competence about mental health within faith communities. Resources and materials will be provided.

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Mindfulness and Gratitude as Skills for Promoting Contentment and Balance This session will explain the concepts of mindfulness and gratitude as well as illustrate how incorporating these skills into our daily lives can improve mental, physical, and spiritual health. We will provide examples and evi-dence from research for each, and we will share ideas for how to cultivate regular practice.

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developing the workbook for the Coming Out Proud program,

and is currently working on dissemination and evaluation of

the program.

Nancy Carstedt, CRSS, became the Executive Director of

NAMI Cook County North Suburban two years ago. With

over twenty years of experience in nonprofit management,

Nancy has been instrumental in the recent growth of NAMI

CCNS, which has been funded to a large degree by proceeds

from NAMI Walks.

Mohammed Chowdhury, MS, LCPC, works as a Community

Support Specialist for Thresholds Bridge South and is

currently pursuing the CRSS credential. His formal education

includes a Master’s Degree in Psychiatric Rehabilitation and

he has been working in the mental health field five years. He

is an active member of the Bolingbrook Mosque.

Emil F. Coccaro, MD, is the Ellen C. Manning Professor and

Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of

Chicago. He is funded by the NIMH to study the biology and

treatment of pathological aggression. He is recognized around

the world as the leading authority on Intermittent Explosive

Disorder.

Christine Elvidge, CRSS, works as a Recovery Support

Specialist for the Illinois Division of Mental Health at

McFarland Mental Health Center. Featured in the

documentary, “Shock: The Healing Power of

Electroconvulsive Therapy,” and the inspirational calendars co

-produced by the Illinois Division of Mental Health and NAMI

Illinois, Christine is dedicated to helping people realize their

passions.

John Fallon, BS, is the Program Manager- Reentry,

“Returning Home Initiative” at the Corporation for Supportive

Housing. He is a mental health professional who has been a

member of NAMI Lake County for three years, and he

currently serves as Treasurer of the Board of Directors. John

also serves on the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

Association Board. John has over 30 years’ experience in the

field with an emphasis on the intersection between the mental

health and criminal justice systems. He is committed to

systems change to improve services for people experiencing

homelessness and/or are involved with multiple systems.

AJ French, CRSS, serves as the Executive Director of Sacred

Creations and recently assisted with development of an

international peer credential. She was appointed by Governor

Quinn to the Statewide Independent Living Council and serves

on the Americans with Disabilities Act Legacy Council. AJ is

an adoptive parent of two daughters and an active member of

the Bridge Church.

Mary E. Garrison, LCSW, ACSW, Associate Professor of

Social Work, Millikin University, has extensive practice and

policy experience in mental health. Mary teaches courses in

mental health and focuses her research on homelessness and

mental health recovery. Mary is a NAMI Illinois Board

Member, Macon County Homeless Council Member, National

Association of Social Workers (NASW) Illinois District Chair

and Delegate Assembly Member. Mary received the 2011

NASW Illinois Social Worker of the Year Award and the

Cesar Chavez Social Justice Award.

Lindsay Gojoni, MSW, QMHP; is the Triage Center

Coordinator at Rosecrance Ware Center. She has a Master’s

degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-

Madison and a Specialist in Gerontology from the Institute on

Aging. She has worked in nursing homes, hospice care and

community mental health.

Andrea Goldschmidt, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of

Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. She is an expert in

the etiology and treatment of eating disorders, and is currently

funded to examine brain based mechanisms underlying normal

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Jon Grant, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University

of Chicago. He is one of the foremost authorities on the

biology and treatment of impulsive, addictive and compulsive

psychopathologies including obsessive compulsive disorder,

trichotillomania, sexual disorders, and drug use.

Mark Heyrman, JD, has been actively involved in the clinical legal education movement. He was one of the founders of the Clinical Legal Education Association and served on its board for seven years. He has worked to use the accreditation process to encourage law schools to devote more of their resources to preparing students to practice law ethically and effectively.

Alexa James, MSW, is currently the Associate Director of

NAMI Greater Chicago. She received her Master’s in Child

Development from Erikson Institute and her Master’s in

Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. Alexa has

worked with children and adults living with severe mental

illness in a group home setting, inpatient psychiatric hospital,

and now back at NAMI Greater Chicago.

Michelle Kamin-Lindsay, MSW, LCSW, practices from a

strengths-based perspective. She believes that the

collaborative work between clinician and client absolutely has

the potential to change one’s life. Michelle has over ten years

of clinical experience working within community mental

health, child welfare, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS,

substance use, and homelessness.

Kristin Kosyluk, MS, CRC, LCPC is the Program

Coordinator of the Center on Adherence and Self-

Determination, a National Institute of Mental Health-funded

research center at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). She

is a PhD candidate in the Rehabilitation Counseling Education

program at IIT. Her research interests focus on stigma

regarding mental illness and developing interventions to

combat stigma.

Royce Lee, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the

University of Chicago. His research expertise is in the effect

of childhood trauma on the neurobiology of personality

disorder. His research involves manipulation and

measurement of stress and social neuropeptides in personality

disorder.

Mary Messamore is pursuing the Certified Recovery Support

Specialist credential and is employed by Pioneer Center for

Human Services. She works with adults who have disabilities

and is founding member of the Recovery Outreach Center.

Roger L. Mohn is a retired entrepreneur and businessman,

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disorder, his father was a high-functioning alcoholic and his

oldest son lives with bipolar disorder. He started his

involvement with NAMI as a Family-to-Family teacher and is

now Treasurer and on the Membership Committee of NAMI

Tri-County Illinois.

Irene O’Neill, CRSS, is an ambassador for the arts, President

of The Awakenings Project. She has organized exhibits and

written grants for this internationally recognized organization

for 17 years. After working twenty years with Alcatle-

Lucent, she began her second career at the DuPage County

Health Department as a Recovery Specialist.

Nicole Pashka, MS, CRC, CPRP has diverse and extensive

experience presenting and training regarding mental health

and recovery programs, services, and research. She has

presented at numerous national and state conferences on

employment, sexuality, and wellness. Ms. Pashka is currently

national chair of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association’s

Multicultural Committee.

Karina Powell, MS, is a doctoral candidate in Clinical

Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology. She works

with Dr. Patrick Corrigan pursuing research related to the

stigma of mental Illness and development of programs to

combat stigma. Her clinical interests include neuro-

psychology and working with degenerative brain processes.

Lisa Razzano, PhD, CPRP is Associate Professor of

Psychiatry and Deputy Director of the University of Illinois at

Chicago Center for Mental Health Services Research and

Policy. With over 26 years of experience, she is recognized

as an expert on mental health services, psychiatric

rehabilitation, employment, and health co-morbidities. Dr.

Razzano also holds a certificate as a psychiatric rehabilitation

practitioner.

Kip Russell is the Social Media Director of

ALYCE Paris, developing social media

campaigns including managing budgets,

creating content, buying media and executing

individual social media outlets. He works with

various PR agencies to help generate overall

brand awareness. Kip’s focus is on acquiring,

negotiating and managing celebrity brand

ambassadors such as Payton Rae, Haley

Reinhart, Jessica Jarrell, Alyssa Shouse,

Peyton Sanders and more to endorse brands

and integrate with social media efforts. Kip

creates industry changing endorsement deals

with new media celebrities.

Jennifer Satchwell, BA, QUDP, CRSS has

worked as an Outpatient Counselor and Home Based Support

Services Facilitator for Mental Health Centers of Western

Illinois since 2005. The recovery movement has influenced

her work with persons who have mental health and

developmental disabilities. In her spare time, she enjoys

reading and writing poetry.

John Schladweiler, BA, MBA, has been a Board Member of

NAMI – Cook County North Suburban since 2006, and served

three years as the organization’s Treasurer during a period

when revenues quadrupled due to highly successful

fundraising by the Board, including holding its first benefit.

The growth in revenues made it possible to establish a NAMI

CCNS office and hire the first paid Executive Director. His

professional career has focused on strategic planning and

information technology. John became involved in NAMI

through his wife Joyce who has been a teacher and program

coordinator for the NAMI Family-to-Family Education

Program for over 14 years. He received a BA from

Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of

Chicago-Booth School of Business.

Hank Schneider, MSW, LCSW, has been working as a social

worker with NorthShore University Health System for the

past 30 years, focusing on the treatment and recovery process

for clients with serious and persistent mental illness. Hank

has developed expertise in coaching consumers, family, and

providers in collaborative treatment and behavior activation

skills.

Chelsie Scroggin-Chang, MA, LCPC, has a passion for

working with older adults and utilizes a collaborative holistic

approach in creating a healthy and balanced life. Chelsie has

worked in community mental health as a mentor, group home

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Robert Talkie, MA, is a Certified Recovery Support

Specialist, WRAP Facilitator, and Al-Anon Member that

works as a Residential Supervisor at Cornerstone Services in

Joliet. Robert serves on the Board of Directors for NAMI

Will-Grundy, as well as the Will County Continuum of Care

and Suicide Prevention Focus Group for Safe Communities

America in New Lenox.

Barry Taylor, JD, is a Vice President at Equip for Equality,

where he has worked since 1996. He has overseen many

disability discrimination cases and is currently co-counsel in

three ADA class actions on behalf of people with mental

illness. Barry has also given numerous presentations on the

ADA across the country.

Patti Werner, JD, Managing Attorney for Community

Integration, Access Living. Ms. Werner serves as co-counsel

on class action cases arising under the Americans with

Disabilities Act. Ms. Werner also represents individuals with

disabilities in housing matters and home services cases. In

addition to her legal work, Ms. Werner works with Access

Living’s policy and advocacy teams on healthcare and

housing issues with an eye toward ensuring that persons with

disabilities are able to live the lives they envision for

themselves. She is an active member of the ISBA’s Mental

Health Committee and the standing Committee on Disability

Law. Prior to joining Access Living, Ms. Werner represented

persons with mental illness who were facing petitions for

involuntary commitment and forced treatment through the

Legal Advocacy Service of the Illinois Guardianship and

Advocacy Commission.

Rachel Weisberg, JD, is a Staff Attorney at Equip for

Equality, where she litigates individual and systemic

discrimination cases under Titles I, II, and III of the ADA,

including cases on behalf of individuals with mental illnesses.

Rachel also manages the Illinois ADA Project and has

conducted numerous ADA trainings.

Bob Zima, MA, LCPC, LPHA, has an MA in Counseling

Psychology and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

in Illinois. He has been employed by the Ecker Center for

Mental Health since April 2006. He has transformed PSR

into an outcome-oriented, evidence based treatment option

recognized by national consultations and Joint Commission

on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. He has also

developed a respected and highly sought after master’s level

internship training program. Outside of Ecker, Bob leverages

a twenty-year broadcast media career, hosts a weekly internet

-based radio show, authors a blog, produces videos for his

YouTube channel and has published works including books

and audio series for sale on Amazon.


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2013 NAMI Illinois

Conference Exhibitors

Corporation for Supported Housing

Pathways to Promise

Rose Hill Center

Chestnut Health Systems

Individual Placement and Support Family Advocacy Project

Linden Oaks at Edward

Recovery International

Janssen Pharmaceuticals

Illinois Psychiatric Society

Equip for Equality

Illinois Psychological Association

Swann Special Care Center

Congratulations to the first ten people to register for this year’s conference.

These “Early Birds” include:

Congratulations to the 2013 Conference Winners!

Name That Conference: AJ French Traveled Farthest: Margaret Elmer Affiliate with Highest Attendance: NAMI Tri-County

Leonard C Renz Jr. Christine Weisser Patricia Rudloff

Bob Barger Richard Techman Michele Techman

Pamela Pannell Denise Edwards John Shustitzky Frank Anselmo

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All Ballrooms and the Lakeside Pavilion are located on the first floor. The second floor meeting rooms are arranged in alphabetical order. When exiting the elevators, Alton and Barrington are straight ahead and rooms follow the alphabet to the left.

Second Floor Meeting Room

Legend

1 Alton

2 Barrington

3 Carlyle

4 Edwardian

5 Hampton

6 Leighton

7 Marlborough

8 Prescott

9 Radcliffe

10 Stanford

11 Trafalgar

12 Windsor

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Entrance

NAMI Registration

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Elevators

Westin Chicago Northwest Facility LayoutWestin Chicago Northwest Facility LayoutWestin Chicago Northwest Facility Layout

Exhibits & Break Area

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Thank you to the these individuals and or-ganizations that made donations to help

assist individuals that otherwise might not have been able to attend the conference.

SAVE THE DATE for Piecing It All Together: How Children’s Mental Health and Mental Illness Affect Home, School, and Community

NAMI Illinois’ Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conferences

Cigna HealthSpring Barbara D’Urso Mimi Fiorentino Alan Offenberg Arun Pinto, MD

Regina Pommier Chris and Marty

Power Patricia Rudloff

Thank you to Conference Sponsors Lilly and Linden Oaks at Edward

PIAT North ChicagolandChicagolandChicagoland

April 18, 2014 Moraine Valley

Community College Palos Hills

PIAT South Southern IllinoisSouthern IllinoisSouthern Illinois

March 14 & 15, 2014 Southern Illinois

University Edwardsville

http://il.nami.org/piat.htm

Conference Planning Committee Members Marianne Bithos, NAMI South Suburbs of Chicago

Nancy Carstedt, NAMI Cook County North Suburban Nancy Carter, NAMI Champaign County

John Fallon, NAMI Lake County Shawn High, NAMI Livingston/McLean

Maryrose Peters, NAMI Barrington Area Suzanne Spears, NAMI Tri-County

Robin Garvey, Education Programs Coordinator Holly McCaffrey, Assistant Executive Director

Additional Conference Session Volunteers: Sidney Elliott and Elizabeth Hall