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2015 Spring Membership Meeting
Monday May 18 - Tuesday May 19, 2015
Holiday Inn: 232 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY
Check In - 2 p.m.
Check Out - 11 a.m.
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Monday May 18, 2015
9:15-10:00 a.m.
Registration Daily Double Room
10:00 a.m.
Welcome/Opening Remarks
10:15-11:30 a.m.
Hank Steadman, PhD, President of Policy Research Associates, is internationally known for his research in the areas of interfacing behavioral health and criminal justice systems and violence among people with mental disorders.
Through his leadership of SAMHSA's GAINS Center, Dr. Steadman is recognized as an expert in the Sequential Intercept Model, which envisions a series of points of interception at which an intervention can be made to prevent individuals from entering or penetrating deeper into the criminal justice system. The SIM mapping process helps communities develop targeted strategies that evolve over time to increase diversion of people with mental illness from the criminal justice system and to link them with community treatment.11:30-12:00
Darcie Miller, LCSW Orange County Commissioner of Mental Health and Social Services
Orange County is currently participating in the SIM process and focusing on increasing hospital and jail diversion programs among other goals. Darcie will discuss Orange County's current diversion initiatives and the County's plans for expanding diversion and addressing other interception points in the model.
12:00 -1:00 p.m.
Lunch Win & Place Room
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Donna Hall, Associate Commissioner, OMH Division of Forensic Services & Lori Schatzel, Director, Bureau of Diversion, Reentry & Community Education, OMH Division of Forensic Services.
LGUs face many challenges in addressing the needs of individuals with mental illness involved in the criminal justice system. In 2014, OMH established the Jail-Based Mental Health Services Funding Project in six LGUs to support the development of evidence-based practices of care for persons with mental illness cycling in and out of local jails. We will hear more about this program and other initiatives being undertaken by OMH to improve services for people with mental illness in jails and prisons. This presentation will also include updates on the Department's process for discharging individuals from state prisons under an AOT order and the implementation of the new prison discharge planning law.
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Business Meeting
4:30-5:00 p.m.
MHI Backstretch Room
5:30-6:30 p.m.Social Hour
Lillian's Diamond Jim Brady Room 408 Broadway, Saratoga Springs
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Tuesday May 19, 2015
7:30-9:00 a.m.
Breakfast Bookmakers Room
9:00 a.m.
Registration Daily Double Room
9:15-10:00 a.m. Brian Hart, LCSW-R, DCS, Chemung CountyEffective and Appropriate Mental Health Assessments, Psychological and Psychiatric Evaluations; What the legal system needs to know!
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Helene DeSanto, MS, Deputy Commissioner for Service Delivery, NYS Office of People With Developmental Disabilities
11:00 .a.m.-Noon
Arlene González-Sánchez, M.S., L.M.S.W. Commissioner: NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Invited
Noon-1:00 p.m.Lunch Win & Place Room
Behavioral Health Managed Care Update: Gary Weiskopf, Associate Commissioner, Division of Manage Care, OMH; Robert Kent, General Counsel, OASAS & Patricia Lincourt, Director, Division of Practice Innovation and Care Management, OASAS. The transition of behavioral health services to managed care will go live on July 1, 2015 in New York City. Join us for an update from OMH and OASAS staff on the implementation of HARPs in New York City and hear about the plan and lessons learned for the rollout in the rest of the state.
Helene DeSanto began working with persons with disabilities in Pennsylvania as a direct care staff working in an integrated recreation program for children with severe developmental disabilities. After receiving an M.S. degree in Special Education from Syracuse University, Ms. DeSanto began her career in NYS in 1978 joining the newly formed Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Having spent most of her career in the field she has held director positions at Capital District DDSO, Sunmount DDSO, Taconic DDSO and Valley Ridge Center for Intensive Treatment. She also served as the agency's Executive Deputy Commissioner and is presently OPWDD's Deputy Commissioner for Service Delivery.
Arlene González-Sánchez, M.S., L.M.S.W. Commissioner: NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS)
Arlene González-Sánchez holds a MSW in Administration/Community Organization from Hunter College School of Social Work, a Masters of Science in Cell Biology and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Fordham University. She is a licensed Master Social Worker and is committed to maintaining access to quality care for the 2.5 million New Yorkers in need of addiction services and preserve the core system of prevention, treatment and recovery services. González-Sánchez serves on the Governor's Medicaid Redesign Team conducting a comprehensive examination of New York's Medicaid system with an emphasis on finding solutions to eliminate waste and inefficiency while maintaining and improving quality in the Medicaid program. She is a former Commissioner of the Nassau County Department of Mental Health, Chemical Dependency and Developmental Disabilities Services.
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