November 1-4, 2001, Holiday Inn Select, Niagara Falls, NY
November 1, Thursday
2:30 - 5:00 PM Board meeting
3:30 - 7:00 Registration
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome, Ron
Bassman, Ph.D., NARPA President
7:15 - 8:30
Keynote Presentation: International
Human Rights:Opportunities for Action - Eric Rosenthal, Mental Disability Rights International,
Washington, D.C. Introduction: Laura Prescott, NARPA Board, Sarasota, Florida
8:30 - 10:00 PM Reception (Buffet Dinner)
November 2, Friday
7:00 - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00
A
Celebration of the Life of Rae Unzicker - Moderators:
Judi Chamberlin, National Empowerment Center,
Laura Prescott, Sister Witness
International
Refreshment Break 10:00 - 10:30
Workshops 1 - 10:30 - 12:00
1. Competence: What Does it Mean and Why is it Important? - Bob Fleischner, J.D., Center
for Public Representation
2. From Privileges
to Rights: People Labeled with Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for Themselves - Marca
Bristo, Chair, National Council on Disability,.and
Judi Chamberlin, National Empowerment Center, NARPA Board
3. Why the Psychiatric Survivor Movement Ought to Care About Fair Housing Protections:
Rights and Legal Strategies - Michael Allen, J.D., Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and David Popiel, J.D., Community Health Law Project
4. Biopsychiatric Ideology as an Impediment to Recovery - Loren Mosher, M.D.,Soteria Associates, and
Laurie Ahern, National Empowerment Center
5. The New York Shock War: Report from the Front Lines - Dennis B. Feld, J.D., and Kim L.
Darrow, J.D., of Mental Hygiene Legal Services
6. Advocacy 101 - Yvette Sangster, Advocacy
Unlimited
12:00- 1:30 Luncheon Keynote Presentation:
In Our Own Voice: African
American Stories of Oppression, Survival, and Recovery in Mental Health Systems
Vanessa Jackson, Healing Circles, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia. Introduction:
Celia Brown, NARPA Board,
Bronx, New York
Workshops 2 - 1:30 - 3:00 PM
1. Restraint: New Rules, New Advocacy Opportunities - Bob Fleischner, J.D., Center for
Public Representation
2. Involuntary Outpatient Commitment in New York After 2 Years - Kim
Darrow, J.D., and Aileen McNamara, J.D., NY Mental Hygiene Legal Service, Ellen Lawson, J.D.,
Neighborhood Legal Services
3. Exorcising the Demons of Normality Creatively - Anne Feeney and Chris Chandler, folksingers
4. Peer Support and a Socio-Political View of Trauma and Abuse - Shery Mead, M.S.W., Shery Mead
Consulting, and Lorae Boisvert, Granite State Monarchs
5. The Challenge of Implementing a PACE (Recovery) Philosopy in the Public Mental Health
System - Laurie Ahern and
Daniel Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Empowerment Center
6. The PAIMI Project, Year One - Susan Aranoff, J.D., Connecticut Legal Rights Project,
Laura Ziegler, Bill Stewart, and Judi
Chamberlin, National Empowerment
Center
Refreshment Break 3:00 - 3:30
Workshops 3 - 3:30 - 5:00
1. Mental Health Courts - Michael Allen, J.D., Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and Peter Nimkoff, J.D., Advocacy Center for Persons with
Disabilities
2. Dancing With Power: The Art of Leadership in Social Change - Vanessa Jackson, Healing
Circles, Inc.
3. Subversive Spirituality: Why Mad Pride Yanks at the Historic Roots of Psychiatry -
Phil Schulman, NARPA Board, and David Oaks, Support Coalition International
4. Voluntary Should Mean Voluntary: Why Involuntary Outpatient Commitment (Assisted
Community Treatment) is Inconsistent with the Olmstead Decision
Kathie Zatkin, M.S.W., J.D., Alameda County Network of Mental Health Clients
5. The Pretextual Nature of Psychiatric Evaluation - William Brooks, J.D., Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro
College
6. Documenting the History of Our Movement: Oral Histories and Archives Moderator:
Darby Penney, M.L.S., Historical
Projects, New York State Office of Mental Health; Presenters: Oryx Cohen, Support
Coalition International Oral History Project, Steven Periard, Consumer/Survivor/Ex-patient
Oral History Project
Terry Strecker, Consumer/Survivor/Ex-patient Oral History Project
7:30-9:30 PM - Friday Evening Oral History Open Forum
November 3 Saturday
7:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 Keynote Presentation: Two Perspectives on Activism. Introduction:
Laurie Ahern, NARPA Board, Lawrence, Massachusetts
Lisa F. Daniels, Reading, Massachusetts
Katherine Hodges, Mad Lib, Chicago, Illinois
Refreshment Break 10:00 - 10:30
Workshops 4 - 10:30 - Noon
1. Successful Durable Power of Attorney Litigation against Vermont State Hospital: A Case
Example of Real Enforcement - Xenia Williams, DPOA agent, and Beth Danon, J.D., Vermont
Protection & Advocacy
2. The Mutual Recovery Paradigm: A Means of Personal and Societal Transformation Cheryl
Stevens, M.D., Director, Office of Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Relations, Department of
Mental Health - Western Masachusetts
3. Pursuing an Activist Agenda at a Mental Health Agency: An Assessment Ken Schlosser,
MSW, Advocates, Framingham, Massachusetts
4. International Perspectives on Human Rights - Eric Rosenthal, J.D., Mental Disability Rights International,
Judi Chamberlin, National Empowerment Center, and Panelists
from Russia, Kosovo, and Hungary
5. The Human Rights Authority (Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission) Bruce Berry
and Susan White, R.N., M.S.N., of the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission
6. Legal Update - Susan Stefan, J.D.,
Center for Public Representation
12:00 - 1:30
Luncheon
Keynote Presentation: A European Perspective on Human Rights - Gabor
Gombos, Voice of Soul, Budapest, Hungary. Introduction:
Judi Chamberlin, NARPA
Secretary, Lawrence, Massachusetts
Workshops 5 - 1:30 - 3:00 PM
1. Minimizing Symptoms from Neuroleptic Damage - Larry Plumlee, M.D., National Coalition
for the Chemically Injured, and Sonja Kjaer, Tardive Dyskinesia/ Tardive Dystonia National
Association
2. What About the Women? Questionable Protections -
Laura Prescott, Sister Witness
International, and Laurie Ahern,
NARPA Board
3. Discrimination or Stigma: Which Should We Be Fighting? - Judi Chamberlin, NARPA Board, National Empowerment Center
4. The Qualified Immunity Defense in Section 1983 Litigation - William Brooks, J.D., Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro
College
5. Emergency Rooms - Susan Stefan,
J.D., Center for Public Representation, and Peter Stastny, M.D.,
Albert Einstein College of
Medicine
Refreshment Break 3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:30 Membership Meeting
4:30 - 6:30 - Board meeting
7:30-9:30 PM
Legal
Advocacy: An Open Dialogue about Serious Limitations and Need for Bolder Approaches
Co-Facilitators: Peter Stastny, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Tom Behrendt, J.D., Connecticut Legal Rights Project
November 4 Sunday
7:00 - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
Workshops 6 - 8:30 - 10:00 AM
1. Perspectives from African-American Women Survivors: Using Advocacy to Fight Stigma
& Discrimination for Ourselves - Jacki McKinney, National People of Color Consumer/Survivor Network,
and Celia Brown, Director
of Peer Specialist Services, NARPA Board Member
2. Advance Directives - Peter Stastny, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Michaela Amering, M.D.
3. Legislative and Grassroots Advocacy - Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, New York
Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services
4. The ALMA Project: Empowering Mothers during Pregnancy, Birth and After - Sue Jarboe, Peer
Networking Group, Doulas of North America
5. Four Innovative Projects on Advocacy & Empowerment in Québec, Canada - Céline
Cyr, AGIDD-SMQ
6. Update on Implementation of Olmstead Around the USA -
Ira Burnim, J.D., Legal Director, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Refreshment Break - 10:0 0-10:30
Workshops 7 - 10:30 - 12:00 noon
1. Let's Argue: A Value Exchange - George Ebert, Mental Patients Liberation Alliance
2. Solitary Confinement: How to Escape - Legally - Emmett Dwyer, J.D., Advocacy Unlimited, Inc.
3. Evolution of a Drop-In Center: Overcoming the Obstacles - Ellen Lawson, J.D., and Karen
Welch, J.D., Neighborhood Legal Services,
Jack Guastaferro, Resoration Society, Inc.
4. The ADA Under Attack: Life After University of Alabama v. Garrett -
Ira Burnim, J.D., Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
12:00 - 1:30 Board meeting
* Workshops subject to change.
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