National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy

NARPA Rights Conference -- 1999 WORKSHOPS*

(November 18-21, 1999, Hyatt Regency Louisville)

Friday  8:30 AM to 10:00 AM -- Plenary

• Diagnosis: Injustice: Discrimination Against People with Psychiatric Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act - Susan Stefan, J.D., Professor, University of Miami School of Law

Workshops I  (Friday 10:30 AM to noon)

• Resistence to Forced Outpatient Drugging - David Oaks, Coordinator, Support Coalition International; Vicki Fox Wieselthier, Coördinator, MadNation

• Advance Directives - Melanie Shaw, J.D., Disability Advocates, Inc.; Victor Pagano; Thomas Behrendt, J.D., Legal Director, Connecticut Legal Rights Project

• Between a Rock and A Hard Place - Darby Penney, Director of Recipient Affairs, New York State Office of Mental Health, Chairperson, Consumer Advisory Committee for the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors; Cathy Bustin-Baker, Director of Consumer Affairs, Maine Dept. of Mental Health, Mental Retardation & Substance Abuse

• Team Building - Ed Kramer, Deputy Director, Advocacy Unlimited, Inc. (CT)

• Advocacy in Prisons and Jails - Peter Cubra, J.D., NARPA Board & President, NM Ass'n of Counsel for Children; Emmett Dwyer, J.D., Managing Attorney, Connecticut Legal Rights Project

• All Those Good and Just Fights Make Us Stronger - Ron Bassman, Ph.D., NARPA Vice President, Bureau of Recipient Affairs, NY State Office of Mental Health

Workshops II  (Friday 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM)

• Recent Developments in Mental Health Law - Susan Stefan, J.D., Professor, University of Miami School of Law

• Serving Effectively on P & A Boards - Rae Unzicker, member NARPA Board, National Council on Disability

• Strengthening Movement Advocacy through Diversity and Inclusion - Celia Brown, Director, Peer Specialist Services, Bureau of Recipient Affairs, NY State Office of Mental Health; Ken Schlosser, M.S.W.; Jacki McKinney, National Women and Violence Research Project, National People of Color Network

• Inter-Faith Spirituality: Tool for Social Change and Alternative to Psychiatry C/S/X-Run Hospital Diversion Program - Phil Schulman, M.Div.

Workshops III  (Friday 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM)

• The Elimination of Over-representation of Minorities on Locked Wards Using a Culturally Competent Service Delivery Model - Jan Powe, Mental Health Advocate, Kentucky P&A; Susan Terrell, Mental Health Advocate, Kentucky P&A; Victoria Scott; Jimmie Persley, KY DMHMR (retired)

• Developing a Proactive Employment Strategy for Social Security Beneficiaries - Reggie Sajauskas, Social Security Administration

• Combatting Psychiatric Oppression - Janet Foner, Coordinator, Support Coalition International

• Women's Rights, Women's Truth - Laura Prescott, NARPA Board; Laurie Ahern, National Empowerment Center; Judi Chamberlin, National Empowerment Center, Boston University, member, NAPAS Board; Rae Unzicker, member, NARPA Board, National Council on Disability; Celia Brown, Director, Peer Specialist Services, Bureau of Recipient Affairs, NY State Office of Mental Health

• C/S/X -run Hospital Diversion Programs -  Phil Schulman, M.Div.

• How Private Lawyers Can Keep Body and Soul Together While Doing Good Work - Aaron David Frishberg, J.D. (NY); Peter Cubra, J.D., NARPA Board

Saturday 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM -- Plenary

• Your Drug May be Your Problem - David Cohen, Ph.D., University of Montreal; Peter Breggin, M.D., Center for the Study of Psychiatry & Psychology

Workshops IV  (Saturday 10:30 AM to noon)

• Psychiatric Malpractice Update - Peter Breggin, M.D., Center for the Study of Psychiatry; Pam Clay, J.D.

• Advocacy Techniques - David Popiel, J.D., Community Health Law Project (NJ)

• The Exercise of Procedural Rights in Mental Health Hearings - Terri Berge, J.D., Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, Inez Toldeo-Hansen, J.D., Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission

• A Recovery-Based Alternative to Coercive PACT Systems: PACE (Personal Assistance in Community Existence); Laurie Ahern, Director, National Empowerment Center, MA; Daniel Fisher, M.D., Executive Director, NEC

• International Issues - Judi Chamberlin, NEC, member NARPA Board; Hélène Grandbois, member NARPA Board; Laura Prescott, member NARPA Board

Workshops IV  (Saturday 1:45 PM to 3:15 PM)

• Housing Discrimination: Update and Look to the Future - David Popiel, J.D., Senior Managing Attorney, Community Health Law Project, South Orange, NJ

• Outpatient Commitment and the Criminalization of Psychiatric Treatment - Dennis Feld, J.D., and Kim L. Darrow, J.D., MHLS Special Litigation & Appeals Unit.

• Class Action Litigation to Combat Medicaid Managed Care - Michelle Johnson, Staff Attorney, TN Justice Center; Peter Cubra, J.D., NARPA Board

• Psychiatric Abuse & Malpractice: Experiences of an Expert Witness - Peter Stastny, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Project Specialist, Bureau of Recipient Affairs, New York State Office of Mental Health

And More!

* workshops subject to change

Note: The conference begins Thursday and ends Sunday.

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