CMHACY 2008 Conference Agenda
Wednesday, May 7
1:30 pm · San Jose Taiko
The conference will launch with the powerful, spellbinding and propulsive sounds of the taiko drums. San Jose Taiko has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Multicultural Advancement Program from the California Arts Council.
2:00 · Welcome, History, and Context Marty Giffin, President, CMHACY Board of Directors
For twenty-eight years CMHACY has been an effective advocate for children and youth as well as a forum for sharing crucial information. Marty will start the conference out with a description of where CMHACY came from, its role in the growth and transformation of the system, and the context, focus, and goal of this year’s conference.
2:15 · The Memories, The Meaning and The Message · Keith Johnson
Youth often experience loss and discouragement with their lives. At times, families and staff also feel lost and discouraged in their attempts to help youth regain direction. A former foster child speaks about his life and what it took to help him turn negative behavior into positive behaviors and accept services being offered. Keith serves as a consultant for a number of community based organizations in Los Angeles. His informative and inspirational Keynotes and Workshops have placed him in great demand by many community-based agencies, Social Welfare departments, and Probation departments throughout the US.
3:15 · Prevention and Early Intervention – A Youth Panel
A Prevention and Early Intervention all youth panel will address suicide prevention, medication, stigma holistic treatment and intervention and first contact strategies. A discussion on reaching and optimizing youth insight and their knowledge, in MHSA county planning will be included as well. Youth presentations will include perspectives, experiences and inspiring ideas on how to tighten and soften the net of prevention and early intervention services. This plenary will drive home key emotions, messages and attitudes felt by youth through multiple art forms and a question and answer period.
4:15 · Family Partnership Council of California (FPCC) Membership Meeting
The Family and Youth Roundtable along with their statewide family and youth advisory council, Family Partnership Council of California (FPCC), welcomes family members, youth, advocates and provider partners to the FPCC Membership Meeting. We will be discussing our family and youth agenda as well as the activities of the FPCC this past year. As the California statewide organization for the Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health (FFCMH) we will also update the membership on the activities of the FFCMH. We will begin to develop our common purpose as well as strategies to maximize our collective voices as a collaborative of family-run organizations across California.
6:00 · Welcome Dinner
Meals at the Asilomar dining hall are included with the cost of lodging at Asilomar. For those of you who are not lodging at Asilomar, meal tickets may be purchased through www.CMHACY.org. The dinner on Wednesday night will include the option of attending a “Welcoming Dinner for Newcomers” to expand on the history, accomplishments, role, and future of CMHACY broached in Marty’s opening statements.
7:00 pm · Keynote Address The Resilience Revolution · Larry Brendtro
Traditional approaches to challenging youngsters have been pessimistic – preoccupied by attempts to control deviance and treat pathology. Now, a new positive psychology challenges the fields of education, treatment, and youth development to shift from the deficit model to building strength and resilience. This session draws on The Resilience Revolution (NES, 2006) by Larry Brendtro and Scott Larson. Resilience science is put into practice to develop successful strategies for reaching challenging children and youth by building trust, talent, responsibility, and respect.
9:00 · Wine and Cheese Reception · Sponsored by Stars Behavioral Health Group
Meet the speakers and each other.
Thursday, May 8
8:45 – 10:00 am · Changing the Odds, One School Day at a Time · Mark Katz
For at least some children at risk for serious emotional, behavioral, learning and later life adjustment problems, can simply going to school each day actually protect them from these negative outcomes years down the road? And if so, how can schools, families, health care professionals and others in our community work together to create a school day capable of buffering children and their families in this way? During this presentation we’ll discuss these questions in depth, and show how, by working together, we’re now capable of creating a school experience that not only improves the quality of life of struggling school age children and their families, but also can potentially prevent more serious emotional, behavioral, learning and later life adjustment problems down the road.
Workshops
Three sessions of concurrent 90-minute workshops covering many topics, with extensive attention to PEI.
10:30 am – noon · Workshop Session A
1:15 – 2:45 pm · Workshop Session B
3:00 – 4:30 pm · Workshop Session C
View the full description of the workshops. The eight focus tracks are:
- Cultural Competence
- 0 – 5
- Family Driven
- Public Policy
- Youth Advocacy
- TAY
- Effective Practice
- Partnerships
8:00 pm · A screening of two very moving films and three PSAs
9:00 pm · Dance
Friday, May 9
9:00 am · Stephen Mayberg, Director, California Department of Mental Health
9:30 – 11:30 am · Policy panel · Fresh ideas - Forecasted changes
Pat Ryan, Executive Director, California Mental Health Directors’ Association
Carroll Schroeder, Executive Director, California Alliance of Child and Family Services
Oscar Wright, CEO, United Advocates for Children and Families
Matt Lord, Member, CMHACY Board of Directors
Rusty Selix, Executive Director, CCCMHA
Legislative Staff (invited)
As we grapple with the realities of the State’s budget crisis and our voter’s mandate for transformational reform, with the next Presidential election changes will be coming to Washington which will impact health, mental health, children and families.
How do we take the lead on these changes? What do we want to see changed? How will we get there? What can you, as a CMHACY stakeholder, do to make this happen?
Question our experts on what direction is being taken to reform our state and nation.