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Upcoming NCAPPS Webinars on Person-Centered Care in Mental Health Services

June 12, 2023

NCAPPS has two webinars coming up this summer on person-centered care in mental health services.

NCAPPS webinars include ASL interpretation, live English captions, and live Spanish interpretation. Please contact Saska Rajcevic if you require additional accommodations. All NCAPPS webinars are recorded, archived, and can be viewed on the NCAPPS Webinars page.


Webinar: Person-Centered Planning in Mental Health Systems

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 | 2:30-4:00 PM ET 

Register for the June webinar

While person-centered planning is intended to support people to live self-determined lives, it can also be used inappropriately to compel and coerce people into services they don’t want. When done well, person-centered planning has the potential to advance equity by opening multiple pathways to wellbeing. Poorly implemented person-centered planning can deepen existing inequities. This webinar will convene members of the Massachusetts-based Council Against Institutional and Psychiatric Abuse (CAIPA) to explore what person-centered planning should — and shouldn’t — look like.

Presenters:

  • Sera Davidow, Filmmaker, activist, survivor
  • Ebony Flint, Policy Analyst, Human Services Research Institute; Certified Peer Specialist
  • Lionel Frechette, Deaf, multiply disabled queer advocate
  • Andy Beresky, Advocate, Wildflower Alliance 
  • Thomas Brown, Advocate, Mental Health Legal Advisers Committee

Webinar: Person-Centered Community Mental Health Services

Thursday, July 6, 2023 | 3:00-4:30 PM ET

Register for the July webinar

In this webinar, a panel of current and past leadership and people with lived experience of community mental health services in Ashland County, Ohio, will tell the story of how their framework’s principles and values have been operationalized. Panelists will provide information and inspiration for advocates, administrators, and service providers interested in how community mental health services can promote quality of life and well-being at the local level.

This webinar will showcase a framework for community mental health services developed by the Mental Health and Recovery Board in Ashland County, Ohio. Using a three-legged stool model, the Mental Health and Recovery Board has operationalized person-centered practices throughout the county service system. The primary principle of the framework is borrowed from the Hippocratic Oath: do no harm. The three legs, or sets of values, are:

  1. Recovery and Resiliency
  2. Trauma-Informed Care
  3. Medication Optimization

Presenters:

  • Steve Stone, Executive Director Emeritus, Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County
  • David Ross, Executive Director, Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County
  • Jerry Strausbaugh, Executive Director, Appleseed Community Mental Health Center
  • James Mooney, MD, Trauma-informed medical provider of internal medicine
  • Stacey Roberts, Support Group Facilitator
  • Trish Risser, Certified Peer Recovery Supporter

NCAPPS is an initiative from the Administration for Community Living and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that helps states, tribes, and territories implement person-centered thinking, planning, and practice.


Last modified on 06/12/2023


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