NARPA
2015 Conference Schedule:
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Workshop
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Workshop 2
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Workshop 3
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Workshop 4
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Thursday 8/20
5 – 8 pm
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Registration
5 – 7 pm – Reception Area
Reception & Opening Session - 6-8 pm.
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Friday 8/21
7:30 – 4 pm
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Registration
Table Open
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8:30 – 9:45 am
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Keynote
Leah
Harris – Author, Storyteller, Human Rights Activist, Survivor,
and
Coordinator, Recovery Now! Campaign
The
Personal is Political: Reflections on an Advocacy Journey
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9:45 – 10 am
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Break
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10 – 11:30 am
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NARPA 101 – Bill Stewart, MA Clinical
Psychology, Ann Rider, MSW, Anupa Iyer, JD, & Patrick Risser ◊
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Crisis
Intervention & Beyond: Strategies to Prevent Tragic Encounters between
Law Enforcement & People with Disabilities - Leah Harris, Bethany Lilly, JD, & David
Perry, PhD
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Fear and Loathing: Forced Treatment in Derogation of
Life and Limb: Developing Strategies to Confront Forced Treatment in the Face
of Institutional Condescension, Coercion and Expediency - Dennis Feld, JD & Arthur
Baer, JD
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Robert
D. Fleischner JD - "Segregated
Education Case"
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11:30 am–1 pm
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Luncheon Keynote
Robert
Fleischner, JD, & Robert Dinerstein, JD
– Guardianship: Issues and Discussion
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1 – 2:30 pm
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“Is Anybody Listening?” - Film
& Discussion - Paula J.
Caplan, Ph.D., Patrick Risser & Steven
Stone
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Parental Rights - Ira Burnim, JD, Legal Director, Bazelon Center
for Mental Health Law
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Advocacy 101- John Jones &
Patrick Risser ◊
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2:30 – 2:45 pm
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Break
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2:45 – 4:15 pm
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Entering Enemy Lines To
Create Change: Delusion or
Possibility? - Noel Hunter, Melissa Schroeder & Casadi
Marino
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Who Gets
to Define “Peer Support?” The Dangers of Substituted Values and Voice - Darby Penney
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Advocacy for Criminal Justice-Involved Individuals with Trauma Histories and
Mental Health Diagnoses:
the DC Jail and Prison Advocacy Project - Tammy Seltzer,
JD
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Using
Civil Rights Laws to Expand Access to Housing - Michael Allen, JD
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Saturday 8/22
7:30 am –
5:30 pm
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Registration Table
Open
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8:30 – 9:45 am
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Keynote
Chaku Mathai, CPRP, Director STAR Center –
SAMHSA Technical Assistance Center for
Consumer-Peer Run Programs
Supporting
Communities to Embrace Lived Experience Leadership
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9:45 – 10 am
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Break
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10 – 11:30 am
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Guardianship – Professor Robert Dinerstein,
JD
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Aspirational Arguments
from (de)VOICED: Survivors of Deadly Force with Deadly Weapons – Lauren Tenney, PhD & Eva Dech
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How
To Perform Investigations of Serious Incidents – Part I - Aaryce Hayes, LCSW ◊
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Understanding
The Struggle Over H.R. 2646 (The Murphy Bill, AKA the “Helping Families In
Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015”) - Jennifer Mathis,
JD & Bethany Lilly, JD
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11:30 am –1 pm
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Luncheon Keynote
Why Psychiatry Survives Despite Lost Scientific
Credibility – and Battling Against Oppression
Bruce R. Levine, PhD
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1 –2:30 pm
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P&A & Psych Survivors Working for Systemic Change
– Lydia
Richard & Catherine Bustin
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Fighting Segregation in the US & Abroad: The ADA &
International Law as Tools for Advocacy - Eric
Rosenthal, JD, Director, Disability Rights International, Arlene
Kanter, JD, &
Sofía Galván Puente, JD
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How to Perform Investigations of Serious Incidents
– Part II - Aaryce Hayes, LCSW
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Involuntary Outpatient Commitment Workshop – Emily Read, JD, Dennis
Feld, JD, & Arthur Baer, JD
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2:30-2:45 pm
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Break
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2:45 – 4:15 pm
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Recent Developments in Mental Health Law - 2015
Arlene S.
Kanter, JD, LLM
Annual keynote by legal scholar
presenting updates and interpretation
of the most recent legal
cases affecting disability rights and mental health law.
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Sunday 8/23
8 am – 12:30 pm
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Registration Table Open
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8:30 – 10 am
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Ending Restraint & Seclusion in Schools
– Howard
Trachtman, Aaryce Hayes LCSW, & Patrick
Risser
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Voting Rights
for Persons with Mental Disabilities - Lewis
Bossing, JD, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
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Harm Reduction – A Critical Ingredient for Human Rights
– Karen Rosenthal, Jessica Nagel &
Mark Jennings
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Introduction to Intentional Peer Support – Chris Hansen
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10 – 10:15 am
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Break
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10:15 - 11:45 am
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Peer Roles Re-Defined in Forensic
Settings: Potentials for Positive Collaboration Between Human
Rights Attorneys, Peer Workers, and People Hospitalized – Sera
Davidow & Caroline White
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Trauma & Healing in Corrections: “The Impossible
Dream?” – Wallace Kirby,
Taylar
Nuevelle & Emily Tatro, JD
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The ADA, Sheltered Workshops & Minimum Wage
-
Jennifer
Mathis, JD &
Ruby Moore
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"Diagnosisgate": Scandal After Scandal
Since Last Year's NARPA Keynote - Paula J.
Caplan, Ph.D.
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11:45 am -1 pm
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Closing Session
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