NARPA
2016 Conference Schedule:
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Workshop 1
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Workshop 2
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Workshop 3
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Workshop 4
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Thursday 8/25
6 8 pm
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Registration 5 7 pm Reception Area
Reception & Opening Session - 6-8 pm.
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Friday 8/26
7:30 4 pm
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Registration Table Open
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7:30 8:30 am
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Breakfast
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8:30 9:45 am
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Keynote
Caroline
White:
Creating Pockets of Resistance:
Supportive Communities outside the Values of the Medical Model
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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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Cooptation
of Survivor Knowledge: Dangers of Substituted Values and Voice: Darby Penney
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NARPA 101: Bill
Stewart Ann Rider
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Litigation
as a Tool for Systemic Reform of Mental Health Systems: Anne C. Ronan, J.D.
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Recent
Changes to the Medicaid IMD Rule: What You Need to Know: Bethany Lilly, J.D.
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11:30 am1:15 pm
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Luncheon
Keynote
Eve Hill, J.D.:
Seeking Justice: Civil Rights Division Work to Reform the
Criminal Justice System for People with Disabilities
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1:15 2:45 pm
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Mental Health and the Muslim
Community: Lisa St. George, MSW, CPRP &
Aneesah Nadir, MSW, PhD
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How
to Review Investigations,
Part
1: Aaryce Hayes
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Legal
Theories for Resisting Incarceration of People Diagnosed with Disabilities
Due to Their Diagnoses: Peter
Cubra, J.D.
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2:45 3:00 pm
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Break
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3:00 4:30 pm
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Intro to
Intentional Peer Support: Eva Dech, Darby
Penney, M.L.S.
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How
to review investigations,
Part 2: Aaryce Hayes
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Let us Not Talk Falsely Now,
The Hour is Getting Late: Contrived Diagnoses, Preventive Detention, and
Lawlessness
Developing Strategies to Defend the Most Despised;
Confronting Institutional Abdication and Indifference to Injustice on Behalf
of Sex Offenders: Dennis Feld, J.D.
& Arthur Baer, J.D.
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Murphy Bill Update: Jennifer Mathis, J.D., Bethany Lilly, J.D.
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Dinner
on your own
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7:00 9:00 pm
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Board meeting
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Saturday 8/27
7:30 am
8:30 am
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Breakfast
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Registration
Table Open
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8:30 9:45 am
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Keynote
Peter
Lehmann: Responding to the
Catastrophic Reduction of Psychiatric Patients Life Expectancy
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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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Chemical Brain Injury and the Coming Epidemic of
Drug Induced Dementia:
How Psychiatric Drugs Harm the Target Organ of Neuropsychiatry and What to Do
About It - Grace Jackson, M.D.
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Alternatives to Suicide: Caroline White
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You Have Rights: Service
Animals and Disability Rights Laws: Asim Dietrich, J.D.
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Litigating
to Address Unwarranted Psychiatric Drugging of Poor Children:
Jim Gottstein, J.D.
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11:30 am 1:15 pm
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Luncheon
Keynote
Mort Cohen, J.D.:
Dissing the Vulnerable "Friendless"
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1:15 2:45 pm
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Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs: Discussing the Open
Questions: Peter Lehmann
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Stopping Crisis before it Starts: The Hopes Door Toolkit:
Gaye
Tolman, Ann Rider
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Alternatives to Guardianship: Robert
Dinerstein, J.D.
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Voting Rights of People with Psychiatric Disabilities: What You
Need to Know for the Upcoming Election: Maya
Abela, J.D. and Jennifer Mathis, J.D.
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2:45-3:00 pm
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Break
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3:00 4:30 pm
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Significant
Developments in Mental Health Law - 2016
Robert Dinerstein,
J.D.
Professor of
Law and Director of the Disability Rights Law Clinic at
American University's Washington College of Law
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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5:00 6:00 pm
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Annual Meeting all are welcome
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Dinner on your own
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Sunday 8/28
8 am 12:30 pm
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Registration Table
Open
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7:30 8:30 am
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Breakfast
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8:30 9:45 am
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Keynote: Robert Whitaker: Psychiatry Under the
Influence:
Institutional Corruption,
Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform
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9:45 10:00 am
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Break
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10:00 - 11:30 am
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Psychotropic Drug Experiences Collectively Challenge
Standard Mental Health Practices - Shannon
Hughes, Ph.D.
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Saving America: How Can Psychiatry Be Stripped of Its
Power Over Our Lives? Robert Whitaker
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11:30 am -Noon
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Closing Remarks/Adjournment: Bill
Stewart, President
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