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Green, Lauren, MSW

Lauren Green is the Director of Community Harm Reduction Programming at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri Institute of Mental Health. She has experience working collaboratively with partners across various sectors to reduce overdose mortality and increase access to harm reduction training and resources. Over the past six years, Lauren has worked to create more acceptance of harm reduction as a philosophy and vastly expand access to overdose education and naloxone across the state of Missouri. Lauren’s passion and focus is centered on reducing harm for people who use drugs and addressing stigma and inequalities related to drug use, incarceration, and access to care.

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Expanding Harm Reduction and Naloxone Access throughout Missouri – Overcoming Objections and Knocking Down Obstacles to Build New Paths Forward

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Constantino, John, MD

Dr. John Constantino is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of behavioral and mental health conditions of children and adolescents. Dr. Constantino received his medical education at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and completed a five-year combined residency in Pediatrics, General Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

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Dual Diagnosis and the Mental Health Parity Problem: Weaving High-Quality Medical, Psychiatric, and Developmental Support into Better Care for Patients and New Standards for Health Systems

 

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Raymond, Lily, PhD

Lily Raymond, Ph.D., is a licensed Psychologist at St. Louis Forensic Treatment Center – South providing treatment for clients in the Transitional Rehabilitation Program. She completed her B.A. from Notre Dame in 1984 and her Ph.D. from the State University of New York – Albany in 1991. Her clinical interests and activities include risk assessment for violence, providing treatment focused on prevention of future violence and management and recovery from serious mental illness. She chairs the facility’s Forensic Review Committee. She also has lifelong passion for racial equity and justice; at SLFTC, she chairs the SLFTC Cultural Competence and Racial Equity (CCaRE) Council and is a member of the steering committee for the statewide DMH Mental Health Equity & Inclusion (MHEIA).

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Race Matters – Creating & Implementing Racial Equity Sessions in the Workplace

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Anderson Hawkins, Cheryl, RN

Cheryl Anderson-Hawkins is a Registered Nurse and Assistant Nurse Executive at Saint Louis Forensic Treatment Center. Ms. Anderson-Hawkins has a Masters Degree in Gerontology, Bachelors of Science in Health Care Management, and Associate Science in Nursing and 3 years theory in Adult Education EdD from Lindenwood University. Ms. Anderson-Hawkins has over 31 years of services with Missouri State Government in the areas of healthcare, supervision and leadership.

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Race Matters – Creating & Implementing Racial Equity Sessions in the Workplace

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Wilson, Emma, BA

Emma Wilson completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Missouri- Columbia in December 2021. Through the same institution, Emma is currently pursuing a Master’s in Public Health. As a student, she became interested in the opioid crisis, and this interest spread into substance use prevention. In January of 2022, Emma entered the field and began working for PreventEd as a Prevention Educator; she has spent the last year in St. Louis area schools educating students of all ages.

Presentation(s):

It’s Complicated – A Peer Taught Cannabis Prevention Program

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Harris, Shaunte, MSN, PNMHP

Shaunte Harris is a Chief Nurse Executive and board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner at Saint Louis Forensic Treatment Center. Ms. Harris completed a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post Master’s Certificate Program at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and holds a Master’s degree in Nursing Education. Ms. Harris has over 20 years of healthcare experience, specializing in mental health, supervision, and leadership.

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Race Matters – Creating & Implementing Racial Equity Sessions in the Workplace

 

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Jones, Diana, BA, CDEIL

Diana Jones is a Human Resource professional with 25+ years of progressive experience administering programs and agency supports, employee onboarding, leadership development and general human resource duties. She holds expertise providing infrastructure for new and transitioning programs. Ms. Jones is a Certified Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leader (CDEIL) and currently serves at the Director of Equity and Inclusion for St. Louis Forensic Treatment Center, a DMH psychiatric facility that employs 600+ employees.

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Race Matters – Creating & Implementing Racial Equity Sessions in the Workplace

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Dawsey, Nichole, MPH

Nichole Dawsey is the Executive Director of PreventEd, formerly known as NCADA (National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse).

Nichole was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and like many native St. Louisans, developed a fondness for the close-knit communities, quaint neighborhoods, and unique history of the area. After earning her Bachelor of Arts degree from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC, Nichole found her professional passion in the field of education. As she worked in the classroom to help her middle school students grow intellectually, she realized the equal importance of supporting young people’s mental health, wellness, and development of life skills. To become an even more effective, knowledgeable, and helping professional, Nichole chose to earn her Master of Public Health from Saint Louis University. It was during graduate school that Nichole was introduced to NCADA, when she found a part-time position there as a Prevention Educator.

After five years, Nichole was promoted to Director of Prevention Education, and served in that role for five years. During that time, Nichole oversaw the significant expansion of the prevention education program, increasing students served by 15% and department staff capacity by 25%. Nichole was appointed as Executive Director in 2018. Under her leadership, NCADA is now PreventEd. The organization has become known for its supportive workplace culture and has been honored as a Top Workplace by the Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis and the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Presentation(s):

It’s Complicated – A Peer Taught Cannabis Prevention Program

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Rakhshan Rouhakhtar, Pamela, PhD

Pamela Rakhshan Rouhakhtar, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). She completed her internship in 2021 at the Clinical High Risk for Psychosis track within the VA Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland School of Medicine Psychology Internship Consortium, and received her degree in human services psychology from UMBC. Pamela’s work focuses on the validation and development of psychosis spectrum assessments and studying the role of cultural and contextual factors — particularly race — in our understanding of the psychosis construct, as well as illness presentation, course, and treatment. She is also a co-director of the Strive for Wellness (SFW) clinic within the Maryland Early Intervention Program, where she and the SFW team provide clinical supervision/training, assessment, consultation, and treatment for youth and their families in the Maryland community experiencing early or attenuated symptoms of psychosis.

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Screening and Diagnosis (CHR and FEP)

What is Not Psychosis – Disorders Masquerading as Psychosis

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Tubbergen, Tjitske “Tish”, MSW, PhD, LCSW

Dr. Tjitske “Tish” Tubbergen graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) in May 2003, a Master of Social Work (MSW) in May 2006 and a PhD in Social Work in August 2020. She has been a Missouri Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) since 2013. She has worked at Preferred Family Healthcare as a Community Support Specialist (CSS), a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP), a counselor, a CSS supervisor, a Residential Clinical Coordinator, a counselor for those with severe mental illness in the Intensive Community Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center (I-CPRC) program, a Clinical Supervisor and as the Program Director of the Adult and Youth CPRC programs and Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) program at Preferred Family Healthcare in Kirksville. Dr. Tubbergen currently works as a therapist providing individual, couple and family therapy through the PFH Behavioral Health Clinic. In addition to her work at PFH, Dr. Tubbergen maintains a limited, part-time private practice working with children and adults dealing with mental health issues. Dr. Tubbergen is a member and current Secretary of the Missouri State Committee for Social Workers, a position Governor Jay Nixon appointed her to in 2015.

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Are Consumers getting what they want? An Examination of Factors Associated with Daily Living Activities of CPR Consumers