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SOAR for Children: Building Resiliency & Supporting Families

Speaker(s):

Abigail Kirkman, MA

Daniel Coladonato

Milly Hall

Presentation: SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) for Children has proven to increase access to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for children and youth with disabling conditions who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The curriculum emphasizes SSA work incentives that make it possible for youth to pursue vocational goals, while maintaining benefits. Learn how SOAR can be integrated into programming to ensure the right combination of services to best suit current and future needs.

Objectives:

  1. Define the importance of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for children and youth with serious mental illness and their families who are experiencing or at-risk of homelessness, including income, health insurance, education and employment supports, and housing stability
  2. Explain the effectiveness of the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) model for expediting decisions and improving approval rates for Social Security disability benefits
  3. Identify opportunities to get involved with SOAR for children, including connecting to local SOAR efforts, the SOAR Online Course, and the SOAR Online Application Tracking (OAT) program
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Psychogenic Polydipsia

Speaker(s):

Fei Cao, MD, PhD

Presentation:

This case report was from a patient who was a long-term resident from the Center of Behavioral Medicine (CBM) with the primary diagnosis of Schizophrenia, alcohol use disorder, Stimulant use disorder (methamphetamine), Hallucinogen use disorder (LSD), and Cannabis use disorder. He stayed in the CBM for years without remarkable physical complaint initially. One day he went to Gastroenterology (GI) clinic with CBM staff for routine work-up after treating his asymptomatic hepatitis C, and he told the gastroenterologist that he was craving for water with epigastric pain. Further work-up revealed he had mild bilateral hydroureteronephrosis through abdominal CT and chronic hyponatremia through repeated comprehensive chemical panel (CMP). Further monitoring indicated he had approximately 15 L urine output every day. Then he was diagnosed with Psychogenic polydipsia by multiple-discipline team using deprivation test with and without desmopressin. This presentation’s goals are to introduce clinical features of Psychogenic polydipsia, its gold diagnostic test and differential diagnosis, and its management plan (especially for patients with chronic and/or severe mental illness). 

Objectives:

  1. Introduce clinical features of Psychogenic polydipsia.
  2. Understand the diagnostic criteria for Psychogenic polydipsia and its related differential diagnosis.
  3. Understand the comprehensive approaches to manage Psychogenic polydipsia

 

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Cao, Fei, MD, PhD

Dr. Fei Cao finished his MD and Ph. D combined program in Tongji Medical school, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, one of the top medical schools in China. His clinical and research interests initially focused on interventional pain management. In 2009, Fei went to MD. Anderson Cancer Center at Houston, Texas, to seek his postdoctoral training of comprehensive management for advanced cancer pain. In 2010, he moved to the Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, and continued his research in pain and other neurodegenerative diseases. Under the supervision of some top neuroscientists in the USA, Fei gradually realized integrated approaches with further understanding underlying neurological and psychiatric mechanisms would be the only solution for chronic pain management in the long run. Then Fei switched his clinical interests to clinical neuroscience (Psychiatry).

Currently Fei is a second-year resident working at Department of Psychiatry, the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He is planning to apply for pain fellowship after his residency training and his career goal is to help patients with chronic pain through an integrated neuropsychiatric way. 

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Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures

Psychogenic Polydipsia

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Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures

Speaker(s):

Fei Cao, MD, PhD

Presentation: This case report was from a patient who was seen by neurologists at Truman medical Center with seemingly intractable seizure activities on the maximal dosing of multiple anti-seizure medication trials. After long-term follow up and multiple-time EEG testing, patient was finally diagnosed with Psychological non-epileptic seizure (PNES), also known as pseudo-seizure in the layman’s term. The presentation’s goals are to introduce some background knowledge about PNES, highlight the difference between PNES and epilepsy, and upgrade the new diagnostic criteria of PNES from DSM-V and novel management approaches. The presentation aims to reach a wide audience of practitioners in the field and helps them further understand PNES, which may be severely underestimated and unrecognized among patients with mental illness.

Objectives:

  1. Introduce clinical features of PNES
  2. Understand the DSM-5 criteria for PNES and related Conversion Disorder
  3. Upgrade new approaches to manage PNES

 

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Successfully Implementing a Statewide Roll-out of an Evidence-Based Family Strengthening Curriculum Series in a Community Reentry System

Speaker(s):

Ted Strader, MS

Christopher Kokoski, BS, CPS

Presentation: Learn how the evidence-based Creating Lasting Family Connections® (CLFC) Curriculum Series developers successfully conducted a statewide roll out as the focal point of the Children of Incarcerated Parents (COIP) project. The Series includes the Original CLFC Program for youth and adults, the CLFC Marriage Enhancement Program for re-entering couples and the CLFC Fatherhood Program: Family Reunification for men and their families. The overarching goal of COIP is to mobilize service systems throughout the state to build resiliency, develop resistance skills for substance use and address trauma in children of incarcerated parents and their families using the CLFC Curriculum Series. CLFC developers trained professional and passionate grass roots community members through the Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program (UMADAOP), a federation of 11 agencies across Ohio strategically poised to fulfill the ambitious goals of the project. Come learn how this can be done!

Objectives:

  1. Identify the key components of an effective statewide roll-out of an evidence-based program in a community reentry system
  2. Describe the essential elements of an effective statewide rollout of an evidence-based approach to serve reentry men, women and their children
  3. Apply insights on lessons learned from the state-wide scaling of evidence-based programs
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Kokoski, Christopher, BS, CPS

Christopher Kokoski is certified as a Master (or National) Trainer of the Creating Lasting Family Connections® (CLFC) Curriculum. He is a Certified Prevention Specialist (CPS) who has played a critical role in bringing over 3 ½ million dollars of prevention services to Louisville, KY. In 2015, he was recognized as the Certified Prevention Specialist of the year for the state of Kentucky. After visiting Brazil and Mexico, and living in Germany for three years, he developed a deep passion for touching the lives of people of different cultures. Christopher has presented at local, state and national conferences on a wide range of topics including behavioral change, body language, HIV prevention, substance abuse prevention, storytelling and more. His publications include co-authoring articles published in peer-reviewed journals, the CLFC Fatherhood Adaptation Guidebook (Resilient Futures Network, LLC, 2012), several novels and numerous articles. For more information, please visit our website at www.copes.org.

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Successfully Implementing a Statewide Roll-out of an Evidence-Based Family

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Strader, Ted, MS

Ted Strader is the Executive Director of COPES, Inc. and the Managing Partner of the Resilient Futures Network, LLC.  He is a proud husband and father and a nationally recognized author, curriculum developer, trainer, motivational speaker, and publisher on topics related to fatherhood and marriage programming, parenting skills, family strengthening, and the prevention of substance abuse, violence and prison recidivism.  His highly acclaimed Creating Lasting Family Connections® curriculum series is used throughout the U.S. and several other countries. This program held three separate listings on the previously active National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), three separate listings in the Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy and is recognized on several other national and international best practice lists.  In his book, “Building Healthy Individuals, Families, and Communities: Creating Lasting Connections”, published in 2000, he introduced the concept of “Connect-Immunity”.  Strader credits his theory of “Connect-Immunity” for his success in designing effective programs across multiple fields of study leading to numerous published articles in peer reviewed journals and inclusion on best practice lists.  In 2013, Mr. Strader was named one of the Top 100 Leaders in the U.S. by the John C. Maxwell Leadership Team. 

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Successfully Implementing a Statewide Roll-out of an Evidence-Based Family

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Tocco, Francesca, MSW, LCSW

Francesca earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the State of Missouri and a Licensed Master’s Social Worker with the Clinical designation (LMSW-C) in the State of Michigan. Francesca currently works at the University of Missouri’s Veterinary Health Center as a Veterinary Social Worker. She has been involved as a co-facilitator with the Mizzou Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Support Group since its inaugural meeting in 2018.

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Postpartum Depression & Anxiety: How to Identify & Treat Struggling Parents

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Orns, Beth, MSW, LCSW

Beth Orns is the Manager of Patient Family Support Services at the Missouri Psychiatric Center. She has practiced social work in a wide range of community and inpatient settings. Working to enhance mental health resources for postpartum mothers has been a passion for Beth over the last couple of years. Beth is married and the mother of Nathan, 10, and Gabe, 2, who keep her very busy. When she gets free time, Beth enjoys cooking/baking, MOPS, and watching funny TV shows.

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Postpartum Depression & Anxiety: How to Identify & Treat Struggling Parents