Anchana Dominic, M.D. is a first-year psychiatry resident at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She has a special interest in suicide risk factors and clinical assessment in suicide prevention.
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Suicide Risk Assessment: A Review of Risk Factors for Suicide in Bipolar Disorder
Arthur W. Seabury is the founder of New Love Contract counseling service, and is currently the school social worker, homeless liaison, and Substance Abuse Prevention counselor for Hogan Prep Kansas City. Seabury has been a Jackson County Drug court coordinator, a National Council against Drugs and Alcohol Board member, a family and individual counselor for the Scott Greening Center, has worked for C Star programs in Comprehensive Mental Health and Sedalia Mental Health and Timber Lawn Psychiatric hospital in Dallas TX as the Prevention specialist.
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Arthur Seabury, MSW, CRAADC, CTP-T
Presentation: This presentation will look at the role history and Hollywood play in further stigmatizing generations of people with substance use disorders. The pain from being left behind due to the illusion that everything is okay when it really is not. The drug culture encompasses many ethnic and racial groups. We will look at the impact on many such groups.
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Lisa Polka is the Team Lead Clinical Social Worker for the Family Therapy Team at Children’s Mercy Hospital. Lisa is providing evidence-based therapies including Parent Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT) to children (2-7 years old) and their caregivers as well as Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavior Therapy to children and adolescents (5-18 years old) who have been exposed to traumatic events. Lisa is a Level 1 Trainer through the PCIT International Organization and has trained 3 clinicians to certification standards. Lisa is a co-founder and past secretary of Missouri Association of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, with a mission to promote primary relationships through education, best practices and advocacy. Lisa is a member of the Johnson County Infant Toddler Services board since 2004.
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Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health: The Impacts of Trauma & Tools to Promote Resilience
Michelle Bertuglia-Haley is a Clinical Social Worker for the Family Therapy team at Children’s Mercy Hospital. Michelle provides evidence-based therapies including Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to children (2-7 years old) and their caregivers as well as Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavior Therapy to children and adolescents (5-18 years old) who have been exposed to traumatic events. Michelle also provides Child Adult Relationship Enhancement sessions regularly in the community to help Caregivers learn new skills to use to connect with their children. Michelle speaks Spanish and has served as an advocate for Latino mental health in Kansas City. Michelle has served as a member of the Mattie Rhodes Board of Directors, and has participated in local consortiums to enhance the capacity of Spanish speaking providers. Michelle is also a co-founder and past outreach committee chair for the Missouri Association Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health.
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Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health: The Impacts of Trauma & Tools to Promote Resilience
Patty Davis is a program manager for Trauma Informed Care at Children’s Mercy, strategically moving its healthcare system toward a trauma informed organization through awareness building and institutional changes designed to incorporate the Trauma Informed Key Principles into all policies, practices and procedures. Patty has a long history of serving children and families through individual and family therapies, including evidence-based practices such as Family Based Treatment, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Parent Child Interactive Therapy. Patty is a co-founder and past-president of Missouri Association of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, with a mission to promote first relationships and advance effective infant mental health practice. Patty serves as an executive board member of Alive and Well Communities, a bi-state, community-wide effort focused on reducing the impact of toxic stress and trauma on health and wellbeing. Patty is an invited speaker at local, state and national conferences, speaking frequently on the signs of symptoms of traumatic stress, effective treatments to prevent and mitigate the effects of trauma, and on building trauma informed systems of care with cultural humility and equity building.
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Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health: The Impacts of Trauma & Tools to Promote Resilience
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Patty Davis, MSW, LCSW, LSCSW, IMH III
Michelle Bertuglia-Haley, MSW, LCSW, LSCSW
Lisa Polka, MSW, LCSW, LSCSW, IMH III
Presentation: The science is clear – the most important resilience factor for children is the predictable, compassionate availability of a primary caregiver. Pediatricians are learning more about this science and referring young children and families to receive mental health support. But does the mental health community know what to do when these families present for treatment? The aim of this presentation is to provide an overview of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, the impact of trauma on development and most importantly the key strategies providers can use to both start the healing process of traumatic stress, and to build resilience through predictable, healthy and strong parent-child relationships. We will also provide summary of key evidence-based practices and their capacity to promote optimal early childhood mental health.
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The only athlete in the history of the NCAA to receive a life sentence and parole out of prison with enough life left to tell the story, Damon West has made the most of his second chance. As an addict in long-term recovery, with a lifetime of parole, this former college quarterback has learned from his own mistakes, and the examples of others, that his program of recovery is paramount to everything else. He has dedicated his life to Servant Leadership and his “Coffee Bean” analogy, learned in prison, has become a mantra for kids, college athletes, addicts, and corporations alike.
“Rescued” by a Dallas SWAT team on July 30, 2008, he was finally forced into sobriety through incarceration. Behind bars, in an alien-world, he faced a terrible new reality and severe consequences for his criminal-addictive behavior. Stripped of everything in life, Damon was a blank slate. Sentenced to 65 years (Life) for Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity for dozens of burglaries he committed while hooked on meth, prison life began with a violent baptism-by-fire. Nothing in his privileged background, working in both Washington politics and at one of the largest Wall Street banks in the world, could have prepared him for the nightmares of a Texas maximum-security prison. It would be the wisdom of an elderly convict, the love of his family, a program of recovery and his faith that guided his path.
His acclimation to prison life and tales of survival on the life-sentence building in a maximum-security hell captivates audiences of all ages, genders, races, socio-economic classes and everyone in between.
Since his parole from that Texas maximum-security prison in November of 2015, he has shared his story with audiences ranging from the incarnated to students to the corporate world. His goal in every room is to reach that “one person” and find those who may be struggling with substance abuse or any other life-restricting obstacles. His story is sure to inspire and motivate those who hear it.
Damon’s message connects with audiences on a level rarely before seen, as evidenced by the lengthy and thought-provoking Q&A following each presentation. His ability to articulate his story is proof that sometimes they lock-up the right person.
He has appeared on nationally and globally televised shows. His memoir out in March of 2019, The Change Agent, is a true story about his turbulent childhood, becoming a star athlete, going from addiction to recovery and finding redemption.
“It is my hope that my story, my example, can show others they are capable of way more than they think. In order to stem the flow of pain in society, it is incumbent upon each of us, whether in life, in school or in business, to be like the coffee bean from my story.” – Damon West
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Presentation Description: West’s presentation will center upon the theme that the ability to change our environments is within each of us; and, that for true progress to be made in this country, attitudes towards mental health and recovery must change.
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Nick Schmidt has an MA in Clinical Psychology and an MS in Gerontology, and is currently an advanced doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is a clinician at Community Psychological Service and teaches undergraduate courses in psychopathology and the psychology of death & dying. His clinical and research interests are in mental health and aging, with special interests in issues related to cognitive impairment, caregiver mental health, and treatment for late-life depression.
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Psychotherapy and Behavioral Health Interventions with Older Adults
