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Advancing the Recovery Culture

Monday, September 20, 2010 at 9:00 AM (ET)

Rootstown, OH

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Advancing the Recovery Culture
Monday, September 20, 2010 9:00 am - 4:00 pm NEOUCOM Conference Center 4209 SR 44 Rootstown, OH 44272
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ABOUT THE FORUM:

 

No one is in a better position to understand about living life with a mental illness or supporting a person with mental illness than someone who has been there. Peers offer encouragement, support and hope along with valuable information that an overwhelmed individual can better absorb.

Persons in recovery enhance systems of service, provide valuable input in the planning and encourage meaningful participation of others. Persons in recovery have much to offer each other and the systems that serve them. “Nothing about me without me” must be taken seriously in order to have a truly recovery oriented system.  This full-day forum will incorporate a variety of elements for learning how to advance a recovery culture in their area.  People in recovery will describe how they are active in their system as planners, peer supports and ensure quality.  Drew Horn, a social entrepreneur, will share his personal dream of making a difference for others through simple behaviors. The day will conclude with a dynamic presentation and active learning on developing personal growth culture for leaders and their staff as well as individuals on the Recovery Journey

Forum participants will be able to participate in the Hands for Recovery project which creatively expresses recovery through palm art.  Words and images of recovery are drawn by the person onto their own hand.  Palms will be photographed for a state-wide recovery collage.

FORUM OBJECTIVES:

  1. Provide a meaningful exchange of information and ideas to advance the recovery culture in our local communities.
  2. Learn the steps on how one individual, in recovery, can bring positive change to a community.
  3. Define personal growth culture and how it fosters recovery.
  4. Discuss and analyze our own attitudes about and relationships between persons in recovery and others. 
  5. Learn how to evaluate and improve recovery infusion in agency and service systems. 

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Steven J. Kopecky, M.S., is a Senior Field Associate with The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University.  He graduated from Grandview College in Des Moines, Iowa and received his Master of Science with Distinction in Rehabilitation Counseling from Boston University in 1993.  He has over twenty-six years of experience in designing, planning, training, managing, marketing and evaluating mental health and social services nationally and internationally.  He has presented with top leaders in the recovery movement and worked passionately on integrating rehabilitation and recovery into service networks throughout the country. 

Drew Horn, is a self-proclaimed "motivational, inspiration comic and clown." As a person journeying through recovery, Drew used his experiences as a psychiatric patient, being homeless, hopeless and lonely as catalyst to give-back to his community. He co-founded the Turn a Frown Around Foundation in 2001. He has personally brought love and laughter to folks in nursing homes, psychiatric wards, and partial care programs (mental health day treatment). Drew collects smiles and hugs with his yellow smile catcher and heart of gold.  

 

 

Brad Zimmerman, Managing Director of Personal Mastery Programs; an executive coaching firm founded in 1987.  Personal Mastery Programs deliver change management services; supporting organizational leaders in the development of cultures that foster creativity, openness, and accountability; resulting in the successful implementation of innovative methods, systems and practices. He specializes in the behavioral health market and has been employed by some of the most innovative organizations across the Nation.  Brad has been instrumental in the development of the National Councils’ Integrated Care Learning Community and is a provider of change management services in the newly formed Michigan Integrated Health Learning Community.

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

  • Persons in recovery
  • Mental and Behavioral health care professionals
  • Business and community leaders
  • Educators and students
  • Family members
  • Community advocates
  • Policy makers and law enforcement
  • Anyone interested in recovery