The Center for Rehabilitation and Recovery provides assistance to the New York City mental health provider community through expert trainings, focused technical assistance, evaluation, information dissemination and special projects.

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Center Trainings

a.  Association for Community Living New York City (ACL-NYC) Conference: Building Partnerships on the Road to Recovery

As part of ACL’s 2007 conference on May 2, at Wave Hill House, 675 West 252nd St, in the Bronx, Aaron Vieira, the Center’s Coordinator of Education and Training will be co-presenting Building Hope with Psychiatric Rehabilitation alongside Julia Orlando, The Bridge Inc.’s Director for Residential Services. Their presentation will focus on increasing knowledge of interactive and motivational approaches that inspire hope, and how Psychiatric Rehabilitation and recovery principles can be applied to residential services toward achieving desired outcomes.  For more information and to register, contact David Plotka at [email protected]

b. Benefits Training Series: Ask the Expert: Solving Your Real-World Benefits Dilemmas

This full day, highly interactive session will provide an opportunity for attendees to present, discuss and work through ongoing benefits related challenges encountered in the field (SSI, SSDI, Work Incentives and beyond). Facilitated by nationally recognized benefits expert Ed Lopez, Esq., this training will allow participants to learn from each other and arrive at comprehensive solutions in the best interests of the consumers we serve.  This is an ideal follow up to those who have attended previous trainings in this series. May 11, 9:00-4:00, The Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies, Fee: $25. If the training fee is prohibitive to your agency’s participation, please contact Marc Kutner at 212-742-1600, x204 to discuss a fee waiver. To register, go to: http://www.coalitionny.org/ccrr/documents/BenefitsTrainingRegistrationFormWinter.Spring2007.pdf

c. New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH), New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC): AOT Symposium For Community Providers, Supporting Recovery for Individuals with AOT Orders

These are free, full-day symposia for staff from continuing day treatment programs, outpatient clinics, residential facilities, IPRTs and PHPs. Aaron Viera, the Center’s Coordinator of Education and Training will present alongside OMH AOT researchers, borough AOT team members, and consumers with AOT experience.

The symposia will take place on:

May 1, 8:30 – 4:00, Elmhurst Hospital (Queens)

May 8, 8:30 – 4:00, Metropolitan Hospital (Manhattan)

May 15, 8:30 – 4:00, Lincoln Hospital (Bronx)

May 22, 8:30 – 4:00, South Beach Psych. Center (Staten Island)

June 5, 8:30 – 4:00, Woodhull Hospital (Brooklyn)

To register, contact Sonia Jackson at 212-868-6708 or [email protected]. 

Center’s Youth Initiative:

a.Transition to Independence Process (TIP) Model Site Update

On May 8-9, the six model sites will convene for the third Cross-Site Forum to share their progress toward implementing the TIP system. TIP experts Drs. Hewitt “Rusty” Clark and Mason Haber will provide technical assistance focused on:  identifying strategies to engage employers willing to work with Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED) youth; disclosure of information to employers about disability when creating partnerships; how to guide youth and staff in relation to issues of disclosure; and instruments and tools for tracking progress, data collection and outcomes.

b. WAVE Trainings

The fourth and fifth sessions of our six part training series with WAVE Inc., (Work, Achievement, Values and Education), Developing Employment Solutions for Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents and Young Ad