Event Details:
The Northland Coalition and Tri-County Mental Health Services will host the annual Northland Prevention Conference on Friday, March 1st, 2019 at Platte Woods United Methodist Church (7310 NW Prairie View Rd., Platte Woods, MO 64151). Registration cost is $25 and includes breakfast and lunch.
Conference Schedule
8:00-8:30 am ● Registration and Breakfast
8:30-9:00 am ● Welcome and Awards
9:00-9:30 am ● Keynote by Heather Harlan
9:30-10:15 am ● Keynote by Pete Hall
10:30-11:15 am ● Workshop Session 1
11:30 -12:15 pm ● Workshop Session 2
12:15-1:15 pm ● Lunch (provided to registrants)
1:15-2:00 pm ● Workshop Session 3
2:15-3:30 pm ● Resilience Summit by Pete Hall
Featured Presenters and Keynote Presentations:
Pete Hall, international speaker, author of Fostering Resilient Learners and consultant for Strive Success Solutions. Hall is a former school principal, authoring multiple books on leadership and working with individuals and organizations across the globe. He is a thought leader in education and trauma and will help individuals turn our lens around to build self-awareness, investigate the power of relationships and embrace grace to build a culture of safety for our youth.
Trauma is a Word, Not a Sentence: Childhood trauma is real, and it is more prevalent than we might believe. In this engaging, relevant, and practical session, learn from Pete Hall, former school principal and co-author of the best-selling and award-winning Fostering Resilient Learners – ASCD, 2016 and Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation – ASCD, 2018, about the importance of implementing trauma-invested practices to support our youth. Incorporating research, building a common vocabulary, and exploring the impact of stress on brain development begins our exploration. As many of us continuously look outward to help others, we’ll turn our lenses around to build self-awareness, investigate the power of relationship, examine our belief systems, and embrace the concept of grace as we collaboratively build a Culture of Safety for our community. If we’re going to be good to others, first and foremost we’ve got to be good to ourselves.
Heather Harlan has been on the front lines offering resources and treatment to adolescents and their families for nearly 20 years in Illinois and Missouri. As a Certified Reciprocal Prevention Specialist, she’s been active in community coalitions. As Treatment Engagement Specialist and Adolescent Counselor at Phoenix Health Programs in Columbia, she’s worked with youth, young adults, and their loved ones to create positive family relationships and encourage healthy interactions necessary for family recovery. Missouri professionals recognize Heather as a passionate presenter and advocate, who grasps effective prevention and treatment. She is also a co-facilitator for National Alliance on Mental Illness and a professional storyteller!
What Gets Rewarded, Gets Repeated: After this entertaining presentation, Heather will leave you with a simple explanation for the way substance use disorders rewire the brain and create a chronic mental health situation. You don’t have to be a neuroscientist to understand adolescent brain pathways and Heather’s strength is explaining it in a way that you can remember, draw, sing or explain to anyone and everyone so they too will have passion and the solution to protecting vulnerable teen brains!
Workshop Sessions:
Overcoming Mental Health Challenges in Today’s Youth: A review of the inherent, generational, and new challenges coupled with strategies to best protect young people.
Presented by Dr. Ram Chettier, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Engaging Policymakers 101: Come learn the three most important things to do when engaging with policymakers, as well as a few tips of what not to do!
Presented by Jessica Hembree, Principal Officer, Platform Civic Strategies
TRI-CIT: Innovation, training, and collaboration between law enforcement and mental health in the Northland.
Presented by Peggy Gorenflo, Community Mental Health Liaison, Tri-County Mental Health Services
Building the Fence: The vulnerability and threats to today’s youth and what we can do to prevent the fall.
Presented by Sherri Miller, Youth Prevention Specialist, Tri-County Mental Health Services
Up In Smoke: The truth about Vaping and Marijuana. What is a JUUL? What do we make of this marijuana legislation? How do we keep our kids safe? Come and learn the answers to these questions and more!
Presented by Heather Craig, Community Strategist, NCADA
The Mindful Way: Improving mental health, relationships, and self-regulation through the inexpensive and effective practice of mindfulness.
Presented by Elise Bennett, MS, LMFTM Adolescent, Individual, and Family Therapist
EVERFI- Free, effective and innovative resources for equipping youth, students, and employees with the tools they need to make healthy lifestyle decisions.
Presented by Heather Miller, Senior Schools Manager, Everfi
Taking Meds Seriously: The evolution of the opioid problem and responses.
Presented by Kristen T. DeHart, Chief Executive Officer, Excelsior Springs Hospital
Resilience Summit:
Following the workshops sessions, attendees will reconvene for the Resilience Summit, a powerful and practical workshop with Pete Hall.
Using the New 3 R’s to Address Youth Needs
In this continuing exploration of #TraumaInvested practice, rejoin Pete Hall as he shares keen insights into the practices of empathy and attunement and discusses a communication strategy built to strengthen connection and understanding. Learn the characteristics of a Culture of Safety, and implement timely interventions for our students by addressing the “New 3 R’s” in education: Relationships, Responsibility, and Regulation. Using scenarios, research, and a bank of strategies, collaborate with your colleagues to brainstorm approaches to meet our students’ needs. Attendees will leave refreshed and excited about meeting the challenges awaiting them, with tools in the tool belt and the energy and optimism needed to use them!
A special thank you to our event sponsors: the Platte County Health Department, Platte Valley Bank, Signature Psychiatric Hospital, and Synergy Services.
Topic: Consumer and RESPECT Speaker
Speaker: Elizabeth Wilson, Day Program, Kitchen Manager
Elizabeth is a day program member and a TCMHS staff member. She will be here to tell her story and journey through the behavioral health system.
Free two day reverse career fair sponsored by Northland Career Connections where candidates create a booth showcasing their skills and work experience. Employers meet with candidates to learn about them and even some interviewing on the spot. The first day the candidates will create their booths, practice resume development, and practice interview skills. The second day the candidates will meet with employers.
Free two day reverse career fair sponsored by Northland Career Connections where candidates create a booth showcasing their skills and work experience. Employers meet with candidates to learn about them and even some interviewing on the spot. The first day the candidates will create their booths, practice resume development, and practice interview skills. The second day the candidates will meet with employers.
Topic: Introduction to Crisis Outreach Case Managers
Speaker: Caitlyn Shirk and Marc Muller
Caitlyn and Marc reach out to people in the community that are having contact with police due to their mental health symptoms. Our goal is to help reengage or connect them with mental health care and other appropriate resources to create stability and reduce the pressure on 911 and police resources.
Topic: CIT Officer and Law Enforcement Community Liaison
Speaker: Peggy Gorenflo, MSW and Tri-CIT co-chair
Peggy Gorenflo is our law enforcement community liaison and works closely with crisis intervention trained (CIT) officers in the community. She will be accompanied by an area CIT officer to answer community questions.
The annual Tri-County Heart and Sole run raises funds to help families served by Tri-County Mental Health Services have a happy holiday season.
Join us on May 11th for the 8th Annual Tri-County Heart and Sole 5K at 8am at Macken Park
Details:
• Packet pick-up will be on May 10th from 4pm to 7pm at Chicken and Pickle (1761 Burlington St, North Kansas City, MO 64116)
• Day of packet pick up and registration will be from 7am to 8am.
• Runners start at 8am. Walkers start directly after runners
• Fun Run starts at 9am
Top three male and female runners will receive gift cards, $100, $75 and $50 respectively.
All finishers will receive a Heart and Sole 5K finisher’s medal!
For more information and to register or sponsor the event, visit: https://beaconmentalhealth.org/5k-run/
Event Details:
On May 13, 2019, Tri-County Mental Health Services will be offering a Mental Health First Aid training in Kansas City. This groundbreaking eight-hour training course gives people the tools to identify when someone might be struggling with a mental health or substance use problem and to connect them with appropriate support and resources when necessary.
One in five Americans has a mental illness, but many are reluctant to seek help or might not know where to turn for care. Unlike physical conditions, symptoms of mental health and substance use problems can be difficult to detect. For friends and family members, it can be hard to know when and how to step in. As a result, those in need of mental health services often do not get them until it is too late.
Just as CPR helps even those without clinical training assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid prepares participants to interact with a person experiencing a mental health crisis. Mental Health First Aiders learn a 5-step action plan that guides them through the process of reaching out and offering appropriate support.
“Through this program, we hope to take the fear and hesitation out of starting conversations about mental health and substance use problems,” says Linda Rosenberg President and CEO of the National Council for Behavioral Health, which helped bring Mental Health First Aid to the U.S. in 2008. “When more people are equipped with the tools they need to start a dialogue, more people can get the help they may need.”
In just ten years, Mental Health First Aid has become a full-blown movement in the United States—more than 1 million people are certified Mental Health First Aiders, and that number is growing every day.
For more information or to participate in a Mental Health First Aid training at Tri-County Mental Health, contact Savannah Poutch at savannahp@tri-countymhs.org or call 816-965-1024.
To learn more about Mental Health First Aid USA, visit www.MentalHealthFirstAid.org.
Topic: Family Group Community Speaker
Speaker: Wanda Robinson
Wanda Robinson is a former Family Group member who lost her adult son recently who fought most of his adult life with chronic mental health. Wanda is willing to share her incredible journey as a caretaker through the behavioral mental health system.
This year’s speaker – Tony Mandarich
If you are a devoted football fan, you might remember when Tony Mandarich was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1989 as “The Incredible Bulk”, the best offensive line NFL draft prospect ever. In 1992, he was again featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated as “The NFL’s Incredible Bust”. He was cut by the Packers that year and lived in a world of pain-killers and alcohol. In 1995, he started rehab, and turned his life around. He returned to the NFL and played 3 years for the Colts before retiring after a shoulder injury. He now pursues his passion for greatness through photography.
Tony has been a larger-than-life persona since he was a kid playing football. He describes his life in his 2009 autobiography, My Dirty Little Secrets– Steroids, Alcohol & God: The Tony Mandarich Story. On the eve of this year’s NFL draft, ESPN aired a 44 minute documentary about the fall and rise of Tony Mandarich. On August 26, 3 days before the Chiefs play their final pre-season game against the Packers (the team that drafted Tony as the #2 overall draft pick in 1989), we will hear from a man who knows football, who knows painkillers and addiction, and who knows that he can lead a creative, successful life without steroids, alcohol or painkillers.