[PsychRights] NARPA Conference Schedule Announced

Hello,

NARPA has announced the lineup and its preliminary schedule for this year's excellant conferance.  I hope you can come.

http://www.narpa.org/2009NARPAConferenceRegistration.pdf

NARPA's 27th Annual
Rights Conference
Advocacy for Rights in a New Era
September 9-12, 2009, Phoenix Arizona

2009 Conference Featured Speakers

Ira Burnim
Nationally Known Advocate & Legal Director
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law 

Lisa St. George
Survivor & Director of Award-Winning California Peer Program  

Stefan Kruszewski, MD
Prominent Critic of Inaccurate Research
& Off-Label Promotion by Pharmaceutical Industry

Kim Hopper
Medical Anthropologist & Co-Director
Center to Study Recovery in Social Contexts
 

Special Presentations by

Linda Andre
Author of Doctors of Deception:
What They Don�t Want You To Know About Shock Treatment 

Susan Stefan
Significant Developments in Mental Health Law - 2009

Conference Tracks will emphasize:

Guardianship & Forced Treatment
Recovery & Alternatives to Medical Model Treatment
Advocacy & Legal Strategies for Challenging Times

All  conference activities will be held at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort.
More information to come� check NARPA�s website at www.narpa.org for frequent updates!

NARPA 2009 Conference Schedule As of July 11, 2009
Day/Time	Ballroom	Workshop 1	Workshop 2	Workshop 3
Wednesday 9/9 2:00 � 5:00 p.m.		Board Room: Board Meeting
7:00 - 10:00 p.m.	Reception
Thursday 9/10 7:30 � 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00 � 10:00	Keynote: Ira Burnim
10:00 � 10:15	BREAK
10:15 � 11:45	Pearl Park: Deconstructing Asian-American Myths	Bob Bowen, Aaryce Hayes: The Journey from Coercion to Collaboration	Michael Manning: Restraint Chairs in County Jails	Bill Stewart, Ron Bassman, Tom Behrendt: NARPA 101
12:00 � 1:30 Lunch and Keynote	Lunch, Keynote: Stefan Kruszewski, M.D.: The Misuse of Evidence-Based Psychopharmaceutical Research Places Children and Adults in Harm�s Way
1:30 � 3:00	Dr. Stefan Kruszewski: Lessons learned from atypical antipsychotics and anticonvulsants used in psychiatric treatment	Steve Brock: Drug Litigation	Sherry Mead: Reframing Risk in Peer-Run Crisis Alternatives	Cheryl Koch-Martinez et al: Special Assistance in Arizona
3:00 � 3:15	BREAK
3:15 � 4::45	Jim Gottstein: Litigation to Stop the Insane Drugging of Children & Youth	Eduardo Vega: Power  Mapping and Change Theory	Leah Harris, Daniel Hazen, Chaya Grossberg, Celia Brown: From the Streets to the �Net and Back	Delphine Brody, et al: Rights in Mental Health Courts
Evening: 6:30 � 7:30	Linda Andre,               Book Signing:               Doctors of Deception
Friday 9/11 7:30 � 8:30	Breakfast
8:30 � 9:30    Keynote	Keynote:  Lisa St. George:   My Journey through �Treatment,� Recovery, and Self-Advocacy
9:30 � 9:45	BREAK
9:45 � 11:15	Darby Penney/George Badillo:  Grow Your Own Oral History Project	Kim Hopper, workshop	Charles Arnold, Guardianship Issues in Arizona	Ira Burnim, Future of Olmstead
11:30 � 1:00	Lunch, Keynote: Kim Hopper
1:15 � 2:45	Byron Stith & Yvette Sangster NDRN: Training PAIMI Chairs and members	Joel Dvoskin Thoughts of an Expert Witness and Monitor	Pat Risser & Delphine Brody: Trauma-Informed Peer Support and Crisis Alternatives	Jennifer Mathis: Non-traditional Utilization of Medicaid
2:45 � 3:00	BREAK
3:00 � 4:30	Jane Hudson and Leslie Morrison: NDRN Restraints Initiative: Banning Seclusion & Restraints in Schools	Mark Joyce, Joel Dvoskin, & Susan Stefan Right to Refuse Medication Hearing: How They Are and How They Should Be	Lisa St. George: workshop	Nancy Arvold White Privilege and Racism
4:45 � 5:30	Susan Stefan: Annual Legal Update - 2009
Saturday 9/12 7:30 � 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast
9:30 � 11:00	George Badillo , Kim Hopper, Dennis Feld, Darby Penney, & Jenneth Carpenter: Involuntary Outpatient Commitment in New York: 10 Years Later	Angela Agnew: Battling Mental Health Abuses Behind Bars	Tom Behrendt, Bob Fleischner: Guardianship

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