Session details are listed below under each day.

Minor changes to sessions and scheduling may be required and will be updated if necessary.

*Times are in EST*

10:30 Pre-Summit Opens
10:45 Welcome Message
11-2:30 Session One and Q&A
2:30-3:30 Vendor Expo
3:30-7 Session Two and Q&A
7:00 Closing

*Times are in EST*

10:30 Summit Opens
10:45 Welcome Message
11-12:30 Session One, Discussion Breakout Rooms and Q&A
12:30-2 Session Two, Discussion Breakout Rooms and Q&A
2-4  Vendor Expo
4-5:30 Session Three, Discussion Breakout Rooms and Q&A
5:30-6:15 Self-Care Session

*Times are in EST*

10:30 Summit Opens
10:45 Welcome Message
11-12:30 Session One, Discussion Breakout Rooms and Q&A
12:30-2 Session Two, Discussion Breakout Rooms and Q&A
2-4  Vendor Expo
4-5:30 Session Three, Discussion Breakout Rooms and Q&A
5:30-6:15 Self-Care Session

No direct link is provided - you must be pre-registered to attend.

So that we can provide you all the opportunities the Summit offers, you are required to:

1. Pre-register
2. Login and access your Courses
3. Complete the required Pre-Summit Training before March 22nd
4. Access the direct link to the sessions you wish to attend through your account
5. Participate and mark your attendance the same day of each session you attend
6. Complete the course evaluations within one week
7. Collect your certificates of completion on your account after steps 1-6 are completed

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Enroll in the Summit by adding it to the cart and proceeding through the check out process. Create an account (or login to your existing account) during the checkout process.

Prepare: Download Zoom software. Participants must use a device that is connected to adequate internet speed with a camera, microphone and speakers (or headset). Watch the Pre-Summit training video located under "My Courses"

Attend: At least 15 minutes before the designated start time, login to your account on the website. Go to "My Courses", click on the title of the session. The link for the webinar will be listed in the course content.

Attendance must be recorded by participants on their account the day of the event and the evaluation completed within one week in order to receive CE credits.

Date and Time: March 22nd, 3:30 pm - 7:00pm EST

Description: Details Coming Soon

Date and Time: March 23rd, 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

Title: Treating infertility and perinatal issues using telehealth

Description: 20% of the United States population will be diagnosed with infertility and 1 in 7 women and 1 in 10 men will experience a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMAD). Literature has indicated that infertility can lead to feelings of depression, anxiety, grief, and trauma. Additionally, infertility is a risk factor for developing a PMAD (postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum PTSD, etc.). This presentation will focus on useful mental health strategies and techniques when working with those experiencing infertility and perinatal mental health issues.

Learning Objectives: 

• Describe and define infertility and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
• Describe effective treatment techniques when working with this population.
• Demonstrate how to effectively incorporate telehealth and virtual counseling to assist with client treatment outcomes.

Instructor: Dr. Kristy Christopher-Holloway, LPC, NCC, BCTMH, CPCS, ACS, PMH-C

Date and Time: March 23rd, 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

Title: What is Good Mental Health and Wellness in Military Family Life?

Description: Military family members also serve but in a different capacity. With over 2.6 million military family members including spouses, children, and adult dependents, military family life can be challenging to maintain good mental health and wellness. Living well for military service members and their families requires adjustment, adaptation, and flexibility in a mission-forward environment. The mission of this workshop is to apply the knowledge, awareness, and skills of good mental health and wellness approaches for daily living. Service members and families will identify and recognize healthy and unhealthy relationships, communication, mental health, and well-being. Wellness approaches throughout the deployment cycle will be explored for daily living.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and acquire knowledge regarding the unique mental health and psychosocial
• stressors experienced by service members and military families during the deployment cycle.
• Describe methods to communicate and build healthy relationships throughout the deployment cycle and the demands of a mission-forward and operation tempo environment.

Instructor: Dr. Mark Stebnicki, Ph.D., LCMHC, DCMHS, CRC, CMCC

Biography: Mark A. Stebnicki, Ph.D., LCMHC, DCMHS, CRC, CMCC is Professor Emeritus and former Coordinator of the Military and Trauma Counseling (MTC) Certificate Program which he developed in 2015 in the Department of Addictions and Rehabilitation at East Carolina University. Dr. Stebnicki also developed the national Clinical Military Counseling Certificate (CMCC) program; a 12 hr CE program offered nationally through the Telehealth Certificate Institute. Dr. Stebnicki has been a counselor educator, researcher, practitioner with over 30 years’ experience in rehabilitation and mental health. He has worked with adolescents and adults specializing in stress, trauma, grief, loss, and the psychosocial aspects of chronic illness and disability. His primary focus is working with military service members, veterans, veterans with disabilities, and military families. Dr. Stebnicki has published 10 professional textbooks, most recently Clinical Military Counseling: Guidelines for Practice (2021- American Counseling Association). He has 40 journal articles and book chapters, and has provided over 100 presentations nationally, regionally, and statewide. He has served on many statewide and national professional counseling boards.

Date and Time: March 23rd, 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

Title: Virtual Play Therapy Tips 

Description: Play therapy can build resiliency in children of all ages, helping them cultivate critical skills to navigate daunting circumstances that range from poverty and abuse to homelessness, deportation, and exposure to a global pandemic. This interactive and exploratory workshop will help you harness virtual play therapy treatment planning and interventions to conceptualize and address the complicated manifestations of toxic stress in children – all while nurturing yourself as a clinician working with vulnerable clients and high-stakes scenarios.

Learning Objectives:

• Create a conceptualizing framework for toxic stress that connects complex presenting problems with treatment goals.
• Practice innovative play therapy interventions that build resilience in children.
• Identify self-care principles and professional development resources for play therapists who work with children experiencing toxic stress.

Instructor: Sarah Scott Dooling, LCSW, RPT

Biography: Sarah Scott Dooling is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Registered Play Therapist - Supervisor specializing in play therapy. Sarah teaches graduate-level classes at two San Diego universities, and facilitates creative, interactive professional development workshops for clinicians and educators. She is employed at Escondido Union School District and also works in private practice.

Date and Time: March 23rd, 12:30pm - 2:00pm EST

Title: Playful Telemental Health Activities

Description: Join Play Wellness LLC and the Telehealth Certification Institute for an interactive learning experience focused on using playful activities to enhance the mental health of child and adolescent clients. Benefits, challenges, activities related to providing virtual play therapy will be discussed and explored.

Learning Objectives: 

• Identify one advantage, one challenge, and one intervention regarding providing play therapy virtually
• Practice three virtual play therapy activities for use with child and adolescent clients

Instructor: Dr. Yolanda Fountain, Ph.D., LPC, RPT-S, ACS, NCC

Biography: Yolanda Fountain Hardy, PhD is a board-certified professional counselor, play therapy supervisor, sand therapy specialist, brainspotting practitioner, and yoga teacher (in training). Dr. Fountain is the owner of Play Wellness LLC in Roswell, Georgia, a private practice that provides intergenerational mental health care as well as supervision and training services for clinical professionals. She also founded the Child Loss Center Inc., a non-profit that provides health and education services to assist grieving parents recovering from infertility, pregnancy, infant, and child loss. Dr. Fountain has provided mental health services to children, adults, and families since 2006, has presented over 150 times locally and internationally, and has taught master’s and doctoral level courses at multiple universities in-person and virtually since 2011.

Date and Time: March 23rd, 12:30pm - 2:00pm EST

Title: Using Telemental Health to Treat Juvenile Sex Offenders

Description: The use of telemental has been increasing over the years. However, due to the pandemic, the use of telemental health has skyrocketed in all facets of mental health. Mental health practitioners must address the pros and cons of using telemental health with specialized treatment populations such as juvenile sex offenders. This presentation will address the challenges and benefits of using telemental to treat juvenile sex offenders. Additionally, the presenter will provide an overview of the current research regarding the use of telemental mental health and juvenile sex offenders. The participants will gain insight into the ethical considerations for working with this population.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the prevalence and characteristics of juveniles with sexual behavior problems
• Explain the ethical implications of using telemental health with juvenile sex offenders.
• List the legal implications of telemental mental with Juvenile sex offenders

Instructor: Dr. April R. Crable, PhD, MBA, PLC, SOTP, CSAC

Biography: April R. Crable specializes in teletherapy, crisis and trauma and counseling, substance abuse, ethics, and sex offender treatment. She has been a distance educator for ten years. Dr. Crable is currently a professor and co-owner of Fruition Counseling and Consulting Services, LLC. The practice specializes in providing teletherapy services. Dr. Crable has worked in the mental health field for over a decade providing services to various populations. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the states of Arizona, Florida, Virginia, and Texas, Additionally, she is both a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor and Sex Offender Treatment Provider in the state of Virginia. Her research and teaching interests include field experience, ethics, crisis and trauma, and distance counseling and supervision.

Date and Time: March 23rd, 12:30pm - 2:00pm EST

Title: Teletherapy Groups

Description: Teletherapy is here and here to stay. There have been numerous training sessions for individual teletherapy. What about teletherapy groups? In this presentation, I will explain what key steps one should consider before starting a group. This presentation will be broken down in two parts. Part 1 will highlight administrative considerations when creating a teletherapy group. For instance, what should one look for when choosing the technology platform for an online group? What ethical and legal considerations are needed for group teletherapy? Part 2 will highlight how to manage the group once members have been added. I will provide all participants with a list of key questions and tips to help increase their level of comfort with administering and facilitating teletherapy groups. Time will be made at the end for questions and answers.

Learning Objectives: 

• Explain key steps to creating an teletherapy group
• Explain how to manage a teletherapy group
• List key questions one should answer before facilitating and administering a teletherapy group

Instructor: Tiffany Howard, Ed.S, LPC, BC-TMH

Biography: Tiffany Howard is a licensed professional counselor and a nationally certified counselor. She has a B.A degree in Psychology from Winthrop University and an Education Specialist degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of South Carolina. She is a Board-Certified Telemental Health provider and also a trained facilitator of the Nationally and Internationally renowned Prepare/Enrich Inventories.

Tiffany is a staff counselor & the Coordinator of Web-based Services at a large university. In her role, she not only provides individual, group and couples counseling services; she also oversees, coordinates and acts as the main consultant of telehealth services. These services include but are not limited to assisting in the full implementation and management of Therapy Assistance Online, TAO (an online platform that provides coping skills and teletherapy services). Most recently, Tiffany has been tasked with leading the development, training, and implementation of the counseling center’s rapid shift to sole teletherapy services given the COVID-19 pandemic.

When she is not consulting, counseling, and researching more about telehealth, she is working within her private practice, Unity’s Essence, LLC, providing similar services for the community. Tiffany has been featured as the subject matter expert on several platforms including podcasts, multiple news and radio outlets, the Education Dive publication with experts in the telehealth field and more. She has also facilitated multiple workshops in the community in an effort to support one of her favorite quotes by Maya Angelou. “You should not walk throughout life with a catcher's mitt on both hands, you need to be able to throw something back."

Tiffany embodies this quote beyond providing counseling and consultations services to the community. She along with her co-founder created a non-profit organization, Loving the Unique You. This non-profit organization is responsible for providing over $10,000 in scholarships to minority women across the nation. “Treat people like you want to be treated.” She believes in the golden rule. When Tiffany has time, she is creating fundraisers and vising her family’s home country in the Dominican Republic in hopes of supporting her grandmother’s elderly home and upcoming orphanage.

Through Tiffany’s education, experience in the clinical field, training as a BC-TMH provider and life experiences through community service; she has seen what technology can do. She has seen relief in student’s faces when they realize they don’t have to drive to campus in the midst of a busy semester to engage in services. She’s heard about the relief students currently feel when realizing they can still receive counseling services in the midst of the current pandemic. She’s seen the smile in her grandmother’s face while video chatting with family miles away. The relief and the smile are both due to technology. Tiffany Howard plans to continue her education and training in hopes of spreading more smiles across the world.

Find out more about Tiffany’s counseling and consultation services @ www.unitysessence.com. You can follow her on Instagram and Facebook @unitysessence.

You can also discover more about her non-profit at www.thelovingtheuniqueyou.com.

Date and Time: March 23rd, 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Title: School Social Workers: Remote Interventions

Description: COVID-19 has necessitated that schools nationwide utilize the internet for crucial academic and behavioral health services. This will be a brief overview of using G-Suite by Google, which is an integrated and secure product used in many schools in the United States. It will include using the audio and video features to meet with students, families, and community partners remotely. There will be an overview of Classroom, Gmail, Forms, Meet, Calendar, and more.

Learning Objectives: 

• Define the terminology of remote learning.
• Access and set up a live virtual classroom for school social work services.
• Set up a virtual meeting for families and community partners to attend by internet video/audio or telephone.

Instructor: Michael Cappiello, LCSW-R

Biography: Michael received his MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work in 2000, practiced as a psychiatric social worker in Westchester County at two university medical centers, is now a school social worker for the NYC Department of Education, and has a private practice. A member of NASW since 1998, Michael led the State’s Advocacy and Government Relations Committee and then was the Westchester Division Director. Michael holds a BA in Psychology from Hobart College and an AAS in Social Sciences from SUNY Cobleskill. He is also an active lay person in the Episcopal Church.

Michael was a staff social worker in the department of child and adolescent psychiatry at two university hospitals in the New York metropolitan area, serving families in clinics, inpatient units, and school programs. During the past 9 years he has specialized in school social work, first in a 1000-student middle school in an affluent suburb, then in an inner city special education high school for students with complex psychosocial and learning needs.

Michael’s practice focuses on assessment of family, school, and community systems to maximize positive experiences in learning.

Date and Time: March 23rd, 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Title: Racial & Cultural Diversity: Understanding Trauma and Intervention

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the connection between race-based traumatic stress injury and chronic psychological distress experienced by BIPOC individuals
• List 2 key steps/processes involved in successfully & therapeutically talking with clients about discrimination, racial stress and racial trauma
• Identify 2 ways evaluate the extent of, and move the needle on, one’s own involvement in promoting racial equity

Instructor: Dr. Sonja Sutherland, PhD LPC, BC-TMH, ACS

Date and Time: March 23rd, 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Title: Identifying and Treating Complex Trauma: Dynamics, Stages, and Standards of Practice for Recovery

Description: Traumatology research during the past two decades have illuminated variance among profiles of post traumatic stress related to the nature, timing, and repetition of the precipitating traumatic events. Although not yet officially included within the DSM classification nomenclature (APA, 2013), empirical traumatology literature has identified complex trauma as eliciting distinct clinical phenomena from traditional conceptualizations of posttraumatic stress. This session introduces participants to the essential dynamics of Complex Traumatic Stress Disorder according to the ICD classification system (WHO, 2020) vis a vis Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (APA, 2013). Thereafter, a review of the triphasic model of recovery (Herman, 2015) endorsed by prevailing standards of mental health care is presented, along with implications for treatment process expectations.

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the key characteristics of a trauma reaction and the unique additional impact introduced by interpersonal trauma
• Identify six areas of disturbance caused by interpersonal trauma according to the literature on complex trauma (Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified; DESNOS).
• Apply current published standards of care to complex trauma treatment, especially Herman’s (2015) three stages of trauma recovery as descriptive of the process to establish or restore characteristics of health and adaptive resilience.
• Establish appropriate expectations for complex trauma recovery as distinct from PTSD

Instructor: Dr. Dan Sartor, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC

Biography: Dan is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (GA), Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (IL), and Nationally Board Certified Counselor with over 20 years of clinical experience. He is Professor of Counseling at Richmont Graduate University, where he teaches graduate courses in trauma, psychodynamic therapy, and the integration of faith in clinical practice. In his practice, he provides psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and consultation services. Dan regularly speaks and provides training nationally and internationally to organizations on various topics, including trauma-informed care, complex trauma recovery, compassion satisfaction/compassion fatigue, and various topics related to sexuality, marital enrichment, pastoral care, and healthy spirituality. Dan’s clinical specialties include trauma recovery, sexuality issues, addiction recovery, marital therapy, and the integration of faith with clinical practice. Dan is a co-author of Shared Hope, International's i:CARE: A Health Care Provider’s Guide to Recognizing and Caring for Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Victims (2016) and is featured on WebMD on identifying PTSD triggers and the impact of PTSD on relationships.

Date and Time: March 23rd, 5:30pm - 6:15pm EST

Description: Details Coming Soon

Date and Time: March 24th, 11:00am - 12:30 pm EST

Title: Treating patients with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Via Telehealth

Description: This talk will highlight the different ways videoconferencing enables providers to work with patients with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Additionally, tips and tricks for working with patients with neurodevelopmental disorders via telehealth will be addressed.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the different ways telehealth facilitates the care of patients with
• neurodevelopmental disabilities
• Specify the unique considerations that come from working with patients with
• neurodevelopmental disabilities via videoconferencing.
• List tips and pearls for working with patients with special needs including patients who are nonverbal or aggressive.

Instructor: Dr. Felissa Goldstein, MD

Biography: Dr. Felissa Goldstein is a board certified adult, adolescent and child psychiatrist and the Director of Telehealth Services at the Norton Children's Medical Group Division of Behavioral and Mental Health. She is an assistant professor at the University of Louisville in the Department of Pediatrics. She has extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of neurodevelopmental disabilities. She did her Psychiatry residency and Child Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Kentucky. She completed her Doctorate of Medicine from the Medical College of Ohio and completed her Bachelor of Arts at Goucher College. Her clinical interests include patients with developmental disabilities, telepsychiatry, integrated medicine and patients with complex medical and psychiatric issues. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her family, volunteering in the community, cooking, traveling and reading.

Date and Time: March 24th, 11:00am - 12:30 pm EST

Title: Innovation in Peer Support: Telemental Health and One to One Peer Support During a Global Pandemic

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges throughout behavioral health care, including for Certified Peer Specialists (CPS) who rely on maintaining close, supportive relationships with the people they serve. Telehealth has been in use by peer specialists for nearly two decades but the pandemic has made it the primary, and sometimes sole way support services are provided. CPSs have been forced to innovate new techniques for maintaining and reinforcing peer to peer relationships. This workshop will examine some of the techniques being used by peer specialists around the country. An essential quality of peer support is to “meet people where they are” and in order to accomplish that it is necessary that the peer specialist is able to empathize with the individuals circumstances, including the fear, isolation, and loneliness brought on by the pandemic. Peer specialists have accomplished this in a variety of new ways which we will examine.

Learning Objectives:

• Recite at least 3 distinct techniques being used by peer specialists providing Telemental Health.
• Compare the new innovative techniques to those used in face to face peer support.

Instructor: Patrick Hendry, NCPS

Biography: Patrick Hendry is the Vice President of Peer Advocacy, Supports and Services for Mental Health America (MHA). He has experienced life with a psychiatric diagnosis both personally and as a parent of a child with lived experience. Patrick provides national advocacy and develops new services and training for peers within the behavioral health system. Throughout his work, he has focused on human rights, social inclusion, peer support and peer-provided services, and peer-run organizational development. Patrick has led MHA’s development of the first advanced level national peer support certification, which maintains the highest standards of skills, education, and training in the nation. He is the recipient of MHA’s Clifford Beers award, SAMHSA’s Voice award for peer leadership, and The National Council for Behavioral Health’s Inspiring Hope, Reintegration Lifetime Achievement award. Patrick has worked in behavioral health for 29 years and continues to be passionate about his work and the inclusion of peers/consumers throughout the system.

Date and Time: March 24th, 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

Title: Establishing Rapport in Telehealth Encounters

Description: How to establish rapport during telehealth encounters focusing on: 1) technology's role in establishing rapport in telehealth encounters 2) ways to prepare patients for telehealth encounters 3) how to frame telehealth encounters to increase patient acceptance

Learning Objectives:

• Describe technology's role in establishing rapport in telehealth encounters
• List ways to prepare patients for telehealth encounters
• Demonstrate how to frame telehealth encounters to increase patient acceptance

Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth A. Krupinski, PhD

Date and Time: March 24th, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Title: Using EHRs and HIEs for Behavioral Health and Care Coordination

Description: Within the last few years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched its “Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care” initiative to accelerate the transition to a value-based health care system focused on care coordination. As part of this initiative, HHS expressed an intent to identify regulatory requirements that act as obstacles to coordinated care and then issue guidance or revise regulations to address these obstacles and incentivize coordinated care. Since then, HHS has revised federal regulations governing the confidentiality of patient records created by federally-assisted substance use disorder treatment programs, known as 42 CFR Part 2. In early 2020, U.S. Congress then amended the enabling statute for 42 CFR Part 2 for the first time in decades. This will result in yet another round of new regulations needed to implement these new statutory changes. On December 10, 2020, HHS then released proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to similarly removed such barriers to care coordination’s. These changes, as well as those still coming, will further facilitate providers use of EHRs and HIEs for behavioral health and care coordination.

Learning Objectives: 

• Describe recent changes to federal laws of 42 CFR Part 2 and HIPAA affecting the sharing of behavioral health information in the HIE context
• Specify how changes to federal law relate to care coordination purposes.

Instructor: Helen Oscislawski, JD

Date and Time: March 24th, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Title: The Art of Family (Tele)Therapy.

Description: In 2020 therapists across the world switched the medium of our message from carefully constructed therapy rooms to carefully created teletherapy experiences. Just as Salvador Minuchen, Jay Haley, and Marianne Walters created great impact on families with the new ways of interacting with client families and moved the art of family therapy forward, family therapists have once again embraced change boldly. We create, challenge, and shape-shift family processes via teletherapy using newly forged tools, again benefitting from Marshall McLuhan’s seminal work about the profound role of the medium. Family therapists focus on families within the realities of the families’ current lives as they are being lived, and are re-tooling their trade based on the trial and error experience of bringing our therapeutic artistry to the medium of teletherapy. This presentation will explore and expand on these newly forged family therapy tools.

Learning Objectives: 

• Describe the family process in the context of teletherapy
• State two Family Process strategies and their implementation in teletherapy
• Identify current challenges in participants’ Family Therapy practices.

Instructor: Dr. Vicky Loyer, PhD, LMFT

Biography: Vicki Loyer (Carlson) Ph.D., LMFT, is the CEO/President of Blue Door Psychotherapy, a center for individual and family therapy services and a center for family therapy training. She is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Arizona Department of Psychiatry, and a Subject Matter Expert, Site Supervisor, and Instructor for Graduate Studies at Grand Canyon University. Using a competency focused family therapy approach to working with individuals and families, she provides equine assisted psychotherapy as an experiential therapy for greater depth. Most recently, as a result of Covid-19 restrictions, Dr. Loyer has expanded her practice and teaching in the area of delivering quality Telemental Health and has been a co-organizer of Webinars on Telemental health Ethics and Effective Therapy. Dr. Loyer is a regular contributing author to the House Calls section of the Tucson magazine Desert Leaf, has co-author of books on premarital relationships and youth-at-risk, and has been publishing and speaking in the areas of self-injury, mental illness, addiction, and family therapy for many years. Dr Loyer is an AAMFT Clinical Member, Approved Supervisor and a past president of the Arizona Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (AzAMFT).

Date and Time: March 24th, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Title: Navigating Licensure Supervision Within an Organization

Description: This presentation will provide an overview of the process of providing supervision within your organization. Benefits and barriers will be reviewed as will the roles and documentation processes

Learning Objectives: 

• Distinguish the difference between administrative and clinical supervision
• State strategies for providing supervisions over tele-methods
• Demonstrate the documentation process for ethical supervision

Instructor: Dr. Malcolm Horn, Ph.D., LCSW, MAC

Date and Time: March 24th, 4:00pm - 5:30 pm EST

Title: Caring for the Caregiver During a Pandemic

Description: Lessons learned from previous public health emergencies, including disasters and infectious disease outbreaks, can inform public and behavioral health practice. This presentation will review 3 historic events: Hurricane Katrina, the Flint crisis, and the U.S. response to the Zika virus, and discuss key aspects that can help improve our practice and help us prepare for post-pandemic recovery.

Learning Objectives:

• List important past disasters and disease outbreaks with pandemic potential that changed how the United States handles emergency behavioral health response.
• Describe Behavioral Health impacts and interventions implemented during past disasters/outbreaks.
• Identify Behavioral Health resources to help the public and responders prepare for post-pandemic recovery.

Instructor: Captain Michael King, PhD, MSW, LCSW

Biography: Captain Michael King is social worker and epidemiologist who has worked at the intersection of behavioral and public health for over 17 years. He is Regional Administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) covering HHS Region IV which includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Prior to joining SAMHSA in 2019, he supported State and Federal public health capacity at the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an instructor and Field Supervisor for post-doctoral fellows enrolled in the Epidemic Intelligence Service. CAPT King previously served for over 10 years on the National Asthma Surveillance Team in the National Center for Environmental Health where his interests focused on chronic disease surveillance, environmental exposure and hazard assessment, and disaster mental health. As a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, CAPT King deploys routinely following disasters and has had the privilege to lead one of five national Mental Health Response teams (Team 5) that provide crisis counseling and technical assistance to medically-underserved populations, with a focus on emergency public health response.

Date and Time: March 24th, 4:00pm - 5:30 pm EST

Title: Current Psychiatric Practice via Telemedicine

Description: This talk will review all aspects of medication management in the virtual environment. We will cover legal considerations, including those for MAT treatment. We will also discuss best practices for safety. We will discuss differences between virtual and in-person care, including rapport building and evaluation of the patient's home environment. We will also discuss how to approach tracking of medication adherence and effectiveness, as well as collaboration with caregivers. Finally, we will discuss practical considerations for offering telemedicine group medical visits (GMVs) and/or psychotherapy groups virtually.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe three relevant licensure laws and regulations as they apply to telepsychiatry practice.
• State the most important factor in managing safety virtually.
• Describe best-practices for engaging patients and caregivers in the virtual care environment.

Instructor: Dr. Chanel Heerman, MD

Biography: Chanel Heermann, MD, is an integrative psychiatrist who founded SynerGenius to empower individuals to create health and happiness by developing harmony in their lives. Dr. Heermann helps people create a holistic recovery plan for their unique emotional challenges, using the best of conventional and alternative medicine.

Dr. Heermann received her medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and went on to complete her psychiatry residency at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr. Heermann was one of the first 121 physicians in the world certified by the American Board of Integrative Medicine. Graduate of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine's fellowship program, Dr. Heermann is board certified in both Psychiatry and Integrative-Holistic Medicine.

Dr. Heermann serves on the national faculty for the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, as guest faculty at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, and on the faculty of Saybrook University's College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences.

Dr. Heermann an expert in women's mental health, with years of training and experience helping women in all stages of their lives. She has completed the Maternal Mental Health Professional Certificate Training through Postpartum Support International. Dr. Heermann also consults with the Nayacare postpartum home visit team to help pregnant and postpartum women optimize their mental health during this special time.

Dr. Heermann has extensive training in a variety of natural approaches, including the advanced nutrient therapies taught by the Walsh Research Institute, the effective use of multi-nutrient formulas (such as those offered by Truehope and others), and has completed training with the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), as well. She is certified in Mind-Body Medicine and has also completed substantial training in the cutting-edge fields of positive psychology and collaborative communication.