2020 NAMI-NYS Education Conference-Building Momentum: Coming Together to Create

When

Friday, October 23, 2020 at 9:45 AM EDT
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Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 4:00 PM EDT
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Where

This is an online event.

Contact

Matthew Shapiro
NAMI-NYS
518-462-2000
matthew@naminys.org

The 2020 NAMI-NYS Education Conference-Building Momentum: Coming Together to Create Our Future will instill the importance of resiliency and address many of the critical issues we are currently facing including:

How to recover from the trauma and grief generated by COVID-19, the economy and racial injustice
Understanding and addressing social-determinants of mental health
How to take our education and turn it into action, including how we can make our voices heard in supporting mental health services in the upcoming elections.
How to partner in advancing research
Addressing suicide
How to take the next steps in supporting multicultural communities
The importance of early-intervention
Issues impacting young adults

While we will not be able to be in the same location, we will not let physical distance cause social distance; the education conference will still allow us to come together to learn from one another, help each other heal and begin creating the future we want to see.

NAMI-NYS's goal is to bring together as many people as possible for this important gathering, which is why we are not charging a registration fee this year, though we are asking if possible, for people to make a $20 donation to support NAMI-NYS.

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NAMI-NYS is thrilled to announce our 2020 Leaders of Mental Health Awareness honorees. All three of our honorees are the definition of resiliency, as all have overcome tragedy, hardship and a lifetime of mental health challenges. Each of them are also finding new and innovative ways to tell their stories and spread mental health awareness.

Lily Cornell Silver is the host of the new IGTV series Mind Wide Open. Lily is the only daughter of music industry manager Susan Silver and the first-born daughter of the late Soundgarden / Audioslave singer, Chris Cornell. Like her dad, Lily has struggled with anxiety and depression throughout her life and launched the show as a tribute to him on what would have been his 56th birthday. The show features Lily discussing mental health issues with leading experts, her peers with lived experience and celebrities. The show is quickly garnering a lot of attention including in Rolling Stone magazine.

AJ Mendez is the New York Times Bestselling author of Crazy Is My Superpower, co-founder of Scrappy Heart Productions, mental health advocate and speaker, and former championship wrestler with the WWE. She is an ambassador to The Jed Foundation and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. AJ wast the recipient of NAMI’s 2018 Multicultural Outreach Award. She is a writer, making the Black List’s inaugural Latinx TV List in 2020. AJ’s work with NAMI includes her Discovering My Superpower video.

Metta World Peace is a former NBA all-star, 2004 Defensive Player of the Year, author of the book No Malice and subject of the Showtime acclaimed documentary Quiet Storm-The Ron Artest Story. Metta and his family have become vital members of the NAMI-NYS family and have been instrumental in a landmark initative of introducing NAMI Signature programs into the Queensbridge housing project. Metta was also recently a guest on an episode of NAMI-NYS Perspectives.

Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., President and CEO, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Barbara A. Cornblatt, PhD, MBA, Director, Recognition and Prevention (RAP) Program Department of Psychiatry, Zucker Hillside Hospital
Christine Crawford,MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Associate Director of Psychiatry Medical Student Education Boston University School of Medicine
Wilfred Farquharson,Ph.D, Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic & Psychologist, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Donald Goff, MD, Director Nathan Kline Institute
Michelle Hammer, Founder, SchizophrenicNYC
Luke Kramer, Executive Director, the STARR Coalition
Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD, Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute; and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Columbia University Medical Center of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Merrill Rotter, M.D., Special Assistant to the Commissioner, New York State Office of Mental Health

More Featured Speakers to be announced shortly.

Agenda Highlights

First Steps Towards Healing: Addressing and Overcoming the Grief and Trauma of COVID-19, the Economy and Racial Injustice
Our Path Forward: Understanding and Prevailing Over Our Current Social Determinants of Mental Health
Education to Action Creating Our Future Breakout Sessions
Coming Together to Celebrate the Resiliency of our 2020 Leaders of Mental Health Awareness Honorees and NAMI-NYS Members
2020 NAMI-NYS Excellence in Research Award Presentation
Partnering on Research and Update from Leading Research Facilities
Disease Focus Workshops
Using Communication to Cut Through Cultural Divides and Mental Health Disparities
Zero Suicide Session-Recognizing and Addressing Warning signs of Suicide During COVID and Social Isolation
Expanding Mental Wellness in the LGBTQI Community
Four Young Adult Sessions on Managing Our New Back to School Stress, How to Curate a Healthy Social Media Feed, Addressing Anxiety (Turning Negative “What Ifs” to Positives) and Act and Vote for Mental Health