Negotiating Medication Concerns / Talking with Your Healthcare Provider with Beckie Child 3/14/12
Beckie discusses tools and strategies to use when talking with healthcare providers about mental health challenges and medication concerns.  She talks about how difficult and hard feelings are survivable and that not every bad feeling requires a pill. 

Beckie discusess the principles of informed consent, strategies and tools,different ways to say "No!", and strategies for dealing with embarrassment when talking to your healthcare provider.
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Poverty and Mental Illness with Amy Zulich and Donita Diamata 2/16/12
This webinar examines the impact poverty has on mental health and well-being. We examine the prevalence of poverty within the mental health consumer community and the complacency we have as a society and within the mental health system that people diagnosed with mental health issues are generally poor.

This issue is part of a greater, on-going conversation intended to prompt change in the mental health system and create supports that help mental health consumers to ultimately move out of poverty. We invite participants to give feedback and ideas for change so the legacy of poverty within our mental health community can begin to dissolve.
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Stand Up for Mental Health w/ David Granirer 1/19/12
David Granirer is a counselor, stand-up comic, speaker, and author of The Happy Neurotic: How Fear and Angst Can Lead To Happiness and Success. He has taught stand-up comedy to recovering drug addicts and cancer patients, and is the founder of Stand Up For Mental Health, a project teaching stand-up comedy to people with mental illness. He is also the recipient of a Champion of Mental Health Award. These national awards recognize the contributions of individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of the mental health agenda in Canada.

You have to be nuts to take counsellor and stand-up comic David Granirer's Stand Up For Mental Health program where he teaches stand-up comedy to people with mental illness, but the results can be life-changing! This hilarious presentation is part comedy and part education. David, who himself suffers from depression, looks at how humour can help fight the stigma around mental illness.
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Economic Empowerment for Survivors of Domestic Violence with Missy Kloos 12/15/11
This webinar explores the benefits of economic empowerment programs ineffectively serving survivors of domestic violence. We will define financial abuse and give examples, including tactics such as identity
theft, blocked access to finances, and ruined credit. We will also provide practical tools for service providers who work with victims of domestic
violence and financial abuse and detail the successes of our Economic Empowerment program.
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Working Towards Recovery with Kasey Moyer 11/17/11
Kasey presents on Nebraska's only consumer run supported employment program. She looks at SAMHSA's Evidence Based Practice of Supported Employment and the integration of recovery principles within this model.
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Coalition Building with David Oaks and Nancy Snider 9/30/11
Founding Board Members of the Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition facilitate a hands-on webinar discussing:

Types of coalitions, and initial steps in coalition building

Finding common ground among diverse groups run by mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors

Reaching out to allies such as the cross-disability community and supportive family members

Lessons learned from the Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition's experience starting a coalition from scratch with few resources

Action steps to take in building and/or sustaining a coalition in your own region
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Conditions that May Masquerade as Depression with Drs. Loomis and Cooke 9/22/11
Marnie Loomis, ND
Dr. Marnie Loomis is a naturopathic physician, administrator and adjunct faculty member of the National College of Natural Medicine, the oldest accredited college of naturopathic medicine in North America. Besides helping students and alumni in her role as NCNM’s director of Professional Formation and Career Services, Dr. Loomis is a popular and lively public speaker who appears on local TV news programs and for public and professional audiences throughout the country. A 2000 graduate of NCNM, Dr. Loomis had a private practice in Aloha, Oregon, prior to joining her alma mater. She has published extensively in Naturopathic Doctor News & Review, is a member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians’ House of Delegates and is actively involved in the North American Board of Naturopathic Examiners.

Chris Cooke, ND
Dr. Chris Cooke graduated from National College of Natural Medicine with honors in research in 2006 and is in private practice at NCNM Clinic
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An Overview: Chinese Medicine with Dr. Roger Batchelor 9/21/11
Roger Batchelor began studying natural therapies in 1983. He graduated from SW Acupuncture College in New Mexico in 1987. Public health then became a ten-year career, working for Central City Concern as an LAc primarily at Hooper Detox Center. He taught acupuncture and qigong at Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, traveling to China repeatedly for further study. Completing a clinical doctorate in 2005 led to becoming an OCOM department chair and participating in multiple research projects. Roger began teaching classically based acupuncture at NCNM in 2009. He enjoys being with his family, bicycling as a main mode of transport, community gardening, and yoga classes.
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