Crisis as an Opportunity for Change:
Awareness, Intervention, Response and Resources
A FREE Seminar for clergy, staff, chaplains, and lay leaders
Friday April 12, 2013 | 8:30 am – 2:00 pm
University Village | 8555 S. Lewis
Learn to recognize situations that require immediate response and how a mental health or substance use crisis can be transformed into real opportunities for long term change.
• Get connected with community resources and find out more about where to turn for help.
• Information & Supports to help you minister to the needs of youth, adults, elders and families.
Followed by an optional Special Session
QPR (Question, Persuade and Refer) Suicide Prevention Training
The special QPR suicide prevention training is open to anyone who would like to attend, even if they did not participate in the earlier workshop. We hope you will consider bringing a group to represent your congregation.
AGENDA
8:30 – 9:00 Check-in / Registration
9:00 – 10:15 Welcome
Chaplain Merle Newton – UniversityVillage
Responding to Crisis – A Pastor’s Experience
Chaplain Merle Newton
Crisis as an Opportunity for Change
Mike Brose, MSW –Mental Health Association inTulsa
• Definition / Anatomy of a Crisis
• Transforming reactive change into sustained recovery and prevention
• Fostering Healing
Community Resources Panel
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:30 A Youth Pastor’s Experience with Crisis
Tim Peterson, LPC, LMFT
Addiction – Insight and Intervention
Mary Hardy, LPC, LADC – LIFE Senior Services
• Prescription Addiction
• The Relationship between Trauma and Addiction
• When and How to Intervene
Community Resources Panel
11:30 – 12:15 Lunch (Compliments ofUniversityVillage)
12:15 – 1:15 Emergency Response: A Danger to Self and Others
Susannah Ralston– Tulsa Police Department
Amanda Bradley – COPES / Family & Children’s Services
• Defining Danger to Self and Others
• Emergency Response – Making the Call / What Can You Expect?
Community Resources Panel
1:15 – 2:00 Addressing Critical Issues: A Legal Perspective
Margaret Hamlett Shinn – Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma
• Some of the unique challenges individuals and families may face when mental illness is involved
Community Resources Panel
2:00 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 3:45 Question, Persuade & Refer (QPR) – Suicide Prevention Training
Chris Siemens, MAMFT
Community Resources Panel Attendees: 211, CALM Center/Counseling & Recovery Services of Oklahoma, 12&12, Mental Health Assistance Center, Parkside Psychiatric Hospital and Clinic, Shadow Mountain Behavioral Health, Tulsa Specialty Courts, Laureate Psychiatric Clinic & Hospital, Youth Services of Tulsa, Tulsa Center for Behavioral Health, Palmer, Brookhaven Hospital
For more information about Caring for your Congregation’s Mental Health, please call 918.585.1213.
