star center past events

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STAR Center Teleconference Series - The New Health Care Law:  What Does It Mean for People Living with Mental Illness and Mental Health Challenges? 

The new health care reform law creates enormous opportunities to expand access to insurance coverage and treatment for children and adults living with mental illness.  In addition to expanding coverage with insurance and primary-care treatment, the new law also presents a range of specific provisions designed to improve coverage of mental illness treatment in both private health plans and publicly funded coverage. 

This session will help inform and clarify what this legislation is about, and provide an opportunity to learn in-depth details.
STAR Center Teleconference, June 10, 2010, 5:00 pm ET

STAR Center Teleconference Series - The Future of Behavioral Healthcare Post-Legislation:  Where Do We Go From Here?  An Open Conversation with Gitane, Catherine, Can, John & YOU!

The summit in Santa Fe, NM, "A New Era in Behavioral Health: Charting the Course", assembled over more than 150 behavioral health care leaders, consumers and advocates with the focus on identifying key strategies to effectively position behavioral health in the newly emerging healthcare marketplace.

This was a conversation regarding reactions to proposed goals that are reflected in the new healthcare legislation. 
STAR Center Teleconference, May 3, 2010, 5:00 pm ET

The Difference Between “Opposite” and “Backward” Medicine and its Application to Mental Health Treatment

Please join us for a discussion around “Forward Motion”, “Opposite Motion” and “Backward or Contrary Motion” as well as the psycho-social view of these models.  This session will present some ideas, information, resources for consideration and discussion with the intention of supporting our learning together, encouraging self- and community-empowerment, and affirming or discovering helpful thoughts and practices.
STAR Center Teleconference, March 23, 2010, 5:00 pm ET

Healing Our Hearts: Honoring our Black Ancestors and Ourselves
During the month of February, we acknowledge and honor Black History Month! 

Black History Month shares the same timeframe with Valentine’s Day which can, perhaps, be seen to invite us to revisit, review, and appreciate our lives and valued relationships with a genuine kind of love for ourselves and others.
STAR Center Teleconference, February 16, 2010, 5:00 pm ET

Honoring the Past, Recognizing the Power of Now, and Taking Next Steps to Experiencing a Dynamic Future
Please join us as we explore ways of creating a wellness toolbox that includes approaches from multiple cultures, with information and discussion that recognizes some time-honored practices and traditions. You are invited to take part in sharing, discussing, and learning together as we search for strategies to develop a personal wellness toolbox to identify what can work for us right now.
STAR Center Teleconference, January 19, 2010, 5:00 pm ET

Multicultural Wellness, the Holidays, and You: Creating New Meaning and Ways to Celebrate
For many of us, the holidays can be occasions for getting together to celebrate. For others, though, the holidays can be a difficult and stressful time of encountering cultural differences, demanding or challenging family dynamics, and uncomfortable feelings that are associated with unpleasant experiences from years past.

This session will provide an opportunity to discuss and share about cultural celebrations, attitudes, and rituals that can help to lessen distress that can arise, and will invite participants to claim new meaning and adopt new ways of celebrating that tap into creative, affirming, and recovery/wellness-oriented thinking.
STAR Center Teleconference, December 16, 2009, 5:00 pm ET

Focus Now! Life is Worth Living: How You Can Change Your View And Change Your Life
In this session, information on the theory behind what “Salutogenesis” will be provided.  There will also be a discussion on practical strategies using Salutogenesis to bring about mental health, wellness and resiliency, and how the Prosumer Program puts the theory into practice for recovery and wellness.
STAR Center Teleconference, September 22, 2009, 5:00 pm ET

Mental Health and Wellness: Self-Help Tools and Practices to Support Your Personal Recovery and Growth
This session will present some ideas, information, resources for consideration and discussion on mental health recovery with the intention of supporting our learning together, encouraging self- and community-empowerment, and affirming or discovering helpful thoughts and practices.
STAR Center Teleconference, August 18, 2009, 5:00 pm ET

Self-Determination: What does this mean? How do I balance my life's dreams with realistic and achievable goals?
The National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability (NRTC) promotes access to effective consumer-driven and community-based services for adults with serious mental illness. The Center is located at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Psychiatry.  In this session, we will spend some time reviewing self-determination concepts and theory, as well as a couple of the Center’s primary self-determination tools.
STAR Center Teleconference, July 21, 2009, 5:00 pm ET

Mental Health Recovery:  What is it? What are steps to recovery? What are current approaches, challenges, and controversies in recovery?
This session will present some ideas, information, questions and scenarios for consideration and discussion on mental health recovery with the intention of supporting learning together, encouraging self- and community-empowerment, and affirming or discovering helpful thoughts and practices.
STAR Center Teleconference, June 30, 2009, 5:00 pm ET

Latinos in Recovery
STAR Center Teleconference, May 27, 2006, 7:00 pm ET

Women in Recovery
STAR Center Teleconference, March 29, 2006, 7:00 pm ET

Cultural Perspectives on Healing after a Disaster
STAR Center Teleconference, January 24, 2006, 7:00 pm ET

American Indian and Alaskan Native Perspectives on Recovery and Wellness
STAR Center Teleconference, November 29, 2005, 7:00 pm ET

Outreach to Consumers of Color
STAR Center Teleconference, September 19, 2005, 7:00 pm ET

Housing and Recovery
STAR Center Teleconference, July 7, 2005, 7:00 pm ET

Recovery and Employment in the Latino Community (English)
STAR Center Teleconference, April 28, 2005, 7:00 pm ET

Recuperación y Empleo en la Comunidad Latina (Español)
Teleconferencia del Centro STAR, 21 abril, 2005, 7:00 pm ET

Experiences of Self-Help in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities
STAR Center Teleconference, December 15, 2004, 7:00 pm ET

Asian American/Pacific Islander Experiences of Self-Help
STAR Center Teleconference, September 29, 2004, 3:00 pm ET

African American Experiences of Self-Help
STAR Center Teleconference, August 4, 2004, 3:00 pm ET