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National Zoom Cast Series: Focusing on Solutions to Untreated Serious Mental Illness

Date: 09/04/20

Virtual (Live Streaming): July 10 - October 16, 2020 |1:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm ET 

The Healing Minds NOLA 2020 Zoom Cast series is ongoing and showcases an exciting lineup of guests with expertise in ending the status quo of incarceration, homelessness and death for people living with untreated and under-treated serious mental illness. All broadcasts are recorded and archived.

Endorsed by the Louisiana District Judges Association

Program and Registration Information: https://healingmindsnola.org/zoom-cast-2020-focus-on-serious-mental-illness/

Hosts: Janet Hays, Director (Healing Minds NOLA) & Eric Smith. Biographical information here: https://bit.ly/2F3Gukg

Purpose: The purpose of the series is twofold.   

  • To educate the public and bring awareness to core issues regarding untreated and under-treated serious mental illnesses.  
  • To help build capacity to advocate for needed policy changes.

Core topics include: 

  • July 10 - Anosognosia -Treatment Non-Adherence
  • July 24 - Mental Health vs Mental Illness
  • August 7 - Alternatives to Incarceration
  • August 21 - Reforming Civil Commitment Laws
  • August 28 - Understanding HIPAA - with special guest Senator Bill Cassidy
  • September 4 - Streamlining Inpatient and Outpatient Care
  • September 18 - IMD Exclusion
  • October 2 - Reclassifying Schizophrenia as a Brain Disorder
  • October 16 - Housing and Homelessness

Highlighted speakers include the following. 

  • Xavier Amador, Ph.D. (The L.E.A.P. Foundation)
  • Senator Bill Cassidy (Louisiana)
  • Pete Earley (Family Member, Best Selling Author)
  • Dr. Jeffery Geller (President, American Psychiatric Association)
  • Judge Steven Leifman (Miami-Dade, FL)
  • Tim Murphy, Ph.D. (PA - Author, Originated the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act)
  • Dr. Drew (Talk Show Host, internal medicine/addiction specialist)
  • Dr. Ken Rosenberg (Author, Filmmaker: Bedlam)
  • John Snook (Executive Director, Treatment Advocacy Center)

Healing Minds NOLA invites viewers to join the next interactive zoom cast event Friday, September 4th, 2020 at 1:00pm CT / 2:00pm ET. Special guests Robert S. Laitman, M.D. and Marvin S. Swartz, M.D. will join co-hosts Janet Hays and Eric Smith for a much needed conversation regarding the streamlining of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric treatment and care. Eventbrite registration: https://bit.ly/3lDTgH4

Our guests will share their expertise and highlight evidence-based programs that strive to ensure a full streamlined continuum of coordinated psychiatric treatment AND care for people living with serious mental illnesses.

Healing Minds NOLA is a 501c3 non-profit charitable & educational organization dedicated to identifying & creating alternatives to incarceration, homelessness and early death for seriously mentally people.