Information About the 2011 Conference

Parent Support Providers’ Institute

Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, D.C.
November 16, 2011
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Parent Support Provider Institute

Space is limited. Pre-registration required – Click here to register

Join other Parent Support Providers, family leaders, researchers, health care providers and policy makers for:

Three Rockin’ Plenary Presentations

• The Vision of an Emerging Profession
  A.  Elaine Slaton, M.S.A., Senior Program Director, National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
  “We’re building this boat while we’re floating it” has been an oft repeated phrase throughout the history of the family movement and now it is time to step back and plot this boat’s long term course. This presentation will set the course of the day.

• The Research That Supports Us
  Dr. Eric Bruns, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine
  In a world where scientific evidence is more and more important to advocating for parent-to-parent peer support, Dr. Eric Bruns presentation will enlighten and entertain us.

• The Selling of a New Profession
  Dr. Chris Stormann, Senior Research Associate, Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, Case Western Reserve University
  Entrepreneur extraordinaire, Dr. Chris Stormann will inspire and instruct us toward the business approach needed to move this emerging profession to the center of children’s mental health systems.

Three Fabulous Workshops:

• How to: Supervision
• How to: Ethics
• How to: Using your Lived Experience

One MUST-NOT-MISS Dialogue

• Forming a Parent Support Provider Association: Is it time?

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