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Breakout Presentations marked (CE) indicate that LCSWs and LMSWs can receive Continuing Education and or Counseling Rehabilitation Credits/Units for attending the presentation in its entirety; each presentation is 75-minutes duration. Please complete this Surveymonkey link to for your CE.

Time Presentation Title | Presenter

7:00AM Check in/Registration

8:00AM Breakfast

9:00AM Call to Order - SC Theater

  Welcome & Invocation: Jason Hansana-Cofield (Shinnecock Indian Nation) - SC Theater

  Memorial - “We Remember Our Own” -

Remembering community members who died between October 2022 and October 2023 by homicide, suicide or other means. - SC Theater

  Greetings & Welcome (SC Theater):

Hofstra University - Reginald Alston, Ph.D., Dean and Professor, School of Health Professions and Human Services, Hofstra University

Nassau County - Dr. Carolyn McCummings, Director of Health Equity, Nassau County Department of Health,

9:30AM      Thriving at the Intersections of BIPOC + LGBTQ + Disability - presented by Mark Travis Rivera - SC Theater

10:15AM Wellness BREAK & Exhibition - Multipurpose Room

10:25AM Breakout Session 1 (B1)

B1-A -(CE) Access to Mental Health Services for Individuals with Combined Vision and Hearing Loss - presented by Eleanor Coley-Brody MSW, LCSW (Helen Keller) (SC Theater)

B1-B - Healing Together: Parental PTSD and Family Resilience - Janique “Jay” Cofield and Jason Hansana-Cofield (Shinnecock Indian Nation) (Room 143)

B1-C - Disability Ally Initiative- Reconfiguring Communities for LGBTQIA+ and POC - presented by Evalesse Segarra (Room 142)

B1-D - (CE) - The Evolving Yoga Chair Practice - Leonardo Cruz, Ph.D. (Room 141)

B1-E - (CE) The straw that breaks: A framework for taking systemic inequities into consideration in disaster psychiatry response with the Chronic Cyclical Disaster Model - presented by Lindsay Mixer, MA, MEd, ABD; Raven Blue (Vibrant Emotional Health) (Plaza West)

B1-F - Quiet Room - Silence/Meditation

11:45AM LUNCH - Multipurpose Room

12:15PM Lunch & Learn (SC Theater) - Get what’s yours: free accessible reading materials, talking book players, accessible tech coaching, accessible making, and more from the NLS libraries - presented by Jill Rothstein and Chancey Fleet (NYPL - Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library) (SC Theater)

12:45PM Call to Order - SC Theater

1:00PM Embracing All Of Us: Making Space For Disabled QTBIPOC In Our Communities - presented by India Harville (Embracing Disability) - SC Theater

1:45PM Presentation -The Traumatic Impact of Mental Health Crisis Responses in Communities of Color and in the LGBTQIA+ Community, and a Proposal for Transforming the Responses - presented by Ruth Lowenkron, NYLPI - SC Theater

2:15pm An Agency Overview with discussions on substance use and interventions using naloxone - presented by Janeth "Jet" Quintero and Nirmala Brodman, NYS OASAS - SC Theater

2:30PM Wellness BREAK & Exhibition - Multipurpose Room

2:45PM Breakout Session 2 (B2)

B2 A - (CE) Crafting More Inclusive Spaces: Amplifying Disabled QTBIPOC Wisdom - presented by India Harville, MA (Embracing Diversity) (SC Theater)

B2- B - Getting Through The Storm, Greeting The Rainbow - presented by Nathan James (Room 143)

B2- C - Climate, Community, and Care: Exploring Intersectionality Within Climate Change and Mental Health - presented by Christina Johnson, MA (Brightside Bahamas) (Room 142)

B2-D - Healthy-ass Parenting for a Different Child - presented by Sharde' O'Rourke, LPC, LMFT, LSATP, CCTP, PAI, SAP (Room 141)

B2- E - Quiet Room - Silence/Meditation

B2-F - (CE) The Little Boy That She Is Not: Raising A Transgendered Child In A Trauma-Filled Environment - presented by Rafaelina Tineo (Plaza West)

4:00PM Wellness BREAK & Exhibition - Multipurpose Room

4:15PM Breakout Session 3 (B3)

B3-A - (CE) Redefining ‘Burden’: Understanding Informal Caregiver Experiences - presented by Savanna M. Daquila, B.S. (Room 142)

B3-B - Unlocking the Power of Inclusion: Paving the Way for a Diverse Workforce - presented by Jay Marquez, Dylan Valic, Kelli Fisher (Spectrum Designs) (Plaza West)

B3-C - The "S" is Silent - presented by Khalil Bleux (SC Theater)

B3-D - (CE) True Healing -What it looks like in Practice - presented by Jose Cotto, LCSW (Room 143)

B3-E- (CE) Leveling Up: Using Role Playing Games to Teach Social Skills - presented by Jack Cummings (Room 141)

B3-F - Quiet Room - Silence/Meditation

5:30PM Wellness BREAK & Exhibition - Multipurpose Room

5:45PM Reconvene & Announcements - Next Year, 2024 - IMM’s 10th Anniversary. - SC Theater

5:50PM Closing Invocation - Jason Hansana-Cofield (Shinnecock Indian Nation) - SC Theater

6:00pm END