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The International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR), in collaboration with the Center to Study Recovery in Social Contexts, will be holding its 5th annual conference on November 23rd at New York University’s Kimmel Center
Rethinking Psychiatric Crisis: alternative responses to “first breaks.”
INTAR will bring experts in Alternatives to New York City from around the world to describe and discuss current alternatives to hospitalization for psychiatric crises. Download the brochure here.
Register here.
Presenters Include:
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Robert Whittaker, author of Mad in America
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Jan Wallcraft, co-editor of the Handbook of Service User Involvement in Mental Health Research
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Richard Warner, author of Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy
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Alma Menn, former Co-Director of Soteria House
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Sue Estroff, author of Making it Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community
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Kim Hopper, co-editor of Recovery from Schizophrenia: An International Perspective and author of Reckoning with Homelessness
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Ken Thompson, Associate Director of the Center for Mental Health Services, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Download the brochure here.
Register here.
Key Note : “Why do we need Alternatives?” Will Hall
Discussant: Sue Estroff
Plenaries: Introduction to Key Alternatives
*Soteria , Open Dialogue,Survivor/Peer Driven Alternatives
* “How do we know these alternatives are safe and helpful?”
Closing Panel: Alternatives, Capabilities and System Transformation”
Robert Whittaker, Andy Blanch, Ron Bassman, Ken Thompson
Register here.
In-Depth-Workshops:
• Soteria
• First Break and Crisis Alternatives, UK
• Family Involvement and Self Determination
• Crisis Residential Alternatives, USA
• Trauma of First Break and Traditional Interventions
• Medication and “First Break”
• What is happening to young people?: Critical Look at
Prevention Programs
• Advocating for Alternatives in the Age of Health Care
Reform
MultiMedia Show, Madigan Shive
Speak Out, Lauren Tenney
FOR REGISTRATION AND DETAILED
PROGRAM:
download brochure Register here.
www.intar.org
The annual conference is being held with additional support from Community Access, The Empowerment Center, Mental Disability Rights International and SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
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