Additional List of Potential Presenters:

  • Implementing a Primary Care Clinic with Prevention Components

Dr. Dawn Ready: Recommended by Karen Hearod

  • The Suicide Prevention Tool Kit:

Dr. Liza Tupa – Recommended by George DelGrosso

Director of Education and Research, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

This tool kit was developed in conjunction with the National Suicide Prevention Coalition and has been used in various settings including primary care.

  • myStrength: The Health Club for Your Mind

Scott Cousino, Founding Partner – Recommended by George DelGrosso

Payers and providers integrate MyStrength to extend access to evidence-based resources to help consumers better manage depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders while

MyStrength is pioneering the delivery of digital self-care technologies that complement current Healthcare forms of treatment, lessen obstacles to access and extend effective behavioral healthcare at scale. improving overall well-being.

  • Using Mental Health First Aid in conjunction with Public Health Practice as a prevention tool in Hospitals, Primary Care Practices, and Law Enforcement:

Brian Turner, MPH, Deputy Director for the Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council -

Recommended by George DelGrosso

(Final description forthcoming)

  • KnKt'd by Synergistic Creations

Matt Holland, CEO and Co-founder – Recommended by Debby Jones
Synergistic Creations
Inventor of KnKt'd platform
KnKt’d is a software platform for better connecting providers and consumers/clients daily. The system is completely person centered and designed to be collaborative at all levels. It is an app that collects daily information from the consumer/clients via push notifications not unlike social media. It is a website that displays wellness of consumers/clients daily (with the click of the mouse) and an internal system SMS (text) communication tool. Lastly, it is a system for daily data on consumers/clients that will provide better outcomes and treatment focus. It will also provide data to funders of programs (State, Federal and grant resources).

  • Behavioral Health Reform in Primary Care Clinics/ Payment Reform and its Impact on Prevention (Two Separate Sessions)

Dr. Ben Miller, Director of the Farley Institute – Recommended by George DelGrosso

  • Crisis Intervention Team

Annie Burwell – Referred by Julie Stevens

CIT International is a non-profit membership organization whose primary purpose is to facilitate understanding, development and implementation of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training programs throughout the U.S. and in other nations worldwide in order to promote and support collaborative efforts to create and sustain more effective interactions among law enforcement, mental health care providers, individuals with mental illness, their families and communities and reduce the stigma of mental illness.

Potential Panels:

  • Community Impact: Lessons Learned

Craig L PoVey M.S.W., Lisa Nichols, Vondi Woodbury

  • Definition of Prevention:
  • Engaging Law Enforcement in Your Community Coalition

Working with Julie Stevens to get representation from Texas

  • Opioid Epidemic

Janice Peterson working on this