Dr. William Beardslee

Friday, August 16, 2013

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Williams Beardslee, M.D., is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Boston’s Children’s Hospital and Gardner/Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard University. He is the author of over 100 articles and chapters and books including the acclaimed Out of the Darkened Room: Protecting the Children and Strengthening the Family When A Parent Is Depressed. Dr. Beardslee is a frequent speaker and consultant on families and mental illness and serves as medical advisor to Families for Depression Awareness

  

  

Dr. Daniel Amen

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Dr. Amen is a physician, double board certified psychiatrist, teacher and five time New York Times bestselling author. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on applying brain imaging science to everyday clinical practice. Dr. Amen is the Founder of Amen Clinics in Newport Beach and San Francisco, California; Bellevue, Washington; Reston, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia and New York, New York. Using SPECT imaging and other diagnostic tools, Dr. Amen and his staff of highly-trained professionals help people across the country and the world with a wide range of issues, from attentional problems, anxiety issues, mood problems, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder, addictions, obesity, memory, learning and behavioral problems.  

  

  

Carole Kivler

Friday, August 16, 2013

Carol A. Kivler of Lawrence, NJ, is the founder of Courageous Recovery, President of Kivler Communications, popular professional speaker (CSP), author, international coach/ corporate trainer (CMT) and passionate consumer advocate. First diagnosed with mental illness in 1990, Kivler suffers from periodic acute bouts of medication-resistant depression, which in her case is only responsive to ECT (electro-convulsive therapy). Presently, Carol has been living in recovery for the last 12 years.   

  

 

  

Chief Kenton Rainey

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Chief Kenton W. Rainey, the Chief of Police for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) Police Department, began his career in law enforcement in 1979 as a Deputy with the Ventura County Sheriff's Department in California. Chief Rainey earned his BA in Criminal Justice from California State University Long Beach in 1993, and his MA in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix in 2001. He has also earned various leadership certificates from UCLA as well as other recognized entities including the California Commission on Police Officers Standards and Training (POST), National Organization Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). He has a deep commitment to achieving crime control through community partnerships and problem solving, advocacy for the mentally ill and domestic violence victims, and achieving police reform through higher education and training.

 

  

Ann Collentine

Friday, August 16, 2013

Ann Collentine, MPPA, is the Program Director at the California Mental Health Services Authority. She has over 20 years of administrative experience, 17 of those working in California’s mental health system. She holds an MPPA from California State University, Sacramento, a Secondary Education Teaching Credential from California State University, San Francisco, and a BA in Economics from University of California, Santa Cruz.

 

  

 

  

Keris Jän Myrick, M.B.A.,M.S., Ph.D.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Keris Jän Myrick is a leading mental health advocate and non-profit executive, known for her innovative and inclusive approach to mental health reform and the public disclosure of her personal story. Ms. Myrick is currently President and CEO of Project Return Peer Support, a Los Angeles-based, peer-run nonprofit, which manages over 100 self-help groups in Los Angeles County, a peer-staffed Warm Line, a Spanish language community resource center (El Centrito de Apoyo), and three levels of Peer Advocate training. She is the First Vice President of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and is a consultant to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Office of Minority and National Affairs (OMNA). She is a member of the selection committee for the APA/SAMHSA Minority Fellowship and offers assistance with the psychiatry component of the Recovery to Practice project, a SAMHSA-funded collaboration between the APA and the American Association of Community Psychiatrists (AACP).

Ms. Myrick’s personal story was recently featured in the New York Times series: Lives Restored, which told the personal narratives of several successful professionals living with mental health issues. With her unique combination of executive skills and personal lived experience in the mental health system, Ms. Myrick is an in-demand national trainer and keynote speaker. She is known for her collaborative style and innovative “whole person” approach to mental health care. Ms. Myrick has a Master of Science degree in organizational psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University. Her Master of Business Administration degree, with an emphasis on marketing, is from Case Western Reserve University. She is currently a doctoral candidate with an emphasis area in Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

  

 

 

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