Alt 06 Wednesday Opening Ritual and Remarks
Item #: Alt 06 10.25.06
Price: $20.00
Media Type: DVD
A blessing and welcome from Cheryle Kennedy, Tribal Council for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde followed by the Blessing Song by the Canoe Family Singers. Opening remarks by Kathy Muscari, Director of CONTAC. Presentation by Neal B. Brown, M.P.A., Chief, Community Support Programs Branch Center for Mental Health Services SAMHSA.
Alt 06 Awards Luncheon
Item #: Alt 06 10.26.06 Lun
Price: $20.00
Media Type: DVD
Experience our peers receiving awards for their work. Included is the "Esperanza Hope Award" presented by Jacki McKinney, Linford Gayle and Gilberto Ramiro. The "Howie the Harp" Arts Award presented by Gayle Bluebird. The "Garrett Smith" Memorial Awards presented by Rollin Shelton.
Alt 06 Charting Our Shared Journey
Presented by Paolo del Vecchiol
Item #: Alt 06 27Lun
Price: $20.00
Media Type: DVD
Recovery, as defined by SAMHSA in it's national consensus statement, is a journey of healing and transformation to live a meaningful life within our communities while striving to achieve our full potential.
As we blaze the trail to recovery, what are some of our key landmarks as well as landmines? How can we ensure our path is true and our bearings are straight? What is the role of leadership and how can we strengthen and support one another on our travels?
Paolo del Vecchio will explore these and other questions as we set our course and travel along this journey.
Alt 06 Homosexuality, Gender Identity Disorder and De-Pathologization
Presented by Emi Koyama.
Item #:Alt 06 28Morn
Price: $20.00
Media Type: DVD
Emi Koyama has given keynote speeches at national conferences on diverse topics including a range of diversity issues, disability rights, feminism topics, and relationship violence concerns.
Alt 06 Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patients Research/Evaluation Panel
presented by Priscilla Ridgeway, Darby Penny, MLS and Wilma Townsend
Item #: Alt 06 28Lun
Price: $20.00
Media Type: DVD
This plenary panel will provide an overview of the many ways that consumers/survivors/ex-patients (c/s/x) can be involved in research and evaluation activities, and will discuss why such involvement is crucial at every step of the process.
The panelists will also address the need for people in recovery who are trained researchers and evaluators to lead their own projects and to train more c/s/x in the specialized language and skills of research and evaluation.
Each panelist will describe projects she has led or participated in that focused on consumer-defined issues and promoted c/s/x participation.
Alt 06 Closing Session and Ritual
presented by Yvonne Smith, Kathy Muscari and Jubel Perkins from the Kickapoo Nation, Kanas, Native American Rehabilitation Association.
Item #: Alt 06 29 lun
Price: $20.00
Media Type: DVD
Yvonne Smith weaves a history of Alternatives with her own first conference experience.
An inspiring speaker, Yvonne acknowledges that years ago many of our seasoned leaders got their first taste of the consumer movement in large asylums. She suggests peers use action with ethics to stand together. Smith offers a rousing conclusion to this year's conference. She asks us to remember our past with our eye to the future; blazing this trail for ourselves, honoring our Alternative ancestors.
Jubel Perkins sings:
The Buffalo Nation Song (for the buffalos and those who lived by them) Lakota Nation, My grandma told me a story how in the old days buffalo would circle around a hurt herd member to protect the wounded one. That's how we as human beings should treat each other
The Turtle Medicine Song (because turtles are a medicine symbol) Kickapoo Nation song. As we break loose from negative habits and life styles, each time one more layer of hardness is removed from our Hearts, our Spirits, so that we can regain that heart of a child once more. Learning to feel good about ourselves and about Life, and learning to have hope for the future
The Spirit in the Sky Song (for asking the Great Spirit into our lives). When the dominate society came here all of our culture and ceremony was taken away, so we lost that spiritual connection. We have been like tumbleweeds in the wind without our own culture lost. This song encourages us to seek out the old ways, to be positive, to be tolerant of one another, to look at the heart of a person rather than the color of their skin.