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  • 7th Annual Inside Out Summit

    "Rehabilitation Re-emerges: Working Together to Help Those Affected by Incarceration"

      General Summit September 11-12, 2006
      Clinical Training Program September 11, 2006





    Annual 2006 Inside/Out Summit Agenda


    Program Key:
      I = Infectious Diseases Prevention & Health Education
      C = Children & Family Services
      S = Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment
      T = Transitional Services - Re-entry, Probation & Parole
      V = Violence Prevention


    Monday September 11, 2006

    8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Registration/Breakfast/Introductions
    Yolanda Najera, Centerforce
    9:00 - 10:15 a.m. First Plenary Session
    Prevention Institute
    Jessica Clarke, MD, San Quentin State Prison
    Larry Cohen
    10:15 - 10:30 a.m. Break
    Clinical Program Infection Control in the Correctional Setting
    Joseph Bick MD, CMO, CMF, Assistant Professor UCDMC
    C The Bill of Rights for the Children of Incarcerated Parents: The National Perspective
    Nell Bernstein, Author of All Alone in the World
    Dee Ann Newell, Soros Foundations 2006 Senior Justice Fellowship Award
    S Training Inmates to be Certified Addiction Counselors
    Claire Elizabeth DeSophia, MA, MFT, Addiction Counselors Training (ACT)
    Nina Ferraris, MA, MFT, ACT
    T Life Skills to Work, an Inside/Out Offender Change Program
    Joseph Garcia, LEAD Instructor, Program Coordinator
    Kathlene Wong, LEAD Instructor, Program Coordinator
    V Health Realization-State of Mind: Understanding Human Potential
    Linda Ramus, MA, M Ed, Health Realization Services
    Cathy Casey, NDE, MS, Health Realization Services
    12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch and Second Plenary Session
    Receivership and Implications
    Robert Sillen, Receiver of Prison Health System
    Allison Hardy, Prison Law Office
    2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Second Workshop Session
    Clinical Program Occupational and Non-Occupational Post Exposure Prophylaxis
    Jacqueline P. Tulsky MD, Professor, UCSF
    Robert Misson, MD, Infection Control, California Men's Colony
    C Successful Strategies in Community Partnerships: the Genesee County Experience
    Sarah Bannon, MSW, LCSW, ACSW
    Gail Stimson, ACSW, LMSW, Priority Children
    Jim Woolcock, Community mental Health
    S Narcotic Replacement Programs for the HIV/Post Incarcerated Client
    Terry Grand, FOUND, Inc, Western Pacific Med-Corp, American Health Services
    Mary Eno, MD, Venice Medical and Mental Health
    T They're Coming Home! Asset Based Community Offender Re-entry.
    Maxine Bryant, U. S. Attorney's Office of Southern Indiana

    Maui's BEST Reintegration Program: Building Bridges for the Dispirited Through Cultural Training
    Carrie Ann Shirota, JD, Program Director of MEO BEST
    V Preventing Sexual Violence Behind Bars
    Cynthia Totten, JD, Stop Prison Rape
    3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Break
    3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Third Workshop Session
    Clinical Program Investigating an Outbreak: Essentials for the Primary Care Provider
    Janet Mohle-Boetani MD, MPH, California Department of Health Services, Foodborne Outbreak Investigations
    C Rehabilitating through Resolving Rage & Restoring Relationships
    Dominic Herbst, Bethesda Family Services
    S Deconstructing Co-dependence: Parents Explore the Balance between Harm Reduction & Tough Love in Dealing with Addictive Illness
    Gretchen Burns Bergman, Co-founder of A New Path
    Caroline Stewart, A New Path
    T Dealing with Criminal Records in California: Overcoming Barriers to Employment, Education, Civic Housing and Engagement Through ( Explanation of Expungements, Dismissals, Sealings and Certificates of Rehabilitation)
    Margaret Richardson, East Bay Community Law

    Voting Rights for Those with Felony Convictions
    Judith Grether, Voting Rights for All
    V Coping with the Consequences of What Happens Inside: Preliminary Findings from the Formative Phase of HOLLA
    Janet Myers, University of California, San Francisco
    Craig Hutchinson, University of California, San Francisco



    Tuesday September 12, 2006

    9:00 a.m. Breakfast
    9:30 - 11:00 a.m. Third Plenary Session
    Vernel - Breaking into Prisons - How Community Groups can Work Effectively with their Neighborhood Prison
    Vernel Crittendon, Public Relations at San Quentin State prison
    11:00 - 11:15 a.m. Break
    I Incarcerated Populations and HIV Transmission: Using What We Already Know to Affect Change
    Pamela Wrenn, Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC)

    Prevalence of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Virus Infections in Three Jails: Chicago, Detroit and San Francisco
    Karen Hennessy, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC
    C Why are Women in California Prisons Having Their Teeth Pulled to be with Their Children? A Critique of Unjust Prison Policies and the Emotional and Physical Impact on Incarcerated Women and their Families.
    Naomi Akers, St James Infirmary
    Cassie Pierson, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
    Karen Shain, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
    S Get out of Jail Free: The Need for Drug Overdose Prevention Education Upon Release
    Emalie Huriaux, MPH, Harm Reduction Coalition
    Pete Morse, MA, PHD, Harm Reduction Coalition
    T HIV Positive Navigators and Re-entry
    Jodi Riccardi, MPH, Hyacinth AIDS Foundation
    Richard Hogans, Hyacinth AIDS foundation

    Custody to Community-Housing Offenders Living with HIV
    Jose Rodriguez, Tarzana Treatment Centers
    V The Insight Prison Project's (IPP) Victim/Offender Education Group (VOEG)
    Rochelle Edwards, Insight Prison Project (IPP)
    12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch and Fourth Plenary Session
    Dealing With Trauma and Stress in the Work Place
    Karen Gedney, MD, Nevada Dept of Corrections
    2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Fifth Workshop Session
    I Peer Health Education Training Dialogue: An opportunity for those who work with peer health educators in prison to discuss best practices and to promote communication and networking among colleagues.
    C Connecting the Estranged; Families and Children of Prisoners
    Mickey Griffin, D Min, Horizon Fatherhood Programs
    S Integrated Modified Therapeutic Community Concepts
    Ramona Jubar Merritt, MS, Substance abuse treatment for incarcerated females
    T Panel of Successful Ex-Offenders
    Pat Caetano, Family Advocacy Network
    Deborah Paul, Family advocate for Christies Place
    V "A Change of Heart" a workshop on what is at the core of successful transformational behavior change for prisoners.
    Jacques Verduin, MA, Insight Prison Project (IPP)
    3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Break
    3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Sixth Workshop Session
    I Peer Health Education Training Dialogue:
    An opportunity for those who work with peer health educators in prison to discuss best practices and to promote communication and networking among colleagues.
    C Building Resilience in Young Children with Parents in Prison
    Sydney Clemens, Early Childhood Educator and Author, UC Davis Extension Faculty

    Former Prisoners-A Vital Resource in Re-entry
    Maisha Quint, Family Advocacy Network
    Nikki Lee Diamond, Family Advocacy Network
    S The Spiritual Needs of Incarcerated Women
    Cheryl Dawson, Cameo House
    T Rap Therapy for your Prosperity
    Keith Jackson, MA, Correctional Counselor

    Dealing with Depression
    Cheryl Mims
    V The Insight Prison Project's Violence Prevention Program
    Peter van Dyke, Insight Prison Project (IPP)
    Awards Presentation of Jeanne Woodford Award
    Presentation of Harold Atkins Award
    Presentation of Theresa Azochar Family Award



    Conference Location:
    Holiday Inn Golden Gateway
    1500 Van Ness Avenue
    San Francisco, Ca 94109
    Tel. 415.441.4000
    www.ichotelsgroup.com


    More Information:
    Tiffany Barber, Summit Coordinator
    Tel. 415.456.9980 - ext. 135



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