Twenty-sixth Annual STEP Symposium focuses on social determinants of mental health and recovery
More than 100 patients, families and mental health professionals from around the State gathered April 6 at the 黑料网 Friday Center to learn about community factors and other social determinants of health, including housing, transportation, food security, employment and social connectedness, which play a significant role in health, wellness and recovery for individuals with serious mental health.
John Gilmore, MD, the Center鈥檚 director, Eure Professor, and vice chair, Research and Scientific Affairs, hosted the half-day event.
Mark Salzer, PhD, professor of social and behavioral sciences, Temple University College of Public Health; director, Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities, presented the keynote 鈥淟ife in the community like everyone else: Community inclusion as a medical necessity.鈥�
Other speakers included: Brian Klausner, MD, chief medical officer, WakeMed Key Community Care Accountable Care Organization,聽 who presented 鈥淭he role of Hot Spotter Models in the evolving world of population health.” Janice Bainbridge, LCSW, clinical instructor and team leader of the Center鈥檚 HomeLink and Case Management Programs and Antoine Bailliard, PhD, associate professor, 黑料网 Department of Allied Health Sciences presented 鈥淗omeLink: Improving housing and housing stability outcomes among individuals experiencing mental Illness.鈥�
The program closed with a panel discussion. Thava Mahadevan, MS, director of operations at Center and PI for HomeLink grant, joined Bainbridge, Salzer, Kausner, and Balliard for a panel discussion 鈥淲hat can the community do to support community inclusion?鈥�
The annual STEP Symposium offers mental health professionals, advocates, individuals and families living with schizophrenia an annual learning opportunity focused on innovative treatment.
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L-R 聽T. Mahadevan. L. Moser, M. Salzer, A. Balliard, 聽J Gilmore, and J. Bainbridge