New York University Medical Center
Friday, June 7, 2002
8:00 – 3:30

8:00 –   8:45 Registration (coffee, bagels, juice, muffins)
8:45 – 10:15  Welcome

Sandy Burke, Director, Patient Relations, NYU, NYSHCA Past President 

Linda McLean, Director, Patient Relations, Strong Memorial, NYSHCA Acting President

The Future of our Society: speak now or forever hold your piece/peace
 

Deb Hornstra, MA, Health Advocacy Program, Sarah Lawrence College
Editor, Health Advocacy Bulletin, SLC
NYSHCA webmaster 

We are lucky to have Deb facilitate this session, where we’ll use collaborative brainpower to set realistic goals, establish priorities, and raise and consider various strategies for achieving our objectives. Deb will construct the session in consultation with current and past Society leaders.

10:30 – 12:00 Office for Civil Rights: making sure hospitals are in compliance with Title VI to meet the needs of limited English proficient patients

    Civil Rights Investigator
    Office for Civil Rights
    Dept. of Health and Human Services

An investigator from the OCR will provide an overview of the different laws that they have oversight for, with a concentration on Title VI language requirements.

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch! (provided – let us know if you have special dietary requirements)
Business meeting 

1:30 -   3:30  Destigmatizing mental illness: how staff in a peer-run agency help others with MI maximize their quality of life 

Melanie Stanton, MSW, Program Coordinator
Steve Miccio, BS, Director
PEOPLe, Inc. of Duchess County:
Projects to Empower and Organize the Psychiatrically Labeled
(Division of Office of Mental Health)

PEOPLe is 100% peer run with the specific aim of recovery. Ms. Stanton and her colleagues will share their own experiences with MI and the services they offer to the community. 

To register, contact board member and host Kathy Wigfield:
 

E-mail: kathy.wigfield@med.nyu.edu

Phone: 212-263-6906 
Fax:     212-263-8460 

NYU Medical Center
560 First Avenue
New York NY 10016 
 
 

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Cost is $35 for members and students, $50 for non-members. 

Please make check payable to NYSHCA.
 

Logistics:

Check out NYU’s website at http://www.med.nyu.edu/directions.html for directions by car, train, subway, bus or plane.

Local hotel accommodations are cited as well. Park South Hotel at 122 East 28th St. offered us their NYU rate of $139/night for queen or double. Call Jessica at 212-204-5226.

To find our meeting room, go through the main entrance, through Security, straight ahead through the medical library, then turn left to Coles Auditorium. Look for the signs.

Lost?  Call our host and registrar, Kathy Wigfield, at 212-263-6906.

Come, join us for a day of stimulating discussion and networking with old and new friends.