Veteran and Military Mental Health Symposium
Monday, November 4, 2024
9:00AM - 3:00PM PST
Join us for our Symposium, a live training. Topics include Ethics, Moral Injury and TBI.
Location: Vancouver Water Resource Center
4600 SE Columbia Way
Vancouver, WA 98661
Continuing Education: 3 Clinical, 1.5 Ethics CE (Applied through NASW Oregon)
Cost: Free to RVP Volunteers, OR and WA Vet Center and VA Staff and Partnering Clinics in our Directory
$87 for Other Community Providers
Lunch and light refreshments included
Who Should Attend:
This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers, social workers, mental health counselors, and community providers.
What You Will Learn:
Empowering Choices: Using Applied Ethics and Shared Decision-Making in Care
Explore how to use applied ethics and shared decision-making in clinical practice. Learn practical strategies for balancing ethical principles and using a collaborative approach to care that promotes alignment with the client’s goals and values.
Understanding Moral Injury: Community & Clergy Training
UMI (Understanding Moral Injury) is an educational curriculum designed to introduce moral injury and serve as a foundational starting point from which diverse moral injury therapeutic interventions could build.
Brain Injury Screening is Suicide Prevention
Brain Injury is the signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many Veterans suffer from the chronic effects of brain injury as well as other co-occurring mental health concerns. Screening, accommodations and follow up care are all important in Veterans’ recovery.
CE Faculty
Elizabeth Perry is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Washington and a nationally Certified Healthcare Ethics Consultant. She earned her master’s degree and completed the post-graduate Advanced Training in Healthcare Ethics program at the University of Washington. With clinical practice experience including palliative care and healthcare ethics leadership and consultation, she is a passionate advocate for using person-driven care to empower people in complex clinical situations.
Rev. Rebecca Morris, MDiv., MHICS, BCC-MH-SUD, Integrative Outpatient Mental Health Staff Chaplain
Chaplain Morris is ordained Buddhist minister through Buddhist Churches of America. Her teachings are inspired by numerous indigenous and nature-based traditions, and her unique perspective equips her to cultivate mythic and archetypal transformation, ceremonial initiations and rites of passage. Uniting these diverse understandings, her model of celebratory healing and soul-centered embodiment fosters compassion in individuals as they become comfortable in the mystery and paradox of life to embrace suffering.
Rebecca Morris, MDiv is the granddaughter of a WWII infantry Veteran and was raised by Vietnam Veterans. She has experienced the interpersonal impact of combat trauma, PTSD, and Moral Injury, and is committed to Preventive Ethics—breaking the cycle of shame, violent communication, and hurtful actions that continue to impact individuals, families, and communities. Her vision is to help individuals discover their compassionate hearts, and find ways to embody their own personal versions of kindness as an effort in creating a world with more kindness, from the inside out.
David Kracke, JD has been a member of the Oregon State Bar since 1990. He has an extensive background working with private and public stakeholder groups in the realm of legislative and policy initiatives. He is a recognized legislative and policy expert in issues surrounding brain injury. David served as an author and legislative advocate for five stakeholder-informed efforts to pass concussion/brain injury laws that remove barriers to accessing services in Oregon, including SB 420 (2023) the landmark bill to establish a statewide Brain Injury Resource Navigation program.
In 2020, David supported the successful efforts to revise Oregon Administrative Rules to allow for the use of a guided credible history interview in lieu of medical records documenting TBI when determining eligibility for special education services, and he co-initiated the efforts to pass Oregon HB 4140 which mandates academic, behavioral, and social accommodations for students diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.
David was instrumental in passing Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 336.485, (“Max’s Law”), the nation’s first enacted law establishing Return to Play protocols for concussed student-athletes and ORS 417.875, (“Jenna’s Law), a companion law to Max’s Law which provided statewide concussion protocols for all youth athletes in the state of Oregon regardless of league affiliation. Also related to the field of brain injury due to the detrimental cognitive effects of COVID-19, David is very proud of initiating and helping to guide the passage of HB 4126, Oregon’s zoonotic disease prevention law (2022).
Since 2020 David has served in the role of Oregon’s Veterans and Military Personnel Brain Injury Advocate. In this role David has done extensive outreach with partners all over the state to better understand the needs of Veterans’ with brain injury as well as participated in many provider trainings.
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Contact: Jennifer Keeling, RVP Health Network Volunteer and Engagement Manager .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
503-954-2259
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