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• Forum Documentation:
  
  Trauma, Culture & Resiliency (PowerPoint file)
  Flourishing WMR (PowerPoint file)
  Risk Factors are not Predicitive Factors Due to Protective Factors (PowerPoint file)
  

• When/Where:
  June 27, 2011 9a-4p
  King Arts Complex
  Nicholson Auditorium
  867 Mt. Vernon Avenue
  Columbus, OH 43203
  
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• Overview:
  

  The Mission of "Building Communities of Wellness: The Importance of Prevention in Recovery and Resiliency" is to develop community across differences through authentic human engagement. This gathering will bring together diverse groups of people and organizations from around the State of Ohio, nationally and internationally, who are mental health care advocates, professional providers, consumers, and community stakeholders. This gathering will convene in the heart of the African American community, on Mt. Vernon Avenue at The King Arts Complex in Columbus, Ohio. The King Arts Complex offers performing, cultural and educational programs that provide high artistic merit, varied and diverse experiences, which increase and disseminate knowledge regarding the vast and significant contributions of African Americans to the culture and history of America and the world.

  This professional development and educational opportunity is inclusive, contextual, and community-centered. Participants will actively engage in a capacity building process that begins with an understanding of historical realities, and an appreciation of the community’s assets in it own cultural environment. The process is designed to impart Multicultural knowledge, awareness and skills, engagement in deliberative dialogue for collective learning, construction of new knowledge, and to move the mental health community into an intimate and collaborative relationship with the broader community. Additionally, this forum will help to build communities of wellness and foster equity in healthcare access and service delivery. Emphasis will be placed on strategic and progressive social action that will enhance the quality of community life for all people.

• Objectives:
  
  
  • Review of why "risk factors are not predictive factors due to protective factors"; 
  • Latest research from Institute of Medicine’s 2009 prevention report - "Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities"; and
  • Exploration of how community interventions and policy in prevention strengthen and address poverty, violence, and social isolation.
• Keynote Abstract:
  
  “Risk Factors Are Not Predictive Factors Due To Protective Factors” or “Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities”
  
  Contrary to expectations of many psychiatric practitioners, exposure to a risk factor, e.g., a traumatic stressor, does not automatically put a person on a path to develop a psychiatric disorder, e.g. PTSD. Scientific documentation will be provided that protective factors have the capacity to prevent risk factors from becoming predictive of “bad” mental health outcomes. Further, protective factors can decrease the risk individuals who are exposed to adverse childhood experiences from having serious psychopathology in later life. A theoretically-sound, evidence-based, common sense model is offered as a "directionally correct" way to ensure that at-risk populations obtain protective factors to prevent a potential risk factors from generating poor health and mental health outcomes.
  
  The recent IOM’s (Institute of Medicine’s) 2009 prevention report - “Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities carefully catalogues the advances in mental health and problem behavior prevention science since the 1994 IOM prevention report. This session will focus on the 2009 IOM prevention reports educational interventions that prevent mental, emotional and behavioral disorders among young children. The session will note that around 1 in 5 young people have a current disorder costing $247 billion in annual costs. Further, these disorders have an early onset with half occurring by age 14 with symptoms that occur 2-4 years prior to having a diagnosable disorder. However, to implement prevention it will require a paradigm shift toward health promotion and prevention with an understanding that mental and physical health are inseparable. That successful prevention is interdisciplinary and that mental, emotional and behavioral disorders are developmental requiring coordinated community level systems to address them. The reality that there are common risk factors for multiple problems. Further, self-regulation is a generic skill necessity for preventing risk factors from becoming predictive of bad outcomes. Unlike the 1994 IOM prevention report, the 2009 IOM prevention report has enough health promotion science to be able to support the efficacy and effectiveness of health promotion. Several examples of prevention interventions that have multi-year effects of substance abuse, conduct disorder, antisocial behavior, aggression, and child maltreatment will be given, and evidence will be given that the incidence of adolescent depression can be reduced by methods manualized family-based, school-based, and internet prevention intervention strategies. The reality that school-based violence prevention can reduce aggressive problems by ¼ to 1/3 along with the findings that social and emotional learning programs may improve academic outcomes will be highlighted. Teacher training in classroom instruction and management, child social and emotional skill development and parent workshops have been shown to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in youth.