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Redefining Crazy Fall Conference
Presentation Application

Redefining Crazy highlights transitional aged youth and mental health with an artistic touch this month. Three presenters will each use different forms of media to discuss youth and their mental health throughout the past year, all while sharing artistic resources geared towards youth as a tool to prioritize self-care.

We are inviting engaging presentations on paradigm-shifting solutions to address hoarding and cluttering at the individual, community, and system levels. Presentations should bring diverse perspectives in peer support, up-and-coming research, clinical presentations that address and incorporate the needs of diverse communities, as well as engage new and non-traditional stakeholders via culturally responsive, person-first, evidence-based solutions.

The goal of this virtual conference is to convene peers, experts, stakeholders, scientists, policy leaders, providers, researchers, and community advocates in a collaborative and actionable learning environment to advance innovation and highlight the work and values of diverse leaders across sectors to discuss matters and new information on mental health. All conference attendees and presenters are encouraged to come together to chart a roadmap of exciting new directions that will change the future of mental health and the understanding of peer work.

Event Date: November 3-5, 2021 4pm – 5:30PM

Submission Deadline: September 10th, 2021

Themes

Hoarding & Cluttering

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Communities Reclaiming Wellness

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Opportunities in the “New Normal”

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– Topic Suggestions –

  • Quality of Life: Improvement and Solutions
  • Research, Innovation, & Technology: Theory, Practice, and Paradigm Shifts
  • Mental Health at Work and in Our Homes
  • Overcoming Depression
  • De-stressing Stress
  • Wrangling Anxiety
  • Tools for ADHD
  • Minimizing OCD
  • Art and/or yoga
  • Organizational strategies for home offices
  • Systemic racism and its impact on access to services
  • Technological innovations that allow for support and greater access
  • Peer Recovery as a revolutionary movement
  • Humor and mental health

Note: These topic suggestions are intended as a jumping off point for brainstorming. Proposals do not need to fall into one of these topic categories!

Proposal Types/Formats 2021

Presentation – Experiential & Educational
(90 minutes)

Presentation – Experiential & Educational (90 minutes)
In this format, leaders engage the audience through presentations utilizing the latest developments in conducting smarter, result-driven projects for charting new directions in the work. We encourage proposals that include 60 minutes of education and 30 minutes of audience engagement. This can be via breakout rooms, group discussion questions, experiential activities, scenario work, interpersonal/systems exploration, etc.

Presentation – Educational
(60 minutes)

Presentation – Educational (60 minutes)
The session will launch with a one-hour presentation outlining innovative solutions and challenges in particular areas of clinical care, peer-to-peer modalities, and services across gender, race and age within any of the four areas/topics for 2021: Quality of Life-Improvement and Solutions, Research, Innovation, and Technology – Theory, Practice, and Paradigm Shifts, Systems of Care our Communities Reclaiming Wellness, Mental Health at Work and in Our Homes.

Panel Discussion – Personal and Professional Presentation with Q&A Breakout
(90 minutes)

Panel Discussion -Personal and Professional Presentation with Q&A Breakout (90 minutes)
We invite a panel of 4 – 6 speakers to discuss their lived experience, professional perspectives, and share from their areas of intersection of mental health and identity. We are looking for 30 minutes dedicated time at the conclusion of the panel for participants and presenters to identify problems, opportunities, ideal scenarios, and action steps through facilitated discussion.

Brief Performance/Talk – Lived Experience Presentation, Educational, Group Experiential
(30 minutes)

Panel Discussion -Personal and Professional Presentation with Q&A Breakout (90 minutes)
We invite a panel of 4 – 6 speakers to discuss their lived experience, professional perspectives, and share from their areas of intersection of mental health and identity. We are looking for 30 minutes dedicated time at the conclusion of the panel for participants and presenters to identify problems, opportunities, ideal scenarios, and action steps through facilitated discussion.