Upcoming Events
October 2009
Creative Expressions XV
The Creative Expressions Exhibit can now be viewed online at our website: http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/site/newsandevents/podcastandvideo/page.aspx?id=1723
Sponsored by the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Nashville Mayor's Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities. This annual exhibit features work in a variety of media by artists with a wide range of abilities/disabilities and ages. Programs at the Kennedy Center include exhibits by artists with disabilities and activities for people with disabilities to practice and express themselves through art. For more information contact Gretchen Herbert, Ph.D, Recreation and Art Coordinator for the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center at gretchen.herbert@Vanderbilt.edu or at (615) 343-7046.
Creative Arts Project
Vanderbilt Seminar
Mayborn Hall on the Peabody Campus
Room 105
2:15 – 3:00 p.m.
FREE: Kathy Makarak, one of three speakers, will make a report about her summer 2009 project to interview and photograph 30 artists with the Middle Tennessee Mental Health Coalition’s Creative Arts Project. Her discovery includes what the artists have learned about themselves, how art has provided a recovery pathway, the issue of stigma, and how the work of these artists has affected those around them. Some of the artists have been participants in the joint MTMHC - TDMHDD annual Art for Awareness exhibition at the Legislative Plaza each May.
Parking is available at meters on 19th Avenue., between Edgehill and Grand and around the corner in the parking garage on Scarritt Place, between 19th and 21st Avenues.
From 19th Avenue walk towards Edgehill Avenue, cross Edgehill and enter the Peabody Campus. The Mayborn Building is the second structure on the right. For more information contact Craig Anne Heflinger, Ph.D., Associate Dean fof Grfaduate Educagion, Peabody Collee, Vanderbilt University at c.heflinger@vanderbilt.edu or at (615) 322-8275.
October 31
1st Emotonal Fitness Fair for People of Color
The Healing Center
3885 Tchulahoma Road
Memphis, TN 38118
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
This fair focuses on insuring that you and your family are healthy EMOTIONALLY. On-site screening for depression and stress and information distribution will help you identify the on-set of emotional and mental problems and promote emotional fitness. University of Tennessee School of Nursing students will be on hand to check blood pressure, give informtaiton on diet, exercise, smoking cessation, flu prevention and stress reduction. Complimentary alternative medications and a Whole Foods Market will be on site with samples. Vendors from healthcare service providers will also be on hand. Expect refreshments and fun for all agaes. Click Here for the event flyer tocopy for family, friends and neibors. For more information call (901) 370-4673.
November 2009
November 5-6, 2009
Operation Immersion
A Military Immersion Training for Behavioral Health Providers
TennesseeNational Guard Training Center
Avenue B
Smyrna, Tennessee
15:00 – 22:30 Thursday, Nov. 5
05:00 – 4:00 Friday, Nov. 6
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 2, 2009. Training is free, cost of meals are the responsibility of the attendee.
For additional information and to register visit http://operationimmersion.eventbrite.com/
For a detailed flyer, click here: Operation Immersion Flyer (PDF)
For a calendar of events for the two-day operation, click here: Operation Immersion Event Schedule.(PDF)
A one-of-a-kind, unique to Tennessee training for behavioral health professionals. The one and one-half day military immersion training offered by TDMHDD’s Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services, the Tennessee National Guard and the Tennessee Veteran’s Task Force, to assist in removing the stigma of seeking assistance for mental health or substance abuse issues, to remove barriers and ease soldier apprehension to seek help. Attendees will immerse themselves in military culture and the deployment experience, including spending the night in the barracks, going through a modified early morning “PT,” chores and inspection.
TDMHDD RuleMaking Hearing
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
First Floor Conference Room
Andrew Johnson Tower
710 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville, TN 378243
1:30 p.m. (CST)
The Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities will hold a rulemaking hearing to provide the public with an opportunity to comment on proposed rules for the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Program for DUI Offenders or ADAT Program (Rules Chapter 0940-06-04). . The public is invited to make oral comments at the rulemaking hearing. The department will consider written comments submitted before 4:30 p.m. on November 17, 2009. Written comments may be sent to Karen Edwards, Rules Coordinator, Cordell Hull Building, Fifth Floor, 425 Fifth Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243 or Karen.Edwards@tn.gov, or faxed to her attention to (615) 532-6514. For additional information, contact Karen Edwards at (615) 532-3648 or Karen.Edwards@tn.gov.
The Notice of Rulemaking Hearing can be accessed at the website of the Department of State. Click on "Rules and Regulations," then on "Rulemaking Hearings" or paste the following link into your browser: http://state.tn.us/sos/rules_filings/09-22-09.pdf
TDMHDD RuleMaking Hearing
Friday, November 20
First Floor Conference Room
Andrew Johnson Tower
710 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville, TN 378243
9:30 a.m. (CST)
The Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities will hold a rulemaking hearing to provide the public with an opportunity to comment on proposed rules defining Admission to a Regional Mental Health Institute (Rules Chapter 0940-03-13). The public is invited to make oral comments at the rulemaking hearing. The department will consider written comments submitted before 4:30 p.m. on November 20, 2009. Written comments may be sent to Karen Edwards, Rules Coordinator, Cordell Hull Building, Fifth Floor, 425 Fifth Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243 or Karen.Edwards@tn.gov, or faxed to her attention to (615) 532-6514. For additional information, contact Karen Edwards at (615) 532-3648 or Karen.Edwards@tn.gov.
The Notice of Rulemaking Hearing can be accessed at the website of the Department of State. Click on "Rules and Regulations," then on "Rulemaking Hearings" or paste the following link into your browser: http://state.tn.us/sos/rules_filings/09-43-09.pdf
February 2010
February26-27, 2010
“What Works in Therapy – 40 Years of Outcome Research”
Annual Conference of the
Tennessee Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (TAMFT)
Holiday Inn, Opryland/Airport
2200 Elm Hill Pike
Nashville, TN
The two-day conference features Scott Miller, Ph.D., who is a co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, a private group of clinicians and researchers dedicated to studying “what works” in mental health and substance abuse treatment. Miller will present research results that are helping practitioners move toward better patient outcomes, as well as information about collecting and using your own outcome data with clients. An AAMFT approved supervisor refresher course will be offered on October 25. More information on delegate registration and times TBA as soon as it becomes available. CEs will be offered.
SPONSORSHIP: Offered first-come, first-served in five levels for registration, exhibit and printed program participation. Sponsors may register now by clicking: Sponsor Application and Agreement. For more information contact Dianne Bradley, 2010 TAMFT Conference Chair at (615) 509-7374 or at leadlady@bellsouth.net.
Ongoing Programs
Year-Round Depression screening
Mental Health Association of East Tennessee
9050 Executive Park Drive, Suite 104-A
Knoxville, Tennessee 37923
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
(865) 584-9125
Mental Health Training for Foreign and Sign Language Interpreters
Various dates. Call for more information and registration.
No charge for training.
Contact: Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee
2416 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
615-269-5355
email: forinfo@mnamt.org
IChope Campaign
Public Information Programs
are available for all ages and are appropriate
for school and community settings.
Visit www.ichope.com
Contact: Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee
2416 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
615-269-5355
Council on Children's Mental Health
Upcoming Meetings
