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Can’t join us the whole weekend? Plenary sessions and the RESTORED Friday evening program are available to everyone, no registration required.
Program
10:30 a.m. (ET) Plenary Session 1: Unearthing the Other Pandemic
President’s Remarks / Dr. G. Alexander Bryant, President, North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists
Keynote / Anita Everett, MD, DFAPA, Director Center for Mental Health Services, US HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
“Painting the Picture” / Dr. Angeline Brauer
12:30 p.m. (ET): Concurrent Seminars
Registrants choose one of the following to attend:
| Focus Area | Presenters | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Addiction | Gary Hopkins, PhD, and Duane McBride, PhD | 1. Overview of Addictions 2. Resilience as a Conceptual Framework |
| Aging Brain/Dementia | TBA | TBA |
| Children/Youth | Melinda Skau, MPH, MD, FAAP, American Board of Lifestyle Medicine, and Kiti Freier Randall, PhD | Adverse Childhood Experiences and Impact on Children |
| Community-Based Interventions | Mark Carpenter, LPC, MHSP | The Church’s Response to the Mental Health Crisis |
| Emotional Healing | David Sedlacek, PhD, LCSW, CFLE, and Beverly Sedlacek, DNP, RN, MSN | Emotional Healing: A Ministry to Self and Others |
| Grief | Michael Lombardo, DMin, BCC, CCISM | Helping People Grieve |
| Anxiety/Depression | Torben Bergland, MD | Reminded: A Mental Health Program on Depression |
| Spirituality & Mental Health | Randal Sloop, MD | Erasing Anxiety: A Simplified and Practical Approach to Treating Anxiety Disorders Without Medication |
| Suicide Prevention | Brandon Johnson, MHS, MCHES | Preserving Futures: Suicide in the Black Community |
| Trauma | Jennifer Jill Schwirzer, EdD, MHS, LPC | Abuse, Trauma, the Church, and Jesus |
| Wholistic Approaches to Mental Health | Gabrielle Calderara, MS, RD, and Fayth Butler, PhD | 1. Neurones on the Plate: A New Paradigm Shift in Neuroscience Approach?
2. Diet and the Gut Microbiome: Implications for Mental Health |
1:45 p.m. (ET)
Break
2:45 p.m. (ET) Concurrent seminars
Registrants choose one of the following to attend:
| Focus Area | Presenters | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Addiction | Gary Hopkins, PhD, and Duane McBride, PhD, and Curtis VanderWaal, PhD, MSW | 1. Role of Service and Mentoring in Prevention
2. Role of Clergy, Churches, and Communities in Addiction Recovery and Relapse Prevention |
| Aging Brain/Dementia | TBA | TBA |
| Children/Youth | Jenae Holtz, LMFT | Child and Adolescent Suicide and Suicide Prevention |
| Community-Based Interventions | Tiffany Bartell, LPC, MHSP | Living in Balance: Healthy Minds |
| Emotional Healing | David Sedlacek, PhD, LCSW, CFLE, and Beverly Sedlacek, DNP, RN, MSN | Integrating Biblical Concepts into Professional Practice |
| Grief | Teresa Nelson, BSN, RN | When Grief Becomes Personal |
| Anxiety/Depression | Torben Bergland, MD | Reminded: A Mental Health Program on Anxiety |
| Spirituality & Mental Health | Rosemary Graham | Developing Mental Health Ministry for Your Church |
| Suicide Prevention | Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW | Suicide in Schools: Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention |
| Trauma | Samantha Graham, LICSW, MSW | Being Trauma Informed: What Is It, and What Does it Look Like in Our Church? |
| Wholistic Approaches to Mental Health | Ernie Medina, DrPH, NBC-HWC, ACSM-EP-C | The Most Potent Prescription for Peak Mental Health: Physical Activity! |
4:00 p.m. (ET)
Break
4:15 p.m. (ET) Plenary Session 2: Living Whole
Keynote 1 / Marisa Leslie, MD, System Medical Director, Adventist HealthCare
Keynote 2 / Daniel Binus, MD, Clinical Director, Beautiful Minds Medical
9:00 a.m. (ET) Morning Prayer Call (optional)
10:30 a.m. (ET) Plenary Session 3: Inequities in Mental Health
Devotional / Wendy Eberhardt, Vice President for Ministries, North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Keynote 1 / David R. Williams, PhD, MPH, MDiv, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Keynote 2 / Daniel Dawes, JD, Executive Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine
12:30 p.m. (ET) Concurrent Seminars
Registrants choose one of the following to attend:
| Focus Area | Presenters | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Addiction | Alina Baltazar, PhD, MSW, and Harvey Burnett, PhD | 1. Family, Faith, and Media in Prevention
2. The Day the Earth Stood Still: The Family’s Role in Preventing Substance Abuse During Trauma Recovery |
| Aging Brain/Dementia | Jason M. Aragón Castillo, MPH | Exercise, Mind Over Matter? |
| Children/Youth | Tabitha Abel, DrPH, MSN, RN, CHES | Maltreatment, Sexual Abuse/Attractions: Awareness, Intervention, & Prevention |
| Community-Based Interventions | Tron Wilder, PhD, and Kristie Wilder, LMSW, JD | Effective Strategies for Interagency Collaboration as a Church |
| Emotional Healing | Sanalee Gordon, MSW | Your Emotional Health: Are You in Crisis? |
| Grief | Donna Scott, MD, and Edith Fraser, PhD | Grief Masquerading as Depression |
| Anxiety/Depression | Torben Bergland, MD | Reminded: A Mental Health Program on Depression |
| Spirituality & Mental Health | Des Cummings, PhD, MDiv, and Jill Kahli, PhD, LMFT, LMHC, CPA | Overcoming SHame |
| Suicide Prevention | Melissa Brown, DrPH | Partners in Life: Public Health Suicide Prevention and Faith-Based Organizations |
| Trauma | Esther Siceron-Reyna, MSCW, LSWA | Together We Can: Restoring the Wounded Using Trauma-Informed Care and the Bible |
| Wholistic Approaches to Mental Health | Miriam Feese, LCSW, Julie Glass, RN, BSN, Nadia Hasse, RN, BSN | Benefits of Hydrotherapy in Treating Behavioral Health Conditions |
1:45 p.m. (ET)
Break
2:45 p.m. (ET) Concurrent Seminars
Registrants choose one of the following to attend:
| Focus Area | Presenters | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Addiction | Charinette Gamboa, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, and Panankosi Mbunjwa, MDiv, LMSW, CAADC | 1. Self-Control
2. Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Substance-Use Disorders |
| Aging Brain/Dementia | TBA | TBA |
| Children/Youth | Kiti Freier Randall, PhD, and Zachary Ginder, PsyD | Pandemic Echo: Realizing the Impact on Children & Caregivers |
| Community-Based Interventions | Eddie Ramirez, MD | Non-Pharmacological Interventions to Overcome the Curse of Depression |
| Emotional Healing | TBD | TBD |
| Grief | Rosemary Graham | How Grief Affects the Body |
| Anxiety/Depression | Torben Bergland, MD | Reminded: A Mental Health Program on Anxiety |
| Spirituality & Mental Health | Nestor Bruno, PsyD | The Psychological Experience of God vs. Our Religious Beliefs |
| Suicide Prevention | William Cork, MA, MDiv, MPH(c) | Public Health Approaches to Suicide Intervention |
| Trauma | Dr. Roy Gaton | Mental Health: A Whole Person Care Approach |
| Wholistic Approaches to Mental Health | Daniel Giang, MD | Perchance to Dream: Restorative Sleep and Wellness |
4:00 p.m. (ET)
Break
4:15 p.m. (ET) Plenary Session 4: Healing Communities
Keynote 1 / Carla Park, Ph.D, Executive Director, Faith Community Strategy, AdventHealth
Special Feature: Alexandria Project / Chief Corey Smedley, Adventist Community Services (ACS)
Special Feature / Angel Easton, Adventist Information Ministry (AIM)
Keynote 2 / Ricardo Whyte, MD, Founder, The Master Mind Institute
Closing Remarks / Peter Landless, M.B., BCH., M.MED., FCP (SA), FACC, FASNC, Director, General Conference Adventist Health Ministries
8:00 p.m. (ET) Evening Program: “Music & The Brain” (Livestream)
Musical Conversation / Jennifer LaMountain, Jaime Jorge, Kelly Mowrer
Message / John Bradshaw, Spreaker/Director, It Is Written
10:45 a.m. (ET) Sabbath Worship
Message / Mark Finley, Assistant to the President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
5:00 p.m. (ET) Friendship Evangelism Training
Addressing Loneliness / Angeline Brauer, Health Ministries Director
Friendship Skills Training / Pastor John Rengifo, Ellicott City Seventh-day Adventist Church
Conducting a Mental Health Awareness Program / Dr. Carlos Fayard, Loma Linda University Behavioral Health Institute
10:15 a.m. (ET)
Networking Session / ZOOM
Trainings (concurrent) / ZOOM — See list of available Ministry Trainings
7:00 p.m. (ET)
Closing Program / ZOOM
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