FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2007
8:00am - 8:30am Registration and Coffee
8:30am - 9:00am Opening Introductions and Remarks
Welcome, Catherine Carballeira, LCSW, Chair
Dr. Frances L. Brisbane, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University
Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny, Ph.D., President, Stony Brook University
Luis Valenzuela, Ph.D., President, NAPRHSW
Blessing: Reverend Luigi Hargain
9:00am - 11:00am Morning Session
Plenary Session
Juan Gonzalez, The Daily News and National Public Radio
Response Panelists
The Honorable Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez, New York Secretary of State;
Former Executive Director, The Hispanic Federation
Dolores Huerta, The Dolores Huerta Foundation
Angel Campos, Ed.D., Executive Associate Dean and Professor of
Social Welfare, Stony Brook University
Julio Gonzalez, Ed.D., SUNY Old Westbury
Luis Valenzuela, Ph.D., Executive Director, LIIA, President NAPRHSW
11:15am - 12:45pm Morning Workshops
1. Addictions and Spirituality
This workshop addresses the spiritual needs of people who are challenged and called upon to transform their lives and lifestyles from one of addiction to one of living fully. Life as a journey and a paradox where people come home to themselves will be explored.
The role of intuitive knowing and accessing one’s “truth” will be explored. Techniques, modalities, and cognitive understanding as tools to finding spiritual meaning and self will also be described.
Frances L. Brisbane, Ph.D.
Dean, Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare
Maria Cuadra, LCSWR, ACSW, CASAC, CPP
Executive Director, COPAY Inc.,
Faculty, Adelphi University School of Social Welfare
Facilitator: Abraham Valentin, Jr. LCSW, CASAC
Stony Brook University DWI Programs
2. The Experience of Life as a Day Laborer: Local and National
This workshop will address the realities of the struggles of documented and undocumented day laborers in overcoming issues of social injustice: Affordable Housing, Fair Employment Practices, and Ethnic Reconciliation.
Michael Lewis, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean & Professor, Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare
Ed Hernandez, LMSW
Deputy Director, Department of Social Services, Suffolk County
Nadia Marin Molina
Executive Director, The Workplace Project
Facilitator: Priska Imberti, LCSW
Eastern Suffolk BOCES; Integral Enrichment Services
3. Family Approaches to Working with the Trauma and Loss of Immigration
This workshop will focus on a strengths based approach for healing the Latino family around issues of immigration trauma, grief, and loss.
Daniel Minuchin, MA, LMFT
The Minuchin Center for the Family
Irene Ingham, LCSW
Associate Director, Hispanic Family Counseling Center
Maria Malinowski, LCSW
Hispanic Counseling Center
Facilitator: Angelina Martinez, LCSW
Utopia Home Care, Inc.
4. Cultural Competence and Older Latinos
This workshop will provide comprehensive cultural competency training when working with immigrant families and older Latinos.
Blanca Ramos, Ph.D.
SUNY Albany School of Social Welfare
Henry Acosta, LMSW
Project Director, Changing Minds, Advancing Mental Health for Hispanics, New Jersey Department of Mental Hygiene
Facilitator: Pauline Velazquez, LMSW
Director Nassau/Suffolk Hispanic Task Force
5. Our Newest Citizens - Latino Children: Cognitive Development, Emotional Intelligence and Future Educational Achievement
This workshop focuses on proactive techniques for enhancing the cognitive development and “emotional intelligence” of Latino children to maximize academic achievement and the attainment of higher education. The “Dream Act” and school based supports will be highlighted. Suicide prevention will be addressed.
Veronica Rojas, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, NYU, School of Medicine
and Associate Medical Director, Bellevue Hospital
Regina Barros, LCSW
Associate Executive Director, North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center
Manny Gonzalez, DSW
Fordham University
Facilitator: Deborah Valenzuela, LCSW
Sachem School District
1:00pm - 2:30pm Luncheon: Comida Criolla
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, DSW
Associate Dean Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University
2:45pm - 4:15pm Afternoon Workshops
1. Dealing With HIV/AIDS and Family Violence: The Law and Its Impact on the Undocumented Latino Community
This workshop will address access to services pertaining to HIV/AIDS and Family violence, as well as the legal implications of Domestic Violence for immigrant families.
Kathleen Monahan, DSW
Professor, Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare
Alizabeth Newman, Esq.
CUNY School of Law
Rosa Bramble Weed, LCSW, CASAC
Child Center of New York
Facilitator: Lynda Perdomo-Ayala, LMSW
Department of Pharmacology, Stony Brook University
2. Immigration Trauma and Loss
This workshop will focus on psychotherapeutic work with immigrant clients — from the initial contact to specific interventions geared to addressing the trauma of immigration. Culturally competent assessment and interventions will be discussed with an emphasis on the process of immigration, pre, during and post.
Priska Imberti, LCSW
Eastern Suffolk BOCES and Integral Enrichment Services
Raymond Rodriguez, LMSW
Hostos Community College
3. Health Advocacy and Policy for Immigrant Children
This panel will address access to health care issues and insurance options for the uninsured, as well as policy implications for immigrant children.
Arlene Sanchez, LCSW
Commissioner, Nassau County Department of Mental Health,
Chemical Dependency, and Developmental Disabilities Services
Dr. Hector Sepulveda, MD
Stony Brook University, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs —
Suffolk County Community College
Angela Diaz, MD
Director, Adolescent Health Center at Mount Sinai Hospital,
and Professor of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Facilitator: Sonia Palacio-Grottola, LCSW
2nd V.P. NAPRHSW
4. International Social Work
This workshop focuses on the social work international community and highlights specific efforts to address issues of social justice, including Dominican, Guatemalan and Cuban perspectives.
A short film on
“Safe Passage” will be shown.
Ruth A. Brandwein, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare
Mary Jo Blazek, LCSW
University of Maine School of Social Work
Craig Lehman, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center
Facilitator: Ruth Gaines, LMSW
5. Student Presentations
Facilitator: Noemi Velazquez, MSW
Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare
Stony Brook University, School of Social Welfare:
Noemi Velazquez, Edga Gonzalez, Julie Novas, Elijah Tricoche,
Natalie Corvello, Felicia Senicola, Monica Lozano
Adelphi University, School of Social Work:
Kate Winkler, Takiyah Thomas
4:30pm - 6:30pm Reception: Hors d’oeuvres
