AMAs are not presentations, but rather hour-long interactive question & answer webinars with an expert in employment. Regardless of whether you are a person living with a mental health condition, a family member, an administrator of a service, a provider, a researcher — people from anywhere get answers to their questions.
Hiring and Recruiting Peers
With employment expert LaVerne Miller Ms. Miller is a Senior Project Associate at Policy Research Associates and has over 20 years of leadership experience in transforming behavior health systems and integrating individuals with lived experience into programs planning, implementation, service delivery, and evaluation. She leads peer-focused activities at SAMHSA’s GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and […]
Self-Employment
Dr. Fabricio E. Balcazar’s primary research interest is developing effective strategies for enhancing empowerment and personal effectiveness among individuals with disabilities. Dr. Balcazar has conducted research over the past 35 years on several disability-related areas, such as youth transitioning from school; the development of interventions to help minority individuals with disabilities transition into employment and […]
Disability Disclosure and Accommodations
Lou Orslene and Melanie Whetzel discuss accommodations and disability disclosure in this informal Q&A style webinar from 2018.
Habits and Routines for Work
With guest employment expert Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Swarbrick. Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Swarbrick, OTR, FAOTA, is the Associate Director of the Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies and a Research Professor in the Applied Psychology Department of GSAPP. She is also the inaugural Director of Rutgers University-New Brunswick ScarletWell. Over her career, she has made […]
Benefits and Employment
Ask Me Anything Q & A Webinar with employment expert Peter Travisano.
Mental Health Problems that Interfere with Work
With guest Joe Marrone AMAs are not presentations but rather hour-long interactive question & answer webinars with an expert in employment. Regardless of whether you are a person living with a mental health condition, a family member, an administrator of a service, a provider, or a researcher, people from anywhere get answers to their questions. […]
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems
With guest expert Bob Drake! Bob Drake is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Vice President at the Westat Corporation. He is an active clinician and has studied psychiatric rehabilitation for over 50 years. Along with Deborah Becker, he developed the Individual Placement and Support […]
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) with a Focus on Job Development
Guest speaker Deborah Becker discusses supporting job development with those who experience severe mental health disabilities.
How to Achieve Financial Wellness while Working
With guest expert Oscar Jiménez-Solomon Since 2013, Oscar has served as Research Scientist at the Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center. Currently, Oscar is Principal Investigator of a study funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to develop and test the feasibility and efficacy of […]
Keeping Employment
With guest Joan Rapp AMAs are not presentations but rather hour-long interactive question & answer webinars with an expert in employment. Regardless of whether you are a person living with a mental health condition, a family member, an administrator of a service, a provider, or a researcher, people from anywhere get answers to their questions.