Celebrate Quality Week by Attending an MAHQ Live Networking Event:

 The Role of Families and Siblings in the Behavioral Health Experience

Speakers:
   Emily Rubin, MA
Emily Rubin is the Director of Sibling Support and Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center of the University of Massachusetts Medical School 

 Susan Swick, MD, MPH
Susan Swick is the Chief of Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry, at Newton Wellesley Hospital 

 Date:
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Time:
5-8 PM

Location:  
Newton-Wellesley Hospital, 
Allen Riddle Living Room* 

Credits:
2 CPHQ CEs (pending)

Fee:
  Free for members
$20.00 for Non-members

Non-members - take advantage of becoming an MAHQ member for an additional $40.00 the night of the event!

 

Please join the Massachusetts Association of Healthcare Quality along with our two guest speakers, on October 19, 2016 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for an in-person live networking event.  This event will focus on the role of families and siblings in the Behavioral Health experience.

We will explore, through our guest speakers, programs created to support siblings and caregivers of children admitted for psychiatric hospitalization, building resilience and decreasing trauma for families of children with mental illness.  We will also learn about capacity building among providers who deliver family-centered mental health care.

Participants will come away with:

• An increase in their understanding of the impact of a child’s mental illness on siblings and other family members
• The ability to identify three patterns or themes that characterize the sibling experience and
• Be able to describe three strategies to support siblings

*The MAHQ Networking Event will be held in the Allen Riddle Living Room.  The Allen Riddle building is a separate brick building located behind the Hospital.  Enter the Hospital grounds at the set of lights on Washington Street for the East Entrance.  Take your first right into the Patient/Visitor parking garage.  After parking your car, exit the parking garage to the outside by the East Entrance.  You will see the Allen Riddle brick building up the road on your left.  Enter through the main entrance and the Allen Riddle Living Room will be to your right – first doorway.  

 

About the Speakers...

Emily Rubin, MA is the Director of Sibling Support and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center of the University of Massachusetts Medical School located in Worcester, MA.

Ms. Rubin has designed and implemented a program to support siblings and caregivers of children admitted for psychiatric hospitalization. The goals of the program are to build resiliency and decrease trauma among families of children with mental illness, as well as build capacity among providers who deliver family-centered mental health care.

The Sibling Support Program: A Family-Centered Mental Health Initiative has served close to 2,000 participants and serves as a training rotation for psychiatry residents and other trainees.

Susan Swick, MD, MPH is the Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Newton Wellesley Hospital, where she is also the Director of the PACT Program (Parenting At a Challenging Time) at the hospital’s Vernon Cancer Center.  Additionally, she is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and at Harvard Medical School, where she directs a course on Parent Guidance for the Child Psychiatry fellows.  

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