Date/Time
Date(s) - March 27, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Dealer.com
Fee: Free
Register at: https://howardcenter.org/uncategorized/ces-2024-mental-health-is-community-health-registration/
From the Howard Center:
Welcome to the Marna and Stephen Wise Tulin Spring Community Education Series. Our series is free and open to the public and offers timely educational sessions and dialogue on a variety of current topics related to mental health, substance use, and developmental needs. The sessions include presentations, film screenings, and panel discussions and are always followed by the opportunity for discussion and Q & A.
We’ll host two sessions in our spring series at Dealer.com in Burlington at 1 Howard Street. We’ll also offer a livestream option in partnership with Media Factory. Please note: if you have attended our virtual events in the past, it will be a different experience than our Zoom webinar events. If you attend by livestream, you will have the option to submit questions through the chat. We will send you your livestream link a few days before the event.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be available for both Spring Community Education Series sessions. If other accommodations are needed or for questions, please call 802-488-6912.
In our first session in our Spring Community Education Series, Dr. Simha Ravven, Howard Center’s Chief Medical Officer, will offer insights and perspectives on mental health treatment and services within our community. Using a case study to provide background and guide the presentation, Dr. Ravven will discuss Vermont mental health law, including voluntary and involuntary psychiatric treatment in inpatient and hospital settings; mandated, community treatment; and the limits of voluntary treatment.
Like many other U.S. cities, Burlington and the surrounding towns recognize the inherent tension between providing the highest quality, least restrictive services to people who experience serious mental health disorders and community safety and comfort. Additionally, unaddressed mental health issues impact the overall health of a community, including in our schools, workplaces, and businesses. Future conversations about mental health treatment must include recognition of cultural stigmas and discrimination, accessible treatment and services, preventive services, and collaborative solutions.
Tonight’s session will include discussion about a collective community response that balances individual rights with the safety of a community. The path to recovery is enhanced when a community offers compassionate and respectful care, while recognizing that mental health impacts us all; there is no “us” or “them.” Community partnerships and collaborative efforts are necessary to support individuals in recovery, and, equally important, they are crucial to the creation of thriving communities.
All are encouraged to attend this session and to participate in this ongoing community-wide conversation.
Register for the March 27 event.
About the Speaker
Dr. Simha Ravven is the Chief Medical Officer of the Howard Center and Assistant Clinical Professor in Law and Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. She currently serves as the President of the Vermont Medical Society.
Dr. Ravven was a studio art major as an undergraduate at Hamilton College and decided to pursue medicine after serving in the United States Peace Corps in Morocco. She graduated from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and completed her residency in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She went on to train in Forensic Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and continues to serve on the faculty there. Dr. Ravven is Board Certified in General Adult and Forensic Psychiatry. Her passion is caring for adults with serious mental illness and contributing to research and policy on the intersection of law and mental health.
Dr. Ravven has received numerous professional honors and recognition, has presented extensively at conferences and symposia, and has published research, chapters, and books.