Announcing A series of forums with Department of Mental Health Commissioner Barbara Leadholm
"Sustaining the Vision of Recovery in Challenging Economic Times: A Dialogue with Department of Mental Health Commissioner Barbara A. Leadholm"

Commissioner Leadholm invites the mental health community and the public to join her in forums across the state to discuss how the Department of Mental Health can sustain its mission in serving adults, children, adolescents and families with serious mental health needs in challenging economic times.
October 27 (Tuesday), 28 (Wednesday);   November 2 (Monday), 4 (Wednesday), 5 (Thursday), 9 (Monday)

• Mental Health Forum Towns & Schedule
  

UMass/Boston 'One Day' Program

Come Back To School!     Join us for a series of short lectures on current topics including our environment, government, and your health.   Thursday, November 12, 2009, The Conference Center at Waltham Woods, 860 Winter Street, Waltham, MA — $50.00 per person includes breakfast, lunch, and six lectures.   For more information contact Coleen Burgess:   CBurgess@umassp.edu • 774-455-7186

• One Day Program flyer
  

Americans with Disabilities Act 20 Years Later.... It's More Than Just Ramps

Friday October 23, 9:30am to 4:30pm
Dennis Church of the Nazarene, 209 Upper County Road, South Dennis MA 02660
Hello!   We will be presenting at this conference in October, and we encourage you to be there and bring lots of colleagues!
Rachel H. Tanenhaus, MPH, Program Coordinator, Healthy Aging and Disability Unit (HADU), Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Bureau of Community Health Access and Promotion, Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), 250 Washington Street, 4th Flr, Boston MA 02108-4619 — (617) 624-5957 Fax: (617) 624-5075
E-Mail:   http://www.mass.gov/dph/
DPH Blog:   http://publichealth.blog.state.ma.us/

• Conference Flyer

MAOA's 40th Anniversary Celebration

Barbara Farnsworth, MCOA Legislative Chair and MCOA rep to the MAOA Board, encourages all Council on Aging staff and Board members to attend MAOA's 40th Anniversary Celebration.   This Celebration will be an event that should not be missed and over the years, all Massachusetts elders have benefited from the advocacy efforts of MAOA.   By now, everyone should have received an invitation in the mail, and if not, please see the contact information on the invitation below.   The cost for this event is $40.00/person.   Looking forward to see all of you on September 24.

• MAOA Invitation

Falls Prevention Awareness Day!

Here is the flyer for our 3rd Annual Falls Prevention Awareness Day on September 22nd. Please circulate to other people and organizations that might be interested!
FYI, the hearing regarding Senate Bill 317 on falls prevention, has been moved to 10am on September 23rd in room B1.
— Massachusetts Senior Care Foundation

• Awareness Day flyer
  

Here is the draft Agenda for Falls Prevention Awareness Day.
— Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts

• Awareness Day agenda

Methods, Models & Tools

Learn to Facilitate Person-Centered Life Planning Methods, Models & Tools — An intensive week-long summer institute designed to help develop the competencies needed to facilitate consumer and family directed life planning.   Limited seats are still available for Methods, Models & Tools, an intensive five-day summer institute presented by the UNH Institute on Disability and the Browne Center designed to help develop the competencies needed to facilitate consumer and family-directed life planning.   The summer institute incorporates lecture, role-playing, action learning, and peer support to provide an interactive forum for participants to develop and practice effective group facilitation skills.   The curriculum addresses theories of group development, offering experiential methods for process design, questioning and recording skills, and strategic planning.   Models of situational leadership, team performance, conflict management and principled negotiation are translated to the context of person-centered futures planning.
Dates:   July 15, 16, 17, 20, & 21, 2009
Time:   9 am to 4 pm
Location:   The Browne Center, 340 Dame Road, Durham, NH
For more information, call 603.228.2084
Instructors: Patty Cotton, M.Ed., Director, Innovation Facilitators, & Pam McPhee, MSW, Director, The Browne Center
For more information and to register: Visit http://www.iod.unh.edu/events.html#mmtsi or call 603.228.2084
Methods, Models & Tools has been approved by the NH Chapter NASW for thirty (30) Category 1 Continuing Education Units for social workers.
This training is supported in part through a Person-Centered Planning Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CFDA #93.779.
Questions about IOD professional development opportunities?   Visit the IOD online at www.iod.unh.edu or e-mail contact.iod@unh.edu

MAOA Conference
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's Disease with Co-Occurring Mood Disorders

Tuesday 30 June, 2009
College of the Holy Cross
Hogan Campus Center
One College Drive
Worcester, MA
The Massachusetts Association of Older Americans (MAOA) is pleased to announce its fourth, and final, Aging & Mental Health conference of fiscal year 2009.   Supported by the MA Department of Mental Health;   the Alzheimer's Association, MA/NH, American Parkinson Disease Association-MA Chapter, Huntington's Disease Society of America-New England, and Elder Services of Worcester Area, Inc. have also joined with MAOA to offer this exceptional conference.
Please feel free to contact MAOA should you have any questions.
Call 617-426-0804 or email us at cwong@MAOAmass.org
MAOA Conference Brochure (PDF)

THREE PATHS TO ABUNDANT HEALTH

Wareham COA is conducting a Healthy Lifestyles Fair on Saturday 20 June, including a workshop on THREE PATHS TO ABUNDANT HEALTH: Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and Stress Resiliency (includes relaxation techniques and a QiGong/Tai Chi demo).
submitted/presented by:
Linn Morrill, MEd, Community Liaison
Healthy Aging and Disability Unit
MA Department of Public Health
250 Washington Street - 4th floor
Boston, MA 02108
tel:   617.624.5965
tty:   617.624.5992
fax:   617.624.5075
WEBSITE:   www.mass.gov/dph
BLOG:   http://publichealth.blog.state.ma.us
Please feel free to contact Linn for further information. Thank you.

Mass Home Care Annual Meeting

Monday 15 June
The Burlington Marriott
House Ways & Means Chairman Charles Murphy (D-Burlington) will be the keynote speaker
June 2009 Press Release

Aging with Dignity XIV

A Conference on Preventing and Responding
to Alcohol and Other Drug Problems Among Older People
Tuesday 9 June 2009
College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center, Worcester, MA

The 20th Annual Elder Care Conference for Western Massachusetts:   Then and Now

Tuesday 12 May 2009   •   8:15 am - 4:00 pm
Mass Mutual Conference Center, Springfield, Massachusetts

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Massachusetts Association of Councils on Aging 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 306, Easthampton MA 01027-2781 Phone:   413-527-6425       Fax:   413-527-7138 webmaster — peter@mcoaonline.com