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Events
NAMI California 2010
Annual Conference Location: San Francisco Airport Marriot Date: August 27-28, 2010
For more information about this conference visit www.namicalifornia.org/ _________________________________ Project Homeless Connect Location: Bayview Playground,
Keith at Armstrong, San Francisco, CA 94124 PWDF will have staff available to answer questions about Social Security disability and/or SSI. For more information about this event visit www.projecthomelessconnect.com _________________________________ Cultural Competence
and Mental Health Summit XVI Workshop Session I, Workshop 8
_________________________________ 2009 Quad EEO Training
Conference Presents: Understanding Employees and Job Applicants with
Psychiatric Disabilities
An interactive discussion.
The QUAD Conference is the largest EEO training
conference in the western United States. It is jointly sponsored by
the San Francisco Federal Executive Board's four special emphasis
councils. See http://www.quadcouncil.com/qconf09.php
Location: Hilton Concord Hotel, 1970 Diamond
Blvd., Concord CA _________________________________ Presents: Understanding Employment Issues for People with
Psychiatric and/or Developmental Disabilities An Open Public Forum Everyone is invited, see flyer
for additional information. Location:Swift Conference Center (3rd Floor)
at Mission Creek Adult Day Health, 930 4th St., San
Francisco. PWDF is issuing 2.75 hours of continuing
education credit (pending approval): _________________________________ Working with People with
Mental Illness: Rights of Employees with Mental Illness in the
Workplace Presented by People With
Disabilities Foundation Speakers: Steven Bruce, Managing
Attorney This training is designed to address issues
encountered by employees with mental impairments and by employers in
the workplace by educating employees and their supervisors of their
rights and responsibilities in regard to addressing and
accommodating impairments, respecting privacy and confidentiality
issues, and through appropriate communication. The goals of this training are to inform employees
with psychiatric impairments of their rights in the workplace and to
inform supervisors about what can and what can not be addressed in
the work place regarding disclosure and confidentiality rules, and
issues of accommodation. _________________________________ Effective Advocacy for
Clients with Mental Illness Presented by People With
Disabilities Foundation Speakers: Steven Bruce, Managing Attorney,
PWDF Eviction Defense Collaborative hosted a roundtable
discussion on issues faced by intake workers and legal professionals
when working with clients with mental issues and/or substance abuse.
Steven Bruce and Nhien Vuong offered an overview of practical tips
for deescalating agitated clients, recognizing difficult situations
and ensuring one?s safety, identifying and overcoming communication
barriers, managing client?s expectations of services, and reducing
employee stress in regard to working with challenging clients. Two hours of MCLE credits were granted to lawyers
in attendance. _________________________________ DISABLED OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL PRESENTS Steven Bruce, Esq. Founder and Director People With Disabilities Foundation (PWDF) San Francisco Understanding Employees and Job
Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities Mr. Bruce will show, discuss, and answer questions
regarding PWDF's exciting newly-released educational video. The film
features real individuals with psychiatric disabilities (not
actors), employed and often accommodated by real employers;
informative testimony by psychological and other experts; a mock
mediation to illustrate how mediation can facilitate reasonable
accommodation and understanding; an excellent facilitation workbook,
which will be distributed.. All federal employees (and
friends of DOC) are invited.
Managers, supervisors, human resource officials, and those
who manage EEO and people with disabilities programs will find the
information especially useful. Lunch will be provided for those who
RSVP. Date/Time: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 12
to 3:30 PM Location: San Francisco Federal Building Casual Conference Room 5th Floor 450 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco (Located 3 blocks from the Civic Center BART
Station) Agenda 12:00-12:45PM Delicious
luncheon/networking 12:45-1:15 Business Meeting 1:15- 3:30 DOC Presentation RSVP by COB June 10, 2008 to Amanda Wade (Email
amandawade@eeoc.gov; phone (415-625-5624) If you require sign language interpreters, please
notify Amanda Wade by June 10, 2008. _________________________________ PWDF
Presents: The Premiere of our New 30 Minute Training
Video Understanding Employees Psychiatric disability is a hidden issue that affects
every workplace today. Real people and their employers are in PWDF's
new public awareness training. The video focuses on the nature of
mental disabilities including Bipolar, Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD), Schizophrenia and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(OCD). In this public awareness training video PWDF features
real people and their employers in real situations that reflect how
employers can successfully employ people with psychological
disorders. This video is designed for employers, employees, and
agencies or individuals who who need to know and understand the
nature of these disorders. Location: City College of San Francisco - Mission
Campus - Room 109 PWDF is State Bar of California MCLE Provider. PWDF?s new video shown at the 88th Annual Convention
of the Western Psychological Association Our new video, Understanding Employees and Job
Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities is part of the film festival at Western Psychological
Association?s 2008 Convention held in Irvine, California on April
10-13, 2008. Bay Area Disability Services Librarians (BADSL)
Meeting Topic: PWDF Services, Materials, and News Speaker: Annie Hsia, Advocacy Program Manager Bay Area Disability Services Librarians, a local
networking group of metropolitan libraries in the community that are
dedicated to providing equal access to the public library system for
people with disabilities, invited PWDF to their scheduled meeting so
that we may describe PWDF services in more detail.
Participants are especially interested in ways their patrons may be
referred to PWDF for individual or referral services. Seventeen Delegates from Shaanxi Province, China
Visit PWDF Date: April 19, 2007, 12:30 p.m. PWDF welcomed 17 delegates from Shaanxi Province,
China. Headed by Ms. Chaoying Zhang, Chair and Director of the
General Office of the Shaanxi League of Disabled People. The group
convened to learn about PWDF?s programs and supporting
services. A presentation by Steven Bruce was followed by
numerous questions ranging from the benefits to employers that hire
employees with disabilities, to the U.S.?s support system for people
with disabilities, to PWDF?s success rate in representing our
clients.
2006 Cultural Competence and Mental Health Summit
Date: November 8-9, 2006 The Summit is sponsored by the California Institute
for Mental Health, Sacramento. The 2006 Summit has specific focus
and relevance for the implementation for the Mental Health Services
Act. The program includes specific strategies for successful change,
and transforming organizational systems to work collaboratively with
clients, consumers and diverse communities.
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Eight short video clips and one audio clip from PWDF's past nine issue seminars since January 16, 2001. Seminar 1: Disabled Students in Elementary and
Secondary Schools - Coping skills and sensitivity Training.
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