Arizona Summit 2023 Program

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY May 3 - FRIDAY MAY 5, 2023

CITY OF MESA PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING FACILITY

Banner University Family Care

Supporting mental health for first responders and their families.

Proud sponsor the Arizona Summit Public Safety and Behavioral Health.

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WEDNESDAY MAY 3

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

CONFERENCE DOORS OPEN

Visit the various sponsor and resource tables while you grab some coffee and snacks to start the day.

12:45 PM

AWARDS PRESENTATION

Advocacy

An individual who positively affects policy or change in the public safety community.

First Responder of the Year

Exemplifies exceptional character beyond their sworn duties.

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

BRENDAN MCDONOUGH MAIN HALL

11:00 AM - NOON

WELCOMING REMARKS MAIN HALL

Colorguard+ Pledge of Allegiance; Welcome from the Chiefs; Recovery Ways Remarks;

11:50 AM

AWARD PRESENTATION

Innovative Program

Recognizes outstanding efforts to improve the mental health and wellness of public safety professionals.

NOON - 1:00 PM

LUNCH

Firehouse Subs provided by Banner University

Family Care

Modeling Resilience with Granite Mountain Hotshots Survivor

2:15 PM

AWARD PRESENTATION

Innovative Leadership

Recognizes leadership for being proactive to enhance public safety professionals’ mental health.

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM BREAKOUT

MAIN HALL

CONFERENCE AGENDA

that includes peer navigation, access to culturally competent evidence-based practice treatment services, and training/education.

LA PAZ ROOM

SESSIONS

Breakout 1: What is this witchcraft?

A primer on psychotherapy: Who’s it for? What’s it do? Does it Really Work? with Tina Casola, LMFT

Fire has ICS, Police have the 10 codes. Every industry has it’s own language, and therapists are no different. Get enlightened on the “Alphabet Soup” of the behavioral health industry. The Whos: professionals that can help. The Whats: industry standards for effective interventions. The Hows: rationale and effectiveness.

Breakout 3: Resiliency & Leadership with John Spiekermeier, BSM

Tactics for every level, including identifying gaps, building foundations, and passing on knowledge to future leaders.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

RETIREMENT PANEL

MAIN HALL

Retirement Panel hosted by Kelli Trueba, MA, LPC-S

COCONINO ROOM

Breakout 2: Support for AZ First Responders Safer Project with Victor Escoto, MSc, LAC, NCC, ACMHC

First responders are at significant risk for behavioral health problems and suicide due to workplace stress, trauma, and the impact of shift work.The Support for Arizona First-Responders (SAFeR) Project aims to increase awareness and improve wellness and resiliency by providing a three-prong approach

Discussion on how to prepare for a resilient and successful retirement with Marcy Cox, Tony Gonzales, Dave Kleinman, Jim McShea, Danny Sharp, Amanda Stamps and Suzy Vargo

4:50 PM

AWARD PRESENTATION

Peer Leadership

This individual is a champion for mental health and wellbeing, with lived experience, serves as a role model for their discipline, and is committed to breaking down behavioral health-related stigma amongst their peers.

7:45 AM - 9:00 AM

DOORS OPEN

Visit the various sponsor tables while you grab some coffee and snacks to start the day.

8:00 AM - 8:50 AM

YOGA WITH DAVE KLEINMAN

LA PAZ ROOM

Join Dave Kleinman, 33 year career in law enforcement, retired from the Arizona Department of Public Safety as he leads attendees through a gentle yoga practice focusing on the breath and meditative practices

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

WELCOME REMARKS

MAIN HALL

Welcome from the Chiefs

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

CAPTAIN BRIAN NANAVATY

MAIN HALL Resilience: Personal and Career Survival

Wellness is more than an annual physical. Wellness should be holistic with a focus on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges as well as developing

a family and work support system. Focuses on individual, family and agency resiliency by addressing our ability to cope throughout our career while reducing crisis through proactivity; education, mentoring and the development of personal practices and organizational resources.

10:30 AM

AWARD PRESENTATION

Public Safety Partnership

Two or more agencies and/or individual change agents who have creatively broken down barriers and collaborated effectively to bring innovative solutions to address behavioral health and public safety needs of the community.

10:45 AM - NOON BREAKOUT

SESSIONS

MAIN HALL

Breakout 4: Crisis & Deescalation: Finding Motivation with Ben Wetzel

Explores the stages of behavior escalation in crisis situations, related to unmet needs and motivation. Law enforcement and health professionals will learn to identify and address behavior through motivation, using deescalation techniques to achieve the ultimate goal of resolving crises.

COCONINO ROOM

Breakout 5: Is it Stress or Trauma? with Chris McBride, Rob Mitchell and Mike Carleton

First responders’ daily lives can range from mundane to intense. With experience, they become acclimated to stress, but prolonged exposure can lead to trauma. This session will help participants differentiate stress from trauma and recognize signs of being overwhelmed, while discussing effective support measures.

LA PAZ ROOM

Breakout 6: Line of Duty Death notifications and how to handle them with Special Operations Supervisor Samuel Martinez, US Border Patrol & Chief Roy Villareal, US Border Patrol (Retired)

CONFERENCE AGENDA

NOON - 1:00 PM LUNCH

Pizza on 87th provided by Banner University Family Care

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

MAIN HALL

Breakout session

7: First Responder

Families with Bobbie Merica and the Aoife Foundation

COCONINO ROOM

Breakout 8: Practical guidance for a law enforcement/behavioral health co-responder approach for a deflection program: Implementation and assessing impact with Josephine D. Korchmaros, PhD and James Brady

This workshop focuses on the Tucson Police Department’s Deflection Program, which aims to identify opioid misuse and connect individuals to treatment. It will provide practical guidance on managing behavioral health peer support specialists co-located with law enforcement.

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1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

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LA PAZ ROOM

Breakout 9: Therapy Dogs in the Field- How Do They Foster

Wellness? A discussion with BPA

Stephanie Dixon & K-9 Janet

FRIDAY

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

DOORS OPEN

Visit the various sponsor tables while you grab some coffee and snacks to start the day.

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

MAIN HALL

FAMILY ADVENTURE

with Libby Timmons, MEd, LISAC, CEAP, SAP; Kelley Harris Meshirer, MA, LASAC, CCTP; and Michael

Meshirer, BPA (Retired) TP-C

First Responder families are not quite the same as general population families. How we handle the day to day is unique to Public Safety, and it’s not just for the First Responderit’s a family effort. Michael and Kelley (pictured right, with their daughter) jump into their “family adventure” of life with trauma after a critical incident and how they’ve healed from it.

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

MAIN HALL

Breakout 10: PTSD vs. Moral Injury with Jeff Dill

This interactive presentation explains PTSD and how it affects members of the first responder world. Explanation of how Moral Injury plays a role and how the two compare to each other. We will be reviewing the suicide data FBHA has collected and explain why the belief of moral injury plays a larger role than PTSD in the first responder culture.

CONFERENCE AGENDA

COCONINO ROOM

Breakout 11: Getting into the Chief’s Head with Kane Nixon, EdD This session presents the findings of a research study which identified the opinions of Arizona chief fire officers on the causes and help approaches for firefighters’ behavioral health issues.

LA PAZ ROOM

Breakout 12: Traumatic Justice with Matt Pate Focuses on the trauma experienced by all who enter jails and prisons. With special emphasis on corrections officers (who have the highest suicide rates of law enforcement professionals), veterans, children and the mentally ill.

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

HEATHER WILLIAMS, PsyD

MAIN HALL

Healthy Communication Tactics

“Stop interrupting me!” “I didn’t ask you to fix it!” “I can’t believe the dishes aren’t done!”Do these sound familiar? Being married is already a challenge but being married in a public safety relationship adds unique dynamics and stressors that nobody goes to school to learn about. Join Heather as she helps us navigate healthy communication tactics in a public safety relationship to mitigate conflict, assumptions or having to guess when everyone is so tired as it is. The last thing anyone wants is conflict and chaos at home when that is what they live outside in the communities they serve. Together let’s create relationships that share friendship, love and laughter in the safety and peace of our homes.

11:45 AM - NOON

PRIZES AND GIVEAWAYS

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!

ARIZONA SUMMIT AWARDS

Innovative

Program

Officer Genevie Saucedo

Advocacy

Terry McDermott and Arthur Jackson

First Responder of the Year

Erika Johnson and Enzo Ortiz

Innovative Leader

Bobby Apodaca

Peer Leadership

Jim McShea

Public Safety Partnership

Laura Magnuson, Frank O’Halloran, Rob Ferraro, Mike Carleton and Jill Bognar

TYPES OF SERVICES

TYPES OF PROVIDERS

INSURANCE

We are in-network with many insurance providers. Please visit mentalhealthcenter. com/pricing-insurance or call us for more information.