Time/End Time
Session Details
8:00 AM-8:55 AM
Registration and Light Breakfast
9:00 AM-9:05 AM
Welcome
9:06 AM-9:10 AM
Prayer
9:11 AM-9:15 AM
“Rock Solid” – Spoken Word – Verbal Oasis –– Monique Franklin
9:16 AM-9:30 AM
Dorothy Capers, Show Me Foundation Director/Founder, Family Behavioral Health Institute Group Practice/Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW),
Certified Problem Gambling Counselor (ICGC-II, WSCGC-II)
9:31 AM-9:46 AM
Spotlight: Gambling Trends & Disparities in Washington – Roxane Waldron, MPA
Administrator Problem Gambling Program Division of Behavioral Health and
Recovery Health Care
Authority
9:47 AM-9:52 AM
Introduction of keynote speaker
9:53 AM-10:22 AM
Keynote Address: “Rock Solid: Where the Mind Heals, the Body Follows, and the Spirit Leads” -
Dr. Margaret Towolawi
10:23 AM-10:38 AM
Q&A
10:38 AM- 11:00 AM
Morning Break/Vendors
11:01 AM- 12:10 PM
Panel
Panel 1: Resources and Research
Panel 2: How mental health, problem gambling, and substance use disorders intersect and impact our
communities.
12:!0 PM- 12:50 PM
Lunch & Networking, Resource Tables
12:50 PM – 1:25 PM
Break-out 1: Alona Lacefield & Doris McCoy
Understanding and Healing Gambling Addiction in Families
Break-out 2: Peter Bloch Garcia Interim Executive Director of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Seattle : Aiming for Joy - We can improve our mental health with evidence-based practices
of the Three Rs: Recover, Restore, and Regulate.
Practicing the Three Rs will address our immediate mental health needs,
but if we aim higher we can heal and thrive because we were created for joy.
1:30 PM- 1:40 PM
Questions to panel from audience
1:42 PM- 1:50 PM
Wrap-Up and Reflections –Prayer (Beverly)