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Robert Lee Sutherland Seminars
(1978 - Present)
Biennially,
since 1978 the foundation has held seminars to encourage people
to work cooperatively to address timely issues for the improvement
of mental health and the quality of life in Texas. The Seminars
are a living tribute to the first director of the Hogg Foundation
for Mental Health, Dr. Robert Lee Sutherland.
Robert Lee Sutherland Seminar XV (2008):
Integrated Health: Connecting Body and Mind
More than 400 stakeholders attended the fifteenth biannual RLS Seminar on September 8-9 in Austin to discuss bringing to Texas an emerging national movement to improve people’s health by treating physical and behavioral illnesses together. The foundation convened the conference to share the knowledge and experience of more than 50 national, state and local physical and behavioral health care experts, providers and consumers with experience in systematically coordinating physical and behavioral health care.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar XIV (2006):
Transforming Mental Health Services in Texas: Building Bridges
between Cultural Competence
and Evidence-Based Practice
Approximately 150 people attended the fourteenth seminar held on November 30 – December 2, which focused on how to modify and use evidence-based practices (EBP) to provide treatments that are consistent with the cultures of diverse populations. The goals of the Seminar were to provide stimulating sessions on cultural competence and EBP and to promote linguistically- and culturally-appropriate treatment, training, and education.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar XIII (2004):
Safe and Appropriate Behavioral Interventions: Changing the Culture
of Care
Booklet and DVD – “Safe and Appropriate Behavioral Interventions: Changing the Culture of Care”
On December 2-3, the thirteenth seminar focused on standards and practices for using emergency interventions for persons with behavioral disorders. By convening participants from a number of agencies and localities, the seminar aimed to begin building a common language and a data collection framework to better implement federal restraints and seclusion standards within the context of quality service provision in Texas. Approximately 240 people attended the first day with included presentations from local and national experts, and involved interactive sessions based on descriptions of hypothetical situations. The second day took a different format consisting about 50 persons working in specialized groups that participated in a more intense process of reasoning through specific situations and formulating constructive responses to prevent or intervene in such emergency situations.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar XII (2002):
Juvenile Offenders with Mental Illness
Booklet – "Juvenile Justice and Mental Health: Appropriate Assistance,
Breaking Barriers, Collaborating Communities"
The twelfth seminar held in September brought together community teams over a one-and one-half day period to develop plans to address the needs of juvenile offenders with mental illness. The goal of the seminar was to promote coordination and collaboration of juvenile justice agencies (both probation and corrections), local and state law enforcement, mental health officials, and community members in effectively identifying, treating, and supervising juvenile offenders with severe emotional disturbances in a manner that promotes public safety, public health, institutional order, and maximization of available resources.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar XI (1998):
Ethnic Minority Mental Health in Texas
Booklet – "Cultural Competency: Practical Guidelines for Mental
Health Services"
This eleventh seminar focused on identifying the most pressing mental health needs facing ethnic and racial minorities in Texas and on proposing strategies for addressing them. The outcomes of the seminar will be used to help shape the Foundation's minority mental health program area, to improve access to and quality of the services, and to seek to impact public policy. Focus groups were held with mental health consumers and families, service providers, and administrators in Austin and Houston representing African American, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American/Pacific Islander populations.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar X (1996):
Mental Health for Children in Houston
A “Convening of Community Leaders” in November 1996 brought together key stakeholders committed to improving the quality of life for Houston’s children. The seminar assembled those Houstonians most concerned with children’s issues to encourage the collaborative design, funding, and implementation of a model program for children that could be replicated in other urban centers. This major public forum, the collaborative funding alliance known as the Greater Houston Collaborative for Children grew out of the Tenth RLS Seminar and consisted of more than two dozen funding agencies and providers of children’s services.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar IX (1994):
Psychiatric Assessment of Mexican-Origin Populations
Book – "Psychiatric Assessment of Mexican-Origin Populations"
This two-day seminar in December 1994 convened a diverse group of experts from Texas and Mexico to discuss adapting the use of various psychiatric and diagnostic instruments for use in the border region. Seminar goals were to encourage behavioral scientists to discuss research and training opportunities using the same psychiatric assessment techniques; to develop collaborative research and training activities; to discuss strategies for implementing trans-cultural psychiatric research in the border region; and, to provide an overview of past and current collaborating research efforts.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar VIII (1992):
Shared Opportunities for Schools and Communities
Book – "Shared Opportunities for Schools and Communities"
The overall goal of the September 1992 seminar was to foster improvement in human development and establish a vision of the school of the future as a site for multiple services to support students and their families. The main purpose of the Seminar was to share recent information about the nature and effectiveness of school-linked services, policy options for implementing such programs, and future prospects for parents and teachers to participate in educational reform. Over 300 leaders from various professional fields from throughout the state examined school-linked services for children and their families, ranging from prenatal care through high school.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar VII (1990):
Mental Health Research in Texas
Book – "Mental Health Research in Texas: Retrospect and Prospect"
In connection with the Hogg Foundation's fiftieth anniversary, this scientific meeting was held in February 1990 to highlight the best that Texas has to offer in advancing the scientific frontiers within the field of mental health and the underlying behavioral sciences. It brought together almost 200 Texas researchers with the goals of (1) systematically reviewing recent and current mental health research in Texas and identifying both its strengths and problems; (2) broadening the strengthening networks for collaboration among mental health researchers in the state, and (3) developing strategies to enhance the quality and increase the amount of mental health research in Texas.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar VI (1988):
Community Care of the Chronically Mentally Ill
Book – "Community Care of the Chronically Mentally Ill"
This sixth seminar in September/October 1988 brought together key individuals committed to improving the care and treatment of the chronically mentally ill in the state of Texas. The 150 invited delegates from around the state participated in four task groups which reviewed and discussed the activities and concerns of the Foundation’s Commission on Community Care of the Mentally Ill.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar V (1986):
Mental Health Issues of the Mexican Origin Population in Texas
Book – "Mental Health Issues of the Mexican Origin Population in
Texas"
This fifth seminar focused on mental health services for the Mexican-origin population in Texas—the incidence and prevalence of mental health problems and associated risk factors among people of Mexican origin, prevention and treatment programs that are most suitable, and the impact of economics and political decision-making process on mental health services for this population. The seminar convened a select group of scholars, practitioners, and state leaders for four half-day sessions over a two-day period to (1) offer an overview of present mental health needs and services, (2) identify the most pressing problems, and (3) propose viable solutions for these problems.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar IV (1984):
Looking Forward: Texas and Its Elderly
Book – "Looking Forward: Texas and Its Elderly"
This fourth seminar focused on current issues and future dilemmas related to the aging population in our society. Invitees were a mix of age, economic, ant ethnic groups living in various sections of the state, ranging in educational attainment, sharing the common interest in the situation of the aging in the state and a determination to affect positive results on behalf of those older members of the population.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar III (1982):
Houston’s Children In Crisis & Ima Hogg Centennial
Book – "Houston's Children in Crisis"
This seminar in July 1982 combined a centennial celebration in honor of Miss Ima Hogg with the third Sutherland Seminar on Houston’s children in crisis. Over 1,000 people attended the pre-seminar event commemorating the birth of Miss Ima Hogg and focusing on her contributions to and interest in mental health services for children and families in Houston. The second day involved 250 attendees participating in five breakout sessions to discuss (1) Ill and Disabled Children, (2) Culturally Diverse Children, (3) Educationally and Vocationally Unserved Children, (4) Acting Out and Behavioral Problems, and (5) Responsibilities for Children.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar In Mental Health II (1980):
Private Initiative in Support of Public Purpose - Mental Health
in Texas
Book – "Private Initiative In Support of Public Purpose"
This seminar convened approximately 800 representatives of the public sector on October 3-4, 1980 to (1) discuss the means by which the private and public sector can better help one another meet their common goals, (2) to examine effective roles for foundations in mobilizing grass roots support for mental health planning and (3) to discuss and evaluate roles for the private sector in the area of mental health.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar In Mental Health I (1978):
Mental Health For The People of Texas
Book – "Mental Health for the People of Texas"
As the first in a memorial series of biennial seminars to promote interest in new developments in mental health, this and future seminars appeal to various audiences at different times-- mental health professionals, volunteers, students and faculty, community groups, and concerned citizens. This seminar brought together more than 1,000 delegates for three days in May 1978 to examine the implications of the President’s Commission on Mental Health Report for the state of Texas. First Lady Rosalyn Carter was the keynote speaker. |
