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2021 WI PEER RECOVERY CONFERENCE
Virtual Via Zoom
aUGUST 18-20, 2021
Independent Living Resources is excited to announce our next conference! The 6th Annual WI Peer Recovery Conference will be held August 18-20, 2021 virtually on Zoom as it was in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. This year's conference will bring keynotes and various breakout workshops to WI, honoring Certified Peer Specialist and Certified Parent Peer Specialist continuing education, funded by Department of Health Services - Division of Care and Treatment Services.
Scholarship applications will be available until July 7, 2021.
Keynotes and Presenters can be found at the website.
Registration is now open!
Scholarship applications will be available until July 7, 2021.
Keynotes and Presenters can be found at the website.
Registration is now open!
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Watch for future email notices and updated website content as we continue planning the 2021 Conference!
Watch for future email notices and updated website content as we continue planning the 2021 Conference!
Meet the 2021 KeyNote Speakers
day 1 AUgust 18, 2021
Tracy Littlejohn
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Tracy Littlejohn, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and has spent her adult life working toward improving the lives of her native community. She has been studying and teaching about intergenerational trauma, racial justice, Native American History, as well as being a supporter of environmentalist endeavors regarding oil pipelines, mining, and supporting the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women awareness efforts. Tracy's life has centered around supporting and advocating for people of color as well as other under-represented populations. Tracy has worked for the Ho-Chunk Nation in several capacities ranging from Legislative Chief of Staff to Researcher to Public Relations. She currently works for their Youth Services program with Native American youth in the La Crosse area. Tracy is also an independent contractor to provide facilitation for Racial Justice training through the La Crosse YWCA. Tracy takes an interest in her local community by serving on the Board of Directors for the La Crosse Historical Society, is a current Commissioner of the City Park Board, and advises the UW-La Crosse Native American Student Association.
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Day 2 August 19, 2021
Tanya Kraege
Tanya Kraege is the Drug Poisoning Prevention Recovery Coach Team Manager at Safe Communities MDC and a mental health clinician at Journey Mental Health in the crisis unit. She specializes in working with people with substance use challenges, women using substances while pregnant, trauma, relationships and mental health challenges. Tanya has worked in the field of mental health and substance use for 13 years and currently oversees Recovery Coaches and Certified Peer Specialists who work in a variety of environments in Dane County to support people with SUD, MH and families affected by SUD and MH challenges. Tanya played a role in the Health Care Task Force on Safe Opioid Prescribing by participating in the academic detailing program for working with clinicians on co-prescribing Naloxone with opioid prescription medications. In addition to being a Clinical Social Worker, Clinical Substance Abuse Counselor and a community advocate, Tanya has experience as a Recovery Coach, a Recovery Coach Trainer, a Certified Peer Specialist and Certified Peer Specialist Trainer, using her story of addiction and recovery to support all communities to discover hope and insight into new ways of living.
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Skye Boughman
Skye Boughman has worked on the front line of the substance use and mental health epidemic in her work as the Clinical Director of ARC Community Services, Executive Director of Stop Heroin Now, a Wisconsin State Lead for the Recovery Advocacy Project, a therapist at Open Door Center for Change, the former Director of Drug Poisoning Prevention at Safe Communities, and the former Assistant Director of Connections Counseling. She specializes in working with teens and young adults suffering from opiate dependence and co-occurring mental health disorders and trauma. She was the chair of SCAODA's Ad Hoc Committee on 911 Good Samaritan Legislation, co-produced Straightforward: The Truth About Addiction and has contributed her own story of recovery to Waking Up Happy: A Handbook of Change with Memoirs of Recovery and Hope.
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DAY 3 AUGUST 20, 2021
Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu Day 3 Keynote August 20
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Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu (they/she) is a Disability Justice cultural worker, educator, organizer, parent, somatic and ancestral healing practitioner, consultant, writer, and the Executive Director of Project LETS — a national grassroots organization led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness, madness, disability, and neurodivergence. Their work specializes in building peer support collectives and community mental health care structures outside of the state. Stefanie comes to their work from the positionality of being white, Latinx, Jewish, mad, autistic, disabled, and a survivor of psychiatric incarceration. They have extensive experience as a facilitator, curriculum developer, and consultant for mental health policies, program development, and access-centered practices. Stefanie is invested in disrupting multiple carceral systems which disproportionately harm and kill our community members worldwide.
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2019 WI PEER RECOVERY CONFERENCE
PHOTOS FROM 2019 WPRC: recovery outside the box
The 4th Annual Wisconsin Peer Recovery Conference: Recovery Outside the Box is designed to demonstrate aspects of effective peer support within community services of mental health and substance use recovery. Peers, consumers, and service providers are able to enhance their individual skills and explore innovative applications of peer support in various communities statewide.
The Conference Committee, in conjunction with ILR, funded by Department of Health Services - Division of Care and Treatment Services brought 2 keynotes and 25, 90-minute, breakout workshops to WI honoring Certified Peer Specialist continuing education in August 2019. Topics addressed at the conference included: trauma-informed care, ethics and boundaries, mindfulness, substance use recovery, alternative therapies, recovery oriented peer support groups, supporting those in the correctional justice system and many, many more!
We have officially doubled our attendance from our first conference in 2015 and continue to grow! Peer support and Mental Health Services are growing rapidly and we feel honored to be able to put on such an event for our WI communities!
A huge thank you to all of those involved this year including ILR staff, Department of Health Services – Division of Care and Treatment Services, University of WI Stevens Point, Stoney Creek Hotel and Conference Center, the Conference Committee, Keynotes, and our 26 Presenters for all of the hard work you did to make this year successful!
Please continue to check back for information on 2020's Conference marking our 5th year! We will post more information as our planning continues.
The Conference Committee, in conjunction with ILR, funded by Department of Health Services - Division of Care and Treatment Services brought 2 keynotes and 25, 90-minute, breakout workshops to WI honoring Certified Peer Specialist continuing education in August 2019. Topics addressed at the conference included: trauma-informed care, ethics and boundaries, mindfulness, substance use recovery, alternative therapies, recovery oriented peer support groups, supporting those in the correctional justice system and many, many more!
We have officially doubled our attendance from our first conference in 2015 and continue to grow! Peer support and Mental Health Services are growing rapidly and we feel honored to be able to put on such an event for our WI communities!
A huge thank you to all of those involved this year including ILR staff, Department of Health Services – Division of Care and Treatment Services, University of WI Stevens Point, Stoney Creek Hotel and Conference Center, the Conference Committee, Keynotes, and our 26 Presenters for all of the hard work you did to make this year successful!
Please continue to check back for information on 2020's Conference marking our 5th year! We will post more information as our planning continues.
2018 WI Peer Recovery Conference
Photos from 2018 WPRC: Discovering Pathways of Recovery
2017 WI Peer Recovery Conference
Photos from 2017 WPRC: Building Diverse Relationships