NC Annual Meeting - October 29, 2009, 6p-9p

Draft Schedule

6 - 6;15pm Welcome & Introductory Comments
Brief discussion of advantages of regionalization, facilitation,
opportunity to share successes, challenges, 
priorities by state & region

6:15p - 7:15pm dinner & facilitated networking by region

7:15 - 7:45pm Report Back from 
  each Networking Region - 5 min each

Does the region have the desire to build a regional network?
If yes, what are the top priorities and next steps?
Who will/might coordinate or organize this effort? 
Who might assist in coordinating/ organizing?
If no, what are top priorities for states within the networking
region? What are your next steps?

7:15-7:45pm Brief accomplishments 
(will have handout to decrease time spent on this)

Introduce Tom Bryant, NC Director of Federal Relations

7:45 - 8:15  pm Discussion about a few TBD topics, eg
  -Health Care Reform and Cross Disability Coalition building: JFAAN
  -How to make the system more consumer-driven
   - Peer-Run Crisis Respite
   - Medicaid - PCA, Peer Support Services
   - MHBG (WV model + other info)

8:15 - 9 PM Policy Priorities for the coming year & next steps

Proposed 
National Coalition Regional Networks for Organizing Purposes
We propose meeting in the following NC regional networks to 
balance out the number of National Coalition members per 
organizing area. For example, federal regions 4 and 6 combined 
would increase the number of NC member states from 1 in 
federal region 6 to 6 in the combined region; and combining 
federal regions 7 and 8 would help region 8 which only has one 
NC member presently.

At our annual meeting we need a facilitator for each regional
networking meeting. The Steering Committee came up with some 
potential facilitators, which are noted below.

(omitted here)

Lauren Spiro
Director

National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations
1101 15th Street NW, Suite 1212
Washington, DC 20005