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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 XIV (2006):
Transforming Mental Health Services in Texas: Building Bridges
between Cultural Competence
and Evidence-Based Practice
The fourteenth seminar 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
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.
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 convened community teams to develop
plans to address the needs of juvenile offenders with mental illness.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar XI (1998):
Ethnic Minority Mental Health in Texas
Booklet "Cultural Competency: Practical Guidelines for Mental
Health Services"
The 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
were 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.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar X (1996):
Mental Health for Children in Houston
During the tenth seminar, a "Convening of Community Leaders" gathered
together key stakeholders committed to improving the quality of
life for Houston's children. In this major public forum, the collaborative
funding alliance to be known as the Greater Houston Collaborative
for Children and its first initiative, a call for proposals, were
announced to the Houston community.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar IX (1994):
Psychiatric Assessment of Mexican-Origin Populations
Book "Psychiatric Assessment of Mexican-Origin Populations"
The ninth seminar focused on standardization
of diagnostic instruments for researchers in Texas and Mexico to
facilitate cross-cultural research projects addressing various aspects
of psychopathology.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar VIII (1992):
Shared Opportunities for Schools and Communities
Book "Shared Opportunities for Schools and Communities"
The eighth seminar focused on school-linked health
and human services for children and their families ranging from prenatal
care through high school. The overall goal was to foster improvement
in human development and to establish a vision of the school of the
future as a site for multiple services to support students and their
families.
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 50th anniversary, the seventh seminar highlighted
the best that Texas had to offer in advancing the scientific frontiers
within the field of mental health and the underlying behavioral
sciences.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar VI (1988):
Community Care of the Chronically Mentally Ill
Book "Community Care of the Chronically Mentally Ill"
The sixth seminar brought together
key individuals committed to improving the care and treatment of
the chronically mentally ill in the state of Texas.
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"
The fifth seminar focused on mental health services for the
Mexican-origin population in Texas. Discussions included 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.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar IV (1984):
Looking Forward: Texas and Its Elderly
Book "Looking Forward: Texas and Its Elderly"
The fourth seminar focused on current issues and future dilemmas
related to the aging population in our society.
Robert
Lee Sutherland Seminar III (1982):
Ima Hogg Centennial
Book "Houston's Children in Crisis"
The third seminar commemorated the birth of Miss Ima Hogg by focusing
on her contributions to and interest in mental health services for
children and families in Houston.
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"
During the second seminar, public sector representatives met (1) to 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 seminar focused
on the Report to the President by the Commission on 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.
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