This page contains presentations given by our colleagues during MFRI events and programs.
Battlemind to Home Mental Health Summit – 2017
Keynote
- Stephan J. Cozza, M.D. – National Military Family Bereavement Study: The Effect of Military Service Death on Family Members
Breakout sessions
- Marty Pentz, Ph.D., MSW – Addiction and Co-Morbid Mental Health Issues in Our Veterans
- Andrea Carlile – Reintegration: A Family’s Story – The War that Came Home
Plenary sessions
- Hon. Dave Certo, Hon. Maria D. Granger and Mike Brown – Veterans Treatment Courts
- Chaplin Michael L. McCoy – The Importance of Spirituality in Healing Returning Warriors/Veterans
Breakout sessions
- Marty Pentz, Ph.D., MSW – Addiction and Co-Morbid Mental Health Issues in Our Veterans
- Kathy Broniarczyk, M.Ed. – Measuring Communities Basic Training 1: Introduction
- Kathy Broniarczyk, M.Ed. – Measuring Communities Basic Training 2: Scenarios
- Andrea Carlile – Reintegration: A Family’s Story – The War that Came Home
- Michael B. Brennan, PsyD, ABPP, Modie Lavin and Chris Miller – The Road Home Program for Families
- Anita Munoz-Boyle, PT – Veterans Living Well with Amputations
Battlemind to Home Mental Health Summit – Sept. 2016
- NaTasha Allen – Exploring Ways for Veterans to Access Mental Health Services in the VA
- Clyde Angel, DMin., BCC, LPC and John Sullivan, LCSW – Faith and Trauma: The Shattered Soul
- Travis Field, LCSW – Veteran Suicide Prevention & Crisis Intervention
- Timothy Jones – From Victim to Victor
- Heidi Knock, Psy.D., HSPP – Invisible Wounds
- Daniel Legrand M.D., MBA, CWS, FACS – Clinical Applications of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) in Wound Care
Battlemind To Home VI Symposium – Aug. 2015
- Joining Community Forces Discussion
- Nicolle C. Angeli, Ph.D. – Chronic Pain Syndrome and Evidence-based Treatment
- Jennifer Fox, LCSW – Social and Cultural Factors of Military Sexual Trauma
- Julia Haskell – An Army Nurse Corps Veteran’s Journey
- Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Ph.D., Christina Marini, M.A.- Military & Veteran Families
- Desiree Tiggart – Veterans Benefits Administration – Overview of VA Claims
Battlemind To Home V Symposium – Aug. 2014
- Deborah R. Walls, MSW, LCSW, CCDVC, COR – Combating Homelessness Among Our Nation’s Veterans: A Collaborative Effort Between VA and Community Agencies
- Heidi Knock – Prolonged Exposure Therapy
- Joshua L. Sumner, LCSW – Provider Resiliency Training
- Peter Perkowski and Aaron Belkin – LGBT and the Military Challenges and Opportunities
- Robin D. Paul, LCSW – VA Overview and VA Psychosocial Programming
- Ryan Wynkoop – Supporting Youth of Veterans and Military Families
- Summer Ibarra, Ph.D., HSPP – TBI & Post-concussion Syndrome Aftermath
An Overview of VA Resources for Veterans: What Faith-based, Community, and Nonprofit Organizations Need to Know – May 2014
- Indiana Department of Veterans Employment Brief May 2014
- Bobbie Andrews – Home Based Primary Care
- Kitra Corder – Local Community Housing Provider(s) for Veteran
- Carla Delawder – Womens Health
- Stephen Dillard – The Role and work of the VA Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
- Eric Dungan LCSW – Responding to the Needs of Justice-Involved Veterans
- Isbel Every – Top 10 Things All VA Staff Should Know About Military Sexual Trauma
- Paulette Matin & Desiree Tiggart – Veterans Benefits Administration
- Polli Pollem – Indiana Legal Services, Inc.
- Gretchen Ricketts – National Cemetery Administration
- William Wall, LICSW, BCD – Freedom Center: Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Post Deployment Clinic
- Karon Wolfe, LISW-S – Dayton VAMC Suicide Prevention Program
Battlemind To Home IV Symposium – Nov. 2013
- Matthew J. Bair, M.D., M.S. – Pain and Combat Injuries in Soldiers Returning from Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom Warning – This presentation contains vivid images of intense injuries
- Dr. Betty Moseley Brown – Information from the Center for Women Veterans
- Andrea Carlile – Presenting Hope: One Couple’s Story of PTSD From the View of the Spouse
- Rodney J.S. Deaton, M.D., J.D. – The New High: Substance Abuse, Veterans, and the Military
- Silouan Green – Focus, Passion, & PTSD
- Dr. Stacie F. Hitt – From Desert Storm to the Perfect Storm
- Stacy Knipscheer – Homeless and Justice Involved Veterans
- Mark Mayhew – Responding to the Needs of Justice-Involved Veterans
- James Nelson – Combat Stress and PTSD
- Caitlin Thompson – Overview of VA Suicide Presentation Program
Student Veterans of America Leadership Institute – Aug. 2013
Curriculum developed and delivered by MFRI
- Christy Flynn – Introduction (PDF)
- Jamie Simek – Success in 3-D: Design the SVO (PDF)
- Jamie Simek – Success in 3-D: Develop the SVO (PDF)
- Mike Marn – Success in 3-D: Deliver the SVO (PDF)
- Stacie Hitt – Evaluate Progress and Demonstrate Success (PDF)
International Research Symposium – June 2013
- Dr. Penny F. Pierce – Balancing Stress and Resources to Cope with the Demands of Wartime Military Service
- Dr. Kara Zivin – Predictors of Employment and Productivity Among Returning National Guard Members
- Dr. Robert Rosenheck and Dr. Maria O’Connell – Risk Factors for Homelessness Among Veterans: Highlights
- Dr. MAJ Kimberly Speck and Dr. David S. Riggs – Differences in the Parenting Styles of Military and Civilian Mothers
- Dr. Dawne Vogt – Family-Related Risk and Resilience Factors during Deployment and OEF/OIF Veterans’ Postdeployment Mental Health
Battlemind To Home III Symposium – Sep. 2012
- Chaplain Clyde Angel – PAIRS
- Ariana Bostian-Kentes – Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Military Families
- Maj Gen Maria Falca-Dodson – Military Culture
- CPT Chad Fleming – Pushups For Charity (Video)
- Dr. Keith Lemmon, LTC – Military Children
- Cory Smith – Running Ranger (TV news), Run ranger run (Video), GallantFew (Video)
- COL Michael Strohm – Spirituality in Combat
- Notes from regional breakout sessions
SVA 2012 Leadership Institute – July 2012
- Stacie Hitt – Introduction (PDF)
- Stacie Hitt – SVO Think Tank (PDF)
- Jamie Simek – Success in 3-D: Design the SVO (PDF)
- Jamie Simek – Success in 3-D: Develop the SVO (PDF)
- Linda Hughes-Kirchubel – Success in 3-D: Deliver the SVO (PDF)
- Stacie Hitt – Evaluate Progress and Demonstrate Success (PDF)
Battlemind To Home II Symposium – Nov. 2011
- Ted Bonar – Service Members and Veterans on Campus
- Michael E. Clark – Chronic Pain Issues: Physical and Psychological Aspects
- Rose Collins – Ambiguous Loss: Concepts and Clinical Practice
- Rodney Deaton – Combat Trauma, Substance Dependence, and Treatment Providers: Understanding What We’ll Never Fully Understand
- Daniel DeBrule – Suicide in the Military: Prevalence, Research, and Resources
- Grant Evans & P. Brian Gale II – Operation R&R
- Matt Greenlee – VA101: An Overview of Federal Benefits for Veterans
- Heidi Knock – Dealing with TBI: An Overview of Behavioral Symptoms and Interventions
- E. Terri LaVelle – Empowering Veterans ~ Faith-based and Community Organizations Working Collaboratively with Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Michael L. McCoy – Engaging Spiritual Resources for Our Returning Warriors/Combat Veterans and Their Families to Help Them Heal
- John Myers – Vocational Reintegration for Returning Service Members
- Roger Peterman – Transition Assistance Advisor
- Robert Russell – Veterans Treatment Courts
- Paul Smits & Pete Dougherty – Eliminating Homelessness Among Veterans