The 43rd Annual FMHAC Conference
March 21-23, 2018
Board of Directors Elections
Director of Conference: Tom Granucci, LCSW (re-election)
Director of Education: Anna Kafka, PsyD (re-election)
Secretary: Cynthia Lermond, PsyD (re-election)
Director of Education: Anna Kafka, PsyD (re-election)
Secretary: Cynthia Lermond, PsyD (re-election)
Congratulations!
FMHAC William T. Rossiter Award Winner
Mack Jenkins
Mack Jenkins, Chief Probation Officer (retired)
Mack Jenkins career in the criminal justice system spanned 4 decades. Chief Jenkins retired as the chief probation officer for San Diego County, where he oversaw a department of more than 1,300 staff who provided supervision and services to more than 13,000 adult and 2,500 juvenile offenders. During his career, Jenkins has developed expertise in the use of evidenced-based practices for community supervision, has implemented special supervision programs for domestic violence and sex offenders, and managed reentry programs for juvenile offenders. He has more than 20 years of experience working in drug courts and collaborative justice programs.
While Chief in San Diego he chaired both the San Diego County Community Corrections Partnership and the Juvenile justice Coordinating Council. He has served on a number of national boards including the board of directors of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, and Council of State Governments Justice Center. He has also served on California’s Judicial Council’s Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee. He also serves on the National DWI Court Task Force, operated by the National Center DWI courts. Chief Jenkins was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to the California Council on Mentally Ill Offenders, and was also appointed to the California Prison Industry Board. He continues to serve on both bodies.
Jenkins has been an adjunct instructor in criminal justice and provides training to criminal justice professionals throughout the country on working with drug offenders and collaborative justice programs. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of California, Irvine and a Master's degree in criminal justice from California State University, Long Beach.
Mack Jenkins career in the criminal justice system spanned 4 decades. Chief Jenkins retired as the chief probation officer for San Diego County, where he oversaw a department of more than 1,300 staff who provided supervision and services to more than 13,000 adult and 2,500 juvenile offenders. During his career, Jenkins has developed expertise in the use of evidenced-based practices for community supervision, has implemented special supervision programs for domestic violence and sex offenders, and managed reentry programs for juvenile offenders. He has more than 20 years of experience working in drug courts and collaborative justice programs.
While Chief in San Diego he chaired both the San Diego County Community Corrections Partnership and the Juvenile justice Coordinating Council. He has served on a number of national boards including the board of directors of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, and Council of State Governments Justice Center. He has also served on California’s Judicial Council’s Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee. He also serves on the National DWI Court Task Force, operated by the National Center DWI courts. Chief Jenkins was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to the California Council on Mentally Ill Offenders, and was also appointed to the California Prison Industry Board. He continues to serve on both bodies.
Jenkins has been an adjunct instructor in criminal justice and provides training to criminal justice professionals throughout the country on working with drug offenders and collaborative justice programs. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of California, Irvine and a Master's degree in criminal justice from California State University, Long Beach.
FMHAC Christine M. West Award Winners
 Garrett L. Wong
Honorable Judge Garrett L. Wong
Garrett L. Wong has been a judge of the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco since his appointment in 2005. He is currently the Assistant Presiding Judge of the Court. From 2010 until 2014, he presided over the Behavioral Health Court and the Mental Health Court in the court’s Criminal Division. The Behavioral Health Court provides wraparound services through treatment experts that support evidence-based practices for treating mentally ill offenders. The Mental Health Court involves litigation requiring experts in matters involving competency to stand trial, the insanity defense, mentally disordered offenders and sexually violent predators. The guides, legal research memoranda and sample orders that he prepared for these proceedings are used statewide by judges. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a member of the Mental Health Issues Implementation Task Force where he worked with other judges statewide to prepare recommendations to the Judicial Council relating to the improvement of the judiciary’s handling of cases involving offenders with mental illness. In September 2016, he was appointed to the Probate and Mental Health Law Advisory Committee for a three-year term to continue the Judicial Council’s expanding interest in coordinating appropriate responses to individuals with mental illness who appear in our judicial system. Since 2011 he has worked with Dr. Renee Binder and Dr. John Chamberlain of the University of California’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute to provide courtroom trainings for their psychiatric fellows. In October 2016, he participated in FMHAC trainings on testifying as an expert witness in mental health law proceedings. He continues to consult with judges across the state regarding mental health law matters and remains interested in fostering educational programs for the judicial branch, lawyers, law enforcement and mental health service providers that address the needs of persons with mental illness. Immediately before his appointment, he was a telecommunications lawyer with SBC Communications, Inc. (now AT&T) for four years where he worked on corporate, regulatory and operations matters. He was in private practice for fourteen years, where he specialized in complex criminal and business litigation, a deputy public defender in San Francisco for four years, and before then, he was a Georgetown University Law Center E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow in Trial Advocacy, where he was Supervising Attorney of its Juvenile Justice Clinic. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (B.A.), the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.) and Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M). |
 Mark A. Refowitz
Mark A. Refowitz
Mark Refowitz was appointed to the CalOptima Board of Directors in February 2012, elected Chairman in May of that year and continues to serve in this critical capacity today. The county-organized healthcare system has grown in membership from 375,000 to more than 770,000 low-income children, adults, seniors and persons with disabilities since his appointment. The plan’s annual budget has more than doubled from $1.6 billion to over $3.6 billion in the same period. Under his leadership, the National Committee for Quality Assurance has rated CalOptima as its top Medicaid health plan in California for the past three years. Mark has been an actively engaged member of the Board’s Audit and Finance and Quality Assurance committees. He serves on the Health Care Committee and the Healthy Counties Advisory Board of the National Association of Counties (NACo), assignments that require annual appointments by the California State Association of Counties. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Disability Directors, a NACo affiliate. Mark has served as the President of the California Mental Health Directors Association and as a member of their governing board for more than a decade. His background also includes a variety of roles on the boards of non-profit organizations. He has further demonstrated his commitment to boardroom excellence as a National Association of Corporate Director’s Governance Fellow, having completed that organization’s comprehensive program of study for directors and corporate governance professionals. Mark further enhances these skillsets through ongoing engagement with the director community and access to leading practices. Mark was appointed Director of the County of Orange Health Care Agency (HCA) in 2012, a department with approximately 2,700 full-time employees and an annual budget in excess of $620 million. HCA’s organizational structure includes five major service areas: Correctional Health Services, Public Health Services, Behavioral Health Services, Regulatory/Medical Health Services and Administrative Services. The organization has more than 120 funding sources in addition to a wide array of regulatory and direct service mandates. His appointment marks the pinnacle of a professional history with more than 30 years of top management experience in public sector healthcare and social services, including experience in state and county government as well as private managed care. This experience includes the positions of Senior Vice President of Development with For Health, Inc. in Costa Mesa, California; Chief Clinical Officer with the Community Care Behavioral Health Organization in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; and Assistant Commissioner for Managed Care with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health in Boston, Massachusetts. Since then: I retired on 3/30/2017. Since then I joined the Board of the Healthcare Foundation of Orange County and have done some consulting work for St. Joseph Hoag Health System on Mental Health Issues. I remain involved with the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Disability Directors as a Senior Fellow working with a cluster of Counties from across the nation to design programming to keep the mentally ill from being incarcerated. |
Conference Book List
A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High-Risk Adolescents
Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: A 12-Session Curriculum
Sam Himelstein, PhD
The Punisher’s Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury
Judge Morris B. Hoffman
Road to Freedom: A Comprehensive Competency-based Workbook for Sexual Offenders in Treatment
Jill Levenson, PhD, LCSW
Attachment Theory and Research in Clinical Work with Adults
Joseph H. Obegi, PsyD
The Anatomy of Evil
Michael H. Stone
The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation
Katherine Ramsland
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Gavin De Becker
Son: A Psychopath and His Victims
Jack Olsen
Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behavior
Robert I. Simon
A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town
Barry Siegel
Murderous Minds: Exploring the Criminal Psychopathic Brain: Neurological Imaging and the Manifestation of Evil
Dean A. Haycock
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Columbine
Dave Cullen
Murder by Family
Kent Whitaker
Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: A 12-Session Curriculum
Sam Himelstein, PhD
The Punisher’s Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury
Judge Morris B. Hoffman
Road to Freedom: A Comprehensive Competency-based Workbook for Sexual Offenders in Treatment
Jill Levenson, PhD, LCSW
Attachment Theory and Research in Clinical Work with Adults
Joseph H. Obegi, PsyD
The Anatomy of Evil
Michael H. Stone
The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation
Katherine Ramsland
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Gavin De Becker
Son: A Psychopath and His Victims
Jack Olsen
Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behavior
Robert I. Simon
A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town
Barry Siegel
Murderous Minds: Exploring the Criminal Psychopathic Brain: Neurological Imaging and the Manifestation of Evil
Dean A. Haycock
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Columbine
Dave Cullen
Murder by Family
Kent Whitaker
Presentation Handouts
OPENING PRESENTATION
EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OF VIOLENT JUVENILE DELINQUENTS: THE MENDOTA MODEL
EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OF VIOLENT JUVENILE DELINQUENTS: THE MENDOTA MODEL
- Gregory Van Rybroek, PhD, JD—Director of the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center
- Michael Caldwell, PsyD—Senior Staff Psychologist at the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center; Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS IN THE REAL WORLD
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS IN THE REAL WORLD
- Myrinda Schweitzer Smith, PhD—Deputy Director and Senior Research Associate at the Corrections Institute in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati
BREAKOUT SESSION A
DISCHARGE PLANNING FOR SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL CLIENTS IN JAIL: UNEXPECTED CHALLENGES AND NEW PATHWAYS
SHARING THE VISION: PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION
DISCHARGE PLANNING FOR SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL CLIENTS IN JAIL: UNEXPECTED CHALLENGES AND NEW PATHWAYS
- Andrea Dauber-Griffin, PhD—Program Director of a Prevention and Early Intervention Mental Health Program (Project In-Reach, The Neighborhood House Association)
- Honorable Morris Hoffman—District Judge, Second Judicial District (Denver), State of Colorado
- Norbert Ralph, PhD, MPH—Psychologist with the Department of Health in San Francisco
- James Rokop, PhD—Chief Psychologist for the California Department of State Hospitals, Sexually Violent Predator Program
- Melinda DiCiro, PsyD—Chief Psychologist for the California Department of State Hospitals, MDO Commitment Program
SHARING THE VISION: PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION
- Moderator: Scott MacDonald—Consultant, California Forward—Justice System Change Initiative; Chief of Probation (retired), Santa Cruz County
- Brenda Grealish—Acting Director, Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services, California Department of Health Care Services
- Jerry Gutierrez—Assistant Sheriff, Riverside County
- Terri Franklin—Deputy Director, San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health, Criminal Justice, and SUD Recovery Services
- Robert Guillen—Deputy Sheriff, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department
BREAKOUT SESSION B
SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT: WHAT IS THE STANDARD OF CARE?
STATE AND LOCAL PARTNERS IN ACTION: FROM MAPPING TO MOVEMENT
SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT: WHAT IS THE STANDARD OF CARE?
- Joseph H. Obegi, PsyD—Senior Psychologist with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
- Teresa Pemberton, LMFT—Supervises Forensic Programs in San Luis Obispo Behavioral Health Judge Dodie Harman
- Joshua Woodbury, LMFTi
- Janet Neeley, JD
- Norbert Ralph, PhD, MPH—Psychologist with the Department of Health in San Francisco
- Cory Adams, LMFT—Program Coordinator for Terra Nova Counseling
STATE AND LOCAL PARTNERS IN ACTION: FROM MAPPING TO MOVEMENT
- Moderator: Stephanie Welch—Executive Officer, Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health
- Ashley Mills—Senior Researcher, Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission
- Susan Christian—Assistant District Attorney, Office of District Attorney George Gascon, City and County of San Francisco
- Ian Evans, LMFT—Alcohol and Drug Administrator and Forensic Program Coordinator, Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency
BREAKOUT SESSION C
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS AND MEDICATION ASSISTED TREATMENT
STEPPING UP: FROM RESEARCH TO ACTION
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS AND MEDICATION ASSISTED TREATMENT
- Thomas E. Freese, PhD—Co-Director and Director of Training for UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs; Director of the Pacific Southwest Addictions Technology Transfer
- Rourke F. Stacy, JD—Los Angeles County Public Defender
- Sam Himelstein, PhD—Licensed Psychologist, Chemical Dependency Program, Kaiser Permanente
- Lea Chankin, PsyD—Licensed Clinical Psychologist
STEPPING UP: FROM RESEARCH TO ACTION
- Hallie Fader-Towe, JD—Senior Policy Advisor for the Council of State Governments Justice Center
BREAKOUT SESSION D
JAIL BASED COMPETENCY TREATMENT MODELS IN CALIFORNIA: HOW ARE THEY PERFORMING AND CHANGING?
BREAKING BOUNDARIES: LEGAL TEAM
JAIL BASED COMPETENCY TREATMENT MODELS IN CALIFORNIA: HOW ARE THEY PERFORMING AND CHANGING?
- Mark A. Grabau, PhD—Chief Psychologist in the Forensic Services Division for the California Department of State Hospitals
- Melanie Scott, PsyD—Assistant Chief Psychologist for the California Department of State Hospitals, CONREP Operations
- Matt Garber—Deputy Director of the Forensic Services Division in the California Department of State Hospitals
- Melinda DiCiro, PsyD—Chief Psychologist for the California Department of State Hospitals, MDO Commitment Program
- Trayci Dahl, PhD, ABPP—Consulting Psychologist for the California Department of State Hospitals, MDO Commitment Program
- Susan Napolitano, PhD—Sexually Violent Predator Evaluator with the California Department of State Hospitals
- Brandon Yakush, PsyD—Consulting Psychologist with the California Department of State Hospital’s Forensic Services Division
- Sam Himelstein, PhD—Chemical Dependency program, Kaiser Permanente
- Lea Chankin, PsyD—Licensed Clinical Psychologist
BREAKING BOUNDARIES: LEGAL TEAM
- Moderator: Kathleen Lacey—Program Director, UCSF/Citywide Case Management Forensic Program
- Tracey Whitney—Deputy District Attorney, Mental Health Liaison, Los Angeles County
- Jennifer Johnson—Deputy Public Defender, City and County of San Francisco
- Scott MacDonald—Probation Chief (retired), Santa Cruz County
- Judge Sam Lavorato—Monterey County
- Lisa Lightman—Director, Collaborative Court Programs, San Francisco Superior Court
CLOSING PRESENTATION
TRANSLATING TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE PRINCIPLES INTO FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE
TRANSLATING TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE PRINCIPLES INTO FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE
- Jill Levenson, PhD, LCSW—Professor of Social Work at Barry University
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Integrating Compassion into Sex Offense Treatment
Integrating Compassion into Sex Offense Treatment
- Holly Buckman, MS
- Mark Mayo, MS
- Rachyll Dempsey, PsyD
- Chelsea Bullard, MS
- Melinda DiCiro, PsyD
- Jeremy Colley, MD
- Jessica Mueller, PsyD
- Glenn Lipson, PhD, ABPP
- Katherine Turner, PhD
- Renee Mack, MSW
- John Wyman, LCSW
REFERENCES
The 43rd Annual FMHAC Conference
March 21 —23, 2018
Hyatt Regency, Monterey, CA
March 21 —23, 2018
Hyatt Regency, Monterey, CA
- CONFERENCE FLYER download
- CONFERENCE PROGRAM download
2018 SUSTAINING MEMBERS
- Gil Abdalian
- Kenneth Carabello
- Mark Duarte
- Harry Goldberg
- Mark Grabau
- Tom Granucci
- Robert Hart
- Anna Kafka
- Sam Knudsen
- Cynthia Lermond
- Joseph Lockhart
- Robert Ochs
- Armando Sandoval
- Munir Sewani
- Douglas Smith
- Alan Stillman
- Lindsay Weston
- Alex Yufik
2018 WORDS TO DEEDS TRACK SPONSORS
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CONTINUING EDUCATION
Board of Behavioral Science Examiners
The BBS accepts CEs approved by the California Psychological Association (FOR005)
13.5 CEUs available in 2018:
up to 4.5 CEUs Wednesday Opening Session and Keynote
up to 6.0 CEUs for the 2nd day Breakouts
up to 3.0 CEUs for Wrap-up Session
Board of Registered Nurses
FMHAC is an approved provider
13.5 CEUs available in 2018:
up to 4.5 CEUs Wednesday Opening Session and Keynote
up to 6.0 CEUs for the 2nd day Breakouts
up to 3.0 CEUs for Wrap-up Session
California Psychological Association (CPA)
FMHAC is an approved provider through the CPA (FOR005):
13.5 CEUs available in 2018:
up to 4.5 CEUs Wednesday Opening Session and Keynote
up to 6.0 CEUs for the 2nd day Breakouts
up to 3.0 CEUs for Wrap-up Session
CE Statement: FMHAC is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. FMHAC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Continuing Medical Education was not offered at the 2018 Forensic Mental Health Association Conference
California State Bar (MCLE)
FMHAC is an approved provider, Provider #15388, selected sessions.
Selected Sessions:
The Emerging Neuroscience of Third-Party Punishment, Judge Morris Hoffman
Increasing Treatment Engagement Through the Use of In-Court Screenings, Teresa Pemberton, LMFT
Laws Governing Use of Polygraph in the CA Sex Offender Containment Model, Janet Neeley, JD
Differential Diagnosis and Medication Assisted Treatment, Thomas E. Freese, PhD
What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know About Transfer Hearings, Rourke F. Stacy, JD
Current Issues in Mentally Disordered Offender Evaluation, Melinda DiCiro, PsyD
Words to Deeds—Breaking Boundaries: Legal Team, Kathleen Lacey
Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
FMHAC is an approved provider
13.5 CEUs available in 2018:
up to 4.5 CEUs Wednesday Opening Session and Keynote
up to 6.0 CEUs for the 2nd day Breakouts
up to 3.0 CEUs for Wrap-up Session
Board of Corrections (STC)
For Standards and Training for Corrections (STC) participants who need STC training credit for this event, please discuss a Special Certification with your STC training manager/coordinator.
The BBS accepts CEs approved by the California Psychological Association (FOR005)
13.5 CEUs available in 2018:
up to 4.5 CEUs Wednesday Opening Session and Keynote
up to 6.0 CEUs for the 2nd day Breakouts
up to 3.0 CEUs for Wrap-up Session
Board of Registered Nurses
FMHAC is an approved provider
13.5 CEUs available in 2018:
up to 4.5 CEUs Wednesday Opening Session and Keynote
up to 6.0 CEUs for the 2nd day Breakouts
up to 3.0 CEUs for Wrap-up Session
California Psychological Association (CPA)
FMHAC is an approved provider through the CPA (FOR005):
13.5 CEUs available in 2018:
up to 4.5 CEUs Wednesday Opening Session and Keynote
up to 6.0 CEUs for the 2nd day Breakouts
up to 3.0 CEUs for Wrap-up Session
CE Statement: FMHAC is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. FMHAC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Continuing Medical Education was not offered at the 2018 Forensic Mental Health Association Conference
California State Bar (MCLE)
FMHAC is an approved provider, Provider #15388, selected sessions.
Selected Sessions:
The Emerging Neuroscience of Third-Party Punishment, Judge Morris Hoffman
Increasing Treatment Engagement Through the Use of In-Court Screenings, Teresa Pemberton, LMFT
Laws Governing Use of Polygraph in the CA Sex Offender Containment Model, Janet Neeley, JD
Differential Diagnosis and Medication Assisted Treatment, Thomas E. Freese, PhD
What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know About Transfer Hearings, Rourke F. Stacy, JD
Current Issues in Mentally Disordered Offender Evaluation, Melinda DiCiro, PsyD
Words to Deeds—Breaking Boundaries: Legal Team, Kathleen Lacey
Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
FMHAC is an approved provider
13.5 CEUs available in 2018:
up to 4.5 CEUs Wednesday Opening Session and Keynote
up to 6.0 CEUs for the 2nd day Breakouts
up to 3.0 CEUs for Wrap-up Session
Board of Corrections (STC)
For Standards and Training for Corrections (STC) participants who need STC training credit for this event, please discuss a Special Certification with your STC training manager/coordinator.
