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News from the Deaf Wellness Center (updated 7/9/08)
NEW GRANTS
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
NEW STAFF MEMBER
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
New Grants:
We have just received the University of Rochester Department of Psychiatry's Community Partnernship Development Award. This $20K grant supports creative partnerships between Department of Psychiatry programs and non-university programs in the Rochester area. For this project, the Deaf Wellness Center is partnering with Advocacy Services for Abused Deaf Victims (ASADV), a local volunteer organization concerned with prevention and intervention regarding partner violence (a.k.a. domestic violence) in the local Deaf community. Our project,
Addressing partner violence in the Deaf community: Adapting an evidence-based curriculum for use by Deaf service providers will yield a partner violence assessment and intervention curriculum designed for deaf individuals who are in a prevention or intervention capacity within local Deaf organizations. When it is complete, the curriculum will be made available for national dissemination. Click here for further details.
Earlier this year, the Deaf Wellness Center secured a $90K contract agreement with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to produce five films featuring Deaf actors communicating in American Sign Language, for posting on the CDC's website. The contract is from a branch of the CDC known as National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. This forward-thinking branch of the CDC wants to have the public health information currently on its website made accessible to deaf citizens who use ASL. They have selected the following five CDC website topics for this first stage of the adaptation project: asthma, chlorine, lead poisoning, "dirty bombs" and sheltering in place during an emergency.
For further information regarding ongoing grant-supported projects at the Deaf Wellness Center, click here.
Upcoming Lectures and Workshops:
"I don't think we're supposed to be talking about this." Case conferencing for interpreters.
July 16 & 17, 2008
Robyn Dean & Robert Pollard
Anchorage, AK
Sponsored by AKRID
How can you do provide the “talking cure” when you can't “talk” to your client? Providing competent mental health services to clients from the deaf and limited English proficient communities.
July 18, 2008
Robyn Dean & Robert Pollard
Anchorage, AK
Sponsored by
the Alaska Psychological Association, University of Alaska, Catholic Social Services, and the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority
August 25 & 26
Robyn Dean & Robert Pollard
Montgomery, AL
Part of the week-long, annual Mental Health Interpreter Training institute sponsored by the Office of Deaf Services, Alabama Dept. of Mental Health
Contact: Charlene Crump
Supervision through the eyes of DC-S
Robyn Dean
October 4th, 9am - 5pm
Rochester, NY
Sponsor: Community Interpreter Grant
Contact: Sarah Schiffeler at ses9878@rit.edu .
Applications of DC-S (DC-S Part II)
Robyn Dean
November 14 - 16 (times TBA)
Fresno, CA
Sponsor: CCRID (central CA area, specifics TBA)
Contact: Bobbi at ccrid@ccrid.org
ASL-based tests of verbal learning and memory
Robert Pollard
Washington, DC
Sponsor and location:
Gallaudet University
Contact: Donna Morere
"It all depends..." Introduction to DC-S
Robyn Dean
December 12 - 13 or 13 - 14 (times TBA)
Sponsor: WAVLI
Vancouver, BC
Contact: Susi Bolender at susi.bolender@gmail.com
"It all depends..." Introduction to DC-S
Robyn Dean
March, 2009 (date and time TBA)
Wisconsin (location TBA)
Sponsor: WRID
Contact: Peggy at weaverpk@aol.com
"It all depends..." Introduction to DC-S
Robyn Dean
April 3& 4, 2009 (time TBA)
Hartford, CT
Sponsor: CRID
Contact: Erin at efrinsterp@cox.net
New Staff Member:
The Deaf Wellness Center is pleased to welcome Lori A. DeWindt to our staff. Read more about Lori in the DWC staff section of our web page.
Latest Publications (contact Robert Pollard to receive copies) :
O'Hearn, A. & Pollard, R.Q (in press). Modifying Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Deaf Individuals. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, November.
Dean, R. K. (2007). Revisiting the interpreter's role: A study of conference, court, and medical interpreters in Canada, Mexico, and the United States [book review]. The Sign Language Translator and Interpreter, 1(2), 305-308.
Pollard, R. Q (2007). Bronze Award: Deaf Wellness Center, Rochester, New York – Providing specialized mental health services to the Deaf community and promoting research and education related to mental health and deafness. Psychiatric Services, 58 (10), 1373-1374.
Pollard, R. Q, DeMatteo, A, Lentz, E., & Rediess, S. (2007). A prose recall test using stories in American Sign Language. Rehabilitation Psychology, 52(1), 11-24.
Click here to view all our available publications.
For further information on any of the above topics, visit the relevant sections of our website by following the links on the left side of our home page or by following the site map (see link at left). 
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