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Culture-Based Mental Health Perceptions of Native Americans

within the Montana Correctional System

 

May 24 - 25, 2012

Holiday Inn Downtown

200 South Pattee Street, Missoula, MT 59802

 

For Info Contact: Nell Eby, Director

Elk River Cultural Connections

PO Box 265 Billings, MT 59103

Phone: 406.671.6054 Email: neby.ercc@gmail.com

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Eduardo Duran, PhD has worked in Indian Country for 30 years. He was instrumental in developing clinical theory and methods that integrate ancient traditional approaches with modern western strategies in an effort to make healing relevant to Native People. Dr. Duran has published several books and articles that bring much needed dialogue to the discipline of psychology and is inspiring new interpretations to issues that afflict all human beings. In his latest book 'Healing the Soul Wound', Duran takes traditional thought and metaphor and applies these towards the development of a hybrid epistemological approach that inspires a new vision for healing of our collective soul wounds.

 

Jeffrey Sanders, PhD teaches at Montana State University Billings. He has traveled in 40 countries, often spending extended periods of time with Indigenous people. His teaching and workshops follow an interdisciplinary approach as he stresses the influence people and land have on each other as in song, story and ceremony. He has taught at public schools, Tribal Colleges, and state university systems and was a Fulbright Travel Fellow studying in Peru and Guatemala. He recently received the Special Recognition Award from the Montana Indian Education Association and the Faculty Excellence Award from Montana State University Billings.

 

Officer Del Kuntz, a Field Training Officer, Operations Division of the Billings Police Department (BPD), has been involved in law enforcement since 1977 and has worked with the BPD for the past 23 years. He is a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) instructor and member of the Hostage Negotiation Team. He is assigned to the uniform division of BPD, training new BPD recruits. The CIT program is a community effort uniting law enforcement and the community for common goals of safety, understanding, and service to mentally ill individuals and their loved ones. The CIT model encourages communities, families, law enforcement officers, and mental health professionals to act as a compass for consumers with mental illness.

 

Gene Durand, MS received his Master of Science in Social Work from UT Austin in 1991. While working with the Department of Mental Health, Gene traveled throughout the state of Texas performing mental health service reviews and consultation, investigating private psychiatric hospitals and assisting with mental health policy development. Mr. Durand continues his work in Mental Health and does state-wide consultation with providers in Montana for adults with serious and disabling mental illness. He has 34 years of experience in adult mental health services.