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LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2016Creative Engagement for Healthier CommunitiesOctober 18 at Bethel Woods Center for the ArtsSummit Purpose, Program, Speakers as of September 28#LdrSummit16A. PURPOSELeadership Summit 2016, Creative Engagement for Healthier Communities, will engage civic, business, andnonprofit leaders in identifying the greatest opportunities for improving health, individual well being, andquality of life in our communities. Decision makers will discuss the region’s challenges, explore the latestinnovations, and collaborate on creating solutions to make a real difference in the lives of everyone who lives,works and plays here.Speakers will present successful models and case studies on community health that move from traditionalapproaches to the intersecting social factors that shape our daily lives. The program will focus on replicableinitiatives, culminating in work sessions to infuse existing plans and policies with new ideas, and to generateconsensus on next steps immediately following the Summit.Our planning partners include Crystal Run Health, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Sullivan Renaissance,Catskill Regional Medical Center, Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan, and Sullivan County PublicHealth Services. We are working with County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, a collaboration betweenthe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, in buildingawareness of the many factors that influence health, connecting and empowering individuals to take steps toimprove the overall health of their own communities.The sixth annual Summit will not only continue to foster collaboration and innovation, but will also inspire realsolutions to improve the well-being and economic vitality of our region. Our families, communities andbusinesses can only stand to benefit.B. PROGRAM AGENDA8:00 a.m.Registration, BreakfastMenu in collaboration with Wendy Brown, Catskill Regional Medical Center9:00 a.m.Welcome, Introductions and AcknowledgementsDARLENE FEDUN - CEO, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts and Summit Co-ChairLINDA C. HARTLEY - Principal, H2Growth Strategies LLC and Summit Co-ChairLUIS ALVAREZ - Chairman, Sullivan County Legislature and Summit Leading PartnerTo Be Announced:Presenting Partner, Crystal Run HealthcareLeading Partners9:15 a.m.Community JamTeaching artist to be announced1
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2016Morning Keynote with 10 minute Q&A9:30 a.m.How We Frame and Measure Community Health and Well-Being Community health andindividual wellbeing requires a comprehensive multidimensional approach that includeseverything from the environment, arts and culture, to housing and public policy.STEVEN H. WOOLF, M.D., M.P.H. – Director, Center on Society and Health, Family Medicineand Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityPanel and Facilitated Audience Discussion10:00 a.m.- Building Healthier Communities: Regional Challenges, What is Working11:30 a.m.This session will highlight examples of programs/projects that are working in the region.Facilitator:KATE KONKLE, Director of Research and Learning for the Action Center at County HealthRankings & Roadmaps, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and theUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePanelists:MARGARET O. CASEY, RN MPH - Director, New York State Department of HealthBureau of Community Chronic Disease PreventionNANCY MCGRAW - Public Health Director, Sullivan County Public Health ServicesWILLIAM SILVER, M.D. - Superintendent, Liberty Schools DistrictJUDY BALABAN - Chair, Sullivan County Human Rights CommissionTAMMY MANGUS - Superintendent, Monticello Central School District11:30 a.m.Networking, Buffet Lunch, Power Walk with Maureen Michulski, BWCA(weather permitting, bring sneakers)Menu in collaboration w/Wendy Brown, CRMC12:30 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.Luncheon Keynote and 10 minute Q&AWeaving a Fabric of Community Health: People, Policy, ResourcesThis session will present what is working locally and regionally, to inspire collaboration, outof the box thinking and new solutions.SANDRA GERRY - Chair, Sullivan Renaissance, a program of the Gerry Foundation1:00 p.m. –1:25 p.m.LEADERSHIP SUMMIT INNOVATION AWARD - Finalists’ Presentations2015 Innovation Awardee Update: JULIA PISALL - Founder, The Kingfisher Project-WJFF2
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 20161:30 p.m. –3:00 p.m.Afternoon Breakout Sessions (Choice of 3)1. In Event GalleryLeveraging Arts and the Environment to Engage YouthThis session will illustrate the importance of engaging youth in creative and outdoorprograms as a deterrent to unhealthy behaviors. What new initiatives or proven programsinvolve youth in creative self-expression, and in the fresh air and cool waters of the region’sgreat outdoors?Moderator: RAMSAY ADAMS, Executive Director & Founder, Catskill MountainkeeperPanelists:JONATHAN HERMAN, Executive Director, National Guild for Community Arts EducationHEIDI LANDIS - Registered Drama Therapist, Creative Alternatives for New YorkKATHLEEN NOLAN, M.D. - Senior Research Director, Catskill MountainkeeperOLIVIA LIGHTLE, M.A. - Assistant Director, Program InnovationFrost Valley YMCA1:30 p.m. –3:00 p.m.2. Museum Theater:In Our Back Yard: Successful Crowdfunding and Community EngagementKATIE LORAH, Director of Communication and Creative Strategies, In Our Back YardIoby.org helps neighbors grow and implement great ideas one block at a time. Its crowdresourcing platform connects leaders with funding and support to make neighborhoodssafer, greener, more livable and more fun. ioby believes that it should be easy to makemeaningful change “in our backyards” - the positive opposite of NIMBY. Crowdfunding resource organizing crowd-resourcing: crowdfunding is the pooling of small onlinedonations for a cause or project. Resource organizing is a core tenet of communityorganizing that considers activists and advocates the best supporters to ensure the successand long-term stewardship of a cause or project.3. In Classrooms A & BCreating the Future: what would you do for your community if success were completelyguaranteed? Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Boys and Girls Clubs of Wallkill, CornellCooperative Extension-Sullivan County and Sullivan Renaissance will engage 20 6-8th gradestudents from Liberty and Monticello to gain the insights and perspective of students,launching a new collaboration with youth participating in creating healthier communities.3:15 p.m.LEADERSHIP SUMMIT INNOVATION AWARD WINNER: ANNOUNCEMENT3:30 p.m.Dynamic Leadership: From Learning to ImpactCOL. (retired) TONY P. BURGESS, DSc. will lead a conversation with summit participants,moving from what we learned today to near-term actions. He co-founded a leadershipresearch center at West Point and helped create a leader development network for officersin the Army that has been widely recognized (e.g., by Harvard Business Review and FastCompany Magazine).4:30 - 5:30Raffle Winners, Networking, Snacks and Cash Bar3
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2016C. BIOGRAPHIESMORNING KEYNOTE: Steven Woolf has served as Director of the VCU Center on Society and Health (formerlythe VCU Center on Human Needs) since he established it in 2007. He is also Professor of Family Medicine andPopulation Health at VCU. He has published more than 150 articles in a career that has focused on evidencebased medicine and the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines, with a special focus on preventivemedicine, cancer screening, quality improvement, and social justice. His studies demonstrate that addressingpoverty, education, and the causes of racial and ethnic disparities could accomplish far more to improve thehealth of Americans than investing predominantly in medical technological advances. In addition to scientificpublications, he has tried to bring this message to policymakers and to the public through testimony inCongress, editorials in major newspapers, web-based tools, and speeches.Sandra Gerry is the founder and visionary of Sullivan Renaissance, a beautification and communitydevelopment program of the Gerry Foundation. Now completing its 16th year, Sullivan Renaissance workswith volunteers, municipalities, businesses, faith based organizations and a diverse population to enhance theappearance of Sullivan County, New York while building a sense of pride and community spirit. Most recentlySullivan Renaissance has engaged key stakeholders and community partners to focus on healthy communities.From these discussions emerged the nonprofit organization Sullivan 180 created to turn around the healthand wellness of Sullivan County. It is to be a grassroots movement comprised of many but speaking with asingle voice in favor of new policies, systems and programs to enhance the overall quality of life for allresidents . . . a champion for healthy change and community vitality, one degree at a time.Ramsay Adams is the founder and Executive Director of Catskill Mountainkeeper. Mr. Adams serves on theAdvisory Board of Riverkeeper and is also an educator, author, and film and television music supervisor.Before founding Catskill Mountainkeeper in 2006, he created and taught the “Music Supervision” course atNYU’s Center for Advanced Digital Applications and wrote the book “Music Supervision: The Complete Guideto Selecting Music for Movies, TV, Games, and New Media” (Schirmer). He co-foundedMusicSupervisionCentral.com, and was the Music Director for a cable news channel for over 4 years. He is themusic supervisor of many award winning films including “Jihad for Love”, “The Break Up Artist”, and“Heights.”Judy Balaban - Chair, Sullivan County Human Rights Commission. Judy has a BA in Political Science and a BS innursing, from the City College of New York. In 1983, Judy began her own home health care company, WellnessHome Care. In 2000, Judy became a facilitator for the Anti-Defamation League’s A World of DifferenceProgram, working with students and staff to help them recognize and address bigotry in themselves andothers. Since its establishment in 2005, Judy has been the Chair of the Sullivan County Human RightsCommission. She is also a member of the Workforce Development Board of Sullivan County.Colonel (Retired) Tony P. Burgess, DSc. Tony was commissioned from West Point in 1990 and served as anArmy officer for 24 years. He co-founded a leadership research center at West Point and helped create awidely recognized leader development network for Army officers. He has served as a leadership coach for 2ndyear Harvard MBA students as part of the Authentic Leadership Development elective, and is currentlycreating a leader-development forum for local leaders in Cornwall. Tony has a Masters of Science in leader4
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2016development and counseling from the Long Island University and a Doctorate of Science in engineeringmanagement from the George Washington University.Margaret O. Casey, RN MPH is Director of the New York State Department of Health Bureau of CommunityChronic Disease Prevention, overseeing programs that address obesity, hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, andasthma. She has worked in public health for over 33 years, having started as a public health nurse in a localcounty health department. There she became Supervising Public Health Nurse, running all operations of arural, county health office. Next, Ms. Casey worked for a rural medical center, developing and directing itscommunity health department. She started two non-profit agencies to improve healthcare services to hercommunity, and served on the board of the NYS Public Health Association from 2003 to 2007.Jonathan Herman is Executive Director of the National Guild for Community Arts Education. With more than30 years of program and leadership experience at nonprofit organizations, he has developed educational andtraining programs, publications, conferences, grant-making programs and technical assistance initiatives. Hiscareer includes positions at the Children’s Aid Society, New York Hall of Science, and New York Blood Center.Jonathan holds degrees from Teacher's College, Columbia University, and Binghamton University. He is agraduate of the Columbia Business School’s Institute for Not-for-Profit Management and serves on severalnational advisory committees and boards.Kate Konkle is the Director of Research and Learning for the Action Center at County Health Rankings &Roadmaps, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of WisconsinPopulation Health Institute. Kate leads the development and support of all learning tools and resources usedby community coaches to support local action to improve health. Prior to this role, Kate spent over threeyears as a Community Coach with County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. As a coach, she provided strategicguidance to communities that used County Health Rankings to drive health improvement.Heidi Landis, RDT-BCT, LCAT, TEP, CGP is the Associate Executive Director of clinical and training program atCreative Alternatives of New York ( CANY) where she runs Drama Therapy groups with many differentpopulations including refugees and at- risk youth. Heidi is the lead trainer at CANY and facilitates trainingsnationally and internationally. In addition, Heidi is an adjunct professor at Lesley University, ConcordiaUniversity and The College of New Rochelle. Heidi has recently published about her work with refugee womenin the book Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy: Transforming Clinics, classrooms and communities.Olivia Lightle, M.A., Assistant Director, Program Innovation, Frost Valley YMCA. Olivia has been working atFrost Valley since March 2015, initiating new programming, training instructors, managing and leading variousprograms, and overseeing activities in the Teaching Kitchen and greenhouse. Olivia worked in nonprofit andeducational settings in administrative, case management and instructional roles. She has taught pre-schoolthrough college level students, and has entrepreneurial experience as a spice merchant, editor, and creativeand technical/grant writer. Olivia is committed to developing sustainable systems to ensure food security,accessibility, and equity.Katie Lorah, Director of Communications and Creative Strategy, In Our Back Yard, leads IOBY'scommunications, storytelling, and all things creative. Her background is in nonprofits and urban planning —5
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2016she has led communications for Friends of the High Line, has worked on coastal resiliency for the NYC ParksDepartment, and has consulted on strategy for early-stage social enterprise startups. Originally from Seattle,Katie came to New York to study urban planning and journalism at NYU, and went on to complete herMaster's in urban planning at MIT.Tammy Mangus - Superintendent, Monticello Central School District. Throughout her multi-faceted career asa secondary English teacher, drama teacher, academic intervention specialist lead, K-12 principal, assistantsuperintendent for curriculum and instruction, and superintendent of schools, Tammy Mangus has amassed acache of pragmatic strategies to increase holistic student growth. Since her appointment as superintendent,Ms. Mangus has cultivated an atmosphere of transparency, accountability, and compassion through herphilosophy: “Truthful Kindness and Helpful Necessity equals Inspiration.” This approach has measurablypropelled students’ academic success. In 2014, she was presented with an Excellence in Education Award forher work in promoting data-driven practices to improve student growth.Nancy McGraw, LCSW, MBA is the Public Health Director of the Sullivan County Department of Health inLiberty, NY. She is a licensed clinical social worker with over 28 years of experience in the nonprofit healthcare sectors and in the field of public health. She earned an Executive MBA from Binghamton University’sSchool of Management and is currently working on an MPH at the University at Albany School of PublicHealth. Nancy is a graduate of the Leadership Sullivan Class of 2015 and collaborates with many nonprofit andgovernment leaders on various health initiatives to improve the health of Sullivan County residents.Kathleen Nolan is Senior Research Director at the Woodstock, NY office of Catskill Mountainkeeper. Dr. Nolanmajored in philosophy and theology at Saint Louis University. After graduating with honors, she went on topursue her medical and law degrees at Yale. Following a residency in pediatrics and fellowship training inclinical research design, she worked at the Hastings Center, writing and teaching on diverse topics inbioethics. She came to the Catskills in 1989 to pursue residential training at a Zen Buddhist monastery and in2003 she became Executive Director of Tibet Aid in Woodstock. In 2009 she founded Catskills Live! Trails andWilderness Association.Julia Pisall is the co-founder of The Kingfisher Project, a weekly radio show at WJFF in memory of herdaughter, Rebecca Pisall, and all those who have lost their lives to heroin and drug-related incidents. Theproject raises awareness and reduces the stigma about the heroin/opiate problem in this country. She is alsoon the Sullivan County Prescription Drug Task force, and the Wayne County Heroin Prevention Task ForceBoard. Her aim is to inform and educate families about the growing epidemic in our country and let themknow they are not alone in this battle.William Silver, Ed.D. is the superintendent for Liberty Central School District. He began his career as anelementary teacher in public education in 1973. He became principal of East School at Long Beach City SchoolDistrict in 1986 before becoming superintendent for Springs Union Free School District from 1995-1999. Heserved as superintendent at Hebron (CT) Public Schools from 1999-2004 and for Killingly (CT) Public Schoolsfrom 2005-2012. Since his arrival to Liberty in 2013, the district has produced significant gains in academicproficiency, the graduation rate, and the percentage of students who are college and career-ready.6
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2016LEADERSHIP SUMMIT INNOVATION AWARD JUDGESJames Forbes, Jr. - Executive Director, New Hope Community: Jim Forbes has been the Executive Director ofNew Hope Community since 2014. Prior to joining New Hope, Jim’s career included organizations suchas Price Waterhouse, Dun&Bradstreet, and Mercedes-Benz where he led significant financial and operationalchange through his senior leadership roles. Twenty years ago, Jim turned his focus to the nonprofit sector totry to make a difference to those in need. His first opportunity was AmeriCares (international emergencyrelief) where he became its Executive Vice-Chairman serving a majority of the developing countries in all partsof the world. After AmeriCares, he became actively engaged in nonprofit healthcare, human services,biomedical research, and human rights.Kate Konkle: Director of Research and Learning, Action Center, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (acollaboration of the RWJ Fdn and University of Wisconsin). (See speaker bios.)Nancy Proyect: President of the Orange County Citizens Foundation. Previously she ran a public relationsconsulting firm serving the nonprofit, governmental and private sectors. She is active in Leadership Orange,the Newburgh Armory Unity Center, Temple Beth Jacob, and SUNY New Paltz CRREO.7
Summit Purpose, Program, Speakers as of September 28 #LdrSummit16 A. PURPOSE Leadership Summit 2016, Creative Engagement for Healthier Communities, will engage civic, business, and nonprofit leaders in identifying the greatest opportunities for improving health, individual well being, and quality of life in our communities.
