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Sponsored in part by SAMHSA
This conference is supported, in part by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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| Linda Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a professor of epidemiology in the department of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is also the director of the master of psychiatric epidemiology program and the Center for Community Based Research. Her work focuses on the development of internationally utilized tools to assess addiction to drugs, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, gambling and the Internet and risk factors for addiction. Her research has received more than $45 million in funding over the past 21 years. She has accepted awards for public health service and leadership from the Missouri Public Health Association and for community based research from the School of Medicine. She has served on two National Academy of Sciences panels to study the social and economic impact of pathological gambling and the data on firearm injuries. She has been a National Council on Responsible Gaming advisor since 1999, and in 2009, she agreed to chair the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling. |
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| Mike Deines is the director of communications for the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission. He has been instrumental in creating the Kansas Responsible Gambling Alliance. The Alliance is a group of state agencies and stakeholders working to educate Kansans about the dangers of problem gambling. Deines has also developed and implemented the state's responsible gambling regulations for state owned casinos. Prior to his time at the commission, Deines spent three years at the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. Before joining the ranks of state government, Deines worked as a news director at the ABC affiliate in Topeka, Kansas.
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Julia Dinsmore is an author and motivational speaker who weaves her experiences with poverty into her own brand of activism, educating everyone from college students to religious leaders. Her 1992 poem, "My Name is Not 'Those People,'" which challenged stereotypes surrounding poverty, propelled her into the public eye. Dinsmore describes her storytelling as "truth-telling." It is giving voice to "the realities of life in America's underclass instead of what people read in books or in the popular media." Through firsthand stories and poems told in her lyrical voice, her goal is to educate people about poverty issues, assist them in creating change and inspire others who have known poverty to reclaim their own stories.
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Wes Ehrecke, C.A.E., is the president of the Iowa Gaming Association. He is a 30-year veteran in the association management profession. Other positions held include: executive vice president and chief executive officer of the Minnesota Bankers Association, executive vice president and general manager of the Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives and senior vice president of the Iowa Bankers Association. He is the past president of the Iowa Society of Association Executives and director of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). He has also served as chairperson of ASAE's Future Leaders Committees (local and regional). Additionally, he has served as director and officer on numerous foundation and professional boards, including Greenlee School of Journalism Advisory Council, Iowa State Parks Foundation,
Leadership Iowa, Iowa and Minnesota 4-H Foundations, Make-A-Wish Foundation, graduate school of banking at Madison and the Valley High School Athletic Booster
Club. Ehrecke was named a Fellow by the American Society of Association Executives in 1991. He also received the certified association executive designation. He is a graduate of Iowa State University, with a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communications, the leadership Iowa program and the Institute for Organizational Management at Notre Dame.
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Don Feeney, M.S., M.P.P., is the research and planning director at the Minnesota Lottery. He is responsible for the lottery's corporate social responsibility programs, strategic planning, market analysis and legislative relations. He is currently serving his third term on the board of the National Council on Problem Gambling, where he also chairs the Council's communications committee. He serves on the board of the Northstar Problem Gambling Alliance and the Minnesota Problem Gambling Advisory Committee. He holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard, a master's degree in statistics from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Brown University. |
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Chet Frank, M.S., is a mental health counsellor and psychotherapist at Mental Health Paducah. He is a Kentucky-licensed professional counsellor, whose specialities include acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, smoking cessation classes for individuals and groups, pain management counseling, adult attention deficient disorder coaching and counseling and psycho-education for families struggling with mental illness. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. |
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Roads to Recovery
July 28 - 30, 2010
Hyatt Regency Crown Center
2345 McGee St.
Kansas City, MO
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