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15 Monday Oct 2012
15 Monday Oct 2012
17 Monday Sep 2012
Posted Book Recommendations, Lectures, Stay Informed!, Uncategorized
in02 Monday Jul 2012
Posted Holland, News, Socialist Welfare System, Stay Informed!, The Netherlands
inMeeting with staff from Jansen Pharmaceuticals, a Division of Johnson and Johnson, as well as mental health professionals from GGze Breda, and the Rokus Loopik Organization, Dr. Richard Pulice, Professor and Chair of the Social Work Department and Director of the Institute for Community Research and Training at the College of Saint Rose began the planning of an International Conference on Peer Run Organizations to be held in June 2013. This exciting event will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands and include mental health peers from across the US and Europe. A final date will announced in late August 2012.
For further information email Dr. Pulice at icrt@strose.edu.
02 Monday Jul 2012
Posted Holland, News, Socialist Welfare System, Stay Informed!
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College of Saint Rose, Eindhoven, Mental health, Netherlands, Pulice, Richard Pulice, Social work, Western Europe
Dr. Richard Pulice, Professor and Chair of the Social Work Department and Director of the Institute for Community Research and Training at the College of Saint Rose was in the Netherlands last week and presenting the findings of an ICRT project that examined the quality of life and goals of consumers of mental health services at DeBoei a shared professional and peer run organization in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Commenting on the findings of the report Dr. Pulice stated “DeBoei is an excellent example of a collaboration between peers and professionals, ensuring access to high quality and meaningful programs to persons recovering from a mental illness”.
ICRT has ongoing projects related to mental health care in the United States and in Europe. Dr. Pulice has worked for over 20 years in Eastern and Western Europe providing training and consultation on program development.
16 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted Stay Informed!
inMy affiliation with the Institute for Community Research and Training goes back to its early days when Dr. Richard Pulice had a gleam in his keen set of eyes about extending the mission of the College of Saint Rose to support organizations in its community. I had known Dr. Pulice for several years because of his involvement with projects of interest to my former employer, the New York State Office of Mental Health. And, I’d known the College because children, while in younger school years, had enjoyed several science fairs sponsored on campus. That was about it. Years later, I’ve come to understand the vital role the College plays in its community, and appreciate Dr. Pulice’s purpose and wisdom in creating an institute within the College that seeks to support students, faculty, and community organizations in understanding and using social science research in a very effective and fairly unique marriage of perspectives.
This marriage of perspectives is what the Research and Training in the Institute’s title is all about. I’ve had many years of professional management experience with both of those terms but rarely have had them uttered (much less actualized) in combination. Most research (even research that is billed as “applied” rather than “basic“ science) has a time frame and sense of utility mostly associated with the movement of glacial ice. I’ve supervised teams of researchers who expressed both horror and disbelief if I suggested that their products a) had to be written so real people could understand them and b) had to be produced BEFORE studied interventions or projects terminated or were deemed beyond their useful life in the field. And, I’ve supervised human resource development types who were horrified when I suggested that a) training gigs that lasted a few hours and then moved on were never effective and that b) lectures weren’t learning. Given that both fields are well established, what did I know that they didn’t?
I knew instinctively that they needed to be immediately useful to those who were out in the front lines of human services trying to help people lead more productive and satisfying lives. Noble, maybe, but also realistic because the agencies who needed both good research products and effective, results oriented training were largely agencies funded through public dollars and all of us as tax payers have a right to expect a return on our investment. So, when the Institute for Community Research and Training was developed and many community agencies attended meetings and became clients, the “radical” idea of “let’s give folks tools they can actually use” was front and center. Faculty does studies that clients want and need and promptly provide feedback results. Training is a tool for quality improvement and focused on performance outcomes, both for staff and for the organization. Make sense? Yes, and it’s a model that is unique in academic circles. Integrated and customer focused. Food for thought.
05 Tuesday Jun 2012
Posted Holland, News, Socialist Welfare System, Stay Informed!, The Netherlands
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Amsterdam, College of Saint Rose, Mental health, Netherlands, New York, Pulice, Social work, Substance abuse, United Airlines
Join in on this exciting opportunity to visit and learn from Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse professionals in the Netherlands. Our group will be based in Amsterdam visiting agencies there and in other parts of the Netherlands. Visits will be tailored to your needs and interests and lead by our Dutch Liaison Rokus Loopik, a Psychiatric Nurse with over twenty years of experience and by Dr. Richard Pulice , Professor of Social Work at the College of Saint Rose. Dr. Pulice has also worked in the Netherlands as a consultant to programs for over twenty years. This will be a “real Dutch Experience”.
The group will depart from Albany, New York and arrive at Schipol International Airport, just outside of Amsterdam. The cost is $3175.00 (inclusive).
The price includes:
CEU’s can be arranged (for an additional fee)
Plenty of time will be available for visits to museums, galleries, to cruise the canals and to sample the many fine ethnic and Dutch restaurants.
Please contact Dr. Pulice at pulicer@strose.edu or call him at 518-454-5151 for further details and to enroll in the tour. The deadline to sign up is July 10, 2012.
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