Consultant
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
New York, New York
Anthony Salerno, PhD, is a practice and policy scholar for New York University’s McSilver Institute and a senior consultant for the National Council for Behavioral Health. He is a New York State-licensed psychologist with more than 30 years of public mental health experience in adult inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Salerno has extensive experience training multidisciplinary staff in the principles and practices of psychiatric rehabilitation, health self-management, integrated care, group facilitation, trauma informed care, resilience. In New York State, he has developed system-wide strategies to promote evidence-based practices, with an emphasis on health self-management and family psycho-education. As an assistant professor at Columbia University Medical School and resarch scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute,, Dr. Salerno was the lead author of the wellness self-management curriculum-based program for adults with serious mental illness which received the Science to Service award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in 2010. Most recently, Dr. Salerno has created a resiliency building individual and group program designed for adults in behavioral health services. This program called BRITE (Building Resilience for Individuals thru Trauma Education), has recived very positve feedback from clients and group facilitators drung the initial field testing phase As a senior consultant with the National Council for Behavioral Health, Dr. Salerno provides consultation and technical assistance to numerous organizations implementing integrated health care models for individuals with serious mental health concerns. Dr. Salerno also provides the National Council with direct guidance and consultation on implementing trauma-informed care learning communities that combine best practices in change management, continuous quality improvement and workforce development. As a faculty member with the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, affiliated with the Silver School of Social Work at New York University, Dr. Salerno assists organizations serving impoverished communities to systematically adopt and sustain practice innovations with an emphasis on implementing trauma-informed and resiliency-building principles and practices in a variety of programs, including mental health, substance use, criminal justice and homeless shelter settings.
Monday, May 1, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
12:30 PM – 12:50 PM
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
3:20 PM – 3:40 PM
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