Saturday, April 14, 9am – Kansas City
Poetry for Personal Power has four program areas: Artist Entrepreneurship, Health Care Messaging, Advocacy, and Peer Support.
Each of these program areas has proven outcomes. We use WordPress form builder plugins and survey monkey surveys to measure these outcomes. Learn what an outcome is, the difference between outputs and outcomes, and how to decide which outcomes are most important for your business model or nonprofit. Learn the difference between process outcomes, administrative outcomes, or end-user results outcomes. Learn why clinical outcomes are different than recovery outcomes. Explore how ALL businesses are healthcare businesses and figure out how to tap into the healthcare funding stream. Our expertise area is behavioral health, but we will try to generalize outcomes measurement for all types of business models. Our session will end with an interactive needs/solutions roundtable.
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Corinna West
Corinna West is a national leader in the Recovery Movement and winner of the 2013 Judi Chamberlin “Joy In Advocacy” award from the National Coalition for Mental Heath Recovery. Her work on the Creating Community Solutions National Mental health dialogue project helped Kansas City to be the only city of over 300 cities to include psychiatric survivors substantially in their steering committee. She is founder of Poetry for Personal Power, the largest peer-run or behavioral health patient-advocacy organization in the Midwest. Poetry for Personal Power has an annual budget of $125,000, 6 staff members, 13 board members, and 74 sponsored artist/advocates. She has successfully supported over 263 Healthcare messaging events, including CER research comparing trauma messaging to resilience based prevention messaging. Poetry for Personal Power also supports artist/advocate entrepreneurs, with outcomes showing that sponsored artists and advocates increase median income from $250 per year to $2500 per year. Artist/advocates showed 10-15% increase in artist marketing tools, and 10-20% increase in business-related financial management tools.
Corinna has participated in a Kansas CER tobacco dependence treatment research project. She completed community needs assessment projects with 548 young adults in Colorado and secured SAMHSA funding for CER work related to social inclusion, poetry, and young adults. She has published research on pharmaceutical drug development and on mental health stakeholder engagement. She has an MS in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, is a Certified Peer Specialist, and is a survivor of 12 psychiatric diagnoses.
Connect with Corinna
- Website: poetryforpersonalpower.com
- Twitter: @PoetryforPower
- LinkedIn: /in/corinna-west-52716122
- Facebook: @PoetryforPersonalPower