Dear Families & Friends,

On Wednesday, September 10th VOICES is hosting our 13th Annual Day of Remembrance Information Forum.  The theme of this year's conference is "Promoting Resilience, Healing Families and Communities." The day-long conference will be held in New York City at the Downtown Marriott Hotel, located at 85 West Street on the corner of Albany Street, just adjacent to the 9/11 Memorial. Registration begins at 8am, the program is from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Registered participants will be invited to visit the 9/11 Museum following the forum.

This year's program features leading professionals with expertise in providing services to the responders who worked tirelessly in the recovery effort, and the survivors who lived, worked or went to school in the area.  We have included a list of panels that may be of interest to responders and survivors.  Visit our website for a full schedule of events.    

The World Trade Center Health Program
Laurie Breyer - Director, NIOSH World Trade Center Health Program
Michael Crane, M.D. - Director of the WTC Health Program at Mount Sinai
Jacqueline Moline, M.D. - Director of the Queens WTC Clinical Center, North Shore LIJ Health System
Joan Reibman, M.D. - Medical Director of the Survivor Program | Bellevue Hospital

Victims Compensation Fund and Ongoing Legal Considerations of the Zadroga Law
Michael Barasch, JD - Barasch, McGarry, Salzman & Penson
Frances Gottfried - Director, New York Office, U.S. Department of Justice, September 11th Victim Compensation Fund
Noah H. Kushlesky, JD - Kreindler & Kreindler
 
Advocacy - Re-Authorization of the Zadroga Law
Ben Chevat - Executive Director of Citizens for Extension of the James Zadroga Act, Inc.
John Feal - Advocate, President and Founder FealGood Foundation
Jim Melius, M.D. - NYS Laborers Health and Safety Fund
 
George D. Martin
Author: Just Around the Bend - My Journey for 9/11, published September 2014, Retired Co-captain of the NY Giants Football Team and Super Bowl XXI Champion. Former president of the NFL Players Association and the NFL Alumni Association
Following his presentation George will be available to sign books and take photos.  
 
Update from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum
Mary Fetchet, LCSW - Founding Director, Voices of September 11th, VOICES 9/11 Living Memorial
Alice M. Greenwald - Executive Vice President for Programs, Director of National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Jan Ramirez, Ph.D. - Chief Curator and Vice President of Collections for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum
 
Breath-Body-Mind Workshop
Richard Brown, M.D. - Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, Chairman of the Board, Serving those Who Serve.
Pat Gerbarg, M.D. - Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at New York Medical College, Serving Those Who Serve Medical Advisor


*** As a reminder, the deadline for registering for the New York State Worker's Compensation Board Fund is September 11, 2014.  Employees or volunteers who participated in the rescue, recovery and clean-up of the World Trade Center through September 12, 2002, whether they were injured or not should register. This includes duty at The World Trade Center site, Fresh Kills Landfill, on the barges, the piers and the morgues. Registering preserves your right to future benefits, should you ever need them.

WTC-12 forms are available online at www.wcb.ny.gov/WTC12.  If you have not filed, representatives from the New York State Workers Compensation Board and a notary public will be onsite at VOICES Information Forum throughout the day to assist you in completing the application in advance of the deadline.    

Please contact our office at 203-966-3911 if we can be of assistance. For more information and to register online visit our website at www.voicesofseptember11.org.   


Sincerely,


Mary Fetchet & the VOICES Staff

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Voices of September 11th
13th Annual Day of Remembrance Information Forum Schedule
 
Promoting Resilience, Healing Families & Communities
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
 
Marriott Downtown Hotel
85 West Street
New York City
 
 

 
8:00am
 
Registration and Coffee*
   
9:00am - 9:15am
Financial I & II
 
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mary Fetchet, LCSW - Founding Director, Voices of September 11th
   
9:15am - 10:15am
Financial I & II
 
The Mental Health Aftermath of 9/11: The Multiple Facets of Trauma
Yuval Neria, Ph. D. - Columbia University Medical Center, Director of Trauma and PTSD Program
Katherine Shear, M.D. - Director of the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia School of Social Work
   
10:30am - 11:30am
Financial I & II
 
The World Trade Center Health Program (responders and survivors)
Laurie Breyer - Director, NIOSH World Trade Center Health Program
Michael Crane, M.D. - Director of the WTC Health Program at Mount Sinai
Jacqueline Moline, M.D. - Director of the Queens WTC Clinical Center, North Shore LIJ Health System
Joan Reibman, M.D. - Medical Director of the Survivor Program | Bellevue Hospital
   
10:30am - 11:30am
Financial III
 
Promoting Resilience in Children and Families (9/11 families)
Robin Goodman, Ph.D., ATR-BC - Executive Director of A Caring Hand, the Billy Esposito Foundation
   
10:30am - 12:00pm
Traders
 
Introduction to Complicated Grief Treatment (training for professionals and service providers)
Katherine Shear, M.D. - Director of the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia School of Social Work
Nancy Turret, LCSW, MSW - Therapist at the Center for Complicated Grief
   
12:00am - 12:15pm
Traders
 
Preview of "Preparing for After" Resource Kit
Mary Fetchet, LCSW - Founding Director, Voices of September 11th
   
11:30am - 12:15pm
Financial I & II
 
Victims Compensation Fund and Ongoing Legal Considerations of the Zadroga Law (responders and survivors)
Michael Barasch, JD - Barasch, McGarry, Salzman & Penson
Sheila L. Birnbaum, JD - Special Master | September 11th Victim Compensation Fund
Frances Gottfried - Director, New York Office, U.S. Department of Justice, September 11th Victim Compensation Fund
Noah H. Kushlesky, JD - Kreindler & Kreindler
   
11:30am - 12:15pm
Financial III
 
Stories of Resilience and Healing (9/11 families)
Scarlett Lewis - Founder of Jesse Lewis Chose Love Foundation, Author of Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother's Journey of Hope & Forgiveness
Edie Lutnick, JD - Co-founder and President, Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, Author of An Unbroken Bond
   
12:15pm - 1:00pm
 
Lunch Break (on own)
   
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Financial III
 
Update from the NYC Chief Medical Examiner's Office (9/11 families)
Barbara Sampson, M.D, Ph.D. - Acting Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York
   
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Traders
 
Introduction to "Preparing for After" Resource Kit
Mary Fetchet, LCSW - Founding Director, Voices of September 11th
   
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Financial I & II
 
Advocacy - Re-Authorization of the Zadroga Law (responders and survivors)
Ben Chevat - Executive Director of Citizens for Extension of the James Zadroga Act, Inc.
John Feal - Advocate, President and Founder FealGood Foundation
Jim Melius, M.D. - NYS Laborers Health and Safety Fund
   
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Financial III
 
Advocacy Updates - 9/11 Commission, JASTA Legislation/ Guantanamo Trials (9/11 families)
Terry Strada - Wife of Thomas S. Strada, Co-chair 911 Families United Against Terrorism, Update on JASTA legislation
Carol Ashley - Mother of Janice, Family Steering Committee for 9/11 Independent Commission, Update on 9/11 Commission
Gordon Haberman - Father of Andre Lyn Haberman, National Air Disaster Alliance Foundation, Update on Guantanamo Trials
   
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Financial I & II
 
George D. Martin
Author: Just Around the Bend - My Journey for 9/11, published September 2014, Retired Co-captain of the NY Giants Football Team and Super Bowl XXI Champion. Former president of the NFL Players Association and the NFL Alumni Association
   
2:30pm - 3:00pm
 
Coffee Break *
   
3:00pm - 3:45pm
Financial I & II
 
Update from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum
Mary Fetchet, LCSW - Founding Director, Voices of September 11th, VOICES 9/11 Living Memorial
Alice M. Greenwald - Executive Vice President for Programs, Director of National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Jan Ramirez, Ph.D. - Chief Curator and Vice President of Collections for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum
   
3:45pm - 5:00pm
Financial I & II
 
Breath-Body-Mind Workshop
Richard Brown, M.D. - Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, Chairman of the Board, Serving those Who Serve.
Pat Gerbarg, M.D. - Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at New York Medical College, Serving Those Who Serve Medical Advisor
   
5:00pm - Closing
 
911 Memorial & Museum Visit
 
 
Thank you to our sponsors:
Barasch McGarry Salzman & Penson PC
Kreindler & Kreindler
For their generous sponsorship of today's refreshment breaks
 
 
 

 


 

Information and Exhibitors
 
9/11 Memorial & Museum
Bone Marrow Screenings
Disaster Distress Help Line/MHA-NYC
FEMA
New York State - Workers Compensation Board
Office of the Cheif Medical Examiner of NYC
Seattle Art Project, Dianne Brudnicki
Victim Compensation Fund
World Trade Center Health Program (Spanish, Polish & Chinese)
 
Authors:
Scarlett Lewis, Edie Lutnick, George D. Martin
 
 
 
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Voices of September 11th (VOICES) is a 501c3 nonpartisan organization that provides information and a wide range of support services to promote resiliency and address the long-term needs of all those affected by September 11th; commemorates the lives and stories of September 11, 2001; and advocates for public policy reform to promote national preparedness.  VOICES is committed to helping communities prepare for, respond to and recover from traumatic events, by sharing lessons learned that will promote resiliency and healing in the lives of those impacted by other tragedies.

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