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List of Trainers

Mary Anzilotti, M.A.

Gary Bond, Ph.D.

Rich Cupuro

Jerry Dincin, Ph.D.

Jovier Evans, Ph.D.

John Fallon

Virginia Fraser, M.A.

Joe Kerouac, M.Ed.

Hea-Won Kim, Ph.D.

Nancy Little, M.A.

Paul Lysaker, Ph.D.

John Mayes, M.S.W.

Fran Nathanson, M.S.W.

Sheila O’Neil, M.S.W.

Julia Rupp, M.S.

Yvette Sacks

Michelle Salyers, Ph.D.

Sue Shimon, M.S.

Kathleen Vogler, Ph.D.

Frank Ware, M.S.W.

James Zahniser, Ph.D.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Anzilotti, M.A. (Thresholds)

Area of Expertise: Skills training, family psycho- education, illness management and recovery, 

recreation & socialization

 

 

Gary Bond, Ph.D. (IUPUI)

Area of Expertise: Evidence-based PSR, 

supported employment

Rich Cupuro (Thresholds)

Area of Expertise: Affirmative business, 

consumer-run business

Jerry Dincin, Ph.D. (Thresholds)

Area of Expertise: Evidence-based PSR, 

rehabilitation relationship, 

working with families

 

 

Jovier Evans, Ph.D. (IUPUI)

 

 Area of Expertise: Cultural competency

  John Fallon (Thresholds)

 

Area of Expertise: Jail diversion, community re-integration, well prepared forensic 

discharge planning  

 

 

 

Virginia Fraser, M.A. (Thresholds)

Area of Expertise: Vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, PSR in rural areas, PTSD, community development, rehabilitation relationship

 

 

Joe Kerouac, M.Ed. (Thresholds)

Area of Expertise: Supported education, supported employment, consumers as colleagues, training prosumers, consumer empowerment, needs assessment

Hea-Won Kim, Ph.D. (IUPUI)

Area of Expertise: Cultural competency, use of medications, family psychoeducation  

 

 

 

Nancy Little, M.A. (Thresholds)

Area of Expertise: Illness management and recovery, motivational interviewing

Paul Lysaker, Ph.D.

(Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis)

Area of Expertise: Cognitive behavioral therapy, 

illness management and recovery  

 

John Mayes, M.S.W. (Thresholds)

Area of Expertise: Integrated dual disorder treatment, cultural competency  

 

 

Fran Nathanson, M.S.W. (Thresholds)

 

Area of Expertise: Illness management and recovery, rehabilitation relationship, assessment for danger to self/others, borderline personality disorder, recreation & socialization  

 

 

Sheila O’Neil, M.S.W. (Thresholds)

 

Area of Expertise: Integrated dual disorder treatment, motivational interviewing

Julia Rupp, M.S. (Thresholds)

 

Area of Expertise: Vocational rehabilitation, transitional student plans, supervising consumers as employees, family psychoeducation, working with young adults

 

Yvette Sacks (Thresholds)

 

Area of Expertise: Advocacy and support networks, needs assessment, consumer- centered treatment

Michelle Salyers, Ph.D. (IUPUI)

Area of Expertise: Evidence-based PSR, treatment for trauma and PTSD,

supported employment 

 

 

Susan Shimon, M.S. (WilPower, Northbrook)

Area of Expertise: Community development, illness management and recovery, supported employment

Kathleen Vogler, Ph.D.

(Larue Carter Hospital, Indianapolis)

Area of Expertise: Hospital-based PSR, supported employment, skills training

 

 

Frank Ware, M.S.W.

   (Janet Wattles Center, Rockford)

Area of Expertise: Vocational rehabilitation, training prosumers, consumer-centered treatment, 

advocacy and support networks, administrators, rehabilitation relationship, PTSD

James Zahniser, Ph.D.  

(Greenville College)

  

Area of Expertise: Consumer self-help

 
   
 
 

Anzilotti, Mary, M.A., is the Coordinator for the IPRTI and an Area Director for Thresholds, supervising Housing Options and the Quality Assurance/Insurance Department.  She has a Master's Degree in Communications from Governors State University, and an undergraduate degree in science from Indiana University. She has been with Thresholds since 1990.    

Bond, Gary R., Ph.D., is the Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, where he has been on the faculty since 1983.  After receiving his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1975, he conducted research on self-help groups.  From 1979 to 1983 he directed the Research Department at Thresholds.   For the past 22 years he has studied effective ways to help people with severe mental illness achieve optimal community integration, with a major focus on two approaches:   supported employment and assertive community treatment.   In addition to his role as Director of the Illinois Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training Institute, he is directing several funded research studies and is also working with a national group of experts in the development of toolkits to help administrators and practitioners implement evidence-based practices. View Home Page

Cupuro, Rich, is a prosumer and the Chief Operating Officer of Thresholds Rehabilitation Industries, the affiliated affirmative business corporation of Thresholds which provides job opportunities for Thresholds members (clients).  He is well versed in the reality of running a business and currently responsible for a budget of three million dollars.

 
Dincin, Jerry, Ph.D., LCSW, has been the Executive Director of Thresholds for over 30 years. He has played an important leadership role locally, nationally and internationally in the mental health field through his writing, lecturing and as a founding member of IAPSRS, the International Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services. Jerry has a Doctorate in Psychology from Northwestern University and a Master's Degree in Social Work from Case Western Reserve University.

 
Evans, Jovier, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Rehabilitation Program in Psychology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).  He has been a member of the department since 1998 and is an expert in the areas of neuropsychological assessment, cross-cultural counseling issues, and mental health needs assessment.  He earned his Doctorate in Clinical Health Psychology from the University of Miami and is a licensed clinical psychologist and health service provider in psychology in the state of Indiana.

 
Fallon, John, B.A., is the Coordinator of Demonstration Projects at Thresholds and directs two specialized teams working to place people from Cook County Jail back into the community. Typical clients have 50 arrests, 20 psychiatric hospitalizations and decades of homelessness in their history. John's 20 years of experience in the mental health field includes providing residential and outreach services to adolescents, homeless persons, MISA clients, and severely mentally ill adults and children.

 
Fraser, Ginnie, CRC, LCPC, is an Assistant Director of Thresholds.  She supervises Thresholds North, the Sandler Center, the Mothers’ Project and TRI (Thresholds Rehabilitation Industries).  She has a Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has been with the agency for over 20 years.

 
Kerouac, Joe, M.Ed., has been the Education Coordinator for the Thresholds Community Scholar Program (CSP) since 1989.  CSP is the agency-wide supported education program for college students with mental illness. Joe is chairperson of the Thresholds Education Committee.  He is also an Adjunct Instructor in the HealthCare Leadership Department at National-Louis University in Evanston.  He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education from Illinois State University, Master of Education Degree from the University of Illinois and a Master of Educational Administration Degree from Governors State University.  He is a consumer, consultant and published author in the fields of supported education and consumers as colleagues.  

 
Kim, Hea-Won, M.S.S.W., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, Indiana University.   She received her Doctorate in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She has worked on a variety of research projects such as development of fidelity scales to monitor implementation of psychiatric services and evaluation of impacts of antipsychotic medications on vocational outcomes for people with schizophrenia.  In addition, she has done clinical consulting for the Adult & Child Community Mental Health Center in Indiana.  Her interests center on the role of family in the recovery process for people with severe mental illness.

 
Little, Nancy, M.A., is Director of the Training Department at Thresholds and has been with the agency for over 15 years.  She has a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from the Adler Institute and has trained on various topics such as MISA Issues, psychopharmacology, “Train the Trainer,” and diagnosis and assessment.

 
Lysaker, Paul H., Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and the Clinical Supervisor for the Vocational Rehabilitation and Day Hospital sections at the Roudebush Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Indianapolis.  He is also an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine.  He holds a Doctorate in Psychology from Kent State University.  He has over 15 years of experience providing and supervising mental health services for persons with severe mental illness, including psychosocial and psychotherapeutic interventions. He also has more than ten years of experience conducting research on psychosocial interventions for persons with schizophrenia and has published extensively in that area.

 
Mayes, John, M.S.W., LCSW, is an Assistant Director of Thresholds and is responsible for the Training Department, Bridge West, Bridge South, Austin Apartments, Metro West, Thresholds South, Thresholds Southwest and the MISA Rowan Trees program.  He holds a Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Illinois and has been with the agency for over 15 years.  He has extensive experience as a clinician, administrator and educator.

 
Nathanson, Fran, M.S.W., LCSW, has been with Thresholds for over 25 years, and is currently the Outpatient Services Coordinator at Thresholds North.  She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Washington University in St. Louis and her Master of Social Work Degree from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois.  She has trained on topics such as medications, borderline personality disorder, childhood sexual abuse, HIV, and sexual orientation.

 
O’Neill, Sheila, LCSW, is the Thresholds MISA Coordinator.  Prior to that she was the director of managed care at Thresholds.  She has trained nationally on the impact of managed care on community mental health.  She has been with Thresholds since 1983, both as a clinician and as an administrator.

 
Rupp, Julia, CRC, is an Assistant Director of Thresholds and an Adjunct Faculty Member with the Psychology Department at Elmhurst College.  She has presented at local, statewide, and national conferences and has many years' experience training on a variety of topics, especially dual diagnosis and vocational rehabilitation.  She has been a surveyor for the Council on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) since 1993.  She holds a master's degree from DePaul University and is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor.

 
Sacks, Yvette, is a prosumer with extensive experience organizing state conferences.   She has worked in mental health services as a direct service provider.  She served on the Mental Health Consumer Education consortium (1998-2000), and currently serves on the planning committee for the Illinois Office of Mental Health Metro South consumer conference.   She is also an active member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. 

 
Salyers, Michelle P., Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and an Assistant Scientist in the Department of Psychology at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis.  She also serves as Co-Director of the ACT Center of Indiana, a state funded technical assistance center for assertive community treatment.  She earned her Doctorate in Clinical Rehabilitation Psychology at IUPUI in 1998.  She completed her clinical internship at Dartmouth Medical School and was a National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors post-doctoral fellow at the New Hampshire- Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center.  She has been active in mental health services research and has authored or co-authored several articles and book chapters in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation, primarily in evaluations of assertive community treatment and supported employment.  Her current research interests also include trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder among people with severe mental illness.

 
Shimon, Susan, M.S., is Executive Director of WilPower, Inc., a psychiatric rehabilitation and supportive housing agency serving people with severe mental illness in the Chicago north suburban area.  She is past president of the Illinois Chapter of the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services (IAPSRS) and a former member of their national board of directors.  She has presented throughout Illinois and nationally on the topics of consumerism, self-advocacy, elimination of stigma, and connection to larger community networks of people in recovery.  She also served on the demonstration project team for a research project sponsored jointly by Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center and Thresholds, examining the comparison of two employment models for persons with severe mental illness.  She co- authored the article "A Business Solution to a Rehabilitation Problem", Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, that was later included in the IAPSRS publication, An Introduction to Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

 
Vogler, Kathleen Ph.D., HSPP, is the Chief Psychologist at Larue Carter Memorial Hospital and a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Department of Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine.  She is a licensed, clinical psychologist endorsed as a Health Service Professional in Psychology (HSPP) by the state of Indiana.  She is also Certified Rehabilitation Counselor.  She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology Degree from Rosemont College in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.  She has a Master of Science in Psychology Degree with an emphasis in Rehabilitation Counseling, and a Doctorate in Clinical Rehabilitation Psychology, both from Purdue University in Indianapolis.  She has previously held various positions in vocational rehabilitation and counseling.

 
Ware, Frank H., M.S.W., ACSW, is the Executive Director of the Janet Wattles Center in Rockford, Illinois and serves as Adjunct Faculty for the School of Social Work, University of Iowa.  He earned his Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Iowa in 1979.  He is a past president of the Community Behavioral Health Association in Illinois (CBHA) and a former member of the Joint Advisory Council to the Office of Mental Health.  Currently he serves on the Executive Committee of the Rockford Mayor's Task Force on Homelessness.

 
Zahniser, James H., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois.   He earned his Doctorate in Clinical and Community Psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park, and is a licensed psychologist in Colorado and a licensed clinical psychologist in Illinois.  He was Director of Outcomes Assessment and, later, of Program Enhancement (evaluation and training) at the Mental Health Corporation of Denver from 1996-1999.   He has worked with state and local human services providers to evaluate mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation programs, and to provide training in consumer-provider partnerships.   He served on the Center for Mental Health Services’ Task Force on Competencies for Direct Service Staff Members Who Work with Adults with Severe Mental Illness in Outpatient Public Mental Health/Managed Care Systems.