Mental Health Advance Directives in Nebraska

This CLE will feature different community experts speaking about how attorneys can help Nebraskans living with severe mental illnesses by helping them draft mental health advance directives (MHADs).

This webinar will be available for purchase until October 24, 2024.

If you are willing to volunteer for VLP or Legal Aid of Nebraska in 2024 or 2025 and would like to view this CLE for FREE, please contact the Volunteer Lawyers Project at vlp@nevlp.org. ***By registering to attend this CLE for FREE, you agree to volunteer for VLP or Legal Aid of Nebraska in 2024 or 2025.

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Credits Ethics:0.75, General:3.0

Tag(s) Ethics, Health, Pro Bono

Description

Nebraska MCLE #239880. 3.0 CLE Hours, including 0.75 Ethics Hours. (OnDemand credit)

**This program has been approved for 3.0 hours of distance-learning CLE, including 075 hours of ethics. You may claim 3.0 hours of credit total for this program.

If you are willing to volunteer for VLP or Legal Aid of Nebraska in 2022 or 2023 and would like to view this CLE for FREE, please contact the Volunteer Lawyers Project at vlp@nevlp.org. ***By registering to attend this CLE for FREE, you agree to volunteer for VLP or Legal Aid of Nebraska in 2022 or 2023.

This CLE will feature different community experts speaking about how attorneys can help Nebraskans living with severe mental illnesses by helping them draft mental health advance directives (MHADs).

What are MHADs?
Shannon Seim, JD – Volunteer Lawyers Project Director, NSBA

Attendees will learn about the Nebraska MHAD Project. This project is working to raise awareness in Nebraska amongst legal, medical, and human services professionals as well as the public about the availability and utilization of Mental Health Advance Directives.

Mental Illness: Things Lawyers Need to Know
Julia Hebenstreit, JD- The Kim Foundation

This part of the CLE will help attendees learn more about mental illness, services available locally before crises, and how to provide services to individuals living with mental illnesses. This portion of the CLE will also help attendees understand what mental illness can look like and how to avoid harmful stereotypes, language, etc.

Mental Health Crises and First Responders
Lindsay Kroll, MA, LIMHP - The Omaha Police Department

In this session, attendees will learn about the Omaha Police Department’s Behavioral Health and Wellness Unit, their interactions with individuals living with severe mental illness and about how mental health advance directives could help police officers and other community responders best assist in mental health crises. This portion of the CLE will also show attendees the pressure first responders and community workers face to help individuals navigate mental health crises and why more attorneys are needed to help draft mental health advance directives.

A Statutory Deep Dive
Judy Clausen, JD & Joanmarie Davoli, JD- The University of Florida Levin College of Law

Professors Judy Clausen and Joanmarie Davoli will present on the Nebraska mental health advance directive statute and why it was written how it was. Nebraska’s statute was based on a model statute Professor Clausen proposed in the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics. Professors Clausen and Davoli have since worked on how to improve mental health advance directive statutes given practical complications in executing them.

Drafting MHADs Ethically
Ann Mangiameli, JD – Legal Aid of Nebraska

In this session, attendees will learn how Legal Aid of Nebraska’s Health, Education, & Law Project has already started offering mental health advance directives and how to properly draft them in Nebraska. Ann will also address common ethical dilemmas that may arise when drafting mental health advance directives. Attendees should walk out of this session knowing how to ethically draft mental health advance directives for clients.

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