Synergy

Since developing the Stepped Care 2.0© (SC2.0) methodology, Peter Cornish has provided mental health system consultation and on-site implementation training to over 150 organizations across North and South America. In addition to his role as faculty and senior adviser at Stepped Care Solutions, Cornish is an honorary research professor at Memorial University and co-director of Student Mental Health (Strategic) at the University of California, Berkeley, where he established a mental health innovation incubator and research program in partnership with the Institute of Social and Business Impact at the Haas School of Business. He is a principal investigator for a $1.14 million Canadian Institutes of Health Research transitions-in-care, four-year research grant aimed at digitizing and evaluating SC2.0 across three Canadian provinces. Dr. Gillian Berry has over forty years of social work experience as a practitioner, educator, consultant, and author. She obtained her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Birmingham University in England. She is currently a senior adviser at Stepped Care Solutions in Canada, a company focused on guiding the transformation of mental health systems to be more effective and restorative. She has previously taught at the University of Botswana’s Department of Social Work Southern Africa and at the University of Maryland. Dr. Berry also previously worked as a director of a post-secondary college counselling center and in several Departments of Social Services as a clinical supervisor and facilitator, and is a trained mediator for the State of Maryland. She presents at conferences nationally and internationally on professional social work practice, public child welfare, culturally appropriate practice, and personal/self-improvement. She has published book chapters in edited books as well as published the empowerment novel, The Righteous Sin, and the children’s book I Am Everything.

• 1. What is Synergy?.- 2. Synergy and the Conundrums of Stepped Care 2.0.- 3. Synergy and Institutions: Why is Synergy so Hard to Build?.- 4. The Gaslighting of a Profession: DEI Training in the Mental Health Profession.- 5. A Journey of Discovery.- 6. The Education of a Healer: Recovering Indigenous Practices of Synergistic Healing.- 7. Building Synergistic Systems of Mental Healthcare.- 8. Building a Movement.- . Afterword.