Curriculum: Call for Presentations
- Events, Topics, and Speakers
- Suggestions
- Presentation Proposal Guidelines
- Presentation Terms and Conditions
We invite your participation in developing the curriculum for the 39th Annual National Council Conference, April 6-8, 2009 in San Antonio, TX.
To ensure that critical content areas are addressed and the quality of presenters is uniformly high, National Council Conference presentations, speakers, and workshops are by invitation. However, we welcome for consideration a limited number of workshop proposals for the 2009 conference.
We also welcome suggestions for keynote and thought leader speakers, special events, workshop topic areas and presenters, networking opportunities, roundtables, and lunch-and-learn discussions. Please be creative and feel free to be provocative!
Submit a 2009 conference presentation proposal.
Submission deadline is Friday, October 17, 2008. Individuals submitting a proposal will be contacted in December 2008.
Events, Topics, and Speakers
We are particularly interested in suggestions and workshop proposals in the following areas:
- Social Inclusion; Recovery; Peer Services; Consumer and Family Education and Empowerment
- Mental Health and Addictions Prevention and Early Intervention
- Health Initiatives: Medical Homes, Disease Management, Smoking Cessation, Exercise and Diet
- Public Education
- Cross System and Community Collaborations: Primary Care, Mental Health and Addictions; Criminal and Juvenile Justice Diversion and Re-entry; Specialty Courts; Outpatient Commitment; Homelessness and Housing; Employment
- Adult Mental Health Treatment and Rehabilitation Services; Older Adult Services; Veterans Services
- Children and Family Services; School-based Services; Youth in Transition; Addiction Services for Adolescents
- Continuity of Care: Improving Access, Engagement, Adherence and Retention; Hospital/Community Collaborations; Crisis and Emergency Services
- Trauma; Suicide Prevention; Ethics; Diversity and Cultural Competence
- Leadership and Workforce Development; Recruitment and Retention; Medical Staff – Psychiatrists, Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistants
- Financing and Management of Service Systems
- Business Operations: Revenue; Performance Standards and Productivity; Compliance; Risk Management; Accreditations; Innovation and Service Expansion
- Data Driven Decision Making: Performance Measurement, Data Collection, Outcomes Instruments, Rapid Cycle Improvement Strategies
- Implementation of Evidence Based Practices and Practice Based Evidence
- Science and Emerging Applications
- Research and Academic Affiliations
- Information Technology: Applications to Promote Engagement, Adherence Electronic Health Records; Web Based Treatment; Consumer and Provider Social Networks; Blogs
- Messaging, Marketing and Media
- Fundraising: Developing a Foundation, Government Grants, Private Philanthropy
- Board Development, Governance and Leadership
- Global Initiatives
Suggestions
Suggestions for keynote and thought leader speakers; special events; workshop topic areas and presenters; networking opportunities; roundtables; and lunch and learn discussions should be emailed to Jeannie Campbell.
Presentation Proposal Guidelines
Your proposed workshop should be interactive; feature a program, service or initiative that is practical and replicable; and demonstrate measurable outcomes. Workshops must also provide concrete “Tools to Use" that attendees can quickly and easily implement in their organizations.Submit your workshop proposal online.
You will be asked to submit the following:
- Suggested title for 1.5 hour workshop
- Workshop description (250 words)
- Learning objectives (bulleted list with 3 to 5 objectives)
- Documented results (limit 250 words)
- Sample “Tools You Can Use”
- If this workshop has been presented before, please provide the conference and dates.
- Summary of presenters' area of expertise and ability to engage participants including other conference presentations as references. (limit 350 words)
- Names, titles, and email addresses of co-presenters (no more than 3 speakers total)
- Your email address and phone number.
Note: National Council conferences are paperless. Presenters will be required to provide power points and handouts electronically prior to the conference.
Presentation Terms and Conditions
Please read and accept the following conference terms and conditions:
- The presentation will follow the proposed session description.
- Sessions must include strategies to engage attendees as active learners, not merely passive recipients of information.
- The presentation contains educational content and is not a sales pitch or endorsement of a commercial product or service. If products are mentioned in the presentation, they are references for example and not for sales purposes.
- National Council members receive special consideration.
- Workshop presentations are 90 minutes in length.
- Workshop presentations may not include more than three speakers.
- In some instances the Conference Planning Committee may suggest combining presentations similar in content into one workshop.
- If accepted, the descriptions submitted in the proposal, including learning objectives may be used for marketing purposes and our final program.
- The National Council has the right to edit the text for printed and online programs.
- If the submitted presentation is not accepted, it may be kept on file for future National Council events.
- Following the conference, all evaluations of presentations and speakers will be posted to the National Council website.
- Presenters are expected to register for the conference and to pay for their own expenses. The daily registration fee is waived for presenters only for the day of their presentation. A special conference rate is available for selected speakers.
- Travel expenses are the responsibility of the presenter.
