Preconference Programs: One-Day Universities
Full Day Universities, Sunday March 14
PRICE REDUCED
Fee: $299 (National Council members); $350 (Nonmembers).
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FD1: Patient-Centered Healthcare Home: Concept to Reality
FULL DAY, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Kathy Reynolds and Laura Galbreath, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
What does it take to turn the integrated primary care-behavioral health program you've developed into the patient-centered healthcare home of the future? Participants learn implementation strategies, barriers, and opportunities, and examine a broad range of timely issues: the roles of the primary care physician, nurse practitioner, and nurse manager; collaborative models; consumer preferences; data collection; and outcomes measurement. Designed for behavioral health organizations and FQHCs alike, this university covers services delivered in different settings.
FD2: Roadmap for Transformation to a Recovery-based Program
FULL DAY, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Mark Ragins, MD, Village Integrated Services Agency
The recovery model has surprising depth and benefits, but transitioning to the recovery model is often a far more complex, multifaceted process than expected. This university encourages and guides transformation efforts of leaders and program directors, drawing on the lessons from California’s Village program. From cultural assessment and program redesign to staff empowerment and administrative infrastructure, this university offers all you need to know to implement a recovery-based program.
FD3: Managing the Media, Shaping Your Message
FULL DAY, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Nellie O’Brien, Radio and Television Anchor and News Director
This engaging, interactive institute on effective communication skills for all situations focuses on how to craft and deliver a meaningful message that gets through the “noise” of the media and motivates people to action. Gain insights into the agenda of the reporter, learn tips and techniques for answering questions, and discover how to get an interview or presentation back on target without being misquoted, misrepresented or taken out of context, while remaining professional and credible.
FD4: Healthcare Reform and the Behavioral Health Safety Net
FULL DAY, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Dale Jarvis, MCPP Healthcare Consulting
Dale continues to push the envelope of understanding how healthcare reform will impact persons with mental health and substance use disorders and the community behavioral healthcare organizations the serve them. Come spend a full day with Dale engaging in an in-depth conversation about three of his “hypotheses” - Behavioral healthcare is going to become very important to managing Total Health Expenditures in the U.S. There will be greater demand for behavioral health services in both primary care and specialty behavioral healthcare. The current structure of the community behavioral healthcare system does not necessarily match the delivery systems of the future.
Half-day Universities, Sunday, March 14
PRICE REDUCED
Fee: $150 (National Council members); $175 (Nonmembers).
HD1: David Lloyd’s Solutions to the Compliance Challenge
HALF DAY, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
David Lloyd, MTM Services
Community behavioral health organizations often fail to achieve sustainable compliance and service quality levels because they are unable to incorporate recovery outcomes or the inherent characteristics of clinicians and practitioners during implementation. This university reduces service and documentation compliance to a meaningful and manageable set of concepts and strategies; updates participants on regulations, standards, and audit results; and promotes understanding of key concepts like medical necessity and quantitative vs. qualitative compliance. Learn how to make compliance easier for everyone while improving services.
HD2: Team Solutions: A Hands-On Approach to Recovery, Physical Health, and Wellness
HALF DAY, 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Helping clients with mental illness is your top priority and the more resources you have, the easier it is. Team Solutions and Solutions for Wellness provide a range of materials in helping to help you empower and inspire consumers to choose a healthier lifestyle, manage their psychiatric disorder, and make choices that reduce relapse and facilitate recovery. Spend a half day with the authors/editors of Team Solutions and Solutions for Wellness as they provide insights on how to successfully integrate these psychoeducational programs across clinical settings.
