Main Conference Sessions

Main sessions take place throughout the conference from April 15 – 17. Many of these sessions run concurrently so bring a team to cover all the fabulous learning. Sessions are organized in 14 tracks to indicate the breadth of topics covered and to help in your planning — you can attend sessions in any track and move between tracks as often as you like.

Addictions and Co-Occurring Disorders

• Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Substance Abuse
• Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption
• Engaging Families in the Recovery Process
• Evidence-based Treatments to Improve Outcomes for Families
• Freedom from Tobacco: Moving from Awareness to Interventions that Work
• Integrated Treatment of Co-Occurring Mental and Substance Use Disorders
• Peer Connection: An Innovative Approach to Co-occurring Disorders Treatment
• Program Culture of Recovery: A Primary Intervention for Co-Occurring Disorders
• Substance Use Providers Integrating Primary Care
• The Addiction Performance Project

Behavioral Health/Primary Care Integration

• Best in Class: Promising Practices in Integrated Care
• Comorbid Mental and Physical Conditions: Preparing for New Treatment Expectations
• Creating a Statewide Learning Community for Integrated Healthcare
• Health Homes for Children
• Making the Business Case for Integration
• National Council Town Hall Meeting: FQBHCs, What Next?
• Psychiatrist Summit: Bidirectional Integration: A 360-degree View
• Psychiatrist Summit: Primary Care Updates for Psychiatrists
• Psychiatrist Summit: Psychiatrists in Primary Care
• Should You Become an FQHC Look-alike?
• Supportive Housing and Health Homes
• Transformation: Turning Case Managers into Health Navigators
• Will Our Integration Efforts Be Better Than Our Deinstitutionalization Efforts?

Board Governance

• Board Governance: Running Effective Meetings
• For Board Members Only: Executive Compensation Packages
• Governance-Management Interface: Sharing a Vision for Success
• Succession Planning IS a Board Responsibility
• Sustainable Funding for Your Organization
• The Benevon Method for Successful Fundraising

Children and Youth

• Autism: What Do We Know?
• Beyond EBPs: Using Science, Culture Change and Collaboration to Improve Outcomes for Children
• Practical Strategies for Engaging Families and Children
• Preventing the Onset of Psychotic Disorders
• Risk Factors Are Not Predictive Factors Due to Protective Factors
• Strategic Partnerships to Address Co-occurring Disorders in Youth
• Supporting the Transition from Youth-to-Adult-Serving Systems
• The 4R's and 2S's: Research-informed Practices to Treat Children and Strengthen Families

Finance

• Addressing the Social Determinants of Health for Improved Outcomes
• Beyond FFS: Like It or Not, Performance-Based Reimbursement is Your Future
• By the Numbers: Know Your Access Process Costs, Know Your Savings Opportunities
• Determining Your Cost: Service Line Profitability
• In Pay for Performance, You Get Exactly What You Pay For
• Not Your Father’s Managed Care
• Strategies for Partnering with Accountable Care Organizations and Other Shared Savings Programs
• Strategies to Prepare Back Office Staff for New Payers
• The Quality Cure

Health Information Technology

• EHRs and Healthcare Integration
• Health Center Controlled Networks: Poised to Support Behavioral Health
• Health Information Exchanges: You Can’t Afford to Be Left Out
• HIT: Operational Efficiency and Clinical Improvement
• Interactive Communication Technologies: The Future is Now

Health Promotion, Prevention, and Recovery

• Ending Suicide: How Many Deaths Are Acceptable?
• From Case Managers to Partners in Recovery
• Global Mental Health Initiatives: Implications for the United States
• Promoting Recovery for Adults with Behavioral Health Needs under Criminal Justice Supervision
• Raising Your Profile in the Community through Mental Health First Aid
• Recovery: The Journey for Freedom
• Rethinking Mental Illness
• The Expanding Peer Workforce: Evidence, Delivery and Outcomes
• The WRAP® of Recovery

Health Reform Home Runs: How Behavioral Health is Fixing the System

• Advancing Behavioral Health, Improving Lives
• Creating the One-Stop Healthcare Neighborhood
• Dual Eligibles: State and Federal Policy Making
• Fixing the Healthcare System: A Coordinated Care Approach
• Fraud Enforcement: Is Your Corporate Compliance Program Ready?
• From Concept to Practice: Health Homes
• Health Reform Toughens Up on Compliance: Prepare Now
• How to Hit a Health Reform Home Run: One Center’s Story of Reinvention
• Missouri "Show Me" How to Build a Health Care Home
• Mobilizing a Community to Address the Impact of Childhood Trauma
• Seventy Yards to the Health Reform Touchdown
• The Future of Recovery: Consumers to the Fore
• The Journey Begins: From Behavioral Health Centers to Health Homes
• The Real Revolution: A Call to Arms
  
  In My Own Words: Personal Stories of Recovery
  

• Ben Behind His Voices: One Family's Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
• Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival
• King's Park: Stories of an American Mental Institution
• Lives Restored: A Story of Recovery and Resiliency
• Resilient: Persevering through Mental Illness

Leadership, Management, and Workforce

• A Top Ten List for Effective Advocacy
• Best Practices from Hitachi Foundation Pacesetter Award Winners
• Building the Next Generation of Leaders
• Can You Command the Troops? Creating and Leading Teams
• Carrots Not Sticks: High Performance Incentive-based Compensation Programs
• Disaster Response: Five Key Strategies
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Leadership & Poetry: Developing High Performing Teams Through Symbolism
• Managing Change, Driving Success
• Managing the Liability Risks of Integrated Care
• Staff Compliance Training and Continuing Education
• The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed
• Tough Talking: How to Start and Manage Difficult Conversations
• Woman to Woman: Getting to the Top
• Women Master the Art of Leadership
• You Can Make It Happen: A Nine Step Plan for Success

Marketing and Media

• No Marketing, No Growth: How to Get the Biggest Bang for Your Buck
• Out of the Dark Ages: The Future of Healthcare Lies in Social Media
• Storytelling that Leads, Motivates, and Sells
• The Promise and Peril of Social Media: HIPAA and More
• To Blog or Not to Blog?

Organizational Excellence and Practice Improvement

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Collaborations
• Fail-First Requirements for Medications: Is There a Better Way?
• If You Don't Measure Improvement You Could Be Fooling Yourself
• Is Inpatient Care An Essential Treatment Option or an Indication of System Failure?
• Keeping People Safe: Negley Award Winners Tell Us How They Do It
• Manage the Schedule and Tame the Bottom Line: Impact of No-Shows
• New Opportunities in Supportive Housing for Community-Based Behavioral Health Providers
• Productivity: Define It, Build It, Raise It
• Same Day Access Isn't as Hard as You Think
• Serving Our Veterans: Clinical and Cultural Competencies
• Serving Veterans in the Community: How to Become a TRICARE Provider
• Taking “Person-Centered” to the Next Level Through Better Engagement Strategies
• The Art of Planning to Succeed
• The Power of a Single Encounter: If You Only Have One Session
• Trade Secrets for Competitive Government Grantwriting
• What Community Providers Need to Know About Serving Veterans

Trauma-Informed Care

• Addressing Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Guide to Caring for Staff
• Does Your Organization Measure Up: Are You Really Trauma-informed?
• Preventing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint
• Romancing the Brain: Relationships, Conflict, and Recovery
• Trauma-Informed Care; Changing Cultures, Improving Practice, Transforming Lives

Work Smarter, Live Better

• Do You Work to LIVE or Live to WORK?
• From Good to Great: Applying Organizational Best Practices to Strengthen Families
• Get Out of that Rut: Practical Strategies to Get Unstuck
• Unleash Your Creativity: Moving from Ideas to Action

 
Posters highlighting cutting edge and successful behavioral health programs and initiatives are on display on Sunday, April 15 and Monday, April 16. Presenters are available to discuss their posters and answer questions during designated times.