PRECONFERENCE UNIVERSITIES

Full Day Universities: Sunday, April 7, 9 am to 5 pm

The 2013 National Council Conference Preconference Universities offer best practices for highly effective organizations, organizations that are determined to not merely survive but to thrive in today’s dynamic healthcare world.

Hard to pick which Preconference University to attend? Consider bringing a team. With each full day university priced at just $375 ($325 for National Council members), it's well worth the investment.

Preconference Universities require a separate registration fee and are not included in your main conference registration..
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FD1. Secrets of Successful Chief Operating Officers
FD2. Health Reform Toughens Up on Compliance: Prepare Now
FD3. Strategic Unions: Mergers and Affiliations Workshop
FD4. Serving Our Veterans: Clinical and Cultural Competencies
FD5. Best in Class: Addressing the Challenges of Bidirectional Integration
FD6. Advances in Clinical Treatment and Services for Children
FD7. Trauma-Informed Care Approaches: Creating Safe Spaces to Facilitate Healing and Change
FD8. How to Build a Safety Net Accountable Care Organization Boot Camp
FD9. Four Essential Organizational Competencies for Future Success: Looking at the Next 50 Years of Community Behavioral Health
HD1. A Boot Camp for New Board Members

FD1.  Secrets of Successful Chief Operating Officers
Sunday, April 7, 9 am to 5 pm
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Nate Bennett, PhD, Professor, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University; Jeff Richardson, Chief Executive Officer, Mosaic Community Services, Inc.

No other healthcare industry conference comes close to the National Council in targeting the needs of Chief Operating Officers. An all-day COO University will distill the lessons learned from years of experience in the trenches. COOs attending this exclusive session will learn how to balance achievement of the CEO’s broad visionary goals with the practical challenges of managing the day-to-day responsibilities of running a complex healthcare organization. Enhance your skills for effective employee engagement, mediation, and negotiation; leading mergers and acquisitions; building stronger relationships with your CEO; and enhancing your value in your organization.

FD2. Health Reform Toughens Up on Compliance: Prepare Now
Sunday, April 7, 9 am to 5 pm
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Adam Falcone, Esq., Partner, and Carrie Bill, Esq., Associate, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP

The Affordable Care Act broadens the definition of fraud, increases financial penalties, and establishes new government audit programs. For the first time, compliance programs are mandatory conditions of enrollment in Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP. Are you prepared? If not, you will be after this corporate compliance boot camp. Experts outline emerging enforcement strategies and examine the impact on your organization, identifying your areas of exposure and detailing the steps you MUST take to protect your agency and yourself.


FD3. Strategic Unions: Mergers and Affiliations Workshop
Sunday, April 7, 9 am to 5 pm
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David C. Guth, Jr., CEO, Centerstone; Joe Rutherford, MA, MBA, CEO, Mental Health Care, Inc.

Led by David C. Guth, Jr., author of the book, Strategic Unions, A Marriage Guide to Not-for-Profit Mergers, this preconference university is designed for CEOs and board members, but is open to anyone seeking to gain a better understanding of mergers in the not-for-profit world.  Participants will be introduced to the marriage model concept for mergers, explore identification and recruitment of potential merger partners, and gain an in-depth understanding of the process for moving forward from initial exploration to completion of a successful merger. This is a workshop, not a day-long lecture, so come prepared to roll up your sleeves! The day will involve a mix of presentation, small group exercise, and group discussion.


FD4. Serving Our Veterans: Clinical and Cultural Competencies
Sunday, April 7, 9 am to 5 pm
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David Riggs, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Deployment Psychology, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology

We’re grateful to our Veterans - and their families - and we want to be prepared to support them in our communities. Dr. Riggs, a national expert, helps civilians who treat military personnel, veterans, and their families to understand military culture and values and improve clinical competencies. The morning workshop provides an overview of military culture. This training module is for civilian mental health providers who want to develop a better understanding of how the military works and who comprises the armed forces.  It provides an overview of military culture to include basics about its history, organizational structure, core values, branches of the service, mission, and operations, as well as the differences between the Active and Reserve components.  Participants acquire greater competency in working with Service Members by learning military culture and terminology, and discussing how aspects of the military culture impact behaviors and perspectives. The afternoon will focus on the etiology and best practice treatment of PTSD.  This workshop reviews the factors that can affect the normal course of recovery from trauma and contribute to PTSD. Evidence-based treatments for PTSD are reviewed so participants become familiar with effective interventions for military-related trauma.
 

FD5. Best in Class: Addressing the Challenges of Bi-Directional Integration
Sunday, April 7, 9 am to 5 pm
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Kathleen Reynolds, MSW, ACSW, Vice President for Health Integration and Wellness, and Joan Kenerson King, ANP, Senior Integration Consultant, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare; Marty Adelman, MA, CPRP, Mental Health Program Coordinator, Council of Community Clinics; Teresa Bertsch, MD, Chief Medical Officer/ Chief Clinical Officer, and Amy Jelliffe, MD, Associate Medical Director/ Children's Medical Director, Northern Arizona Regional Behavioral Health Authority; Julie Ann Minardi, MEd, Training Program Manager, Council of Community Clinics, San Diego Integration Institute; Tom Sebastian, MSW, President/CEO, Compass Health; Darren Urada, PhD, Principal Investigator, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior; Rick Weaver, MA, President/CEO, Central Washington Comprehensive Mental Health 

Wondering how to make integration truly work? Struggling with issues of
how to partner effectively when mental health, substance abuse and primary care come together? Trying to figure out who and how to train your workforce for integration? Wondering how to get your integration services paid for? This preconference institute will feature the “best of the best” at partnering across systems, working with Medicaid Health Plans to secure funding support for integration and training the existing workforce for the challenges ahead. Led by Kathleen Reynolds, Vice President for Health Integration and Wellness, this three-part institute will provide concrete examples and tools for addressing partnership, financing and workforce issues in integration. Leading experts and National Council member agencies will provide working models of success that address the common barriers to full integration in organizations. Participants will have the opportunity to work with the presenters to develop and action plan in one of the three core areas in the afternoon session.
 

FD6. Advances in Clinical Treatment and Services for Children
Sunday, April 7, 9 am to 5 pm
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Mary McKay, PhD, Professor & Director, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy & Research, Silver School of Social Work, New York University; Anthony Salerno, PhD, Practice and Policy Scholar, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, Silver School of Social Work, New York University

The children’s behavioral healthcare system faces numerous challenges in adopting and sustaining effective, research informed approaches to address the most commonly encountered clinical problems.  This pre-conference institute will present recent advances in the treatment of children that address the most common clinical and organizational challenges associated with quality and positive outcomes. The pre-conference institute provides organizational leaders and practitioners with practical knowledge to make informed decisions and develop plans to improve the quality of services to children in a changing behavioral healthcare system. It will point attendees toward research and resources and provide guidance about making your services attractive to payers and clients in a quickly-changing healthcare ecosystem. This session is appropriate for supervisors, medical directors, and executives.
 

FD7. Trauma-Informed Care Approaches:  Creating Safe Spaces to Facilitate Healing and Change
Sunday, April 7, 9 am to 5 pm
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Cheryl Sharp, MSW, ALWF, CPSST, Special Advisor for Trauma-informed Services, and Linda Ligenza, LCSW, Clinical Services Director, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare; Cathy Cave, BS Education, Founding Partner, Inspired Vision Consulting; Elizabeth Cleek, PsyD, Vice President, PDESI Institute for Community Living, Inc.; Chris Copeland, LCSW, Associate Executive Vice President, Chief Program Officer, Institute for Community Living; Dan Griffin, MA, President/Lead Consultant, Griffin Recovery Enterprises, Inc.; Marsha Morgan, MPA, Chief Operating Officer, Behavioral Health Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health; Reba Smith, MS, Programs Manager, Addictions Recovery Center; Precious Stevens, Activity Coordinator, Helping Other People through Empowerment, Inc.

Through working with hundreds , of organizations over the last several years, we have learned that many begin to recognize that their own organizations have been traumatized, staff suffer from Compassion Fatigue, and those receiving services are not aware of the choices and possibilities that are available for healing.  Many consumers receiving services would like to feel that their adverse experiences are being addressed. This pre-conference university explores what it takes to become a trauma-informed organization.  You will have the opportunity to learn about organizational and professional self-care.  Attendees will hear directly from leaders in the field about culture and gender responsive treatment, consumers who share what helps and what hurts, organizations who have taken the deep dive into trauma-informed care – i.e. the “best in class,” and experts in Organizational Change Management.  You will also learn how to begin implementation of the National Council’s Organizational Self-Assessment.  You will leave understanding why having a focused and guided change process will keep you from continually spinning your wheels and asking yourself three years from now, “Why are we still not trauma-informed?” 

FD8. How to Build a Safety Net Accountable Care Organization Boot Camp
Sunday, April 7, 9 am to 5 pm
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Dale Jarvis, CPA, Managing Consultant, Dale Jarvis and Associates; Bruce Abel, Chief Behavioral Health Officer, Trillium Community Health Plan; Richard H. Dougherty, PhD, CEO, DMA Health Strategies; Robin Henderson, PsyD, Manager of Behavioral Health, St. Charles Health System

The future is not in plastics, nor is it in medical homes. (Are you shocked yet?) We are quickly learning that the real solution to health reform for those in the safety net is much more “outside the box” - locally designed and operated systems of care organized around one-stop health and wellness centers supported by health neighbors, sustained through accountable care organizations. Working together, these health and human service partners are delivering prevention, public health, integrated primary care, housing, social services, top notch specialty care (including behavioral health), and world class acute and long-term care. They are pushing more money upstream, before people end up in the emergency room and hospital, and truly bending the cost curve.

Boot camp attendees will learn about how to help ensure that ACO development moves beyond the medical model to help community members achieve whole health.  They will explore where there services fit into the four layers of care inside a safety net ACO, and understand the emerging payment models including bundled payments and subcapitation with shared savings arrangements.  They will have the opportunity to examine how electronic health records, performance measurement, health information exchanges, and public reporting constitute the backbone of the safety net ACO, and discover how to fund these transformational efforts.
 

FD9. Four Essential Organizational Competencies For Future Success: Looking At the Next 50 Years of Community Behavioral Health
Sunday, April 7, 9 am to 5 pm
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Monica Oss, CEO, Open Minds

In 1963, we had the launch of the community mental health movements.   Over the past fifty years, the science, the politics, and the demographics of the United States have changed dramatically.  The focus of this pre-conference institute is to look to the future – to discuss the four new and essential organizational competencies that community behavioral health organizations need for success.  These four competencies include teaching community behavioral health organizations how to offer tech-enabled consumer services and supports, create consumer-preferred services, use process engineering and process metrics management as an on-going tool for managing costs and improving operations, and develop successful P4P (incentive compensation, case rates, capitation) contracts with payers and health systems.

Over the coming years, the competencies for organizational success in the behavioral health arena will morph.  New technologies will continue to emerge, impacting how and where we deliver services and offering providers new opportunities to enhance operations and control costs.  Marketing and business development will increasingly focus on the experience of individual consumers and families, rather than simply payers and traditional referral sources.  Cost and quality management will become paramount, and fee-for-service payment systems will all but disappear.  Is your organization poised to manage in this brave new world?  Join us for an information-packed day on preparation for the next 50 years of community behavioral health.
 

HD1. A Boot Camp for New Board Members
Sunday, April 7th, 1 pm to 5 pm
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Shelly Wimpfheimer, DSW, LCSW, President/CEO, Wimpfheimer & Associates

Joining the Board of Directors of a behavioral health community organization sounds like an exciting and worthwhile undertaking, but it can be downright scary.  There is a lot to learn in a very short amount of time. Decision-making votes come up very quickly.  How will you know what to say?  What questions to ask?  What advice to give?  This four-hour workshop welcomes new and experienced board members to learn the basic components of board membership and participation.  Through lecture and discussion, the group will explore the job description of a board member and a set of tips and guidelines for diving into the exciting job of governing a nonprofit.  We will explore the relationship between the Board of Directors and the CEO/Executive Director and how to evaluate the CEO/Executive Director.  Other topics will include: board recruitment, board development, the board’s role in fundraising, strategies for dealing with difficult board members, assessing your organization’s progress, and dealing with agency challenges.