Curriculum: Tracks and Sessions
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You may attend any session in any track and move between tracks as often as you like. Pick from any track but note that sessions you want to attend may be scheduled concurrently.
KEY
MGS/TGS/WGS: Mon/Tue/Wed General Sessions
TLM/TLT/TLW: Mon/Tue/Wed Thought Leader Sessions
A: Mon Morning Workshops
B: Mon Afternoon Workshops
C: Tue Morning Workshops
D: Tue Afternoon Workshops
E: Wed Morning Workshops
A Poster: Mon Morning Poster Sessions
B Poster: Mon Afternoon Poster Sessions
MLunch: Mon Lunch ‘n’ Learns
TLunch: Tue Lunch ‘n’ Learns
FD/HD/MII/SCB: Sun Preconference Programs
TRACKS AND SESSIONS
Addictions and Co-Occurring Disorders
A4 Evidence-Based Treatments for Adolescent Substance Abuse: What Can My Organization Expect?
A Poster 1 Cohesive Partnerships Reforming Substance Abuse Treatment for Offenders
B1 Addictions in a Chronic Care Paradigm
B Poster 5 Prescription Drug Abuse: The Silent Epidemic
C8 Changing the World in Florida: Building Successful State-Provider Partnerships, Part 1
D10 Changing the World in Florida: Building Successful State-Provider Partnerships, Part 2
E11 Medication Assisted Treatment for Substance Use Disorders in Community Mental Health Settings
M Lunch 7 Treating Women with Co-occurring Disorders Through Gender-Specific Treatment
TLT4 What’s Wrong With Addiction Treatment: Where Leadership is Needed, Thomas McLellan
TLW3 The Future of Addictions Treatment, Westley Clark
Board Governance
SCB The Symposium for CEOs and Boards
A3 BHAM – Does Your Organization Have a Big Hairy Audacious Mission?
B4 Board Boot Camp – Essentials for Board Members
C14 When the Emperor Wears No Clothes – How Does a Board Address CEO Accountability?
E1 Accountability 101: Aligning Organizational Goals and Executive Performance
M Lunch 1 Board Networking Lunch
Children and Youth
A5 Fulfilling the Promise of School-Based Mental Health
B8 Evidence-Based Prevention: The Nurse-Family Partnership Program
D4 EBPower: Evidence-Based Practices Can Improve Real-World Care for Real Kids
E6 Thirty Years in the Making: Are We There Yet? Implementation of Child/Family Evidence-Based Practices
TGS2 One Child at a Time: Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada
Clinical Services
A Poster 6 The Declarations Life Coaching Model
B3 Better Service Planning Leads to Better Quality
B9 Focus on Employment: Coping With Cognitive Impairments
B11 Psychiatrists and Productivity: Finding the Balance
B Poster 6 Risk in the Real World: Identification of and Intervention for High Clinical Risk
C1 Benefits of an On-Site Pharmacy
C10 Relationships as the Key to Recovery – Back To Basics
C17 Implementing Clinical Improvement: A Psychiatric Story
D7 The Massachusetts Initiative to Implement Trauma-Informed Treatment for Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
D14 Supported Employment: Helping People Achieve Recovery and Economic Independence
E2 Assessments – the Golden Thread between Medical Necessity and Person-Centered Services
E5 Hiding Behind HIPAA
M Lunch 6 Mentally Ill and Homeless: Strategies that Work
Finance
A12 Social Entrepreneurship: Examples of Real Success
A Poster 3 Conducting a Behavioral Health Compliance Risk Assessment
B13 Top-Line Growth: Swift Organizational and Business Responses to Sweeping Macro-Economic Forces
C11 A Case Study of Organizational Change: Save $200,000 and Improve Care
D11 Performance-Based Contracting: Will It Save or Sink You?
M Lunch 4 Recovery in a Medicaid Environment: Managing Philosophical Conflict
T Lunch 2 Business Sense (Cents?) for Clinical Folks Turned Administrators
MII Marketing and Innovation Institute
Healthcare Reform and the New Marketplace
A7 How Will the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 Change Your Life?
A14 What is an FQBHC and Why Should I Care?
B2 All Healthcare is Local: How States are Thinking About Healthcare Reform
C18 Looking into the Future – How Will Behavioral Healthcare be Managed (or Not)?
E8 How Are We Going to Get Paid Tomorrow? Emerging Models for Health and Behavioral Healthcare
FD4 Healthcare Reform and the Behavioral Health Safety Net
MGS2 A Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform, Howard Dean
Health Information and Technology
A9 Meaningful Use Overview: Capture and Maximize Incentive Dollars
B7 Implementing a Behavioral Health Information Exchange
C13 Electronic Health Records and E-Prescribing: What You Need to Know Before, During and After Implementation
D5 Behavioral Health Software and Certification
E10 Electronic Health Records Implementation: Measurement, Meaningful Use and Clinical Quality
M Lunch 2 Meaningful Use and Management
T Lunch 4 Key Elements for Successful Electronic Health Records Implementation
TLT1 What the Future Holds for Health IT, Robert Kolodner
Health Integration and Wellness
A13 The Person Centered Healthcare Home: Implementation Strategies
B6 Disease Management for Persons with Mental Illness
B12 Recovery Without Health Isn't Recovery at All
B Poster 4 Integrating Medical and Behavioral Healthcare: A Public-Private Partnership
C5 Frontline Tobacco Addiction Cessation Training for Providers and Peers – Everything You Need to Know
D12 Psychological Masquerade: How Medical Conditions Often Present with Psychiatric Symptoms
E13 Substance Abuse and Integration
M Lunch 5 Starting Small, Growing Bigger – Development of the Award Winning Metabolic and Weight Management Clinic
FD1 Implementing the Patient-Centered Healthcare Home: Concept to Reality
HD2 Team Solutions: A Hands-On Approach to Recovery, Physical Health, and Wellness
In My Own Words - Personal Stories of Recovery
A2 Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret
C7 Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's
C12 The Horse Boy: A Father’s Quest to Heal His Son
E3 Back in the Trenches: Turning Trauma Around
M Lunch 8 When War Comes Home: Transitioning to Life in the Community
TLM1 Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Story of Love and Madness, Michael Greenberg
TLW1 Crazy for Life – Escapades of a Bipolar Princess, Victoria Maxwell
International: It's a Small World
A6 Healthcare Reform Around the Globe: Lessons Learned
B Poster 7 Releasing Time to Care: The Productive Mental Health Initiative
C9 International Approaches to Suicide Prevention
D8 Approaches to Peer Support
Leadership and Management
B10 Leading Change: Moving from Ideas to Inventions to Innovation
C16 Closing the Gap: Making the Business Case for Ending Health Disparities
D2 Creating and Sustaining a High-Performing Executive Team
D15 Tools You Can Use to Address Health Disparities
E9 Be a Change Hero Using Project Management Techniques
T Lunch 1 Building a Better Workforce Through Performance Management
TGS1 Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
TLM2 Hard Choices in Hard Times – An Ethical Approach to the Allocation of Scarce Resources, Michael Gillette
TLM3 Ordinary Greatness: It’s Where You Least Expect It... Everywhere, Pamela Bilbrey
TLT3 Great Place to Work, Michael Burchell
WGS1 The Magic of Disney’s Leadership, Lee Cockerell
FD3 Managing the Media, Shaping Your Message
Personal and Professional Development
A Poster 5 Innovative Workforce Development Partnerships
B5 Developing the Case Management Workforce: Retention, Excellence, Recovery
C3 Defining and Maintaining Productivity Standards
C4 Emotional Intelligence at Work
TLT2 Stress Matters: 10-Minute Tools for Managing Stress, Rachel Permuth-Levine
TLW2 The Power of Positive Criticism, Hendrie Weisinger
Practice Improvement and Outcomes Measurement
A11 Practice Improvement the NIATx Way
A Poster 2 Community and Law Enforcement Collaboration: Crisis Intervention Teams
A Poster 4 Housing First – A Collaborative Approach to a Complex Community Issue
B Poster 2 Four Ways to Change Behavioral Healthcare – Current Knowledge Network Projects
B Poster 3 Improving Customer Service, Productivity, and Staff Retention Through the Care Initiative Process
C2 Best in Class: How Does Your Organization Measure Up?
C6 Best Practices in Avoiding Medication Errors
D6 Establishing Medical Necessity
D13 Quality and Compliance: Eliminating Silos to Reduce Risk
T Lunch 3 An Introduction to the Knowledge Network: Getting Involved in Research
HD1 David Lloyd’s Solutions to the Compliance Challenge
Public Policy Influence
A8 Minds on the Edge: Building Consensus for Change
B16 Tell Us Your Story: How Have State Budget Cuts Impacted Services?
D1 Influencing Policy: Preparing for the 2010 Elections
D9 Influencing Public Opinion in Tough Times: Mental Health First Aid USA
D16 Transforming Mental Health Systems: A Judicial Perspective
E7 Integrating Treatment and Supervision for Justice-Involved Clients
E12 Opportunities to Expand Access to Permanent Supportive Housing
T Lunch 7 Using Creative Media to Tell Your Story
MGS1 Good Idea or Bad Idea? Linda Rosenberg
MGS3 A View from the Top, Pamela Hyde
WGS2 Where Do We Go From Here? Kathryn Power
Recovery and Peers in Service Delivery
A10 Practical Challenges for Psychiatrists – Implementing the Recovery Model
B Poster 1 Recovery and Resiliency in Rural Mental Health Settings
M Lunch 3 Peer Specialists – Valued Partners
T Lunch 5 Reducing Stigma Through Peer-Led Community Education
FD2 Roadmap for Transformation to a Recovery-Based Program
Social Media
A1 Social Media 101
B15 Innovation, Avatars, and Virtual Counseling
C15 Social Media and Fundraising
D3 Put Your Website to Work for You: Seven Measures You Can Implement Now
T Lunch 6 Social Media on a Shoestring Budget
Trauma-Informed Care
B14 Working With Veterans and Their Families – Bringing Evidence-
Informed Approaches to Community Care
D7 The Massachusetts Initiative to Implement Trauma-Informed
Treatment for Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
E4 Creating Cultures of Trauma-Informed Care
E3 Back in the Trenches: Turning Trauma Around
M Lunch 8 When War Comes Home: Transitioning to Life in the Community
