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2008 SAAS Conference and NIATx Summit

Workshop Presentations for Download

• Bridging the Gap: Forging Linkages Between the Treatment System and the Organized Recovery Community
  • Pat Taylor, BA, Executive Director, Faces and Voices of Recovery
  • Patty McCarthy, Director, Friends of Recovery
  • Phillip Valentine, Executive Director, Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery
• Different Approaches for Implementing Continuing Care
  • A Rhode Island Partnership: Continuing Care
    • Michelle Taylor, Director, Evaluation & Performance Improvement, NRI Community Services
    • Barbara Inderlin, Vice President, Special Services, NRI Community Services
  • Continuing Care Approaches
    • W. David Matthews, PhD, Director of Adult Services, Kentucky River Community Care, Inc.
• Understanding and Implementing Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (ROSCs): How You Can Make a Difference
  • Shannon Taitt, Public Health Analyst, CSAT
  • Melanie Whitter, ABT Associates
  • Jack Stein, Division Director, Division of Services Improvement, SAMHSA
• The State of Maine vs. Sinissippi Center, Inc. Agency
  • Communities of Commitment: Action Learning Plan
    • Janet Zwick, President, Zwick Healthcare Cooperative, LLC
    • Natalie Andrews, Addiction Services Director, Sinnissippi Centers Inc.
  • Communities of Commitment: Transformational Leadership
    • Stephen Hacker, CEO, Transformational Systems International, LLC
  • Communities of Commitment: Single State Agency Action Learning Plan
    • Linda Frazier, Treatment Team Manager, Maine Department of Health and Human Services
• Process Improvement Diffusion Models from the Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention State Implementation Project
  • Presentation by Fran Cotter, Quality Improvement Team Leader, CSAT
  • Presentation by DeAnn Decker, Bureau Chief of Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, Iowa Department of Public Health
  • Presentation by Sheila Barbee, Performance Management & Improvement Director, Substance Abuse Program Office, Florida Department of Children & Families
• System barriers to replicating an innovative technology system: the need to adjust for organizational differences
  • SAAS - NIATx
    • Deni Carise, PhD, Director, Treatment Systems Research Section, TRI
  • 3 Issues Likely to Affect Addiction Treatment and Recovery
    • Tom McLellan, CEO, TRI
    • Bret Shaw, Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science, UW-Madison
    • Andrew Isham, Research Specialist, NIATx
• Real Help in a Virtual World
  • Dick Dillon, CSAC, Preferred Family Healthcare
• Developing and Implementing Access and Retention Performance Measurement Applications: Tips and Techniques from the State and Provider Perspective
  • Dawn Lambert-Wacey, MA, New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
  • Katie Haverly, MS, New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
• Searching for the Holy Grail - The Quality Journey in Addiction Services: How "fit, balanced and resilient" is your quality system?
  • Tom Mosgaller
  • Tom Zastowny
• Strategies for Expanding Resources for Addiction Treatment: Cases from the Field
  • Victor Capoccia, Senior Scientist, NIATx
  • John O'Brien, Consultant, NIATx
• Brain Drain in Behavioral Healthcare? A Missing Link to Continued Success
  • Bradford Williams, PhD, CEO, Solutions Behavioral Healthcare, Inc.
  • Melanie Woods, LISW-S, QI Coordinator & Coordinator of Community Contracts, Solutions Behavioral Healthcare, Inc.
• Leaders Listen Up
  • Dean Lea, Senior Fellow, IHI and Principal, Tupelo Group of Burlington, VT
  • Denis Lambert, Independent Training Consultant
• Lessons on Performance Management from the STAR-SI Initiative
  • Michaelle Statham, Oklahome Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
  • Carl Kraeff, South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services
  • Jay Ford, Director of Research, NIATx
• Co-Occurring Disorders
  • Led by:
    • Shelia North, MA, MFT, Executive Director, De Paul Treatment Centers, Inc
    • Terry Brown, Maryland Addiction Directors Council, Baltimore Behavioral Health
  • BEST PRACTICES for Treatment of Co-Occurring Disorders
    • Elke Rechberger, PhD, Training and Research Administrator, SHIELDS for Families, Inc
  • Financing Options for Co-occurring Services
    • Richard Nance, MSW, MSHHA, Utah County Division of Substance Abuse
• Why Not Medication Assisted Treatment?
  • Led by:
    • Todd Molfenter, Deputy Director, NIATx
  • Presentation by Linda Frazier, Treatment Team Manager, Maine Department of Health and Human Services
  • Baltimore Buprenorphine Initiative
    • Tracy Schulden, Executive Director, Universal Counseling Services
• Making the Business Case for Access to Treatment and for Process Improvement
  • Presentation by Lynn Madden, CEO, The APT Foundation, Inc.; Scott Farnum, Consultant to Substance Abuse, Acadia Hospital
  • The Business Case for Process Improvement: Research Update from NIATx
    • Andrew Quanbeck, Scientific Manager, NIATx
• Want to improve morale? Ideas from Fortune Top 100 Companies to Work For
  • Pauley Johnson, PhD, Johnson Consulting, LLC
• Learning Collaboratives: Developing a local learning collaborative, improving client engagement and retention, and going International
  • Pulling Together: Developing a Local Learning Collaborative
    • Mathew Roosa, ACSW, LCSW-R, Director of Planning and Quality Improvement
  • "NIATx Goes International" – The UNODC Treatnet Project
    • Beth Rutkowski, Associate Director of Training, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
    • Mike Boyle, President/CEO, Fayette Companies
  • Improving Client Engagement and Retention – The Los Angeles County and California Experience
    • Akiko Tagawa, Analyst, Planning Division, LA County Department of Public Health
• Systematic Needs Assessment and Delivery of Inservice
  • Richard Nance, MSW, MSHHA, Utah County Division of Human Services
• Philanthropy and Quality go Hand in Hand
  • Tim Smith, MS, Executive Director, Daybreak Youth Services

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