NIATx Summit and SAAS National Conference
Building great behavioral health organizations in the new health environment
July 10-13, Boston MA
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
- 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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