2010 SAAS National Conference and NIATx Summit
Workshop Presentations for Download
Monday, July 12, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
- Best Practices for Reducing Initial No-Shows: A Process Benchmarking Exercise
- Building partnerships through boundary spanning and engagement activities
- John Andrews
- Laura Sheehan
- Characteristics and Outcomes of Insured Patients Treated with Extended-Release Naltrexone (XR-NTX) or Oral Alcohol Dependence Medications
- Mady Chalk, PhD, Treatment Research Institute, Inc.
- Tami L. Mark, PhD, Thomson Reuters, Inc.
- Leslie Montejano Thomson Reuters, Inc.
- Henry R. Kranzler, MD, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
- David R. Gastfriend, MD, Alkermes, Inc.
- Extended-Release Injectable Naltrexone (XR-NTX) in the Alcoholic Homeless: Initial Experience
- Mark Publicker, MD Mercy Recovery Center Westbrook, ME
- Implementing Medication Assisted Treatment With Vivitrol - Florida Systems Development

Using Technology to Promote Remote Recovery: Piloting Substance Abuse Recovery with Nebraska Probation
- Mady Chalk
- Stephenie Colston
- Implementing the NIATx Model In A Statewide Case Management Organization
- Alicia Kusiak, Director of Cook County Services
- Steve McCabe
- Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care: Enhancing the Continuum of Care with a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
- Aileen Wehren, PSS
- Beth Wrobel, HealthLinc
- Integrated Behavioral Health & Primary Care: Looking at the Whole Person

CARF 2010 Behavioral Health Standards Manual 
Removing Treatment Barriers: Leveraging Technology
- Nikki Migas, M.P.A. Managing Director Behavioral Health
- Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care Settings
- Michael R. Lardiere, LCSW, Director HIT; Sr. Advisor Behavioral Health, National Association of Community Health Centers
- NIATx as a Springboard to Excellence: Quality Efforts, EBPs,and Outcomes
- Tom Zastowny, PhD
- Mat Roosa, ACSW, LCSW-R
- The Opiate Epidemic: What Works & What Doesn't
- Dave Phalen, Fairfield County Sheriff
- Orman Hall, Executive Director Fairfield County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Board
- Preliminary Evaluation of Extended-Release Naltrexone (XR-NTX) in Michigan and Missouri Drug Courts
- Mark Stringer Director, Missouri Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
- Transforming Treatment for Substance Use Disorders - 20 Million people and still waiting......

Where are they now? - The business as usuals; The improvers; The innovators
- Victor Capoccia
- John Daigle
- Kyle Grazier
- Using Process Improvement in Tough Economic Times: Lessons Learned from the STAR-SI Initiative
- Todd Molfenter
- Michaelle Statham
- Beverly Moore
- What's the big deal?
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
- Building a Culture of Positive Recognition
- Robert Hansen, CEO, Prestera Center for Mental Health Services, Inc.
- Joyel Harless, Intellectual Disabilities Program Director, Prestera
- David McClaskey, President, Pal’s Business Excellence Institute
- Electronic Behavioral Medical Records: Improving your agency's implementation
- Jay Ford, PhD
- Enid Montague, PhD
- Health Care Reform and Treatment: Moving Forward
- Health Care Reform in Massachusetts: Preliminary Findings and Lessons Learned
- Deni Carise
- Karen Carpenter-Palumbo
- Michael Botticelli
- How to Use Social Media and Measure its effectiveness
- Claire Celsi, The Public Relations Project, LLC. Des Moines, Iowa
- Integrating Behavioral & Physical Health: A Community- Based Organization's Initiative to Provide Quality Care
- Nancy Paull, CEO
- Pat Emsellem,. COO
- Madeleine Colon-Usowicz,MD
- Lincoln County Outreach: Recovery Coaching
- Our Obligation to Effective Service Delivery Why Fidelity to Evidence-Based Practice Matters
- Kimberly Sperber, Ph.D.
- Marcia Rasch, Ph.D.
- Small Changes/Big Impacts: System Change Project Among Iowa’s Treatment Programs for Substance Use and Co-Occurring Problem Gambling
- Anne Helene Skinstad, Ph.D PATTC
- Janet Zwick, Lead Coach, PATTC
- Bob Kersieck, IDPH
- Mark Vander Linden IDPH
- Where's the Family?
- Rich Bradway, LCSW
- Senior Vice President
- Alcohol and Drug Services
- Where's the FAMILY?
- Richard Bradway, LCSW Mental Health Systems, Inc
- Colleen Heinkel, Ph.D. NIATx and The Center for Health Enhancement System Studies (CHESS)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
- ACHESS & Affective Computing
- Andrew Isham
- Dave Gustafson
- Victor Capoccia
- Alianza para Reducir la Insuficiencia en el Tratamiento de Adicción en Puerto Rico
- Centro de Tratamiento con Metadona de Caguas
- Dra. Aída S. Cardona Torres, Supervisora Servicios de Tratamiento
- Change Towards Achieving Results
- Comprehensive Recovery Services Center
- Sra. Elba Vázquez Cardín, MPH
- Carlos V. Cornielle-Vázquez, MSW(c)
- Developing Local Learning Collaboratives with the NIATx Way
- Mat Roosa, ACSW, LCSW-R
- Tom Zastowny, PhD
- Doing Business in a Commercial, Managed Care Environment
- Patrick Gauthier - AHP Healthcare Solutions
- Kim Johnson - NIATx
- Impact of Health Care Reform on Your Organization
- John O'Brien, Senior Advisor on Health Financing, SAMHSA
- Strengthening the Treatment Outcomes with the Use of Case Management Services with Adolescent Clients

Risk and Protective Factor Scale 
START Outcome Monitoring Form
- Gwen Thomas-LeBlanc, MS, CCS, CAADP
- Substance Abuse and Child Maltreatment: Empowering Methods for Improved Outcomes
- Lynn Posze
- Ruth Huebner
- Tina Willauer
- Update from Washington: National Health Care Reform and Beyond
- Gabrielle de la Guéronnière, Legal Action Center
- Becky Vaughn, State Associations of Addiction Services
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