National Council Conference #NatCon15
The National Council Conference is the nation’s premier specialty health care conference, attended by executives, board members and staff from the nation’s community mental health and addiction treatment organizations. Each year, this can’t miss event features the latest innovations, science and business and clinical best practices.
The National Council Conference features speakers and educational sessions that explore the following specific tracks or topic areas:
Addictions and Co-Occurring Disorders
- Must Have” Business Skills in an Ever Changing World Health Homes and Addictions: How’s It Working?
- Medicaid Benefit Design to Support Addiction Treatment Medication Assisted Treatment
- No Money No Mission: Small Addictions Organizations Surviving and Even Thriving
- Rethinking the Methadone Clinic
- SBIRT and Clinical Care for Adolescents: Lessons from the Field
- The Integration of Housing and Addiction Services
- The New Frontier: Addictions and Primary Care Integration
- The SBIRT Project: New Opportunities for CBHOs
- Tobacco-Free Living for Persons with Mental Illnesses and Addictions
- Where Addiction, Recovery and Crisis Services Meet Together
- Everyday Harm Reduction for Real People: Collaborative Care for Families and Communities
- Facing Drugs Head-On: A Public Health Approach to Address the Opioid Crisis
- Gender Matters: Supporting Women with SUDs/CODs
- Maternal Care: Treating the Pregnant Opiate Addicted Woman Recovery Support
Board Governance
- Board Evaluation Best Practices
- Creating a High Performing Board of Directors
- Dancing with the Elephant in the Room: CEO Performance Evaluation
- Financial Liability and Board Responsibilities
- Strategic Unions: Mergers and Affiliations
- The Power of Partnerships: Mergers and Affiliations
- What Boards Can Learn from Wall Street
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics
- No Money No Mission: Small Addictions Organizations Surviving and Even Thriving
- The SBIRT Project: New Opportunities for CBHOs
- Strategic Unions: Mergers and Affiliations
- Best Practices in Supervision
- Alternative Managed Care Reimbursement Models
- Health Home Competencies
- Mastering Back Office Operations
- Power of Partnerships: Hospitals and Community Behavioral Health Organizations
- Sustaining Integration with Smart Financing
- 15 Years Downstream: What’s the Status of Integration?
- The New Frontier: Addictions and Integrated Care
- A Little Data Can Do a Lot
- Accreditation is NOT a Luxury
- Just in Time Scheduling
- The Value of Care: Making the Business Case
- Five Recovery Tools That You Can Implement Overnight
- The Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Roadmap: A Guide to Your Future
- Follow the Money: Prospective Payment Systems and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics
- What Services Do Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics Deliver?
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics and Quality: It Matters!
- Self-Assessment: Are You Ready to Be a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic?
- Disney and Ritz Carlton Customer Service Tailored for Your Organization
- A Cautionary Tale and a Happy Ending
Children and Youth
- Collaborative Documentation on Daily Living Activities Regardless of Age
- Families and Treatment
- SBIRT and Clinical Care for Adolescents: Lessons from the Field
- Systems of Care: Doing It Well
- The First 30 Days: The Foundation for Successful Treatment
Clinical Practices
- 20 Daily Living Activities That Must Be Assessed
- Best Practices in Supervision
- Brief Intervention Strategies for Health Behavior Change
- HEDIS: Dirty Word or Great Opportunity to Improve Lives?
- Learning to Love Groups
- Motivational Interviewing
- Spirituality and Recovery
- Sustaining Open Access
- Learning to Love Groups Networking Lunch
- Linking MAT and Mental Health
- Safe and Effective Use of MAT: Tools for Providers
Criminal Justice
- Are You in the Know? Innovations for Justice Involved Populations
- CIT and Mental Health First Aid: A Tale of Two Trainings
- From Gosling to Goose: SOARing to Recovery and Stability
- How Can Medicaid Help? Tips and Tricks to Support the Justice Population
- Post-Booking Diversion: Treatment Not Incarceration
- The Power of Partnerships: How 2 Become 1
- What do Reentry and a Rubik’s Cube Have in Common
Crisis Response Services
- Here There Be Dragons: New Voices in Suicide
- Suturing in the Field: Innovative Mobile Crisis Partnerships with First Responders
- Transformational Crisis Services: Peers Bring Unique Mix of New Approaches
- We’re Not the Only State with a Boarding Problem: Community Connections and Solutions
- Where Addiction, Recovery and Crisis Services Meet Together Crisis Responders Town Hall
Finance and Payment Redesign
- “Must Have” Business Skills in an Ever Changing World Alternative
- Managed Care Reimbursement Models Fraud and Abuse: Key Risk Areas
- Health Home Competencies
- Is Your Future Part of a Hospital System?
- Mastering Back Office Operations
- Negotiating from a Position of Strength
- Power of Partnerships: Hospitals and Community Behavioral Health Organizations
- Social Impact Investing: Partnering with Goldman Sachs
- Sustaining Integration with Smart Financing
- The Five State Costing Project
- Could You Benefit From Your Own Foundation?
- The Foundations Networking Event
Health Information Technology
- 2014 Technology Heroes: Innovation on a Budget
- Consent2Share: Managing Patient Consent
- Data and Technology: Are They Aligned?
- EHR Best Practices
- Meaningful Use in 2015: Are You in the Penalty Box?
- Thinking Beyond This Year: Technology Trends
Living Your Life Well
- Creating Your Personal Brand
- Memory Power: Your Secret Weapon
- Overworked? Overwhelmed? Over it? Understanding, Embracing, and Managing Stress
- Hiding Behind HIPAA
- How to Give the Presentation of Your Life
- Ninja Marketing
- StoryCorps Comes to NatCon15! Transforming Your Brand with Stories
- The Art of Influencing Your Community
mHealth
- Approaches to Support Treatment Using Technology
- Beyond the Romance: Getting Clinicians to Adopt Technology
- Evaluating a Crowded Marketplace: mHealth Apps
- Reality Bites: Paying for Technology
Organizational Excellence
- A Little Data Can Do a Lot
- Accreditation is NOT a Luxury
- Evaluation and Management Documentation and Coding: Do You Know Where You Stand?
- Just in Time Scheduling
- Let’s Join the Rest of Health Care: Collaborative Documentation
- Liability for the Acts of Violent Patients
- Same Day Access Isn’t As Hard As You Think
- Survival of the Savviest
- The Value of Care: Making the Business Case
- The Win-Win-Win Strategy of Affordable Housing
- HIV/AIDS and Behavioral Health: Integrating Care
- Mapping Your Universe: Prepare for Population Health by Re-Imagining Where and How to Integrate
- Public Health-Behavioral Health Partnerships: HIT Bridges the Gap Service Design and Population Management: The Perfect Match!
- Tobacco-Free Living for Persons with Mental Illnesses and Addictions
- Transcending Boundaries: Lessons Learned Building a Community-Based Prevention Network
- Facing Drugs Head-On: A Public Health Approach to Address the Opioid Crisis
Prevention, Peers, and Recovery
- 10 Steps to Fully Integrating Peers into Your Workforce
- Bringing Mental Health First Aid to the Forefront of Your Community
- Five Recovery Tools That You Can Implement Overnight
Public Policy
- A Conversation with Behavioral Health Commissioners
- A Conversation with Medicaid Directors
- Advocacy Works When Done Right: Best Practices
- Health Reform Impact: Parity, Essential Benefits, and Network Adequacy
- Medicaid Benefit Design to Support Addiction Treatment Medicaid in an Era of Health Care Redesign
- Winnable Battles: 6 Strategies for Achieving State-level Policy Change
- Health Homes and Addictions: How’s It Working?
- Housing: An Update from the Hill
- The Annual National Council Town Hall
Trauma-Informed Care
- Building a Trauma-Informed Nation Takes Trauma Informed Organizations: One Organization’s Cap Journey
- Do Both: Trauma-Informed Integrated Care
- Evidence-Based Addiction Treatment IS Trauma-Informed Treatment
- Mitigating the Impact of Disasters: From Trauma to Resilience
- The Business Case for Trauma-Informed Care
- Trauma-Informed Approaches for Child and Family Serving Agencies
- Walking the Walk: Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma
Workforce, Management, and Leadership
- 60 Minutes to Better Leadership
- Conquer Email Overload with Better Habits, Etiquette, and Outlook
- Things I Wish I Knew Before I Was CEO