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Start Date:
10/8/2014
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End Date:
10/8/2014
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Registration Start Time:
11:00 AM
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Hosted By:
DBH Training Institute
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Group Rate Cutoff Date:
10/9/2014
Event Description:
On-line registration has now closed. If you would like to attend the Summit, please register on-site beginning at 8:00 a.m. at the DC Summit Registration Desk located at Room 146 ABC (middle building) at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Place, NW, Washington, DC 20001. The cost to register will be $25 payable by Visa, MC and Amex ONLY. Youth admission is complimentary. Summit Theme: NOW IS THE TIME, Promoting and Implementing
Evidence-Based solutions for Behavioral Health
The District of Columbia Department of Behavioral Health is
hosting a dynamic and informative one-day summit on evidence-based programs
that are making a difference for children, youth and families.
About the Summit: The goal of this year’s summit is to educate
the DC community on empirically-supported treatments available in the District
of Columbia for children, youth, young adults and families. To disseminate
information on programs that has the highest standards for addressing trauma,
disruptive behavior, emotional well-being, behavioral health needs and positive
parent- child relationships.
Purpose: The purpose of bringing program developers, model
experts, practitioners, referral sources and youth consumers of these
evidence-based treatments together in one location is to provide a first-class
conference that offers networking opportunities.
Continuing Education Instructions Full Event Schedule General Session Biographies Keynote Biographies Workshop Speaker Biographies
Venue:
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mt. Vernon Place, NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20001
(202) 249-3000
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Driving Directions:
The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is located between 7th and 9th Streets and N Street and Mt. Vernon Place in downtown DC, right across from Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square.
Metro: Yellow/Green line: Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center
Parking:
Free parking is not provided. Please see the Convention Center website for parking information: www.dcconvention.com
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Packages Available for Registration
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Online registration is currently not available for this event or the date has passed.
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Breakout Sessions
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10/8/2014 |
11:10 AM
- 12:10 PM |
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A-CRA Model
This workshop will provide an overview of the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) model. A-CRA is an evidence-based model used to treat adolescents with substance use disorders. A-CRA is on SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices.
Objectives:
1. Define the principles and theory behind A-CRA
2. Describe how A-CRA is used to treat adolescents with substance use disorders
Presenters:
Jennifer Smith Ramey
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11:10 AM
- 12:10 PM
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MST for Emerging Adults
This workshop will focus on Emerging adults (EAs) ages 17- 21 with serious mental health conditions (SMHC)s who are at high risk for justice involvement, and rates of recidivism that are greater for offenders with SMHCs than without. Most serious mental health conditions (SMHCs) have onset by emerging adulthood and SMHCs can impair adolescents’ transitions into healthy, productive adults. Multisystemic Therapy for Emerging Adults (MST-EA) is an adaptation of standard MST (for adolescent antisocial behavior) that was specifically designed for EAs with SMHCs and justice involvement.
Objectives:
1. Define MSAT-EA
2. List three areas of treatment focus
3. List three treatment techniques utilized in MST-EA
Presenters:
Ashli Sheidow
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11:10 AM
- 12:10 PM
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MST-PSB
This workshop is designed to orient participants to the theoretical underpinnings of the Multisystemic Therapy for Problem Sexual Behaviors (MST-PSB) model, the research behind it and the specific clinical adaptations made to the general MST model in order to effectively treat youth who have sexually abused or offended against others.
Objectives:
1. Describe the theory and empirical support underlying MST-PSB
2. Identify the specific clinical adaptations made to the standard MST model designed to effectively treat this pop
3. Identify the criteria for an appropriate MST-PSB referral
Presenters:
Richard Munschy
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11:10 AM
- 12:10 PM
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Youth Morning Workshop
Futures Mapping: A Roadmap to Successful Transition
This interactive workshop is geared towards youth and young adults ages 16-21 years old who are experiencing difficulty or uncertainty about their future. The workshop will provide an overview of the Transition to Independence Process (TIP) model recently implemented among DC DBH provider network. The workshop will address some of the interpersonal, social, and environmental challenges faced by young people today when transitioning from adolescents to adulthood. The presentation will cover:
1. TIP Introduction
2. Innovations in Strength Discovery
3. Futures Planning/Mapping for Youth and Young Adults
4. Guided Practice in Futures Planning/Mapping where young people are encouraged to explore their interests and futures as related to each of the transition domains: employment and career, education, living situation, personal effectiveness/wellbeing, and community-life functioning
Presenters:
Elijah McCauley
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11:10 AM
- 12:10 PM
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10/8/2014 |
1:40 PM
- 2:40 PM |
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Child Human Trafficking
This workshop will is aimed to raise awareness about domestic child sex trafficking and address the impact of Trauma on victims. The workshop will define and explore the laws and scope of the sex trafficking problem, and also examine victim profile, prevention strategies and identifying and work with victims.
Objectives:
1. Identify signs and behaviors of youth being sexually exploited
2. List three risk factors that make children and youth vulnerable
3. Utilize tools and resources to effectively help victims
4. identify support services available to victims of human trafficking
Presenters:
Priya Dhanani
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1:40 PM
- 2:40 PM
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EBP Supervisor
How to Survive and Thrive as an EBP Supervisor. The purpose of this workshop is to provide skills and techniques for successful management of your EBP team's performance to produce successful outcomes for the clients, your agency, and the Families First Project.
Objectives:
1. Manage difficult conversations with a sub-performing employee, with positive outcomes
2. Identify strategies to help them successfully transition from team member to team supervisor
3. Explain how "soft" benefits are the key to retention, and which ones are the most effective
Presenters:
Margaret McAlister
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1:40 PM
- 2:40 PM
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Intro to CAFAS & PECFAS
The CAFAS and PECFAS are used throughout the United States and Canada to help guide choices about treatment type and intensity. It is backed by over two decades of research. This workshop will address the current environmental pressures on mental health professionals - to efficiently assess youth and generate documentation, track each youth’s progress and respond to setbacks, and ensure that parents and youth guide treatment planning, and manage high case loads. This workshop will also explore CAFAS and PECFAS within the context of fewer resources and an eventual expectation that children who could benefit from evidence-based practices (EBP) be identified and offered these treatments.
Objectives:
1. Explain the basics of the CAFAS and PECFAS programs
2. Describe uses, outcome measures and reporting of CAFAS and PECFAS programs
Presenters:
Susan M Sabin
Susan M. Sabin Ph.D. has been a Licensed Psychologist in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for over 27 years. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology at Temple University and did her internship training at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic.
Since 2003 Dr. Sabin has worked directly with Dr. Kay Hodges the author of the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS) a multi-dimensional measure of level of functioning to train mental health professionals around the US and Canada in the reliable use of the scale.
She also has her own private practice and consults with community agencies; supervising training and performing psychological evaluations of children.
She was a Senior Trainer for the Pennsylvania CASSP Training and Technical Institute for many years. Her presentations of CASSP curriculum included the CAFAS Family Therapy Psychological Report Writing Ethics Strength-based Assessments and Developmental Perspectives.
She has worked extensively in Outpatient Wraparound and Residential settings for children serving as the Clinical Director of Northwestern Human Services Children and Adolescent Residential Programs in Philadelphia and as the Director of Residential Services at Wordsworth Residential Treatment Program in Fort Washington PA.
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1:40 PM
- 2:40 PM
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Trauma Systems Therapy
This workshop will introduce attendees to the issue of childhood trauma and will specifically describe a unique model for addressing child traumatic stress on an individual and systems level.
Objectives:
1. Explain the impact of traumatic events on children
2. Describe the role of the social environment and how TST addresses it
Presenters:
Adam Brown
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1:40 PM
- 2:40 PM
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10/8/2014 |
2:50 PM
- 3:50 PM |
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DC Dashboard
DC Dashboard – How It Works and Why It is Important. The purpose of this session is to explore the dashboard that EBA uses, how it is put together, how to read it and why it is important to the operation of the Families First Initiative.
Objectives:
1. Utilize the dashboard to make informed model practice / business decisions
2. Describe how the dashboard works and why it is important (this will be measured by seeing an increase in the number of views of the dashboard on the website)
Presenters:
Robert Sayles
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2:50 PM
- 3:50 PM
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Early Childhood Services
Oh, The Places We Will Go: Advancing Early Childhood Mental Health Interventions
The presentation will provide an overview of the continuum of early childhood mental health services and supports for the 0- 8 population in DC. The presentation will provide an overview of the continuum of early childhood mental health services for the 0-8 population in Child Development Centers and schools. The focus will include two best practice The impact of services on school readiness will be highlighted.
Objectives:
1. List examples of two best practice models of early childhood mental health interventions
2. Identify three positive social-emotional outcomes as a result of implementation of early childhood mental health intervention
Presenters:
Barbara J. Paulson
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2:50 PM
- 3:50 PM
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Sustainability and EBPs
This workshop will begin by providing the findings of a 2013/2014 Functional Family Therapy (FFT) Sustainability Evaluation of 7-15+ year old FFT sites. Common themes that support successful sustainability will be discussed. These themes will be discussed in terms of larger applicability to any EBP and will also be examined in comparison to the current DC Families First Project’s FFT sites. Describing outcomes and implementation practices, we will examine how one DC FFT Site stacks up to the evaluation outcomes and hear how the site is able to achieve a successful EBP.
Objectives:
1. List at least 3 “ingredients” needed for a sustainable EBP
2. Describe the relationship between fidelity and outcomes
3. Explain how to enhance current programming in at least one of the following domains: data collection, staff retention, referral process, monitoring
Presenters:
Helen Midohaus
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2:50 PM
- 3:50 PM
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Youth Afternoon Workshop
"Working" to Independence: The Do's and Don'ts for Getting the Job You Want. This workshop is designed for youth (21-under). The purpose is to improve the employment outcomes for transitional age youth. This workshop will provide participants with practical strategies and skills necessary for transitional age youth to secure and successful sustain employment. These themes will be discussed in terms of larger applicability to the Transitional Age EBPs offered within the District.
Presenters:
Margaret McAlister
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2:50 PM
- 3:50 PM
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10/8/2014 |
4:00 PM
- 5:00 PM |
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Child Human Trafficking*
This workshop will is aimed to raise awareness about domestic child sex trafficking and address the impact of Trauma on victims. The workshop will define and explore the laws and scope of the sex trafficking problem, and also examine victim profile, prevention strategies and identifying and work with victims.
1. Identify signs and behaviors of youth being sexually exploited
2. List three risk factors that make children and youth vulnerable
3. Utilize tools and resources to effectively help victims
4. identify support services available to victims of human trafficking
Presenters:
Priya Dhanani
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4:00 PM
- 5:00 PM
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Child Parent Therapy
This session will discuss Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and the implementation journey that two DC agencies embarked upon while learning to provide this evidence-based therapy to children ages 0-5 and their families.
Objectives:
1. List the goals of CPP
2. Explain how CPP was disseminated in the District
3. Explain the importance of an attachment/relational intervention for young children through examples
Presenters:
Jessica Lertora
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4:00 PM
- 5:00 PM
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Trauma Systems Therapy*
This workshop will introduce attendees to the issue of childhood trauma and will specifically describe a unique model for addressing child traumatic stress on an individual and systems level.
Objectives:
1. Explain the impact of traumatic events on children
2. Describe the role of the social environment and how TST addresses it
Presenters:
Adam Brown
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4:00 PM
- 5:00 PM
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Youth Co-Occurring D/Os
Participants will receive an overview of the relationship between mental and substance use disorders. The overview will include an introduction to developmental risk factors, common drugs of abuse and treatment interventions.
This training will be broken into three parts. The first part will begin by examining the prevalence of co-occurring disorders in children and youth. Typical presentations of psychiatric illness in the pediatric population will then be reviewed in closer detail. Next, the psychopharmacologic interventions for these illnesses will be discussed, with particular emphasis on the prescribing implications of co-morbid substance use.
The second part of the training will examine recent trends in adolescent drug use. This examination will include discussion of the increase in synthetic compound manufacture, diversion and abuse among the Nation’s youth. Videos demonstrating the acute and long-term effects of these compounds will be viewed and discussed. A local case study will also be presented.
The third and final part of the training will present treatment options for pediatric substance use problems. This will include a review of the limited medications approved for this indication, highlighting the need for a more comprehensive approach to management. The training will conclude with a couple of hypothetic case presentations for discussion as a group.
Objectives:
1. Describe the prevalence of co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders in youth.
2. Describe the relationship between substance use and specific co-occurring mental health disorders.
3. List effective treatment approaches and challenges for youth with co-occurring disorders.
Presenters:
Christopher T Raczynski
Dr. Raczynski joined DBH as the Associate Chief Clinical Officer in July of 2011. In this position he is responsible for the clinical oversight of public sector mental health services for children and youth in the District. He is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist as well as a forensic psychiatrist. He completed his medical training in Ireland earning an honors degree from the University College Dublin School of Medicine. He then returned to the U.S. to for an internship at Georgetown University Hospital before going on to complete his psychiatric training at Yale.
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4:00 PM
- 5:00 PM
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You will be given an opportunity to register for individual workshops after you have made your purchase.
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