Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Full conference features a total of 85+ sessions organized around tracks/interest areas - like "mini-conferences." Sessions designed for experienced as well as newer staff.
Community Mental Health Conference Preliminary Program - Click here for workshop descriptions
Case Management - Core Skills
. Case Manager to Recovery Coach
. Recovery Management Planning - A Systems Transition in Philadelphia
. Case Management 101 and Crisis Prevention
. Case Manager Orientation and Training
. Stress: A Diamond in the Rough - General Session Follow-Up
. What We Didn't Learn in our Mental Health Training - Accessing Medical Care and Supports for Clients
Case Management Clinical Skills
. Collaborative Problem Solving
. Cutting & Self Harm "The Bright Red Scream"
. DBT Essentials for the Non-DBT Provider
. Inside Out With a Traumatic Brain Injury: A Personal Account from a TBI Survivor
. Self Rejuvenation through Therapeutic Arts - General Session Follow-Up
. Systems of Care: What are they? How are they evaluated? What have we learned?
. That's a Wrap: Using Wellness Recovery Action Planning with Children and Teens
. Open Forum - Transition from Clinician to Supervisor
Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Services
. ADHD 2009 Update: Stimulant Dangers, Diagnostic Accuracy and a Potential New Subtype
. Effective Family-Focused Skills Training Interventions for Youth with Disruptive Behavior
. Is it ADHD or Bipolar Disorder? Distinguishing Them in Children and Adolescents
. Neurodevelopmental, Trauma & DBT Services: Challenges & Opportunities
. The Autism Epidemic: New Findings
. Young Brains, New Stories: Mental Development, Illness and Treatment of Children
Adult MH - Best Practices
. Collaborating to Assist a Vulnerable Age: Campus and Community Partnerships for College Student Mental Health
. Mental Health and Recovery in Rural Minnesota
. Partnering for Jobs: An Evidence-Based Practices Collaborative Supported Employment Program
. The Psychology of Long-Term Homelessness
Adult MH - Recovery & Empowerment
. Enabling Versus Empowerment
. Motivational Interviewing with Immigrants and Refugees
. Treatment vs. Recovery: The Changing Perspective in Treating Serious Mental Illness
. You Can't Do Anything You Don't Want To Do: Creating Lasting Change In "Resistant" Clients
Adult MH Clinical / Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Group Settings, Partial Hospitalization, Day Treatment and Small Groups
. Utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Interventions to Improve Engagement and Outcomes of Individuals with SMI
. Working with Families Utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Interventions
Chemical Health Skills
. Understanding Harm Reduction
. Your Crystal Ball to Differential Diagnosis
Clinical Management & Supervision
. Boundaries: A Decision-Making Tool to Resolve Issues
. Maximizing Benefits and Minimizing Problems of Supervision: A Generic Model of Supervision
. New Developments in Employment law: FMLA, COBRA, I-9 and Others
. Utilizing Self-Directed Work Teams
Community Mental Health
. Mental Health Policy - An Integrated Overview
. The Role of Pharmacists in Community Mental Health
Community Psychiatric Services
. Demystifying Evidence-Based Practice: A How-To Guide for Clinicians and Clinics
. Improving Interventions for Aggressive Inpatients in SOS
. Left-Handedness and Disease
. Looking for Side Effects of Antidepressants and Newer Antipsychotics
. Open Forum - Health Care Homes
. Person-Centered Treatment Planning in Minnesota 's State Operated Services
. Understanding and Managing Agitated Behavior in Older Adults
Culturally Competent Services
. Cross Cultural Factors in the Presentation of a Complex Clinical and Rehabilitation Assessment
. New Neighbors/Hidden Scars: A Minnesota Community Working to Help War Refugees Heal
Ethics - Meets Social Worker Requirement
. Ethics and Effectiveness
Health Risks & Services MI
. Morbidity & Mortality in People with SMI: Responding to the Epidemic
. Responding to the Premature Death of People with SMI in MN
New Ideas
. Clinical Tools and Care Management: Diabetes and Severe Mental Illness
. Ethics, Helping Professionals and Online Social Networking Pages
New Tools / Better Services
. Improving Care for Depression: Statewide Learning
. Level of Care: A Support Tool for Service Placement and Planning
. NIDA Clinical Toolbox: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Substance Use Conditions, An Introduction
. The Next Big Thing: Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT)
Program Sharing
. Mental Health First Aid
. MN Crisis Intervention Team (CIT): Officer's Association Training Explanation and Demonstration
Improving Access
. Ending Homelessness: Better Outcomes for People and Better Cost Effectiveness for Government
. Connecting With Combat Veterans When You Are Not A Veteran
Child MH - Best Practices & Outcomes
. Evidence-Based Practices for Children's Mental Health: Minnesota 's Statewide Initiative
. The Children's Mental Health Outcomes/Performance System
Child MH & Schools
. Open Forum: School Linked Mental Health Services
. School-Based Mental Health "Promising Practices for Rural Minnesota "
. Successfully Sustaining and Expanding School Mental Health Programs
Children's Mental Health Innovations
. i-WRAP - Using the PACT model for Children and Families
. It's My Life: Person-Centered Treatment Planning in Mental Health with Children, Adolescents and Families
. How Some Women Beat the Odds: From SPMI and Child Protection to Managing Life and Family
. Substance Abuse Prevention Resources and Early Intervention Strategies
. Youth Guided Treatment: What Does It Look Like?
Management & Supervision
. Improving Teamwork in Mental Health Services and the Impact on Outcomes
. Vicarious Trauma-This Job Will Change You
. Too Tired to Care?
Public Policy
. Legislative & Public Policy Forum
Workplace & Human Resources
. Generational Issues in the Workplace
. Open Forum - Workplace Succession, Recruitment and Retention
. When It Hits the Fan: Preparing Staff for Critical Incidents
Business Performance Improvement
. Improving Improvement Programming
. Pre-Agenda for Evidence Based Practice Clinical Supervision (PA-S) in Individuals with SPMI
. Preparing the Adult MH Workforce to Succeed in a Transformed System of Care: Screening/Assessment |