OVERVIEW

We are presenting at the "28th Annual Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Conference 2012," which takes place in Boston, MA, on May 16-18, 2012. Sign-up for our workshop:

Implementing ACT with IDDT: Lessons Learned

• Date: Friday, May 18, 2012
• Time: 9:00 to 10:30 am
• Workshop #58
• Registration Fee: $180 to $445 (consult website of sponsoring organization)
• Who Should Attend: (see below).

Presenter 1: Scott Gerhard, MA, LSW, consultant and trainer at the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) at Case Western Reserve University (see "keynote speaker" section below).

Presenter 2: Jon Ramos, director of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Services at the Ohio Coordinating Center for ACT (see "keynote speaker" section below).

Description: This presentation provides an overview of the initiative in Franklin County, Ohio, that has implemented both Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) simultaneously. Both are SAMHSA-recognized evidence-based practices. The presenters will review the history of the initiative, including the circumstances in Franklin County that inspired the initiative, facilitarors and barriers to implementation, lessons learned, and current outcomes data. Discover how the ACT-IDDT initiative is helping reduce service costs in Franklin County and reduce utilization of high-cost services and increase quality of life among people with SMI who are most at-risk of psychiatric hospitalization.

More Info & Register Online:  http://www.actassociation.org/conference/

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Our workshop at the 28th Annual ACT Conference is designed for professionals from multiple disciplines, service settings, and systems of care who provide healthcare, behavioral healthcare, and other services to people with severe mental illness (SMI) or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. Examples of those who should consider attending include the following:

Service roles

• Program managers
• Team leaders
• Clinical supervisors
• Quality assurance professionals
• Administrators
• Policymakers
• Direct-service staff

Service settings

• Behavioral healthcare organizations (e.g., mental health, addiction services)
• County boards (e.g., mental health, addiction services)
• Community health clinics
• Psychiatric hospitals (state and community)
• Hospitals
• Criminal justice (e.g., police, courts, jail, probation, parole)
• Residential
• Housing

Professional disciplines

• Mental-health services
• Addiction services
• Social work
• Psychology
• Primary healthcare
• Psychiatry
• Nursing
• Occupational therapy
• Residential
• Housing
• Criminal justice
• Vocational rehabilitation

Service models and strategies

Individuals and service teams from organizations that are implementing evidence-based practices, best practices, emerging practices, and other service strategies for people with mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. Examples include the following:

• Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT)
• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
• Dual Diagnosis Capability in Addiction Treatment (DDCAT)
• Dual Diagnosis Capability in Mental Health Treatment (DDCMHT)
• Tobacco Recovery Across the Continuum (TRAC)
• Supported Employment/ Individual Placement and Support (SE/ IPS)
• Illness Management and Recovery (IMR)
• Wellness Management and Recovery (WMR)

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

• TBA. Consult the sponsoring organization's website.

THE SPONSOR

• Assertive Community Treatment Association (ACTA)

CONTINUING-EDUCATION CREDITS

• Credits may be available.
• Consult the website of the sponsoring organization.

MORE INFO & REGISTER ONLINE

• http://www.actassociation.org/conference/

LOCATION

Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers

Description:

No details are available for this location

Lodging & Travel Details:

No lodging & travel details are available for this location.

Registration Policies & Instructions

Online Registration Only

• Each person must register online with his or her own email address (work or personal email) and password and include contact information.
• The data you enter helps us manage events from start to finish: e.g., seating, rosters, payments, attendance, certificates.
• We do not accept registration via paper mail, fax, or email.
• Payment by check is not a form of registration.

• See "Walk In" section below.

Your Email Address

• You must include your own unique email address (work or personal email) to receive email confirmations and correspondence from us.
• Do not use the email of anyone else who has registered or will register for an event on our website (e.g., co-worker, supervisor).
• You may obtain your own free email account from providers like Yahoo! (click here) or Google (click here).

What We Need from You

• Register online
  
  • Provide the required information (e.g., email address; postal address)
  • Provide your professional-license number, if applicable (NOT a driver's license number, NOT a social security number)
• Select the CEUs that you need
• Pay the registration fee (see Payment Policies tab)
• Sign-in at the event
• Attend the entire event
• Provide any required post-event information (if applicable)

Signing In

• Sign-in at each event typically begins before the posted start time
• Consult the Agenda tab of each event for the sign-in time

Certificate of CEUs

• Fulfill the requirements listed above, and we will mail you a continuing-education certificate after the event (this may take several weeks).

Certificate of Attendance

• If you do not need CEUs but do need proof of attendance, select the "certificate of attendance" box in the Questions section of the online registration form.

Walk-In

• Only if seating is available; no guarantees
• First-come, first-served
• Pay your registration fee at the event
• Fulfill the requirements listed in "What We Need from You" section above

• You must create a free account on our website as soon as possible after the event. We will add your registration information only after you create your account.

Payment Policies & Instructions

• Each person must register online (see Registration Policies tab).
• Please pay your registration fees in advance of your attendance at the event.

Pay by Credit Card

• We are in the process of enabling online credit card payments for our events via the Quikpay system of Case Western Reserve University.
• If the option appears on your event of choice, you may pay online when you register or anytime before the registration deadline. Sign in to your account, go to your event of choice or to the "my account" section, "my events" tab.
• Our website will redirect you to Quikpay.
  • Follow the prompts.
  • Do not close your web browser.
• Quikpay will redirect you back to our website.
• Quikpay will send you a payment confirmation email. 
• Quikpay will also add a payment confirmation to the "my account" section, "my events” tab of your membership account on our website.

Pay by Check

• We do not accept registration via paper or fax, so payment by check is not a form of registration.
• Make checks payable to the following:
  
  • "Case Western Reserve University."
• Include this in memo section of your check:
  
  • "Center for EBPs; LC: 7169."
• Send your check or money order via US Mail to our main office.
  
  • See the "Contact Us” section of our website for the most current address (click here).
• We will apply your payment to the "my account" section, "my events” tab of your membership account on our website and send you a payment-confirmation email.
• Use your payment-confirmation email for your organizational reimbursement process.

• Organizations that pay for multiple registrants must include on the check the first name and last name of each person for whom payment is being made.
• We will apply the payment to the "my account/my events" section of each person’s membership account on our website.
• Each person at your organization must create his or her own membership account (see "Registration Policies” section).
• We do not accept registration via paper or fax, so payment by check is not a form of registration.

Past-Due Payments

• Individuals with past-due payments to the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) at Case Western Reserve University (or its Coordinating Center of Excellence initiatives) will not be able to register for an event until all outstanding payments have been received.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

• No refund requests will be honored if they are postmarked after the registration deadline listed in the right column of this page.
• Refunds are subject to an administrative processing fee.
• Cancellations and requests for refunds should be submitted to the following:

cebp-events@case.edu