OVERVIEW
Save the dates! October 22 and 23, 2012. ... Our evidence-based practice (EBP) conference is back by popular demand. Conference 2012 will take place at the Cleveland Airport Marriott in Cleveland, Ohio. The event will feature several keynote plenary sessions and numerous workshops that will explore introductory, intermediate, and advanced topics about implementing and integrating evidence-based practices (EBPs), emerging best practices, and other healthcare and behavioral-healthcare innovations that improve outcomes for people with mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders, including but not limited to the following:
- Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT)
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
- Dual Diagnosis Capability in Addiction Treatment (DDCAT)
- Dual Diagnosis Capability in Mental Health Treatment (DDCMHT)
- Supported Employment/ Individual Placement and Support (SE / IPS)
- Wellness Management and Recovery (WMR)
- Tobacco: Recovery Across the Continuum (TRAC)
- Benefits Planning
- Much, much more
MORE INFORMATION
We will be updating this page with more details during the first quarter of 2012.
SPONSOR
The Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) at Case Western Reserve University is the umbrella organization of two State of Ohio Coordinating Center of Excellence (CCOE) initiatives:
- Ohio SAMI CCOE | Substance Abuse and Mental illness
- Ohio Supported Employment CCOE
PREVIOUS CONFERENCES
The Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University—and its Coordinating Center of Excellence (CCOE) initiatives—have been hosting conferences since the inceipt of the CCOEs in 2000. Participants at these events have come from approximately 17 states and overseas, including the following:
- CA, CO, HI, IA, IL, IN, KS, MD, MI, MO, ND, NH, NJ, NM, OH, PA, TX & The Netherlands
Listen to audio from and read about keynote presenters, workshop presenters, and conference participants from a sample of previous events.
- October 2010: Center for Evidence-Based Practices
- March 2009: Ohio Supported Employment (SE) Conference
- September 2008: Ohio SAMI/Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) Conference
- March 2008: Ohio Supported Employment (SE) Conference
- September 2007: Ohio SAMI/Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) Conference
To access these stories, click here.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Conference 2012 is open to professionals from multiple disciplines, service settings, and systems of care who provide healthcare, behavioral healthcare, and other services to people with mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders.
Service roles
- Direct-service staff
- Program managers
- Team leaders
- Clinical supervisors
- Quality assurance professionals
- Administrators
- Policymakers
- Peer specialists
- Advocates
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
Registration Policies & Instructions
Thank you for your interest in this event. Please review these instructions carefully. Each participant must register online. We do not accept registration via paper mail, fax, or email.
What We Need from You
- Create a free membership account on this website. Why? (click here)
- Provide the required information (e.g., email address; postal address)
- Provide your professional-license number (NOT a driver's license number, NOT a social security number)
- Register for the event and select the CEUs that you need
- Pay the registration fee
- 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 section (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.
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.
Your Email Address - You must include your own unique email address (work or personal email) in your membership account to receive email confirmations and correspondences 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).
Walk-Ins
- 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
- If you have not created a membership account, you must do so as soon as possible after the event. We will add your registration information only after you create your account.
Payment Policies & Instructions
We look forward to receiving your registration for this event. Review the instructions below carefully.
- Please pay your registration fees in advance of your attendance at the event.
- We are unable to accept credit-card payments at this time.
- Pay by check or money order.
- We will apply your payment to the "my events” tab/section of your online membership account and send you a payment-confirmation email.
- Use your payment-confirmation email for your organizational reimbursement process.
Pay To
- Make checks payable to the following: "Case Western Reserve University."
- Please include the following in memo section: "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).
For Organizations- 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 events" section of each person’s online membership account.
- 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 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:
crystal.smith@case.edu
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