Summit 2010

Set your course for Santa Fe, NM and join ACMHA Wednesday – Friday, March 24 - 26, 2010!

A New Era in Behavioral Health: Charting the Course

The 2010 ACMHA Summit will be your navigational guide or GPS (Global Positioning “Summit”) for the shifting behavioral health landscape.  Inform, inspire, innovate, and interface with other behavioral health leaders from across the nation to map the waypoints toward a successful future for public and private behavioral healthcare. The 2010 Summit emphasizes engagement, participation, and cultivation of ideas from ACMHA members and other behavioral health leaders in attendance.  Essential information presented by informed, recognized speakers will be balanced with group dialogue, spirited discussions, and “course-charting” activities.  

Both negative and positive forces are impacting the behavioral healthcare system. Among the negatives are our uncertain economy and rising healthcare costs; positive forces include gains in recovery-infused approaches, interdisciplinary collaboration, and use of innovative technologies for quality care.  In combination, such forces influence behavioral health resources, business strategies, service delivery approaches, and most importantly, the well-being of consumers and families. Therefore, it is critical that behavioral health leaders are actively involved in planning for the future. The ACMHA Summit is your opportunity to take part in essential conversations and strategy development that will help the behavioral health field navigate through the potential impacts and adapt to a changing environment.  But more than that, it is a potential direction-setting event with your participation essential! 

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Agenda (select the image to the right for to download a PDF copy of the agenda and registration form)

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

4:30 p.m. Registration Opens
   
6:00 p.m. ACMHA Leadership Review
Open to all Summit attendees, a panel of mentors and learners from the 2009 class and participants in the Leadership Excellence Network (LENS) share information about these projects and their experiences. Following the panel presentation is a “dialogue in the round” with emerging and senior leaders focused on leadership development, leadership transfer and succession, and the role of emerging leaders in ACMHA.

          
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

6:00 a.m. Morning Walk/Run
Stay healthy! This is an opportunity to meet early to run/walk with other attendees.
   
7:00 a.m. Registration
   
7:30 a.m. New Member Breakfast (By invitation)
Attention New ACMHA Members! The Board of Directors invites you to join them for breakfast and conversation prior to the beginning of the day’s activities. Come and meet your colleagues and learn more about ACMHA activities and initiatives.
   
7:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet
   
8:30 a.m.

ACMHA Welcome: Setting the Summit Context
The 2010 Summit emphasizes engagement, participation, and the critical role of Summit attendees in addressing the provocative questions and creating takeaway results. The strategic facilitation team that will guide the Summit process of “charting the course” is introduced and the context for upcoming presentations and discussions is shared.

  • Pamela Greenberg, MPP, Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness, President, ACMHA: The College for Behavioral Health Leadership
  • Garrett Moran, PhD, Westat; Chair, ACMHA 2010 Summit
   
8:45 a.m.

Implications/Impact of Parity Legislation and Health Care Reform for Behavioral Health: System Perspectives
National activities are impacting the future of behavioral health. Speakers will share information and insights on health reform bill(s), parity regulations and implementation, and Medicare parity, among other topics. Whether a reform bill is final or not, the behavioral health community must be focused on the issues at hand and preparing for the future. This session provides necessary, current information on behavioral health provisions in health reform bill(s) and parity regulations to serve as a foundation for discussions throughout the day.

  • A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, Deputy Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (invited)
  • Chuck Ingoglia, MSW, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
   
10:00 a.m. Break
   
10:30 a.m.

Shaping the Future of Health Care
Time for dialogue! As the future of health care continues to be debated and shaped, what are the critical issues that affect the behavioral health field and what questions must be asserted and answered?  Led by experienced moderators, attendees discuss the national developments just presented and identify the critical issues/questions for behavioral health that require strategic solutions (e.g., Are we ready? How do we get ready? What do we preserve as we move forward and what challenges must we address?)
Discussion Moderators

  • Andy Sekel, PhD, OptumHealth  & Vijay Ganju, PhD, Consultant
  • Ron Manderscheid, PhD, National Association of County Behavioral Health And Developmental Disability Directors & Kana Enomoto, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration
  • Gail Robinson, PhD, Abt Associates & Stephanie Oprendek, PhD, California Institute for Mental Health
  • Bill Hudock, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration & Deborah Fickling, NM Human Services Department
  • Vivian Jackson, PhD, ACSW, LICSW, Georgetown University & Harvey Rosenthal, NY Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services
  • David Shern, PhD, Mental Health America & Christopher Wilkins, MHA, Loyola Recovery Foundation
   
12:00 p.m.

Luncheon – The Role of SAMHSA in Charting the Course

  • Pamela S. Hyde, JD, Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  • Host, Pamela Greenberg, MPP, Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness, President, ACMHA: The College for Behavioral Health Leadership
   
1:30 p.m.

Debating the Critical Questions
Summit participants begin to chart the course for the new era in behavioral health. Building on morning discussions and the critical issues/questions that arose from those dialogues, the facilitation team works with attendees to frame the issues/questions developed in the morning session within a strategic planning context as the group continues to debate critical questions and begin building associated solutions/answers.
Strategic Facilitation Team

  • Colette Croze, MSW, Croze Consulting
  • Allen Daniels, LISW, EdD, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
  • Dick Dougherty, PhD, DMA Health Strategies
  • Jeannette Harrison, MSW, Consultant
  • Gail Hutchings, MPA, Behavioral Health Policy Collaborative
  • John Morris, MSW, Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc.
   
3:00 p.m. ACMHA 2010 Mentorship Program Kick-off
ACMHA Research Interest Group Meeting
Free Time to Explore Santa Fe
   
5:00 p.m. ACMHA Reception
Collaborate and enjoy! Join colleagues at the close of the business day for hors d’ oeuvres and ongoing conversation. A brief program will include introductions of the ACMHA Board of Directors, honor outgoing board members, and recognize Summit sponsors.
   
6:30 p.m. Dinner at Leisure

 

Thursday, March 25, 2010

7:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet
   
8:30 a.m.

Taking Action to Address Global Problems
Planning and action are essential! In these rapidly changing times, what are we doing to respond? Speakers share concrete examples of actions and solutions to address the critical issues/questions explored the previous day. Summit attendees will use this foundational information as a point of departure for the day’s discussions regarding necessary changes to public, private, and business sectors. Speakers will explore the steps states, counties, organizations, and communities are taking to survive and thrive in a different fiscal environment; how the behavioral health benefit is being addressed by employers and others from a business perspective; what businesses see as the impact of legislative changes in health reform and parity; what it might mean to have broader or near universal coverage including a behavioral health benefit; how organizations at all levels (consumer, provider, local, state, national) will need to collaborate and coordinate if we are to care for the whole person; and the impact new collaborations will have on the various organizational cultures and value systems.

  • Dale Jarvis, CPA, MCPP Healthcare Consulting
  • Kathy Reynolds, LMSW, ACSW, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
  • Ron Finch, EdD, National Business Group on Health
  • Wilma Townsend, MSW, WLT Consulting, LLC (invited)
  • Edward Jones, PhD, ValueOptions
   
10:30 a.m. Break
   
11:00 a.m.

Crafting Solutions and Approaches
Solution focused! Group discussions build on the example solutions presented in the previous session.  Working within the strategic framework initiated on Wednesday, attendees identify goals, priorities, and beginning points for change and successful leadership. Examples of areas for exploration include:

  • How do we address the increased demand for services?
  • How do we lead? How do we collaborate across a broader system?
  • What do we do with the workforce shortage that seems to be growing?
  • How can we leverage health information technology?
  • How can we improve equity of access and cultural competence of services?
  • With decreasing resources, how do we work smarter and better with what we have instead of only holding up our hands asking for more?

Discussion Moderators
   
12:00 p.m.

Awards Luncheon
ACMHA will honor four individuals with The Saul Feldman Lifetime Achievement Award, The Barton Distinguished Fellow Award, The Timothy J. Coakley Prize for Consumer Leadership, and The King Davis Award for Emerging Leadership in Promoting Diversity and Reducing Disparities.

  • Host: Ron Manderscheid, PhD, National Association of County Behavioral Health And Developmental Disability Directors; President-Elect, ACMHA: The College for Behavioral Health Leadership
   
1:30 p.m. Creating an Action Matrix
Mapping the waypoints. Building on discussions to date and ideas generated from those dialogues, what specific actions must we add to the strategic planning we have begun? During the session the facilitation team, moderators, and participants associate solutions and actions developed through discussion with previously developed questions and issues – creating a “matrix” of potential local responses/solutions to the broad issues.
Strategic Facilitation Team
   

3:00 p.m.

ACMHA Emerging Leader Interest Group Meeting
ACMHA Diversity Interest Group Meeting
Free Time to Explore Santa Fe
   
5:00 p.m.

Open Evening/Dinner at Leisure

 

Friday, March 26, 2010

7:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet
   
9:00 a.m. Developing Your Strategic Plan
Taking it home! Beginning with a visual overview from the strategic facilitation team, the group is provided a distillation of the work done Wednesday and Thursday – an overarching strategic plan to guide individual actions for any attendee post-Summit. Through moderated discussion, the team assists each individual to craft their “own” strategic plan. Taking from the action-oriented ideas and forward thinking generated, individuals can pull the parts that are good beginning steps/continuation of activities to address in their own communities.
Strategic Facilitation Team
   
11:30 a.m. Summit Adjouns