Focus Areas:
- The changing faces of the people we serve
- Providing services for people with developmental disabilities
- Providing services for people with co-occurring substance abuse conditions
- Services for refugee and immigrant groups
- Providing services in collaboration with early childhood
- Mental health services for people leaving incarceration
- Services for the elderly
- Providing services in schools
- Serving children and youth with autism spectrum disorders
- Transition age kids, ages 18 to 22
- The changing workforce in rural mental health
- Using natural supports/ helpers
- Integration and support of “non professionals” in the workforce
- Workforce development (e.g. collaborations with higher education, effective in-service training “growing your own” staff)
- Partnering for integrated mental health services
- Collaborations to develop housing for persons with challenges
- Collaborations to develop employment opportunities for consumers
- Services in primary care and physicians offices
- Partnering across the human service delivery system
- New practice patterns
- Recovery and the role of consumer operated services
- People with developmental disabilities and self advocacy
- Interagency agreements and service delivery to children and youth
- Individualized community treatment teams
- Trauma informed services
- Changing relationships in the emerging service system (boundaries and ethics)
- Consumer and family inclusion on boards and committees
- Wellness – Medical Home Project & alternatives
- Policy direction “Quality Chasm”
- Technology
- Designated home model
- State of the art biological treatment in rural and frontier areas
- Bio-behavioral and state of the art biological treatment(s) for adults and children with mental health and/or substance abuse conditions; including availability of services in rural and frontier areas
- Collaboration with and training of primary care physicians in rural areas
- Medication treatment consideration for the dually diagnosed
- Diagnosis, diversity, different treatment and responses to medications, and effective pharmacotherapy delivery models in rural areas
- Bio-ethics and other ethical concerns in the delivery of care and treatment