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SYSTEMS OF CARE & EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES - Tools that work for youth and families- September 16-18, 2007 - Roanoke, VA
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Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services - Virginia Commission on Youth

Guiding Themes of Conference:

  • Strengthening family and youth voices
  • Implementing an effective system of care in your community
  • Implementing appropriate evidence-based practices in a system of care - anticipated benefits and expected results
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Theme: Strengthening Family and Youth Voices
3:00-5:00 Check In and Registration
5:00-7:30 Session: Conference Dinner: Strengthening Family and Youth Voices
Title: Conference Opening Dinner Buffet with Family & Professionals
Speakers:
  • The First Lady of Virginia - Anne Holton
  • The Honorable John S. Reid, Chairman of the Commission on Youth,
  • The Honorable William H. Fralin, Jr. Member of the Commission on Youth
  • Deputy Commissioner Ray Ratke, Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services (DMHMRSAS)

Title: Youth Panel
Speakers: Virginia Youth Advisory Council Representatives

Title: Family Panel
Speakers: Vicky Hardy-Murrell, Mark Hinson, Linda Organ, Jean Felts

7:30-8:30 Dessert Buffet
Monday, September 17, 2007
Theme: Implementing an Effective System of Care in Your Community
7-Open Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30-9 Session: Welcome Panel
Speakers: The Honorable John S. Reid, The Honorable William H. Fralin, Jr., Deputy Commissioner Ray Ratke
9-10:30 Session: Keynote
Title: Implementing System of Care Values & Principles
Speakers: Ira Lourie, M.D., Human Service Collaborative, Karl Dennis, Karl Dennis & Associates
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Session: Concurrent Workshops

Title: Assessing Community Needs and Developing Community Services
Speaker: Steven Preister, D.S.W., National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement

Title: Effectively using the Wraparound Process
Speaker: Mary Grealish, M. Ed., Community Partners, Inc.

Title: Assessing System Performance
Speakers: Robert Friedman, Ph.D., Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida

Title: Creative and Flexible Funding at Family and Community Levels in Systems of Care
Speakers: Catherine Hancock & Brian Campbell, Department of Medical Assistance Services, Kim McGaughey, Director, Office of Comprehensive Services

Title: Designing and Sustaining a System of Care: Dawn Project/Choices, Inc.
Speaker: Knute I. Rotto, ACSW, CEO of Choices Inc.

12:30-1:30 Session: Lunch/Youth Panel Discussion
Title: Voices of Our Youth
1:45-3:15 Session: Concurrent Workshops

Title: Collaboration/Community Partnerships
Speakers: Hampton Panel: The Honorable Jay Edward Dugger, Walt Credle, Wanda Rogers, Denise Gallop, Jessica McClary

Title: Drug Courts in the Juvenile Justice System
Speakers: The Honorable Philip Trompeter, The Honorable Diane Strickland

Title: Strength-based Assessment and Creative Service Planning with Families and Youth
Speakers: Karl Dennis, Ira Lourie

Title: Designing and Sustaining a System of Care: Wraparound Milwaukee
Speaker: Bruce J. Kamradt, Director of Wraparound Milwaukee

Title: Family Engagement/Involving Families and Youth in Guiding the System of Care
Speakers: Vicki Hardy-Murrell, Director of Federation of Families, Mike Terkeltaub, Triad Training and Consulting, Carol O'Brochta, Youth representatives, Marvin Wagner, Commission on Youth

3:15-3:30 Break/Exhibits
3:30-4:30 Session: Plenary
Title: Systems of Care and Evidence-based Practices: Is It Possible to Have Both?
Speakers: Mike Terkeltaub, Ken Miller, Director Court Service Unit for the 27th District
  Dinner on your own
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Theme: Evidence-based and Promising Practices within Systems of Care
7-8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00-10:00 Session: Keynote
Titles:
  1. Systems of Care and Evidence-based Practices: Creating Bridges
  2. Implementation of Systems of Care and Evidence-based Practices in Hawaii
Speakers: Bob Friedman, Bruce Chorpita, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Session: Concurrent Workshops

Title: Virginia's Implementation of Evidence-based Practice within a System of Care: Lessons Learned
Speakers: Frank Beylotte, DMHMRSAS, Eliza Brill, Deborah Warren, Kristen Stidham, Kim Bales (Virginia Pilots)

Title: Selected Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Approaches to Childhood Internalizing Problems
Speakers: Bruce Chorpita, Michael Southam-Gerow, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University

Title: Keeping Youth in Their Community Schools
Speaker: Jo Ann Burkholder, Virginia Department of Education

Title: Services for Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders
Speakers: Brian Meyer, Ph.D., Executive Director, Virginia Treatment Center for Children, Rhonda Thissen, MSW, Coordinator, Virginia Services Integration Program, DMHMRSAS, Malcolm King, MS, CSAC, Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordinator, DMHMRSAS

Title: Promising Practice on Permanency: Child Specific Recruitment
Speakers: Fairfax County Department of Human Services

11:45-12:45 Session: Lunch
Title: Effectively Guiding Youth through the Juvenile Justice System
Speakers: The Honorable Jay Dugger, Hampton Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Marvin H. Wagner, Esq., Commission on Youth, and Panel
12:45-2:15 Session: Concurrent Workshops

Title: Promising Practice on Permanency: Recruiting Adoptive Families: "You Gotta Believe!"
Speaker: Pat O'Brien, Executive Director, You Gotta Believe!, Youth Panel

Title: Navigating the Maze of Evidence-based Practices for Youth with Substance Use Disorders: Important Factors in Choice and Implementation
Speaker: Susan Pauley, Adolescent Training Coordinator Project TREAT

Title: Selecting Evidence-Based Practices for Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Speaker: Barbara J. Burns, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Psychology, Services Effectiveness Research Program, Duke University

Title: Prevention Through Community Coalitions
Speaker: Nancy Hans, Roanoke County Prevention Council

Title: Utilization of Crisis Intervention Teams in the Juvenile Justice System
Speaker: Thomas von Hemert, Thomas Jefferson Area Community Criminal Justice Board

2:30-3:30 Session: Closing -A Review of Conference Themes
Speakers: Bob Friedman, Barbara J. Burns

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