Workshops - Session C
Wednesday, October 7, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

W16 - What’s in it For Me?  Exploring Generational Values in the Workplace and Managing the Generational Mix
Sherri Portnoy, MBA, SPHR, NHS Human Services
Stephen Miller, MS, SPHR, NHS Human Services
Nancy Boyd, MAT, NHS Human Services
The new intergenerational workforce presents unique challenges.  This interactive workshop will examine the four distinct generations of today’s workforce and analyze the demographic changes in the near future. Presenters will also discuss the workplace as one large intergenerational group, noting expectations of career and working life of each generation.  This includes defining learning styles and discussing motivation. Recruitment and retention issues will be explored.  Finally, presenters look at leader and manager roles in the intergenerational workplace.  As the leader of an organization, there are intergenerational issues within the management team.  Management training and supervision expectations will be discussed.  Join us for practical tools to assist you in recruiting, motivating, training, and maintaining an intergenerational workplace will be presented.

W17 - The Care of Veterans and Their Families
Jason Brosk, MSEd, NCC, Vet Center, Department of Veteran Affairs
Nancy Mizak, MS, LPC, Vet Center, Department of Veterans Affairs
Concerning news about the impact of stress and post traumatic stress disorder on veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom and their families continues to be released. Community providers are increasingly called on to offer services to these individuals and families. Presenters from the Vet Center, Department of Veteran Affairs, will offer information surrounding combat stress and readjustment issues of veterans and their families, including the changing roles and readjustment obstacles of women veterans. They will also address and identify health and behavioral issues specific to this population.

W18 - Function Based Behavior Interventions and Functional Based Assessments
Rayni L. Anderson, MEd, BCBA, NHS Human Services
This presentation will focus on the five functions of all human behavior (attention-seeking, escape/avoidance, obtain access to a preferred item/activity, automatic reinforcement, and biological).  Participants will learn how to determine the function through data-based means.  Practical means for collecting data and measuring outcomes across various settings/programs will be discussed and proactive interventions to address targeted behaviors will be reviewed. Participants will leave the session with tools to analyze behaviors on a deeper level and match interventions to function to be more effective and successful in intervening with challenging behaviors.

W19 - Get Smart: Growing Permanent Housing through Shelter Plus Care
Susan Coyle, RN, MPH, Chartiers Community MH/MR Center, Inc.
Mike Lindsay, Allegheny County Bureau of Homeless and Hunger Services
Bruce Gnesda, UPMC Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
For all of the clinical expertise and best practices in the provision of care, lack of housing and living in poverty are two core issues that can extinguish any positive impact of treatment. Although acknowledged, the service delivery system cannot absorb costs that would remedy issues with basic living needs.  It is incumbent for behavioral health and community leaders to seek affordable alternatives that are in keeping with values of recovery, self-determination, and living in dignity. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Allegheny County, and UPMC Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic have launched several major initiatives that have enhanced the overall availability of affordable housing by correctly tapping funds for housing via HUD and funds for support services via the mental health system, leading to over 200 permanent housing units with the potential to leverage additional growth.

W20 - Instilling Hope, Confidence, and Motivation: A Psychiatric Rehabilitation Approach to Developing Readiness
Jim Womeldorff, MS, CPRP, Chestnut Ridge Counseling Services, Inc.
People are motivated to involve themselves in their own recovery and rehabilitation activities and services to the extent that they are directly involved in identifying and choosing them. This workshop will provide an overview of the Boston University psychiatric rehabilitation approach to assessing and developing readiness and how it can lead to increased motivation for individuals to involve themselves in their recovery and rehabilitation, thus “motivating the ‘unmotivated’ from a recovery perspective.”

W21 - BHRS Brief Treatment Model of Care
RaeAnn Taylor, PhD, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
Richard Sharp, Mercy Behavioral Health
David Mente, Turtle Creek Valley MH/MR
This presentation will describe the Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS) Brief Treatment Model of Care and how and why this alternative model was developed.  The model developed from a “wish list” to overcome the obstacles to traditional BHRS that included such topics as using only natural/community resources in treatment and the availability of an extended evaluation period in the home, school, and/or community to determine the needs and strengths associated with the child/family. Two providers will discuss the impact of brief versus traditional BHRS treatment on client care, family/staff satisfaction, and the financial stability of their program with this model.

W22 - The Partnership Among Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health for the Benefit of Adults with Co-Occurring Illness
Christine R. Wydeen, PhD, LCSW, CAC, CCDP, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
Margaret Maurer, LCSW, CAC, Lackawanna County Treatment Court
The Honorable Michael J. Barrasse (or designee), Lackawanna County
Recognizing the challenges that adults experience living with mental health and drug and alcohol illness, the judicial system of Lackawanna County has been the impetus behind an interdisciplinary planning process leading to the creation of a co-occurring track within their Problem Solving Courts. The expansion of the Problem Solving Courts to include an adult co-occurring track involved a strategic planning process among various stakeholders. Through a structured process that challenged traditional treatment approaches, the creation of team provided the vehicle to operationalize this court in a timely manner and established the expectation within the local treatment community that area resources must be integrated to effectively treat this growing population.

W23 - Connecting the DOTS...Stretching Agency Dollars and Surveying the Stimulus Bill for Opportunities
Michael Wallace, MBA, Lavender & Wyatt Systems Inc.
ARRA Summary, Grant Opportunities, Health Stimulus Grant Opportunities, Medicare Telehealth Reimbursement, Medicare Telehealth Transmittal, ONC Grant Primer, PA Broadband Providers, Telemed Graph
Through a technology and economic review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and implications for behavioral healthcare funding, the workshop  is an open forum focusing on federal and state innovations in funding organizational growth. Business collaborations and market place dynamics driving healthcare opportunities, funding technology to leverage competitive advantages, sourcing foundation and financial institutions as part of strategic planning, market strategies for recruitment and retention, and increasing revenues from outsourcing services are all topics for consideration.

W24 - Multi-dimensional Family Therapy in Adolescent Substance Abuse
Mary E. Pollock LPC, MAC, Community Counseling Center of Mercer County
Kenneth Messina MA, NCC, Community Counseling Center of Mercer County
Summer Clapper, LCSW, Community Counseling Center of Mercer County
MDFT Best Practice, MDFT Fact Sheet, Role of the Case Manager, SAMHSA Model Programs, Parent-Therapist Alliance
Mercer County has recently initiated an adolescent substance abuse program utilizing Multi-dimensional Family Therapy (MDFT). This is an evidence-based program out of the University of Miami developed by Dr. Howard A. Liddle. MDFT has been scientifically proven to be one of the most effective adolescent substance abuse treatment approaches, approved by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The workshop will focus on the challenges and benefits of bringing this model to Pennsylvania, as well as the process of program development, role of collaboration, training, fiscal solvency, and licensure.

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