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Thank You to the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference Sponsors and Exhibitors!
As we make our final preparations for the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference A Decade of Unity, we would like to showcase and take the opportunity to thank our sponsors and exhibitors! We encourage attendees to meet and get to know these organizations in our Connections Hall Wednesday, October 11 and Thursday, October 12. View the full list below, and thank you once again to everyone who supports our conference! We are excited to see you at the Hershey Lodge!
Time is Running Out! Registration for RCPA’s 2023 Annual Conference Ends This Friday!
Time is running out for your chance to register for the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference A Decade of Unity! Registration will be closing this Friday, September 29, 2023. Register today and claim your seat to view and participate in exciting, engaging, and educational workshops as well as learn from a wide-ranging group of plenary and keynote speakers. You will also have opportunities for networking, particularly in our Connections Hall, with attendees, speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors. Lastly, by registering today, you will ensure you gain access to the conference mobile app when it goes live, allowing you to create your schedule, engage with exhibitors, participate in our Connections Hall game for prizes, and more! View the registration brochure for full details, and note that hotel rooms are quickly filling, so if you have difficulties making your reservation, please contact Carol Ferenz. Register directly for the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference today!
We also wish to extend our thanks to those organizations that have contributed and shown their support. View our full list of sponsors and exhibitors at our Conference website. We look forward to seeing everyone at the Hershey Lodge!
Register Today for the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference for Education, Networking, and Chances to Win Prizes!
The RCPA Annual Conference A Decade of Unity is about more than participating in engaging workshops and earning CEs; it’s also about networking! By registering today, you will gain access to the Carelon Connections Hall, which will host over 80 exhibitor booths as well as our Thursday breakfast. You can engage directly with representatives from these organizations as well as other attendees, learn about services and products that are popular and trending in health and human services, and participate in games with chances to win prizes! View the registration brochure for full details, and note that hotel rooms are quickly filling up, so if you have difficulties making your reservation, please contact Carol Ferenz. Register online directly to claim your seat at the conference today!
We also wish to extend our thanks to those organizations that have contributed and shown their support. View our full list of sponsors and exhibitors at our Conference website. We look forward to seeing everyone at the Hershey Lodge!
Seats Are Filling Up, So Don’t Delay! Register for the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference Today!
Don’t wait before it’s too late to register and claim your seat and more for the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference A Decade of Unity! By registering today, you will reserve your spot in exciting, engaging workshops for CE credits. In addition, we will once again be launching our conference mobile app, which will allow you to create your schedule, begin networking, and interact with sponsors and exhibitors up to a week prior to the first day of conference! View the registration brochure for full details on workshops, keynote speakers, entertainment, and more so that you can begin planning your week with us at the Hershey Lodge! Note that hotel rooms are quickly filling, so if you have difficulties making your reservation, please contact Carol Ferenz.
Register today!
In addition to an impressive roster of speakers, our 2023 Conference will have an exciting array of sponsors and exhibitors. We thank those who have signed on thus far! **NOTE: EXHIBIT BOOTHS ARE SOLD OUT.** If you are interested in sponsoring, visit here for more details or contact Carol Ferenz, Conference Coordinator, with any questions you may have. Keep up-to-date and register today for #rcpaconf!
Last Chance to Claim Early Bird Registration Rates for the 2023 RCPA Conference!
It’s your last chance to claim early bird registration for the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference A Decade of Unity, as early bird rates end this Friday, September 8! Be sure to take a look at our registration brochure, where you’ll see our full lineup of speakers, sessions, and workshops as well as information on reserving your hotel room and more! You won’t want to miss earning CEs with workshops such as:
- What We Know About the Effectiveness of FBMHS: Implications for Service Delivery
- Discover how FBMHS improved functionality for adolescents with SED as well as how to use the ESFT Logic Model as a framework for discussing clinical implications.
- Don’t Forget the Pharmacist! Impact of the Innovative Collaboration Between Woods Services and Synergy Pharmacy on Patients With ID/A
- Learn about strategies that enhance quality of care and improve safety for a complex population through a dynamic panel discussion highlighting the work of Woods’ clinical teams and its partnership with Synergy.
- Independence and Wellness Through Employment
- Identify strategies of person-centered employment readiness and seeking, and deconstruct the complex process of identifying jobs beyond the “usual entry level” positions for a whole-person approach to employment.
- Building the Framework: The Interactions of Ethics, Bias, & Cultural Humility
- Create a foundation for client-centered care by taking an introspective exploration of ethical principles, bias, and cultural humility.
- Sustainable Development Preventive Planning in Mental and Behavioral Health
- Experience participatory planning by being grouped into simulated communities and analyzing risk factor data to inform decisions to protect children and youth from developing mental and behavioral disorders.
- Moving From Great Resignation to Great Retention
- Develop policies and procedures that support employee wellbeing while using behavioral assessments to improve talent management.
- Adapting Interventions for Neurodiversity Effectiveness
- Learn about interventions, modifications, and adaptations for family-based, PCIT, and education systems to improve outcomes for children affected by FASD, their families, and the support providers who work with them.
- Suicide in a Chaotic World
- Examine strategies and possible solutions to prevent suicide in the workplace as well as the general community, with an emphasis on the importance of conversation, language, and listening to help those who are having thoughts of suicide by connecting through hope.
Register today!
In addition to an impressive roster of speakers, our 2023 Conference will have an exciting array of sponsors and exhibitors. We thank those who have signed on thus far! **NOTE: EXHIBIT BOOTHS ARE SOLD OUT.** If you are interested in sponsoring, visit here for more details or contact Carol Ferenz, Conference Coordinator, with any questions you may have. Keep up-to-date and register today for #rcpaconf!
Engage With Industry Leaders and Earn CEs at the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference!
At the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference A Decade of Unity, you’ll gain the opportunities for CEs and training while engaging directly with leaders in health and human services! Sessions will provide value to everyone, from nurses and DSPs to leadership and legal teams. View the full brochure here, and claim your early bird rate, your hotel room, and your discount today so you can earn CEs through workshops such as:
- Walk the Talk: Working in the Behavioral Health Field When You, Yourself, Have a Mental Illness
- Listen to Dr. Staley’s story of working within the behavioral health field when she herself was using evidence-based strategies to handle her own mental illness.
- Disrupting the Great Resignation
- Equip your leadership team with the necessary tools and skills for addressing barriers to employee engagement and retention.
- Applied Tabletop Role-Playing Games – Change Through Play
- Learn how you can use the power of role-playing games, such as Dungeons and Dragons, for capacity building, therapy, and educational goals.
- Using System-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS) to Reduce Acuity and Enhance Skill Acquisition in Individuals With Behavioral Health Challenges, IDD, and Autism
- Reduce major risk events and workers’ compensation claims, and enhance functional levels and quality of life for youth and adults with behavioral challenges and ID/A through PBIS.
- Applying Augmented Intelligence to Workforce Challenges and Care Delivery
- Evaluate the types of augmented intelligence technologies available to clinicians in behavioral health and how they can improve care delivery.
- Amplifying the Patient Voice: Using the Treatment Atlas Patient Experience Survey to Increase Engagement and Promote Quality Improvement at Your Facility
- Discover strategies for completing the Patient Experience Survey (PES) to support your facility in better understanding patient populations, benchmark to state averages, and opportunities for quality improvement.
- Termination Without Litigation
- Learn how you can protect yourself and your agency through proper disciplinary practices and the importance of documentation.
Register today!
In addition to an impressive roster of speakers, our 2023 Conference will have an exciting array of sponsors and exhibitors. We thank those who have signed on thus far! **NOTE: EXHIBIT BOOTHS ARE SOLD OUT.** If you are interested in sponsoring, visit here for more details or contact Carol Ferenz, Conference Coordinator, with any questions you may have. Keep up-to-date and register today for #rcpaconf!
Prepare Your Team for Health and Human Services at the 2023 RCPA Conference!
Prepare your team for challenging events through trainings and sessions being offered at the 2023 RCPA Annual Conference A Decade of Unity! Workshops will focus on some difficult topics but will be certain to improve your team’s treatment of patients as well as their own, personal well-being. View the full brochure here, and claim your early bird rate, your hotel, and your discount today so you can gain direct access to workshops such as:
- Ethics, Suicide, and Coercive Practices: Are We Doing More Harm Than Good?
- Examine cultural and societal values in relation to suicide, including a discussion on whether physician-assisted suicide is a human right.
- Reducing Health Disparities Through a Collaborative Approach to Value-Based Contracting
- Learn about Highmark Wholecare’s intervention into minority adolescent treatment for STIs, which reduced racial/ethnic disparities through Medicaid VBC payment models.
- Measurement-Based Care: Exploring the Value of a Coordinated Approach in Pennsylvania
- Analyze the implementation of measurement-based care models across Northeast Pennsylvania through Greenspace Health and Northeast Behavioral Health Care Consortium.
- Attracting and Retaining the Best Talent: Mitigating Bias in Hiring, From Sourcing Through Onboarding
- Discover ways in which bias presents itself during the hiring process and how to manage it so that you can find and keep great talent.
- The Dialectical Behavior Model of Living
- Study the Dialectical Behavior Model of Living in order to assist neurodivergent individuals in managing their social, emotional, and environmental processes.
- Debriefing: Supporting Staff and People Supported Through a Traumatic Event
- Be a leader for your team by utilizing debriefing tactics in order to help your employees when traumatic experiences happen in the workplace.
- Treating Problematic Sexualized Behaviors Through a Systemic Model
- Identify warning signs of problematic sexual behavior in adolescents and learn how to approach and treat such behaviors with cultural and ethical considerations.
- Machine Learning: New Tools to Improve Youth Mental Health Outcomes
- Hear from Gemma Services on how they improved their PRTF and Outpatient programs through a data analytics firm and the creation of an Insight Generator tool.
- RCPA Captive Health Plan: NON-CE Offering
- Learn about the RCPA Captive Health Care program, including benefits, costs, and savings potentials for your organizations.
Register today!
In addition to an impressive roster of speakers, our 2023 Conference will have an exciting array of sponsors and exhibitors. We thank those who have signed on thus far! If you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting, visit here for more details or contact Carol Ferenz, Conference Coordinator, with any questions you may have. Keep up-to-date and register today for #rcpaconf!
