Recovery Workforce Summit: List of Proposed Topics

The topic suggestions below are not intended as exhaustive lists, but rather guidelines to assist faculty in developing courses or identifying topics that will provide attendees with “take-a-ways” that can be immediately incorporated into day-to-day work.

Please review the tracks and submit your proposal based on the audience segment that you believe would most benefit from the information offered. PRA may suggest modification or refinement to a submitted presentation or place a submission in a different track. 

Module 1: Practitioner Skills-Based Training                              

Track 1: CPRP Training
Please Note: No presentation submissions requested. Faculty is secured to deliver this track designed specifically to prepare candidates for the CPRP examination.

Track 2: Practitioner Skills-Based Training – Core Skills        
Courses selected for this track will be specifically geared to core domains to ensure a solid, skills-based foundation for practitioners. Presentations should provide skills that practitioners will be able to immediately implement in their daily work. Sample Suggested Topics Include:

• Enhanced specialty support skills for Peer Support providers (vocational support, wellness support, legal support, etc.)
• Developing readiness for change for rehabilitation and recovery (behavior change, role changes, environmental changes, etc.)
• Person centered planning skills for practitioners (recovery oriented goal determination and setting, utilizing open dialogues to promote recovery, etc.)
• Interpersonal skills for practitioners (motivational interviewing, inspiring hope, shared decision making, etc.)
• Group facilitation skills to promote recovery (teaching skills, responding skills, rolling with challenges, etc.)
• Ethics and values (ethical decision making, ethical management of risk and liability, reducing coercion in practice, etc.)

Track 3: Practitioner Skills-Based Training – Advanced Skills
Courses selected for this track will be specifically geared to training in more nuanced areas of psychiatric rehabilitation. Practitioners should walk away from these presentations with advanced skills that they will be able to incorporate in their daily work. Sample Suggested Topics Include:

• Recovery oriented crisis intervention and de-escalation strategies
• Strategies for promoting self efficacy and self-sufficiency (emotional, physical, intellectual, financial, environmental)
• Strategies to promote health and wellness ( nutritional, physical, emotional, spiritual, community-practice protocols)
• Advanced communication skills (advocacy, negotiation, mediation, etc.)
• Utilizing and implementing evidence-based practices (WRAP, IMR, IPS, family to family) as well as cultural and linguistically evolved evidenced-based practices.
• Advanced goal setting/rehab planning (proactive crises planning, utilizing the SMART approach, etc.)
• Using technology and social media as a means of communication
• Strategies to implement knowledge of supported housing (Housing First)
• Skills to support special populations (age, need, legal status)
• Skills to ensure practitioner self-awareness and self-care

Module 2: Organization & Business Management for PSR Professionals

Track 4: Business Management & Operations for PSR Organizational Managers       
Courses selected for this track will deliver practical content to managers at all levels operating in psychiatric rehabilitation organizations. Sample Suggested Topics Include:

• EMR/EHR selection and implementation
• Client development strategies for organizational managers
• Medicaid compliance issues
• Integrating social media in client marketing strategies
• Improving staff productivity and efficiency
• Staff recruitment & retention
• Effective staff training and development on a shoestring
• Program evaluation techniques and best practices update

Track 5: Organization Strategy & Leadership for PSR Executives
Courses selected for this track will be targeted to senior executives at organizations delivering or supporting psychiatric rehabilitation. Sample Suggested Topics Include:

• Building and maintaining an outstanding organizational culture
• Board selection, management and best practices
• Building a succession plan
• Exercising leadership in turbulent times
• Building and motivating a top quality executive team
• Marketing cost/benefit strategies
• Fund development strategies for CEOs
• Contracting and negotiating with Managed Care companies
• Mergers, partnerships and collaborations
• Challenges keeping organizational leaders up at night…and what they’re doing about it
• State and federal advocacy…what you as a senior executive should be doing now

Module 3: Hot Topics and Emerging Issues

Track 6: PSR Hot Topics and Emerging Issues
Courses focused on top of mind breaking and hot topics, as well as issues which may be emerging as critical to the future of the recovery workforce. Sample Suggested Topics Include:  

• A current assessment of the federal healthcare public policy landscape
• Newly released research and its implications for the practice of psychiatric rehabilitation
• Integration of primary and behavioral healthcare
• Health exchanges and Medicaid expansion: What’s in it for PSR
• Updating the impact of Olmstead litigation
• Children’s services and issues (Please Note: these presentations will not qualify for CPRP contact hours.)