Date: 3/11/2010
Address:
Doubletree Hotel Worthington
175 Hutchinson Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43235
8:00 a.m. -- 4:15 p.m.
Following the Perspectives on Problem Gambling Symposium, the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS) hosts its Annual Directors' Conference. Designed to provide useful strategies to improve outcomes, assist in providing high quality, culturally competence services to consumers and best business practices, the conference includes:
- Welcome Remarks and ODADAS Update, Angela Cornelius Dawson, ODADAS Director
- Morning Keynote "Leading in Difficult Times: Instilling Direction, Energy and Hope," Lynn Madden, CEO, APT Foundation
- Lunch
- Workshops 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
- How to Talk to Your Elected Official So That They Listen, Shana Kaplanov, ODADAS Legislative Liaison and Legislative Panel
- Effective STrategies for Engaging, Retaining, and Energizing Your Clients and Staff, Dawn Risk, Dr. William Bradford, and Melanie Woods, Solutions Behavioral Healthcare
- ODADAS Data Elements and Their Uses, Jim Hughes and Rudy Rodriguez, ODADAS Division of Managment Information Systems
- Developing Media Partnerships, Amanda Conn Starner, ODADAS Division of Communications, and Media Panel: Aaron Marshall, The Plain Dealer, Christie Kemper, QFM96 Columbus, Karen Kasler, Ohio Public Radio, Jon Craig, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Emily Riemer, ABC 6, Columbus
- Supporting Ohio's Military Members and Families, Robert Bramlish, LTC, Ohio National Guard
- Leadership: The Demming Way, Lynn Madden, APT Foundation and Andey Quanbeck, NIATx, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Illegal, Unethical...or, Just Not a Good Idea (Part I), Ruth Satterfield, ODADAS, Division of Prevention Services
- Break/Snack
- Workshops 2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
- Hearing Your Consumers' Voices, Chuck Ross and Staff, STEPS at Liberty Center
- Why Counselors Need to Ask "What if there's a brain injury?", Jennifer Brello, Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation
- The Dimensions of Diversity in the Workplace, RaJade Berry, PhD, University of Akron
- Developing a Succession Plan to Retain Top Talent, Haze Flowers, Valarie Wills Consulting
- Access to Recovery (ATR): Expanding Populations and Providers, Alisia Clark, ODADAS Division of Treatment and Recovery Services
- Illegal, Unethical...or, Just Not a Good Idea (Part II), Ruth Satterfields, ODADAS Dvision of Prevention Services
Continuing Education Credits are available. For more information or to register, visit the ODADAS Web site.