Speaker Topics & Ideas by Track
Note: The descriptors below for each track are representative of issues, trends and discussion points that are provided as examples.
Presenters may submit proposals outside of the descriptors listed below; however, they must relate to one of the four tracks.
Harm Reduction/Intervention
- Harm Reduction Vending Machines
- Safe Syringe Programs Across the Region
- Fentanyl Intervention/Education Efforts
- Warm Handoff Programs in Rural Areas
- Tribal Harm Reduction/Intervention Initiatives Across
- the Region
- EMS Involvement with Intervention Efforts
- Mobile Outreach
- Innovative Harm Reduction Activities or Interventions
- Harm Reduction Across the Continuum of Care within
- Public Health and Behavioral Health
- Safe Smoking Programs/Practices
- Efforts Across the Region
- Safe Injection Sites
- Harm Reduction Campaigns/Messaging
- Harm Reduction Efforts in General
- Across the Region
- Presenters Who Are Now in
- Recovery/Tell Their Story About Their
- Intervention/Road to Recovery
- Interventions Targeting Pregnant Women
- New Innovative Projects
Recovery
- Developing Recovery Ready Communities
- Recovery Through Culture and Connection
- Trauma-Informed Care from a Recovery Perspective
- Recovery Focused Treatment (Continuity of Care)
- Contingency Management in Recovery Support Services
- Golden Thread of Coordination of Care – Treating the Whole Person
- Multiple Pathways to Recovery
- Holistic non-traditional peer specialist models (community-based peer specialists’ models from other sectors)
- Providing supervision and services from a value-based perspective
- New Innovative Projects
Treatment
- Supervision Training for Human Services Supervisors
- Compassion Fatigue (Self-Care and Client Care through COVID)
- Behavioral Health Workforce Retention
- Relapse Prevention Planning (Best Practices): Strategies during COVID/Housing Crisis, Inflation etc./ Trauma Informed Relapse Prevention Planning
- Strategies to Assist the Clients with Self-Awareness
- Community Based Diversion and Harm Reduction
- Pregnant Women and Women with Children
- Innovation and Best Practices in Treatment
- MAT
- Contingency Management
- Keeping Staff and Clients in the Behavioral Health Field Have Housing (Options in the Housing Crisis for Staff Retention and Client Stability)
- Best Practices for Group Facilitation
- LBGTQ Awareness in Client Care
- Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care
- Peer Recovery Supports -Value, Challenges, and Solutions
- Reducing HIV/STD Transition Risk for Individuals with SUD
- Reducing High-Risk Sexual Behaviors in Individuals with SUD
- New Innovative Projects
Prevention
- Polysubstance Prevention
- Stimulant Prevention
- Trauma Informed Care
- Pharmacology
- Hope Science
- ACEs and SUD
- Urban/Rural Situations
- Considerations for Opioid Prevention
- Opioid Prevention Campaign
- Primary Prevention
- Environmental Policy (i.e new/emerging substances such as kratom)
- Cultural Adaptations of Opioid EBPS
- Opioid Prevention for Young Adults
- Opioid Prevention Workforce Strategies
- Tribal Prevention Programs
- State to Local Initiatives
- New Innovative Projects