2010 Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference
Partnering for Recovery
June 23-25, 2010
Yakima, WA
Come join us for the 21st annual Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference!
This year the conference will include 35 workshops on a broad variety of mental health topics, including evidence-based & promising practices, corrections and re-entry to the community, health, wellness & integrated care, housing & employment, older adult services, child & family services, youth in transition, substance abuse & co-occurring disorder treatement, and consumer recovery & resiliency. Continuing Education credits will also be available.
Keynote speakers will include:
- Victoria Maxwell, who will perform her one-woman play on going back to work after dealing with mental illness
- Scott Miller, PhD, a national expert on improving client-directed care
- Pete Earley, a journalist whose son experienced mental illness leading to interactions with the criminal justice system, and the status of mental healthcare in prisons
Pre-conference activities will include Law & Ethics, training on a promising program to identify and help reduce the onset of psychosis in young people, and a consumer Town Hall meeting.
The brochure and registration materials will be mailed in April, 2010.
Questions? Please contact Alison Avery, Education & Project Manager for WCMHC, at (206) 628-4608 x12, or aavery@wcmhcnet.org.