In addition to the general sessions, including national updates that will provide valuable information to all, we have several break-out sessions that will be offered live each day during our 2021 Conference. These sessions include:

Tuesday September 28, 2021

• Preparing Infrastructure for Managed Care in ID/DD Providers
• Coordinating Measurement-Based Care: How the Maryland Community Behavioral Health Association Improved Treatment Outcomes and Leveraged Their Data
• Leadership in Technology for a New Era
• The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Regional Approach to Address Healthy Equity
• Magical Metaphors: Creating a Shared Language Within a CBT Treatment Setting
• Without a Playbook: Navigating the Pandemic While Still Moving Forward
• Enhancing Whole Health and Wellness: Working Works When Using Social Security Work Incentives
• Linking Up! CANS Across the Tristate Area, and How This Can Optimize Care
• Creating an Employee-Centered Culture to Attract & Retain Staff
• Mobile Buprenorphine: A Novel Method for Engaging Populations in Substance Use Disorder Care
• Improving Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services For OUR Older Adults. YOU Can Help!

Wednesday September 29, 2021

• Top Funding Resources for Assistive Technology in Pennsylvania
• Measuring What Matters Most: Leveraging the Power of Business Intelligence to Drive Organizational Improvements
• People Like Me: Working with Vulnerable Populations Using an Integrated Model to Behavioral Health Care
• How COVID-19 Changes Our View of Emergency Preparedness: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 and Key Strategies for Preparedness Moving Forward
• The Great Reset: Leadership Beyond the Pandemic
• “Link Outside the Box”: Using Remote Services and Technology to Provide Support Services For Individuals With IDD
• Promoting Motivational Interviewing Spirit and Skills with Paraprofessional Staff
• COVID-19 at 18 Months: How the Pandemic Has Changed Us and Society
• Strategies for Reducing Screen Time Fatigue

Thursday September 30, 2021

• A Collaborative Agency-Based Approach to Implementing a Pandemic-Induced Practice-Based Change to Telehealth
• Concussion (TBI) and Behavioral Health (The Missing Peace): Where Are We Now?
• Trauma-Informed Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities
• No Longer Just a Plan — Value Based Payments in Community HealthChoices in 2022
• The Cultural Competency in the Clinical Assessment & Treatment of Adults with IDD and Co-Occurring Mental Illness
• The Path to VBP is Paved With Quality: A National Perspective on Measures of Quality in IDD Services
• Post-Incarceration Care: How to Create an Effective Transitional Model
• Implementing Trauma-Informed PA (TIPA): PRTFs Becoming Trauma-Informed
• We Hear You!
• Expanding Integrated Primary Care for People with IDD: Replicable Models and Policy Implications
• The Unexpected Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Time Banking: A Grassroots Resource for Increased Personal Outcomes and Community Development

There will also be over 20 “on-demand” sessions on many timely subjects and topics, such as Leadership, Diversity, and Remote Supports and Services.

Visit the RCPA Conference website for specific updates to the schedule, posted as they become finalized.