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Executive Management Activities

Executive Management Activities 

Whether you are the CEO or in an executive management position at a large organization or the executive director of a smaller psychiatric rehabilitation agency, we don’t need to tell you that you are navigating unprecedented times with challenges of a proportion that you have never seen before.  The 34th Annual USPRA conference provides several opportunities for people like you to meet throughout the week to socialize, network, and learn. Take time from your demands to refresh and re-energize yourself for the 2010 fiscal year that you are about to embark.
 
 
Executive Management Reception
Sunday, June 28, 7:30 – 9:00 PM
Piano Lounge, 2nd floor
Sponsored by Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc. and Essential Learning
Don’t miss this opportunity to network with other primary decision makers in a friendly, social atmosphere. Drop in when you are ready and stay as long as you wish. Enjoy a drink and light-fare as you reconnect with old friends and meet new. 
 
Executive Exchanges
Fill your lunch break with lively conversation with other executive directors and key leadership staff around a topic of interest. Sign up at the registration desk for one of the three topics offered each day and a seat at the table will be reserved for you in the Shula’s restaurant. The wait staff will be informed that each participant is responsible for their own tab.
 
Monday, 12:00 Noon – 1:15 PM…………………………….Shula’s
Psychiatric Rehabilitation for Children
Sharing Cost Containment Ideas
The Art of Building Strategic Alliances
 
 
Tuesday, 12:00 Noon – 1:15 PM…………………………….Shula’s
Making Best Practices Sustainable
Board Development
Integration of Health Promotional Activities

Administrative Workshops

Workshop 110                         Monday 10:30 – 12:00
The Risk Management Process and Strategies through an E-Learning Application
Brad Storey, MSW, Director of Risk Management, Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc, Rock Hill, NY, Chuck Tepper, VP of Business Development, Essential Learning, San Diego, CA
 
Workshop 212                     Monday 1:30 – 3:00
Choosing and Using Web-based Case Management Software
Marlowe Greenberg, CEO, Foothold Technology, Inc, New York, NY
 
Workshop 302                     Monday 3:15 – 4:45
Strategies for Dealing with a Troubled Economy
Christopher Conley, Fund Manager, Community Health Facilities Fund, Stamford, CT
 
Workshop 310                     Monday 3:15 -4:45
Where Governance and Management Meet: Clarifying Roles & Responsibilities of Board Member and Manager
Douglas Barshter, MS, CPRP, Corporate Compliance Officer, Southwest Behavioral Health Services, Phoenix, AZ, Joshua Koerner, Executive Director, CHOICE (Consumers Helping Others in a Caring Environment), New Rochelle, NY, Renee Kopache, CPRP, Coordinator of Wellness Management, Hamilton County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board, Cincinnati, OH, Jennifer Padron, EdM, CPS, QMHP, HIV Prevention Programs Specialist, Substance Abuse Counselor and AIDS Outreach Worker, AIDS Services, Austin, TX
 
Administrative Institutes
 
INSTITUTE 8
Succession Planning for Senior Management Staff of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Organizations
Eileen Joseph, CPRP, CareLink Community Support Services Inc, Eddystone, PA, Cory Storch, MA, Executive Director, Bridgeway Rehabilitation Services, Elizabeth, NJ
 
The knowledge and skills of the people who lead psychiatric rehabilitation organizations are valuable assets that must be developed. From an organizational perspective, these assets must also be perpetuated so the organization can carry out its strategic plan. This institute will share how two organizations are using succession planning in concert with strategic planning and employee performance evaluation to increase their people power. There will be an emphasis on leadership competencies needed to help your organization flourish.
 
Learning Objectives:-
  • Identify key leadership competencies that are common across all businesses.
  • Experience a technique that identifies and prioritizes leadership competencies required for the organizations they represent.
  • Tailor a succession planning process to fit the needs of the organizations they represent.
 
Appreciative Inquiry: A Strengths Based Approach to Organizational Development
John Painter, MS, CPRP, Motivational Services, Inc, Augusta, ME
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is the opposite of problem driven organizational change. Through discovery of what makes an organization unique, and beginning from a place of positive change, AI helps empower organizations through encouragement, motivation, and positive actions, this increases organizational commitment while creating a vehicle for sustainable success. AI has been used by the United Nations, Department of the Navy, corporations, hospitals, and educational institutions as a method to improve team relationships, performance, a program assessment tool, a qualitative research method, and for building communities.
 
Learning Objectives
·Participants will gain knowledge and skill in the foundational theories of Appreciative Inquiry
·Participants will learn to leverage change initiatives by discovering the positive core of an organization, team or process 
·Participants will learn to develop an improvement process through examination of the positive aspects of an organization
·Participants will develop the basic skill to facilitate an appreciative inquiry event 
·Participants will evidence the ability to conduct an Appreciative Inquiry