ACRC 2020 Conference Agenda
April 6-9, 2020 San Diego, CA
Monday April 6
New Org, Who Dis? Defining Organizational Practice Through Periods of Change
This presentation will explore new perspectives relative to participant's organizations' recruitment and retention efforts, and provide opportunities to practice using tools that have been developed and studied to have positive impact on retention efforts.
Helping Expectant and Parenting Young Families Thrive
Antiracist Adaptations to Dialectical Behavior Therapy
At the core of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is the dialectic of acceptance and change. In the past year, the president of the American Psychological Association (APA) recently defined racism as a pandemic (APA, 2020), and both the American Medical Association...
Family Centered Adolescent Residential Care Treatment: Theory, Organization and Service Delivery
Prioritizing family involvement, Newport Healthcare has developed a family centered approach to adolescent and young adult residential care. Caregivers participate in intake, weekly therapy, and psychoeducational groups. Most importantly, improvement in family...
Attachment-Based Family Therapy in Residential Care
Attachment based family therapy helps adolescents and young adults identify, understand and work through, past relational disappointment and trauma. In a structured sequence, therapists prepare the client and parents for these emotionally charged, but life changing...
Leveraging the New Determinants of Health to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families
Stepping Down from Residential: An Opportunity for Coordinating Care with Foster Care
Youth who are served in residential treatment centers typically have permanency goals that include stepping down from residential into treatment foster care especially when reunification with family is not an option. Currently, there are no evidence supported...
Increasing Adherence to Improve Treatment Outcomes
This presentation will explore the pros and cons of implementing an evidenced based treatment model within a 150-year-old organization. How staff were able to effectively learn one language to improve treatment outcomes with high staff turnover and limited training...
A Qualitative Descriptive Study of the Self-efficacy of High Emotional and Behavior Disorder Staff
Many high school students with emotional or behavior disorders (EBD) require instructional and social emotional support and are referred to specialized self-contained programs with specially trained staff who can implement specifically designed supports and services...
Keep Rowing! Setting and Achieving Measurable Outcomes in the Ever-Changing “Ocean” of Children’s Residential Services
Developing and operationalizing meaningful short- and long-term outcomes for residential programming can feel overwhelming when so much time and energy needs to be dedicated to providing day-to-day services and meeting safety and regulatory requirements. However,...
Schedule Overview
Together, the voice
As a member, you’ll receive support, training, and information to become an impactful leader and provider. We offer access to cutting-edge best practices and a broad network of resources, so you can best serve children and families and be part of the voice for quality children’s residential interventions.
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