Room: Windgate 62-63
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Presentation: Participants will learn of Missouri history with the BHIDD efforts, current best practices and future efforts in supporting the dual behavioral health and developmental disability population.
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Room: Windgate 60-61
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Presentation: This presentation will explore competency to stand trial with a special focus on outpatient or community-based restoration. Attendees will learn the foundations behind competency to stand trial, explore different restoration modalities, and review common issues with restoration and how to address them. This presentation will speak to common myths and stigma about forensic consumers and the important role restoration providers can play in the criminal justice system and in the care of justice-involved clients with serious mental illness. Finally, participants will leave the training with basic guidance about how to proceed with restoration, and recommendations to further build their own professional competence to provide restoration services.
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Room: Windgate 60-61
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Presentation: This presentation will explore competency to stand trial with a special focus on outpatient or community-based restoration. Attendees will learn the foundations behind competency to stand trial, explore different restoration modalities, and review common issues with restoration and how to address them. This presentation will speak to common myths and stigma about forensic consumers and the important role restoration providers can play in the criminal justice system and in the care of justice-involved clients with serious mental illness. Finally, participants will leave the training with basic guidance about how to proceed with restoration, and recommendations to further build their own professional competence to provide restoration services.
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Room: Paradise A
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Room: Paradise B
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Room: Paradise C
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Presentation: Preventing Burnout Through the Power of Fun is an engaging training that helps professionals recognize the signs of burnout and discover how fun can be a powerful tool for resilience. Participants will explore how stress impacts health, relationships, and work performance, and learn practical ways to recharge through play, laughter, and connection. By prioritizing fun, you can boost energy, improve mood, strengthen relationships, and create a healthier work-life balance. This session reframes fun not as a luxury but as an essential strategy for preventing burnout and thriving both personally and professionally.
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Room: Nautical Wheeler
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Presentation: Bridging substance use related research with clinical practice is essential to improving outcomes, ensuring equitable care, and translating evidence into real-world interventions that reduce overdose risk and promote recovery. By integrating research on contextual insights from affected communities, stigma, and implementation science, clinicians and researchers can develop approaches that are both compassionate and evidence-based, advancing the collective goal of reducing harm and improving quality of life for people who use drugs. There are many ways to study drug use, addiction, and the services designed to address them. In this presentation, Dr. Rachel Winograd, Director of the Addiction Science team and the Addiction, Science, Practice, Implementation, Research and Education (ASPIRE) Lab at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and four ASPIRE Lab graduate students, will discuss the current landscape of Missouri’s overdose crisis and how they are applying various research methodologies to better understand and improve substance use services. Specifically, they will demonstrate the critical roles of working with medical examiner death data and neighborhood deprivation indices, the value of forming and working closely with a Community Advisory Board to enrich both research and clinical practice, the need to measure and mitigate stigma toward people who use drugs and toward the interventions designed to serve them, and the application of implementation science to improve the adoption and delivery of effective substance use services.
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Room: Windgate 62-63
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Presentation: Optimistic Beginnings approach to treating the individuals no one could. Innovative and creative treatment for individuals that struggle with living successfully in community settings- who also have experienced significant trauma along with their intellectual/developmental disability and mental illness. Learn how our program has utilized various approaches resulting in successful outcomes and individuals who are able to live a fulfilling, safe life.
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Room: Paradise A
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Presentation: According to the State of Mental Health in America report, youth mental health saw progress between 2023 and 2024. There is, however, an overarching need for providers to increase access to mental health treatment, especially where barriers to treatment are more prevalent. Many youth experiencing depression and other mental health concerns lack access to therapy due to obstacles including, but not limited to, stigma, transportation, finances, and childcare. St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH), a Level 1 Trauma Center for Illinois and Missouri, serves children from all 50 states and over 80 countries. Since 2018, SLCH has worked in partnership with various school districts in the St. Louis area to provide on-site mental health services within the school setting. Starting in 2020, a school-based virtual behavioral health program through St. Louis Children’s Hospital began to also increase mental health access to students and reduce barriers to treatment. This program, known as Healthy Kids, links licensed or provisionally licensed therapists to the school setting.
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Room: Paradise B
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Presentation: This presentation aims to provide education about trauma-informed care and being mindful that there is a reason and a story behind the presenting problems.
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