An Action Plan on Behavioral Health Workforce Development
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LEADERSHIP: Creating a Profession of Choice
 This edition of Resource Links focuses on the important role leadership development is playing in counteracting the workforce crisis. The content compiles the experiences of practitioners throughout the region, provides helpful resources and practical guidance that can be applied in any work setting, and recounts how leadership development is making a difference in the workforce-in terms of recruitment, retention, employee morale-and most importantly, for the clients we serve.
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IRETA Trainings & Events
Addiction Recovery Symposium: Aligning Concepts, Practice and Contexts to Promote Long Term Recovery: An Action Plan
Click here to view presenter power point presentations, resources and videos from the May 2, 2008 day-long symposium devoted to improving the opportunities for people with addiction to get the help they need to enjoy long-term recovery.
IRETA in the News
- Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
IRETA Conference Exclusive Coverage
If addiction treatment providers were paid only for recovery outcomes, core clinical practices would change overnight, said William White, keynote speaker at the May 2 Recovery Symposium in Philadelphia. White called for a "fundamental redesign" of treatment. "This is not a tweaking of treatment," said White, senior researcher at Chestnut Health Systems in Bloomington, Ill. "We have to shift from the acute care model to a recovery model.".....
Click here for more: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119055019/abstract
- Seminar focuses on helping returning GIs adjust
By RANDY GRIFFITH, The Tribune-Democrat
Front-line community health care workers often are the first to deal with returning troops' issues readjusting to civilian life.
That's what makes programs like this week's state Department of Health seminar so important, Dr. Burton Singerman told participants at the Pasquerilla Conference Center, 201 Napoleon St.....
Click here for more: http://www.tribdem.com/archivesearch/local_story_270233218.html
- IRETA Executive Director Testifies before Congressmen Kennedy, Murphy and Altmire
On March 12, 2007, Dr. Michael Flaherty had the opportunity to address Congressmen Kennedy Murphy, and Altmire on the proposed House legislation which would provide parity of benefits for those receiving mental health and substance use disorder treatment.
Click here for more: http://www.ireta.org/parity-testimony.pdf
- Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
The graying workforce
Michael T. Flaherty, Ph.D., executive director of the Pittsburgh-based research and training institute IRETA, who recently termed the loss of the foundation's support "catastrophic" for the field (see ADAW, Nov. 13, 2006), believes the need for leadership in this area has gone well beyond the urgency stage.
"The real solution is in the medical community itself," Flaherty told ADAW. "I'm guardedly optimistic, but I don't see leadership yet on issues such as workforce development.".....
Click here for more: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/114033827
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