NATSAP's 2009 Rocky Mountain Regional Conference will be held Thursday & Friday, May 7-8, 2009 in Missoula, Montana with a deadline for submission of papers: Friday, February 20, 2009.
The conference will include breakouts focusing on issues of interest to therapeutic school and program staff including clinicians, direct care staff, academic faculty, and managers/directors. Specifically, this conference endeavors to focus on the integration of education, clinical, recreation and milieu.
In the following, please find examples of topics of interest:
Clinical Presentations - focusing on topics of interest to therapists and others who are involved in addressing clinical concerns:
Collaboration with education and direct care staff
The therapist role in integrating clinical with education, recreation, and milieu
Milieu & Recreation Presentations - focusing on topics of interest to direct care staff:
How to integrate recreation into milieu work
Best ways to integrate education into milieu
Education Presentations - focusing on topics of interest to academic faculty:
Teachers collaborating with direct care around facilitating study skills in students
The education program integration with clinical program
Leadership Presentations - focusing on topics of interest to administration and managers:
Quality cross-program relations
Best practices of integrating education, clinical, recreation, milieu
Questions may be directed to:
Sami Butler, Rocky Mountain Region,
samib@intermountain.org, (406) 457-4744
Or
Jan Moss, NATSAP Executive Director,
jan@natsap.org, (928) 443-9505