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The Texas Health and Human Services Commission Institute (The Institute) is a four-day virtual conference that provides education and training for substance use and mental health providers, as well as other stakeholders.
This year’s Institute will explore innovative approaches to engaging communities, providing education on the latest research and best practices and elevating behavioral health services to drive meaningful change. Topics will include trauma-informed care, workforce development, and integrating peer recovery support services. Each morning’s keynote session will be followed by interactive breakout discussions to deepen learning and application.
Keynotes and tracks will focus on:
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Peer Support Services
- Suicide Prevention
- Workforce Ethics
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics
Who Should Attend:
- Care manager specialists
- Chemical dependency counselors
- Child and adolescent mental health therapists
- Child and family services specialists
- Child welfare specialists
- Community health workers
- Community organizers
- Domestic violence counselors
- Executive directors
- Family service workers
- HIV case managers
- Intellectual and developmental disability case managers
- Marriage & family therapists
- Medical directors
- Mental health case managers and directors
- Nurses
- Outreach workers
- Peer specialists
- Physicians
- Prevention specialists & consultants
- Private practice therapist
- Probation officers
- Professional counselors
- Program directors
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- School teachers & counselors
- Social service directors
- Social workers
- Substance prevention coordinators
- Treatment providers
- Youth engagement specialists