CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Submission Deadline
April 19, 2024 at 11:59pm

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

The Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS) annual Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Integrated Care Conference is an opportunity for the behavioral health workforce to learn from other professionals in the field about emerging trends in SUD, innovations in programming and delivery systems across the continuum of care for underserved and under resourced individuals and communities.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

This year’s SUD Conference will include eight separate workshop tracks and DHCS is seeking proposals from organizations and agencies who can share their knowledge and expertise, including data and outcomes on statewide initiatives, coordinated efforts, proven practices, integration, and other opportunities that advance SUD prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery services.

Don’t miss this opportunity to lead thoughtful, impactful, and passionate discussions at the 2024 SUD Conference!

If your proposal is accepted, you will present at the DHCS 2024 SUD Conference between August 13-15, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency and Convention Center, Long Beach, California.

IMPORTANT: Please read the instructions carefully. DHCS reserves the right to reject submissions that do not comply with the instructions in the Call for Proposal Submission Form.

PRESENTATION TRACKS

Carefully read each track and its description below to choose the track that best aligns with the subject matter of your proposal.

Track 1: Innovations in Substance Use Disorder Prevention
This track will highlight innovative approaches to preventing SUDs. Topics may include evidence-based or community-defined practices, prevention workforce, stigma reduction, and other culturally responsive promising or supportive practices in the field of prevention. Proposal topics may include the following:

  • Trauma-informed, healing-centered prevention programs and practices
  • Innovative childhood wraparound services for foster youth, justice impacted youth or other system-impacted youth
  • Cutting-edge youth-led, youth-driven programs, strategies and education campaigns
  • Community-defined evidence practices that communities have used and found to yield positive results and possess historical and social contexts that are culturally rooted
  • Prevention workforce development and investment strategies that create avenues for our young people exploring behavioral health or public health careers

Track 2: Strengthening the SUD Service Delivery System
This track will focus on recent and proposed updates for SUD providers and professionals. Proposals topics may include the following:

  • Updates regarding treatment facility licensure
  • Effective medications for addiction treatment and policy implementation
  • Outpatient SUD treatment program certification
  • Behavioral health workforce development
  • Innovative Approaches within the Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System
  • Behavioral Health Payment Reform
  • Contingency Management

Track 3: Patient-Centered Care within a Chronic Disease Management Framework
This track will focus on incorporating harm reduction principles and low-barrier care models into practice. Proposals should highlight evolving treatment philosophies, staff cultures, and administrative protocols that recognize SUD as a treatable, chronic disease that may include recurrent use, and that individuals with SUD have varying degrees of readiness to change. Proposals topics may include the following:

  • Designing admission, care, and discharge policies within SUD treatment and recovery residence settings that balance harm reduction and low-barrier care principles with patient safety and recovery-oriented environments
  • The impacts and outcomes of implementing Medication Assisted Treatment programs in diverse community settings among youth and indigenous populations, including emergency rooms, residency programs, and justice-impacted systems
  • Implement innovative harm reduction and prevention strategies to reduce opioid-related deaths across the state
  • Learn about the impact of new state laws regarding opioids and fentanyl (e.g. protocol changes, program administration, local implementation of prevention, intervention, treatment, or recovery services)

Track 4: Engaging the Unengaged
This track will highlight innovative approaches to proactively engage people in treatment and “meet them where they are,” physically and figuratively. Proposals topics may include the following:

  • Developing outreach and engagement efforts, field-based care, mobile treatment programs, street medicine, and cross-system coordination to initiate and continue treatment via hand-offs from emergency departments, correctional facilities, crisis care systems, law enforcement, courts, primary care, and more
  • Engaging and reaching individuals who are not accessing or not interested in services and sharing best practices (e.g. medication-first models, motivational interviewing, etc.)

Track 5: Advancing Equity and Reducing Disparities
This track will focus on effective strategies and promising approaches to better meet the SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery service needs of populations experiencing inequities in SUD outcomes. Proposals topics may include the following:

  • American Indian and Alaska Native communities
  • Children and youth involved in child welfare
  • Individuals at risk of or experiencing homelessness
  • Individuals impacted by the criminal justice system
  • Individuals with disabilities
  • LGBTQ2S+
  • Youth and young adults

Track 6: Data and Quality Improvement
This track will focus on all forms of data and quality improvement, including tracking, monitoring, and evaluating outcomes related to SUD services and utilizing data to transform services, strategically plan, and showcase the effectiveness of programs (e.g., evidence and community-defined evidence-based practices). Proposals topics may include the following:

  • Newly released compelling data or reports on opioids, cannabis, stimulants, or other substances
  • Utilizing data in decision-making and tracking outcomes
  • New policies, regulations or statutes that focus on quality improvement in the patient experience

Track 7: Recovery and Care Management
This track will focus on strategies and opportunities to strengthen recovery capital and improve outcomes for individuals living in recovery from SUD. Proposal topics may include the following:

  • Best practices and achievements for Peer Support Services, Recovery Services, incorporating employment services and services into SUD care (e.g., BH-CONNECT and Behavioral Health Services Act), and Health Equity in Access
  • Peer Support across the recovery continuum, harm reduction approaches to drug use and recovery, resource and referral services, recovery-specific programs funded by the Family First Prevention Services Act, or other best practice programs contribute to successful recovery

Track 8: Emerging Trends in Substance Use
This track will focus on emerging trends in substance use (opioids/fentanyl, cannabis, meth/stimulants, xylazine, etc.) and service delivery models. Proposals topics may include the following:

  • Public health interventions and partnerships with law enforcement on surveillance and monitoring
  • Emerging trends and updates in treatment (e.g., American Society of Addiction Medicine 4th Edition)
  • Co-occurring capable and co-occurring enhanced treatment for mental health care, integrating withdrawal management and MAT onsite, integrating primary care, and more

SELECTION PROCESS

HOW TO APPLY

Proposals will be evaluated on how well they meet the following required criteria:

· The track selected corresponds with the subject matter of your presentation.

· The proposal is a well-defined topic with focused objectives from presenters with subject matter expertise.

· The proposal has a broad appeal and interest to the target audience.

· The proposal offers informative materials or applicable tools to offer conference attendees representing local communities, organizations, and professionals in the behavioral health field.

· The proposal presents relevant and current data, trends, and outcomes for specific best practices, programs, or effective strategies. 

· The proposal, specifically the content suggested to present at the conference, does not contain stigmatizing language, graphics, or content that would exclude conference participants (e.g., LGBTQ2S+, individuals living with a disability and in recovery, etc.).

· The proposal aligns with your selected conference track(s).

· The proposal must include a content outline covering 75 minutes including a group activity and Q&A. 

· Your proposal is for an in-person presentation. Note: We are not accepting virtual or hybrid proposals. 

  1. Click the Submit Proposal button
  2. Create an account or log in (if you already have an account)
  3. Enter the Lead Author's (Presenter) information
  4. To add Co-Authors (Presenters), click Add Co-Author button
  5. Upload a CV or resume for each presenter
  6. Add workshop details
  7. Review your proposal details
  8. Click the Submit button
  9. You will receive an email confirmation once the system receives your submission

 

Please note that if you plan to submit multiple workshops, you must use a different email address for each submission.

Submission Deadline
April 19, 2024 at 11:59pm

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