The landscape of behavioral health is changing rapidly as the nation moves towards an integrated model of care. Service providers must be agile enough to scale even greater challenges. As your partner in this new regulatory climate, Foothold Technology offers the tools and information to support you every step of the way.
Join us at the Foothold Expo 2012, on Thursday, July 12 at the NYU Kimmel Center in New York City. Learn about the latest innovations in AWARDS that will help your agency move more nimbly and increase your impact on those you serve. Network with colleagues in your field, and attend your choice of sessions from our three workshop tracks: Front Line Users, Implementation & Integration, and Agency Supervision & Oversight. As always, our keynote speaker will offer wisdom and inspiration to raise your spirits and prepare you for the changes ahead.
As with last year, sessions will be presented within three tracks categorized by the main ways staff use AWARDS. We designed these tracks to help you access the information that's most relevant to your work responsibilities and needs.
Front Line Users: This Track is for staff who interact with clients and consumers
Conquering Service Plans – Service Plans are a critical component of client record-keeping in AWARDS. Find out how to complete them more effectively and efficiently as our trainer teaches you his best tips and tricks, and helps you avoid even the most complicated obstacles in this complex area of AWARDS.
Harness Your Day - Exploring Calendar and Messages – AWARDS has powerful intra-agency scheduling and communication features that let you be in touch with your programs, clients and co-workers. Let our training and implementation experts teach you how to maximize your use of the Calendar and Messages modules to track your day, your supervisees and your caseload.
Climbing as a Team - Using AWARDS Resources and Community to Reach the Peak – Become a stronger member of the team by utilizing all of the resources available to you. Learn how you can help drive your agency's progress by using FootholdConnect, Online Help, FootNotes and more.
Laying the Groundwork - How the Front Line Drives Agency Success – Do you really know how your work empowers your agency to realize its mission? This session begins by examining how using AWARDS changes the way you collect data and streamlines your day-to-day work. We will then consider the ongoing challenges of data collection unique to front line staff and provide tools and tips for gathering and monitoring quality data. Finally, we'll examine the ways the resulting data is crucial to agency success.
AWARDS Implementation and Integration: This track is for staff who implement and integrate the software
Ascend to New Heights - Advanced FormBuilder – Ready to take your understanding and use of the FormBuilder to the next level? Learn to navigate the more advanced features in FormBuilder, improve the usability of your forms, boost reporting options, and more. Find out how the most recent FormBuilder enhancements can help your forms rise to the top.
Equip Yourself - The AWARDS ToolKit – In this session, we will demonstrate key features of AWARDS that are not widely known or fully utilized. We will also highlight and review some of the most recent and notable enhancements deployed to the software.
Defying Gravity - Preparing for the Climb with Foothold's Senior Project Managers – Join us for a roundtable about how you can integrate ongoing maintenance, management, and expansion of AWARDS at your agency. Foothold Senior Project Managers, drawing on a collective 40+ years of experience, will share notable case studies of successes and challenges as agencies worked to bring AWARDS usage to the next level.
Setting up Base Camp - The Essentials of a Successful Implementation – Executive buy-in, a motivated team, a plan for communication - are these essential supplies in your Implementation Backpack? Come learn about these tested strategies and more with our seasoned Implementation Consultants.
Agency Supervision and Oversight: This track is for managers and executives
Powering Up Your Data - Rapid Reporting for Every Scenario – Use ReportBuilders to choose, sort, order, filter, group, and summarize your data for maximum impact. Then see how the new ExportBuilder allows even deeper integration.
Mapping the Ascent - A Roundtable on Executive Reporting – A look at implementation and reporting through the executive lens - How are executives navigating the terrain of their data to guide their agency to success? Several short presentations and a roundtable discussion will help you maximize your database to get the reports you need out of AWARDS.
Preparing for Meaningful Use and Interoperability - A New Topography of Care – ARRA, HITECH, Health Homes, RHIOs, DISCOs, HIEs - behavioral healthcare agencies are operating in a changing world with increasing data requirements and new financial opportunities. Join us as we help you navigate these changes, and learn how your agency can harness the power of AWARDS to be a pioneer in this new landscape.
Households and Families - Tracking and Reporting with Agility – Do you serve families in a variety of configurations? Do you serve individuals and track their family members too? Join us as we talk about AWARDS's new Family Functionality, which is designed to help you measure how family composition relates to program and agency outcomes. This session is intended for managers and executives who are faced with data collection and reporting challenges unique to working with households.
Additional Sessions
HMIS - Your Data Is the Guide – Experts and peers will discuss how your community can utilize data to impact local planning. Find out which reports and tools will help you find your way.
Billing with Speed and Strength – Maximizing your agency's revenue depends on integrating documentation with billing. Learn how BillingBuilder can help you become more agile as you incorporate your services and fiscal processes all within one application.
On the Right Track - Using Data to Inform Design and Delivery of Supportive Housing – Learn about how collecting and evaluating data is a crucial tool in both the design and on-going delivery of supportive housing. Hear about recent evaluation results from local and national studies, and explore how tracking can help you enhance your projects to best serve our industry.
Keynote Speaker
Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW
Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW is a professor and researcher at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent more than ten years studying shame, fear, vulnerability, courage, and authenticity, and writes and speaks extensively about shame resilience, authentic leadership, and wholeheartedness in families, schools, and organizations.
Her groundbreaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and the Oprah and Friends Radio Network, and she has given two TEDx talks on her vulnerability research. In 2008, she was named the Behavioral Health Scholar-in-Residence at the Council on Alcohol and Drugs, Houston. Most recently, Houston Women magazine named her one of "The 50 Most Influential Woman of 2009."
Brené spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and fear, and is now using that work to explore a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness. Brené's research poses the questions: "How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to recognize that we are enough - that we are worthy of love, belonging, and joy?"
The author of The Gifts of Imperfection: Letting Go of Who We Think We Should Be and Embracing Who We Are (Hazelden, 2010) and I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power (Penguin/Gotham, 2007), Brené has contributed articles to Self magazine, Elle magazine, and many national newspapers. She is also the author of "Connections," a psychoeducational shame resilience curriculum that is being facilitated across the nation by mental health and addiction professionals.
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Additional Accommodations
If you wish to explore other hotel options or if the Washington Square Hotel has run out of our reserved room block, you can try one of the following hotels. We have used them in the past ourselves, but we have no formal relationship with them. They are varying distances from the Expo location, and we cannot guarantee their quality. For more information about the hotel, including availability and rates, click on its name.
As agencies' objectives change, AWARDS evolves to keep you ahead of the curve. Hundreds of AWARDS users gathered in June 2011 at the NYU Kimmel Center in New York City to see the newest releases in AWARDS functionality and learned how to maximize their AWARDS usage as users and administrators at their agencies.
Click here to see more from Expo 2011, including pictures and presentations.
