Call for Presenters

General Instructions

We invite you to submit a proposal to present at the ADP 2008 Conference. Desired presentations will meet specified conference goals, selected emphasis areas, and review criteria to promote gender and culturally responsive approaches, as provided in the conference goals. Each workshop’s lead presenter and co-presenter will have their conference registration fee waived and may be eligible to receive a stipend to assist with travel related expenses (see Submission Form for details). Additional workshop presenters, who are attending the conference, will be required to pay the full fee of $150 (if registering before May 20, 2008), or $175 (if registering after May 20, 2008).

Call for Presenters submission is now closed.

Review Criteria

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

• Well-defined topic with focused objectives.
• Addresses the conference theme, goals and selected emphasis area.
• Wide appeal and interest to the target audience.
• Addresses innovative approaches and current and immediate priorities in the field.
• Offers informative materials or tools that apply to communities or organizations, and can be transferred into practice.
  

All submissions must be received by 5:00 p.m. (PST) on January 28, 2008. On-line submissions are preferred at www.cce.csus.edu/conferences. Or mail/fax to:

ADP 2008 Conference
c/o CSUS College of Continuing Education

Conference & Training Services
3000 State University Drive East • Sacramento, CA 95819
Attn: Jacqueline Castro
Phone: (916) 278-6157 • Fax: (916) 278-4500

Conference Goals
The theme of the ADP 2008 conference is “Implementing a Comprehensive Continuum of Services: Beyond Tradition—Creating Synergy.” The conference strives to bring together diverse staff and policy makers throughout California’s alcohol and other drug fields and other stakeholders in order to:

• Build Unity Across The Field. Provide a venue for shared language, learning, cross-training and networking between prevention, treatment and recovery services. Promote
  universal understanding and use of the public health, chronic care and recovery support frameworks, and the ADP Circle of Continuum.
• Share The Best In The Field. Share new technologies, proven approaches and successes. Provide effective interventions and practices on the nature of alcohol and other drug problems.
  
• Support Change Efforts. Offer resources and opportunities to dialog on change models for instituting systemic, programmatic and individual change in order to improve services, while also discussing sustainability of what works.
  
• View the Landscape. Discuss the current environment including California’s diversity policy and program trends in healthcare, mental health, child welfare and criminal justice. Communicate the impact on the alcohol and drug field and emerging opportunities and technologies.
  
• Promote Gender and Cultural Responsiveness. Offer current knowledge, skills, resources, and stimulating discussion to address disparities, build alliances, and promote culturally
  responsive services and systems for California’s diverse population.

IMPORTANT: Please read all instructions carefully.

ADP reserves the right to reject submissions that do not comply with the instructions in the Call for Presenters Submission Form.

Emphasis Area Descriptions

Innovative and Effective Practices in Prevention

Prevention approaches are broad of necessity, serving individuals, identifiable groups and entire communities to counter adverse effects of alcohol and other drugs (AOD). In addition to traditional prevention programs, we are encouraging applications that describe community level change through environmental approaches (limiting access and availability, manufacturing, promotion and sales). We are seeking proposals that are infused with youth development principles (the role of young people in planning, implementing and evaluating prevention services, youth/adult partnerships, how organizations have instilled youth development theory into their practice). We encourage applicants to share their approach to adopting the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) as a roadmap for prevention services.

Innovative and Effective Practices in Intervention, Treatment, and Recovery

Services This emphasis area includes services to individuals exhibiting both transitory and severe and persistent substance use problems, as well as motivational and engagement strategies and strategies for relapse prevention and sustained recovery. Proposals may include presentations on the major treatment modalities, as well as specific interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapies, social model of recovery, strategies to improve active involvement and retention, culturally-specific treatment/ recovery approaches, or use of medication to facilitate recovery. We encourage different types of presentations, including research reviews, as well as descriptions of best practices and innovative approaches.

Innovative and Effective Practices in Community Support Services

Individuals and communities with alcohol and other drug problems typically have a range of other co-related problems that are barriers to overcoming their alcohol and drug problems. Recovery support services including housing, employment, follow-up AOD services, as well as community-building, neighborhood mobilization and participation in civic activities or in programs that promote civic participation improve outcomes for individuals recovering from alcoholism and addiction. Likewise, AOD prevention efforts when combined with community development and access to an array of health and social services improve wellness. Presentations that identify successful and promising efforts to fight stigma, instill civic participation or integrated approaches that address comprehensive individual, family and community needs are encouraged.

Culturally Responsive Approaches for Specific Populations

The delivery of high-quality AOD services must involve approaches and program staff that have a deeper understanding of the racial, ethnic, cultural, sexual orientation, age, and linguistic characteristics of their program participants, their families and the environments in which they live. Culturally competent AOD programmatic services will have more favorable outcomes and increase the satisfaction of the individual receiving the services. Within this emphasis area, we encourage proposals that include promising practices and proven techniques and modalities that work in different cultures in prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery support. The workshop should include all aspects of policy making, administration, service delivery and involve consumers, key stakeholders and communities.

Responding to the Needs of Women

A substantial body of research identifies unique characteristics of women including their reasons for initiating substance use, the consequences they experience, the type of barriers and motivations for entering treatment, treatment service needs, relapse risks, and recovery support needs. Research on substance use, prevention, intervention, and treatment for women, girls, and special populations of women has yielded some promising approaches. We encourage proposals by researchers, practitioners and policymakers that report findings about which prevention, intervention and treatment services are particularly effective. We hope to explore the following: 1) effective prevention for girls and women; 2) characteristics of gender-responsive programs; and, 3) how mixed-gender programs can evaluate their programs for gender-responsiveness.

Integrated Substance Abuse and Criminal Justice

Drug and alcohol abuse have been negative factors in the lives of most people incarcerated in California’s prisons and jails. Research has shown that providing treatment reduces the rate of recidivism, thereby increasing the numbers of parolees whose lives can be salvaged, while simultaneously reducing prison and jail costs. These factors support the current wave of prison reform in which more non-violent felons are being moved earlier into community alcohol and drug treatment. Successful treatment and criminal justice supervision ultimately depend upon understanding the special program issues faced by offenders as they are released into communities. Workshop proposals should address these program issues, as well as the need for increased professional collaboration by criminal justice and AOD treatment professionals.

Youth and Family-Focused Services

Youth and Family-Focused Services address a number of risk and protective factors, while striving for developmental and cultural appropriateness. The prevention and treatment of adolescent substance use is associated with teen pregnancy, violence, and delinquency and clearly affects academic achievement. Family-focused approaches integrate intervention services for children and youth, gender-responsive services, as well as family support services. By serving families, programs concurrently serve individuals with a wide range of substance abuse service needs across the continuum, while also improving resiliency and coping skills for everyone. California has a number of established collaborative models for reaching, engaging and serving youth and families. Workshop proposals may include presentations on youth development, and family focused approaches which incorporate prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery.

Integrated Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention, Intervention, Treatment, Recovery, and Community Support

A number of recent California task forces have recognized the importance of integrating services for people with addictive disorders and other psychiatric conditions. Likewise, there are often overlaps in the prevention and early intervention of mental health and substance abuse problems. We seek proposals in the areas of prevention, intervention, treatment, recovery and community support that contribute to effectively addressing both substance use and mental health disorders. These proposals can focus on the activities of larger systems (such as counties), specific programs, or they can focus on improving clinical skills. We hope to have the full spectrum of mental disorders addressed, including severe and persistent mental illness.

Process and Other Addictions (Gambling, Eating Disorders, and Tobacco Use)

The AOD field will benefit from increased understanding of process and other addictions, and how to prevent, intervene and support recovery from them. The expansion of gambling and gaming throughout California is having a drastic and destructive impact on the health and economic stability of Californians, and is increasingly present in those seeking help for substance abuse problems. Likewise, many AOD program participants have co-occurring tobacco use or eating disorders that may not be recognized or addressed while in treatment and that pose significant relapse factors. We are seeking proposals that provide introductory and advanced education on the prevention, treatment and recovery strategies of process and other addictions, particularly gambling, eating disorders, and tobacco use.

Systems Planning and Research

Services research seeks to identify effective ways to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high-quality services. Services research examines how social factors, financing systems, organizational structures and processes, technologies, and personal beliefs and behaviors affect access to and utilization of services, and the quality, cost and outcomes of services, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The AOD field faces a political and fiscal climate in which growth and success are linked to demonstration of outcomes and cost-effectiveness. Specific proposals that describe an effective approach to a services research topic such as: workforce development, collaborative planning, sustainability, collaborative structures, cross-system financing, and outcome-based evaluation are encouraged.

Call for Presenters submission is now closed.