If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, you will definitely want nominate your agency to participate in the Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center’s Organizational Process Improvement Initiative (OPII). The Pacific Southwest ATTC’s OPII is a yearlong intensive learning opportunity for staff within your agency to receive intensive technical assistance and organizational coaching from a team of Pacific Southwest ATTC-affiliated expert faculty.
If selected, your agency will receive the following resources and benefits from the Pacific Southwest ATTC:
To receive provisional acceptance into the OPII, your agency must:
The timeline for the Pacific Southwest ATTC’s Organizational Process Improvement initiative (OPII) is found below:
What? |
When? |
How? |
Submit your agency’s qualifying application to be considered for the Pacific Southwest ATTC’s OPII |
On or before November 8, 2019. |
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Notification of provisional acceptance and invitation to complete application |
Within two (2) weeks of submitting qualifying application |
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Complete application |
On or before November 30, 2019 |
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Receive formal acceptance into OPII and invitation to attend Change Facilitator Academy |
Week of December 16, 2019 |
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Complete mandatory Academy Pre-Work |
On or before January 17, 2020 |
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Attend the three-day Change Facilitator Academy |
February 4-6, 2020 |
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Conduct Change Team Kick Off Meeting at your agency |
On or before May 30, 2020 |
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Begin Implementation Activities within your agency |
On or before August 30, 2020 |
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Complete OPII Change Team Initiative Sustainability Report |
On or before December 31, 2020 |
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Description of the Three-Day Change Facilitator Academy
Facilitating patient change is an essential skill of effective behavioral health care. Facilitating organizational change is an essential element of implementing evidence-based practices and other practice improvement and systems change strategies. In this intensive, multi-day skill-building Change Facilitator Academy, participants will learn about organizational change team facilitation and its application to practice improvement and the implementation of evidence-based practices. At the conclusion of the three-day Academy, participants will be able to:
Change Facilitator Academy Details
When:
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 – Thursday, February 6, 2020
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. each day (full participation required)
Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. each day, and the Academy will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. each day.
Where:
East Bay Community Foundation
James Irvine Foundation Conference Center
353 Frank H Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, California 94612
Faculty:
Target Audience:
Cost:
The three-day Change Facilitator Academy is FREE for accepted individuals. Selected participants are responsible for their own air/ground transportation, overnight accommodations at an Oakland-based hotel, and other related travel expenses.
Continuing Education Credit/Contact Hours:
The workshop course meets the qualifications for the provision of eighteen (18.0) continuing education credits/contact hours (CEs/CEHs).
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. UCLA ISAP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
UCLA ISAP is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs (Provider #64812). UCLA ISAP maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for eighteen (18.0) hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCS, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. UCLA ISAP is also an approved provider of continuing education for RADTs I/ II, CADCs-CASs, CADCs I/II, CADCs-CSs, and LAADCs (CCAPP, #2N-00-445-1119), CATCs (ACCBC/ CAADE, #CP40 872 C 0822), and CAODCs (CADTP, #151). Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #15455, for 18.0 contact hours. UNR CASAT is an approved provider of continuing education credit for NCACs I/II and MACs through the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC, #98165).CE credit will be awarded at the conclusion of the three-day workshop. Partial credit will not be available for those participants who arrive late or leave early on any given day or do not attend the Academy in full.
For further Information: http://uclaisap.org/psattc-opii/
For registration:https://uclahs.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3zaQIVQVDIfppat,