Join us for an ACRC Webinar!
Are You Doing What You Think You’re Doing? Developing Internal Model Fidelity Measures for Confidence, Adaptation, and Quality Improvement
Friday, November 8, 2024
12 - 1:30 p.m. CST
Clinical and Quality leadership haven’t always strategically and proactively collaborated to move clinical practice wisdom into quality measurements that influence and change therapeutic milieus in practical and measurable ways. Currently direct practitioners require both preventative and responsive options for providing safe and effective treatment environments in ways that lessen the need for restraint use, reduce provider burnout, and increase positive outcomes for clients by cultivating relationships and self-regulation skills. Using Nexus Family Healing’s trauma-informed milieu model (Empowering Restorative Engagement-ERE) which combines three well-established behavioral health approaches, Nexus’ Clinical and Quality & Evaluation leadership are working together to co-create measurement tools that support model fidelity to Nexus’ trauma-informed care milieu model to assess changes in outcomes that support a therapeutic environment where staff and youth feel safe. Creating clarity for model fidelity also supports the adaptations needed to best meet the changing needs of clients or circumstances such as funding contraction or expansion. Join us!
Presented by:
Anita Larson is Vice President of Quality & Evaluation at Nexus Family Healing where she leads quality improvement, planning, and evaluation staff who support multiple agencies in five states, providing residential, outpatient, crisis stabilization and other behavioral health services. She also chairs the Nexus-Institutional Review Board and oversees compliance and risk management activities. She has been a county human services case worker, worked at the state level on federally-funded integrated data projects, was a research fellow at the University of Minnesota, and has provided planning, evaluation and analysis support to multiple sectors since the mid-1990s including child welfare, human services, public health, community corrections, and education. She holds a Doctorate in Public Administration from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN.
Elizabeth Williams “Liz” is the Director of Clinical Services-Residential for Nexus Family Healing (NFH). Liz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, has her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy, and her undergraduate in Psychology. She is also a Board Approved Supervisor for both the Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy, and the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy. Liz has served as the Executive Director at one of NFH’s former agencies working with adolescent females. She has been in her current role for the last five years years. She works with all nine residential agencies across five states. Leading clinical initiatives and developing agency leaders. Prior to coming to Nexus she worked in a variety of mental health settings to include adult and youth psychiatric hospitals, adult day treatment, adult in-home therapy, private practice, and several clinical and leadership positions within youth residential treatment.
Registration Rates:
Free to Members $50 Non-Members
NASW CEs: Free to ACRC Members $25 per person for non-members
