Conferences & Events

The VACBP hosts three annual conferences where we will bring subject matter experts, senior officials at DMAS and DBHDS, policy leaders, MCO representatives and others to our members so they can learn, make connections, promote their agencies, pursue partnership opportunities, ask questions and share concerns.

The VACBP's Fall Conference featured a top-notch agenda with subject matter experts, speakers and guests who presented on a range of important issues impacting behavioral health providers in Virginia, including:

Virginia's vision for school-based services.
Sessions with representatives from the Office of Licensing and the Department of Health Professionals on compliance for practitioners and agencies.
Association roundtable with representatives from some of Virginia's top healthcare associations gathered to discuss the top healthcare and behavioral health challenges, priorities, and opportunities to work together in 2020.
Trauma-informed care: what it means, why it’s important, how to integrate it into community mental health treatment and what it means for Virginia’s transformed system.
Applied behavior therapy, beyond autism treatment: how applied behavior therapy can benefit services across the system.
Behavioral health redesign: Advancing proactive evidence-based solutions.
Grit and resilience: A different perspective on clinician self-care.
The 2019 Virginia Elections: What's at stake.
Break-out sessions on breaking down administrative barriers, strategies for buying commercial insurance and CARF accreditation in behavioral health.