About Summer Institute

Each July, CABHP hosts more than 350 influential professionals from Arizona’s private and public human service agencies at a 4-day event at the Hilton Sedona Resort to hear the best, most relevant speakers and presenters in the field of behavioral health.

A consistent sell-out, Summer Institute has a thirteen year history of providing excellent messaging platforms for new and emergent state and federal policies and programmatic approaches. Agency and nonprofit managers, supervisors, and practitioners from the fields of mental health, substance abuse, child welfare, and criminal justice will find a diverse array of nationally recognized speakers, over fifty breakouts sessions, and other activities including:

• The Arizona Behavioral Health Leadership Awards given to individuals throughout the state for their significant contributions to the improvement, access, and impact of behavioral health care. Previous awardees include legislators, judges, CEO’s, community activists, and other advocates of excellence in behavioral health.

• The Town Hall Forum, co-hosted with ASU’s Morrison Institute, brings together concerned citizens, and community and state leaders to address critical issues impacting or impacted by behavioral health services. Themes and concerns emanating from the forums have been published in reports entitled Arizona’s Public Behavioral Health Care System: Critical Issues in Critical Times (2009), Public Behavioral Health Care in Arizona: Preparing for the Storm (2010), and First Contact: Reflections on the First Anniversary of the Tucson Shooting (2012).

For 2012 the theme is Mission Wellness: Business and Service Alignment for Health Outcomes. Keynote speakers and breakout sessions will focus on collaboration and interagency coordination, administration and leadership, service integration, clinical practice, youth and family services, cultural competence, and crisis intervention. A complete schedule can be found here. All sessions offer CEUs. A sample of previous year’s programs can be found here.

Information on registration for 2012 beginning May 8 is available here.