Implementing and delivering CBT in real world settings can present challenges that can interrupt efficacy and make programs harder to sustain. Everything from resource management, staffing shortages, managing crises and lacking resources can undermine the efforts and intentions of even the most well-trained leaders. This 3-hour workshop (90-minute sessions) is part didactic and part experiential, aimed to provide tools, resources and opportunities to collaboratively tackle some of the most common challenges clinical directors face when trying to apply evidence based mental health programming in community-based clinics and settings.

Participants will:

1. Receive a refresher on CBT’s essential components for the treatment of mood disorders (including assessments) and apply them to leadership.

2. Gain tools for identifying barriers and facilitators of CBT in alternative or community settings, including clinician development.

3. Collaborate on problem solving some of the most common challenges to effective program implementation in these settings.

This event is being offered to HHS Regions 3 and 4, which include Alabama, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.