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Phase Three of the revised Federal regulations for Trauma-Informed Care and Behavioral Health Services challenge long-term care facilities to ensure that they are fully prepared to care for residents with complex psychosocial needs. This session offers an overview of the revised regulatory expectations and insight into policy development and staff education. The session will begin with a review of the revised CMS regulations for Trauma-informed Care, with a focus on understanding and integrating the principles of trauma-informed care into daily practice. In the wake of the pandemic, the facility staff must have the ability to recognize and understand the nature of trauma and how post-traumatic stress impacts behavioral health and quality of life. Then we will explore the concept of quality of life and the individual nature of satisfaction. The introduction of the Psychosocial Outcome Severity Guide requires long-term care communities look more deeply at the assessment and care planning process. This discussion will highlight strategies for policy development, staff education, and achieving and sustaining a culturally competent, trauma-informed environment of care.

OBJECTIVES:

At the conclusion of this series, the participant will be able to:

1. Describe the regulatory expectations for addressing Trauma and Behavioral Health Services;
2. Explain the importance of understanding the symptoms and challenges associated with a diagnosis PTSD, Dementia, Mental Disorder, or Substance Use Disorder; and
3. Develop improved methods for the assessment and person-centered care planning for residents with behavioral health needs.

AUDIENCE: Appropriate to all clinical disciplines/positions

The session includes a light breakfast, lunch, and 6.0 CEUs.

PRESENTER:  Barbara Speedling, Innovations for Quality Living

An inspirational and motivational speaker, Barbara is an author, educator and management consultant at the forefront of person-centered care.

An innovator with more than 30 years of practical experience within the adult care community, she is the expert providers turn to when they want to ensure that the services they provide meet not only the physical needs of their residents, but their emotional and psychosocial needs as well.

Working from a core belief in the dignity and individuality of all people, Barbara has helped countless adult care communities implement her unique training and education programs that:

• Improve the quality of care for those living with Alzheimer’s disease
• Bring better quality of life to such residents, as well as to those who live with disease-related dementia, a mental illness, or a brain injury
• Encourage staffers to use newly developed cultural empathy to form better relationships with those in their care
• Offer new strategies for promoting harmony among increasingly diverse, younger and assertive populations
• Open new pathways to maintaining regulatory compliance 
• Support leadership and organizational development

In addition to her degree in healthcare administration, Barbara is an accomplished musician and artist.  She uses those talents to develop new and creative ways of reaching out to those who are cognitively diminished.  She was also certified in 2015 by Dr. Susan Wehry as a Master Trainer for the OASIS education program for improved care of residents with dementia.

The author of two books devoted to common sense advice for meeting the holistic needs of an increasingly diverse and challenging community, both Why is Grandma Screaming and Toward Better Behavior:  Yours Mine & Everyone Else’s are now widely distributed to staff members at community, residential and long-term care facilities across the country and in Canada.

Blessed with boundless energy and tireless enthusiasm, Barbara also volunteers in her free time to offer caregiver education and support to families who need it most.  Through her affiliations with local artists and musicians in her native New York City, she also arranges therapeutic music, dance and wellness programming that improves the quality of life for local seniors.