2025 WASHINGTON BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE CONFERENCE
June 11-13, 2025 Kennewick, WA
ADVANCING THE FUTURE OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
We invite you to join us in presenting innovative workshops at the 35th annual Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference!
Ready to start your submission? Click HERE to go to directly to the website, or HERE for more info on what’s required in a submission!
The conference brings together a diverse group of presenters to share information about therapeutic interventions, recovery supports, promising programs, and policies that advance best practices. Our goal is to provide a learning experience that expands professional knowledge, promotes community partnerships, and helps make recovery a reality. We’re interested in sessions that are practical, replicable, and relevant to our attendees. We anticipate over 650 attendees in Kennewick—this is a great opportunity to share your knowledge and experience, and inspire others!
As a presenter at the 2025 WBHC, you’ll gain visibility and have the opportunity to interact with a broad audience. Conference attendees include clinical staff, program managers, people with lived experience, family members, peers, nonprofit staff, and staff of system partners and state agencies including the Health Care Authority, DSHS, and the Department of Corrections.
Each proposal chosen will receive a complimentary conference registration and one night hotel accommodations for each presenter (up to the limit of speakers as noted below). Travel expenses and per diem are not provided.
Submitting a Proposal
- Most workshops are scheduled for 90 minutes (limit of 3 speakers); this year we will also have a limited number of TED-style talks of 18 minutes each (limit of 1 speaker per Talk). Please tailor proposal materials and objectives to fit within one of these time frames.
- Please submit your proposal online HERE
- Completed applications must be submitted by 11:59 pm on December 5, 2024.
- Notification of acceptance will be sent out by mid-February 2025.
- More info on what’s required for a submission is available HERE.
Topics
You are invited to submit proposals that address behavioral health across the lifespan of those served. Specific areas of interest for 2025 include:
- Race, Culture & Equity in Behavioral Health
- Substance Use & Co-Occurring Disorder Treatment
- Health, Wellness & Whole Person Care
- Trauma-Informed Care/Services
- Prevention & Early Intervention
- Corrections & Mental Health
- Recovery Supports
- Care Coordination & Population Health
- Consumer-Run and/or Peer Support Services
- Homelessness, Housing & Employment
- Crisis Outreach & Diversion Services
- Services for LGBTQ+ Communities
- Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities
- Older Adults & the Aging Population
- Children & Families, Youth in Transition Services
- Services for Veterans in Community Agency Settings
- Effective messaging, storytelling & advocacy
- Measurement-Based Care
- Management, Leadership & Operations (workforce, payment & regulatory environment, customer service)
- Innovative Care Practices (including but not limited to suicide prevention, evidence-based, best & promising practices, CCBHCs, helping clients transition from inpatient to community services)
Ready to start your submission? Click HERE!
Questions? Contact Alison Avery at aavery@thewashingtoncouncil.org or (206) 306-3712.
The Washington Council for Behavioral Health is grateful for funding from the Health Care Authority & the Department of Corrections.