2026
From Screening to Safety Planning: Recognizing Depression and Providing Suicide Care for Older Adults
This session explained the rationale for targeted depression screening in older adults and described evidence based screening tools.
It’s In Our Lane: The Role of Behavioral Health Providers in Preventing Firearm Injuries Among Older Adults
In this session, participants learned to describe the benefits of secure firearm storage and outline clinical processes for safety screening and lethal means counseling. They also practiced evaluating when Extreme Risk Protection Orders are appropriate across different clinical and community scenarios.
Meet the 4Ms: Better Care for Older Adults
This session provided an introduction to Age-Friendly Health Systems and the 4Ms framework — an evidence-based approach to caring for older adults that focuses on What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility.
Is Your Behavioral Health Workforce Ready to Meet the Needs of Older Adults?
This session provided an overview of system- and provider-level areas that behavioral healthcare organizations need to serve older adults, and introduced OCEBHA’s Older Adults Workforce Readiness Assessment Tool and Toolkit.
2025
Ethics in Action. How to Build a Strong Healthcare Workforce: The Role of Ethics in a Time of Change
This session explored an expanded understanding of ethics: Fairness, Equity, Justice, and examined a micro and macro level view of ethics analysis and the OHA policy to eliminate health inequities by 2030.