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Conference Program

Sharing Best Practices in Mental Health Services for Children and their Families
September 8 and 9, 2008
Portland, Oregon

Conference Location: Downtown Embassy Suites, Portland, Oregon
Click for On-Line Hotel Reservations

Conference Registration Form

Our conference focuses on implementation, fidelity-monitoring, and outcomes of evidence-based practices. As part of our Real Data in Real Time conference series, we require that all presentations either include data in the presentation or provide tools and resources that the attendee can walk away with. These presentations represent services to children and families in a variety of settings and service systems, including child welfare, juvenile justice, psychiatric residential treatment, outpatient, and treatment foster care.

Our keynote speaker will be world-renowed child psychiatrist, Peter Jensen, M.D. Dr. Jensen currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of The REACH Institute. Prior to assuming this role, he served as the Founding Director of the Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health (CACMH) at Columbia University, where he also held the endowed chair as the Ruane Professor of Child Psychiatry at Columbia University (2000-2007). From 1989 to 200, Dr. Jensen was the Associate Director of Child and Adolescent Research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he served as the lead investigator on the landmark study of Multimodal Treatment of ADHD ("The MTA Study").

His major areas of work and research include identifying, disseminating, and implementing evidence-based mental health treatments in real world settings, and the adoption of best practices by health care practitioners, parents, schools, and other mental health organizations. He is also a sought-out expert on child and adolescent ADHD (Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), child & adolescent depression, and child psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and epidemiology.

Please note: best practice tools distributed during the conference will not be published on our web site.

Agenda (information on presentations presented in links below)

2008 Conference Schedule (PDF)

Continuing Education

We have applied to offer 8.5 NASW and NBCC CEUs.

Conference Location

Multnomah Hotel (by Embassy Suites) 319 SW Pine Street Portland, Oregon 97204 TEL: 503-279-9000 FAX: 503-497-9051. The Multnomah Hotel is a beautifully restored 100-year old hotel. Each suite is unique and includes a hosted manager's reception nightly, a complimentary full cooked-to-order breakfast, and many other amenities.

We have reserved a block of rooms at a rate of $143/night which includes a full, hot, cooked-to-order breakfast. Rooms are guaranteed at this rate until August 13, 2008. After that date, rooms may be reserved at this rate based on availability.

Please make reservations on line or by phone (503-279-9000). If you make a reservation by phone, identify yourself as an attendee of the CHARPP Real Data Conference in September.

Registration Fee

• $255 regular registration.
• $220 early registration (before 8/17/2008).

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received by September 1, 2008 will be refunded in full minus a 15% processing fee. Cancellations made after that date cannot be refunded. To ensure that your cancellation was received, contact Rolanda Sory at (503) 399-9076.

For Registration Questions

Rolanda Sory
OACP/CHARPP
707 13th Street SE, Suite 290
Salem, OR 97301
Email Rolanda Sory
PHONE: (503) 399-9076
FAX: (503) 362-0149

For More Information

Jeanne Negley
CHARPP
4455 NE Highway 20
Corvallis, OR 97330
Email Jeanne Negley
Toll-free Phone: 1-888-523-5225
Fax: 541-758-5968

Transportation to the Hotel from Portland Airport

To get from the Portland Airport to The Multnomah Hotel, a visitor can take a cab or the Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) light rail. Cab: A cab costs about $35 and take about 20-25 minutes in travel time. MAX light rail: From the airport, you take the MAX Red Line to City Center & Beaverton TC. Exit at Oak/SW 1st Ave MAX Station. Walk 0.2 miles to The Multnomah Hotel by Embassy Suites at 314 SW Pine Street (2 blocks west on SW Oak Street, turn right on SW 3rd Street, walk 1 block north on SW 3rd Avenue). Cost is $2.00; travel time is 39 minutes (including 5 minutes walking). In addition, MAX rides are free within the downtown Portland. For more information on MAX, visit www.tri-met.org.

Local Area Information

To learn more about traveling in Oregon, go to Travel Oregon.

Transportation within Portland. Portland offers several excellent transportation options. To help familiarize you with the downtown Portland area, we have attached an interactive map that shows the hotel location as well as transportation options downtown. The Embassy Suites Hotel is #9 on the map.

• Portland International Airport (PDX) is currently served by 16 international and domestic commercial airlines offering over 300 arrivals and 300 departures daily. Daily non-stop flights are offered from 33 U.S. cities.
• The MAX light rail system runs on a 38-mile track connecting downtown to its east and west suburbs and is the only west coast city to offer direct rail service to and from the airport. The PDX light rail station is conveniently located next to the south baggage claim area. Downtown-to-airport travel time is approximately 38 minutes. MAX service begins around 4:30 a.m. and runs every 3-10 minutes until midnight.
• The new Portland streetcar system now links Portland's downtown Cultural District, the Pearl District, the Northwest/Nob Hill neighborhood and Portland State University. The sleek European-designed streetcars follow a 4.8-mile loop route that travels through the PSU campus, downtown Portland, the art gallery-filled Pearl District and Nob Hill, known for its outstanding restaurants and upscale shopping. Click here to find the Portland Streetcar's schedule.
• "Fareless Square"--there is such a thing as a free ride in Portland. Transportation on all MAX light rail trains, buses, trolleys and streetcars is free in the 330-block area called "Fareless Square," which encompasses downtown Portland and stretches across the Willamette River to include the Oregon Convention Center, Rose Garden arena (home to the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers) and the Lloyd Center mall.

Restaurants. We invite you to visit Willamette Week's "Food Finder" website and search by name, cuisine, or neighborhood.

What to See & Do

Portland is an excellent destination for music, the arts, shopping (tax-free!), dinning, and outdoor recreation.

• Drown out the city noise in the Portland Classical Chinese Garden, an entire city block of tranquility. We also have a Japanese Garden that is most beautiful during the Fall.
• Ride the only three-door elevator west of the Mississippi at Powell's City of Books, the world's largest independent bookstore. Powell's spans a full city block and rises three stories to house its selection of 1 million new, used and out-of-print titles.
• Visit the Oregon Zoo, where more Asian elephants have been born than in any other North American city.
• Get caught in an earthquake registering 5.5 on the Richter scale at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI).
• Visit turn-of-the-century Victorian and Georgian homes along the tree-lined blocks of Northwest 21st and 23rd avenues that have been reincarnated, housing more than 250 unique shops, brewpubs, art outlets and eateries.
• Hob-nob with local artists in the Pearl District's elegant cafes, exotic boutiques, and fine art galleries. Learn about the mysterious past of the Old Town/Chinatown District. Or experience some of the nightlife that Old Town is best known for today.
• Catch dramatic city views as you stroll or bike along the new Eastbank Esplanade.
• Oregon Historical Society: Oregon my Oregon, an award-winning exhibit with more than 50 separate displays tell the Oregon story with artifacts, artwork, photographs, documents, audio/visual presentations, and hands-on displays.
• Portland Art Museum: Features a diverse collection of European painting and sculpture, American painting and sculpture, silver, Asian art, Native American art, Pre-Columbian art, Cameroon and other African art, contemporary art, sculpture, prints and drawings, and photography.
• Columbia Gorge Discovery Center Cargo: Equipment and Supplies of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
• Portland Saturday Market offers more than 250 craft booths, as well as an international food court and live entertainment. Open Saturdays and Sundays March through December 24.

Regional Attractions

Within easy driving distance of Portland you can also find:

Mt. Hood and Timberline Lodge
Multnomah Falls and the historic Columbia Gorge Scenic Highway
The Willamette Valley wine country
The scenic Oregon Coast

If you plan on extending your stay, and getting out of the city a little, Travel Oregon is an excellent site for more information on other Oregon attractions.