This years conference is sponsored by the Prevention Leaders Network
Title: Supervision of Behavioral Health Professionals Conference
Format: Virtual via Zoom
Date: November 10-12, 2026
Time: 9 am- 4:00 pm CDT
Continuing Education Hours: 18 CEH’s in Multiple IC&RC Domains
Price: $450
Registration: Click to Register
Schedule:
November 10th
9:00-10:30 1) The Three Levels of Supervision by Mitchell Moore
10:30-12:00- 2) Developing the Developers: How to Supervise Prevention Specialists for Growth, Belonging & Success with Kendra Tapie
1:00-2:30 3) Assessing the Challenges of Supervision by Mitchell Moore
2:30-4:00 4) Generations in the Workforce by Rikki Barton
November 11th
9:00-10:30 5) The Future History of Prevention: How Yesterday’s Lessons Are Shaping Tomorrow’s Communities by Steve Miller
10:30-12:00- 6) The Prevention Workforce: Recruitment, Retention and Supervision with Julie Stevens
1:00-2:30 7) The Prevention Workforce: Recruitment, Retention and Supervision part 2
2:30-4:00 8) Tactical Conflict Resolution by Louise Montag
November 12th
9:00-10:30 9) Understanding Facilitative Leadership by Karie Terhark
10:30-12:00- 10) Creating Your Story with Ben Tanzer
1:00-2:30 11) Supporting Those Who Serve by Jen Schneeman
2:30-4:00 12) Overcoming the Identified Challenges of Supervision with Mitchell Moore
All virtual workshops are subject to change. They are scheduled in Central Time, CST, Use the time zone converter , then enter Texas, Houston
Course Descriptions:
1) The Three Levels of Supervision
Objectives:
Presenter: Mitchell Moore
2) Developing the Developers: How to Supervise Prevention Specialists for Growth, Belonging & Success Effective supervision is about more than managing tasks, meeting deadlines, and ensuring programs are implemented correctly. Supervisors have the opportunity to develop the people who carry out the work. This interactive workshop will explore how strengths-based supervision, intentional feedback, meaningful connection, and professional development can help prevention specialists grow in confidence, competence, and commitment. Participants will reflect on their own leadership and identify practical ways to create a work environment where staff feel supported, challenged, valued, and motivated to grow.
Objectives:
1. Identify characteristics of effective, strengths-based supervision that support employee growth and engagement.
2. Recognize opportunities within their current supervisory practices to intentionally develop the strengths, skills, and confidence of the people they supervise.
3. Develop one specific action they will implement within the next 30 days to strengthen their approach to staff development.
Presenter: Kendra Tapie
3) Assessing the Challenges of Supervision
Skill: Objectives:
Presenter: Mitchell Moore
4) Generations in the Workforce Have you been the recipient or the giver of ‘shade-throwing’ on your generation (“okay Boomer” or “entitled Millennial”)? These terms often come from a place of misunderstanding and our workplace can become a frustrating environment if we don’t understand the core values of each generation. The current workforce primarily includes four generations: Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Z. Each of these generations have different experiences, values, beliefs, perspectives, philosophies, desires, and interests…all of which influence how they work, who they want to work with, and the emphasis they place on varying tasks and development. As leaders in your field, it is vital to not only know these differences, but to see them for what they are – an opportunity to harness the differences to spark intrapreneurship, innovation, collaboration, and sustainability. This session will explore the key aspects of the generations and what that means for employing them and working alongside them. We’ll discuss how we can harness differences to advance our work and sustain the future of the field. The session will conclude with provoking discussion and practical tips on engaging individuals from all generations in our work.
Objectives:
- Describe the key aspects of the four main generations in the current workforce and what that means for practical purposes of working with a generation-diverse field.
- Examine how to harness the differences between each generation in order to learn, grow and sustain each generation.
- Create discussion and takeaways on how to best engage the generations to improve the workforce.
Presenter: Rikki Barton
5) The Future History of Prevention: How Yesterday’s Lessons Are Shaping Tomorrow’s Communities- Prevention has continually evolved as research, practice, and community understanding have expanded. This interactive session explores the progression of substance misuse prevention—from early educational campaigns to today’s evidence-based, community-centered approaches—and examines emerging trends that may shape the field’s future. Participants will consider how prevention continues to move upstream by addressing the conditions that influence health, resilience, and belonging. Designed for supervisors and prevention leaders, this session encourages reflection on how today’s decisions about workforce development, partnerships, and community engagement can help prepare organizations for the next generation of prevention practice.
Objectives: Apply an understanding of prevention’s evolution to guide supervision, workforce development, and organizational planning.
Presenter: Steve Miller
6 & 7) The Prevention Workforce: Recruitment, Retention and Supervision– As an advancing field of professional service, substance misuse prevention is expanding through levels of certification and through concurrent initiatives with behavioral health. As the certification process advances in states, jurisdictions and tribes, there is little to no training specifically for supervising prevention staff. The basic goals of supervision of the prevention specialist are to ensure the delivery of high-quality interventions, create a positive work environment, and develop staff professional and administrative skills. This session will discuss characteristics of effective supervisors, the prevention supervisor job description, supervision tools and ethical issues for supervisors.
Objectives:
- To familiarize the prevention supervisor with the IC&RC core standards for prevention specialists;
- To identify prevention supervision roles, tasks, and outcomes;
- To increase the ability of the supervisor to guide, monitor and evaluate performance of the prevention specialist;
- To identify the prevention supervisors’ responsibilities to foster an ethical workplace through personal compliance and setting the ethical tone; and
- To increase the supervisors’ ability to model and foster cultural competence in the prevention specialists that they supervise.
Presenter: Julie Stevens
8) Tactical Conflict Resolution – Conflict is an inevitable byproduct of a high-functioning team. When harnessed correctly, it serves as a powerful force for innovation and growth; however, left unmanaged, it stalls progress and erodes culture. This session provides a “leader’s toolkit” for navigating disagreement with precision and neutrality. We will begin by identifying the root causes of difficult dynamics and reframing friction as a productive tool for improvement. You will then master a structured five-step process for resolution.
Objectives: List potential causes and solutions of difficult conflict situations.
Presenter: Louise Montag
9) Understanding Facilitative Leadership: Exploring the Continuum of Participation– This session highlights the differences between the traditional top-down leadership style and a more collaborative, facilitative way of leading groups. It’s all about seeing facilitation as more than just a method, but as a key tool to get everyone engaged and moving forward together. We’ll look at how the level of participation directly shapes leadership effectiveness and discover ways to make decisions that draw on everyone’s strengths. This session aims to start you on your journey to becoming a leader who prioritizes respect and inclusivity, ensuring everyone’s voice is heard and valued in the conversation.
Objectives: Participants will be able to differentiate between Traditional/Hierarchical Leadership and Facilitative Leadership.
Presenter: Karie Terhark
10) Creating Your Story
Objectives:
Presenter: Ben Tanzer
11) Supporting Those Who Serve: Trauma-Informed Nervous System Approaches to Behavioral Health Workforce Retention and Burnout Prevention- In today’s high-performance environments, chronic stress, stuck survival energy and unresolved trauma are not just personal challenges, they are organizational risks that directly impact communication, behavior, psychological safety, burnout and retention. This course equips leaders and people managers with a practical, trauma-informed framework to understand how the nervous system drives workplace behavior and performance.
Participants will learn to identify observable indicators of both regulated and dysregulated states, ranging from proactive engagement and clear communication to reactivity, withdrawal, and workplace disruption, and interpret their impact on team dynamics, performance, and risk factors such as absenteeism, presenteeism, turnover, safety incidents, and potential substance misuse.
Through the application of Real-Time Resilience and the ABCs of Presence, participants will build skills to regulate responses in high-stress situations, communicate with clarity, maintain professional boundaries and effectively de-escalate conflict. The course emphasizes personal energy capacity, documenting observable behavior, aligning responses with HR policies and balancing psychological safety with consistent performance expectations.
Participants will also design trauma-informed, nervous system–aware strategies that strengthen engagement, retention, and workplace safety. This includes integrating early intervention approaches, recognizing risk indicators (including alcohol and substance misuse), leveraging support resources such as EAP and aligning practices with performance management and organizational compliance.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to translate nervous system awareness into actionable employee relations strategies: energy hygiene to reduce burnout, improve retention, enhance workplace communication and mitigate organizational risk.
Objectives: Participants will be able to observe and interpret the impact of continuous high performance, stress and trauma on employee behavior, psychological safety and workplace dynamics.
Presenter: Jen Schneeman
12) Overcoming the Identified Challenges of Supervision
Objectives:
Presenter: Mitchell Moore
Presenters:
1, 3 & 12) Mitchell Moore BAT, ACPS, LCDC, ADC is a dynamic educator who has a passion for training people and serves those who serve by designing and delivering training and across America. He is an advanced certified prevention specialist and licensed chemical dependency counselor who has extensive experience working with youth and families in both prevention and recovery settings. He has served as a counselor, prevention specialist, a grant writer and executive director of a charitable organization. In 2019, he was awarded the Texas Prevention Specialist of the Year. He is currently an independent contractor, a beekeeper and volunteers his time with Prevention Training Services and the Texas Certification Board.
2) Kendra Tapie, M.Ed., ACPS, is the Regional Director of Prevention for Serenity Foundation of Texas – Impact Youth Prevention Program, where she oversees three prevention campuses in Abilene, Wichita Falls, and Weatherford, Texas. With 20 years of experience in substance use prevention, Kendra is passionate about developing prevention professionals and strengthening the impact of prevention in communities.
Kendra is an Advanced Certified Prevention Specialist and serves as a Board Member of the Texas Certification Board, where she contributes to the development and advancement of prevention professional standards. She is also a trainer for 2 prevention developers and teaches many prevention trainings.
Kendra has extensive experience in coalition development, prevention programming, leadership, and professional development. She previously served as Chair of the Taylor Alliance for Prevention Coalition for five years and has been actively involved in advancing the prevention workforce.
Kendra holds a master’s degree in Counseling and Human Development from Hardin-Simmons University and was honored as the 2023 Texas Prevention Specialist of the Year.
4) Rikki Barton CPS, has a passion for moving individuals and communities onward in their goals. She is the CEO/Lead Consultant of Onward Consulting and is a Certified Prevention Specialist. Rikki has nearly two decades of prevention field experience and currently serves as a consultant to assist organizations, coalitions, and state/federal agencies in the areas of substance use prevention, suicide prevention, and mental health promotion. She has extensive experience working with community coalitions, providing training, public speaking, grant writing, grant evaluation, managing funding sources, and leading a team of preventionists. Rikki trains for several national organizations including CADCA’s youth and adult programs, the Opioid Response Network, the National Coalition Institute, various SAMHSA Prevention Technology Transfer Centers (PTTCs), as well as for National Council for Mental Wellbeing as an Adult, Youth, and Teen Mental Health First Aid Instructor. Rikki holds a Bachelors degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Masters degree from Liberty University. In her free time, Rikki loves to travel to adventurous places and be active in nature with her rescue dog, Oreo.
5) Steve Miller is a prevention specialist, trainer, and storyteller with more than two decades of experience helping communities address substance misuse, mental health, and related public health challenges. He has designed and delivered trainings for prevention professionals, coalition leaders, educators, healthcare providers, and community stakeholders across the country. Known for his engaging and practical facilitation style, Steve combines evidence-based prevention principles with real-world experience to create learning environments that are interactive, relevant, and immediately applicable. As the founder of Voices and Vision of Prevention, he is passionate about translating complex concepts into accessible conversations that strengthen communities and inspire action.
6 & 7) Julie Stevens MPS, ACPS, ICPS is an Advanced Certified Prevention Specialist and was a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor for 20 years. She has served as Director of Prevention for the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, and Training Specialist for the University of Oklahoma’s Southwest Prevention Center.
8) Louise Montag, BS, CPC, is a public health professional with a decade of experience, specializing in substance misuse prevention. As the Owner and CEO of Montag Forward Solutions LLC, she provides strategic guidance and training to prevention professionals nationwide. Formerly the Executive Director at Prevention Network, she has led community-based prevention initiatives and developed numerous resources for the field. Recognized with awards such as the Certified Prevention Consultant of the year, Prevention Specialist of the Year, Top 10 in 10 Years, and the Arthur Ashe ESPY, Louise is committed to fostering effective leaders and sustainable organizations dedicated to social good. In her free time, she enjoys traveling with her husband, staying active, and spending time with her dogs.
9) Karie Terhark
10) Ben Tanzer is an Emmy-award winning coach, creative strategist, podcaster, writer, teacher, advisor, mentor, and social worker who has been helping nonprofits, publishers, authors, small business and career changers tell their stories for 30 years.
11) Jen Schneeman is a soul-driven scientist with 24 years in health & human performance. She is trauma-informed nervous system resilience specialist, board-certified holistic mental health coach and founder of REAL Human Performance.
Early in her career, Jen served as a science + tech advisor at DARPA/Defense Sciences Office and the Air Force Research Lab, Human Performance Wing, studying epigenetics – how trauma, nutrition, and stress uniquely impact human resilience and also inform future determinants of health.
She translated those scientific insights into real-time resilience training and has coached two NFL teams, four military branches, dozens of corporations, hundreds of health-conscious leaders, recovery peers and treatment professionals and thousands of other real humans just like us, looking to optimize their personal energy for more flow and less drag in life.
In 2016, Jen authored and tested Self Care and Resilience™ (SCAR) – a personalized nervous system-based burnout resilience program that guides people to unlock their stuck stress patterns, expand their energy capacity and become burnout proof. Jen guides real humans to live a life of real-time resilience without the stress of nonstop thoughts and exhausting energy leaks.
Jen doesn’t just coach real-time resilience, she lives it, having navigated burnout in a post-9/11 culture of constant go-go-go-collapse. She uses humor, lived experience and science-backed methods that guide real humans to live with more awareness, self-trust and peace to thrive amidst the everyday stressors.
Jen believes in the power of peer support and is an ally to youth leaders and advocates across prevention, recovery, and treatment spaces, guiding others to hold trauma-informed spaces and carry the grounded presence needed to lead, connect and create meaningful change. In addition to working with high-impact helping peers and professionals, Jen also facilitates therapeutic nervous system resilience programs within survivor groups of sexual assault, addiction, PTSD and TBI.
She holds the steady belief that when we manage our personal energy, we increase sustainability for ourselves, for our communities and for our planet. For her own battery recharging, you can find Jen outside in nature: gardening, kayaking, hiking and camping with her husband, daughter and sheepdog, Willow.