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The Adolescent Clinical Excellence Conference brings together renowned speakers, subject matter experts and innovative practitioners dedicated to delivering the highest quality substance use disorder and mental health treatment for the adolescent population. This conference will meet your high expectations for deepening your knowledge of treatment modalities, family systems, and trauma-informed care.

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  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Social Worker

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Maeve has worked in behavioral health for over 35 years, 20 years in the Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia area, then Texas since 2006, and the last 15 years nationally with jobs covering multiple state locations. Her first 10 years were in direct clinical service with all populations, 10 years in program management with all settings and the last 15 years in executive leadership with national organizations specializing in Ethics and Compliance. As a former Behavioral Health Surveyor with The Joint Commission and a long career committed to excellence, she has a passion for quality and safe care as well as happy and healthy staff. Combining all her experience and education she most enjoys facilitating staff, team and leadership educational support and development programs for behavioral health professionals to engage staff, empower teams and enhance organizational culture focused on resilience, regulatory and reliability utilizing the research-based work of Brené Brown. Maeve believes this is the roadmap to prevent burnout, detect turnover and correct cultures to ensure healthy and happy staff who are ethical and compliant to provide quality and safe care. Most importantly, Maeve is a parent to 2 young adult children, Aidan and Delaney who are guides and supports on the journey who inspire her the most. She currently serves as the National Compliance Director at Circa Behavioral Healthcare Solutions!
Dr. Brad Reedy is the Co-Founder, Owner and Chief Clinical Officer for Finding You Therapy Programs near Park City, Utah. Finding You is an experientially based therapy program grounded in attachment theory for families, couples, and individuals. Prior to founding Finding You Therapy Programs, Dr. Brad Reedy served for more than 25 years as a Co-owner and Clinical Director of Evoke Therapy Programs. While at Evoke, he created Finding You Intensives, an attachment-based, experiential therapeutic intensive program that helps participants to connect their past to their current questions and issues. Finding You Programs’ Intensives offer a springboard into therapy for those new to the journey, and for those already on their therapy journey, these programs offer an offer participants an accelerator and compliant to their work. Brad also served as a primary therapist, Clinical Director and Executive Director for Second Nature Wilderness Programs helping that program to become the most successful wilderness therapy program in the country. He has served on the Board of the Utah Department of Child and Family Services, the Board of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs, the Choose Mental Health board, and the En Garde Arts Board, a New York based theatre company. He is a prolific public speaker and has been invited to deliver keynote addresses at conferences, private events, nationally syndicated radio shows, and universities on experiential therapy, mental health issues treatment, childhood issues, and parenting. After years as a parent educator, having broadcast over 1,600 webinars on parent and family issues, he authored The Journey of the Heroic Parent: Your Child's Struggle and the Road Home and The Audacity to be You: Learning to Love Your Horrible, Rotten Self. He also hosts the podcast, Finding You: with Dr. Brad Reedy.
Board-certified in addiction psychiatry and adult psychiatry, Daryl Shorter, MD, is the medical director of Addictions Services at Menninger and also works in Outpatient Assessments. He is also an associate professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. Prior to his arrival at Menninger, Dr. Shorter served as an attending psychiatrist at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Administration Medical Center in Houston. His research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Addictions, Journal of Psychiatric Practice, Addiction Biology, American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. He also has contributed to chapters in books such as Biologics to Treat Substance Use Disorders: Vaccines, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Enzymes, Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology and ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training. In addition, Dr. Shorter is a past reviewer for the journals Drug and Alcohol Dependence and American Journal on Addictions. He serves on the board of directors for the Archway Academy in Houston. Dr. Shorter earned his bachelor's degree from Rice University and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. His postgraduate training includes a general psychiatry residency at The Ohio State University and an addictions fellowship at New York University.

Financially Sponsored By

  • BrentCare Behavioral Health