Accelerating Reform Initiative (ARI)

NIATx Accelerating Reform Initiative (ARI)
Project Description

Phase I: Health Care Reform Readiness Inventory

Each participant will conduct an inventory, based on the Seven Systemic Conditions of Integrated Holistic Care and Health Care Reform, to assess their organizational readiness. Each participant will be partnered with a coach who will provide assistance in interpreting and applying the instrument.

Phase II: Leadership Forum

In this two-day forum, participants will learn about innovative approaches being applied by their peers and promising practices from outside behavioral health. The forum will include a facilitated discussion on the merits of the approaches presented and presentations from experts in managing change, design thinking, and surviving market disruption. Participants will be asked to develop a targeted action plan on how to accelerate reform efforts within their organizations and set goals for what they want to accomplish by July 2010.

Phase III: Action, Networking, and Continued Learning Phase

Each participant will be aligned with a peer partner and NIATx coach to implement their action plan. This portion of the project will incorporate multimedia-networking strategies to facilitate on-going interaction between the participants, faculty, and coaches. Facebook and scheduled conference calls will be used to introduce new topics and facilitate peer-to-peer networking.

Phase IV: ARI Closeout Demonstration at the NIATx Summit/SAAS National Conference
Cincinnati, July 11, 2010 — 8:30am-4:30pm

  • NIATx-SAAS Summit Welcome Reception, July 11, 2010 – 5:00pm-7:00pm
  • NIATx-SAAS Summit Plenary and Workshops July 12-14, 2010

Successful projects will be highlighted at the NIATx Summit. A preconference day will be offered to summarize the learning from the project and identify the promising practices that can be shared with the field as well as discuss post project next steps for participants.

What to expect from NIATx

  • Expert coaches and faculty
  • Support for peer networking
  • Travel stipends to attend the leadership forum in February 2010
  • Summation materials for distribution to the field