Avera Behavioral Health Symposium

Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, The Canopy, 120 E 4th Place, Sioux Falls, SD, Sioux Falls, SD

Registration Fee: $100

Avera Employees: No charge

Student:  No charge

The 2nd Annual Avera Behavioral Health Symposium is an interprofessional educational activity designed to equip healthcare professionals with current evidence-based approaches to behavioral health assessment, treatment, and care coordination across the continuum of care. Participants will explore emerging trends in trauma-informed care, suicide prevention, addiction treatment, social media influences on mental health, artificial intelligence in healthcare, ethical decision-making, compassion fatigue, and provider well-being. Through expert presentations and collaborative discussions, learners will develop practical strategies to improve patient outcomes, strengthen interdisciplinary teamwork, enhance ethical practice, and promote resilience among healthcare professionals

1. Examine evidence-based strategies to address burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and vicarious trauma.
2. Review the mental health hold process in South Dakota.
3. Examine latest evidence surrounding the impact of social media use and how it can contribute to increased anxiety and depression.
4. Understand the ethical implications associated with smartphone technology and social media use from a social and professional perspective.
5. Discuss the impact of harm reduction and low-threshold addiction treatment on improving whole person outcomes.
6. Apply best ethical practices in deploying patient-facing, care planning and back-office AI applications.
7. Discuss the concept of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma and its effects on individuals in support roles.
8. Examine evidence-based strategies to address burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and vicarious trauma.
9. Discuss why collaboration with other mental health providers is needed to improve patient care and address ethical considerations.

In support of improving patient care, Avera is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Credit Designations:

	This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 6.25 IPCE credits for learning and change.
	Medicine CME:  Avera designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
	Nurse CE: Avera designates this activity for a maximum of 6.25 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
	Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapy (SD Board of Examiners): Avera is a recognized provider of continuing education, for all counseling related content, for the South Dakota Board of Examiners for Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists. Social Workers will receive 6.25 continuing education clock hour(s) for participating in this course.
	Social Work: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Avera is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 6.25 Ethics continuing education credit(s).

All educational materials provided during and after the course are for your personal use only and should not be reproduced or distributed in any manner.

 

ADA Statement:

ADA accommodations will be made in accordance with the law.  If you require ADA accommodations, please indicate what your needs are at the time of registration.  We cannot ensure the availability of appropriate accommodations without prior notification.

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Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Avera adheres to the Joint Accreditation’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

Individuals in a position to control the content of this CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies. An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All of the relevant financial relationships listed below have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Payment must be made via credit card.  Check payment is no longer being accepted.

If you are interested in participating in this symposium, please work with your company to plan for credit card payment during your registration or make arrangements to forward the payment link to the appropriate person who can complete your credit card payment.

If someone other than yourself is making payment,

• First register by clicking the  green EXHIBIT AT THIS EVENT below.

• Register and forward the confirmation email to the appropriate person.  Who ever will pay the fee can use the link in the confirmation email to pay by credit card.    

• Please note that the confirmation email is your invoice.

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*To make adjustments and manage registrations for the exhibitor booth, click the link in the confirmation email.  If you need additional help, contact [email protected].

**If an exhibitor wants continuing education credit, their name must be on the registration as one of the 2 booth attendees. To manage booth attendees, click the link in the confirmation email. Booth attendees can be added / replaced at any time prior to the conference.

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