Helio Health to host Integrated Care Conference Monday and Tuesday in Syracuse

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Helio Health says it’s hosting its Integrated Care Conference on Monday and Tuesday (April 17-18) at the Embassy Suites at Destiny USA in Syracuse.

The theme of this year’s conference is “Mental Wellbeing: Resiliency & Transformation Across the Lifespan,” per the announcement.

The event is intended for professionals interested in furthering their career in alcohol and substance use, mental health, and other human-service disciplines, Helio Health said.

The two-day conference provides “innovative and evidence-based” sessions with experts and will draw an audience of human-services professionals, executives, and licensed and credentialed substance-use and mental-health counselors from all over the Northeast, the organization noted.

“We are proud and excited to bring amazing national experts to inspire, renew and enlighten the mental health, substance use and other human services professionals in our community,” Kathleen Gaffney-Babb, interim president and CEO of Helio Health, said in a release. “The conference planning committee has worked tirelessly to provide an incredibly diverse agenda designed to inform our practices. I look forward to seeing our professional community come together at our conference.”

Speakers will include authors and doctors, along with state and federal officials. Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh is scheduled to give opening remarks. Those interested in additional information about the conference, visit www.helio.health.

The conference is a “great resource” for health-care professionals, Nathan Rauscher, director of Helio Health’s training institute, said.

“This event will provide New York’s substance use and mental-health treatment front-line workers the opportunity to hear from state and national policy makers, experts in diversity and inclusion, substance use, and mental health treatment, and individuals with lived experience and their powerful stories of resilience,” Rauscher said. “We are very excited to be able to bring this event to Syracuse for our first in-person Integrated Care Conference in over three years.”

Syracuse–based Helio Health operates facilities in Syracuse, Rochester, Utica, and Binghamton.