H8 - The AI Adoption Playbook: Training, Trust and Change Management
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM MDT
Location: 205
Discover a practical roadmap for bringing AI into behavioral health settings in a way that builds staff trust, protects clients, and delivers measurable results. This session walks you through readiness assessment, workforce training, client consent, and policy safeguards, all grounded in ethical and compliant practices. Attendees will leave with a replicable playbook, including a readiness checklist, sample consent language, and change-management framework, to guide AI adoption in their own organizations.
Learning Objectives:
Identify three strategies for gaining staff buy-in and building trust during AI implementation in behavioral health settings.
Formulate an ethical client consent process for AI use.
Apply a step-by-step organizational readiness checklist to select and pilot high-impact AI use cases.
Disclosure(s):
Michael Arevalo, Psy.D.: No financial relationships to disclose