Webinar/Virtual Training
About this Event:
The Southeast MHTTC is pleased to host this event in collaboration with the Hispanic/Latino Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (COE).
Culture is an enduring element, a tradition that is embedded in every human thought, emotion, and behavior. It is also a key factor that upholds normed belief patterns that maintain physical and psychological health and contributes to the tenacity of mental health and substance use disorders (SUD). This webinar is developed for behavioral health care providers interested in learning about the impact of cultural factors as they relate to behavioral health domains of Hispanic and Latine clients. The approach taken in this webinar session includes highlighting key cultural beliefs, attitudes, and practices that potentially influence responsiveness to treatment among Latine persons with mental health conditions and SUDs. The webinar also addresses culturally informed therapeutic strategies that can facilitate effective engagement and therapeutic relationships with Hispanic and Latine patients.
Webinar will cover:
An overview of trends and demographics among Hispanic/Latine populations in the Southeast
Principles of cultural humility and the multicultural framework.
Common cultural values, beliefs and gender norms among Hispanic and Latine populations.
Common idioms of distress, and expressions of grief, sorrow, joy, anger, fatalism and resilience among Latine populations
Culturally responsive approaches and strategies for adapting mental health interventions to be culturally centered.
About the Speaker:
Diane Arms, MA Diane Arms currently serves as the Director for The Center for Co-occurring Disorders at The Council on Recovery. She has dedicated her career to serving the Latino population in the Health Field, including Mental Health and Substance Use. She received both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at El Paso. Diane has served as Director of Health Integration at Avenue 360 Health and Wellness, Director of Prevention and Counseling at the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans and with the Harris County Health Care Alliance as Program Manager facilitating leadership meetings amongst local FQHCs to proactively identify, address, and resolve systemic issues. Ms. Arms has also served as an Operations Administrator for the children’s division unit at Emergence Health Network, El Paso’s Local Mental Health Authority. She has successfully implemented programs such as Multisystemic Therapy in a Mental Health Setting and Transition Age Youth, assisting transitioning clients from children’ services to adult services in the mental health system. She spearheaded the transition of in person clinical and behavioral health services of the agency to telehealth services to accommodate social distancing and stay at home orders due to COVID 19. Previously funded projects consist of identifying relationships between stress, depression and anxiety to substance use and parenting styles in young adult Latinos, investigating the effects of chronic illnesses on children’s health-related quality of life in the Colonias, an underserved and impoverished neighborhood along the Texas-Mexico border, and exploring effective decision-making aids on colorectal cancer for the aging Latino population. She sits on the Houston BARC Foundation’s board, the City of Houston’s Animal Shelter and Adoption Facility. She is also a fellow of the American Leadership Forum, Class 44.
Webinar/Virtual Training
Event Description
Empower yourself to champion student mental health awareness with evidence-informed, age-appropriate suicide prevention training. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Area Directors Grace Manley (Nebraska) and Joani Wolfe (Iowa) will review the organization's mission and give insights into the tailored “It's Real: Teens & Mental Health” trainings for Middle School, High School, and College students. Attendees will learn how to forge partnerships with AFSP for access to these crucial programs in their schools and communities, always free of charge. Participants will leave the session equipped to bring “It's Real” directly to students.
Objectives:
Attendees will understand how to engage with the mission and work of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Attendees will experience the "It's Real: Teens & Mental Health" presentations for middle school, high school, and college students, and identify the differences in the presentations while determining which would be most beneficial for their audiences.
Attendees will understand how to bring "It's Real: Teens & Mental Health" to their schools and communities by becoming a presenter in partnership with their local AFSP Chapter.
Specific Skills/Strategies/Tools: Participants will learn the steps necessary to become an AFSP presenter and partner with the organizations to bring It's Real (and other AFSP presentations) directly to their communities.
Organization: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming Chapter
Trainers
Tracy Rassley
Micheal Barber
Webinar/Virtual Training
Event Description
The primary objective of the training is to educate school staff and stakeholders about Rural Behavioral Health Institutes’ Screening Linked to Care (SLTC) Program. Presenters will provide education about STLC, data on effectiveness of the program, challenges, and successes of SLTC and talk about prevention and early intervention of mental health challenges for students. Presenters will talk about work states can do to support prevention and early intervention for mental health and suicide and how schools can sustainably implement screening and follow up care for students. Presenters will share challenges and successes schools have had with implementation and share about connecting students to supports and ongoing care.
Learning Objectives:
1) Learning about implementing universal digital mental health screening.
2) Identifying students struggling and connecting them to support.
3) Learning about the utilization of data to make decisions.
Trainers
Janet Lindow, PhD & Kayleigh Brown
Janet Lindow, PhD champions the application of novel research approaches to identify, evaluate and implement preventive and acute treatments for diseases with great public health impact. For the past 12 years, her career goal has been to improve the health of populations with limited access to effective treatment with a primary focus now on those experiencing mental disorders.
Janet’s career path has given her a broad and deep understanding of public health issues and potential solutions. At MIT, she trained as a basic research scientist. After finishing her doctoral work, she taught a science course in Botswana which widened her understanding of health disparities and left her with a fervent desire to help improve the health of people globally. Janet then completed two post-doctoral fellowships, one focused on finding new antibiotics for Gram negative bacterial infections and the other building research programs to help prevent infections in people living in poverty. Next, the Yale School of Public Health recruited her to work full time in Brazil on leptospirosis, the world’s leading cause of hemorrhagic disease and to build research infrastructure. In 2016, Janet’s passion for finding solutions to difficult challenges in public health brought her to Montana where she was recruited as faculty at the Center for Mental Health Research and Recovery at Montana State University. At the Center, she and her mentor, Matt Byerly, MD, focused on suicide prevention across all age groups and digital treatments for depression and anxiety in rural areas where therapy was sparse or not available. She is currently a Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical School. Janet lives in Livingston, Montana and is actively pursuing her work on suicide prevention, depression, and anxiety in Montana and Kansas.
Kayleigh Brown is dedicated to delivering and improving mental health care for kids. She has broad experience providing care and education to children, adolescents, young adults, and their families within and external to hospital settings.
Prior to joining the RBHI team, she spent the last decade working at Shodair Children’s Hospital, a nonprofit hospital offering inpatient and outpatient care to children and adolescents with serious mental illness in Montana. As the Shodair Director of Outpatient Services, Kayleigh helped to develop and lead one of the largest outpatient clinic systems serving Montana children and families. She has trained staff in trauma-informed care that focuses on organizational culture and the vicarious trauma that people can experience when working in complex care settings. Kayleigh has also been involved in co-facilitating Dare to Lead training with a Certified Dare to Lead instructor throughout Montana. She is passionate about improving mental health care, educating others about caring for people with a mental health diagnosis, helping families navigate the mental health care system, and increasing access to care, particularly among children and adolescents.