Pacific Southwest MHTTC

Dear Pacific Southwest MHTTC Community:   The Pacific Southwest MHTTC is a part of the MHTTC Network. On September 29, 2024, every MHTTC (Regional Centers and Network Coordinating Office) will be ending. This includes the SAMHSA-funded work our team does through our main grant, the school mental health supplement, and our focused body of programming on youth and young adult mental health.   We launched in 2018, and the past six years have been an enormous journey. We’ve met you at conferences, created our own regional in-person institutes, flexed and responded to COVID, syndemics, and crises, and have learned with you in countless virtual spaces.  We’ve created guides, toolkits, infographics and responded to requests and asks that you held in your work. We are grateful and honored to have served you, our network of mental and school mental health providers in the Pacific Southwest region (and beyond). We have learned and grown with you over these years, and we value the relationships we’ve forged and participation and input you’ve all shared.    As we prepare to close, we’d like to open space to hear from you, and to have the opportunity of finding ways to support your capacity building and learning beyond the terminal SAMHSA grant.    Join the Center for Applied Research Solutions and Change Matrix (the two organizations that make up the staff behind the PS MHTTC) for our Pacific Southwest MHTTC Community Town Hall on September 10 from 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. PT / 12 p.m. -  1 p.m. HT (September 11 at 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. CNMI). Led by Leora (our School Mental Health Field Director), Rachele (our Co-Director), and Kristi (our Associate Director), we’ll have time to share what we know about the close, what we don’t know, and most importantly, hear from you about how to support you post close of the MHTTC.      Can’t make it? Feel free to contact us to set up a 1:1 with one of our team members. Email us at [email protected].

This is a recording of “A Deeper Dive into Reflective Supervision”, Part 2 of the program: Fostering Trust & Employee Wellbeing Through Reflective & Relational-Based Supervision, which took place on July 25, 2024. In this session, our center's guest faculty, Rouba Otaky, provided a deeper dive into reflective supervision and delved into cultural considerations, limitations, and sample cases. This session was designed for supervisors, managers, directors, administrators and leadership of school mental health, mental health organizations, clinical supervisors, human resources professionals, mental health and school mental health providers, trauma informed professionals and anyone else interested in reflective supervision and consultation.

"This is a recording of, “The Nuts & Bolts of Reflective Supervision / Consultation” Part 1 of the two-part series in Fostering Trust & Employee Wellbeing Through Reflective & Relational-Based Supervision, that took place on July 23, 2004. In this session, our guest facilitator Rouba Otaky reviews the building blocks for foundational, conceptual, and applied information related to reflective facilitation/supervision. Viewers of this recording will learn: Three key components of reflective supervision and how to apply appropriate skills within different roles and responsibilities as supervisors. Four techniques that will address the needs of supervisees to be responsive to cultural and contextual needs and continue to develop a set of skills that helps supervisees build these skills. Three ways that supervisors will strengthen and support skills that allow supervisees to explore ways that their own belief systems or internal reactions might be impacting care. This workshop was designed for the following roles: supervisors, managers, directors, administrators and leadership of school mental health, mental health organizations, clinical supervisors, human resources professionals, mental health and school mental health providers, trauma informed professionals and anyone else interested in reflective supervision and consultation.

This is a recording of the keynote and opening for our center's Symposium on Harm Reduction, Healing Justice, and Mental Health Approaches on May 7, 2024.  Delivered by Jen Leland and Maurice Byrd, two therapists with extensive experience as co-founders of harm reduction in the San Francisco Bay Area, the keynote outlines the four-part history of harm reduction movement in the U.S., and the guiding parts and principles of harm reduction therapy within a conversation that explores the concepts and the tensions of this practice.