The Southeast Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (Southeast MHTTC), located in Atlanta, GA, is proud to serve the eight states in HHS Region IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Our Mission: To promote the adoption of evidence-based mental health services by providing training and technical assistance in the region.
Our Vision: Widespread access to evidence-based mental health services throughout the region.
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The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) is a skill-based wellness and prevention program that provides a biological, non-stigmatizing perspective on normal human reactions to stress and trauma. In this webinar we will apply CRM to schools by teaching skills for educators, administrators, and the school mental health workforce to reduce burnout and promote staff retention. Attendees will gain knowledge of concepts to understand stress responses in themselves and others as well as learn skills to help regain emotional balance after experiencing strong negative emotions. The knowledge and skills gained will help attendees avoid burn-out and promote cultures of resiliency in schools to better support student mental health.
Learning objectives:
1. Describe how stress and trauma affect mental and physical health.
2. Describe how CRM can protect and heal via sensory-motor awareness.
3. Explain the 6 CRM skills.
4. Understand how CRM can help reduce burnout and promote resiliency.
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This session is designed for local education agencies/school districts engaged in school mental health initiatives that provide students and families service referrals. The information will also be relevant to state education agencies seeking to advance policies and procedures that ensure a full spectrum of services are accessible to meet student and family wellness needs.
Learning Objectives
Participants who join this session will be able to:
1. Understand and articulate the value of ongoing investment in effective school mental health referral pathways.
2. Leverage best practices to build and refine pathways linking schools, providers, students, and families to support student mental health.
3. Select and apply easy-to-implement tools and templates that improve school mental health referral pathways.
Session overview
What level of need warrants referral to an outside provider? Does your team have a communication procedure for a student’s supported re-entry to campus? Are the school mental health providers you work with timely in their intake of students after they have received a referral? This session outlines the benefits off effective school mental health referral pathways. After reviewing best practices, you will be able to improve the consistency and efficiency with which your students are connected to appropriate levels of mental health support. Given the dynamic nature of schools and service agencies, establishing and maintaining good methods of contact and tracking requires regular attention. This session will also provide tools and templates to strengthen your referral pathways, and it will explain how these tools and templates can be adapted to the circumstances and culture of your school system.
About this Resource:
Given the large geographic area and diverse population of the Southeast region, the Southeast MHTTC recognizes that mental health priorities and training needs vary across providers, centers, communities, and states. With this context in mind, we assessed the mental health priorities of our region to inform our future TTA offerings. We focused on the ways in which we could further align the expertise and capacity of the Southeast MHTTC with the priorities and TTA needs of the providers and leaders in the Region IV States. This report outlines key findings from our assessment that will guide the enhancement of our TTA offerings and expand upon the reach of our current work.