Advancing Leadership of Early Career Mental Health Professionals: Achieving Change Using Adaptive Leadership

TRACK ❷: Advancing Leadership of Early Career Mental Health Professionals: Achieving Change Using Adaptive Leadership

This is a 1.5 day workshop facilitated by Youth MOVE National

 

When:  Thursday, August 1 – Friday, August 2, 2019

Time:    Day 1: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM / Day 2: 9:00 AM - Noon

Where:  Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel, 100 N 1st Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004

 

Are you a just starting your career in the mental health field and ready to lead positive change? Do you see yourself as a champion for youth and young adult health and wellness? This 1.5 day leadership training uses the adaptive leadership model to advance the capabilities of young adults serving in new or early career professional roles in the mental and behavioral health system (e.g., engagement, peer support, advocacy). Participants will identify individual capacity to lead and develop a sense of their personal leadership style. Participants will develop strategies for personal leadership potential.

 

Outcomes:

  • Understand how personal values, culture, and lived experiences shapes one’s approach to leadership and ability to connect with others.
  • Identify individual strengths and how to apply those strengths in leadership roles.
  • Recognize the strengths others have and how to build on those to develop meaningful partnerships. 
  • Understand what it means to be an effective leader and identify resources and supports needed to be become an effective leader.

 

Intended Audience:

  • Young adults of transition age (18-30 years) who are professionals, paraprofessionals (volunteers, advocates, champions) of youth/young adult mental health (mh)
    • Youth peer providers – individuals providing mh peer support services)
    • Lived-experience mental health workforce members (inclusive of those working in mental/behavioral health who have lived experience, whether or not their position calls for it)
  • Young adults of transition age (18-30 years) who are considering joining the mh workforce

 

To register for this session, visit: https://tinyurl.com/AdaptiveLeadershipYYA

Registration is required and due by July 22nd. Space is limited.

 

Additional Information:
  • Participants will be on their own for food as federally funded projects do not allow food to be provided. 
  • Participants are responsible for expenses and coordination of their own travel accommodations.  
  • Hotel lodging at the federal government rate is available at the Renaissance Hotel. Reserve your room here by July 15thhttps://book.passkey.com/go/CARSEvent. Rooms are subject to availability.
  • *Onsite parking: Valet for 0-3 hours = $12, 3-6 hours = $19, 6+ hours = $35

 

*A limited number of parking vouchers are available if the cost is a barrier to participation.

 

About the Trainers:

Johanna headshotJohanna Bergan is an advocate for youth with lived experience in the mental health system who is now working in the field of youth engagement to promote and encourage the inclusion of youth voice in policy change. Bergan has eleven years of experience advocating for important changes in the mental health system to improve the care options and treatment availability for youth adults with mental health challenges. Her voice has been heard on several national platforms including advising technical assistance and research and training centers which support and promote the value of youth voice.  As the Executive Director for Youth MOVE National, Bergan assists chapters of the Youth MOVE network in creating and promoting successful youth driven organizations working to unite the voices and causes of youth at the local, state and national level. Her duties include providing technical assistance and training to both youth and adult audiences, with an ongoing emphasis on ensuring that culturally diverse youth populations are well represented in systems change work, including historically disadvantaged communities, young adults of color, LGBTQ, both rural and urban experiences, teen parents, runaway and homeless youth, and youth with multi-system involvement.  This work covers a diverse array of expertise areas including youth engagement in systems change, policy, youth adult partnerships, issues specific to transition aged youth, youth leadership, youth driven evaluation, and applying lived-experience as a resource to inform policy and systems change.  In her role at YMN, Bergan provides direct technical assistance to federal grantees in the System of Care grant program, providing leadership and guidance to the evaluation protocols and process for the Children’s Mental Health Initiative, as well as developing products and training materials to support the work of grantees.

 

Lydia headshotLydia Proulx is a Youth Program Specialist at Youth MOVE National. Proulx provides technical assistance to providers, communities, and organizations striving to become youth guided and implement trauma informed models of youth engagement to more effectively serve young adults with lived experience of mental health needs and/or system involvement. In their current role, Proulx is a Technical Service Provider for SAMHSA funded Systems of Care grantees as well as the National Quality Improvement Center for Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for LGBTQ2S Children and Youth in Foster Care (QIC), providing technical assistance to implementation site grantees.  Previously, Proulx worked for the Parent/Professional Advocacy League in Massachusetts as the Youth Program Manager. Managing the youth program, Youth MOVE Massachusetts, included providing direct peer support to young adults, coordinating youth group and young adult support group events, and advocating at local and state platforms for the inclusion of youth voice and collaboration with young adults in decision-making. While at Youth MOVE Massachusetts, Proulx was able to expand programming to include a youth speakers’ bureau, a comprehensive summer internship program, and trainings developed and provided by young adult members. Proulx’s own lived experience, as well as the lived experience of Youth MOVE Massachusetts’ members, directed their efforts as Youth Program Manager, ensuring the program met the needs and concerns of those directly participating. Proulx has been recognized by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health multiple times for their advocacy and outreach work. They have also facilitated a number of presentations on youth voice and engagement in various systems, as well as contributed to publications regarding the experiences of young adults with mental health needs. Currently, Proulx volunteers as a comprehensive sexual health educator and with various community groups in an effort to address racial and gender inequity experienced throughout their own home city.

 

To learn about TRACK ❶:  Optimizing Leadership and Management of Our Mental Health Workforce Through Adaptive Leadership ~ Facilitated by Change Matrix, visit: https://tinyurl.com/MHTTCAdaptiveLeadership

 

Questions?

For additional information regarding this event, please contact the Pacific Southwest MHTTC at 1-844-856-1749 or email [email protected].

 

Starts: Aug. 1, 2019 9:00 am
Ends: Aug. 2, 2019 12:00 pm
Timezone:
US/Pacific
Registration Deadline
July 22, 2019
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