TRACK ❶: Optimizing Leadership and Management of Our Mental Health Workforce Through Adaptive Leadership

This is a 1.5 day workshop facilitated by Change Matrix

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 optimizing the diversity within your mental health workforce? Is a shifting team or organizational make up posing new leadership challenges? Almost all mental health service organizations within the U.S are addressing workforce diversity to ensure that their services are relevant and appropriate for the populations they serve. As the mental health workforce diversifies, the culture of organizations is infused with new values, behaviors, attitudes, and practices. Leaders and managers have opportunities to incorporate diverse cultural perspectives into staff roles and responsibilities but may not understand the consequences of embracing and institutionalizing diverse perspectives.  This 1.5 day workshop will focus on the adaptive work that leadership staff can leverage to optimize diverse perspectives within agency teams, or the broader workforce. Together, we will build strategies to address the challenges and opportunities of our current-day organizations.

Outcomes:

• Identify aspects of diversity and culture that influence perspectives in the workplace and how they impact leadership
• Identify when adaptive challenges occur and what is needed to optimize our response
• Define the different tasks of adaptive leaders
• Determine when to apply the different tasks of adaptive leadership

Intended Audience:

• Mental health agency leaders and managers
• Policy makers
• Human resource officers
• Community partners
• Mental health advocates

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

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 15th: https://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:

Dr. Suganya Sockalingam is a Founding Partner at Change Matrix, LLC, which supports agencies in addressing diversity, cultural competence, and cross-cultural communication as well as leadership, collaboration, and conflict management. Dr. Sockalingam focuses on supporting individuals, organizations, and systems to motivate, manage, and measure systems change. Currently, she serves as a training and technical assistance provider for several national technical assistance centers, and for other federal, national, state, territorial, and community agencies. She earned her doctorate at Washington State University and has worked in many capacities in public and behavioral health, both nationally and internationally, for over 25 years.

Annie Guo VanDan works with diverse communities throughout Colorado to provide training and consultation focused on health equity and community engagement. Her background is in strategic communications, leadership, equity and inclusion. With a MBA in Health Administration, she previously managed operations for a nonprofit health clinic in Denver that provides medical services to refugee and immigrant populations. 

To learn about TRACK ❷:  Advancing Leadership of Early Career Mental Health Professionals: Achieving Change Using Adaptive Leadership ~ Facilitated by Youth MOVE National, visit: https://tinyurl.com/AdaptiveLeadershipYYA

Questions?

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