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About this Resource:  Life, as we knew it just a few weeks ago, has been completely turned upside down. That feeling you are feeling but can’t seem to describe in words may be grief. People are experiencing the loss of jobs, school, hugs, social connections, sports, graduations, weddings, funerals, it seems that every area of our life has been touched. We can’t even go to the grocery store without worry and stress. And if we were already grieving a loss, coping can be complicated. What do we do with this surreal feeling of disorientation? How do we recognize the signs and symptoms of grief and how do we cope? This webinar will give you an overview of what grief looks like at any time but especially during a time of ambiguous loss. We will talk about how to care for yourself and others in a time of uncertainty.   >> Presentation PDF >> Q&A Document   Key Learning Objectives: To define ambiguous loss To identify the signs and symptoms of grief To understand the difference between grief and mourning To identify ways of coping with grief To know when and how to ask for support   Learn more about the event here. The Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center is partnering with Forefront Suicide Prevention Center to bring you training and Q&A session with Charlene Ray on Ambiguous Loss: Grieving in the Time of COVID-19, Followed by Live Q&A Session. This event is part of The Well-Being Series - Connections During COVID-19: Mental Wellness Webinars for Families and Educators. Click here to learn more about our series of webinars for kids, parents, and educators, focusing on mental wellness and suicide prevention. Want more information and school mental health resources? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's School Mental Health page and sign up for our monthly newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

Original Webinar Date: 05/26/2020 Times of crisis necessitate health care leaders to balance competing priorities, including patient need, staff wellbeing, and one’s own health. While it can be difficult to reflect in the midst of a crisis - like in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic - this recorded session dedicates time to exploring strategies to improve leadership’s response in times of crisis. This webinar video explores the Crisis Leadership Continuum (readiness, response, recovery and renewal), highlighting health care leadership approaches and strategies integral to ensuring staff wellbeing through crisis.   LEARNING OBJECTIVES Explore and examine the four stages of the Crisis Leadership Continuum: readiness, response, recovery and renewal. Using reflective questions, identify 2-3 leadership crisis strengths and growth points to enhance organizational resilience. Identify 2-3 applicable strategies in the short term and long term to address staff wellbeing through crisis.   This webinar was hosted by our partner, California Primary Care Association (CPCA), and was facilitated by Leora Wolf-Prusan, the School Mental Health Lead at the Pacific Southwest MHTTC.

The infographic covers the psychological impact of pandemics like COVID-19, and shares coping strategies which people can use to stay healthy and resilient during public health emergencies.

Amid the current COVID-19 social distancing and stay at home orders many behavioral health providers have quickly shifted their primary interactions with clients to remote engagement. For some, this means using video conferencing software to simulate an in-person meeting. However, for many people access to a computer or tablet and reliable internet service is not available. For these individuals you may need to engage with them primarily, or solely, through the phone via voice calls or texts. This tool will provide information about strategies for quality engagement with clients using the phone.    This guidance can be applied to your work during the COVID-19 public health emergency, as well as when engaging with clients who may live in remote, rural, and otherwise difficult to access areas. Please note that it is best to talk with your agency's administration to determine any potential issues or concerns with providing remote services, including, but not limited to, HIPAA compliance, reimbursement, and authorizations. 

Original Webinar Date: 05/19/2020 This webinar was hosted by our partner, California Primary Care Association (CPCA), and facilitated by Leora Wolf-Prusan, the School Mental Health Lead at the Pacific Southwest MHTTC. Health center staff are constantly asked to prioritize the patients’ need, sometimes resulting in overwhelming feelings of stress, compassion fatigue, and burn-out. In order to fully show up for those they serve, professionals need structural policy supports and practice changes that balances self and collective wellbeing. This archived webinar explores how we can create and maintain health care work cultures - now and always - where staff are resourced and ready to care for patients. Presenters discuss frameworks for why supporting health care professionals through practice and policy changes is critical to preventing burn-out, secondary stress, and compassion fatigue.   LEARNING OBJECTIVES Identify methods to assess areas of strength and areas of growth in support for health care professionals’ sustainability. Identify strategies to apply self and collective care through both practices and structural policies. Understand how self and collective care intersects with trauma-informed and resilience oriented workplace and culture.

The Northeast and Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) has been hosting mutual support calls for mental health supervisors and direct service providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Included in the document are tips and resources that supervisors have shared with us over the last few weeks to address the challenges of providing supervision during this current crisis.

Self-care is a critical tool to maintain our wellness and work-life balance. Even under normal circumstances, it can be difficult to prioritize self-care. But now, more than ever, it’s important for systems-involved youth and the mental health field to pause and be intentional about addressing physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational needs. Self-care looks a little bit different for everyone, and in this new reality of physical distancing and social isolation, we may need to reassess our wellness strategies. This self care tip sheet includes resources and planning templates that may help you consider new ways of taking care of yourself.

The Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and the Treatment and Services Adaptation Center for Resiliency, Hope, and Wellness in Schools at the University of Southern California are collaborating to bring you a FREE, 6-part webinar series on Creating Trauma-Responsive Schools. Click here to access all 6 webinars in the series. About the Webinar: This training was specifically designed as a five-step crisis response strategy based on communication skills that educators and school staff use every day. Although initially introduced in response to targeted school violence, such as school shootings and other acts of violence on a school campus, the goals of Psychological First Aid for Schools – Listen Protect Connect/Model and Teach have relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic which has seriously disrupted the daily lives over children and adults all over the world. The closure of schools and businesses adds to the health risks faced by all which contribute to the stresses that students and adults face under orders of physical distancing, stay at home directives or quarantine conditions. Given the levels of internet and web connectivity for students, being at home doesn’t have to mean being cut off from teachers, school support staff, classmates and friends. Note: This webinar was originally focused on the topic of evidenced-based approaches to trauma in schools. As a result of the global pandemic, we are now offering a more timely training on psychological first aid. This webinar is now available for up to 500 registrants. We will reschedule the original webinar for a later date.   Presentation Materials Presentation PDF Listen, Protect, Connect 1-Pager USDOE PFA Helpful Hints Handout PFA COVID-19 Sample Questions   This webinar is part of The Well-Being Series - Connections During COVID-19: Mental Wellness Webinars for Families and Educators. Click here to learn more about our series of webinars for kids, parents, and educators, focusing on mental wellness and suicide prevention.  Presenter Bios Vivien Villaverde, MS SW, PPSC, LCSW is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Field Education Department of the University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and a member of the Treatment and Services Adaptation Center for Schools. She is a trained School Social Worker who was affiliated with the Los Angeles Unified School District for about 10 years. Prof. Villaverde has expertise in trauma-informed intervention, disaster/crisis response and trauma-responsive program development. She has extensive background in collaboration and education systems change. Her expertise includes training and consultation with school districts in trauma-responsive transformation including program development, EBP training, and policy development. Prof. Villaverde collaborates with the California Department of Education and has partnered internationally with South Korea and the Republic of the Philippines. In addition, she uses the “Social Responses to the Human Impacts of Climate Change” Grand Challenge in her disaster response planning work in Asia. She is also the Teaching Institution (TI) Coordinator at the School of Social Work. As the Coordinator, she engages in different innovation to promote university-community partnership for quality MSW internship and for community capacity-building.   Pamela Vona, MA, MPH, is currently the Program Manager for the Treatment and Services Adaptation Center for Resilience, Hope and Wellness in Schools. Her interests include understanding how to support the implementation of trauma practices in the school setting. Specifically, her work has focused on how web-based platforms can support training in and implementation of evidence-based practices in schools. Ms. Vona served as a lead developer of the Trauma Responsive School Implementation Assessment—an online assessment designed to help schools improve their trauma-responsiveness.  She is also leading the development of the Trauma Informed Skills for Developers (TISE) curriculum designed to enhance educators’ trauma knowledge and skills. Ms. Vona serves on the School Committee Workgroup for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and previously was a member of the NCTSN Policy Task Force. Want more information and school mental health resources? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's School Mental Health page and sign up for our monthly newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

The recent events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted mental health providers and all who provide support and care in unanticipated ways. This webinar will provide attendees with a brief overview of how the body can react to the stress and trauma related to COVID-19. In this webinar, we will introduce several evidence-based strategies to reduce anxiety, distress, and hyperarousal.   View and Download Presentation Slides, Transcript, and Breathing Exercise

Additional Resources   The recent events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted mental health providers and all who provide support and care in unanticipated ways. This webinar will provide attendees with a brief overview of how the body can react to the stress and trauma related to COVID-19. In this webinar, we will introduce several evidence-based strategies to reduce anxiety, distress, and hyperarousal.

Webinar recording   The recent events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Rutgers University-SHP community in unanticipated ways. This webinar will provide Rutgers SHP faculty, staff, and students with a brief overview of how the body reacts to unmitigated stress and trauma related to Covid19. In this webinar, we will introduce two strategies proven to reduce anxiety, distress, and hyperarousal. This session is facilitated by Amy Banko, Giovanna Giacobbe, Brittany Stone - faculty members of the SHP Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Profession

To access Wellness Wednesdays presentation slides, handouts, and supplemental resources, please utilize the "View Resource" link above to browse by presentation date on Google Drive.   About Wellness Wednesdays In times of uncertainty, there is one thing we do know: educators and school mental health leadership are resilient, creative, tenacious and need support to provide support. The context of our schools is changing, and the context of our work is changing. In times of uncertainty, unpredictability, and potentially overwhelming stress, now is the time to gather and resource one another as much as possible. In collaboration with the Meaning Makers Collective, we’re pleased to offer School Mental Health Wellness Wednesdays. Each Wellness Wednesday is a 60-minute virtual session for the school mental health workforce to call in, connect, reflect, and support each other through this time period. View more information and full schedule here.

The Northwest MHTTC invites you to read our May newsletter and take part in recognizing May as Mental Health Month. In addition, we discuss the results of our Emerging Needs workforce survey and offer support and resources in response to the needs identified in the survey. We also share upcoming events including telehealth training for Washington state providers, a Clinical Innovations in Telehealth Learning Series kicking off on May 19, and two webinars on psychological first aid.

The Pacific Southwest MHTTC curated a series of topical resource sheets to help you find high-quality tools and information on caring for yourself, your families, and the communities you serve. This resource sheet focuses on self-care, coping strategies, and anxiety management tips that anyone can use. It also includes tools specifically for people living with a mental health condition. Click the "View Resource" link above to download, or view all available resource sheet topics.

Understanding and Managing our Reaction to COVID-19: Part II Powerpoint Slides   The recent events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Rutgers University-SHP community in unanticipated ways. This webinar will provide Rutgers SHP faculty, staff, and students with a brief overview of how the body reacts to unmitigated stress and trauma related to Covid19. In this webinar, we will introduce two strategies proven to reduce anxiety, distress, and hyperarousal. This session is facilitated by Amy Banko, Giovanna Giacobbe, Brittany Stone - faculty members of the SHP Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions.

Understanding and Managing our Reaction to COVID-19: Part II Professional Quality of Life Scale   The recent events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Rutgers University-SHP community in unanticipated ways. This webinar will provide Rutgers SHP faculty, staff, and students with a brief overview of how the body reacts to unmitigated stress and trauma related to Covid19. In this webinar, we will introduce two strategies proven to reduce anxiety, distress, and hyperarousal. This session is facilitated by Amy Banko, Giovanna Giacobbe, Brittany Stone - faculty members of the SHP Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions.

Understanding and Managing our Reaction to COVID-19: Part II Transcript   The recent events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Rutgers University-SHP community in unanticipated ways. This webinar will provide Rutgers SHP faculty, staff, and students with a brief overview of how the body reacts to unmitigated stress and trauma related to Covid19. In this webinar, we will introduce two strategies proven to reduce anxiety, distress, and hyperarousal. This session is facilitated by Amy Banko, Giovanna Giacobbe, Brittany Stone - faculty members of the SHP Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions.

Faculty Strategies for Supporting Students During COVID-19 Powerpoint Slides   This session is designed to offer strategies to faculty to enable them to support their students during this challenging time.  Topics will include best practices in the current teaching environment, an overview of student responses to the pandemic and related stressors, and tips on how to support students from a distance.  We will also share ideas about self-care for faculty and offer opportunities for discussion. This session is facilitated by Ken Kinter, Dawn Reinhardt-Wood, and Michelle Zechner - faculty members of the SHP Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions.  

Faculty Strategies for Supporting Students During COVID-19 Transcript   This session is designed to offer strategies to faculty to enable them to support their students during this challenging time.  Topics will include best practices in the current teaching environment, an overview of student responses to the pandemic and related stressors, and tips on how to support students from a distance.  We will also share ideas about self-care for faculty and offer opportunities for discussion. This session is facilitated by Ken Kinter, Dawn Reinhardt-Wood and Michelle Zechner - faculty members of the SHP Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions.  

The recent events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Rutgers University-SHP community in unanticipated ways. This webinar will provide Rutgers SHP faculty, staff, and students with a brief overview of how the body reacts to unmitigated stress and trauma related to Covid19. In this webinar, we will introduce two strategies proven to reduce anxiety, distress, and hyperarousal. This session is facilitated by Amy Banko, Giovanna Giacobbe, Brittany Stone - faculty members of the SHP Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions.   Understanding and Managing our Reaction to COVID-19: Part II Powerpoint Slides Understanding and Managing our Reaction to COVID-19: Part II Professional Quality of Life Scale Understanding and Managing our Reaction to COVID-19: Part II Transcript

This one-pager provides an overview of resources for primary care providers experiencing stress during the COVID-19 pandemic or other health care crises.   Author(s): Klepper, C., Clarke, B.L., Robinson, L./Mid-America MHTTC

The School Leader Series is brought to you by Sound Supports, LLC, Northwest PBIS Network, and the Association of Washington School Principals in partnership with the school mental health supplement to the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. This webinar is the first in the 3-part School Leader Series. Learn more about the series and access other webinar recordings here.  ABOUT THE SERIES: This webinar series is focused on the role of the school leader in creating and maintaining a positive climate and culture virtually during the global pandemic and in the building upon the return to school. We know these are challenging times and want to provide information you can use immediately and to use for the plans to return to school as part of your MTSS framework. The series is broken into three 90-minute sessions on three separate dates. *Please note that the last session is a chance to get your questions addressed LIVE! SERIES OBJECTIVES:  Describe how trauma/extreme stress impacts our ability to learn, and executive functioning skills Identify guiding ideas, and concrete steps, school leaders can take to support teachers, families, and themselves emotionally Identify how the core features of MTSS, including systems, practices, and data, can be shaped to address build protective factors for the school community now. Identify how the core features of MTSS, including systems, practices, and data, can be shaped to address build protective factors for the school community once your students are back in the building.   >> Presentation PDF The School Leader Series is part of The Well-Being Series - Connections During COVID-19: Mental Wellness Webinars for Families and Educators. Click here to learn more about our series of webinars for kids, parents, and educators, focusing on mental wellness and suicide prevention.  Want more information and school mental health resources? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's School Mental Health page and sign up for our monthly newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

The Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and the Northwest PBIS Network are collaborating to bring you a FREE, 4-part webinar series presented by WellEducator, LLC.    The Educator Wellness Webinar Series is part of The Well-Being Series - Connections During COVID-19: Mental Wellness Webinars for Families and Educators. Click here to learn more about our series of webinars for kids, parents, and educators, focusing on mental wellness and suicide prevention.  ABOUT THE WEBINAR: Being an educator can come with some unique stressors. The effects of stress can lead to negative outcomes for both educators and students. In addition to the action that must happen at the organizational and systemic levels to create and sustain change, educators can boost their resilience through simple - though not always easy - activities and strategies. In this webinar, educators will learn how to: enhance their awareness through mindfulness practices, identify possibilities for enhanced wellbeing and create space to support change and boost resilience. Webinar Objectives: Learn three mindfulness practices. Identify infinite possibilities for wellness and potential barriers. Identify supports to get “unstuck” and create lasting change.   >> Guided Notes PDF >> Click "View Resource" above to access the recording   ABOUT THE 4-PART SERIES: At WellEducator we wholeheartedly believe that nurturing others begins by nurturing oneself. This Educator Wellness Series is designed for you, the educator, to take a break from what can feel like an overwhelming hustle to prepare, deliver, and support your students and focus on your own wellbeing. We also believe EVERY educator is doing the best they can, and there is always room for growth and development. We designed this 4 Session Series to support you in tapping into your resiliency skills, increasing your self-compassion, creating self-care routines, building a practice of gratitude and appreciation and celebrating - even those small successes - to support your wellbeing. We know you are showing up for your students, that’s what you do! It’s time to take a time out just for you!   >> Learn more and register for upcoming Educator Wellness Webinars here.    Want more information and school mental health resources? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's School Mental Health page and sign up for our monthly newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

Mental Health Resources for College and University Faculty and Staff to Support Student Mental Health During COVID-19 In response to the recent pandemic (COVID-19), several national organizations and associations have shared and promoted resources to assist college faculty and staff in promoting mental health well-being during a pandemic. This product compiles all recent toolkits, guides, tip sheets, and infographics that have been developed by reputable sources to assist college and university faculty and staff. The Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Centers also has a dedicated webpage to current mental health resources related to COVID-19. The page is organized by topic and includes resources for mental health providers, housing resources, products for educators, and resources for parents among others. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Mental Health Resources   Authors Sarah Nielsen Louise Diers