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  The Great Lakes MHTTC offers this event for school mental health personnel and behavioral health professionals in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood. It is estimated that 6.4 million children in the United States ages 4-19 have been diagnosed with ADHD. Without early identification, treatment and support, children with ADHD can have significant impairments in school, home, and other aspects of life including interpersonal and social skills. For children from racial and ethnic minority groups with ADHD, barriers to ADHD diagnosis and treatment can place them at greater risk of poor health and educational outcomes than their white peers. Teachers play a critical role in understanding these disparities and the impact of ADHD on learning and academic performance of all children.   Note: You may access What Teachers Should Know about ADHD: Supporting Diverse Students & Families (Part 2) here.   Learning Objectives: 1. Describe ADHD symptoms, causes, and how ADHD affects children in the classroom. 2. Explain racial and ethnic disparities in the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD in children. 3. Outline best-practice classroom strategies to support the success of all students. 4. Highlight the importance of school-home collaboration to foster ongoing communication and support for children and their families.   Presenter:  Tandra Rutledge is the Director of Business Development at Riveredge Hospital, a free-standing psychiatric facility in Illinois. Tandra is a mental health advocate and suicide prevention educator. She promotes wellness and resilience through a social justice and racial equity lens. Tandra serves on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and is a member of the Illinois Suicide Prevention Alliance. She is an AMSR trainer (Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk), a certified suicide prevention educator for the QPR Institute, an adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) instructor, and a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) instructor with the Chicago Police Department.  

Identify the social impact of stigma and shame on the “self”, identify tools to overcome the suffering and silence. The Northwest MHTTC is excited to collaborate with Aleks Martin, MSW, LSWAIC, SUDP, to deliver a webinar and podcast series as part of our support for provider well-being. Find out more about the series here. Resources View presentation slides Listening to Shame by Brene Brown Provider Lived Experience and Stigma Key Ingredients of Anti-Stigma Programs for Health Care Providers Shame: The Elephant in the Room Shame vs. Guilt Terms of use and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) disclosure statement   Presenter Aleks Martin (S/he pronouns, but they is ok) has been in the health and social service field for over 20 years. Aleks was drawn to the LGBTQI2+ community in their mid-twenties working for a national HIV-prevention study with youth called, Young Asian Men’s Study (YAMS). This exposed them to the great work of HIV workers from other organizations and how community-based programs are critical in reaching out to the most vulnerable populations. During this time, they worked as a Disease Intervention Specialist with Public Health - Seattle & King County for 7 years, including working on the pilot study for the Rapid HIV Test Kit (then a 20-minute test). A big portion of their professional career was spent at Seattle Counseling Service, a behavioral health agency for the LGBTQ community. From 2003 to 2019, Aleks started as Database Manager, Health Educator, Program Coordinator to Chemical Dependency Counselor and Addictions Program Supervisor. This was the safe space where their yearning for higher education was cultivated so they could serve their community further. As a graduate of the University of Washington’s School of Social Work - Masters Program, Aleks developed their skills as a mental health clinician and social justice advocate. Aleks’ perspectives where shifted and allowed them to have a wider lens for diversity, inclusion and equity. Aleks was inspired to start a private practice to address the special needs of the LGBTQI2+ and BBIPOC (Black, Brown, Indigenous and People of Color), particularly Queer and Trans Asian and Pacific Islander people dealing with unique and special issues that intersect with race/culture and gender/sexuality like coming out, spiritual conflicts, cultural dissonance, gender transition, social navigation at work and other environments, interpersonal relationships from intimacy to friendships, understanding relationships with non-LGBTQI2+ partner(s), and so on. Want more information? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's Resource Library and Websites by Topic  and sign up for our monthly newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

ABOUT THIS RESOURCE This webinar session focuses on defining equity and examining actionable steps toward inclusive practices. The presenter will briefly review relationships between equity and recovery and facilitate a space for open and productive dialogue that honors the narratives of people experiencing marginalization in recovery spaces. Throughout the session, participants will discuss the barriers to talking about equity and recovery and will have the opportunity to lean into and practice authentic equity-focused conversations. In this session, we acknowledge that systemically marginalized communities continue to demonstrate their strength and resilience and we take accountability to make the critical culture shift necessary to reduce harm, starting with identifying the sources of oppression.  Find out more about our provider well-being series with C4 Innovations here. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Download webinar slides Terms of use and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) disclosure statement FACILITATOR Ashley Stewart, MSW, PhD Dr. Ashley Stewart is an Adjunct Expert, Trainer & Curriculum Development Specialist at C4 Innovations. She received her PhD from The Ohio State University, College of Social Work and her Master’s at Columbia University. She is an Assistant Professor at Temple University, College of Public Health, School of Social Work, training interdisciplinary students about social justice theories and frameworks and translational skills for anti-oppressive practice. Ashley provides racial equity training, consultation, and support and understands and respects the intricacies inherent in diversity and inclusion. Her research includes assessing the intersections of identity, structural oppression, health and mental health, and policy. In addition to the advanced study of the consequence and causes of identity-based oppression, Ashley supports the implementation of anti-oppressive practices at organizational, structural, programmatic, and clinical interventions.      

Identify negative thoughts that persist despite evident success, identify the roots of self-doubt and intellectual fraudulence, affirm success and competence. The Northwest MHTTC is excited to collaborate with Aleks Martin, MSW, LSWAIC, SUDP, to deliver a webinar and podcast series as part of our support for provider well-being. Find out more about the series here.   Resources Presentation slides   Presenter Aleks Martin (S/he pronouns, but they is ok) has been in the health and social service field for over 20 years. Aleks was drawn to the LGBTQI2+ community in their mid-twenties working for a national HIV-prevention study with youth called, Young Asian Men’s Study (YAMS). This exposed them to the great work of HIV workers from other organizations and how community-based programs are critical in reaching out to the most vulnerable populations. During this time, they worked as a Disease Intervention Specialist with Public Health - Seattle & King County for 7 years, including working on the pilot study for the Rapid HIV Test Kit (then a 20-minute test). A big portion of their professional career was spent at Seattle Counseling Service, a behavioral health agency for the LGBTQ community. From 2003 to 2019, Aleks started as Database Manager, Health Educator, Program Coordinator to Chemical Dependency Counselor and Addictions Program Supervisor. This was the safe space where their yearning for higher education was cultivated so they could serve their community further. As a graduate of the University of Washington’s School of Social Work - Masters Program, Aleks developed their skills as a mental health clinician and social justice advocate. Aleks’ perspectives where shifted and allowed them to have a wider lens for diversity, inclusion and equity. Aleks was inspired to start a private practice to address the special needs of the LGBTQI2+ and BBIPOC (Black, Brown, Indigenous and People of Color), particularly Queer and Trans Asian and Pacific Islander people dealing with unique and special issues that intersect with race/culture and gender/sexuality like coming out, spiritual conflicts, cultural dissonance, gender transition, social navigation at work and other environments, interpersonal relationships from intimacy to friendships, understanding relationships with non-LGBTQI2+ partner(s), and so on. Want more information? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's Resource Library and Websites by Topic  and sign up for our monthly newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

Participants for this webinar will develop an understanding of mental health inequity in rural communities and reservations. This webinar will describe unique components such as challenges to financial sustainability, integration of culture, provider recruitment and retention, and overall health conditions of these communities. Strategies to overcoming these barriers will be described by current practices of clinics in a rural and reservation setting.    Learning Objectives: Discuss overall health disparities including rates of comorbidities and factors contributing to inequities in behavioral health across rural areas and reservations.  Identify strategies for decolonizing service delivery and incorporating cultural values and norms of communities served.  Identify challenges related to the sustainability of funding and the limitations on specialty providers for the community and how each member of the interdisciplinary health care team can help strategically to maintain quality service delivery in sparsely populated areas.    Describe the benefits and challenges of telehealth during a pandemic.    Speaker(s):   Dr. Anitra Warrior is the owner of Morningstar Counseling and Consultation in Lincoln, Nebraska, and is from the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in 2015 and has operated her clinic since 2012. Since receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Warrior has established four additional clinics that are now located throughout eastern Nebraska. Morningstar offers counseling on two college campuses, schools, communities and in integrated care with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. Clinic sites are based on reservations and in rural and urban settings. Dr. Warrior specializes in treating trauma in children through the utilization of evidenced based practices that have been adapted to the American Indian population. Most recently, Morningstar has become a training site for doctoral candidates with the Munroe-Meyer Institute. This track will focus on integrated care on the reservation as well as provide additional clinical training opportunities in schools, colleges, and in the tribal communities. Kay Bond, PhD, LP, is the co-founder of Tidal Integrated Health, Inc., and co-director of Behavioral Pediatrics in Primary Care at NOVA Behavioral Healthcare Corporation in Goldsboro, N.C. Dr. Bond is passionate about providing high-quality behavioral health services to young people and their families in rural, low-income, and underserved communities. She is also an experienced behavioral health supervisor. Most recently, Dr. Bond established two pediatric integrated behavioral health clinics designed to increase children’s access to behavioral health treatment and reduce the stigma involved in participating in therapy. Dr. Bond’s clinical and research interests include sleep, elimination disorders, and disruptive behavior and noncompliance. Dr. Bond is also interested in integrating behavioral health into primary care practices and clinical supervision. She earned her Ph.D. in Pediatric School Psychology at East Carolina University in 2016, and she completed her internship and fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics/Integrated Primary Care at the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2018. Coming Home to Primary Care: Pediatric Integrated Health  

Participants for this webinar will develop an understanding of mental health inequity in rural communities and reservations. This webinar will describe unique components such as challenges to financial sustainability, integration of culture, provider recruitment and retention, and overall health conditions of these communities. Strategies to overcoming these barriers will be described by current practices of clinics in a rural and reservation setting.    Learning Objectives: Discuss overall health disparities including rates of comorbidities and factors contributing to inequities in behavioral health across rural areas and reservations.  Identify strategies for decolonizing service delivery and incorporating cultural values and norms of communities served.  Identify challenges related to the sustainability of funding and the limitations on specialty providers for the community and how each member of the interdisciplinary health care team can help strategically to maintain quality service delivery in sparsely populated areas.    Describe the benefits and challenges of telehealth during a pandemic.    Speaker(s):   Dr. Anitra Warrior is the owner of Morningstar Counseling and Consultation in Lincoln, Nebraska, and is from the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in 2015 and has operated her clinic since 2012. Since receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Warrior has established four additional clinics that are now located throughout eastern Nebraska. Morningstar offers counseling on two college campuses, schools, communities and in integrated care with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. Clinic sites are based on reservations and in rural and urban settings. Dr. Warrior specializes in treating trauma in children through the utilization of evidenced based practices that have been adapted to the American Indian population. Most recently, Morningstar has become a training site for doctoral candidates with the Munroe-Meyer Institute. This track will focus on integrated care on the reservation as well as provide additional clinical training opportunities in schools, colleges, and in the tribal communities. Kay Bond, PhD, LP, is the co-founder of Tidal Integrated Health, Inc., and co-director of Behavioral Pediatrics in Primary Care at NOVA Behavioral Healthcare Corporation in Goldsboro, N.C. Dr. Bond is passionate about providing high-quality behavioral health services to young people and their families in rural, low-income, and underserved communities. She is also an experienced behavioral health supervisor. Most recently, Dr. Bond established two pediatric integrated behavioral health clinics designed to increase children’s access to behavioral health treatment and reduce the stigma involved in participating in therapy. Dr. Bond’s clinical and research interests include sleep, elimination disorders, and disruptive behavior and noncompliance. Dr. Bond is also interested in integrating behavioral health into primary care practices and clinical supervision. She earned her Ph.D. in Pediatric School Psychology at East Carolina University in 2016, and she completed her internship and fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics/Integrated Primary Care at the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2018. Coming Home to Primary Care: Pediatric Integrated Health  

About The Webinar Research has demonstrated that race-related stressors undermine the psychological health and academic adjustment of youth of color, and this is particularly salient for African American and Latinx adolescents. School is an important context to understand and address students’ racial experiences given the significant amount of time students spend there and the frequency in which youth also report encountering and processing race-based incidents in school. It is is critical to recognize the unique role that schools can potentially have in providing racial socialization, reducing racial stress, and promoting a healthy racial climate. As such, the current webinar will provide an overview of racial stress and trauma (RST) and its consequences for students of color, with a focus on African American and Latinx adolescents. The presentation will highlight methods that teachers, school counselors, and school leadership can use to discuss race, promote resilience in the face of RST, and implement a school wide approach to address RST.   Learning Objectives: Develop an understanding of racial stress and trauma (RST) and how it manifests in schools Learn skills to discuss race and RST with students Discuss tools that can be applied in schools to promote resilience, empowerment, and healing from experiences of RST   Resources: Understanding Racial Stress and Trauma and Schools: Responding by Addressing and Affirming Race with Farzana Saleem (PDF)   About The Speaker Dr. Farzana Saleem is a University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Saleem has a joint appointment in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, with affiliation in the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. She received her PhD in the Clinical-Community Psychology doctoral program at the George Washington University and completed a child and adolescent clinical internship, with a specialization in trauma, at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Saleem conducts community and school-based research focused on identifying factors across contexts that can reduce the effects of racial discrimination on the psychological adjustment of adolescents, with a focus on understanding ethnic-racial socialization in families and schools. She is interested in conducting empirical research and creating programs/interventions focused on reducing racial stress, eradicating mental health and academic racial disparities, and promoting the well-being of marginalized and racially diverse youth, families, and communities. About The Series  The Northwest MHTTC and the Pacific Southwest MHTTC are continuing our partnership to provide and extend deeper technical assistance on the Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF). Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF) is a structure and process that maximizes effectiveness and efficiency by blending the strengths of school and community mental health with strengths of the multi-tiered framework of PBIS (Barrett, Eber, Weist, 2013) This past year, we offered three webinars on the Interconnected Systems Framework (see below for recordings) and followed the learning series up with monthly discussion hours led by Susan Barrett and field leaders from our region. This year, we are offering more programming to deepen your ISF work and contextualize ISF to this moment of COVID-19 and beyond. Our fall offering is made up of four modules and ends with a town hall for you to be able to ask faculty your questions and resource one another. Each module includes teaching from Susan Barrett and field leaders on ISF systems, and USC faculty on ISF practices.   Learn more about the full series schedule and access all recordings & presentation materials 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.

This webinar recording covers the history of mindfulness practice and how to incorporate healthy method(s)into personal and professional practices. The Northwest MHTTC is excited to collaborate with Aleks Martin, MSW, LSWAIC, SUDP, to deliver a webinar and podcast series as part of our support for provider well-being. Find out more about the series here. Resources Download presentation slides Mindfulness for Skeptics​ BC/AD vs BCE/CE​​ ​5 Ways to Practice Breath-Focused Meditation​​ ​Body Scan Meditation (Greater Good Science Center, UC-Berkeley)​​ ​Mindfulness for Students Script (Partner Skills)​​   Presenter Aleks Martin (S/he pronouns, but they is ok) has been in the health and social service field for over 20 years. Aleks was drawn to the LGBTQI2+ community in their mid-twenties working for a national HIV-prevention study with youth called, Young Asian Men’s Study (YAMS). This exposed them to the great work of HIV workers from other organizations and how community-based programs are critical in reaching out to the most vulnerable populations. During this time, they worked as a Disease Intervention Specialist with Public Health - Seattle & King County for 7 years, including working on the pilot study for the Rapid HIV Test Kit (then a 20-minute test). A big portion of their professional career was spent at Seattle Counseling Service, a behavioral health agency for the LGBTQ community. From 2003 to 2019, Aleks started as Database Manager, Health Educator, Program Coordinator to Chemical Dependency Counselor and Addictions Program Supervisor. This was the safe space where their yearning for higher education was cultivated so they could serve their community further. As a graduate of the University of Washington’s School of Social Work - Masters Program, Aleks developed their skills as a mental health clinician and social justice advocate. Aleks’ perspectives where shifted and allowed them to have a wider lens for diversity, inclusion and equity. Aleks was inspired to start a private practice to address the special needs of the LGBTQI2+ and BBIPOC (Black, Brown, Indigenous and People of Color), particularly Queer and Trans Asian and Pacific Islander people dealing with unique and special issues that intersect with race/culture and gender/sexuality like coming out, spiritual conflicts, cultural dissonance, gender transition, social navigation at work and other environments, interpersonal relationships from intimacy to friendships, understanding relationships with non-LGBTQI2+ partner(s), and so on. Want more information? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's Resource Library and Websites by Topic  and sign up for our monthly newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

This session will cover the challenges of meeting linguistic needs in mental health services with an emphasis on integrated systems of care. It will first discuss the scope of the problem of linguistic barriers to care. It will cover the importance of improving access to linguistically and culturally appropriate services and how that may function differently in various interpretation models. It will also provide concrete recommendations for working with interpreters.   Learning Objectives: Describe barriers to care due to inequalities in linguistic abilities when providing mental health services within an integrated healthcare system. Discuss how various interpreter models and functions help to overcome the challenges of meeting linguistic and cultural needs within the pediatric mental health integrated system of care. Discuss recommendations to consider when working with interpreters to address pediatric mental health needs.   Speakers: Gloria Gonzalez-Kruger, PhD, is an associate clinical professor who is currently serving as the director of clinical services at Drexel University Couple and Family Therapy Clinic. She is a graduate of Michigan State University, where she earned her two master’s degrees, one in Family and Child Ecology and the second in Marriage and Family Therapy. Her doctoral degree is in Family and Child Ecology with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy. She was an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences and the Marriage and Family Therapy program. She is an approved “clinical” supervisor through the Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Most recently, she was the director of behavioral health at a primary care clinic that is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), OneWorld Community Health Centers, Inc. This clinic provided integrated primary/behavioral healthcare to minority, underserved and marginalized populations. As a clinician, clinical supervisor, community advocate, educator, family scientist and researcher, her goal is to engage in activities that ultimately contribute to enhancing the quality of life of people in minority, under-served, vulnerable and marginalized communities. Her focus has been on increasing access, utilization and delivery of culturally relevant and competent educational and health-related services that serve to decrease health disparities and improve or enhance the overall well-being of individuals, couples and families across the life cycle. Kay Bond, PhD, LP, is the co-founder of Tidal Integrated Health, Inc., and co-director of Behavioral Pediatrics in Primary Care at NOVA Behavioral Healthcare Corporation in Goldsboro, N.C. Dr. Bond is passionate about providing high-quality behavioral health services to young people and their families in rural, low-income, and underserved communities. She is also an experienced behavioral health supervisor. Most recently, Dr. Bond established two pediatric integrated behavioral health clinics designed to increase children’s access to behavioral health treatment and reduce the stigma involved in participating in therapy. Dr. Bond’s clinical and research interests include sleep, elimination disorders, and disruptive behavior and noncompliance. Dr. Bond is also interested in integrating behavioral health into primary care practices and clinical supervision. She earned her Ph.D. in Pediatric School Psychology at East Carolina University in 2016, and she completed her internship and fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics/Integrated Primary Care at the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2018. Dr. Trey Andrews is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program and is joint-appointed in Psychology and Ethnic Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2014 from the University of Arkansas. As a graduate student, he helped solidify an integrated care practice that was in its second year and re-establish an additional site at an FQHC. He completed his internship (2014) and NIMH-funded postdoctoral fellowship (2016) at the Medical University of South Carolina with a focus on traumatic stress. While there, he laid the groundwork for integrated primary care practices in conjunction with family practice resident training and consulted with a local FQHC that was beginning its integrated care program. He now supervises students at an FQHC in Nebraska and has previously supervised students in another primary care clinic in Nebraska. Overall, the majority of the clinical services he provided and supervised have occurred in Spanish with Latinx populations. Beyond his practical experience, he has collaborated and led the publication of multiple research articles evaluating equity in primary care. Coming Home to Primary Care: Pediatric Integrated Health  

This session will cover the challenges of meeting linguistic needs in mental health services with an emphasis on integrated systems of care. It will first discuss the scope of the problem of linguistic barriers to care. It will cover the importance of improving access to linguistically and culturally appropriate services and how that may function differently in various interpretation models. It will also provide concrete recommendations for working with interpreters.   Learning Objectives: Describe barriers to care due to inequalities in linguistic abilities when providing mental health services within an integrated healthcare system. Discuss how various interpreter models and functions help to overcome the challenges of meeting linguistic and cultural needs within the pediatric mental health integrated system of care. Discuss recommendations to consider when working with interpreters to address pediatric mental health needs.   Speakers: Gloria Gonzalez-Kruger, PhD, is an associate clinical professor who is currently serving as the director of clinical services at Drexel University Couple and Family Therapy Clinic. She is a graduate of Michigan State University, where she earned her two master’s degrees, one in Family and Child Ecology and the second in Marriage and Family Therapy. Her doctoral degree is in Family and Child Ecology with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy. She was an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences and the Marriage and Family Therapy program. She is an approved “clinical” supervisor through the Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Most recently, she was the director of behavioral health at a primary care clinic that is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), OneWorld Community Health Centers, Inc. This clinic provided integrated primary/behavioral healthcare to minority, underserved and marginalized populations. As a clinician, clinical supervisor, community advocate, educator, family scientist and researcher, her goal is to engage in activities that ultimately contribute to enhancing the quality of life of people in minority, under-served, vulnerable and marginalized communities. Her focus has been on increasing access, utilization and delivery of culturally relevant and competent educational and health-related services that serve to decrease health disparities and improve or enhance the overall well-being of individuals, couples and families across the life cycle. Kay Bond, PhD, LP, is the co-founder of Tidal Integrated Health, Inc., and co-director of Behavioral Pediatrics in Primary Care at NOVA Behavioral Healthcare Corporation in Goldsboro, N.C. Dr. Bond is passionate about providing high-quality behavioral health services to young people and their families in rural, low-income, and underserved communities. She is also an experienced behavioral health supervisor. Most recently, Dr. Bond established two pediatric integrated behavioral health clinics designed to increase children’s access to behavioral health treatment and reduce the stigma involved in participating in therapy. Dr. Bond’s clinical and research interests include sleep, elimination disorders, and disruptive behavior and noncompliance. Dr. Bond is also interested in integrating behavioral health into primary care practices and clinical supervision. She earned her Ph.D. in Pediatric School Psychology at East Carolina University in 2016, and she completed her internship and fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics/Integrated Primary Care at the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2018. Dr. Trey Andrews is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program and is joint-appointed in Psychology and Ethnic Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2014 from the University of Arkansas. As a graduate student, he helped solidify an integrated care practice that was in its second year and re-establish an additional site at an FQHC. He completed his internship (2014) and NIMH-funded postdoctoral fellowship (2016) at the Medical University of South Carolina with a focus on traumatic stress. While there, he laid the groundwork for integrated primary care practices in conjunction with family practice resident training and consulted with a local FQHC that was beginning its integrated care program. He now supervises students at an FQHC in Nebraska and has previously supervised students in another primary care clinic in Nebraska. Overall, the majority of the clinical services he provided and supervised have occurred in Spanish with Latinx populations. Beyond his practical experience, he has collaborated and led the publication of multiple research articles evaluating equity in primary care.   Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses   Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC

This session will describe the two-fold workforce development needs for creating mental health equity in integrated primary care: creating an equitable workforce and training for creating equitable clinical structures. Speakers will discuss the unique approaches that have been successful in recruiting and retaining individuals from the communities in which they serve as well as ways to engage community support.   Learning Objectives: Identify innovative approaches for recruitment and retention of your workforce team with the intent to create mental health equity within an integrated primary care system.  Discuss how to generate a more representative workforce along with more equitable outcomes as identified from research efforts involving the pediatric population. Describe the importance of obtaining support from the community including identification of resources and community agencies in order to foster growth for the future workforce.    Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses   Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC

This session will describe the two-fold workforce development needs for creating mental health equity in integrated primary care: creating an equitable workforce and training for creating equitable clinical structures. Speakers will discuss the unique approaches that have been successful in recruiting and retaining individuals from the communities in which they serve as well as ways to engage community support.   Learning Objectives: Identify innovative approaches for recruitment and retention of your workforce team with the intent to create mental health equity within an integrated primary care system.  Discuss how to generate a more representative workforce along with more equitable outcomes as identified from research efforts involving the pediatric population. Describe the importance of obtaining support from the community including identification of resources and community agencies in order to foster growth for the future workforce.    Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses   Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC

This is the slide deck for Considerations in Maintaining Equity on Our Path to Pediatric Primary Care, the fourth session in our series Coming Home to Primary Care: Pediatric Integrated Health. This session will cover considerations associated with racial equity in primary care settings. It is important to ensure that efforts are made to increase access to behavioral health services in primary care clinics. Speakers will identify ways to improve, enhance, and maintain an equitable integrated care practice.   Learning Objectives: Describe racial equity considerations in integrated care Identify resources to achieve health equity in primary care Describe evidence-based strategies utilized by the health care team for efforts associated with reducing disparities   Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses   Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC  

This session will cover considerations associated with racial equity in primary care settings. It is important to ensure that efforts are made to increase access to behavioral health services in primary care clinics. Speakers will identify ways to improve, enhance, and maintain an equitable integrated care practice.   Learning Objectives: Describe racial equity considerations in integrated care Identify resources to achieve health equity in primary care Describe evidence-based strategies utilized by the health care team for efforts associated with reducing disparities   Target Audience: Behavioral Health Providers Primary Care Providers Nurses   Learn more: https://bit.ly/ComingHometoIC  

This guide provides practical strategies for increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in your mental health organization or agency. Highlighting the specific cultures and communities of the Pacific Southwest region, this guide includes concrete examples, tools, and research-informed strategies. The guide is organized into three sections: recruitment, hiring, and retention. Each section includes a series of recommendations to help employers develop and maintain a workforce that is reflective of diverse communities and responsive to their needs.

This webinar will explore the experiences of trauma among marginalized groups and the behavioral manifestations of trauma you may see among students, as well as barriers impacting life trajectory and seeking mental health supports.   Webinar Objectives: Define trauma and examine the various types of trauma Look at how trauma affects multiple aspects of our lives Explore how ethno-racial trauma affects a person of color from a lived experience Understand the impact of racial injustice on students of color Evaluate how the ethno-racial trauma affects student mental health and success in the academic environment   View presentation slides and transcript

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In many cultures, spirituality is a key driver of well-being and hope. Faith leaders are coming together across communities to organize, support, provide, engage and instill hope. This NNED webinar discusses how faith-based NNED partner organizations are supporting the mental health concerns of racial/ethnic minorities and providing opportunities to receive support and connection through faith-based practices and partnerships. View the slides here.

This webinar will start defining the basic concepts that comprehend the LGBTQ+ community. These concepts will set the tone to understand how minority groups become vulnerable populations in Latinx communities. Our main objective is to promote sensible, empathic, and effective treatment strategies for the provision of mental health services.   Slides are available here.

While racism and classism are not exclusive to the United States, the American paradigm is unique due to its history of slavery, conquest, and immigration.  Each new wave of immigrants to America has experienced systematic inequality in a system based on ethnic and racial oppression. The pressure of conforming and confronting this system produces stress and mental anguish, which primarily afflicts minority communities.  In the recorded presentation Liberty, Humiliation, and Identity: Race and the Suffering of America, Albert Thompson will cover how to engage in a dialogue about physical and mental health that encompasses societal morbidity. We will examine how particular events in our history demonstrate the consequences of racial views and our need to listen and engage. Behavioral health providers must consider race and the impact it has on leadership. Change leaders need to be politically and socially knowledgeable, listen, and understand a broader perspective of historical foreign and domestic policy related to race, ethnicity, and culture. To gain the agility necessary to navigate within an ever-growing diverse population in need of mental health and addiction services in our country, we must consider elevating skills that transcend culture and human-made racial boundaries.

  The Region 7 Mid-America Technology Transfer Centers (TTCs) recognize that Black communities in our country are hurting as the result of violence, bigotry and racism. Racism and discrimination are associated with dire behavioral and physical health issues, including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders. We know that disparities in equitable access to services and resources perpetuate these issues. Across the Mid-America region, we commit to collectively increasing our efforts to develop a collaborative plan with our community partners to be part of a solution to promote equity, safety and health for our communities. As a start to our efforts to promote behavioral health equity for all, we have compiled some resources that may support you in your work. Download the document here.   Author(s): Robinson, L./Mid-America MHTTC; Stilen, P./Mid-America ATTC; Closson, D./Mid-America PTTC  

This previously recorded webinar aims to increase participants’ understanding of the diversity of gender expression, gender identity, and biological sex. We will strive to expand attendees’ knowledge beyond the gender binary by providing an overview of community experiences, identity markers and meanings, research related to the construct of gender minority stress, and potential differences in journeys for binary transgender and non-binary transgender persons. We will also touch on current events and how transgender community members are being impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

The coming out process is a unique and individualized process, preferably driven by the client. Often times, many individuals that identify as a sexual or gender minority face the coming out process multiple times. This webinar will highlight the impact of coming out and how to best support someone through this process.   View presentation slides and transcript

The Coming Out Process: Presentation Slides and Transcript   The coming out process is a unique and individualized process, preferably driven by the client. Often times, many individuals that identify as a sexual or gender minority face the coming out process multiple times. This webinar will highlight the impact of coming out and how to best support someone through this process.