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Session 2 Application of Knowledge and Skill of Understanding the Impact of our Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling

El desarrollo laboral es uno de los ocho principios de los servicios de Empleo con Apoyo (SE). El desarrollo laboral se define como un conjunto de habilidades que utilizan para desarrollar y construir relaciones con la comunidad empresarial. Es un elemento importante para proporcionar servicios de empleo eficaces. Los servicios que incorporan el desarrollo laboral tienen resultados laborales más exitosos. Un componente clave de los servicios de desarrollo laboral es presentarse a sí mismo y a sus servicios de empleo a un empleador potencial. Muchos especialistas en empleo se preparan para esta reunión creando un discurse de elevador para usar al presentarse y practicando cómo responder a las preguntas difíciles que un empleador pueda hacer.

/*-->*/ /*--> Coordinated specialty care for early psychosis is an evidence-based treatment model aimed at fostering resilience and recovery for individuals who have experienced a first episode of psychosis or are at clinical high risk for developing psychosis. Each webinar will be co-presented by a professional with expertise in that component of care, as well as an individual with lived experience who can speak to how this aspect of care was meaningful in their journey towards recovery. This series is geared towards any individuals that are new to working on an Early Psychosis Specialty Team – including students, clinicians, prescribers, supported employment specialists, family clinicians, and peer specialists.   Presenter:  /*-->*/ /*--> Patrick Kaufmann  

In this listening session, Sean Perry, Co-Founder and Executive Director of We R H.O.P.E.— an innovative Vermont-based nonprofit organization that brings free mental health supports to students in rural schools—will explore educator vulnerability. Join us to learn strategies for re-framing vulnerability as a weakness and designating it as an asset that can be embraced and used to your advantage in the classroom, generally, and as you work to connect with disengaged youth, specifically during these uncertain times. Everyone in the school building needs to connect with their real needs and emotions, embrace self-compassion, and re-charge by remembering what brought them to a youth-serving career. In fact, that's the kind of connection that may be what's most needed now—for ourselves, our youth, and our communities.   To watch the recording, go to: https://youtu.be/zjmJ1UojVpk

This interactive training series focuses on providing Vocational Rehabilitation staff with the knowledge and skills to apply strategies to support participants with mental health conditions. The ongoing community of practice provides a space for counselors to share successes, challenges, and to obtain support from one another and MHTTC staff.

View Slide Deck This interactive training series focuses on providing Vocational Rehabilitation staff with the knowledge and skills to apply strategies to support participants with mental health conditions. The ongoing community of practice provides a space for counselors to share successes, challenges, and to obtain support from one another and MHTTC staff.

Many of us are constantly engaging with difficult, if not outrightly violent circumstances in our work and yet have so little space to care for ourselves. In this workshop, participants will have an opportunity to turn inwards and center their well-being.    To watch the recording, go to: https://youtu.be/b-y4mLk4eRM   Presenter: Nanee Sajeev Nanee Sajeev is a Malayalee-American writer committed to learning and growing towards liberation. Nanee is a student of many artists and leaders, whether they have been in their physical classrooms or not: Safia Elhillo, Kaveh Akbar, Hanif Abdurraqib, Fatimah Asghar, Mariame Kaba, and more. In this workshop, and in any other spaces Nanee facilitates, they hope to center patience, care, and growth.

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) LET(s)Lead Academy partnered with the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (New England MHTTC) to offer its academy to emerging leaders with lived experience of recovery in New England from August 2020-April 2021.   Fourteen Fellows graduated from the New England MHTTC LET(s)Lead Academy Learning Community, after completing a 10-week course and working with faculty, staff, and mentors to develop a transformational change project in their community or organization.   Learn more about the impact of this learning community in this report.

Job development is an important component to providing best practice employment services and includes initiating and developing relationships with employers. However, many vocational services staff express discomfort and limited skills in interacting with the business community. This three-part series will provide attendees with the tools to confidently approach employers, market their employment services, and develop and maintain relationships with employers. Sessions will be interactive with opportunities to practice newly learned skills. Attendees are encouraged to attend all three sessions.

View Slide Deck Job development is an important component to providing best practice employment services and includes initiating and developing relationships with employers. However, many vocational services staff express discomfort and limited skills in interacting with the business community. This three-part series will provide attendees with the tools to confidently approach employers, market their employment services, and develop and maintain relationships with employers. Sessions will be interactive with opportunities to practice newly learned skills. Attendees are encouraged to attend all three sessions.

Job development is an important component to providing best practice employment services and includes initiating and developing relationships with employers. However, many vocational services staff express discomfort and limited skills in interacting with the business community. This three-part series will provide attendees with the tools to confidently approach employers, market their employment services, and develop and maintain relationships with employers. Sessions will be interactive with opportunities to practice newly learned skills. Attendees are encouraged to attend all three sessions.

View Slide Deck Job development is an important component to providing best practice employment services and includes initiating and developing relationships with employers. However, many vocational services staff express discomfort and limited skills in interacting with the business community. This three-part series will provide attendees with the tools to confidently approach employers, market their employment services, and develop and maintain relationships with employers. Sessions will be interactive with opportunities to practice newly learned skills. Attendees are encouraged to attend all three sessions.

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November 22, 2021   Click on "view resource" to watch recording. Slides coming soon!     In this presentation, I will provide an overview of three questions: how the brain processes art and how art impacts the brain. I then discuss the relation between art and mental health, and how art can be therapeutic. Presenter(s): Dr. Keshavan is Stanley Cobb Professor and Academic Head of the Harvard Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has conducted early psychosis intervention and research for nearly three decades. He founded one of the first early psychosis clinical programs in the nation, services for treatment in early psychoses in Pittsburgh in 1990. He has published over 600 papers and 4 books on psychotic and related disorders including early psychosis neurobiology and intervention and organized educational conferences focused on early intervention in psychosis, biannually in Pittsburgh in Detroit and annually in Boston. He has been developing, efficacy-testing, and implementing cognitive enhancement therapy (CET), listed as an evidence-based intervention for schizophrenia by SAMHSA in the early course of schizophrenia over the past decade. He edits the Elsevier journal Schizophrenia Research, and is on the editorial board of several other journals, including the Journal of Early Intervention in Psychiatry, and is the recipient of the 2019 Research Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

  Job development is an important component to providing best practice employment services and includes initiating and developing relationships with employers. However, many vocational services staff express discomfort and limited skills in interacting with the business community. This three-part series will provide attendees with the tools to confidently approach employers, market their employment services, and develop and maintain relationships with employers. Sessions will be interactive with opportunities to practice newly learned skills. Attendees are encouraged to attend all three sessions.

View Slide Deck Job development is an important component to providing best practice employment services and includes initiating and developing relationships with employers. However, many vocational services staff express discomfort and limited skills in interacting with the business community. This three-part series will provide attendees with the tools to confidently approach employers, market their employment services, and develop and maintain relationships with employers. Sessions will be interactive with opportunities to practice newly learned skills. Attendees are encouraged to attend all three sessions.

  Session Description: Given the rates of professional burnout combined with the negative impacts of COVID-19 on healthcare providers, a peer support program was designed to support professional well-being.  CIRCLE Peer Talk and CIRCLE Peer Text groups allowed peers to connect with peers, to reflect and discuss what it means to be “well at work” and important issues that might not ordinarily be addressed in the day-to-day work.   These groups “meet” synchronously (via an online platform or face-to-face) or asynchronously (by text) every other week.  Learn about the program components, successes, outcomes, and impacts on professional well-being and patient encounters.   Presenters: Chantal Brazeau, M.D. | Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, New Jersey Medical School; Assistant Dean for Faculty Vitality, New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Chief Wellness Officer, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Dr. Brazeau has over 25 years of experience in the field of health professional well-being. She has taught about well-being and burnout, conducted local and national survey-based studies on medical student, faculty and physician well-being and presented at national and international venues on these topics.  As the inaugural Chief Wellness Officer at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, she works with school, university and hospital leadership teams to explore and lead the development and implementation of wellness initiatives for faculty and health care providers.    Ping-Hsin Chen, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, New Jersey Medical School   Dr. Chen is an experienced mixed methods researcher with extensive experience in intervention studies, community service-learning programs, quality assurance, and quality improvement projects, and clinical trials. Dr. Chen is proficient in building and managing secure online surveys and databases and using specialized statistical software packages for data analysis. She has provided quantitative and qualitative analyses and evaluations of several surveys on faculty and health professional well-being.    Manasa S. Ayyala, MD | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine; Director, The Healthcare Foundation Center for Humanism and Medicine, New Jersey Medical School  Dr. Ayyala completed a fellowship in medical education and has formal training in qualitative methodology and experience conducting large survey research. Her work exploring bullying in residency training was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association in 2019.   She has experience in physician wellness interventions spanning the learning continuum from undergraduate medical education to faculty wellness and currently serves as Faculty Vitality Champion for the Department of Medicine and Chair for the Department of Medicine Wellness Committee.  Additionally, she has personal experience with engaging in informal peer support through a texting platform.   

View Slide Deck Session Description: Given the rates of professional burnout combined with the negative impacts of COVID-19 on healthcare providers, a peer support program was designed to support professional well-being.  CIRCLE Peer Talk and CIRCLE Peer Text groups allowed peers to connect with peers, to reflect and discuss what it means to be “well at work” and important issues that might not ordinarily be addressed in the day-to-day work.   These groups “meet” synchronously (via an online platform or face-to-face) or asynchronously (by text) every other week.  Learn about the program components, successes, outcomes, and impacts on professional well-being and patient encounters.   Presenters: Chantal Brazeau, M.D. | Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, New Jersey Medical School; Assistant Dean for Faculty Vitality, New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Chief Wellness Officer, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Dr. Brazeau has over 25 years of experience in the field of health professional well-being. She has taught about well-being and burnout, conducted local and national survey-based studies on medical student, faculty and physician well-being and presented at national and international venues on these topics.  As the inaugural Chief Wellness Officer at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, she works with school, university and hospital leadership teams to explore and lead the development and implementation of wellness initiatives for faculty and health care providers.    Ping-Hsin Chen, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, New Jersey Medical School   Dr. Chen is an experienced mixed methods researcher with extensive experience in intervention studies, community service-learning programs, quality assurance, and quality improvement projects, and clinical trials. Dr. Chen is proficient in building and managing secure online surveys and databases and using specialized statistical software packages for data analysis. She has provided quantitative and qualitative analyses and evaluations of several surveys on faculty and health professional well-being.    Manasa S. Ayyala, MD | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine; Director, The Healthcare Foundation Center for Humanism and Medicine, New Jersey Medical School  Dr. Ayyala completed a fellowship in medical education and has formal training in qualitative methodology and experience conducting large survey research. Her work exploring bullying in residency training was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association in 2019.   She has experience in physician wellness interventions spanning the learning continuum from undergraduate medical education to faculty wellness and currently serves as Faculty Vitality Champion for the Department of Medicine and Chair for the Department of Medicine Wellness Committee.  Additionally, she has personal experience with engaging in informal peer support through a texting platform.  Sessions: Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Related Products: Flourishing at Work Webinar Series Pause, Breathe, Move: Self-Care for Healthcare Providers Self-Care Program Manual How to Implement a Provider Wellness Program at Work Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Others See Something, Say Something

This webinar will focus on how clinicians can support positive change and posttraumatic growth among people who have experienced psychosis.     Presenter(s): Gerald Jordan, PhD: Gerald is Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, and the Strategies for Patient-Oriented Research National Training Entity. His programme of research examines how young people transform their lives and communities following a mental health challenge, and how such transformations are shaped by citizenship-related inequities and community-based mental health services. He is currently funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategies for Patient-Oriented Research to examine how youth who experience madness, distress and extreme states define and experience citizenship. Fiona Ng, PhD: Fiona is a mental health services researcher at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on understanding posttraumatic growth in psychosis and the development and evaluation of recovery-oriented digital interventions for people with complex mental health problems. Robyn Thomas, MSc: Robyn is a recent graduate of the University of Edinburgh’s Global Mental Health and Society programme, where she completed her MSc research on the transformative potential of psychosis. Robyn has worked in mental health as a professional public speaker, curriculum writer, and facilitator. Her work as a filmmaker bridges compelling storytelling with mental health advocacy, and her recent award-winning film, Follow My Brain, explores a boxer’s perspective on living with psychosis and the efforts of his community to support his wellbeing. Robyn is passionate about advocating for a consensual, human rights approach to mental health care that upholds service users’ agency and insight.

please click on "view resource" to see our annual report for Year 3. 

At least 1 in 6 boys is sexually abused by the time of their 18th birthday and this number and proportion increase with 1 in 4 men experiencing sexual abuse or assault at some point across their lifespan. The health effects of sexual trauma are often significant and long-lasting. For example, sexual trauma is related to an increase in psychiatric disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder, substance abuse and dependence, depression, anxiety, and suicidal behavior. The majority of the research on sexual abuse, including the development and testing of psychosocial interventions, focuses on women. While that work is incredibly important and essential, men and boys who experienced sexual abuse are largely overlooked, stigmatized or shamed by the public, and sometimes even by health care professionals. This presentation will address myths related to sexual abuse and assault in boys and men, address barriers to their receipt of mental health services, and provide ways that mental health providers can support male survivors in their healing journey.  

The presenters discussed the ways that people change for the better after experiencing an episode of psychosis and what may facilitate such change.    

October 22, 2021 Presenter(s): Michelle Friedman-Yakoobian, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is the Co-Founder and Director of Research and Development of the Center for Early Detection, Assessment, and Response to Risk (www.cedarclinic.org), the first program in MA that provides early intervention to youth who are at clinical high risk for psychotic disorders. Dr. Friedman-Yakoobian’s career has been devoted to the development and implementation of effective psychosocial interventions for individuals experiencing psychosis (or signs of risk) and their families. Emily E. Carol, PhD, is the clinic director of the Support, Treatment, and Resilience (STAR) Program at McLean Hospital. In this role, she is involved in STAR’s clinical, outreach, research, and training initiatives. Her expertise is in early identification and intervention for emerging serious mental illness in teens and young adults, including psychosis spectrum and bipolar disorders. She is also a member of the Laboratory for Early Psychosis (LEAP) Center.  

View Our Video Archive Whether you are currently in a leadership position or are looking for leadership practices that are humane and compassionate, review our discussion with Dr. Martha Staeheli about how leaders in school mental health can lead students, families, schools, and communities through crises with a compassionate, equitable, and resilience-oriented approach. Learn more about our presenter: Martha Staeheli, PhD, Director, School Mental Health, New England MHTTC, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health