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Learning From and With the School Mental Health Workforce (School Counselors, Psychologists, and Teacher Educators) is Session 2 of the two-part learning series Supporting School Mental Health in the Context of Racial Violence. This learning series is intended for students, families, educators and school mental health professionals who are navigating the impact of racial violence on student mental health. Each 1.5 hour learning session will feature a moderator who will engage advocates, leaders and the school mental health workforce in a conversation that focuses on: Strategies for supporting students’ mental health while navigating racial violence (in and out of school); Opportunities for the field to improve its commitment to fostering a workforce ready, able and willing to hold racial violence as a mental health issue; Steps we might take to advance school mental health supports for students experiencing racial violence. Download the slides for this presentation here. Learn more about our speakers here. Questions? Please email Jessica Gonzalez at [email protected].   

Learning From and With Students, Caregivers, Advocates and Systems Leaders is Session 1 of the two-part learning series Supporting School Mental Health in the Context of Racial Violence. This learning series is intended for students, families, educators and school mental health professionals who are navigating the impact of racial violence on student mental health. Each 1.5 hour learning session will feature a moderator who will engage advocates, leaders and the school mental health workforce in a conversation that focuses on: Strategies for supporting students’ mental health while navigating racial violence (in and out of school); Opportunities for the field to improve its commitment to fostering a workforce ready, able and willing to hold racial violence as a mental health issue; Steps we might take to advance school mental health supports for students experiencing racial violence. Download the slides for this presentation here. Learn more about our speakers here. Questions? Please email Jessica Gonzalez at [email protected] 

Through a case example of a family with young children who are at risk for continued experiences of domestic violence, this 1-hour webinar: Discusses how to integrate a diversity and equity-informed stance that acknowledges sociocultural and historical trauma while addressing risk within families Demonstrates how to assess risk Identifies points of entry for intervention in partnership with families to prevent escalation of violence Provides practical safety strategies Reviews ways to engage in supportive conversations with parents and children about violence Download the webinar slides HERE. Download the FAQ document HERE. Speakers: Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen is the Associate Director and Dissemination Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco and the Early Trauma Treatment Network, a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. She has worked on seven longitudinal studies and has conducted treatment outcome research on the effectiveness of psychosocial intervention programs with Spanish-speaking children and parents. As a first-generation East Indian/Japanese American, she is committed to examining how culture and context affect perception and mental health systems. Dr. Carla Stover is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at the Yale Child Study Center. Her clinical work has included acute/peri-traumatic responses to families impacted by violence and long-term evidence-based treatments including Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Child Parent Psychotherapy. Dr. Stover developed Fathers for Change, an intervention for fathers with histories of use of family violence and is conducting outpatient, residential treatment, and community implementation studies on the effectiveness of the intervention. Note: This is the first session of the Preventing and Responding to Family Violence During COVID-19 Series, an online series brought to you by the MHTTC Network and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. For more information on the series, please click here.

This is the third and final session of the three-part webinar series, Making a Good Connection: Engaging Students and Families in School Tele-Mental Health, that is geared toward providers who are making the transition from in-person to telehealth services. Session content focuses on practical strategies and equity concerns related to engaging children, adolescents and families using distance technology. The presenters devote the first segment of each hour-long presentation to a specific topic, then address attendee-submitted questions. To view the recording, click on the "View Resource" button above. Download the slides here. Download the FAQ Sheet here. If you'd like access to recordings and resources for all session in this series, click here.

The US has a major shortage of mental health providers, as well as barriers to accessing evidence-based and culturally and linguistically responsive care among diverse subpopulations. Curated by the MHTTC Workforce Development Working Group, this document defines the mental health workforce and workforce development, identifies major needs of the mental health workforce, and highlights projects of the MHTTC Network designed to address those needs.

This is the second session of the three-part webinar series, Making a Good Connection: Engaging Students and Families in School Tele-Mental Health, that is geared toward providers who are making the transition from in-person to telehealth services. Session content focuses on practical strategies and equity concerns related to engaging children, adolescents and families using distance technology. The presenters devote the first segment of each hour-long presentation to a specific topic, then address attendee-submitted questions. To view the recording, click on the "View Resource" button above. Download the slides here. Download the FAQ Sheet here. For more information about the remaining sessions for this series, click here.

This is the first session of the three-part webinar series, Making a Good Connection: Engaging Students and Families in School Tele-Mental Health, that is geared toward providers who are making the transition from in-person to telehealth services. Session content focuses on practical strategies and equity concerns related to engaging children, adolescents and families using distance technology. The presenters devote the first segment of each hour-long presentation to a specific topic, then address attendee-submitted questions. To view the recording, click on the blue "View Resource" button above. Download the slides here. Download the FAQ Sheet here. For more information about the remaining sessions for this series, click here.