Products and Resources Catalog

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.

Este producto identifica los aspectos a considerar cuando se realizan servicios y apoyos de salud mental a través de telesalud con comunidades culturalmente diversas, proporcionando estrategias para garantizar que los estándares nacionales de Servicios Cultural y Lingüísticamente Apropiados (CLAS por sus siglas en inglés) continúen impulsando esfuerzos hacia una atención culturalmente competente. (Note: this is the Spanish translation of the product, "Cultural and Linguistic Responsiveness in Telehealth," previously released by the South Southwest MHTTC).

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 trainings and guidance for health care providers, mental health practitioners, and social workers. It also includes resources on the topics of telehealth, grief, COVID-19 communications, and supporting older adults. Click the "View Resource" link above to download, or view all available resource sheet topics.

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

Public health emergencies can provide a number of challenges for mental health facilities’ capacity to provide care to the populations they serve. Administrators and providers can take important steps to prepare for these emergencies and respond when they occur. This webinar will provide guidance on how these organizations can prepare for a public health crisis, develop continuity of operations plans, make needed service modifications, and address staffing concerns. By the end of this webinar, participants will have knowledge regarding: Why mental health systems must be prepared for public health emergencies Continuity of Operations Surge and Community Response Additional Resources

Disparities in mental health and mental healthcare have been a persistent and unremitting issue despite concerted efforts on multiple fronts to address the problem. The enduring nature of these problematic differences compels us to evaluate factors that led to our present state, and consider new evidence and new strategies to reduce and eliminate mental health disparities. This webinar will reframe the issue via a journey from cultural competence to structural competence (through cultural humility), address new trends in research in the field, and offer innovative solutions that providers and policymakers can adopt to more effectively address mental health disparities and inequities going forward. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to: To consider the role of disparities and inequities in mental health care and outcomes To understand the difference between cultural and structural competence To consider your role in addressing inequities in mental health care

Integrating cultural and linguistic considerations in our mental health services requires shifts in values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. If we are truly invested in improving the client’s experience as they enter our organizations and in creating equitable systems for services, we need to be open to changes. We can all lead and engage in a change process to integrate cultural and linguistic considerations into our policy, infrastructure, workforce, community engagement, and programs and services. Presenters Suganya Sockalingam and Annie Guo VanDan (Pacific Southwest MHTTC) provide a conceptual foundation of the importance of culture, including definitions, frameworks, and concepts. We look at a self-assessment tool to examine cultural and linguistic competence (CLC) in our organization, and we explore the leadership required to motivate and integrate CLC into systems and service delivery.   Participants will: Recognize and explain the importance of culture and language in mental health services. Use CLC strategies to meet the needs of culturally diverse populations. Identify ways participants can lead (promote) CLC in service delivery. Explore ways to make the CLC change stick!   Audience: Mental health services program directors, administrators, providers, and other personnel involved in mental health services and supports.    

Michael Hoge, PhD, reviews key strategies from improving recruitment and retention in mental health organizations, including examples of innovation and specific approaches for increasing the diversity of an organization’s workforce.

Robert Rosenheck, MD, provides an overview of Supported Housing and how it expands the range of mental health service delivery to address a non-medical need of critical importance to the well-being of adults with severe mental illness. Please click here to access the webinar.

Southeast MHTTC  Newsletter Volume II, Issue 1 - October 2019

Recording of the webinar Assessing Organizational and Systems Readiness for Access to Appropriate Care Levels, originally held on August 8, 2019.   Slide Presentation Older Adult Fact Sheet

Recording of the webinar titled "Suicide and Opioids," originally held on September 25, 2019.   Download the slides

Dr. Michael Hogan examines suicide prevention in healthcare settings, comparing the progress made in reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths with the lack of progress in reducing suicide deaths. The available tools for “suicide care” have comparable cost and effectiveness to CVD interventions and a focus should be placed on improving use of these effective tools. Please click here to access the webinar.

Dr. David Jobes, the founder and developer of CAMS, presents on this evidence-based suicide-focused clinical framework for effectively treating suicidal patients. Please click here to access the webinar.

August 28, 2019 Dr. Jay Shore, M.D., M.P.H., hosted this webinar to review best practices in using videoconferencing platforms to deliver telemental health services to individuals. This session provided an overview of the guidelines developed to support the implementation of telemental health services. American Psychiatric Association and American Telemedicine Association best practice guidelines are reviewed in detail. This training session concludes with a review of best practices and skills to use when performing a telemental health visit.  Slide deck Recording   Learning Objectives Be familiar with the recent APA and ATA best practices in telemental health. Understand how to incorporate best practices in telemental health when working with patients.  

We invite you to join us for this webinar, which provides foundational knowledge on what are the social determinants of health, why they should be assessed, and how mental health service providers can leverage them for better outcomes. Hear how providers throughout the Pacific Southwest region are addressing the social determinants of health through broad initiatives, service assessments, and strategic partnerships. Journey with us as you gain an understanding of how to identify appropriate partners and collaborate with them on the shared interest of achieving mental health equity. There are many tools and resources highlighted to support your local efforts, as well as ample opportunity to ask questions. Participants: Recognize the connection between the social determinants of health and improved mental health outcomes. Access tools and resources to support appropriate assessment. Explore strategic thinking for community mental health partnerships. Learn what kinds of questions and data will lead them to these partnerships, and how to evaluate the opportunities that exist within them. Establish a framework for incorporating the social determinants of health into their everyday practice.  

Why do we, as behavioral health providers, need to be concerned about the social determinants of health? This brief fact sheet examines how mental health is shaped by the social, economic, and physical environments in which people live, and how providers can address the determinants through social justice collaborations.