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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.

Conflict among students, educators, and family members can derail learning and result in student and family disengagement, staff fatigue and burnout, and unfortunately, even school violence. Effective conflict resolution strategies are essential to safe and nurturing learning environments. And even the most compassionate and caring school communities can benefit from practices that promote growth, connection, and resilience while reducing damage to relationships. Join us to learn specific skills and strategies that will help you reduce conflict and respond intentionally to students, school staff, parents, and others in crisis. Our presenters will review a variety of processes relevant to conflict resolution in schools, including de-escalation tactics, active and reflective listening techniques, emotional coaching, and more.       Presenters:  Aaron Weintraub and Dana Asby, MA, MEd

  Young people with intersecting LGBTQ+ A and BIPOC identities are incredibly resilient. At the same time, they face enormous stress related to the COVID 19 pandemic, racism, and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. While many LGBTQ+A BIPOC youth and young adults find support and connection amongst their peers, or through family, including families of choice, or communities grounded in faith, activism, or other shared interests and values, others struggle with isolation. Those who seek mental health treatment often face barriers such as a shortage of practitioners with relevant expertise, mistrust of the healthcare system, and inadequate insurance coverage. Many also experience logistical challenges related to transportation, scheduling, lack of privacy, and little access to technology required for successful telehealth engagement. Please join us and the LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity Center of Excellence for an interactive conversation about the resilience of BIPOC LGBTQ+A young people, and explore how providers, practitioners, caregivers, and other adults can help these youth navigate challenges and thrive.    

      Explore all the Adult Resilience Curriculum for Health Professionals modules: ARC for Health Professionals   You might like: ARC for Educators Professional Well-Being            

    Explore all the Adult Resilience Curriculum for Health Professionals modules: ARC for Health Professionals   You might like: ARC for Educators Professional Well-Being          

    Explore all the Adult Resilience Curriculum for Health Professionals modules: ARC for Health Professionals   You might like: ARC for Educators Professional Well-Being    

    Explore all the Adult Resilience Curriculum for Health Professionals modules: ARC for Health Professionals   You might like: ARC for Educators Professional Well-Being  

    Explore all the Adult Resilience Curriculum for Health Professionals modules: ARC for Health Professionals   You might like: ARC for Educators Professional Well-Being    

Recording of the Rock Recovery-led event Group Therapy for the Treatment of Eating Disorders and Body Image Issues, originally held on November 10, 2021.   Presentation slides.

Download the presentation slides here   Introduction to measurement-based care for more personalized, collaborative, and effective school mental health interventions  Student mental health early intervention (Tier 2) and treatment (Tier 3) services and supports are a vital component of any comprehensive school mental health system, but how student centered, evidence-based and effective are they? In this session, Dr. Connors provides guidance on how your school or district team can integrate measurement-based care (MBC) in your Tier 2 and 3 services to improve service quality, track outcomes, and sustain these crucial services for students with emerging or existing mental health needs. MBC is the ongoing use of student-, parent- and teacher-reported progress measures to inform personalized, collaborative, effective interventions. This session provided information on what MBC is, why it is useful for schools, how to locate free and low-cost progress measures, and best practices in training and implementation support for school professionals. Relevant, free resources were hand selected and shared from the National School Mental Health Best Practices: Implementation Guidance Modules for States, Districts, and Schools. Learning Objectives: Increase understanding of measurement-based care and its value for improving and sustaining high quality school mental health Tier 2 and 3 services. Increase familiarity with free or low-cost progress measure options and best practices in training and implementation support for school professionals. Promote cross-state networking and shared learning about best practices, successes and challenges of tracking and reporting on the impact of Tier 2 and 3 services.   Elizabeth Connors, PhD Elizabeth Connors is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, Division of Prevention and Community Research and at the Child Study Center. She is also a faculty member with the University of Maryland National Center for School Mental Health, where she is the Director of Quality Improvement and a developer of The SHAPE System. Dr. Connors received her Ph.D. in Clinical Child and Community Psychology and her work focuses on improving access to high-quality mental health promotion, prevention and intervention services and supports for underserved children, adolescents, young adults and their families in critical access points such as schools and community settings.

Making Sense of School Mental Health: A New Graphic Tool on the Role of Teachers provides recommendations on how to translate complex concepts about children’s mental health and school mental health into visual aides to enhance understanding. In this session, we provide a new graphic tool designed to help you communicate with teachers about their role and the role of other adults on campus in supporting school mental health.

This webinar was originally recorded on November 9, 2021 as a part of the Creating Supportive Environments for LGBTQIA2+ Students and Staff in Schools webinar series. >> View Session Two: What's behind a pronoun? Gender, identity and language << >> Access the PowerPoint Slides (PDF Format) << >> Resources Mentioned | WordCloud << This webinar series brings professionals from the school mental health field to share knowledge, lived experiences, affirming practices and resources to create supportive spaces for the LGBTQIA2+ community in schools in our region. Sessions include content about understanding gender identity and language with a safe space to practice pronouns, exploring gender affirming support practices in schools for students, school communities, families and school staff as well as a session dedicated to a Q & A. In this session, the South Southwest MHTTC was joined by sociologist and University of Texas at Austin professor Dr. Stephen Russell to help set the stage and discuss some of the necessary foundations.

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  The Great Lakes MHTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders. DESCRIPTION: ClassroomWISE, a new mental health literacy course developed by the MHTTC Network and the National Center for School Mental Health is a free 3-part training package that assists K-12 educators and school personnel in supporting students' mental health in the classroom and is comprised of a free self-guided online course, video library, resource collection, and website focused on educator mental health literacy. Many schools and districts are already addressing different aspects of school mental health by using various programs, practices and initiatives to support students. ClassroomWISE was designed to integrate and enhance school mental health efforts to provide even greater assistance to students at both the prevention and intervention levels. Each webinar in this series will focus on a different school mental health framework: social emotional learning, trauma informed practices and multi-tiered system of support. Clear examples, tips and discussions will help illustrate the relationship between ClassroomWISE and the specific SMH framework. Participants are welcome to attend the whole series or the individual sessions most aligned with your current SMH practices. This webinar series is for educators, school mental health professionals, school and district decisions makers, and administrators.   LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Review Classroom WISE mental health literacy resource. Explore how Classroom WISE supports existing school SEL principles, practices and programs. Identify talking points and implementation strategies to integrate Classroom WISE into your school’s SEL framework   Participants are encouraged to visit the Classroom WISE website in advance of the webinar.   Presenter:    Stefanie Winfield is an Adjunct Faculty Instructor the University of Denver, Graduate School of Social work. In her past role as School Mental Health Lead for the Mountain Plains MHTTC, Stefanie focused on providing intensive technical assistance and training to educators, teachers administrators and all school staff on ways to improve and enhance school mental health. Stefanie has extensive experience working in schools promoting youth sexual health, conflict and anger management, behavioral health education, and school-based health care. With over 20 years of experience working with nonprofits and community organizations, Stefanie has done everything from grant management and implementation, to program and outcome evaluation, training and facilitation.  

This publication is designed to help organizations and staff address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. It includes an array of resources that provide guidance about raising awareness, assessing competencies, implementing strategic planning, and advanced training opportunities.

  Mental Health Stigma Reduction in Rural Schools; HHS Region 8 Access slide deck with the green download button above Click here to watch the recording   Session Description   The stigma surrounding mental health has emerged as one of the leading barriers to accessing mental health services in rural communities and schools. According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2009 and 2019, an increasing percentage of American youth reported feeling sad or hopeless for at least two weeks “to the degree that they could not engage in their usual activities.” A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2018 reported that 70 percent of teenagers said anxiety and depression were major problems among their peers. Additionally, the percentage of students who seriously considered suicide or made a suicide plan has also risen in the last decade. Suicide has become the second leading cause of death among adolescents.    As the need to thoughtfully address mental health issues in school continues to increase, educators and staff must normalize the conversation about mental health and seeking help. The first step towards normalizing the conversation about mental health is to dispel the misunderstandings and stigma about mental health, mental illness, and the people who experience mental health symptoms. This training will examine ways to identify and address mental health stigma in rural school settings.   After attending this session, participants will be able to:   Define mental health stigma. Identify common factors that influence mental health stigma. Describe the consequences and impacts of stigma related to accessing mental health treatment. Explore techniques to overcome various forms of stigma, particularly in the school setting.    Trainer Debra Brownlee, PhD

ABOUT THIS RESOURCE "Family Bridger Pilot Program: Preliminary Feasibility and Acceptability of a Peer Navigator Model of Support for Caregivers of Loved Ones Experiencing Early Psychosis," poster produced by Matthew Christiansen, Akansha Vaswani-Bye, and Maria Monroe-DeVita for the 2021 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Convention. What is the Family Bridger Program? The Family Bridger (FB) is a novel peer-to-peer model of support to address unmet needs of caregivers of loved ones experiencing early psychosis. While family and caregiver engagement is critical to improving long-term outcomes of individuals experiencing early psychosis, negative caregiver experiences can impede recovery. Peer navigator models have been demonstrated to be a successful method of addressing unmet caregiver needs, though such support for caregivers of loved ones experiencing psychosis is limited. The Family Bridger Program was developed to train caregivers with long-term lived experience caring for an individual experiencing psychosis (Family Bridgers) to serve as peer navigators to address these needs for newer caregivers via interpersonal support, education, advocacy, resource provision, and skill building. Family Bridgers work collaboratively with caregivers to identify needs, co-develop a plan of action, and work with families to meet identified needs. This pilot program was hosted by the Northwest MHTTC in partnership with the SPIRIT Lab at the University of Washington, the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Washington State Center of Excellence in Early Psychosis. Terms of use and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) disclosure statement

  Minority populations, including Latino families, faced economic challenges, including housing instability and increased food insecurity, negatively affecting students' school engagement. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these conditions, and new challenges emerged including job loss, struggles to find childcare, decreased access to resources, social isolation, and decreased overall mental health. Among children and youths, mental health concerns and school disengagement have been worsened during the pandemic. Moreover, children and youths are experiencing caring for other family members, exposure to interpersonal violence, lack of parental supervision and support, grief and loss, and increased risk of suicide. The National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center will host a 3-part webinar series, Back to School … Promoting Resiliency and Mental Health Wellness in Latino Children: Strategies for Mental Health Providers, Teachers, and Parents. This webinar will examine the impact of COVID-19 on Latino students' mental health, discuss strategies to boost resiliency and improve mental health wellness, and create a plan to deal with unprecedented future situations like the pandemic. Part 3: Back to School… Promoting Resiliency and Mental Health Wellness in Latino Children: Strategies for Parents

  Immigration has a significant impact on many aspects of life in the United States. According to the Pew Research Center, there were 44.8 million foreign-born people living in the United States in 2018 -- a record 13.7% of the population and a portion that has more than quadrupled since the 1960s. With such high numbers, it is not uncommon for a mental health professional to receive a request to assist an individual involved in some type of immigration proceeding. This presentation will give a general overview of the different types of immigration cases where mental health professionals might be helpful and the different ways clinicians can assist this often disempowered diverse population. Learning Objectives: 1. List five different immigration statuses 2. Describe six different types of humanitarian relief for undocumented immigrants 3. Explain how a mental health professional can be helpful in immigration proceedings 4. Identify the psycho-legal question underlying each type of case

Slides from the session "Two-Eyed Seeing" - the Synergism between Native Wisdom Traditions and Western Science. This event took place on November 10th 2021. This month's topic will be: "Two-Eyed Seeing" - the Synergism between Native Wisdom Traditions and Western Science, featuring Mike Bricker, MS, CADC-2, NCAC-2 , LPC. 

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.  

    This one and half-hour online session will focus on how the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on communities of color. The pandemic both highlighted enduring racial and ethnic health disparities and exacerbated already existing disparities, resulting in negative impacts on the Hispanic and Latinx communities. While the Hispanic and Latinx community is strong and resilient, information regarding the negative impacts of the pandemic on this community is needed to inform recommendations for recovery.   Part 2 of this webinar series will focus on recommendations for recovery, particularly related to mental and behavioral health, which may help inform local, regional, state, and national efforts to promote equity, healing, and recovery.  

  Minority populations, including Latino families, faced economic challenges, including housing instability and increased food insecurity, negatively affecting students' school engagement. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these conditions, and new challenges emerged including job loss, struggles to find childcare, decreased access to resources, social isolation, and decreased overall mental health. Among children and youths, mental health concerns and school disengagement have been worsened during the pandemic. Moreover, children and youths are experiencing caring for other family members, exposure to interpersonal violence, lack of parental supervision and support, grief and loss, and increased risk of suicide. The National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center will host a 3-part webinar series, Back to School … Promoting Resiliency and Mental Health Wellness in Latino Children: Strategies for Mental Health Providers, Teachers, and Parents. This webinar will examine the impact of COVID-19 on Latino students' mental health, discuss strategies to boost resiliency and improve mental health wellness, and create a plan to deal with unprecedented future situations like the pandemic. Part 1: Back to School… Promoting Resiliency and Mental Health Wellness in Latino Children: Strategies for School Mental Health Providers