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Expert consultants devote the first segment of each hour-long session to a specific topic and then address questions pre-submitted by registrants. The Southeast MHTTC’s Consultation Office Hours provide intensive service, staff and operations consultation, and allow for an engaging Q&A session between the experts and participants. Meet the Experts: Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network (GMHCN) is a nationally recognized leader in developing and implementing peer support services. A grassroots nonprofit agency which has been led and run by mental health peers for over 25 years, GMHCN provides advocacy, education and training in the area of peer services across the state of Georgia. GMHCN provides consultation and training to Region IV states in the areas of training and credentialing certified peer specialists.

Residential alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization are one of the oldest and best researched components of the continuum of crisis services. Join Travis Atkinson, MA, LPC, for this edition of the Ohio Crisis Academy to learn how effective crisis service delivery comes through residential crisis programs and peer respite homes, as well as the critical metrics for measuring success. This session will also cover critical considerations for effective crisis service delivery during COVID-19. Trainer: Travis Atkinson For the past 10 years, Travis has worked in both clinical and managerial roles in behavioral health. Through these experiences, he espouses the value of a healthy and functioning behavioral health care system, the power of data to drive decision-making, and the importance of asking the right questions. While maintaining a broad vision for excellence and leadership, Travis has sought out best practices for behavioral health care services through research and connecting with fellow providers at a local and national level. He is an excellent training instructor, coach, meeting facilitator, and conference presenter. Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services will offer 1.5 CEU's for attending this training.

Times: 5pm ET / 2pm PT / 11am HT (view your time zone) Educators and school mental health leadership are resilient, creative, and tenacious, but they need to be supported to be able to provide support. In this period of stress and uncertainty, now is the time to gather and resource one another. In collaboration with the Meaning Makers Collective, we’re pleased to offer a series of School Mental Health Wellness Wednesdays. Each Wellness Wednesday is a 60-minute virtual session for the school mental health workforce to connect, reflect, and support each other. Led by Judee Fernandez and Michelle Kurta, Meaning Makers Collective.

6/24 Session - Sustained implementation of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) calls for innovative payment models that reflect local preferences and circumstances. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, our research team are working to develop a tool to support decision-making by payers and providers of CSC to design a bundled payment. During the EPLC discussion, we will conduct a demonstration of the interactive tool and seek feedback from the audience on its utility and ways to improve the tool.   Sponsored by the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center, this series features online meetings focused on bringing together leaders, clinicians, administrators, and constituents who are interested in working together to increase feasibility and scalability of specialized early psychosis and clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR-P) treatment across the New England region and other areas in the U.S. Guest presenters will share their experience with finding ways to pay for high quality prevention services for youth and families affected by early psychosis and/or signs of clinical high risk. This will include discussions about negotiating bundled payment structures with third-party payers, providing telemedicine, and finding creative solutions to maximize existing resources in order to provide stepped care that matches evidence-based services to individual needs and preferences. The format of each discussion in this series includes a 30-minute presentation by an invited expert followed by 30 minutes of questions and discussion by participants. Sessions will have a limit of 50 participants in order to maximize opportunities for meaningful discussion. Participants will be encouraged to network and develop workgroups to advance initiatives that are discussed. The lineup of guest speakers for this series includes:   2/26/2020 - 2-3PM EST | Financing First Episode Psychosis Programs: Developing Medicaid and Commercial Insurance Support in Maine - Douglas R. Robbins, M.D., psychiatrist for Maine Behavioral Healthcare 3/11/2020 - 2-3PM EST | Telehealth 101 & A Provider’s Perspective on TeleMental Health - Reid Plimpton , MPH, Project Manager for Northeast Telehealth Resource Center, Medical Care Development & Terry Rabinowitz, MD, DDS, NETRC Principle Investigator Medical Director, Telemedicine, University of Vermont Medical Center  4/29/2020 - 2-3PM EST | Payment Strategies for Coordinated Specialty Care - Melissa Rowan, MSW, MBA, Executive Vice President for Policy Implementation, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute 5/6/2020 - 2-3PM EST | Designing Outcome Measures that Speak to Payors - Ian Lang, MBA, Executive Director of the Brookline Center for Community Mental Health, Former Executive Director Continuum Behavioral Health in Rhode Island 6/24/2020 - 2-3PM EST | Yuhua Bao, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medical College, Departments of Healthcare Policy and Research and of Psychiatry & Lisa Dixon, MD, MPH, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian

This event is now closed.   Learn from behavioral health experts in program development, implementation, and evaluation to position your program for sustainable success! Featuring Pam Baston, MPA, MCAP, CPP; and Kathy Meyers, PhD This is a free training opportunity intended for committed individuals looking to gain skills in: Identifying and documenting needs of tribal communities Identifying effective practices aligned with the needs of your tribal population (s) of focus  Strengthening workforce and organizational capacity Documenting and evaluating outcomes Bringing it all together to make the case for sustainability opportunities  This training will be followed by self-directed project development assignments that will be reviewed with written feedback. A time commitment of 1.5 hrs. per week over a 5-6 week period will be required. A group of no greater than 20 highly motivated participants will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis. Wednesdays starting June 10  2-3:30 EDT . 1-2:30pm CDT . 12-1:30 MDT . 11-12:30 PDT . 10-11:30 ADT

Learn from behavioral health experts in program development, implementation, and evaluation to position your program for sustainable success!   Featuring Pam Baston, MPA, MCAP, CPP; and Kathy Meyers, PhD   *This is a closed event and only available to those that applied ahead of time. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions. 

Whether you’re a counselor, teacher, or social worker, serving children is hard. You’re taking care of everyone, and often feel exhausted. This series of 12 self-compassion sessions teach you how to care for yourself in the moment that you most need it. Research has shown that those who are more self-compassionate experience less stress, anxiety, and depression, are more resilient, and better able to deal with emotional challenges. Drawn from the internationally-acclaimed Mindful Self-Compassion program, which was created by Dr. Kristin Neff (educational psychologist at University of Texas, Austin) and Dr. Chris Germer, (clinical psychologist, Harvard University), the sessions will be comprised of didactic presentations, guided practices, and discussions which will offer specific tools that you can use to give yourself the support you deserve.

 “Strategies of Support for Mental Health Providers” - Empowering one another during times of crisis This is the eighth session of a weekly open forum to listen and share suggestions and resources. Special attention will be paid to resiliency, strength, overcoming challenges of social distancing, and supporting mental health professionals in their efforts to adapt their delivery of services. Discussion will be facilitated by Sean A. Bear, BA, Meskwaki; Matt Ignacio, PhC, MSSW, Tohono O’odham; and Anne Helene Skinstad, PhD. Times for next session: 11:00am – 12:00pm AKDT 12:00pm – 1:00pm PDT 1:00pm – 2:00pm MDT 2:00pm – 3:00pm CDT 3:00pm – 4:00pm EDT

Description: The onset of early psychosis (e.g., experiencing subthreshold or full symptoms of delusions, hallucinations, disorganization, etc.) generally occurs between the ages of 15-25, making adolescence and young adulthood critical periods for intervention. The duration of untreated psychosis lasts from 1-2 years on average, further highlighting the importance of early identification and intervention. There is emerging evidence that with early identification and treatment, we can change the trajectory of psychosis and optimize the likelihood of recovery. This webinar will cover information on specific early warning signs and symptoms of psychosis-risk and psychosis, how to provide evidence-based early psychosis assessment and treatment/referral, and current target populations and special considerations in early psychosis work. Practical tools and resources related to assessment and treatment will be provided.   Presenter: Joseph DeLuca, M.A., is a Ph.D. candidate in Clinical Psychology (’20, City University of New York Graduate Center) and current Psychology Intern in his last year of training (University of Maryland School of Medicine) specializing in early psychosis. Mr. DeLuca earned his BA and MA degrees in Forensic Psychology, and has served as an adjunct lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice teaching psychology courses. He has specialized in serious mental illness clinical work and research for the past seven years, and has particular interests in stigma, adolescence, families, the role of culture and context in psychosis, and the intersection of mental illness and the criminal justice system.    Learning Objectives: Understand the spectrum of psychosis and differentiate psychosis-risk and first-episode psychosis. Review the evidence supporting early psychosis care and the national and state implementation efforts. Describe the components of evidence-based early psychosis assessment and treatment. Demonstrate cultural responsiveness and awareness of target issues/special populations.   Who Should Attend? Clinicians and practitioners working in mental health services, specifically those serving youth and young adults, including but not limited to: community mental health settings; private practice settings; inpatient and intensive day treatment settings; school and university settings; juvenile detention and adult correctional settings.   Certificates of attendance will be available to viewers of 50% (30 minutes) or more of the live webinar (via email within 30 business days post-event). CEUs are not offered for this session. Webinar slide presentations and recordings will be posted on the website.

The goal of this webinar is to increase the awareness and abilities of mental health care providers in their use of cultural elements by promoting the use of culturally appropriate formulations when treating Latinx presenting with psychological and mental health disorders.  The information is informed by current research findings on the impact of cultural factors on the assessment and treatment of mental health disorders and on the therapeutic relationship.   Module Goal:  This module will provide training on best practices in the engagement and treatment phase of mental health treatment with the Hispanic and Latino client. Module Objectives:  1. Identify three cultural elements that inform mental health assessment and treatment interventions with Hispanic and Latino individuals; 2. List and discuss at least two specific evidence-based interventions and techniques in Latino mental health  3. Demonstrate two culturally informed assessment and treatment techniques shown to be effective with Latino clients.   Who should attend? This is an intermediate level workshop designed for mental health providers including psychologists, clinical social workers, mental health counselors, and graduate level students in the mental health field.   About the presenter:    Jesse Rocky Romero, PhD- Dr. J Rocky Romero is currently the United States consultant and trainer for the National Hispanic & Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center.  He is also the Associate Director for Health Programs for El Centro Family Health a federally qualified health center in northern New Mexico.  He also recently opened an intensive outpatient drug and alcohol treatment center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and serves as the Chief Operating Officer of New Mexico Hope. He is also a former tenure-track Assistant Professor for New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) School of Social Work in Albuquerque, NM and is also a graduate of NMHU.  He served as the co-chair for Governor Richardson appointed New Mexico Higher Education Departments Cultural Competency Task-Force. Dr. Romero has also served as an Executive Council member for the New Mexico Consortium for Behavioral Health Training and Research (NM-CBHTR).  In addition, Dr. Romero received his doctorate from the University of New Mexico in Language, Literacy, and Socio-cultural studies and graduated in fall 2016. He is focused on culturally appropriate treatment and access for health and mental health care for Hispanic and Latinos. In his role at NMHU-SSW in ABQ, Dr. Romero conceptualized, implemented, and received legislative and Bernalillo County funding for two evidence-based, and nationally certified with excellence, social work student training clinics.  Dr. Romero is a national trainer for the Matrix Institute on Addictions and the National Hispanic & Latino Addiction Technology Transfer Center.  Dr. Romero is a native of Northern New Mexico and has served on many boards, committees, and task forces to address the needs of New Mexico’s students and citizens in his tenure with NMHU-School of Social Work. Most recently Mr. Romero has been appointed to the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Government Commission to address behavioral health and addiction issues in New Mexico.   Please read the following before registering:  The National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center use GoToWebinar as our online event system.  Audio for the event is accessible via the internet. To receive audio, attendees must join the event by using computers equipped with speakers or dial in via telephone.  After registration, a confirmation email will be generated with instructions for joining the event. To avoid problems with log-in, please use the confirmation email to join the event.  

Join the authors of Visioning Onward for inspiration, insights, exercises, and Q&A to prepare you to vision with your schools and districts. In this time of COVID-19, visioning is a critical part of planning for the future of education. In 2020, as we shelter in place as a result of COVID-19, stress, anxiety, uncertainty, and fears about our future are high. School communities are impacted not only by fears of the contagion but also by broad, rapid shifts they are making to deliver equitable remote learning services as seamlessly as possible. In light of these concerns, the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (New England MHTTC), as part of the School Mental Health Initiative's Childhood-Trauma Learning Collaborative (C-TLC), has developed a national webinar to prepare district leaders, administrators, teachers, and other educators such as school psychologists, social workers, and counselors to vision with their staff and local communities as we get ready for teaching and learning in schools and homes this Fall. This 90-minute session, guided by Visioning Onward’s lead author, Dr. Christine Mason, C-TLC Director and Executive Director of the Center for Educational Improvement (CEI) will include the book’s co-authors Paul Liabenow and Dr. Melissa Patschke. These leaders, along with global entrepreneur and founder of the Association of International Educators and Leaders of Color, Kevin Simpson, will introduce visioning concepts by examining the work of Starbucks, Amazon, and other corporate giants and guide attendees through our 8-step iterative visioning approach, showing you ways to increase its relevance during the current pandemic and amid social unrest across the globe. Dr. Martha Staeheli, a Yale Professor and Director of the New England MHTTC School Mental Health Initiative, will serve as a panelist and describe how to alleviate trauma and further a compassionate response to children’s mental health and well-being. We will help you plan for visioning with your staff and local communities to address academic learning, compassion and caring, equity, and resiliency. We do this with an eye towards the neurobiology of trauma and ways to foster the self-care and well-being for staff and students that are signature components of CEI’s Heart Centered Learning® approach to social emotional learning and mindfulness. Participants will receive a study guide to take our virtual approach back to your schools and districts to conduct your own visioning sessions. Participants can join the authors for optional breakout room discussions at 5:30 pm EDT. All attendees will receive our downloadable Leader's Guide after this session. Session participants are eligible to receive ONE (1) hour of continuing education credit for participation in this webinar from: Association of Social Work Boards NBCC (National Board for Certified Counselors) NAADAC (National Association of Addiction Professionals) About our Authors: Christine (Chris) Mason, Ph.D. is Director of the C-TLC, a part of the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center's School Mental Health Initiative. The C-TLC was established to foster alliances and adoption of evidenced-based practices supporting a compassionate approach to mental health and well-being in schools. Paul Liabenow is Executive Director of the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association, and Melissa Patschke, Ed.D. is Principal of Upper Providence Elementary School in Royersford, PA.

This event has ended. Click here to view the event recording. Times: 6-7:30pm ET / 3-4:30pm PT / 12-1:30pm HT Sometimes a change agent is a team on a mission.  Sometimes a change agent is an event or condition.  COVID-19 is an event that has caused us to think creatively as agents of change.  During this global pandemic, many of us are doing things that we would have thought of as unimaginable before.  COVID-19 has added to the way many of us see the world through different lenses. Differences in our worldview perspectives can cause disconnection and lead to a lack of resilience.   At the same time, our ability to help each other is the main tool that we have in these difficult times.  This workshop explores stereotypes, biases, and disparities related to COVID-19.  Participants will gain skills to recognize and interrupt bias in a compassionate manner using tools for cross-cultural communication.   Learning Objectives: Describe the Ladder of Cultural Competence Identify how our life experiences influence our perception of self and others Describe and practice the CLARA Method for cross-cultural communication (Center, Listen, Affirm, Respond, Add)   Presenter Bio Joel Jackson serves as a subject matter expert for several programs at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination. Through Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation of Greater Chicago, Joel serves as a Racial Healing Practitioner. In this role, Joel co-facilitates Racial Healing Circles across Chicagoland, helping to provide space for healing and connection and to reaffirm the humanity in all of us. He is also the UChicago Medicine Assistant Director of Inclusion and Training for the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Department of the Urban Health Initiative. He coordinates the hospital’s cultural competence training strategy and is the lead facilitator of the UChicago Medicine 18-Hour Cultural Competence Course. Joel is also helping to coordinate the hospital’s Resilience Based Care training strategy, which will include a focus on compassion fatigue resilience and a focus on trauma-informed care. He is the 2020 Staff Diversity Leadership Award recipient for the University of Chicago.        

Time: 3 - 4pm PT   Study the Guide With Us! Join us for two discussion sessions to learn more about the guide (download PDF). This guide is rich with leadership lessons. Join us for one or both study sessions with School Mental Health Lead Leora Wolf-Prusan. Sessions will provide an overview to the guide, reflections on how school mental health leadership might use the guide to steward their work, and a discussion space for practitioners. This second session is a repeat of the first session held on June 11, 2020. Both sessions will be recorded.    

This one and half hour online session will provide to mental health providers information about a tailored CBT for Latinx youths. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for depressed Latinx youths as well as White youths with depression and suicidal behaviors. However, evidence-based treatments for ethnic minority and gender and sexually diverse youth, including Latinx teens with suicidal behaviors, is limited. A culturally centered CBT treatment protocol for suicidality (Socio-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicidal Behavior-SCBT-SB) was developed in Puerto Rico to address the specific needs of Latinx teens and their families. The SCBT-SB addresses central issues in adolescent identity formation (e.g. ethnicity and sexual orientation) along with family interactions and communication. Further modifications were done to expand the SCBT-SB applicability to Latinx families in the USA. The feasibility of this modified version of the SCBT-SB was tested in the USA by conducting a pilot randomized clinical trial (RCT) of the SCBT versus treatment-as-usual (TAU) in a real-world setting with positive results. A randomized clinical trial is underway, funded by the National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities (NIMHD), to test the efficacy and effectiveness of the SCBT-SB. The rationale for developing a culturally centered CBT protocol, the change model, and its main components will be presented.  Who should attend? This is an intermediate level online event designed for psychiatrist, psychologists, social workers, counselors, graduate students, and other mental health providers.     About the presenter:  Yovanska Duarte-Vélez, Ph.D. - Received her Ph.D. from the University of Puerto Rico and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and Bradley Hospital. Dr. Duarte-Vélez is also a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience with children and families from diverse backgrounds. Her work has focused on the assessment and treatment of Latinx youth with suicidal behaviors in the context of their family and society. Her research interests are to develop and tailor treatments for diverse populations. She started her career as a clinical researcher in Puerto Rico, where she developed a CBT protocol that addresses culture and adolescence developmental stage as central components in treatment, the Socio-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicidal Behaviors (SCBT-SB) supported by the AFSP. She transported this protocol from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island to expand its applicability to Latinx youth living in the USA through an NIMH training grant. Dr. Duarte-Vélez completed a pilot randomized clinical trial (RCT) of the SCBT-SB versus Treatment as Usual (TAU) in a “real world” setting. Currently, she is conducting a randomized clinical trial to test the efficacy and effectiveness of the SCBT-SB funded by the National Institute on Minority and Heath Disparities.   Please read the following before registering:  The National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center use GoToWebinar as our online event system.  Audio for the event is accessible via the internet. To receive audio, attendees must join the event by using computers equipped with speakers or dial in via telephone.  After registration, a confirmation email will be generated with instructions for joining the event. To avoid problems with log-in, please use the confirmation email to join the event.  

/*--> In collaboration with the Opioid Response Network and the New England Region 1 Mental Health Technology Transfer Center, CCSME is offering this two-part series to address the relationships between infant and adolescent trauma, and the risk and potential for a substance use disorder outcome. Participants in this webinar will be able to name brain systems impacted by exposure to adverse childhood experiences, describe three social, emotional, and behavioral impacts of exposure to ACEs during adolescence, and identify stigma in self and in others.   Presenter (s):  /*--> Dr. Hilary Hogdon and Dr. Jeffery Goldsmith

The Northeast and Caribbean MHTTC regrets that we have to postpone the webinar on the "Role of Religion and Spirituality in Recovery: Benefits and Challenges of Religion and Spirituality in Recovery for People with Mental Illnesses" scheduled for Thursday, May 7, 2020. The webinar will be rescheduled for Thursday, June 18, 1:00 - 2:30pm ET. Your registration for this event will be transferred to the new date. We hope you will be able to join us then.    Recovery from SMI has been studied and documented by researchers, practitioners, and individuals with lived experience around the world and across time. Recovery is real. Recovery can be supported by practices and services that encourage participant engagement, community inclusion, valued social roles, and overall wellness. This webinar series will introduce you to recovery from SMI and many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery.  This session focuses on the role of religion and spirituality in recovery.

The Northeast and Caribbean MHTTC wants to support you and your work during this unprecedented public health crisis. And we know you want to support each other! Many of you have created unique strategies for meeting the needs of your service participants, but you may still also be grappling with questions or looking for better ways of doing things. To help facilitate support and the sharing of resources and ideas, we will be facilitating Mutual Support Calls for Thriving at Work During COVID-19. These calls will be facilitated by knowledgeable leaders in the field, but we also want to benefit from your experience and expertise. Participants will have the opportunity to submit questions or comments in advance, but we welcome all to join and share with each other or just listen and benefit from the community. What & Who: One-hour virtual learning discussions for Mental Health Service Providers who want to share experiences, exchange resources, and ask and answer questions of and for each other. When: You are welcome to join 1, 2, or all 3. Mental Health Providers: Every other Thursday at 12 noon ET, 6/18, 7/2, 7/16 and 7/30 Before joining each call, we invite you to submit a question or comment that you would like to see discussed during the call. We look forward to connecting with you!

Psychotic disorders (including schizophrenia), a severe form of mental illness, typically emerge in adolescence and early adulthood. Early detection and intervention is key to prevention and improved outcome. Its success depends on a widespread awareness of the early signs and symptoms of psychosis among the community. This workshop aims to provide health/mental health professionals and clinical researchers who work with young people with hands-on skills to assess and diagnose Clinical High Risk (CHR) syndromes and early psychosis. This workshop will be taught by Jason Schiffman, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Schiffman is an experienced researcher and trainer of the Structured Interview of Psychosis-risk Syndromes (SIPS)—a validated and most used diagnostic instrument of CHR throughout the world. The goals of this workshop are for participants to become familiar with the general signs and symptoms of people at CHR, to become familiar with the SIPS diagnostic and symptom severity measures, and to be able to rate reliably a SIPS interview. Participants will become certified users of the SIPS upon successful completion of the training requirements in the workshop, including being able to accurately rate a video.

The South Southwest MHTTC has partnered with the Texas Education Agency and Texas Health and Human Services to develop a school mental health learning collaborative for mental health teams working in Texas' Regional Educational Service Centers. The webinar will focus on core aspects of Tier 1 services and supports, including building mental health literacy and supporting staff wellness. .

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ /*--> In collaboration with the Opioid Response Network and the New England Region 1 Mental Health Technology Transfer Center, CCSME is offering this two-part series to address the relationships between infant and adolescent trauma, and the risk and potential for a substance use disorder outcome. Participants in this webinar will be able to name ways addiction impacts the maternal and infant brain, identify prevention strategies, describe the significance of attachment parenting to promote infant resilience, and discuss the risk of inherited genetics.   Presenter (s):  /*-->*/ /*-->*/ /*--> Katie Volk and Dr. Jeffrey Goldsmith

  This event is brought to you by Forefront Suicide Prevention, The 5000 Days Project, Cities Rise, SMART Center & Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. Hope & Cope 2020 is part of The Well-Being Series - Connections During COVID-19: Mental Wellness Webinars for Families and Educators. Click here to learn more about our series of webinars for kids, parents, and educators, focusing on mental wellness and suicide prevention.  LEARN MORE AND ACCESS MATERIALS AFTER THE EVENT HERE. Hope & Cope 2020 A free webinar for youth age 14 - 21 Wednesday June 17th 1 - 3pm (PST)   Join Forefront Suicide Prevention & Filmmaker Rick Stevenson to experience the power of connection through storytelling with Musician Nate Nzanga and Conscious Movement & Meditation teacher J.Ivan Figueroa.  Join college and high school students for Hope & Cope 2020, a virtual event that invites you to reflect on the impact the world-changing events of 2020 have had on your life, through storytelling and connection with others. By choosing to attend this virtual event and the story-telling you do immediately thereafter, it may change you – and the rest of your life. By choosing to attend this virtual event and the storytelling you do immediately thereafter, it may change you – and the rest of your life.   As part of this event, attendees will be able to: • Tell and hear stories of the most authentic, personal kind. • Build resilience as you explore and articulate your values, fears, and dreams. • Help others cope if you decide to share your story.   >> Register for this event here.   Tell Your Story: After this event you will be invited to submit your video story, to the Hope & Cope story platform. Your story will be compiled and returned to you as your own personal story capsule of your experiences. If you give permission for Forefront and 5000 days staff to review it, your story may be among those selected to help others. Selected clips will appear on social media, the Forefront website and perhaps even in the newspaper and on TV. Together, the stories will anchor a youth-powered campaign on coping with the challenges we face. Guest Speakers:  Film-maker Rick Stevenson will teach skills – and introduce an online story platform that you can use to easily record and submit your stories. Stevenson has taught storytelling to youth across six continents. Storytelling is one of humankind’s oldest tools for gaining insight into self and others – perfect for use amongst the anxiety and uncertainty experienced amid these world-changing events.               Also appearing is musician Nate Nzanga, who launched from North Seattle’s Shorecrest High School into a successful career as a soul-pop storyteller. Nate’s mission is “to spread light in the world.”               Conscious movement and meditation teacher J. Ivan Figueroa will share his journey to reach the life he was meant to live. Ivan will send us off with a mindfulness exercise designed to help us navigate the challenges we're facing.           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.

Este adiestramiento virtual de una hora y media proporcionará información sobre cómo la fatiga por compasión impacta a los profesionales de ayuda y a cuidadores al intervenir con personas que están experimentando mucho dolor. Los participantes podrán discutir la definición de fatiga por compasión y términos relacionados. La presentadora proveerá concienciación sobre las personas en riesgo de desarrollar fatiga por compasión y a su vez, se identificarán las señales y/o síntomas. Por ultimo, los proveedores de servicios de salud mental que sirven a los hispanos y latinos obtendrán estrategias para protegerse, prevenir y/o lidiar con la fatiga por compasión. ¿Quién debe asistir? Este es un taller de nivel básico diseñado para promotores de la salud, trabajadores sociales, psicólogos, consejeros, estudiantes graduados, y otros proveedores de salud mental.   Información sobre la presentadora Myriam González Villanueva, PsyD - La Dr. Myriam González posee un grado doctoral en psicología clínica. Realizó su disertación doctoral en el impacto del abuso sexual en niños de 8 a 18 años. Posee una certificación en abuso de sustancia y una certificación como Hipnoterapeuta del Instituto Ericksoniano de Guadalajara, México. Se ha desempeñado en la práctica privada por un espacio de 30 años, sirviendo mayormente a la población de adultos, especialmente con personas que sufren de un Trastorno por Uso de sustancias, Traumas Complejos y relaciones de codependencia. Labora para la Universidad Carlos Albizu, en Puerto Rico, como Supervisora Clínica en el área de adiestramiento clínico con estudiantes a nivel doctoral. En la Universidad Central del Caribe ha colaborado con varios programa entre ellos IRESA y ATTC conduciendo adiestramientos, talleres y conferencias en múltiples temas de interés.   Por favor, lea lo siguiente antes de registrarse:  El National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center utiliza GoToWebinar como nuestro sistema para eventos en línea.  Se puede acceder al audio del evento a través de Internet. Para recibir audio, los asistentes deben unirse al evento utilizando computadoras equipadas con altavoces o marcar por teléfono.  Después del registro, se generará un correo electrónico de confirmación con instrucciones para unirse al evento. Para evitar problemas con el inicio de sesión, utilice el correo electrónico de confirmación para unirse al evento. 

Learn from behavioral health experts in program development, implementation, and evaluation to position your program for sustainable success!   Featuring Pam Baston, MPA, MCAP, CPP; and Kathy Meyers, PhD   *This is a closed event and only available to those that applied ahead of time. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions. 

Build your Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills through the free Motivational Interviewing Learning Collaborative! Third Wednesday each month, beginning February 19, 2020.  10:00-10:45am CST The Great Lakes MHTTC and PTTC will host a series of interactive calls via Zoom for people who want to enhance their MI skills. This learning opportunity provides practitioners with a no-cost, easy to access opportunity to continue to build their practice skills towards fidelity. All sessions will be geared towards multiple levels of learning. Attend all sessions or select from the menu (see list of dates and topics below). Calls last for 45 minutes You only need to register one time for the Zoom link to the calls  ​​​ Trainer: Laura Saunders State Project Manager, Wisconsin Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC Laura A. Saunders, MSSW, is the Wisconsin State Project Manager for the Great Lakes Addiction, Mental Health and Prevention Technology Transfer Centers. Her position is housed at the UW–Madison, where she’s worked since 1988. Since 2001, Laura has provided SBIRT and Motivational Interviewing training to physicians, nurses, medical students, psychologists, specialty addiction treatment providers, social workers, physical therapists, health educators, and staff who work in correctional settings. She has provided feedback and coaching to hundreds of social workers, correctional staff, and other human service providers who are interested in using evidence-based practices with fidelity. Laura joined the international group of Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 2006 (Sophia, Bulgaria) and is an active member of the Wisconsin MINT group. Topics by Date February 19 Your MI Spirit Is Showing March 18  Let Your Partner (Client, Consumer, Customer, Patient) Know You're Working Hard to Understand April 15 WHY Not Ask WHY And Other Things to Think About With Open Questions May 20 Taming Your Inner Cheerleader: Be Proud Of You and How Well You Can Use Affirmations June 17 Gold Star Things to Say (Genuinely!)  July 15 What To Do When the Client Says Something About Changing Their Behavior August 19 What to Do When The Client Seems Stuck About Changing Their Behavior September 16  Pay Attention to Discord October 21 Guess What Happens When You Ask for Change Talk? November 18:   TBD December 16:   TBD