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This presentation will provide an introduction to the assessment and treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Event Description It will include general information about the diagnosis, common symptoms that parents may raise during office visits, and tools to help providers with diagnosis. The session will also outline the current gold-standard treatment options, with particular focus on the behavioral strategies that are effective in treating symptoms of ADHD. Trainer Andrea Temkin-Yu, Psy.D.                     Andrea Temkin-Yu, Psy.D., is an Attending Psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is a licensed psychologist with expertise in cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety, depression, attention-deficit, and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and related conditions. She offers individual and group therapy for children, teens, and young adults. She is a certified therapist in Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and offers therapy and groups for parents of youth exhibiting mood or behavioral difficulties. Dr. Temkin-Yu is a member of the Youth Anxiety Center at Weill Cornell Medicine where she participates in clinical care and research focused on youth and young adult populations. Her research has centered on ways to improve accessibility of services provided to parents and families, as well as the use of evidence-based practices across disorders.

This learning community is closed to select participants.  To learn more about this series, visit the homepage: Implementing Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in Kansas  

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: Successful outcomes largely depend upon the quality of interpersonal relationships with people receiving services. Workers must maintain a balance between being supportive, empathic, and understanding, yet professional at the same time. This training explores the nature of boundary issues at work by looking at the five different risk areas for most staff, offering tips and best practices for reducing the risk of boundary problems in the workplace.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Review boundary concepts and terminology Examine ethical considerations with examples Introduce a decision-making process Adopt personal and professional interventions     CONTINUING EDUCATION: Registrants who fully attend this event or training will be eligible to receive 2.0 continuing education hours provided by the Minnesota Board of Social Work and the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy. Certificates are disseminated by People Incorporated to all qualifying individuals after the conclusion of the event or training.      SPEAKER: Russ Turner, MA, Director of the People Incorporated Training Institute During Russ’s 16-year tenure he has written and taught thousands of hours of person-centered curriculum to help people become more effective helpers, communicators, and leaders. His audience includes workers and leaders across a wide range of organizations from human services, healthcare, and libraries, to law enforcement and corrections. He trains trainers, works with management, and has consulted and coached on training projects across multiple sectors of the economy. He has worked as an educator for three decades in a variety of countries and settings including Japan, the Czech Republic, and the UK. His teaching philosophy is that adults learn best when they are challenged, the material is applicable to work situations, and sessions are interactive and engaging.   This training is co-sponsored by the Great Lakes MHTTC and People Incorporated Training Institute.

This is Week 4 of our Mindful Monday- Experiential Practices to Develop Personal Resilience micro-training series. Event Description This series will expand on the evidence-based practices that have been introduced in prior series. Participants will have the opportunity to review and practice mindfulness-based exercises, led by a facilitator. Each month will feature a mindfulness theme with supportive practices. Participants can register for and attend any number of sessions. The same link will be used for all sessions. Upon completion of your registration, you will receive the session link in a confirmation email.    October 10th- Creative Mindfluness Through Art 1 Trainer Christina Ruggerio, Masters of Counseling Psychology, Registered Psychoterapist

NOTE: This event is specifically for Washington State attendees who are part of the behavioral health workforce.   This session is part of the Co-occurring Disorders track of the Mental Health Institute. ABOUT THIS EVENT This training is comprised of 2 modules. Attendance at both modules is expected. Functional Contextualism, Learning Theory and COD, 10am-12pm: This training module will focus on understanding how dysfunctional behaviors are learned as adaptive responses to environmental cues. Functional Assessment and Analysis, 1-3pm: This training module will focus on integrated functional assessment and analysis of co-occurring disorders. Contact hours (CEs) will be available for participants who attend the entire session. The University of Washington is an approved provider of continuing education for DOH licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, chemical dependency professionals, nurses and physicians under the provisions of: WAC 246-809-610, WAC 246-809-620,WAC 246-811-200, WAC 246-840-210, WAC 246-919-460 and WAC 246-924-240.   Session is 10a-3p PT See more in the Co-occurring Disorders Track HERE LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE HERE FACILITATOR Jeffery Roskelley, LICSW Jeffery Roskelley is a licensed independent clinical social worker training and consulting for the SPIRIT (which stands for Supporting Psychosis Innovation through Research, Implementation and Training) Lab at the University of Washington. Jeff graduated from the University of Utah with a Masters of Social Work degree in 2008, and has worked in several different settings including hospice, as a co-occurring assessment specialist at the University of Utah and as a co-occurring specialist for the Lake Whatcom PACT team in Bellingham WA, where he currently resides. Jeff’s area of specialty is in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis and for Substance Use Disorder. Since 2013 he has been training Assertive Community Treatment Teams in WA state in co-occurring disorders treatment and cognitive behavioral techniques for severe mental illness. Jeff was trained and received consultation in CBTp with the original Washington state cohort in 2015, trained by Jennifer Gottlieb, PhD from the Harvard Medical School and provided direct clinical CBTp counseling to clients at Sunrise Mental Health from 2015 to 2018, receiving supervision from Sarah Kopelovich, PhD, from the University of Washington. Currently, Jeff provides individual private counseling in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, addressing a wide range of clinical issues, ranging from anxiety and depression to obsessive compulsive disorder and psychosis. In addition, Jeff is a clinical supervisor for social workers. Finally, last but not least, Jeff is an ardent dog lover and a dabbler in chi gong.   VISIT THE MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE MAIN PAGE        

The poster illustrates and explains findings from a study evaluating an integrated, culturally responsive, and gender-specific treatment for Latinas with substance use disorders who have experienced violence/trauma. The benefits of integrating behavioral health and trauma services for Latinas with a history of drug use are highlighted while assessing its impact on the different quality of life domains.   Poster presentation in NAADAC Conference, Indiana. 

The South Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), in collaboration with PEPPNET, invites Region 6 Peer Specialists and Family Partners working in FEP and Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) teams to participate in our newly established monthly networking meetings. These no-cost, virtual meetings offer you the opportunity to collaborate with other FEP/CSC Team Peer Specialists and Family Partners in a supportive, mentoring environment. The goal is provide a space for resource sharing, support around ways to be most effective when working with FEP/CSC clients, options for self-care strategies, and more! This event takes place on the first Friday of each month.

  The Adult Resilience Curriculum (ARC) for Educators is a tried and tested model for helping educators and their organizations overcome barriers to well-being. You’ve seen the curriculum in action in the Mid-America MHTTC’s popular series Well-Being Wednesdays: Taking Care of Educators Who Take Care of Kids and across all of our well-being programming — and it has yielded numerous requests for training and technical assistance from schools and districts across the country. Now, you can take the curriculum back to your school. ARC for Educators: A Training of Trainers workshops are intended for school, district, educational agency, or state-level teams interested in implementing the ARC for Educator framework within their schools or districts. The series will: Provide an overview and foundation of the ARC for Educators framework; Introduce trainers to the materials for both the core and supplemental skills; and Provide time for implementation planning. To learn more and apply to be part of the cohort, visit ARC for Educators: A Training of Trainers.      

We are offering this event again on February 10, 2023: for that event, please click here. NOTE: This event is specifically for Washington State attendees who are part of the behavioral health workforce. This session is part of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) track of the Mental Health Institute. ABOUT THIS EVENT Working with Clients with IDD and Mental Health Concerns will provide introductory information related to the cooccurrence of Intellectual & Developmental Disability and mental health issues that often occur in individuals who are neurodiverse (e.g., autism, IDD). Lived perspectives from clients and providers will be presented along with foundational knowledge about working with this population and a preview of future weekly sessions. Contact hours will be available for participants who attend the entire session. The University of Washington is an approved provider of continuing education for DOH licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, chemical dependency professionals, nurses and physicians under the provisions of: WAC 246-809-610, WAC 246-809-620,WAC 246-811-200, WAC 246-840-210, WAC 246-919-460 and WAC 246-924-240.   Session is 9a-4p PT See more in the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Track HERE LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE HERE FACILITATORS Molly Cevasco, PhD Molly Cevasco, PhD, BCBA, is a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She works primarily within the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program at Seattle Children’s, providing therapeutic services in both the outpatient and intensive outpatient programs. Dr. Cevasco is leading the development of a Spanish-language DBT program at Seattle Children’s and works to reduce healthcare inequities and institutional racism. She also specializes in the treatment of trauma in children and teens with autism and intellectual disabilities. Dr. Cevasco also serves as faculty in the Master of Arts in Applied Child and Adolescent Psychology program at the University of Washington.     Marie Loeb, MSW, LICSW, LMHC, CMHS, DMHS  Marie Loeb, LICSW, LMHC, CMHS, DMHS, (she/they) is an Autistic, queer, polyamorous Clinical Social Worker who is committed to serving their community through direct practice, training, and advocating for policy change. Marie is the owner of Holistic Child and Family Practice where she works with individuals and families, is a practicum instructor for the University of Washington School of Social Work, supervises clinicians in and out of the practice, and works to build community through no cost neurodiversity-affirming consult groups and trainings. Holistic Child and Family Practice has a staff that is exclusively neurodivergent, and within this environment Marie developed a new modality, Empathetic Inquiry, which is a strengths-based approach where the client is centered as the expert of their own experience and utilizes the natural hyperempathetic talents of neurodivergent providers.   Jim Mancini, MS, CCC-SLP Jim Mancini, MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist with over 20 years of experience working with patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities/autism and their families. He is currently the Director of the WA INCLUDE Collaborative, manages ECHO programs at the University of Washington and leads the Washington State Center of Excellence (COE) training program. He has special interest in diagnosis of autism and other developmental disabilities, building community through building relationships, parent and provider education and health equity for underserved communities. Jim loves gardening, backpacking and other outdoor adventures, music and spending time with his family.   Alana McVey, PhD Alana McVey, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Scholar jointly appointed at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Autism Center. Clinically, she provides evidence-based treatment of mental health concerns to autistic children, adolescents, and adults through the Autism Center's Mood and Anxiety Program. Dr. McVey's program of research centers on the redesign and implementation of evidence-based mental health treatments for autistic people in community settings. Her current project, funded by the Autism Intervention Network on Physical Health (AIR-P), is focused on redesigning Dialectical Behavior Therapy to treat suicidality in autistic young adults.       VISIT THE MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE MAIN PAGE    

For individuals living with intellectual and developmental disabilities, technology can provide greater independence and increased choice.  Event Description Session 1 - Managing Users: Individual User Solutions October 6, 2022 Technology is a tool that we all use to navigate our schedules and homes and allows us access to information- this is not innovative – it is a way of life that many people take for granted. For others, such as people living with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities it can be a vehicle that can provide greater independence and increased choice. This new series of 6 bi-weekly micro- trainings will focus on how existing technology can be used to help providers working with this community balance their workload more effectively while creating solutions for people living with IDD. This is a hands-on training that will demonstrate how to teach individuals living with IDD how to use mainstream technology to support individualized needs. Participants are encouraged to bring real-life examples of current needs (including their current technology). We will focus on applications and tools to address Independence around the House, Workforce Support Tools, and Increased Communication Tools. Trainer Laurie Dale, Consultant, Personal Technology Solutions Ms. Dale is a nationally recognized speaker and consultant with over 30 years of experience on how-to-use technology to support and empower persons with disabilities.  Her company, Personal Technology Solutions, provides support for initiatives and projects to improve access to technologies for persons with disabilities including hands-on training. 

For individuals living with intellectual and developmental disabilities, technology can provide greater independence and increased choice.  Event Description Session 1 - Managing Users: Individual User Solutions October 6, 2022 Technology is a tool that we all use to navigate our schedules and homes and allows us access to information- this is not innovative – it is a way of life that many people take for granted. For others, such as people living with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities it can be a vehicle that can provide greater independence and increased choice. This new series of 6 bi-weekly micro- trainings will focus on how existing technology can be used to help providers working with this community balance their workload more effectively while creating solutions for people living with IDD. This is a hands-on training that will demonstrate how to teach individuals living with IDD how to use mainstream technology to support individualized needs. Participants are encouraged to bring real-life examples of current needs (including their current technology). We will focus on applications and tools to address Independence around the House, Workforce Support Tools, and Increased Communication Tools. Trainer Laurie Dale, Consultant, Personal Technology Solutions Ms. Dale is a nationally recognized speaker and consultant with over 30 years of experience on how-to-use technology to support and empower persons with disabilities.  Her company, Personal Technology Solutions, provides support for initiatives and projects to improve access to technologies for persons with disabilities including hands-on training. 

About the Event:  The prevalence and impact of trauma is undeniable. Statistics show that as many as 90% of the people who enter the public behavioral health system have experienced trauma. The adverse childhood experiences study (ACE) demonstrates the correlation between early childhood adversity and negative health outcomes in adulthood, including heart disease, cancer, substance misuse and mental health challenges. Our series Trauma and the Peer Perspective will examine the myriad of way trauma is defined, and how trauma is often addressed within behavioral health systems. We will explore how systems can create trauma and/or retraumatize those seeking help and how trauma informed peer support and services can be a game changer.   Learning objectives: Understand a peer's personal definition of trauma is what matters - "it's trauma when I say it's trauma"  Understand that trauma and healing from trauma are community issues  Describe key elements of trauma informed peer services     Join us for the remaining sessions in this series:  Thursday, November 10, 2022 (12:00 PM ET) | Trauma and 988/Crisis Services (Register Here)   Thursday, December 8, 2022 (12:00 PM ET) | Trauma and the Holidays (Register Here)   About the Facilitators: The Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network believes in the ability of everyone living with mental health concerns to enjoy lives of purpose, meaning, productivity, and wellness. Since it was founded in 1991, this grassroots nonprofit organization has been led and run by mental health peers—people in mental health recovery. At its core, the basis of peer support—one person using their lived experience to support another—is not new; in fact, it is the basis of human growth and development. Mental health peers with special training are now able to use their lived recovery experience in clinical settings to provide something beyond a diagnosis or medication.   Roslind D. Hayes, BS, CPS-MH, CARES, WHWC is the Statewide Coordinator of the GMHCN's Peer Support, Wellness, and Respite Centers. She is a trainer/facilitator for the Certified Peer Specialist Project, Peer Zone, and Intentional Peer Support.  Chris Johnson, MFA, CPS, CPS-AD is GMHCN's Interim Executive Director and Director of Communications. He is responsible for sharing information about recovery and wellness opportunities to behavioral health peers and providers across Georgia.   

  The Adult Resilience Curriculum (ARC) for Educators is a tried and tested model for helping educators and their organizations overcome barriers to well-being. You’ve seen the curriculum in action in the Mid-America MHTTC’s popular series Well-Being Wednesdays: Taking Care of Educators Who Take Care of Kids and across all of our well-being programming — and it has yielded numerous requests for training and technical assistance from schools and districts across the country. Now, you can take the curriculum back to your school. ARC for Educators: A Training of Trainers workshops are intended for school, district, educational agency, or state-level teams interested in implementing the ARC for Educator framework within their schools or districts. The series will: Provide an overview and foundation of the ARC for Educators framework; Introduce trainers to the materials for both the core and supplemental skills; and Provide time for implementation planning. To learn more and apply to be part of the cohort, visit ARC for Educators: A Training of Trainers.    

The Northeast & Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center invites your school to participate in a Fall 2022 workshop focused on the newly developed Tier 2 program, POWER: Positive Outcomes With Emotional Regulation. POWER Program Overview: The POWER program is a manualized 8-session group school-based intervention program designed to promote emotion regulation skills for middle and high school students with or at risk of developing mental and behavioral health needs. The POWER program incorporates techniques that have been found to be effective across adolescents with different types of emotion-related mental and behavioral health needs. As a targeted intervention, the POWER program is designed to be implemented at Tier 2 within the multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) framework. POWER Program Training Opportunity: As a part of the launch of POWER in our region, we are inviting schools to participate in a collaborative workshop in which schools will receive support for the implementation of the program and training to facilitate the 8-session group curriculum. Ideal staff to attend the workshop: School Counselors School Social Workers School Psychologists Teachers Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Coordinators Other school staff (e.g., health teachers, gym teachers, wellness staff, etc.)  

This is part one of our Confronting Implicit Bias in Society and Ourselves learning series.  Role of Bias in Education Disparities In the first workshop, participants will review what bias is, examine the role of bias in educational disparities, and consider the implications of their learning in their own contexts.   Trainer Rana Razzaque Dr. Rana Razzaque’s commitment to improving opportunity, access, and inclusion for all children has driven her educational and professional journey. This commitment has deepened over time due to her own lived experiences and the continuous learning she seeks out on a variety of topics related to equity and inclusion, the persistent disparities for marginalized communities, and the deep need to build understanding and empathy through courageous conversations with people from multiple perspectives. Rana was born in Bangladesh, raised in Maryland, spent her adolescence in Texas, and spent a couple of years in Arizona before moving to Denver in 2011. In the warmer months, you might find Rana hiking with her husband Rob and her dog Eeyore. She also loves reading (especially fiction and poetry), trying out new recipes to cook, going to concerts, boxing, and indoor rock climbing (even though she is afraid of heights).     Rana received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin and Arizona State University, respectively, and focused her thesis research on the impact of literary influence on colonizing South Asia in the 17th century. In 2017, she earned her Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Denver and focused her dissertation research on how mindfulness influences the culturally responsive practices of educators. Rana has served as Social Emotional Learning Partner in Denver Public Schools, Program Development Coordinator with Sources of Strength, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist at Jeffco Public Schools, and is now the Director of Opportunity, Access, and Inclusion at Englewood Schools in Colorado. Her work intersects culturally responsive and sustaining practices with social-emotional learning and transformative educational leadership. Rana’s mission is to ensure that youth and educators have an intentional focus on honoring diverse cultures and identities, utilizing challenges as opportunities to build resilience, and holistically supporting themselves and others to equitably reach their highest potential. 

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: To be effective and efficient, organizations must provide their services in ways that do not inadvertently re-traumatize the people receiving support. Becoming trauma-informed means adapting practices, policies, physical spaces, and more to make services more accessible for everyone. This is especially important for people who have lived experiences of trauma, including staff. This class helps learners conceptualize the nature of this problem and offers practices that reduce the risk of re-traumatization.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Review impacts of trauma Consider the mechanisms of re-traumatization Become more mindful of negative messaging and language Assess areas of trauma-informed practice using an assessment tool     CONTINUING EDUCATION: Registrants who fully attend this event or training will be eligible to receive 2.0 continuing education hours provided by the Minnesota Board of Social Work and the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy. Certificates are disseminated by People Incorporated to all qualifying individuals after the conclusion of the event or training.      SPEAKER: Warren Duncan, BA Warren Duncan, BS has had various roles throughout his career working with households experiencing homelessness and multiple barriers to stable housing. He has worked as direct support staff on mobile teams in Permanent Supportive Housing program across the metro area, assisted in outreach efforts for program participants living on the streets and in shelter, provided outreach to property managers and landlords, connecting them to support services in metro and greater Minnesota communities. He has worked to provide support to a network of supportive housing programs and community organizing among County, State, and local community agencies in Southern and Central Minnesota. He is currently overseeing all programming as Program Director for a Minnesota Nonprofit. Warren enjoys facilitating workshops and has led a number of training sessions. Topics include Building Landlord Relationships, Housing First, Harm Reduction, Navigating Conflict, De-escalation, and Mindfulness. Warren grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and moved to Minnesota shortly after graduating from Iowa State University. He enjoys drawing, painting, and photography in his spare time.   This training is co-sponsored by the Great Lakes MHTTC and People Incorporated Training Institute.

Event Description Current conditions have created new and unique challenges for parents, caregivers, and families who may have already been coping with trauma and stress. Mental health providers have a responsibility to support the mental health needs of these individuals by learning and applying new skills to assist in stress management and addressing trauma using evidence-based interventions.    This seven-part Community of Practice (CoP) series will allow participants to explore and understand family coping resources, learn new skills and practice therapeutic techniques to support families dealing with stress and trauma during uniquely challenging times.    Region 8 Only Event: This series is available only to providers of Region 8 states (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming).     Registration Information: Registration in this series will be limited to 60 people to ensure opportunities for participant sharing, engagement, and skill-building. If you are unable to commit to participating in all sessions in this series, please defer your registration to allow others to participate.     Session Topics:   An Overview of Family Coping with Stress and Trauma   Deliberateness   Structure and Safety   Connectedness   Resource Seeking   Co-Regulation and Crisis Management   Positive Affect, Memory and Meaning      Session Dates:   Oct. 4  Oct. 18  Nov. 1  Nov. 15  Nov. 29  Dec. 13  Dec. 20  Learning Objectives Gain Knowledge about the impact of chronic stress and trauma on families.   Become familiar with resources and skills that families can use to cope.   Learn new therapeutic strategies and techniques for building family coping resources.  Trainers Laurel Kiser, PhD, MBA University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine and Center for Strengthening Family Coping Resources                     Laurel Kiser, PhD, MBA, University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine, is a Psychologist working in the field for over 40 years. She leads the Family Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center, a Category II Center in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Along with a dedicated team of clinicians and families, she developed Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR), an intervention designed specifically for families coping with chronic and severe stress and trauma. She is the founding director of the Center for Strengthening Family Coping Resources, Inc., a nonprofit organization, supporting SFCR.    Vikki Rompala, LCSW Consultant for the Center for SFCR and Vice-President of the Family Hub at Chicago Commons Association.                     Vikki Rompala, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of social work practice and management experience. She has been an Affiliate of NCTSN since 2011 and was the former chair of the NCTSN Partnering with Youth and Families committee from 2007-2011. She has extensive program development and evaluation experience and is a Peer Reviewer for the Council on Accreditation. She is a trainer in the SFCR model and has assisted in training and implementation of SFCR in Chicago within domestic violence, adoption preservation, grandparents raising children programs and in an outpatient mental health center. 

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: Being abused by an intimate partner can increase the risk of accidental overdose while at the same time isolating survivors from potential sources of safety. Additionally, the stigma and criminalization of substance use is often leveraged by unsafe partners to further abuse and control survivors, increasing the risk of harm, marginalization, and overdose. This session will provide an overview of overdose risk factors and how they intersect with intimate partner violence and substance use coercion, as well as how to tailor evidence-based overdose prevention strategies to better support survivors.     LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Identify main overdose risk factors in survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). Explain the intersections between IPV and substance user coercion. Describe evidence-based overdose prevention strategies for IPV survivors.     CERTIFICATES: Registrants who fully attend this event or training will receive a certificate of attendance via email within two weeks after the event or training.      PRESENTER: Gabriela Zapata-Alma, LCSW, CADC, is the Associate Director at the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health, as well as a Lecturer at the University of Chicago, where they direct the Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor Training Program. Gabriela brings over 15 years of experience supporting people impacted by structural and interpersonal violence and their traumatic effects through innovative and evidence-based clinical, housing, resource advocacy, peer-led, and HIV-integrated care programs. Currently, Gabriela authors best practices, leads national capacity-building efforts, and provides trauma-informed policy consultation to advance health equity and social justice.

The Mountain Plains MHTTC is pleased to offer this Training of Trainers (TOT) on Trauma-Informed Practices in Education. Event Description This 3-day (20 hours) interactive in-person training will be facilitated by Resilient Futures and grounded in the evidence-informed Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma (HEARTS) framework developed in 2008 at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The HEARTS framework is grounded in neuroscience, resilience, and attachment theory focusing on the protective factors that build resilience as defined by the evidence-based Attachment, Self-regulation, and Competency (ARC) model (Blaustein & Kinniburgh, 2006).    This training will be held October 4-6, 2022 in Casper, WY.     To apply to be a trainer and attend this TOT, please complete this application by September 16, 2022.   Learning Objectives Establish a training that builds on and strengthens foundational trauma-informed knowledge grounded in the Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma (HEARTS) framework.  The foundational training provides both theory and strategies through HEARTS Core Guiding Principles: Understanding Trauma and Stress; Cultural Humility and Equity; Compassion and Dependability; Resilience and Social-Emotional Learning; Empowerment and Collaboration. Examine trauma and trauma-informed practices through a lens of cultural humility focusing on an awareness of racial trauma and the importance of centralizing equity work within trauma-informed practices.     Learn and practice skills to foster resilience for students and staff through building connection, coping skills, and competence, while focusing on individual and community wellness.  Participants will receive the following materials to lead a foundational trauma-informed training in their school/ district: facilitation manual, handouts, and PowerPoint slides.  Trainers Laura McArthur, PhD.                     Laura McArthur, PhD., is a clinical psychologist, one of the Co-Founders of Resilient Futures, and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado’s START Center in the School of Medicine. She studied and trained at the University of Colorado, University of Utah, and University of San Francisco with a specialty in trauma, systems change, child and family development, and social justice. She has worked in schools for many years, leading hundreds of trainings, providing on-the-ground consultation, and supervising and providing school-based clinical services. Dr. McArthur’s work has focused on ensuring all students, teachers, parents, and schools are supported in connecting to their own resilience through evidence-based training, consultation, and mental health support.     Megan Brennan                     Dr. Megan Brennan is a licensed clinical psychologist and Co-Founder of Resilient Futures. In her clinical work as a school-based therapist Dr. Brennan specialized in working with youth and their caregivers, providing evidence-based trauma therapy. Through her work at Resilient Futures, Dr Brennan continues to partner with school districts, early childhood centers, and universities to integrate and sustain trauma-informed practices, that centralize race-based equity work. Dr. Brennan leads trauma-informed training, onsite consultation, and leadership coaching.

NOTE: This event is specifically for Washington State attendees who are part of the behavioral health workforce. This session is part of the Co-occurring Disorders track of the Mental Health Institute. ABOUT THIS EVENT The Lived Experience and Recovery Orientation session will offer participants an introduction to and overview of what it means to identify as having lived experience, utilizing lenses of parity and intersectionality as impetus for use of strength-based language and comprehensive systems of care. Contact hours will be available for participants who attend the entire session. The University of Washington is an approved provider of continuing education for DOH licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, chemical dependency professionals, nurses and physicians under the provisions of: WAC 246-809-610, WAC 246-809-620,WAC 246-811-200, WAC 246-840-210, WAC 246-919-460 and WAC 246-924-240.   Session is 1-3p PT See more in the Co-occurring Disorders Track HERE LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE HERE   FACILITATOR Abbey Wellemeyer, Certified Peer Counselor and Recovery Coach, MPA Abbey Wellemeyer identifies as a person living in recovery from substance use disorder, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. After beginning her recovery journey Abbey chose to pursue a bachelor's degree in an area she felt would benefit her community: Elementary Education. During that time, she became interested in working in program planning and development, seeing it as a way to change and sculpt systems, thus completing a master's degree in Public Administration. Motivated by the meaningful work of reducing barriers to achieving healthy and safe lives and by working to increase the opportunities to access healthy and safe conditions for living, Abbey eventually became a Recovery Coach and Certified Peer Counselor finding an invaluable personal and professional niche working in behavioral health spheres.             VISIT THE MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE MAIN PAGE            

This 90-minute virtual consultation call with ACT teams and ACT stakeholders consists of a mini-didactic training on a topic of relevance and interest to ACT teams (at times circling back to topics related to navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and related issues as they come up), plus opportunities to pose consultation questions and learn from other ACT teams and their shared experiences within ACT. The Northwest MHTTC is partnering with the Institute for Best Practices at the University of North Carolina to host and facilitate these regular meetings for ACT teams.  ABOUT THIS EVENT Topic The Role of the ACT Nurse: Using the DACUM process to define ACT RN competencies and to develop a robust onboarding and professional development curriculum.  This presentation will describe progress toward creating a comprehensive onboarding and professional development curriculum for new and experienced ACT RNs. The field of nursing is broad in scope and the role of the ACT nurse requires specialized skills in community-based nursing, psychiatric care, psychopharmacology, and independent decision making.  New ACT nurses may not have all the competencies required in all these essential areas. To ensure that ACT nurses have the knowledge and competencies they need to perform this role, the Oregon Center of Excellence for Assertive Community Treatment (OCEACT) has partnered with nursing education experts to develop an ACT nursing training curriculum for onboarding and professional development. This presentation describes progress to date including using the Designing a CUrriculuM (DACUM) method to identify the needed competencies for the ACT RN.  In the DACUM, a panel of expert ACT RNs identified the essential duties and tasks of the RN role. This presentation will present the DACUM results and discuss the verification process. A new ACT RN self-assessment is being developed to identify training needs so that the OCEACT nurse consultant can develop an individualized onboarding training. Over the last two years, OCEACT has provided trainings and individual consultation to ACT nurses in the areas of: mental health disorders, delegation and MAR training, medication distribution, ACT nursing interventions, and psychiatric pharmacology.  Presenters Paula Gubrud-Howe EdD, RN CHSE, ANEF, FAAN, is a Professor Emeritus from Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing. Dr. Gubrud has over 30 years of experience in nursing and health professions education. Her nursing education experience expands multiple levels of nursing education from LPN to graduate programs. Paula is a national and international speaker and consultant for colleges, universities and health systems providing faculty development courses and curricular integration expertise focused on competency-based education, clinical education and simulation-based learning experiences. Paula has authored a medical-surgical textbook, numerous book chapters and articles on simulation and clinical education. Her research interests are focused on applying clinical learning and simulation-based learning experiences to facilitate development of clinical reasoning.  Paula was a leader in the Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education nursing curriculum redesign that implemented a new nursing curriculum in 13 Oregon community college RN programs and all 5 campuses of the Oregon Health & Sciences University.   Heidi Herinckx, MA, is Senior Director of two of Oregon Centers of Excellence, the Oregon Center of Excellence for Assertive Community Treatment and the Oregon Supported Employment Center of Excellence.  Heidi Herinckx has a MA in Medical Sociology from Rutgers University and over 20 years of experience in the mental health field. Prior to joining the centers, Ms. Herinckx was a mental health services researcher at the Regional Research Institute at Portland State University. Her primary areas of research included the effectiveness of Assertive Community Treatment, Supported Employment, Mental Health Courts and peer providers of mental health services.  Ms. Herinckx was co-investigator on an evaluation of the statewide implementation of the Oregon Consortium of Nursing Education funded by Robert Wood Johnson.  Through this work she developed an OCNE curriculum fidelity measure to ensure all 13 OCNE colleges implemented the OCNE nursing curriculum consistently across all campuses.   She has helped mental health programs in Oregon and Washington implement many evidence-based practices and developed tools to evaluate the effectiveness of services with the mission to improve the quality of lives for those living with mental health issues. For more information or questions, contact: Maria Monroe-DeVita, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of the Washington State Center of Excellence in First Episode Psychosis or Lorna Moser, PhD, Director of the UNC ACT Technical Assistance Center in the UNC Department of Psychiatry’s Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health and Coordinator of the North Carolina ACT Coalition. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS SERIES FACILITATORS Lorna Moser, PhD Dr. Moser is the Director of the UNC ACT Technical Assistance Center in the UNC Department of Psychiatry’s Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health; and Coordinator of the North Carolina ACT Coalition.     Maria Monroe-DeVita, PhD Dr. Monroe-DeVita is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Director, Washington State Center of Excellence in First Episode Psychosis.

NOTE: This event is specifically for Washington State attendees who are part of the behavioral health workforce.   This session is part of the Co-occurring Disorders track of the Mental Health Institute.   ABOUT THIS EVENT This training module will focus on a short history of co-occurring disorder treatment, SAMSA’s TIP 42, and a brief overview of substance use disorder and severe mental illness. Contact hours will be available for participants who attend the entire session. The University of Washington is an approved provider of continuing education for DOH licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, chemical dependency professionals, nurses and physicians under the provisions of: WAC 246-809-610, WAC 246-809-620,WAC 246-811-200, WAC 246-840-210, WAC 246-919-460 and WAC 246-924-240.   Session is 10a-12p PT See more in the Co-occurring Disorders Track HERE LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE HERE   FACILITATOR Jeffery Roskelley, LICSW Jeffery Roskelley is a licensed independent clinical social worker training and consulting for the SPIRIT (which stands for Supporting Psychosis Innovation through Research, Implementation and Training) Lab at the University of Washington. Jeff graduated from the University of Utah with a Master of Social Work degree in 2008, and has worked in several different settings including hospice, as a co-occurring assessment specialist at the University of Utah and as a co-occurring specialist for the Lake Whatcom PACT team in Bellingham WA, where he currently resides. Jeff’s area of specialty is in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis and for Substance Use Disorder. Since 2013 he has been training Assertive Community Treatment Teams in WA state in co-occurring disorders treatment and cognitive behavioral techniques for severe mental illness. Jeff was trained and received consultation in CBTp with the original Washington state cohort in 2015, trained by Jennifer Gottlieb, PhD from the Harvard Medical School and provided direct clinical CBTp counseling to clients at Sunrise Mental Health from 2015 to 2018, receiving supervision from Sarah Kopelovich, PhD, from the University of Washington. Currently, Jeff provides individual private counseling in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, addressing a wide range of clinical issues, ranging from anxiety and depression to obsessive compulsive disorder and psychosis. In addition, Jeff is a clinical supervisor for social workers. Finally, last but not least, Jeff is an ardent dog lover and a dabbler in chi gong.   VISIT THE MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE MAIN PAGE          

Outside of Latin America, the United States is home to the largest Latinx population. The Latinx community has grown in the past decade, surpassing 60 million in 2019 (Noe-Bustamante et al., 2020). However, Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Honduran ancestry immigrants, like many other Latinx communities, have historically been oppressed due to colonialization, modern-day oppression, and racist political agendas (both in their country of origin and the United States). Latinxs experience multiple stressors affecting their mental health and experience barriers to culturally responsive treatment. Such barriers result in an influx of untreated mental health concerns and disorders, leading to historical and generationally passed-on mental health struggles. Additionally, the over-focus on deficits frameworks to understand the Latinx experience further perpetuates marginalization. Thus, knowing the history of Mexicans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Hondurans before immigration, during immigration, and in the United States is crucial to effectively support their mental health needs. Supporting mental health providers and educators in their understanding of how history, politics, and trauma shape the mental health experiences of Latinx immigrants is essential to give providers the tools to capitalize on the existing strengths and resources of Latinxs. Therefore, the intent of the present book serves as a guide for mental health providers working with Latinx communities. The book will present the unique and specific experiences of Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Honduran communities before and in the United States. A focus on the intersecting role of oppression, historical trauma, oppressive policies, and current stressors (COVID-19) will be explored in the context of mental health considerations.   This webinar will discuss possible uses of this resource and highlight content that may benefit clinicians working with Latino populations. Participants will have an opportunity to speak with one of the authors to explore its benefits in mental health services for Latinos.