Friday, June 18, 2021 1:00 p.m. ET
This Lecture Series presentation will describe the local and national scope of Stimulant Use Disorders including current trends in use amongst special populations (e.g., adolescents, women, criminal justice populations, racial/ethnic minorities, and LGBT individuals). The mental health and physical health consequences of Stimulant Use Disorders will be presented including information on stimulant use and its impact on the brain and cognition. The presentation will conclude with a discussion on how to implement effective treatment interventions for people who use stimulants and the necessary adaptations needed to engage and retain special populations in care. A panel discussion will follow.
Fri., June 18, 2021 12:00 p.m. ET – Tues., June 22, 2021 12:00 p.m. ET
The National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards were developed by the Office of Minority Health in response to health and health care disparities and changing demographics. The CLAS standards are a structured outline of actionable items that organizations and professionals may consider undertaking to improve the quality of services, to reduce health disparities, and attain health equity.
This interactive three-part webinar (2 hours each) will provide an overview of the CLAS Standards and how providers might implement culturally and linguistically appropriate strategies to heighten engagement opportunities, improve quality of care, and effect recovery support to diverse communities.
Monday, June 21, 2021 1:00 p.m. ET
In this webinar, attendees will learn best practices in school-based suicide prevention and intervention. Attendees will gain knowledge on conducting skillful assessment in their buildings, as well as consultation, communication, and safety planning for suicide intervention. Expect the Unexpected: Preparing for Crises in Schools is a webinar series geared toward education professionals, administrators, and stakeholders who are working together to create a school climate that aims to prevent crisis events. The next webinar in this series, What Now? Supporting Students after a Mental Health Crisis, will take place on Monday, June 28, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:00 a.m. ET
This webinar will discuss the promise and potential of digital technologies in behavioral health. Attendees will learn of ethical obligations in using technologies in behavioral health practice and learn of a guide to facilitate ethical decision-making in selecting technologies aligned with clients/service users’ values and privacy and compliance standards.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 1:00 p.m. ET
The goal of this presentation is to describe Seeking Safety, an evidence-based model for trauma and/or substance abuse (clients do not have to have both issues). In this training we cover (a) an overview of Seeking Safety; and (b) key points on clinical implementation with adolescents. Resources are also provided. Learning methods include PowerPoint, video, exercises, and discussion. For more information on Seeking Safety see www.seekingsafety.org.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 4:00 p.m. ET
Substance and opioid use disorders (OUDs) are associated with criminal behavior, arrest, and incarceration. Effective treatments are needed to reduce the burden of OUDs on public safety and on the public health. Fortunately, there are three medications that are approved for the treatment of opioid dependence. This is the first webinar in a two-part series.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:00 a.m. ET
Educator Well-Being Strategic Planning and Preparation is a half-day training session for school, district, educational agency, and state-level leaders who are interested in learning about educator well-being and determining how to make educator well-being fit into their schools' plans for the 2021-2022 school year.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:00 a.m. ET
Stigma—which involves labeling, stereotyping, and discriminating—is a major barrier to mental health help-seeking, psychiatric service engagement, and full inclusion in society. Young people at risk for psychosis or in the early stages of psychosis are just forming their identities and may be particularly vulnerable to the deleterious effects of this stigma. This webinar will define early-stage psychosis and stigma, describe the most recent research in this area, and discuss ways to combat this stigma via a multipronged effort, which involves focusing on community members' attitudes and working clinically to help people living with mental illness cope with and combat this stigma.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 1:00 p.m. ET
This webinar will provide a broad overview of the most recent data on emerging drug trends in the Central East region and around the United States, including what is known about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other topics, it will cover the current status of the opioid epidemic, changes in cocaine and methamphetamine use and consequences, and underage alcohol and vaping product trends. The webinar will also discuss why it is important for prevention professionals to be aware of the most recent trend data and provide the latest information on the causes behind these emerging trends.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 1:30 p.m. ET
This presentation will focus on implementing shared decision-making in caring for persons diagnosed with a serious mental illness. We will focus on the history of shared decision-making in medicine, the barriers to implementing shared decision-making in psychiatry, and a framework and tool to support collaboration in psychiatric care.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 6:00 p.m. ET
Connect with others who share concern and passion for developmentally appropriate and appealing systems and supports for youth and young adults. Whatever your role, if you are a young adult professional seeking to make peer-to-peer connections and develop your professional capacity, this learning community serves as a forum to learn and build skills with other mental health workforce professionals.
Thursday, June 24, 2021 1:00 p.m. ET
Esta presentación identificará algunas de las variables relacionadas al abuso y agresión sexual en mujeres latinas. Además se discutirá las dinámicas de poder y control asociadas a la violencia sexual e impacto en la salud mental. Las presentadoras incluirán abordajes terapéuticos recomendados para trabajar con latinas sobrevivientes de abuso y agresión sexual.
Thursday, June 24, 2021 2:00 p.m. ET
Addiction to substances such as alcohol and other prescription and non-legal drugs is a public health crisis that impacts our local families and communities. Join us for a free learning series about supporting people with disabilities in their recovery from addiction. Another webinar in this series, Strategies for Increasing Access to Recovery Supports for People with Disabilities will take place on Thursday, July 1, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Friday, June 25, 2021 1:30 p.m. ET
Join us for a special conversation with four survivors of COVID-19, all of whom identify as long-haulers, people who “have not fully recovered from COVID-19 weeks or even months after first experiencing symptoms,” according to Harvard Health. Like Derek, Karla, Mieka, and Jessica, “some long haulers experience continuous symptoms for weeks or months, while others feel better for weeks, then relapse with old or new symptoms. The constellation of symptoms long haulers experience, sometimes called post-COVID-19 syndrome” (Harvard Health: If you've been exposed to the coronavirus). This conversation is crucial, especially as schools begin or resume to gather for learning in-person. As our speakers will share, trauma may be now surfacing because people aren’t needing to focus on surviving; this trauma is surfacing as schools are reopening and as survivors are now beginning to process their experience and new realities.
Friday, June 25, 2021 1:00 p.m. ET
This webinar aims to provide a foundation for successful implementation of IPS practice principles in your community mental health center to better engage and support career development of older youth and young adults diagnosed with serious mental health conditions. The presenters will share both direct practice and program management strategies based on their successful IPS integration efforts in community mental health settings with vulnerable young people, including those with a recent onset of psychosis.
Friday, June 25, 2021 2:00 p.m. ET
This is Part 3 of a three-part Virtual Learning Session titled: El Hombre Noble: How to Engage, Embrace and Heal Chicano, Latino Males. How do we assist, guide and support men to be the best fathers, grandfathers, tios that they can be? The session will explore the importance of healthy positive Rites of passage and healthy extended kinship as an essential step towards Sacred Fatherhood. It will also address the importance of developing “bienvenidos, welcome home” programs and processes for reintegrating men who were formally incarcerated, recovering from addiction, absent due to deportation and wanting to rebuild their relationship with their children and family.
Monday, June 28, 2021, 3:30 p.m. ET
For Veterans Treatment Court programs (and other Adult Treatment Court programs), seeking to incorporate evidence-based practices for PTSD, there are over 400 different treatments but only three have been consistently replicated as being effective: cognitive processing therapy, prolonged exposure, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. This webinar will provide information on how to make the distinction between PTSD and Complex PTSD in Veterans, and then discuss the best evidence-based treatments for both. It will also discuss some of the strengths and challenges of each treatment.
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 2:00 p.m. ET
Discussion group from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
This webinar will introduce the Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Toolkit, which was developed with funding from the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The Toolkit presents practical tools and resources for treatment court teams and will assist teams in their efforts to make critical connections with local jails and treatment providers. The emphasis of this webinar will be on fostering partnerships and developing agreements to ensure access to community-based treatment services and supports for drug court participants.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 1:00 p.m. ET
Discussion group from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Part 2 of this three-part Virtual Learning Community will review the many considerations for treatment court practitioners to address as they plan for adoption or more permanent expansion of teleservices, including –
- assessment of organizational readiness and fit,
- assessment of client readiness and fit, and
- staff and client training needs.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 1:00 p.m. ET
Mindfulness, which involves “bringing deliberate and non-judgmental awareness and attention to one’s present moment experience,” is a practice with roots in ancient Buddhist traditions, where it is viewed as a necessary component for the cessation of suffering. Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) have been shown to decrease stress and improve health outcomes in underrepresented populations, with research on mindfulness and Latinos showing reductions in smoking, depression, and anxiety, and greater psychological well-being. MBIs may be practiced at home, making them efficacious in both improving emotional well-being among Hispanics and engaging otherwise-excluded minorities such as Hispanic immigrants in community-based health promotion.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 2:00 p.m. ET
This discussion is designed to promote interactivity through an informal "round table" conversation. Attendees will be given the opportunity to speak directly with the presenter to ask questions and discuss issues.
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