Monday, April 4, 2022 10:00 AM ETPeer professionals provide an array of recovery-oriented supports and person-centered care, which include empathetic engagement with survivors of trauma circumstances. This work at times can increase the peer’s vulnerability to vicarious trauma or secondary stress. Potentially, it can result in the loss of ability to objectively help others find their recovery pathways and can affect the peer’s mental and emotional wellbeing. This 2-hour interactive workshop will review how trauma situations may present, signs to recognize, and cues alerting when to step away from a trauma-inducing situation. Content will also offer practical strategies for self-care, including ways to build resiliency. Tuesday, April 5, 2022 12:00 PM ETThe Clinical Supervision Learning Community offers a platform for dialogue and problem solving on real and emerging issues in our field. The hour-long virtual sessions include a 15–30 minute presentation on a key supervision issue followed by a 30-minute Q/A or agency case study problem. The April 5 session will focus on outcomes, outputs, and clinical report writing. This short workshop offers a primer on known predictors of preferred patient outcomes and identifying metrics to determine clinical success in substance use disorder treatment. Other sessions in this series include: - 05/03/2022: Well-Being of the Clinical Supervisor
- 06/07/2022: Recruitment and Retention
- 08/02/2022; Leadership and Wellness
- 09/06/2022: Advocating for Staff
- 10/04/2022: Helping Employees Improve Their Job Performance
- 11/01/2022: Supervision Ethics
- 02/07/2023: Intercultural Supervision
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 1:00 PM ETHispanic and Latinx populations in the U.S. confront particular structural barriers towards receiving accessible and responsive mental health care services (e.g., lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate services, lack of insurance, lack of transportation, and lack of awareness of the mental health system). Due to such factors, mental health care providers require the knowledge and skills to identify and help address the societal and community-level barriers that negatively impact behavioral health care outcomes among Hispanic and Latinx communities. Tuesday, April 5, 2022 3:00 PM ETSession 2 of the 4-part virtual event series will focus on Native beliefs and the life experiences that can influence a Native person’s help-seeking, service engagement, treatment partnership, and lifelong recovery. Awareness of these influences and the significance of Indigenous culture and lifeways is critical in developing “culturally meaningful” opioid treatment for Native people. Presenters will share specific examples of how Native opioid treatment programs use Native culture as their core guiding principle. Tuesday, April 5, 2022 3:00 PM ETTransgender, non-binary, and gender expansive people in general have an elevated risk for mental health concerns, including suicidality. This webinar will provide information on some of the most pressing mental health concerns for gender expansive youth and a review of the best practices for mental health care and supportive intervention strategies. We take a wraparound approach to understanding interventions, offering information about individual-level intervention, as well as community development and primary prevention efforts. Thursday, April 7, 2022 2:00 PM ETCoordinated specialty care for early psychosis is an evidence-based treatment model aimed at fostering resilience and recovery for individuals who have experienced a first episode of psychosis or are at clinical high risk for developing psychosis. Each webinar will be co-presented by a professional with expertise in that component of care, as well as an individual with lived experience who can speak to how this aspect of care was meaningful in their journey towards recovery. The series takes place on the first Thursday of each month at 2:00 PM ET. Thursday, April 7, 2022 3:00 PM ETThis 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. Friday, April 8, 2022 12:00 PM ETThis session targets professionals providing substance use disorder treatment services focusing on treatment planning and case management for clients with medical marijuana prescriptions. Monday, April 11, 2022 2:00 PM ETResearch indicates that mindfulness therapy and practices are very effective in helping to reduce levels of stress and feelings of being overwhelmed. This series is for anyone looking to build personal resiliency while investing in and developing self-care practices. Mindful Monday sessions will feature a wide range of evidence-based practices from different disciplines, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Dialectal Behavioral Therapy, Evidence-Based Therapy, and yoga. It is a bi-weekly, 30-minute training that will run through August 8. Tuesday, April 12, 2022 12:00 PM ETThis 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. Tuesday, April 12 and Thursday, April 14, 2022 1:00 PM ETSBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) is an evidence-based practice that uses a preventive public health approach to identify and intervene with persons whose pattern of use puts them at risk for, or are experiencing, substance-related health problems, and/or deliver referrals to treatment for persons with a high potential for substance use disorders. Tuesday, April 12, 2022 1:00 PM ETWhile medical cannabis has been legal for some time in New England, the movement toward adult use cannabis legalization has gained traction over the last few years and now seems imminent for holdout states. However, each New England state has had a different approach to governing and regulating cannabis programs, which has influenced availability, access, and use. Join us for a review of New England state cannabis programs and a look at the data available to guide prevention work at the ground level. Tuesday, April 12, 2022 2:30 PM ETThis training reviews a range of evidence-based strategies for application by teachers, afterschool professionals and other support staff to reduce disruptive and challenging behaviors in their educational or out-of-school time setting. These include a number of strategies intended to help minimize the emergence of problematic behaviors and a range of those which provide positive outcomes for appropriate youth behaviors. Wednesday, April 13, 2022 3:00 PM ETThis panel will discuss how some schools and communities are responding to this increasing epidemic and considerations specific to rural communities based on learned experiences. The targeted audience for this session is school mental health professionals and educators. Thursday, April 14, 2022 10:00 AM ETPerspectives in Mental Health Crisis is a 4-part series examining the experiences of certified peer specialists (CPS) as they navigate, utilize, and provide crisis services. In Part 2 of this series, the facilitators will discuss the differing peer perspectives on and experiences with crisis, explain strategies for preventing and managing crises, and provide crisis support resources. Thursday, April 14, 2022 11:00 AM ETThis presentation describes the process that the DSM-5 Cross-Cultural Issues Subgroup followed to develop the core cultural formulation interview (CFI). It summarizes research evidence since the publication of the DSM-5 in 2013. It also offers recommendations for clinicians to implement the CFI with adults in their practice settings. Thursday, April 14, 2022 12:00 PM ETThis webinar will provide an overview of the reasons that challenging behavior may occur in students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It will also provide an overview of strategies that can be used to prevent challenging behaviors in these students, and resources that can provide additional information related to managing challenging behaviors. The two presenters have expertise in supporting students with ASD and behavioral health challenges within school settings. Thursday, April 14, 2022 3:00 PM ETThis webinar will discuss the role of work in mental health treatment of young adults. Next, we examine the potential of an evidence-based supported employment, known as individual placement and support (IPS), to help young adults with mental health conditions gain and keep jobs, describing a fidelity scale used to monitor quality of IPS services for this population. Finally, we will describe young adult subgroups for which IPS has been implemented and review the research on the effectiveness of IPS for this age group. Thursday, April 14, 2022 6:00 PM ETThis webinar will outline the rapidly changing culture of cannabis use highlighting potency and routes of administration, perception of risk, and common exchanges regarding substance use and women’s issues. It will share popular products marketed to women and campaigns targeted to individuals who identify as female. It will review public health concerns including child protective services, health concerns of use during pregnancy and breastfeeding, as well as the influence on self and family and how to have an intelligent “cannabis conversation.” Friday, April 15, 2022 8:00 PM ETMany experts predict that substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery services will use a hybrid service delivery method (some services in-person and some online). Join the online consultation session every third Friday of the month to discuss/share virtual service delivery tips and practices for practitioners and peers focusing on telehealth and digital recovery support services. Rural Health Quality: How CMS Initiatives Improve How We Measure and Address Gaps in Care—WebinarsWednesday, April 20, 2022, 3:00 PM ET Or
Thursday, April 21, 2022, 12:00 PM ETThis presentation will highlight the unique challenges surrounding quality measurement in rural settings, and how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is working to address these issues to ensure equitable care is provided to all Americans regardless of where they reside. The webinar will be offered twice. Advance registration is required. |
