Telemental Health Fundamentals: Preparing Your Office and Engaging Your Patients – Webinar Wednesday, April 29, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT

Telemental Health Fundamentals: Preparing Your Office and Engaging Your Patients – Webinar Wednesday, April 29, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT This webinar will provide guidance to providers interested in delivering mental health services through telephone and/or videoconferencing. Participants will receive a brief overview of Telemental Health essentials, including technology selection, client screening, office space adaptation, documentation, responding to emergencies, and fundamentals of clinical engagement through this modality.

Payment Strategies for Coordinated Specialty Care – Online Discussion Wednesday, April 29, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT  This online discussion is one of a series in which guest presenters 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. Other online discussions in the series will take place May 6, 2020, and June 10, 2020 at 2:00 PM EDT.

EBP 101: Toward a Better Understanding of Evidence-Based Treatments, Evidence-Based Practice, and Alternative Approaches – Webinar Wednesday, April 29, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT This webinar will address what constitutes an “evidence-based treatment (EBT)” and an “evidence-based practice (EBP),” the difference between efficacy and effectiveness, and what we need to know about them in order to make more informed decisions in selecting EBTs and EBPs that are best suited to our agencies or clinics.

Exploring HOPE: Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences – Webinar Wednesday, April 29 5:00 p.m. EDT The new language of HOPE – Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences – utilizes The Cycle of Transformation which includes domains of Spirit – Science – Action – Return. This session will conclude by providing attendees with flexible building blocks to apply HOPE at individual, family, community and societal levels to prevent adversity, support resilience and promote healing and health equity based upon positive childhood experiences.

Preventing the Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs in New England – Webinar Wednesday, April 29, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT This webinar will look at where to go to learn about risk and protective factors associated with prescription drug misuse, provide an overview of evidence-based strategies that address these factors, and begin to explore opportunities for forging the new partnerships needed to implement these strategies in New England.

Supporting Prevention Efforts through Virtual Settings (2-Part Series): Legal and Ethical Considerations for Telehealth Prevention – Webinar  Wednesday, April 29, 2020 4:00 p.m. EDT This webinar will review the legal and ethical considerations for prevention practice through a virtual setting. Participants will learn which requirements must be in place as well as current changes due to COVID-19.

Planning for School Crises During School Crises – Webinar Wednesday, April 29, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT Crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic we are in, will reveal gaps in crisis preparedness. While it can be hard to reflect on our preparedness while we are focused on responding to the crisis at hand, this session will create space to learn and adapt.