Wellbeing Through Crisis: Emotional PPE | Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network

Wellbeing Through Crisis: Emotional PPE | Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network

Well-being through Crisis: Emotional PPE – Webinar Tuesday, May 26, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT Times of crisis necessitate health care leaders to balance competing priorities, including patient need, staff well-being, and one’s own health. While it can be difficult to reflect in the midst of a crisis–like in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic–this session will dedicate time to exploring strategies for improving leadership’s response in times of crisis. This session will explore the Crisis Leadership Continuum (readiness, response, recovery, and renewal), highlighting health care leadership approaches and strategies integral to ensuring staff well-being through crisis.

Trauma Informed Care: Through the Lens of COVID 19 – Webinars Day 1: Tuesday, May 26 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT Day 2: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT  The emergence of COVID-19 as a pandemic has increased rates of trauma and stress in our communities to levels that most of us have not experienced. Still, providers need to be equipped to address the traumatic impact of the current environment. This webinar will look at some of the basics of trauma, as well as some of the effects of COVID-19 on trauma and look at ways to heal. This is a two-part webinar. You must register for each day separately.

Prevention in Action: Connecting with Youth before, during and after COVID-19 – Webinar  Tuesday, May 26, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT This webinar will feature a panel of prevention practitioners to discuss their strategies for keeping youth engaged and connected in prevention while schools are closed and meetings are not possible. They will also discuss how these strategies can be adapted to continue to be helpful in the future.

Coping with Stress during the Pandemic – Webinar Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT This one-hour online session will provide information on culturally responsive coping strategies to address and reduce stress in Latino clients. The presenter will address stressors among Latino communities as well as culturally responsive strategies to address symptoms. The presentation will further discuss therapeutic interventions for Latino clients with mental health disorders whose symptoms have exacerbated during the pandemic, and will discuss approaches to further develop a therapeutic relationship while using telehealth platforms.

Strategies of Support for Mental Health Providers, #8 – Online Open Forum Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT 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.

The Coming Out Process – Webinar Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:30 p.m. EDT The coming out process is a unique and individualized process, preferably driven by the client. Often times, many individuals that identify as a sexual or gender minority face the coming out process multiple times. This webinar will highlight the impact of coming out and how to best support someone through this process.

Courageous Conversations: A Partnering Tool to Achieve Equity in Schools – Webinar Tuesday, May 26, 2020 4:00 p.m. EDT Join us for a webinar about the power of Courageous Conversations, a model for creating safe spaces for staff and students to have challenging, but necessary conversations about inequity. The webinar will review the four agreements of a courageous conversation, explain how to use the courageous conversation compass, and discuss ideas for starting courageous conversations in your classrooms and schools.

The Six Building Blocks: A Roadmap for Primary Care Clinics to Implement a Team-Based Approach – Webinar Wednesday, May 27, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT This one-hour webinar will share how a systems-based approach to improving chronic pain and opioid management in primary care can improve outcomes for patients, including complex patients with diagnoses of behavioral health and substance use disorders. We will explore whether this approach might be relevant for behavioral health and other organizations and will share resources developed for clinics managing patients with chronic pain using opioid medications during the COVID pandemic.

Motivational Interviewing: African American Males – Webinar Wednesday, May 27, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT This webinar will discuss cultural considerations for using motivational interviewing as a clinical tool with African American men who use substances. Special attention will be given to the impact of generational trauma and how it impacts substance use behaviors, engagement in the clinical relationship, and responses to clinical interventions.

Ambiguous Loss: Grieving in the Time of COVID-19, Followed by Live Q&A Session – Webinar Wednesday, May 27, 2020 5:00 p.m. EDT Life, as we knew it just a few weeks ago, has been completely turned upside down. That feeling you are feeling but can’t seem to describe in words may be grief. People are experiencing the loss of jobs, school, hugs, social connections, sports, graduations, weddings, funerals. It seems that every area of our life has been touched. This webinar will give you an overview of what grief looks like at any time but especially during a time of ambiguous loss. We will talk about how to care for yourself and others in a time of uncertainty.

Wellness Wednesdays – Virtual Discussion Wednesday, May 27, 2020 5:00 p.m. EDT 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. Each Wellness Wednesday is a 60-minute virtual session for the school mental health workforce to connect, reflect, and support each other.

Why Use Evidence and Where to Find It: Blueprints for Healthy Youth – Webinar Wednesday, May 27, 2020 5:30 p.m. EDT To address a problem adequately it is important to understand why evidence is important, how to use it, and where you can go to find it. This webinar will discuss the importance of employing evidence and prevention science in our substance misuse prevention work. It will also highlight the Blueprints for Healthy Youth registry to assist you with locating evidence-based substance misuse prevention interventions that are appropriate for your community.

Motivational Interviewing for Marijuana Use Prevention – Webinar Thursday, May 28, 2020 and Friday, May 29, 2020 10:00 a.m. EDT This six-hour intensive webinar will provide an introduction to this evidence-based style of communication–Motivational Interviewing (MI). After an orientation to the underlying spirit, structure, and skills of MI, practical exercises will be used to help participants strengthen empathy skills, recognize and elicit “change talk,” and roll with the discord/resistance.

Peer Support Echo (PS ECHO) – Online Community Meeting Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT The Peer Support Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (PS ECHO) is a movement to share knowledge, and amplify capacity to provide best practices. The PS ECHO is an online community for Peer Recovery Specialist and Mental Health Peers to: Share community and statewide resources Learn new skills and tools for doing peer work Meet and connect with other peers

Mental Health Mutual Support Calls for Thriving at Work during COVID-19 for Mental Health Providers – Virtual Discussion Thursday, May 28, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT To help support 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.

Crisis Readiness, Response, and Recovery: Supporting Grieving Students, How to be Both Grief-Sensitive and Trauma-Informed –– Webinar Series Thursday, May 28, 2020 6:00 p.m. EDT This session will discuss both the overlap and differences between bereavement and trauma in children, some of the key considerations related to supporting grieving children, the unique context of cumulative loss, and how this information applies to other types of loss beyond bereavement. This is the second in a three-part webinar series. The third webinar will be held on August 4, 2020.

Recovery LIVE! Changing the Conversation: Shared Decision-Making in Treatment and Recovery Support Service Settings – Online Discussion Thursday, May 28, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT SAMHSA’s Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) invites you to join an interactive discussion about how treatment and service providers and practitioners can use shared decision-making practices and tools to support the engagement, recovery, and resilience of people with mental illness and substance use disorder.

Co-Occurring Disorders for Behavioral Health Supervisors – Webinar Friday, May 29, 2020 9:00 a.m. EDT This virtual training course focuses on topics and issues for behavioral health supervisors to help enhance and expand your process as a clinical supervisor. Throughout the training, we will discuss a variety of supervision topics including various models of supervision, addressing ethical dilemmas with supervision, as well as technology and supervision.