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Recent events have evidenced how structural inequities, racism and discrimination contribute to the health and mental health experiences of communities of color. In the United States, 92% of Blacks, 78% of Latinxs, 75% of Native Americans, and 61% of Asian Americans have reported experiencing racial discrimination in the form of racial slurs, violence, threats, and harassment. For Latinx, the intersectionality of identities may also contribute to the way health and mental health is experienced and expressed. This conversation is geared at addressing how Latinx identities, discrimination, and mental health interact. Our panelist will provide insight from the mental health and social justice perspective on the impact of these variables on Latinx communities. The panel will provide recommendations for practitioners, including how advocacy can be an important element in mental health services.

Who should attend? This webinar is designed for mental health providers including psychologists, clinical social workers, mental health counselors, and graduate level students in the mental health field.

Project ECHO (R) Series hosted by the California Area Indian Health Service. 

Target Audience: Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists, Psychologists (PsyD), Social Workers, and Counselors.

SERIES DESCRIPTION
The Central East MHTTC in collaboration with the National Center for School Mental Health is pleased to offer a school mental health webinar series with a focus on advancing high quality, sustainable school mental health from a multi-tiered system of support, trauma sensitive, and culturally responsive and equitable lens. To familiarize yourself with the foundations of school mental health, please review the school mental health guidance document.

Download the Series flyer here.

OBJECTIVES

• Gain increased awareness of high quality, sustainable multi-tiered system of school mental health supports and services
• Support trauma-informed systems in schools
• Discover the impacts of social determinants of health on student academic and social-emotional-behavioral success
• Learn to provide more culturally responsive and equitable services and supports
• Hear perspectives on school mental health from school, district and state levels
• Obtain insight into how youth, families, schools and communities can best work together to address student mental health needs

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Educators, Administrators, Health and Behavioral Health Care Professionals, Child-Serving Agency Staff, Policymakers and Advocates 

Scheduled Webinars for January – August 2021
Wednesday, January 6, 2021, 3:00-4:00 PM ET
Trauma Responsive Care for Younger Students
Slides   Recording

Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 3:00-4:00 PM ET
Addressing Systemic Racism: Creating Safe and Equitable Schools
Slides   Recording

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 3:00-4:00 PM ET
Creating Safe and Equitable Schools: Tier II Interventions and Considerations
Slides   Recording

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 3:00-4:00 PM ET
National Association of School Psychologists: School-Community Partnerships
Slides   Recording

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 3:00-4:00 PM ET
Youth MOVE: Leveraging Youth Advocacy
Slides   Recording

Wednesday, June 2, 2021, 3:00-4:00 PM ET
Supporting Students Impacted by Racial Stress and Trauma
Slides   Recording

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 3:00-4:00 PM ET
Supporting Native and Indigenous Youth in Schools
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021, 3:00-4:00 PM ET
Supporting Newcomer Youth in Schools
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At the 2021 Coalition Leadership Institute, the HCA/DBHR Health Equity Workgroup led a session titled “Infusing Health Equity into Prevention Efforts”. You are invited to continue that conversation through a town-hall style discussion, learn more about this workgroup’s efforts, and provide invaluable feedback on this workgroup’s action plan so that we can work alongside you all to promote equitable solutions for your communities.

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The aggregation and reporting of data—PQI, financial, and other critical information—is essential to sustaining the health of organizations and advancing their culture of excellence. And within organizations, evaluation and research teams are skilled at collecting and analyzing this data.

However, presenting data effectively to executives and other internal stakeholders is not as straightforward as it might seem. If we are honest, most of our data presentations are non-engaging (boring), saturated with numbers and graphs (not aesthetically pleasing), and can be needlessly confusing (lacking simplicity). This webinar will offer tips and strategies to help you translate mounds of data and analysis into presentations that engage leaders and increase their understanding and appreciation of essential information.

Sponsored by the Alliance-COA Performance Excellence APEX , this session will help you apply creativity to presentations that will result in leaders understanding the value and opportunities in data aggregation and analysis. We will focus on fostering solutions that make data presentations more engaging and effective, while igniting leaders’ desire to dive deeper into more substantial reports. Three main
objectives will be discussed: Understanding the perspective of our leaders; learning what will make our data engaging; and learning how to improve visual data.

About the Performance Excellence APEX

This community connects professionals who have primary responsibilities for the performance excellence activities of their organizations and provides them with tactical tools, content, shared experience, and advice. The PE APEX group further assists members in designing effective and evidence-based organizations, achieving program goals, increasing client satisfaction, and creating positive client outcomes.

Learn more about promoting a data-driven culture in human services in which all stakeholders are included in the work of performance excellence in the on-demand webinar, Creating a Culture of Performance Excellence .

What You'll Take Away

• What stakeholders are really looking for when data is presented
• How to transform reporting into clean and attractive presentations
• How to keep the audience’s attention while presenting
• How to help leaders better understand findings from the data collected

Public Health Law Center

As an ever-growing number of states consider legalizing and regulating recreational cannabis, questions continue to arise about evidence-based practices grounded in public health and social equity. Our webinar briefly overviews basic regulatory options for cannabis legalization that are informed by tobacco control and other best practices. Speakers look at takeaways from California's recreational cannabis system, which has been in operation for several years, and describe how lessons learned from tobacco regulation and public health could be applied at the state and local level in other states newer to legalization, like Michigan. 

Presenters:
Lynn Silver, Senior Advisor, Public Health Institute
Hudson Kingston, Staff Attorney, Public Health Law Center
Kerry Cork, Senior Staff Attorney, Public Health Law Center

Hosted by the National American Indian & Alaska Native Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network. From Longhouse to Schoolhouse: AI/AN school communities coming together in partnership to learn, collaborate, and share experiences and knowledge.

Part 1 in this three-part online seminar series addresses how to manage the multiple stressors impacting service providers and those they serve.  The series will present a model of the helper as witness that provides concrete suggestions as to how the provider can shift from feeling ineffective to feeling effective and competent.  Participants will learn ways of activating resilience, creating a self-care toolbox, and managing grief and loss.

Other webinars in this series include:

• Part 2—Managing Stress During Uncertain Times—Thursday, July 15, 2021 5:00 p.m. ET
• Part 3—Grief in the Time of COVID-19: Loss, Connection, & Hope—Thursday, July 22, 2021 5:00 p.m. ET

Teens aged 13-18 years old will learn about car and driver safety, how to stay safe and keep their friends safe when biking, skateboarding, swimming, playing sports and much more. Learn how to pick the right helmet and how to wear it the right way. There will be fun games to play, a drawing for a grand prize, as well as lots of chances to win prizes like Starbucks and Amazon gift cards.

This series of sessions features traditional Native American storytelling, along with time for discussion on what can be learned from the stories, as well as the ways these stories can be incorporated by Native American providers into their work with patients.

Please note that while we encourage non-Native providers to attend these sessions to increase your cultural understanding and sensitivity, we ask that out of respect for cultural traditions, you do not use these stories as your own if they are not a part of your culture. 

Native storytelling is an long honored way of teaching lessons of life. We, as Native people, need to laugh while learning. For example, laughing at how Coyote makes funny mistakes. This can teach people how to avoid behaving as Coyote does. Further, Native legends can offer stories about Creation or the Trickster. However, some stories can only be told during certain times of the year. For example, Coyote legends are only told during the winter time because that is often when Native people would be in their lodges practicing survival skills to help the tribe thrive in difficult times. 

Traditionally, the storyteller needed to be an excellent psychologist and able to understand peoples’ perspectives. A story might be used in treatment to help a patient come to a realization in a culturally informed way.

Story 3: The Use of the Ecosystem for Positive Mental and Behavioral Health-Navajo Traditional Perspective 

July 13 will be the final Storytelling event, so hosts are planning to extend the broadcast by one hour. Following Mr. Begay’s scheduled storytelling hour, all of previous Native Storytellers from this series have been invited to join during the second hour.

Most of us have supported students who have expressed suicidal ideation without having clarity on what are the best practice approaches and resources to believe we have met the student's needs. This training combines the researched-based intervention strategies for assessment and safety planning with LEARN. Developed by Forefront, the five simple and effective Forefront Suicide Prevention LEARN® steps empower individuals to help others move in the direction of hope, recovery, and survival. Learning Objectives:

• Understand the public health issue of youth suicide
• LEARN® suicide prevention skills (Including screening and safety planning intervention)
• Integrate prevention approaches into your personal and professional life

The Advanced LEARN® is listed as a model course by the WA Department of Health and meets the 3 hour training requirement (certificate of completion is provided upon completion of the post-test)

Are you asking yourself "how do I lead in the situation when there is no one specifically in charge, multiple stakeholders are involved in the decision making process, and there is no way you can force people to do what needs to be done?"

Leadership is not about the job, the title, or the position … it's not about you at all!  It is about the purpose, the group of people who are charged with producing something related to that purpose in partnership and collaboration with others. Leadership today requires a paradigm shift in order to be more effective and deliver results.

 Learning Objectives

• Explore different point of view on leadership
• Discover levels and dimensions of leadership in loosely coupled, multi-stakeholder system
• Understand what competencies are necessary to lead effectively in this new way

This series designed for educators, state and district leadership, student mental health staff on campus, and community mental health allies.

Learning Objectives

Participants who join this session will be able to:

1. Use a trauma-informed framework for noticing and responding to how we react to stress.
2. Gain strategies to support our capacity for maintaining a sense of safety and connection when we need it most.
3. Use a tool to develop awareness and skills to promote our ability to stay balanced, connected, and compassionate (including to ourselves) when feeling overwhelmed or burned out.

Session overview

Feel like you’ve been running nonstop since you can’t remember when? Is your tank on empty? It’s been a lot. This session is designed for all of you who have been navigating twists and turns, pushing forward through unpredictable and changing circumstances, and mustering energy to care for students and coworkers day after day. Together, we will take pause to consider how to make sense of the stress we experience, understand how long term exposure to crisis changes how we function, and link to specific things we can do right now to improve our sense of balance, calm, and capacity to connect. This is the introduction to a series intended to help you reset and restore your own sense of wellness, and to help inform the way districts and schools promote cultures of care that benefit staff and partners.

Featuring guest speaker: Avis Garcia, PhD, LAT, LPC, NCC, Northern Arapaho.

Hosted by the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center.

The Prevention Think Tank Code of Ethics outlines six principles that govern the professional behavior of substance misuse prevention practitioners: Non-Discrimination, Competence, Integrity, Nature of Services, Confidentiality and Ethical Obligations for Community and Society. Ethical considerations underpin every aspect of our work - from how we select which substance misuse-related issues to address, to how we partner with and engage members of our focus communities, and beyond – and the code of ethics expresses the responsibilities we have and values we hold as preventionists to our colleagues, the people we serve and the general public. 

This two-part series will explore how our prevention priorities and efforts have changed (and will continue to change) amid the challenges brought on by our country’s recent reckoning with racial inequity and its pandemic experience. We will also discuss the role of the Prevention Code of Ethics as a touchstone for our field,= and introduce an approach for critically evaluating its principles to determine how to better align them with current and emerging needs within the prevention landscape. Participants will also have the opportunity to develop a personal action plan for enhancing the ethical performance of their professional responsibilities during the sessions.

Learning objectives:

• explore the relationship between the prevention code of ethics and emerging issues in prevention.
• describe how prevention practitioners can use the code of ethics to guide their professional responses to changing cultures and contexts.
• develop a personal action plan for enhancing the ethical performance of their professional responsibilities
• Participants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the Prevention Think Tank Code of Ethical Conduct prior to these sessions, available by clicking here.

We welcome you to join Healthy Native Youth’s Community of Practice virtual gatherings held the second Wednesday of every month at 10-11:30 am PST.

Sessions include new resources and opportunities to engage with topical experts. As a community, we share our strengths and expertise about how we will improve the lives of Native youth.

Who Should Attend?

Tribal health educators, teachers, parents, prevention specialists; people who share a passion for improving the lives of Native youth.

• 7/14/21:    Text Messaging Campaigns

Mark your calendars! On July 14, SAMHSA's Communities Talk and the Drug Enforcement Administration's Campus Drug Prevention initiative will be co-hosting a Twitter chat on underage drinking and substance misuse prevention on college campuses. Follow @SAMHSAgov and @DEAHQ on Twitter and use #CommunitiesTalk to join the conversation. 

Hosted by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. A candid conversation with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and National Council CEO Chuck Ingoglia. Moderated by Dr. Laurie Santos, cognitive scientist, Professor of Psychology at Yale University and the host of The Happiness Lab podcast
 

When a family member struggles with the disease of addiction, children are impacted in ways that may not be readily apparent. Join Helene Photias of the Hazelden Betty Ford Children’s Program to take a closer look at the family dynamics of addiction, from a child’s perspective. Discussion will focus on kid-friendly strategies and activities to build resiliency skills and support self-care.

Objectives

• List three ways children are affected when a family member has a substance use disorder
• Identify the Healing Stages for children
• Describe two resilience-building activities to assist and support children and their families

Objectives:

1. Understand how to apply research, contextual, and experiential evidence in your decision-making process.
2. Identify one ineffective and one effective approach to substance use prevention.
3. Explain 3 characteristics of effective substance use prevention programs.
4. Identify one thing you can improve about your prevention strategy to make it more effective.

Speaker: Dr. Robert G. LaChausse, Professor of Public Health, California Baptist University Board Member & Bulletin Editor, National Prevention Science Coalition

The final webinar of this 3-part webinar Data Collection during COVID-19: Best Practices, Challenges, and Solutions series will focus on conducting focus groups online. Will review both synchronous and innovative asynchronous options for conducting focus groups virtually and key best practices to ensure high quality data. Hosted by the Pacific Southwest PTTC.

Environmental strategies are prevention interventions that address factors related to the context within which individuals make decisions about initiating and continuing substance use. By focusing on communal and societal risk and protective factors, including the social determinants of health, environmental strategies can provide an additional approach for prevention professionals. This webinar will discuss the different types of environmental strategies and provide examples of evidence-based strategies. It will also overview the collaborative partners needed to implement environmental strategies and how to fit environmental strategies into a comprehensive prevention approach.

Attendees will be able to distinguish between resilience factors and burnout symptoms; identify healthy, ongoing practices in the profession for sustainability; and validate the positive impact of boundary setting.

This Family Compassionate Conversation will focus on holistic health and the interconnectedness of our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness. Learn more about the mind, body, spirit connection and ways to implement whole-wellness strategies to health and wellness that support overall well-being for you and your family members

The Western Pacific Injury Prevention Network has partnered with Health Management Associates to bring WPIPN a one-of-a-kind, interactive, virtual workshop series on SRPF framework for injury and violence to help you and your partners advance your work. This training is open to any Injury and Violence prevention officer and their state partners currently working on building a SRPF framework or for those interested in starting development of this concept. You must register for each session individually and in advance. See the attached flyer for registration and meeting information. 

Shared Risk and Protective Factors: Shifting Our Approach to Injury and Violence Prevention

Across the country, health departments face the need to implement programs more effectively and efficiently while demonstrating meaningful outcomes. This need is especially urgent in injury and violence prevention (IVP) work given the epidemics of suicide, interpersonal violence, and opioid misuse, among others. There has been a significant push to address risk and protective factors shared by these multiple forms of injury and violence to increase our impact and save more lives.

**intended for those working in substance use prevention**

Four part virtual learning series as a collaboration between the Central East PTTC, Central East ATTC, National American Indian & Alaska Natives PTTC, and the National Hispanic and Latino PTTC. 

Series wiill connect you with subject matter experts from various diverse cultural backgrounds.  This will provide a perspective of what LGBTQIA2S+ BIPOC individuals would like Prevention Professionals to know when serving the population.  

Series will start by interpreting acronyms associated with LGBTQIA2S+ communities: 

• LGTBQIA2S+ is an acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit, and countless affirmative ways in which people choose to self-identify.
• BIPOC refers to Black, Indigenous, and people of color.  People of color is an umbrella term generalized to all people who aren’t white.  

Please join for a roundtable discussion.  Participants will have an opportunity to learn from subject matter experts, as well individuals whom identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA2S+.  Cultural aspects and specifics of each culture represented in the series will be discussed, as well as what historical data are behind the challenges faced by each group.  

Participants will also learn about the specific risk and protective factors, difficulties the communities are experiencing with current Behavioral Health Systems, how to enhance the strengths of each system to increase engagement and retention, as well as many other critical topics.  

By the end of the series, participants will leave with knowledge and tangible actions to help make a difference, as an important part of our role as prevention professionals.  What can we do to educate ourselves and serve the population better and with respect and humility? 
 
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions for our presenters during the live event. 

Series Overall Learning Objectives

1. Participants will deep dive into the cultural aspects and specifics of each culture represented in this panel discussion. They will also learn about the risk factors and historical data behind the challenges from each culture. 
2. Participants will learn how to identify and - more importantly – how to increase the Protective Factors, highlighting the differences between different people and cultures, celebrating the strengthens across the communities, and finding ways to thrive together.  
3. Participants will get an overview of the challenges and strengths of the current behavioral health system, how to improve it, and moving the needle toward increasing engagement and retention. 
4. Call to Action: Participants will gain from panelists, what lessons are learned, and what to do next? What are the tools and resources you need to start or enhance your efforts towards diversity and inclusion?

A SAMHSA-sponsored webinar presented on behalf of Mental Health America Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 2:30 pm Eastern Time called Trauma Informed Practices in Schools: Understanding Racial Trauma and Cultivating Wellness. 

Trauma can lead to a variety of negative cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes that affect student learning and performance. Educational environments that lack racial and ethnic diversity (among students, teachers, and/or administrators) are often unaware of the impact of racial trauma and how different cultures respond to trauma. When administrators and school staff understand the role of systemic oppression in and out of schools, they can create an environment that is healthier for the whole community. 

This webinar will explore:

• The importance and benefits of racial trauma-informed classrooms, schools, and districts;
• The core components of a trauma-informed professional development curriculum that has race equity embedded into each module;
• Best practices in cultivating healing and wellness in schools; 
• And how to get started on making your own school or district more trauma-informed, equitable, and wellness-centered. 

Presenters:

• Dr. Jamie Freeny – Director, Center for School Behavioral Health, Mental Health America of Greater Houston
• Dr. Art McCoy – Jennings School District Superintendent Emeritus & Saint Louis University Distinguished Fellow

It is expected that by July 2022, 988 will be the new, memorable, nationwide phone number for Americans in crisis to connect with suicide prevention and mental health crisis counselors. While this is an important milestone in the ongoing evolution of the crisis services spectrum, it presents several unique challenges and opportunities for providers. This session will explore the implementation considerations of 988 for behavioral health providers within the framework outlined in the Roadmap to the Ideal Crisis System.

Topics will include: • An overview of the ideal crisis system including the vision, guiding principles and parity • Accountability and financing concerns for the system • Array of capacities and services including 988 • Considerations for clinical practice • Tools to assist implementation for communities and system leaders • The role of CCBHC’s in implementation of 988 and the ideal system

Presenters: Joe Parks, PhD, VP, Practice Improvement & Medical Director, National Council for Mental Wellbeing Kenneth Minkoff, MD, Senior System Consultant, ZiaPartners, Inc. and Part-time Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
 

(This webinar will be in Portuguese)

Título: Conversando sobre Luto e COVID-19 na Comunidade Hispânica e Latina: Experiências de vida e Estratégias da Terapia de Aceitação e Compromisso (This webinar will be in Portuguese: Talking about Grief and COVID-19 in the Hispanic and Latin Community: Life Experiences and Therapeutic Strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)

*** Este evento ao vivo será realizado inteiramente em Português. Você terá a oportunidade de participar ativamente, fazer perguntas e trocar experiências ao longo da apresentação. Trabalharemos internamente para traduzir e regravar o evento, para que as informações também estejam disponíveis em espanhol e inglês.

Descrição: Desde o início da pandemia causada pela COVID-19 temos sofrido coletivamente mudanças drásticas no nosso cotidiano. Além disso, temos que lidar com muitas perdas individuais incluindo o adoecimento ou morte de entes queridos, amigos ou conhecidos e muitas preocupações novas como a nossa saúde física e mental, as incertezas quanto ao futuro, como ajudar a nós mesmos, nossos parentes e amigos enlutados, e como nos sentirmos seguros de novo enquanto mantendo a esperança e a responsabilidade social. 

Considerando que o familismo é um dos valores mais fortes e um fator de proteção importante para a comunidade hispânica e latina, essa experiência coletiva de luto, perda, saudade amplificada, coloca em risco o bem-estar e a saúde física e mental das nossas comunidades.

O presente webinar é uma oportunidade de abrirmos um espaço para que nossos sentimentos sejam validados e reflexões sejam feitas sobre como vivenciar o processo de luto da melhor maneira possível. Estaremos compartilhando estórias de experiências vividas, discutindo como lidar com os novos ajustes do período pós-vacinação, as divergências de opinião, a prevenção ao abuso de substâncias e estratégias da terapia de aceitação e compromisso de como navegar as dores mantendo uma vida que faz sentido ser vivida. 

Objetivos de Aprendizado:

1. Descrever o processo de luto, perdas individuais e coletivas e suas implicações no contexto da pandemia. 
2. Discutir a nova ideia de normalidade no período pós-vacinação, preparação para o retorno a atividades presenciais e as recomendações do CDC; considerações de valores culturais relacionados a vida familiar e social e a convivência com perspectivas e expectativas divergentes para o atual momento.
3. Revisar informações e dados sobre o Abuso de Substâncias e Saúde Mental no contexto da pandemia e estratégias de prevenção com foco no autocuidado e manejo do luto
4. Estratégias da Terapia de Aceitação e Compromisso no processo de vivência do luto

Series Title: Creating Cultures of Staff Wellness for our Schools and Community Partners

Intended Audience

This series designed for educators, state and district leadership, student mental health staff on campus, and community mental health allies.

Learning Objectives

Participants who join this session will be able to:

1. Understand science behind practices that support human health and wellbeing.
2. Learn strategies to support the health and wellbeing of yourself and your colleagues.
3. Understand the value of caring for basic human needs, individually and collectively.

Session overview

Thriving? Feeling like your best self in the work you are doing with students? In your collaboration with colleagues? Sometimes in our commitment to be responsible, nurturing, effective champions of our students we neglect to ensure we ourselves obtain the care and support necessary to sustain health and vitality. In this session, we review compelling science and practical recommendations about taking time to care for ourselves and our colleagues. This is part of a learning series intended to help you reset and restore your own sense of wellness, and to help inform the way districts and schools promote cultures of care that benefit staff and partners.  Multi-modal resources are provided to support your integration of effective self-care practices.

July is Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month (also known as BIPOC Mental Health Month). This year, Mental Health America is focusing on the theme of “Strength in Communities,” examining community-developed systems of support created to fill in gaps within traditional systems. These systems may overlook cultural and historical factors that impede BIPOC mental health.

During this webinar, Dr. Charmain Jackman will share how connecting to African values and cultural practices promotes emotional well-being in Black communities. With a focus on faith, rituals, celebrations, and activism, Dr. Jackman will discuss how community-focused cultural practices such as voudou and healing circles, and cultural values such as ubuntu and sawubona, are central to the resistance, survival, and healing of people from the African diaspora. Dr. Jackman will share how mental health professionals, community healers, media, and global movements are fostering community healing in the face of collective racial trauma. Dr. Jackman will also spotlight organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to community healing.

This 60-minute webinar will: 

• Discuss historical and current perspectives of voudou, ubuntu, sankofa, and sawubona; 
• Address how community-focused interventions are being used to reclaim African culture and identity and to address collective trauma; and
• Examine how media (such as TV shows and movies) and global movements (e.g., Year of Return) have been instrumental in bringing people from the African diaspora together.

Speaker:

Charmain F. Jackman, Ph.D., is a Harvard-trained, licensed psychologist of Barbadian heritage. Dr. Jackman has over 23 years of experience in the mental health field and is the founder and CEO of InnoPsych, Inc., an organization on a mission to change the face of therapy and to promote wellness and healing for people of color. InnoPsych, Inc., is an award-winning organization focused on increasing access to therapy through its online therapist of color directory and emotional wellness programming. For the past 10 years, Dr. Jackman has served as the Dean of Health & Wellness at Boston Arts Academy, a high school for visual and performing artists. Dr. Jackman also owns a consulting company, where she supports organizations around diversity, equity, and inclusion, adolescent development, and employee wellness.

As a changemaker, Dr. Jackman is passionate about the intersection of psychology, mental health, and diversity, equity, and inclusion and has created social impact initiatives that support community members, entrepreneurs, and mental health professionals. She has used her expertise to shape how organizations respond to and support their employees during the COVID-19 and racial violence crises. Dr. Jackman is the recipient of the City of Boston’s Black History Month 2021 Innovator of the Year Award. In 2020, Dr. Jackman was the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s 2020 PLC Diversity Award.

Dr. Jackman loves talking about mental health and is a national spokesperson for mental health and emotional wellness. She is also a media contributor and has been featured in major news outlets including NPR, Black News Channel, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. 

In 2021, Dr. Jackman created this video to promote positive messages of therapy in the Black community.

Approximately 22 million mothers in the U.S. have a history of child sexual abuse (CSA). This workshop will reveal the pain and triumphs of mothering as a survivor by examining the therapeutic needs and concerns of mothers who have survived CSA. The presenter will synthesize the related scholarly literature, her own research, and 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist working with survivor moms. The workshop will name and examine the protective factors that have helped successful mothers to overcome their negative childhood experiences and protect their children from the abuse they experienced.

Presenter: Teresa Gil, PhD, has been a psychotherapist, professor, and trainer for over 25 years. She has a private practice working with women dealing with addictions and recovery from child abuse and trauma. Gil is a full professor at Hudson Valley Community College, where she teaches courses in psychology. She has also taught classes in social work and sociology. Gil has worked as a trainer and consultant in human service settings and facilitated workshops to provide professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to help assess and respond to women and families in crisis, including techniques for engaging families in a working relationship and skills for intervening effectively with clients.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to describe the risk factors and long-term effects of abuse, including mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, addictions, and low self-worth.
• Participants will be able to analyze the protective factors in mothers’ lives that support resiliency and their capacity to mother their children in healthy and appropriate ways.
• Participants will be able to summarize the dynamics that facilitate the intergenerational transmission of abuse and the re-victimization of abuse.

Prevention leaders are dedicated to improving the health of their communities through effective strategies to reduce substance misuse and its related consequences. Perhaps the most critical decisions prevention staff weigh are what set of interventions to implement, typically with limited resources. This webinar will provide an introduction to the best processes and resources available to use when making these critical decisions. Attendees will also be given priority to enroll in a new 6-week distance learning course for in-depth, skill-based and real-world learning and practice in selecting evidence-based programs, practices, and policies. 

Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

•    Describe key features of an evidence-based intervention
•    Name at least two locations to locate potential evidence-based interventions
•    Describe the three conditions for determining the “fit” of an evidence-based intervention
 

Audience

Community, tribal, and state-level substance misuse prevention practitioners, allied health partners and community members located in the Pacific Southwest states and jurisdictions of American Samoa, Arizona, California, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.