Post-COVID, mental health has increasingly been centered in conversations about social issues and marginalized communities. Particularly, conversations around mental health have become more acceptable and even normalized in many spaces of Blackness. However, as cornerstones of the community, Black women still face unique challenges & barriers to receiving financially accessible and culturally appropriate healthcare to address the complex & toxic stress, trauma, and alienation that have become an intimate part of our identities and day-to-day experiences. Supporting H.E.R. is an interactive, discussion-based learning event to explore and address these challenges in a way that reinforces the critical nature of ongoing recovery, connection, and peer support to address the wide range of mental health needs for all Black women. … [Read more...] about 365 Black: Supporting H.E.R. (Healing Empowerment and Restoration): A Mental Health Discussion for Black Women
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
365 Black – One Community United in Blackness: A Celebration of Black Brilliance and Innovation
This 365 Black Series Kickoff session will focus on "One Community United in Blackness: A Celebration of Black Brilliance and Innovation." In this session, we will take a moment to pause, breathe, and honor the lives and work of our everyday and unsung Black heroes working in mental health and wellness. Individuals, providers, and community members who actively support mental wellness and embody NTTAC’s commitment to justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Join us for this celebration to learn more about the upcoming sessions and to meet our phenomenal series facilitators. … [Read more...] about 365 Black – One Community United in Blackness: A Celebration of Black Brilliance and Innovation
Family Exchange – How Centering on Equity Improves Engagement with Families
Are you a family leader with lived experience as a primary caregiver of a child, youth or young adult with mental health or substance use need who is working in a role that fosters and supports family engagement in agency practice and policy decisions? Are you interested in connecting with other family leaders working in similar roles to expand and enhance your skills and knowledge? Whether you are new to your role or you have been in the family movement for many years, the Family Exchange is a peer networking group to share experiences, innovative and effective practices, skills and knowledge, solution to barriers and challenges, and key information supporting your role as family leaders. Session Objectives:• Recognize how our assumptions about families impacts equity during the intake process• Identify how our values mold the decision-making process when engaging families• Identify how culture is central to the decision-making process in choosing to access support … [Read more...] about Family Exchange – How Centering on Equity Improves Engagement with Families
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Creating Educational Environments for Every Child
Join us as we instructionally guide participants in using the transformative power of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) to surge student engagement, leading to increases in equity and inclusion for ALL. Experience SEL as the common thread that ties all the systems together within the educational model of a Multi-tiered Interconnected Systems Framework (MT-ISF) and how it allows for ALL students to receive what they need to define and reach their success. Gain immediate skills to leverage SEL as the gateway to equity and lowering disproportionate outcomes while concurrently increasing student achievement and their positive social-emotional health.Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is not one more thing on our plate, it is the plate that carries all the sustenance we need to reach and teach all students. It is an essential element within any System of Care (SOC). The MT-ISF as an SOC is foundationally rooted in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (connected Mental/Behavioral Health practices), … [Read more...] about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Creating Educational Environments for Every Child
Weaving the Safety Net – Collaborating with Community Partners toward Shared Outcomes
The session is formulated around the core concept that, in order to be effective, all child MH teams must acknowledge and welcome diverse perspectives of those involved in the process, starting with the often differing points of view of the child vs. the caregiver, but including others who are on the team as either formal or informal supports. A focus of the session is describing how our peer-to-peer parents, with lived experience as parents of children with MH needs, provide support to our families and bring family voice to program leadership. Presenters include clinicians from primary care, mental health, child welfare, as well as professional, non-clinicians who are peer-to-peer parents; with a mix of racial/ethnic and gender diversity. … [Read more...] about Weaving the Safety Net – Collaborating with Community Partners toward Shared Outcomes