Each session in this series will include a brief expert presentation on the topic at hand, followed by a case presentation and discussion. Session 2 will focus on ADHD. … [Read more...] about Minds Matter: Strategies for Supporting Students with Mental Health Challenges in Schools – A Multi-Part Learning Series for Educators: ADHD (Session 2)
National Training & Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, & Family Mental Health (NTTAC)
Minds Matter: Strategies for Supporting Students with Mental Health Challenges in Schools – A Multi-Part Learning Series for Educators: Depression & Anxiety (Session 1)
Each session in this series will include a brief expert presentation on the topic at hand, followed by a case presentation and discussion. Session 1 will focus on Anxiety and Depression. … [Read more...] about Minds Matter: Strategies for Supporting Students with Mental Health Challenges in Schools – A Multi-Part Learning Series for Educators: Depression & Anxiety (Session 1)
365 Black: Supporting H.E.R. (Healing Empowerment and Restoration): A Mental Health Discussion for Black Women
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
Family Exchange: Peer Networking for Family Leaders who Foster and Support Family Engagement: Success: Stories & Strategies
March Family Exchange will be a panel discussion with parents who have used Parent Peer Support to successfully navigate child-serving systems in order to get the services they need and find success for their youth. Our panel will share their lived-experience, stories, strategies and journey to success. They will also be able to share why they then became Parent Peer Support providers to help others. … [Read more...] about Family Exchange: Peer Networking for Family Leaders who Foster and Support Family Engagement: Success: Stories & Strategies
Youth/Young Adult Support Space (YYASS)
For the March YYASS session, Dr. Ratliff will describe and discuss the experiences of transgender youth and offer practices that can support trans youth as they navigate unsafe and stigmatizing social environments in their lives. This Office Hours series offers a virtual learning space for those leading and coordinating youth engagement efforts in System of Care and Healthy Transitions grant communities, as well as others who are working in and leading youth-run programs and organizations. This includes, but is not limited to: Youth Engagement Specialists, Youth Coordinators, Youth Program Managers, Youth Peers, as well as leaders of Youth MOVE chapters and other youth-run programs that engage youth with lived experience in youth serving systems in change-making. From creating youth programs to exploring youth peer supports, building sustainability plans, to growing partnerships in communities, youth-run program leaders hold many roles. This monthly space is designed for informal, … [Read more...] about Youth/Young Adult Support Space (YYASS)