A choice of four intensive pre-Institutes training programs will be held on Tuesday, July 15 and Wednesday, July 16. Each will be of two days duration and will cost an additional registration fee of $225, which includes attendance at the training program, all materials, daily breakfast and breaks, one luncheon, and one dinner reception. Continuing education credits will be offered for the pre-Institutes training programs.

Making Change Happen: Creating and Sustaining Culturally and Linguistically Competent Organizations and Systems
Attend this intensive, hands-ontraining, designed specifically to support those who are actively engaged in advancing, implementing, and evaluating cultural and linguistic competency within their systems, states, communities, agencies, and family and youth organizations.
Participants will be introduced to the new Cultural and Linguistic Competence Primer which provides significant "how to's" in key domains essential to implementing and sustaining cultural and linguistic competence. Through this training, participants will: 1) learn skills to become effective leaders and strategic change agents, 2) develop strategies to address the social justice imperative for cultural and linguistic competence, including how to confront bias and prejudice, and 3) become part of a learning community with opportunities for ongoing support and knowledge development. Each participant will create a personal plan of action.

Communications Academy:
Partnering with Evaluation
Communications. Social Marketing. Evaluation. Data. How can these vital program components work together to engage your system of care community in transforming and sustaining mental health services for children, youth and families? Attend the Communications Academy. Basic and advanced interactive workshops on key areas of social marketing and communications will focus on using evaluation data to communicate persuasively and share your stories with a variety of key audiences. You will learn effective strategies to reach out to staff, families, youth, media, business leaders, public officials, and other opinion leaders.
This hands-on learning experience is ideal for social marketers, family members, youth leaders, evaluators, system of care directors and leaders, and others interested in how effective communication can assist with transforming and sustaining mental health services for children, youth, and families.

Building Bridges: New Directions for Aligning Residential and Community Services in a System of Care Framework
This training program is designed for participants from both residential and community-based services to learn new roles for residential services and strategies for effectively integrating these services within a system of care framework. Faculty, comprised of leaders in the areas of residential and community-based services, will provide practical, hands-on strategies for creating effective partnerships and aligning practices with the system of care philosophy to better meet the needs of children and their families.
Specific topics will include: redefining the role of residential treatment within systems of care; practical strategies for linking residential and community services in systems of care; strategies for improving practice in areas including individualized care, family-driven and youth-guided services, and cultural and linguistic competence; and strategies for implementing new business models.

Strategic Leadership for Transformational Change
Do you want to build your leadership skills and effectively promote transformation? Do you want to motivate others to pursue a common goal? Are you tired of slow or no forward momentum? Have you wanted an opportunity to explore your own abilities as a leader? If so, then this program is designed for you. The training will address the framework, skills, and tools necessary to support families and professionals in their roles as leaders in systems change. The strategic and hands-on tools that you bring home will significantly enhance your ability to facilitate systems of care in your state and community. The curriculum is designed to provide you with the opportunity to engage in a focused conversation about the nature and role of your leadership and to help you define the skill sets that you need to strategically mobilize change.
Participants will emerge from the training with a Leadership Development Action Plan designed to sustain a clear focus in often chaotic and uncertain environments.

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