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.
 

Attend this intensive, hands-on training, designed specifically to support those who are actively engaged in promoting, implementing, and evaluating cultural and linguistic competency within states, communities, systems, agencies, and organizations, including those that are family and youth-led. The Training Program will introduce the new Cultural and Linguistic Competency Primer (The CLC Primer), which provides practical approaches and strategies that are essential to advancing cultural and linguistic competency. The CLC Primer was developed collaboratively by the National Alliance of Multi-Ethnic Behavioral Health Associations, the National Technical Assistance Center on Children's Mental Health, the National Center for Cultural Competence, and the American Institutes for Research.

The training is intended to enhance participants' abilities to serve as leaders and change agents in their respective settings. Participants will:

1. Develop strategies to stimulate the development of policies, structures, practices, behaviors, and attitudes that promote and advance cultural and linguistic competency.
2. Develop strategies to address the social justice imperative for cultural and linguistic competency including how to confront bias, prejudice, and other "isms."
3. Identify approaches to use the CLC Primer as a resource to advance cultural and linguistic competence with key constituencies and stakeholders.

The sessions comprising the program will be derived from the content of the CLC Primer. Overarching topics will include: Shifting the Lens, describing fundamental concepts such as organizational change, institutional racism, and the incorporation of healing and reconciliation in the work of CLC; Readiness for Change, examining approaches to assess organizational readiness for change; Leadership for Change, examining knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to stimulate change; and Implementation of Cultural and Linguistic Competence, reviewing the specific organizational elements needed for CLC. Workshops will address additional topics including: Organizational Development and Governance; Community Outreach and Engagement; Services and Supports; Workforce Development; Ensuring Linguistic Competence; and Accountability, Outcomes, and Results. The closing sessions will explore Lessons Learned from the Elders in CLC to examine past successes and challenges and to explore strategies for the next generation. Participants will also be engaged in planning for Taking It Home: Using the Primer in Your Own Setting, through which they will develop approaches to maximize the utility of this resource in their own states, communities, and organizations.
 

Data. Communications. Evaluation. Social Marketing. 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 and participate in basic and advanced interactive workshops on key areas of social marketing and communications.

Sessions will focus on using evaluation data to communicate persuasively and sharing your stories with a variety of key audiences, including 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 communicating evaluation results to help transform and sustain mental health services for children, youth, and families.

Attendees will learn about the social marketing process and how to develop or revise a plan for their own system of care using evaluation data. Through this program, participants will learn how to:

1. Find and integrate relevant data for use in social marketing efforts.
2. Prepare powerful visual presentations using data.
3. Use online tools to demonstrate results.
4. Package data for the media.
5. Evaluate the impact of social marketing efforts.

The first session-for all Academy participants-is Strategic Use of Data. Participants will be guided through the eight-step process of planning strategic communications and will learn how to incorporate evaluation data in a powerful way. Participants will receive an easy-to-follow workbook to serve as a valuable reference back home. Additional half-day workshops will include: Using Data for Persuasive Storytelling-Learn how to incorporate personal stories, backed with solid data, into public speaking situations to benefit the cause of children's mental health; Showcasing Data in Materials-Learn cost-effective ways to identify and reach audiences most effectively, as well as visual and other techniques to make presentations meaningful; Showcasing Results Online and in New Media-Learn about the many available online tools that demonstrate success and how to use them effectively; Data and the Media-Learn about a variety of media outlets, how to determine what is newsworthy, and how to package data in a way that is most effective for media outreach; and Evaluating Social Marketing Efforts-Learn various techniques to evaluate whether social marketing efforts are effective and how evaluation data can refine social marketing efforts.
 

Partners in children's mental health from across the nation have come together to build bridges between residential and community-based services. The resulting Building Bridges Joint Resolution reflects a true commitment from across the service delivery spectrum to diligently work to actively and effectively integrate residential services into systems of care. 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 those services within a system of care framework. Faculty, comprised of residential and community-based services leaders, will present practical, hands-on approaches for creating effective partnerships and aligning practices with the system of care philosophy to better meet the needs of children and their families.

As a result of participating in this program, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the role of residential services as part of community systems of care.
2. Describe new roles and business models for residential treatment within community systems of care.
3. Identify evidence on best practices that demonstrates the benefits to children and families of partnerships between community-based services and residential services.
4. Define practical strategies for linking residential and community-based services within a system of care framework and for implementing system of care values and principles in residential services.
5. Discuss the mutual benefits of transformation for community systems and residential providers.
6. Develop practical strategies for delivering individualized, family driven, youth guided, and culturally and linguistically competent care.

The training program will include sessions on the following topics: The Impetus for Change and Integration including information on the historical context of residential treatment in systems of care, the Building Bridges initiative, and the need for transformation; Redefining the Role of Residential Services addressing a research-based rationale for re-engineering residential treatment services in alignment with the system of care philosophy; Strategies for Linking Residential and Community Based Services with a focus on systemic issues, collaboration, redesign, and reform; Practice Improvement Strategies for Individualized Care; Practice Improvement Strategies for Becoming Family Driven and Youth Guided; Practice Improvement Strategies for Cultural and Linguistic Competence; Outcomes, Performance Management and Continuous Quality Improvement; and Supporting Transformational Change: New Business Models and Financing Approaches. Also included will be small group discussions between participants and faculty to support the development of ideas and action plans for applying these strategies in participants' home communities.
 

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 provided will significantly enhance the ability to facilitate systems of care in participants? states and communities. The curriculum is designed to provide the opportunity to engage in a focused conversation about the nature and role of leadership and to define the skill sets that are needed to strategically mobilize change and transformation. Participants will emerge from the training with new ways of seeing their roles, new opportunities to effectively sustain the change process, and with a Leadership Development Action Plan designed to sustain a clear focus in often chaotic and uncertain environments.

The objectives of the training are to help state and community leaders:

1. Understand their leadership role in both adaptive and technical work, develop a consciousness about the nature of leadership in change and create a commitment to effective action.
2. Gain a greater understanding of individual leadership strengths and opportunities for improvement that promote success.
3. Broaden individual skills and tools for leadership in an environment of change and uncertainty.

Key topics to be covered include: Re-engaging your sense of purpose and direction; Shaping a unifying vision in culturally diverse environments; Acting strategically by learning key leadership behaviors and effectively supporting the change process; Identifying leadership partners and building formal and informal leadership networks; Understanding the distinction between authority and leadership and balancing risk with courage and resiliency; Fostering an environment for change by building a culture of trust and safety where differences emerge and conflict is well managed; and Developing a personal leadership action plan.

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