Start your Training Institutes experience by participating in shaping future policy and technical assistance. You can do this by attending one of a series of Special Forums on Wednesday, July 16 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM. The Special Forums are designed as interactive discussions on issues that require special consideration for systems of care. The goals of the Forums are to:
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Develop strategies and recommendations for services; policy at federal, state, and/or local levels; and technical assistance that will assist systems of care to address the specific issue.
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Provide information for the development of a policy paper with recommendations related to each topic to guide future activities at federal, state, and local levels.
Each Special Forum will offer brief presentations to provide a framework for the facilitated discussion to follow. The Forums will be tape recorded and transcribed in order to develop policy papers outlining the recommendations that emerge during the discussion. Future federal efforts and technical assistance may be guided by the contributions of stakeholders participating in these forums. The policy papers resulting from the Special Forums held at the 2006 Training Institutes can be downloaded at http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/SpecialForums.
Special Forums will include:
- Addressing Abuse and Neglect in Residential Treatment Centers
- Eliminating Custody Relinquishment for Families to Obtain Child Mental Health Services
- Defining a Public Health Approach to Mental Health: A Call to Action
- Collaboration Between Special Education and Mental Health: Progress and Future Directions
- Child Psychiatrists in Systems of Care: Roles and Challenges
- The Indian Child Welfare Act 30 Years Later: Lessons Learned for Future Policy
- Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Immigrants and Refugees
- Child and Family Services Reviews: Addressing Mental Health Services and Outcomes
for Children and Families in Child Welfare
- Including and Funding Respite Services in Systems of Care
- International Initiatives and Children's Mental Health
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Institutes
- Suicide Prevention: Intervention and Healing
- Spirituality and Systems of Care: A Relational Approach
Workshops
- Developing Multi-System Collaborations to Improve the Behavioral Health of Members
of Native American Communities
- Cultural Adaptation of Evidence-Based Practices: State and Tribal Approaches
- Building Communities Through the Next Generation
- Strategies for Youth Involvement: It's Not a Movement Until You Include Youth
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Institutes
- Transforming Traditional Mental Health Services to a Public Health Approach
- Financing Strategies to Support Prevention and Early Intervention in Systems of Care
- Addressing Disparities in Behavioral Health Care: A Public Health Imperative
- Bridging the Workforce Gap: Implementing a Public Health Approach
- Enhancing Resiliency: Strategies for Practice and Policy
- Addressing Children's Exposure to Violence: Strategies for Systems of Care
- Data-Driven Strategies, Tools, and Resources to Implement Wraparound and Sustain Fidelity
- Implementing a Public Health Approach to Mental Health: Bright Futures
- Promising Treatment Approaches for Youth with Co-Occurring Mental Health
and Substance Use Disorders
- Developing Comprehensive Early Childhood Mental Health Services in Systems of Care
- A Public Health Approach to Building Resiliency for African American, Asian
American/Pacific Islander, and Latino Youth
Workshops
- Public Health Approaches to Improving Mental Health Services in Rural and Frontier Areas
- Strategies for Advocacy and Intervention for Youth in Military Families During Wartime
- Implementing Evidence-Based Practices Within Systems of Care
- Creating Trauma-Informed Systems of Care through the Integration of Evidence-Based
Practices
- Integrating Public Health Nurses into Systems of Care to Promote Early Identification
and Intervention of Health and Mental Health Issues
- Improving the Social and Emotional Health of Infants through Early Identification
and Treatment of Maternal Perinatal Depression
- Developing and Evaluating Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (ECMHC): Tools
for States and Communities
- Collaborative Strategies with Pediatricians for Children's Mental Health Services
- Developing a Youth-Guided Approach to the Public Health Model
- Applying Public Health Strategies to Engage Families
- Promoting and Sustaining Family-Run Organizations in a Public Health Approach
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Institutes
- Integrating Systems of Care, Positive Behavior Supports, and Wraparound in Schools
- Implementing a Continuum of School-Based Mental Health Services: Lessons from Safe
Schools/Healthy Students, Positive Behavior Supports, and Systems of Care
- Providing Expanded School Mental Health Services through Partnerships Among
Schools, Community Agencies, Universities, and Families
- Full Purpose Partnerships: Implementing a Whole School System of Care
- Providing Mental Health Services in the Education System: Strategies for Systems of Care
- Implementing Evidence-Based Mental Health Interventions in Schools
- Implementing Effective School Mental Health Services through Partnerships and Quality
Improvement: Strategies and Tools
- Approaches to Implementing Mental Health Consultation in Early Childhood Settings
- Strategies for Bridging Early Childhood Mental Health and School Success
- Serving Youth in Transition to Adulthood: Approaches to Teach Life Skills and Improve
Educational and Work Outcomes
Workshops
- Strategies for Collaboration Between the Mental Health and Education Systems
- Safe Schools, Healthy Students: Strategies for Systems of Care
- School-Based Liaisons: Paving the Path to Collaboration
- Building and Sustaining School Mental Health Programs: Lessons Learned
- Providing School-Based Mental Health Care Coordination
- Providing Professional Mentoring for At-Risk Students in Schools
- Cultural Brokering: An Approach for Providing Mental Health Services in Multicultural
School Settings
- Empowering Families for Educational Success
- Implementing Youth-Driven Mental Health Awareness and Anti-Stigma Campaigns in Schools
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Institutes
- Primer Hands On-Child Welfare: Using a System of Care Approach in Child Welfare
- Strategies for Systems of Care to Effectively Serve the Child Welfare Population
- Implementing Multi-System Partnerships to Serve Children and Families in Child
Welfare through a System of Care
- Improving Services to Children in or at Risk of State Custody: Creating Centers of
Excellence and a Collaborative Attachment Network
- Providing Neighborhood-Based Services and Supports: Lessons Learned from
Integrating Casey Family to Family and System of Care Initiatives
- Meeting the Needs of Children and Families Involved in Child Welfare within Systems of
Care: Needs, Challenges, and Current Best Practices
- Building Trauma-Informed Systems and Practices for Children and Families in Child Welfare
- Implementing an Evidenced-Based Treatment for Children in the Child Welfare System:
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
- Family Search and Engagement: Creating Life Long Connections
- A Changing Culture in Child Welfare: Working in Partnership with Families and Family
Organizations
Workshops
- Strategies for Collaboration Between Managed Care Organizations and Child Welfare to
Improve Children's Physical and Behavioral Health
- Addressing Disproportionality in Child Welfare and Mental Health Disparities
- Strategies for Bringing Wraparound to Capacity
- Improving Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults in the
Child Welfare System
- Providing Effective Training to Staff and Caregivers: Linking Research and Practice
- Providing "Front-End" Services: Intervening at the Point of Crisis
- The Family Connection: Partnering with Child Welfare to Provide Permanency for Youth
in Custody
- Providing Culturally Competent Services to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,
Questioning, Intersex, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQI2-S) Youth in the Child Welfare System
- Enhancing Permanency Solutions for Youth Transitioning to Adulthood: Transition
Planning for Youth with Mental Health Challenges in the Child Welfare System
- Engaging Parents with Substance Use Disorders in Treatment, Recovery, Parenting,
and Reunifying with their Children
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The Training Institutes will conclude with a selection of Targeted Institutes on Sunday, July 20 from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM. Each Targeted Institute will provide an intensive training opportunity in one of four areas:
- Special populations of focus within systems of care
- System-level issues for systems of care
- Service delivery-level issues for systems of care
- Professional development for individuals involved in systems of care
Attendance at a Targeted Institute is included in the Training Institutes registration fee. Pre-registration for a Targeted Institute is required.
Targeted Institutes will include:
- Improving Services and Outcomes for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,
Questioning, Intersex and Two-Spirit (LGBTQI2-S) Youth and their Families
- Improving Services and Outcomes for Youth Involved with the Juvenile Justice System
and their Families
- Financing and Providing Services for Children with Co-Occurring Developmental
Disabilities and Emotional Disorders
- Training and Supporting Personnel to Use Evidence-Based Practices for Young Children:
The Teaching Pyramid
- Improving Services and Outcomes for Youth in Transition to Adulthood and their Families
- Integrating the System Components to Implement Effective Systems of Care
- Sustainability Survival Skills: Lessons Learned from Systems of Care
- A Strategic Approach to Financing Systems of Care
- Building Bridges: Innovations in Residential Treatment and in Integrating Residential
and Community Services in Systems of Care
- Increasing Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Systems of Care: Building
the Infrastructure
- Increasing Youth Involvement in Systems of Care: Tools and Strategies
- Using Social Marketing and Communications: Effective Strategies for Systems of Care
- Suicide Prevention: Strategies for Systems of Care
- Tools for Early Identification, Assessment, and Service Planning within Systems of Care
- Psychopharmacology and the Use of Medications within Systems of Care
- Effective Strategies for Providing Family-to-Family Peer Support within Systems of Care
- Professional Development for Youth Coordinators: Advancing the Youth Movement
- Professional Development for Evaluators: New Approaches to Evaluation
- Professional Development for Family Organization Leaders: Skills for Partnering with
Systems of Care
- Professional Development for System of Care and Family Leaders: Focusing on Change
Strategy Elements
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