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2007 National TA Conference Calls
Previous Calls : 2006 - 2005
Upcoming Calls : 2008
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CALL TOPIC
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January 18 |
Managing Change
Have you ever wondered why change and transformation feels so chaotic? Have you ever wanted to have frameworks and tools that could help you lead change and manage complex change productively in your states and communities?
Family and professional leaders who have successfully led transformation efforts will discuss the phases of transformation and present tools and strategies for managing complex change. These leaders will share their tips for success, what to expect and pitfalls to avoid. This call will launch our 2007 conference call series and will serve as a foundation for the calls that follow.
Facilitators/Presenters:
Rachele Espiritu, Director of Evaluation,
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development; National TA Center for Children's Mental Health
Ellen Kagen, Senior Policy Associate,
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development; National TA Center for Children's Mental Health
PDF - Change Management Strategies for Systems of Care
Presenters:
Brenda Bean, Early Childhood Mental Health Programs Director,
Vermont State Child Development Division
Malisa Pearson, Lead Family Contact,
IMPACT Ingham County System of Care Initiative; Michigan
Jim Wotring, Director of Programs for Children with a Serious Emotional Disturbance,
Michigan Department of Community Health
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February 15 |
Changes in Medicaid and the Impact on SMHA's
Experts in Medicaid will discuss the recent changes in Medicaid funding from a policy and program perspective and how these changes may impact services currently being provided. Both new opportunities and challenges will be discussed as well as state examples of putting these changes into practice.
Moderator:
Andrea Fiero, Policy Associate, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Alexandria, VA
PDF - Bazelon Center Mental Health Policy Reporter
Presenters:
Chris Koyanagi, Policy Director, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Prewitt, Director, Government Relations, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Alexandria, VA
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March 15
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Integrating Mental Health and Substance Abuse
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Substance Abuse State Infrastructure Grant program brings together efforts across the two systems to transform service delivery in states and tribes. The current grantees have spent the initial years developing infrastructure and policy change strategies and now are starting to operationalize service delivery reforms. This grant program currently supports six states and one tribal government in building the collaborative partnerships, infrastructure, workforce and culturally and linguistically competent supports to improve services for children and their families. The challenges of implementing infrastructure to support policy and practice reforms will be discussed along with the strategies grantees are using.
Join the call and discuss these questions and more with substance abuse, mental health and family representatives from several of the states and tribe.
Moderator:
Neal M. Horen, Ph.D.
Co-Director Training and Technical Assistance/Clinical Psychologist
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Washington, DC
Presenters:
Peter Panzarella, MA, MS, LADC, LPC
Director of Substance Abuse Services
CT Department of Children and Families
Hartford, CT
Powerpoint - Connecticut Adolescent Substance Abuse Coordination (CASAC) Project
Layne Wilhelm
Treatment Supervisor
Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Agency (SAPTA)
Reno, NV
Rebecca (Becky) Richard-Maley
Children's Mental Health Grants Manager
Division of Child and Family Services
Reno, NV
Powerpoint - Integrating Children's Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Services
Sonny Hatfield, LCSW
Kentucky Youth First
Adolescent Liaison
Division of Mental Health & Substance Abuse
Frankfort, Ky
Kari Collins, LCSW
Project Coordinator
Kentucky Youth First
Division of Mental Health & Substance Abuse
Frankfort, Ky
Vestena (Tena) Robbins, PhD
Evaluator
Kentucky Youth First
Division of Mental Health & Substance Abuse
Frankfort, Ky
Powerpoint - Integrating and Coordinating Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and Supports in Kentucky
Doc - Reclaiming Futures in the Mountains of Kentucky
Doc - Kentucky Youth First
Doc - SIAC Recommendations - Youth with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
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April 19 |
Screening and Assessment: What Are the Next Steps? -
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Nationally, increased attention is focused on early childhood mental health. This call will highlight several steps in the early identification process for young children who may have emotional/ behavioral delays. One state will share the screening process it is using across agencies and another state will discuss the use of DC 0-3R instead of the DSM for assessment. We will also hear about the relationship between CAPTA, Part C and mental health as opportunities for building effective early identification and intervention.
Moderator:
Roxane K. Kaufmann
Director, Early Childhood Policy
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Presenters:
Andy Gomm,
Program Manager
NM Department of Health
Family Infant Toddler Program
Powerpoint - CAPTA Implementation in New Mexico
Glenace Edwall, PhD, Psy D
Director,
MN Children's Mental Health Division
Powerpoint - Early Identification of Children's Mental Health Needs: Minnesota's Interagency Efforts
Robin Landry, LCSW
Workforce Development Coordinator for Children's Behavioral Health
Nevada Division of Child and Family Services
Powerpoint - Nevada's Behavioral Health Redesign
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May 3 |
Building Bridges Between Residential and Community-Based Service Delivery Providers, Families, and Youth -
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A Building Bridges Summit was held in June of 2006 to address the historical tensions between residential and community-based service delivery systems. The Summit produced a joint resolution of common purpose, shared principles, values, practices, and outcomes to advance a comprehensive service array inclusive of residential and out-of-home care that is family-driven, youth-guided, and informed by best practice.
This call will provide information on the joint resolution, actions taken since the Summit, and implications for reforming practice in states and communities.
Doc - Agenda
Moderator:
Sybil K. Goldman
Senior Advisor
Georgetown University Center for Child And Human Development
Presenters
Gary M. Blau
Chief, Child, Adolescent and Family Branch
Center for Mental Health Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Powerpoint - Building Bridges Summit
Doc - Building Bridges Joint Resolution
Beth Caldwell
Caldwell Management Associates
Sylvia Kay Fisher, Program Director for Evaluation
Child, Adolescent and Family Branch
Center for Mental Health Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Joy Midman
Executive Director
National Association for Children's Behavioral Health
Floyd Alwon
Vice President
Consultation, Research, and Professional Development
Raquel Hatter
President, CEO
Whaley Children's Center
Sandra Spencer
Executive Director
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
Bob Lieberman
Director, CEO
American Assoc. Children's Residential Centers
Southern Oregon Adolescent Study and Treatment Center
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June 21 |
How States are Developing Strategic Financing Plans -
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States and communities use a variety of financing strategies to support comprehensive services and supports for children with behavioral disorders and their families. This call will describe critical financing strategies to build and support systems of care that are being explored in a study conducted by four organizations - the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health at the University of South Florida, the National TA Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University, Human Service Collaborative, and Family Support Systems. Presenters will describe a technical assistance tool, Self Assessment and Planning Guide: Developing a Comprehensive Financing Plan, recently developed by the study team that can be used by states, communities, and tribes to develop comprehensive and strategic financing plans.
State and regional leaders from Nebraska, one of the sites visited as part of the study, will present effective financing strategies they are using to blend funds, establish a case rate, and provide individualized care coordination. NE continues to pursue additional financing strategies and will describe how they are using the Self Assessment and Planning Guide to assist them in focusing these efforts. They will discuss how they prioritized which financing strategies to pursue and current efforts to pilot certain financing strategies in parts of the state.
Moderator:
Jan McCarthy,
Director, Child Welfare Policy,
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Presenters:
Mary Armstrong,
Director, Division of State and Local Support, Louis de la Parte Florida
Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Powerpoint - How States are Developing Strategic Financing Plans
Beth Baxter,
Regional Program Administrator,
Region 3 Behavioral Health Services, Kearney, NE
Powerpoint - How States are Developing Strategic Financing Plans for Local Systems of Care - The Nebraska Family Central Experience
David Hoyt,
Program Manager, Families CARE, Kearney, NE
David Cygan,
Nebraska Health and Human Services System,
Finance Support, Medicaid Division, Lincoln, NE
Powerpoint - Financing Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for Children: The Nebraska Experience
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July 19 |
Making an Evidence Based Culture Stick
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The successful implementation of evidence-based practices and programs into local service arrays within systems of care often requires shifts in the culture of organizations and systems.
This call will highlight strategies and tools that states, communities, and family organizations have used to create a new evidence-based culture to make behaviors stick. Characteristics and features of these cultures will be presented,including a change management approach, leadership that supports transformation, and structure and financing for implementing all aspects of EBP implementation.
Moderator:
Rachele C Espiritu, Ph.D.
Director of Evaluation
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
Presenters:
Karen Blase, Ph.D.
Research Professor
National Implementation Research Network, Florida Mental Health Institute, USF
Link - Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature
PDF - APSAC Advisor Excerpt
Powerpoint - "Stickiness" Factors and Frameworks to Create and Sustain an Evidence-Based Culture
Linda Roebuck
CEO
New Mexico Behavioral Health Collaborative
Steve Johnson
Deputy Director
New Mexico Behavioral Health Collaborative
Delfy Roach
Family Member and Systems Integration Director
Value Options New Mexico
Powerpoint - The New Mexico Transformation and Evidence-Based Practices
PDF - NM Collaborative Concept Paper
PDF - NM Legislation creating Collaborative
Patrick Kanary, M.Ed.
Director
Center for Innovative Practices, Ohio
Powerpoint - Opportunities and Challenges Dissemination of Evidence Based Practices
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August 9 |
Leadership and Change with Family Leaders
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As the family movement continues to grow, family leaders are taking larger roles in the system reform efforts at the state and national levels. On this call, a panel of seasoned presenters will discuss the evolutionary process of developing the transformational leadership base that can move between advocacy for their child and leadership for all children. The expert panel of family leaders, partners and national family movement leadership will facilitate a discussion around the development of a strategic family movement at the national level and how an individual state partnership of family and state leaders, has embraced and committed themselves to modeling strategic collaborative practices. Panel members will explore the difference between leadership and advocacy, the skills that are used for each and how each skill set can be used most effectively in promoting systems reform. In addition, participants will learn how these concepts fit within the context of an entire nation of family leaders and partners struggling to develop avenues for meaningful change that is build upon authentic family voice.
Moderators:
Ellen Kagen, M.S.W.
Senior Policy Associate
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Conni Wells
National Technical Assistance Center
United Advocates for Children and Families
Butler, TN
Powerpoint - Beyond Leadership
Presenters:
Barbara Huff
Family Outreach Coordinator
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
Wichita, KS
Powerpoint - History of Family Leadership: How Did We Get Here?
Jane Walker, M.S.W.
Executive Director
Maryland Coalition of Families for Children's Mental Health
Columbia, MD
Al Zachik, M.D.
Director, Child and Adolescent Services
State of Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration
Catonsville, MD
Powerpoint - Building a Partnership in Maryland
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September 20 |
Leadership in the Midst of Diversity
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The growing changes in the demographics of this nation's communities require leaders of mental health service organizations, system of care communities, family organizations, youth organizations, and other child serving organizations to address the challenges of guiding "transformation" of the child mental health system to serve a "transforming" population. To be effective, leaders must address different perceptions of "mental health", different expectations of a "helping relationship", different language skills and preferences, and different interactions between cultural identity and mental health status. In addition, leadership skills are important to respond to the different expectations of the cultural communities within the service area and their complementary or conflictual relationships with each other. Finally, leadership is required to address the implications of the need to develop and support a multicultural and multilingual workforce.
This call will provide guidance on how to understand and approach these types of issues based on the curriculum on Leadership to Promote Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Child and Adolescent Mental Health developed by the National Technical Assistance Center in collaboration with the National Center for Cultural Competence. This curriculum integrates knowledge on leadership, cultural and linguistic competence, conflict management and family involvement for application in the child mental health field and other human service systems.
Presenters:
Vivian Jackson
Senior Policy Associate, National Center for Cultural Competence
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Washington, DC
Suganya Sockalingam
Senior Consultant, National Center for Cultural Competence
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Executive Director, TeamWorks
Las Vegas, NV
Powerpoint - Leadership in the Midst of Diversity: Addressing Cultural and Linguistic Competence both as Technical and Adaptive Work
Majose Carrasco
Director, NAMI Multicultural Action Center
Arlington, VA
Powerpoint - Addressing Cultural and Linguistic Competence both as Technical and Adaptive Work
Tawara Goode
Director, National Center for Cultural Competence
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Washington, DC
PDF - Reflections on Leadership to Advance and Sustain Cultural and Linguistic Competence (Monograph)
PDF - Reflections on Leadership to Advance and Sustain Cultural and Linguistic Competence (Handout)
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October 18 |
Child Traumatic Stress: Understanding and Serving through a Cultural Lens
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This call is offered in Collaboration with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Child traumatic stress (CTS) is a psychological reaction that some children have to traumatic experiences. One of every four children experiences a traumatic event before the age of sixteen, and some of these children develop CTS. Many children with CTS are likely to be identified first by practitioners in systems other than mental health, e.g., schools, health care, and child welfare. Therefore providing culturally competent trauma treatment and practices in a wide array of child-serving systems is fundamental to increasing access and improving the standard of care. Additionally, for many cultural groups, it is more acceptable to access CTS in settings traditional to their own cultural group, rather than in specialty mental health settings.
This call will begin with an overview of child traumatic stress and the intersection of culture and trauma, followed by a discussion of how primary care and mental health practitioners can collaborate to address the needs of children and families from diverse cultural groups who have experienced trauma. The call will highlight initiatives and projects of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Culture Consortium, as well as the Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress Toolkit for Health Care Providers developed by the Medical Trauma Working Group.
PDF - NCTSN Service Systems Brief
Moderator
Vivian Jackson, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Associate, National Center for Cultural Competence
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Washington, DC
Presenters:
Alessia Gottlieb, M.D.
Trauma Psychiatry Clinic
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Powerpoint - Child Traumatic Stress
Nancy Kassam-Adams, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Behavioral Research, Center for Injury Research and Prevention Co-Director,
Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
PDF - Primary care & child traumatic stress
Michael de Arellano, Ph.D.
National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina
Powerpoint - Culture and Trauma
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November 15 |
Unifying Themes: Guiding Local, State and Federal Partnerships for School Mental Health
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Presenters will discuss their work to implement systematic approaches for improving school mental health that are guided by a public health approach. Working at the federal/national level and within States, communities and within school buildings these efforts are building capacity and achieving impressive results. We will learn about how these comprehensive strategies are working to create environments within schools that support social and emotional well-being and school success. We will learn about and discuss the unifying themes that each of these efforts are guided by and what they share in common.
Facilitators/Presenters:
Joyce K. Sebian MS Ed.
Senior Policy Associate
Georgetown University Center
for Child and Human Development
National Technical Assistance Center
for Children's Mental Health
Powerpoint - Making Sense of it All
Sharon Hoover Stephan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Director of Research & Analysis
Center for School Mental Health
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Jim Koller, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia
Founder and Co-Director of the Center for the Advancement of Mental Health Practices in Schools
Powerpoint - School Mental Health Capacity Building Partnership
PDF - SMHCBP Project Summary
Ron Toma,
Retired Educator
Facilitator, Hawaii School-Based Behavioral Health Community of Practice
Steve Shiraki, Ph.D.
Administrator, Student Support Section
Student Support Services Branch
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Education Administration
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Powerpoint - A Community of Practice on School-Based Behavioral Health
Eugene Thompson, MSW, MSP
Assistant Project Director and TA Coordinator
Communities of Care, Worcester, MA
Powerpoint - Systems of Care & School Wide Positive Behavior Supports
MsWord - Central Massachusetts Communities of Care
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December 20 |
Clinical Decision Making for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Care
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An essential element of system building efforts over the years has been the process of individualizing service planning for children with mental health needs and their families, as well as ensuring consistency and quality in service decision making. Tailoring a range of services and supports to the specific needs of a child and family has been fundamental to the guiding principles in system of care development at the state and community levels. Effective practice includes an infrastructure to support consistent, quality service provision.
This call will explore different types of tools and protocols that states are using for specific purposes (e.g., clinical decision making; quality improvement; outcomes monitoring, etc.) as they seek to make decisions about individualized services and provide oversight to ensure quality outcomes for children and families. The call will delineate the best uses of different tools for accomplishing specific purposes. Tools discussed will include: CANS, CAFAS, CASII, Achenbach measures, Ohio scales, and measures developed by states themselves. The call will focus on the use of standardized instruments within an individualized approach. In addition, presenters will discuss the infrastructure needed to support statewide use of standardized tools and protocols.
Facilitators/Presenters:
Joan Dodge, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Associate
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Sheila A. Pires, M.P.A.
Partner
Human Service Collaborative
Washington, D.C.
Katherine E. Grimes, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Founder and Director of the Massachusetts Mental Health Services Program for Youth
Associate Medical Director for Neighborhood Health Plan
Jim Wotring, M.S.W.
Director
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Link - Clinical Decision Making Approaches monograph
Powerpoint - Clinical Decision Making |
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