A choice of four intensive Pre-Institutes Training Programs will be offered on Tuesday, July 13 and Wednesday, July 14 from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM. 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.
Getting It Done!: Implementing Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Your Organization, System, or Community
Attend this intensive, interactive, hands-on training experience designed to enhance participants' abilities to serve as leaders and change agents in their respective settings such as system of care communities, state and local mental health systems, child serving agencies and programs, and family organizations. The training is geared both toward participants who are new to the role of promoting cultural and linguistic competence (CLC) in their work, as well as for those who are more experienced. Participants will:
- Describe strategies that will foster change to promote and advance CLC and the elimination of disparities at the personal level
- Describe strategies that will foster change to promote and advance CLC and the elimination of disparities at the organizational level
- Demonstrate improved ability to perform practical tasks such as developing a CLC plan; structuring CLC training; developing a CLC budget; contracting with interpreters and translators; using cultural brokers and promotoras; using web-based resources; and collecting and analyzing data on race, ethnicity, and language
- Achieve greater understanding of their own personal attitudinal status on issues such as bias, power, and privilege and create a personal action plan
- Demonstrate improved capacity to assist members of their organization and partners to understand and address contextual issues that influence the implementation of change such as racism at the personal and the structural levels, fiscal environments (e.g., state budgets), and legislative and regulatory environments (e.g., health care reform)
Over the two-day period participants will be engaged in plenary sessions, workshops, breakout sessions, experiential exercises, and cultural activities designed for both introductory and advanced levels. The training will be jointly conducted by Georgetown University's National Center for Cultural Competence and National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health; the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health; and the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch of the federal Center for Mental Health Services.
Communications Academy: Utilizing Effective Communication Strategies
Communications. Evaluation. Social Marketing. Data. How can these vital program components work together to engage your 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 strategic communication tactics and relevant evaluation data to engage a variety of key audiences, including staff, families, youth, media, educators, public officials, and other opinion leaders. This hands-on learning experience is ideal for social marketers, system of care leaders, leaders from mental health and partner child-serving agencies, family and youth leaders, youth empowerment specialists, evaluators, and others interested in transforming and sustaining mental health services for children, youth, and families.
The Academy will be conducted jointly by social marketers and evaluators from the Caring for Every Child's Mental Health Campaign and the National Evaluation Team of the federal Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program.
Addressing Suicide in Systems of Care: Strategies for Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention
Statistics tell us that death by suicide among youth occurs far too often. Experience tells us that death by suicide can be prevented. Join us for a two-day training that will provide:
- A framework to support the development of a comprehensive and culturally competent community plan to prevent suicide attempts and fatalities among children and youth
- A framework to assist families, youth, service providers, and community supports to develop comprehensive, individualized safety plans to address suicidal ideation and behaviors
- Strategies that focus on suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention efforts within the framework and values of systems of care
The training will address the cultural, economic, and political realities of suicide prevention; psychotropic medication in suicide prevention; self-harm and suicide gestures; comprehensive, individualized safety planning; a profile of the children/youth coming into care; an ideal vision of a comprehensive approach to addressing suicide in systems of care; and effective utilization of the National Suicide Prevention Resource Center. In addition, you will learn how communities are networking with federal, state, and tribal suicide prevention initiatives; hear from the developers and implementers of effective programs; and experience multimedia presentations illustrative of suicide prevention work across the nation.
You will leave this training with tools and strategies to help you identify your community's strengths, challenges, and barriers in implementing a comprehensive and culturally competent suicide prevention program and to access the technical assistance, consultation, and training needed by your community to develop and implement such a program. The training will be conducted jointly by the Georgetown University National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health and the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health.
The Art and Practice of Effective Leadership for Systems Change
Do you want to build your leadership skills and effectively promote systems change? Do you want to motivate others to embrace change? Are you tired of slow or no forward momentum? Have you been looking to others to provide leadership and decided that now is the time for you to step up? 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 and challenge the conventional wisdom of leadership as being in control or having all the answers.
The curriculum is designed to provide the opportunity to engage in a dynamic and honest conversation about the nature and role of leadership in our often complex and difficult environments with no road map to follow. The training will provide an overview and opportunities to deepen skill sets that are needed to strategically mobilize, support, and sustain change. As a participant, you will emerge from the training with new ways of seeing your role, a commitment to change longstanding habits that may no longer serve you in your system change leadership role, and with the ability to put new skills into practice whether you are leading with or without authority. The objectives of the training are to help state and community leaders: 1) gain a greater understanding of the kind of leadership needed for systems change, and 2) identify and apply leadership skills in adaptive work. The program will focus on specific leadership skills including:
- Inspiring a Shared Vision
- Empowering Others to Lead
- Challenging the Status Quo Successfully
- Keeping Focus on the Work of Change
- Managing the Tension of Changing Entrenched Practices
- Building Strategic Alliances and Relationships
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