Pre-Recorded Online Training and Webinars
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Bystander Intervention Animated Videos!
AARP, Right To Be (formerly Hollaback!), and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC joined forces to produce these videos aimed at empowering a broader audience about the importance of being allies when hate and disrespect occurs. Over the past two years, we have seen an increase in anti-Asian hate and harassment in the US. The FBI reported a 76% increase in hate crime incidents motivated by anti-Asian bias in 2020, compared to 2019.
We were able to respond to this moment by offering our free Bystander Intervention training to Stop Anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment, created in partnership with Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC. Now, with the animated videos, we would like to continue to make an impact and empower even more people with these easily actionable steps to address harassment. The videos are powerful, illustrative, and compelling enough to inspire viewers to step in and become allies.
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Each animation describes one of Right To Be's 5Ds of Bystander Intervention: Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and Direct. The stories and characters represent every major ethnic group (Asian, Black, Latinx, Native, and White Americans) and region of the country (North, South, East, West, and Pacific Islands). The videos are provided in Cantonese, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, as well as English and Spanish. |
Amaze: Free Videos on Gender Identity
ETR is proud to be a partner on Amaze, which harnesses the power of digital media to provide young adolescents around the globe with medically accurate, age-appropriate, affirming, and honest sex and health education they can access directly online—regardless of where they live or what school they attend. Amaze also strives to assist adults—parents, guardians, educators, and health care providers around the globe—to communicate effectively and honestly about sex and sexuality with the children and adolescents in their lives.
Their free collection of videos on gender identity covers a wide range of topics including but not limited to gender expression, pronouns, and the intersection of puberty and transgender youth. Use these free videos in your classroom, clinic, or in your digital education efforts–each video includes relevant info and tips for youth, parents, and educators!
Women of Color Leaders Present: When the Glass Ceiling Turns to Concrete
Women of color in leadership roles continue to face racial bias and systemic inequities as they look to advance in the sector. Despite many women of color entering the sector workforce over the years, gains have been received in reaching senior leadership roles. Despite women of color achieving higher levels of education, training, and achievement that their counterparts in the sector, they often fill lower-paying administrative roles. So, what will it take to change this equation? Join women of color leaders for a panel-style frank-discussion that will explore the issue of concrete ceilings and examine other challenges and barriers that women of color face in the sector.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Addressing Trauma, Racism and Bias in Behavioral Health Service Delivery
Duration: 1 hour
Duration: 1 hour
A Call to Action: Ending Historical and Contemporary Racial Inequities
Duration: 1 hour
Crisis to Connection: An Imperative for Our Black Boys
The Children’s Center is dedicated to changing this all-too-common narrative for our Black boys. Connecting them and their families to trauma-informed community supports, so they can live their dreams. That’s why The Children's Center created the Crisis to Connection Imperative. Together with community partners, we will address the systems and structures that impact the lives of Black boys in Detroit. This imperative is designed in three phases over six years.
Listen in as Laura talks with Carlynn Nichols, Chief Clinical Officer at The Children's Center in Detroit talk about this critically important initiative.
Duration: 30 minutes
Using Affinity Groups to Advance Black Men to the C-Suite (Virtual Barbership Series)
This conversation will focus on the uphill challenge of increasing racial diversity in the executive suites of community-based organizations. For Black men, the challenge of matriculating to the C-suite is complex and often fraught with an uneven playing field, unconscious bias, and emotional baggage. If real change is to occur, executives who are men of color must foster and sustain affinity groups to teach, advocate, and promote the strategies and benefits of advancing equity, particularly from sharing their professional experiences and research-informed recommendations.
Duration: 1 hour
Black Male Executives on COVID-19 (Virtual Barbership Series)
During this webinar, the first in a series of "virtual barbershops," we will discuss inequities and COVID-19, particularly the virus' impact on African American men and communities of color. One in three people who became sick enough to require hospitalization were African American. African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population. The lack of access to testing, higher chronic disease burden, and historical racial bias within health care institutions are all contributing to higher rates of sickness and death. During this conversational webinar, several African American male executives will share their stories, experiences, and recommendations for increasing organizational capacity to reduce inequities in health outcomes.
Duration: 1 hour
What more can be done to address the intersection of mental health, substance use disorders, social determinants of health and racism? The death of Walter Wallace shines a light on racial disparities for black and brown people in our communities. For people of color who live with behavioral health conditions, addressing racism to advance personal, family and community well-being is a daily practice. Application of social theories to address structural and institutional constructs can and should be lead by the very people impacted. Marrying theory with human-centered design—learning from the journey of those who are impacted by changes in policies, programs and practices—can yield innovative ways to move from cultural competency to structural competency and change.
Duration: 1 hour
Supporting Older Adults in Emergencies: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
The Focus on Aging webinar series addresses important topics for public health and health care professionals, aging services organizations, the research community, and other stakeholders in aging. The series is a joint project of four of the federal agencies that support the health and wellness of older adults in the U.S.: the Administration for Community Living, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the National Institute on Aging at the NIH. Each webinar includes information specific to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, as well as their caregivers.
Duration: 90 minutes
Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults
Human beings are social creatures, thriving on connections with others. These connections can help to reduce social isolation and loneliness and lower risk for a variety of physical and mental health conditions. This webinar will focus on how social isolation and loneliness affect older adults’ health and well-being, particularly amid the unique challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar will also address social isolation and loneliness in the context of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, emphasize the impact of health disparities, and provide information on potential interventions and mitigating technologies.
Duration: 90 minutes
Returning Citizens: Resources for Incarcerated Individuals
This webinar is part of the NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility and Reconciliation Series. Join us for a Community Conversation with Helena D. Lewis, DSW, LCSW, reentry specialist and special guests. On October 19, NJ Governor, Phil Murphy, signed a bill that will release thousands of New Jersey prisoners due to the danger posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us to learn about resources available for these returning citizens.
Duration: 70 minutes
Join us for a Community Conversation with Executive Director of Manavi, and Legal Advocate on addressing gender-based violence in the South Asian community and to learn about the culturally specific services provided by Manavi. With a mission to end all forms of violence against women, Manavi began as an awareness campaign on issues concerning South Asian women; today it continues to centralize women’s needs and interests in all its organizational decisions and service provisions. Manavi simultaneously addresses both the immediate needs of women facing abuse and the long-term vision of establishing peaceful communities free from gender-based violence.
Duration: 1 hour
Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
This online MBSR training course is 100% free, created by a fully certified MBSR instructor, and is based on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Here you will find a complete eight-week MBSR course, designed for people who are not able to take a live MBSR course for financial or logistical reasons. All of the materials used in the live courses I taught, including guided meditations, articles and videos, are freely available here. "Mindfulness" is used in many contexts nowadays and there are many different understandings of the term. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a blend of meditation, body awareness, and yoga: learning through practice and study how your body handles (and can resolve) stress neurologically.
Family Environment Instability: How Early Childhood Shapes Social Maladjustments Over Time
Early family contexts can shape the trajectories of children’s adjustment throughout childhood. Families can provide a safe and stable base for children that is protective against adversity. However, when family environments are not stable (e.g., when parents/parent figures are moving in and out), children may suffer. Join Dr. Elizabeth Karberg of Child Trends, as she explores how family instability in early childhood shapes children’s social (mal)adjustment over time.
Duration: 1 hour
Online Teaching Strategies: Tips and Guidance from the Field
We are starting this school year with many questions. Will we teach students in classrooms? Or, will we engage them via ZOOM? (Based on current conditions, ZOOM looks more and more likely.) Our big question is… how do we effectively teach relationship skills virtually? In March, Dibble convened a working group of clients who were moving instruction online. Together, we created this free Online Teaching Toolkit. Join us in a conversation with several experienced practitioners who were part of that effort to learn how they successfully moved their instruction in Dibble materials into the virtual world.
Duration: 1 hour
Fatherhood: Building Self-Sufficient and Resilient Families
This is an interactive webinar describing the roles of responsible fatherhood (RF) programming in state and non-profit fatherhood organizations.
The State of Ohio RF programming is supported through state TANF and was supported by the 2015 Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood (HM/RF) grant. Kimberly Dent addresses useful information for future HMI/RF grantees in addition to how a father’s past trauma influences his future success and challenges.
Duration: 1 hour
Mind Matters Lesson 1: Self Soothing
Self-Soothing is a skill that is developed over time, through practice The goal of self-soothing is to dial-down the reactive response of the body’s central nervous system. A traumatized person needs a means of reducing the automatic reactivity of their nervous system. Self-soothing will help. You will learn and practice four self-soothing skills that you can use personally as well as share with colleagues and clients.
Duration: 1 hour
Building Partnerships to Enhance the Peer Workforce
In this webinar, you will have an opportunity to learn about the benefits of building partnerships between organizations. In efforts of enhancing and strengthening the peer workforce; it is a crucial time for collaborative partnerships to form and for organizations to have the skills to maintain sustainable, mutual and complementary community partnerships. This webinar will highlight the voices of peer organizations that are already putting these concepts into practice and will explore some simple steps for building partnerships that have successful outcomes for the growth of a peer workforce.
Duration: 1 hour
Physical Wellness for Work: A Guide for Peer Specialists
Too many people with behavioral health challenges are not working or work in jobs that are not satisfying or stimulating because they have physical health issues that get in the way. Success at work requires a level of stamina, energy, and concentration that can be hard to sustain without daily wellness habits and routines. Physical Wellness for Work is a manual of activities and information for increasing workplace health and well-being. Developed for people in recovery who are living with a mental health condition, peer specialists can use this as a self-guided tool or as a tool to help others think about how their wellness affects their ability to get and keep a job. Join Dr. Cook and Dr. Swarbrick for this webinar to learn more about this free resource along with how to access training and technical assistance for using it.
Duration: 1 hour
Trauma and Mental Health Peer Support
Trauma is a factor in many people's lives and can lead to challenges that encompass all facets of living. This presentation will describe basic information about the characteristics and prevalence of trauma - relevant to the work of mental health peer specialists. Risk factors and protective factors will be reviewed so that peer supporters are better grounded in providing trauma-informed care in supporting recovery and resilience. The presentation will review the importance of language and perspective in working with someone who has or is experiencing trauma. It will also highlight how mental health peer specialists can benefit by shifting the focus to emotional understanding and strengths-based interactions that support successful recovery.
Duration: 1 hour
National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
As the United States population continues to diversify, peer specialists must find ways to provide equitable, effective care and services to the culturally and linguistically diverse populations they serve. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health developed the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care to offer a framework for delivering services that are respectful of and responsive to each person’s culture and communication needs. This webinar will introduce the concept of culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS), provide an overview of the National CLAS Standards, share key findings from organizations that have implemented the National CLAS Standards, and provide actionable recommendations for successful implementation of the National CLAS Standards.
Duration: 1 hour
Crisis Engagement Strategies
In acute and crisis situations, peer support specialists can become an essential part of the recovery process for individuals under duress. Peer support specialists engage, empower, and advocate for people in acute and crisis settings.
Duration: 1 hour
Peer Support and Smoking Cessation
Why talk about smoking cessation and peer support specialists? According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide.1 "Approximately 1 in 4 (or 25%) of adults in the U.S. have some form of mental health or substance use disorder, and these adults consume almost 40% of all cigarettes smoked." This webinar will highlight the importance of peer support and a plan for individuals taking a journey toward smoking cessation. It will also offer tips for supporters at different stages of a person’s journey toward self-liberation from cigarettes.
Duration: 1 hour
How Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Can Help Prevent Bullying
This interactive webinar focused on the latest research on bullying among children and adolescents and explored strategies for using social and emotional learning (SEL) to prevent bullying. Social and emotional learning helps children and adolescents to manage their emotions, empathize with others, and develop positive relationships. (1) It provides an important framework for schools to use in helping students acquire and strengthen social and emotional skills to prevent bullying behaviors and support inclusion and respect. (2) Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D., M.Ed. of the University of Virginia and Tracy Waasdorp, Ph.D., M.Ed of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health described their research and practice in applying social and emotional learning to the prevention of bullying. The webinar was moderated by Jim Vetter, Ed.M. of Education Development Center (EDC) and the Social-Emotional Learning Alliance for Massachusetts (SEL4MA).
Build Your Behavioral Health Workforce to Support Population Health Management
In this 60-minute webinar, AHP's Patrick Gauthier and Fran Basche explain why every effective accountable care organization (ACO) must have a vibrant behavioral health workforce development plan -- and walk you through exactly how to create one.
Current events like the COVID-19 pandemic, public images of police brutality, and an economic downturn have led to an increase in long-lasting physical and emotional stress in people across the world. These traumatic experiences have led to or exacerbated mental illnesses, substance use, and physical health conditions. Trauma-informed care (TIC) has become a widely recognized paradigm for creating safe spaces for individuals who have experienced trauma and reducing the likelihood that accessing services would cause re-traumatization. But what exactly is trauma and the trauma-informed care framework?
HRC's All Children - All Families Training Series
Human Rights Campaign's All Children - All Families regularly provides online learning offerings covering promising practices in serving LGBTQ children, youth and families. To watch the recordings at no cost, click "View Recorded Webinar" and fill out the short form. You will then receive an email with instructions for viewing the webinar. Their trainings cover five domains: Core Curriculum, Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Parents, Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Youth, Caring for LGBTQ Youth (For Caregivers), and LGBTQ Inclusion Strategies for Agency Leadership.
Duration: Multiple Training Opportunities (1 hour to 90 minutes each)
School to Prison Pipeline
Recorded live on August 18, 2020. This webinar is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series.
Duration: 1 hour
This Community Conversation is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. As the country wrestles with the impact of institutionalized racism and the pandemic, nowhere is the weight of this emotional trauma greater than for parents of color. Join us with special guest, Kecia Melvin, LCSW for this important conversation.
Duration: 1 hour
Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Substance Use Disorders: From Theory to Practice
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been found to be effective for treating a variety of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). This webinar will review the CBT model of substance use, as well as practical treatment strategies and tools to best help individuals affected by SUDs. Resources for further information will be provided.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Medication First: Integration of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Across the Healthcare System
Medication First programs get persons with OUD maintenance medical treatment as quickly as possible and provide voluntary supportive services as needed. A patient’s access to medical treatment is not dependent upon psychosocial treatment compliance or unrealistic expectations about the course of treatment and recovery. The Medication First approach is supported by decades of research. It prioritizes client choice in both service selection and service participation. Expanding the Medication First or “low-threshold” medical approach to opioid use disorder will be essential to reversing the epidemic of opioid-related deaths.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Supporting Children Who Lose Parents to Accidental Overdose
Many children unexpectedly lost a parent to an accidental overdose over the past decade. Many of these children had encountered public systems such as child welfare, mental health, and juvenile probation, both before and after the death of their parent(s). As the opioid crisis persists, this webinar considers specific issues affecting the children left behind. Both presenters discuss implications for the future, including the ways that systems and helping professionals need to adjust to accommodate the growing number children who have lost parents to overdose over the course of their development into adults.
Duration: 75 Minutes
Preventing Suicide and Self-Harm Among Black Youth
This webinar focused on the epidemiology of suicide and self-harm among Black youth, identified evidence-based and informed strategies for prevention, risk and protective factors, barriers to prevention and resources available to providers. Dr. Crystal Barksdale of the National Institute of Mental Health discussed the most recent data on suicide and suicidal behaviors among Black youth. She described risk and protective factors for suicide and deleterious mental health outcomes. Dr. Rhonda Boyd of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine presented barriers to intervention engagement among Black youth and current evidence for suicide prevention, including screening and treatment. She shared information regarding organizations and websites that are important resources for practitioners. Elly Stout, Director of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at Education Development Center, moderated the webinar.
Duration: 1 hour
Middle Management Academy Summer Series
The MMA Summer Series is free and designed to provide quick tools and resources for managers, supervisors and team leaders on how to effectively lead during a public health crisis. The series will have three topic areas: Day-to-Day Supervision; Stress, Chaos, Self-care and Wellness; and Strengths-based Leadership. Within each topic area, there will be between one and three parts that include videos, slide decks and resources that provide guidance.
Duration: 4 hours (4 - 1 hour segments)
Youth Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based approach to identifying patients who use alcohol and other drugs at risky levels. The goal of SBIRT is to reduce and prevent related health consequences, disease, accidents and injuries. Module 1: Introduction to SBIRT & Screening; Module 2: Brief Intervention and Motivational Interviewing; Module 3: Referral to Treatment & Ongoing Management in Primary Care; Module 4: Data Driven Decision Making
Duration: 3 hours (4 modules)
Virtual Supervision - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 1
With the child welfare workforce currently working from home, supervision is more important than ever to ensure continued quality service provision and to keep children safe and families together. How is supervision changing to respond to this new virtual world? What adjustments are being made? This webinar offers expert guidance on virtual supervision and provides opportunities for participants to ask questions and exchange information.
Duration: 1 hour
Well Being - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 2
In these uncertain times, we are all presented with new concerns. Our national child welfare workforce and leaders also find themselves facing new challenges and stressors as everything about the old “normal” is changing. In this session, Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer will provide hopeful perspectives, concrete action steps and tools, and words of comfort and support for our workforce to help them manage through this crisis. Participants will receive ideas to cope and prepare to be in the best position and condition possible as we begin to rebuild together.
Duration: 75 minutes
Physical, Emotional and Psychological Safety - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 3
During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers provide critical services to their communities. As essential public servants, it is important that they have systems in place to ensure their safety during home visits and working in the field. This session explores how child welfare programs are innovating to protect their frontline workers’ physical, emotional, and psychological safety.
Duration: 1 hour
Converting Classroom Training From In-Person to Online - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 4
Much of child welfare professional development, especially foundational training for new workers, takes place in-person. Because of the current situation, training needs to be available online in order to continue to meet the needs of our workforce. This webinar will provide information on converting in-person experiences to virtual learning platforms, as almost anything that can be taught in the classroom can also go online (really!). Learn tips, tricks, and ways to overcome barriers. We will also provide opportunities for webinar participants to ask questions and share information and resources.
Duration: 75 minutes
Coaching Remotely - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 5
Coaching in the child welfare workforce often happens face-to-face or in context of daily work activities. With our shift to virtual work, face-to-face contact may have been curtailed but connecting and supporting growth does not need to stop. This session will explore what stays the same and what adjustments must be made when coaching remotely.
Duration: 75 minutes
Using Social Media and Technology to Engage Children, Youth and Families - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 6
During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers are using technology to communicate with families, and foster parents are using technology to connect youth in their care to services and maintain connection between youth and their biological families. This webinar offers considerations and best practices to support child welfare workers as they use technology with the families they serve.
Duration: 75 minutes
Youth Can Help with Preparedness
National Preparedness Month is held every September to promote the way families and communities engage in disaster and emergency planning. One of this year's themes was “Teach Youth to Prepare for Disasters.” This webinar includes discussion on how Youth Preparedness Councils (YPCs) can have an impact on improving community resilience and how new emergency and disaster readiness tools and programs geared toward kids are now available online.
National Preparedness Month is held every September to promote the way families and communities engage in disaster and emergency planning. One of this year's themes was “Teach Youth to Prepare for Disasters.” This webinar includes discussion on how Youth Preparedness Councils (YPCs) can have an impact on improving community resilience and how new emergency and disaster readiness tools and programs geared toward kids are now available online.
Human Trafficking: The Hidden Crime (2020)
This webinar features a subject matter expert from Homeland Security Investigations tasked with investigating and dismantling human tracking efforts throughout the country. Human trafficking is a hidden crime and it can happen in any community; victims can be of any age, race, gender or nationality. The first step to fighting the battle is to identify victims so they can be rescued and help bring offenders to justice. Education and awareness is the route to a safer community.
Helping Helpers (2020)
Disaster plans primarily focus on how to help crisis survivors, but who’s helping the helpers? The police, first responders and CERTs who help people get back on their feet after a disaster need help too. Raquelle from FEI Workforce, a company with a long history in enhancing workforce resiliency, offers insights on how to support first responders.
Effective Interpersonal Communications for CERT (2020)
Effective communication skills are the pillars of building relationships, fostering teamwork, and increasing productivity and resilience. Raquelle Solon from FEI Workforce provides information and tools to enhance and improve your communications between each other and for those you serve.
Emergencies: Psychological Aspects in the Preparation and Response Phase (2019)
Learn about the importance of psychological preparedness for emergencies and some of the internal factors that influence people to prepare. This webinar features Ingrid Perez, Planning Specialist in the Capacity Building Sector’s Continuity of Operations Unit at the FEMA Caribbean Area Division. This presentation primarily focuses on why some individuals are more proactive than others when preparing for emergencies and also provides general recommendations to support psychological preparedness.
Trauma-Informed Management of People in Crisis (2019)
What is “trauma” from a psychological standpoint? Find out the answer to this question and how crises effect individuals. Webinar attendees will gain a better understanding of how to recognize signs of stress in coworkers, the general public, or themselves; and develop approaches on how to effectively manage them.
Psychological First Aid for CERT (2020)
Join this deep-dive session to learn strategies on how to address psychological stress in yourself, coworkers, or general public during the course of your emergency response.
Emotional Consequences Of Public Health Emergencies (2020)
Learn about the unique aspects of managing the emotional consequences of public health emergencies and the response required to effectively address them.
Psychological Resilience (2020)
This webinar focuses on steps individuals can take in their everyday lives to improve their mental health and personal resilience. These simple, yet powerful practices can help sustain the energy, focus and balance during times of extreme stress. Susan Snyde, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a trainer for the City of Berkeley Community Emergency Response Team is the featured speaker.
The webinar features the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and their role and the programs they provide during a Public Health Emergency; including Medicare and Medicaid flexibilities and waivers. Examples of these programs during a disaster, include Medicaid, Medicare Fee for Service, and Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans. Available in Spanish.
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Helping Children Cope During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out emotional reactions in children that may be difficult to cope with. This webinar discusses strategies and activities to promote positive coping in childern. Yvonne Muzquiz from AmeriCares Hurricane Harvey response is the featured speaker (English version) and Dr. Ivelisse Morales from AmeriCares Puerto Rico is the featured speaker (Spanish version).
The Continuous Improvement Process: How Your Organization Can Document Lessons Learned from COVID-19
Continuous Improvement (CI) can improve operational and programmatic outcomes by building upon what is going well and correcting what needs to be fixed. Learn what it takes to conduct CI related activitie, including how to prepare for and facilitate an After-Action Review. Features representatives from the CI team who also provide real-world examples.
Stress Management Related to Isolation, Social Distancing, and Quarantine
Social distancing is necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19 but can have significant impacts on mental health. Certain groups, such as individuals with preexisting mental health conditions and healthcare workers, are experiencing high levels of stress during the time. In this webinar, AmeriCares discusses stress management strategies for adults and children. Available in Spanish.
Americares – Grief and Losses During the COVID-19 Crisis
Grief is a natural reaction to loss and a complex process that is different for everyone. This webinar reviews the stages of grief, provides strategies on how to cope and ways to support individuals during this process. Available in Spanish.
Flourishing in Adolescence: A Virtual Workshop
The Forum for Children’s Well-Being hosted a one-day virtual workshop on Flourishing in Adolescence. The virtual workshop was held on May 5, 2020 and included discussions about best practices in providing and supporting adolescent health services and key messaging and communication strategies related to adolescent mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Additionally, the workshop featured a panel of youth representatives who shared their own experiences related to mental, emotional, and behavioral health. The workshop videos and presentations are now available.
Duration: 5 hours
As essential workers, it is not surprising that Social Workers experience compassion fatigue. What is it? How can you tell if you are experiencing it? What are some of the treatments? Join Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, a nationally renowned expert and author on Mind and Body Techniques as we explore the emotional and physical exhaustion that can occur during the pandemic.
Duration: 1 hour
Understanding the Final Rule for 42 CFR Part 2 and Next Steps
In preparation for the final rule to go into effect and to educate members about the changes included in the CARES Act, the APA jointly hosted a webinar, Understanding the Final Rule for 42 CFR Part 2 and Next Steps, with the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the American Society of Addiction Medicine on August 12, 2020. You may slides and additional resources here.
Discussing Issues of Race with Young Children
NASW New Jersey presents a community conversation with Dr. La'Tesha Sampson, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW. Recorded live on June 19, 2020.
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded live on June 25, 2020. This webinar is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. Join NASW-NJ's Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson, MSW, Dr. Tawanda Hubbard, LCSW, and Dr. Widian Nicola, LCSW, for a discussion regarding race and trauma. This program will examine the systems that perpetuate intergenerational trauma related to racism. Presented by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1.25 hours
Recorded live June 30, 2020 and facilitated by Bianca Mayes, MPH, CHES of Garden State Equality and Jennifer Thompson, MSW Executive Director NASW NJ|DE.This community conversation discusses the history of LGBTQ pride including the Compton Cafeteria Riots (1966) which preceded the well-known Stonewall Riots (1969). Through the transgender community's activisim around police brutality, the origins of pride began! Queer liberation and racial justice are still incorporated in today's climate through the Black Lives Matter movement and the current rallies against police brutality and injustice. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Join social workers Sharea Farmer, LCSW, and Jennifer Thompson, MSW, to discuss how self-care is a form of activism. As we navigate a national health crisis, and ways to be part of social change and justice we cannot forget the importance of caring for ourselves. During this time when stress and uncertainty are running high, we need to listen to our bodies, hearts and minds so we can find resiliency and renew our lives and work. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Kristin Miller, LCSW and NASW-NJ's Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson, MSW lead a conversation about what white privilege and white fragility mean and the concept of racial identity development. This Community Conversation is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Parental Addiction
The trauma of parental addiction can impact children’s long-term wellness. But there are strategies you can use to mitigate these harmful effects and help children cope. In this webinar, content creator Kama Einhorn walks us through the Parental Addiction topic page. She shares key messages and offers ways you might use these resources in your work with kids and families. Learning Goals: Learn more about the impact of parental addiction on children and families. Become familiar with the Parental Addiction topic page on Sesame Street in Communities. Gain actionable strategies to use to support children and families. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences – Office Hour
The Big Idea: The Sesame Street in Communities team has created resources to help you help kids and families cope after traumatic experiences. Watch this recording of our live session where Senior Content Manager, Kama Einhorn, talks about resources from the Traumatic Experiences topic page. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Helping Kids Grieve - Office Hours
The Big Idea: The Sesame Street in Communities team has created resources to help you support young children and families through their experiences of grief. Watch this recording of our live session where Senior Content Manager, Kama Einhorn, talks about resources from the Helping Kids Grieve topic page. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Understanding Bullying
The Big Idea: Bullying is an important issue in our world—one that we can address early in a child’s life! In this webinar, we’ll talk about how bullying affects young children, and explore ways that as providers, we can empower parents and caregivers to help prevent bullying in the lives of their children. With the Senior Vice President of Curriculum and Content at Sesame Street, dive into some of our resources and look at how they might be integrated into your work with families and children. Learning Goals: Explore the topic of bullying and describe it from the perspective of a preschooler. Talk about assumptions we have when exploring a topic like bullying. Learn strategies to respond to bullying appropriately, as well as pro-social strategies to prevent bullying behavior in the first place. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Sesame Street And Autism: Resources You Can Use
In this webinar, you’ll learn how you can use Sesame Street Autism resources to build acceptance, inclusivity, awareness, and understanding among the children and families that you serve. Goals: Discover resources that will grow your own understanding of autism and the autism spectrum. Learn how to use Sesame Street activities and content during daily routines to support and celebrate the uniqueness of every child, including those on the autism spectrum.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Hand in Hand: Helping Children Feel Safe and Find Hope After Events of Community Violence
When children hear learn of random acts of violence, whether near or far, their sense of safety in the world is challenged. Watch this webinar to learn strategies to help reassure, soothe, and comfort them. In this webinar, content creator Kama Einhorn will help us to understand the difficult reality of community violence and its effect on young children. More than that, she’ll walk us through five strategies we can use to offer comfort and hope to the children and families we care for. We’ll learn that even though can’t control many events, we still hold a lot of power in our own hands. Learning Goals: Define community violence, Understand how community violence may affect young children, Explore strategies to help children cope, and Look at ways providers and caregivers can take care of themselves during troubling times and after disturbing events so they can be at their best for children. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Taking Care of Myself
The Big Idea: The important caregivers in kids’ lives need care too! You do so much to help the children and families in your care. It’s important to remember to take good care of yourself so that you can be at your best to help those who you work with to grow and thrive. We’ve all experienced stress at some point. In this webinar, we’ll learn how to recognize stress symptoms and how they manifest in our own bodies and minds, and we’ll take a look at SSIC’s vast resources to help manage stress, think positively, and cope with emotions. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Guided Play with Roberta Golinkoff, Ph.D.
The Big Idea: Children can learn so much while they play, and grown-ups can add to that learning! Kids don’t have to be working hard to be learning. In fact, they can learn a lot while they play! In this webinar, hear from Dr. Roberta Golinkoff as she shares her insights into how children learn through play, and specifically guided play. She shares strategies that you can use to extend kids’ learning, playfully! Learning Goals: Discuss how children learn through different forms of play, and why each is important. Explore ways to facilitate playful learning in your setting. Learn ‘The Six C’s’ from Dr. Golinkoff’s book, Becoming Brilliant. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Handling Emergencies with Andrew Roszak
The Big Idea: We can all do our part to help our communities prepare for and recover from emergencies. Andrew Roszak’s job is to make sure child care providers and families have the information and tools they need to develop emergency preparedness plans to keep children safe and care for them during disasters. In this webinar, he shares helpful strategies for developing and practicing emergency preparedness plans in child care and family child care facilities. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences: First Steps to Hope (Part 1)
Nearly half of American children under 18 have had at least one type of adverse childhood experience. These experiences can cause physical, emotional, and psychological distress. In Part 1 of this webinar series, we’ll learn about how to help families cope with and overcome these traumatic situations. They will discuss ways to practice simple, consistent, and positive behaviors, to help children and families move forward and achieve health, safety, and happiness. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences: First Steps to Hope (Part 2)
In this webinar series, Ann Thomas, President and CEO of The Children’s Place, discusses the effects of childhood traumatic experiences and articulates strategies that providers can use to help kids and families cope. In part two of this series, Ann walks us through Sesame Workshop’s approach to helping kids and families through traumatic experiences, and examines many resources you can use in your own work with kids and families.Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Empowering Families with EMPath
Join Sesame Street as we talk with our friend, Beth Babcock, MCRP, PhD, from Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath). In this provider interview, Beth tells us what the latest brain science has to say about inter-generational mobility. She shares the frameworks that her team at EMPath uses to help families gain traction and achieve goals together. Learning Goals: Learn about designing environments to accommodate those under stress; Understand materials and tools that can be used to help those under stress; Find ways to stand beside families and help them practice finding, analyzing, and prioritizing their challenges and goals; Learn about how to help families build the executive function skillset that living in poverty often diminishes. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Brave, Strong, Resilient
This interactive, digital training experience is designed to help educators teach kids strategies for building resilience. Through a series of lessons, which include group activities, videos, and printables, children learn to express their feelings and solve problems. Resources are also available to help families practice these resiliency skills at home. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten)
Duration: 3+ Hours
Sesame Strong
Sesame Strong is a scope and sequence designed to support your family engagement efforts! It includes eight bundles full of resources you can use to connect with, celebrate, and support parents and caregivers. Use these resources to host mini-sessions with parents, or simply infuse key messages and big ideas into your everyday interactions with parents. Each bundle includes: A Key Caregiver Strategy. Supporting resources for caregivers: a parent reading, two video clips, a digital storybook, and a hands-on activity to try. Facilitation cues and activity ideas for hosting parent sessions in your setting. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Providers who work to support parents and caregivers
Duration: 3+ Hours
Supporting Military and Veteran Caregiving Families
This series, which includes nine bundles of SSIC resources, aims to help providers support military and veteran caregiving families. The bundles are designed to be implemented as workshops with families and include helpful language, digital resources to share, and hands-on activities to bring concepts to life. Providers are invited to use the ideas and activities in ways that complement their work. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 3+ Hours
Growing Together
The Big Idea: Take an interactive course to learn of ways to partner with families for school readiness across every aspect of child development. Learning Goals: To support school readiness strategies for Kindergarten readiness. To review the developmental domains of early childhood development. Build partnerships with families for student success.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten) Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 3+ Hours
Make Believe With Math
Join us for an interactive course designed for all early childhood educators! Together we’ll explore the importance of math and pretend play in early childhood, key math objectives for children ages 0-5, and ways to create more math moments in student’s lives, especially during pretend play. This course will provide fun and simple activities and ideas that you can begin using right away. This course is now open. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten)
Duration: 3+ Hours
Building a Reader
The Big Idea: An interactive course that explores key literacy goals, strategies, and activities to support learning around language and literacy in children ages 2-5. Join us for an interactive course that explores key literacy goals, strategies, and activities to support learning around language and literacy in young kids.Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten) of Language and Literacy
Duration: 3+ Hours
Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Children
Led by the Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center in Boston and in collaboration with the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, the NCTSN presents this webinar series designed to cover the impact of trauma on children during all phases of their migration journey. Nationally recognized speakers from NCTSN are joined by experts from the Irving Harris Foundation’s Professional Development Network to provide best practices for culturally responsive and trauma-informed provision of services. This series features diverse expertise from the fields of refugee and migrant health, cultural studies, mental health, early childhood development, childhood traumatic stress, trauma-informed systems of care, and secondary traumatic stress. Available in English and Spanish.
Culture, the Migration Journey, Trauma and Assessment
In this webinar developed by Lisa Fortuna, MD, Alisa B. Miller, PhD and Saida M. Abdi, MSW, foundational information is offered related to the intersection of culture, the migration journey, trauma and assessment. Description: In addition, recommendations for providing culturally responsive, child-friendly assessment and best practices are shared for working with interpreters for individuals who have direct contact with unaccompanied children (e.g., care provider staff) or work with people with direct contact with unaccompanied children (e.g., supervisors). Available in English and Spanish.
Culture, Development, Trauma, and Socio-Cultural Responsive Interventions with Youth Ages 7 and Older
Developed by Javier Rosado, PhD, Susana Rivera PhD, and Luis Flores, MA, this webinar defines traumatic separation and grief and outlines the developmental impacts on youth. Additionally, participants will learn how to be responsive to the cultural and linguistic needs of youth. Participants will learn children’s common fears and perceived threats to safety experienced by youth exposed to traumatic events as well as culturally responsive strategies for staff to use when working with youth. Available in English and Spanish.
Attachment, Development, Trauma, and Socio-Cultural Responsive Interventions for Young Children
This webinar, developed by Marta Casas LMHC, MEd, Carmen Rosa Noroña LCSW, MSEd and Marcy Safyer, PhD MSW, will provide a basic overview of the intersection of early childhooddevelopment (0-5), attachment and trauma in young migrant children. Presenters discuss trauma and socio-cultural interventions and engage the audience in reflections about best practices and practice-change with this population. Available in English and Spanish.
Secondary Traumatic Stress: Understanding the Impact of Trauma Work on Professionals
Developed by Raven Cuellar, PhD, Carmen Rosa Noroña, LCSW, Ms. Ed., Ginny Sprang, PhD, and Savina Treves, MA, LPC this webinar defines Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), describes how the sociocultural context and the experience of migration may impact the experience of STS and outlines specific strategies to strengthen protective factors to prevent, identify, and address STS in the workplace. Through case examples, participants will learn who is at risk, organizational and individual factors related to STS, and how to approach support staff wellness. Available in English and Spanish.
Child Welfare Worker Safety in the Time of COVID-19: CDC Recommendations for In-Person Interactions with Families
Child welfare agencies have taken steps to promote safety of case workers and families during this time of physical distancing, including strategies to limit face-to-face interactions. However, circumstances remain where these interactions are necessary to assess child safety and parent/caregiver capacity to maintain child safety and well-being. This webinar will review relevant guidance and recommendations by the CDC to on how to reduce the risk of child welfare case workers while conducting in-person interactions with children and families during the crisis. Participants will also hear an example from the field of how this guidance is being implemented in practice in Massachusetts. Powerpoint and resources can be downloaded here.
Improving Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals
Cultural and linguistic competency is recognized as an important strategy for improving the quality of care provided to clients from diverse backgrounds. The goal of this program is to help professionals increase their cultural and linguistic competency. Course 1, An introduction to cultural and linguistic competency, you'll learn what culture has to do with behavioral health care. Course 2, Know thyself – Increasing self-awareness, you'll learn how to get to know your cultural identity and how it affects your work with clients. Course 3, Knowing others – Increasing awareness of your client's cultural identity, you'll learn how to get to know your client’s cultural identity. Course 4, Culturally and linguistically appropriate interventions and services, you'll learn how to build stronger therapeutic relationships with clients from diverse backgrounds.
Duration: 4 - 5.5 hours Approved by NAADAC and NBCC for contact hours.
Sesame Street in Communities: Health Emergencies
A health emergency brings many changes and much uncertainty for young children and their families, but there are things we can do to face each day with optimism and hope. We can practice healthy habits like handwashing and coughing into the bend in our arm. We can offer comfort, connect with, and care for others safely. And we can keep learning and growing at home through everyday routines and simple activities. The resources on this page can help families cope during challenging times.
Cultivating Post Traumatic Growth in Kids and Families through Mindfulness during COVID
As the shutdowns and stay at home orders lengthen, and as tragic news trickles in from near and far, how can we ensure than we and our clients emerge from this time stronger and more resilient than ever? Join Dr. Chris Willard as we explore the foundations of post traumatic growth, looking to human history, anthropology and neuroscience as we discover and explore tools that have boosted human resilience in the face of adversity for generations. This workshop will dive into child and teen oriented contemplative, mindfulness and positive psychology techniques, along with simple takeaway tips for your clients, colleagues and yourself.
Duration: 4 Hours
Anti-Racism Training
Racism. It is a word that elicits strong emotion, and often even stronger opinions. Taking the step to engage in anti-racism work may seem intimidating, or maybe you already feel confident in your knowledge of racial justice and in your allyship. Regardless of where you sit on that spectrum, this training is one that can have benefit for everyone. Participants will learn about historical events, ideologies, and social structures, and how they inform modern day beliefs, bias, and perception, analyze concepts of racial identity, bias, privilege, and prejudice; reflect on their own identity, bias, privilege, and prejudice; identify strategies to engage in difficult conversations and reflect on ways to integrate anti-racism work into their daily lives.
Duration: 6 hours (3 modules/2 hours each)
Trauma and the Brain
This course is designed for licensed professionals with some foundational knowledge of both trauma and neurobiology. We will delve into the specific ways that psychological and physical trauma can impact both the developing brain during childhood and adolescence, as well as how trauma affects the mature, adult brain.
Duration: Self-Paced
Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist
Unlocking Us with Brene Brown. In this podcast, Brene is talking with professor Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. We talk about racial disparities, policy, and equality, but we really focus on How to Be an Antiracist, which is a groundbreaking approach to understanding uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves.
Duration: 1 hour
A Self-Care Guide for the Paraprofessional
All direct support professionals who provide care to people served – particularly those with trauma – should perform regular self-checks. A simple and quick check-in to assess how you are feeling can be done any time after providing support.
Duration: Self-Paced
A Self-Care Guide for the Clinician
Both burnout and compassion fatigue make daily tasks difficult due to mental exhaustion from emotional overload. You might make more mistakes than usual, both mental and physical, putting both yourself and the people you serve in danger.
Duration: Self-Paced
Suicide Risk Factors, Screening, and Assessment
Through a blend of didactic and interactive exercises, you will learn how to use screening instruments and several different models of comprehensive suicide assessment.
Duration: Self-Paced
The Grip of Grief: Processing The Continual Losses of the Pandemic
You're grieving, our clients are grieving, everyone is grieving. People across the world have been experiencing a wide range of losses caused by the pandemic, including COVID-19-related deaths, the loss of events like graduations and planned trips, and the loss of what-once-was. Jill Johnson-Young, LCSW, provides an easy-to-digest framework for what to know and do/not do with clients as they grieve. This course explores the many types of losses relating to the pandemic, and gives clinicians straightforward and practical clinical interventions. Strategies to help therapists/counselors avoid and respond to grief burnout/compassion fatigue are also shared.
Duration: 1 hour
Racialized Trauma Course
Cultural Somatics Free 5 Session E-course: Explore basics facets of Racialized Trauma and what to do about it. We can't help ourselves even begin to heal racialized trauma if we don't acknowledge that it even exits.
Duration: Self-Paced
Mending Racialized Trauma: A Body Centered Approach with Resmaa Menakem
Resmaa shares that in order to mend racialized trauma we need to move the conversation from race to culture and cultivate a somatic abolitionist mindset and community. And a big part of that work lies in doing our own reps to learn what to pay attention to and then doing the reps with each other’s nervous systems so we can create a culture that knows what to pay attention to. Otherwise it’s just strategy.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Hey, White Therapist, Here's Where We Start
As racial tensions rise around the country, mental health professionals have a fundamental responsibility to support equality, but many white clinicians don’t know how to make a difference. In this interview, white therapists can begin exploring to be more aware of their own racial identity, cultural conditioning, and the effects on white people and people of color. This interview offers practical and compassionate guidance and interventions to white therapists wanting to be more effective in their work with people of color.
Duration: 1 hour
How Racism Impacts those We Serve and How We Serve: Are We Meeting Participants Where They Are?
Issues related to race are among the most difficult and least discussed topics in the field of behavioral health. This webinar is designed to raise the awareness of behavioral health providers of the possible overt, subtle, or unintentional ways that organizational policies and service delivery create barriers for individuals who have experienced racial discrimination. The presenters will review the history of racism, how it impacts participants, and what organizations can do to reduce structural barriers for individuals impacted by racism and discrimination.
Duration: 1 hour
Identity, Bias, and Cultural Humility: Connecting to Ourselves and Others
Cultural humility is a humble and respectful attitude toward individuals of other cultures and identities that pushes one to challenge their own cultural biases, realize they cannot possibly know everything about other cultures, and approach learning about other cultures as a lifelong goal and process. Cultural humility encourages active participation to learn about a client's personal and cultural experiences and identities. Understanding and connecting to our own histories and identities is an important step in developing cultural humility. Not only does this help us make space for understanding others, but it can also help us in formulating our own clinical approaches.
Duration: 1 hour
Legacies of Pain and Resilience: Clinical Implications for Understanding Historical Trauma and Race
Historical Trauma (HT) refers to the psychological distress experienced by survivors or descendants of human initiated acts of oppression. This webinar helped clinicians understand HT and provided some clarity regarding the intergenerational transmission of trauma and how it relates to racial oppression in particular. We summarized the research on the biological, psychological and social forces that promote an intergenerational legacy of pain and suffering among descendants of people impacted by traumatizing historical events. We also outlined the importance of resilience in helping individuals and communities recover and cope with HT.
Duration: 1 hour
Race, Poverty & Trauma: Microaggressions and the Therapeutic Alliance: Exploring Ethnically and Racially Diverse Clinician-Participant Relationships
Racial microaggressions, although often inadvertent and unintended, can be traumatic and polarizing for persons of color. During this webinar, Dr. Monnica Williams discusses the role and prevalence of racial microaggressions and its impact on the therapeutic relationship. She highlights common instances of microaggressions and strategies for how clinicians can challenge racial stereotypes to more effectively work with participants of color.
Duration: 1 hour
Race and Trauma: Race-based Traumatic Stress and Psychological Injury
Racism has severe psychological and emotional effects on people of color, impacting their daily lives and experiences with mental health services. During this webinar, Dr. Robert T. Carter will discuss race-based traumatic stress, ways of working with participants who have experienced racism, and implications for the assessment of trauma beyond the DSM-5.
Duration: 1.5 hour
Race and Trauma:The Role of Racial Trauma in Psychotherapy
Racism can be traumatizing for participants of color, and clinicians may inadvertently perpetuate this form of oppression through microaggressions and invalidating participant experiences. During this webinar, Dr. Monnica Williams will review the role of race and racial identity in the therapeutic relationship, and offer best practices for clinicians working with persons of color.
Duration: 1 hour
Vulnerability factors, prevention and early intervention, keeping connected while staying apart—strategies for remote community participation, resources and risk reduction, ways to mitigate the negative impact of COVID, physical distancing, and the economic changes on mental health as we move forward.
Duration: 1 hour
Topics include: Perceptions, stigma, and unconscious bias in higher-risk populations, Chronic health conditions and coronavirus. How COVID-19 is worsening disparities in pediatric type 1 diabetes and the role of community health workers. COVID-19 testing and deficits in community education. The evolution of Telehealth and how it can help mitigate some of the negative outcomes resulting from minority populations ‘medical distancing’ during COVID. Impact of social determinants. -COVID-19 health and access inequalities. What we’ve learned and what should we do next.
Duration: 1 hour
In his new book, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi holds up both a magnifying glass and a mirror to examine how to uproot racism from society—starting with ourselves. Followed by his talk at UC Berkeley, on September 12, 2019, Kendi is joined in conversation by john a. powell of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Lateefah Simon of the Akonadi Foundation, and moderated by Alice Y. Hom of Northern California Grantmakers.
Duration: 2 hours
Telehealth Skills Adaptations
These are teachings that Dr. Jamie Marich shared on the Mindful Ohio& The Institute for Creative Mindfulness page in the first week of major clinical transition to telehealth. Although the videos are not new and directly drawn from her Trauma Made Simple resources pages, the applications represent new ideas for clinicians in this era. Study them together or in any combination to create your own virtual learning experience. Feel free to use and to pass along! These techniques include Clench & Release, Painting Light, Loving Kindness Meditation, Monkey Tap (aka Butterfly Hug) and Noodling.
Duration: 1 hour (in total)
Addressing Issues of Post-Disaster Trauma Relief for Victims and First Responders
This 5-hour workshop will consist of 4 lectures and a panel discussion devoted to providing culturally competent care to trauma patients and first responders. The neurobiological underpinnings of trauma will be explored, as will ways to deal with secondhand trauma as a clinician and community member. The Steve Frankel Group (SFG) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. SFG maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Approved for 5 CE hours. Currently available for free.
Duration: 5 hours
Process Not Perfection: Remote Applications of Expressive Arts Strategies
Dr. Jamie Marich, expressive arts therapist and author of Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery, developed this course to assist clinicians with adapting to the realities of switching to remote work during the COVID-19 crisis. In this course, Dr. Jamie gives you an overview of expressive arts principles and discusses how people may find the processes and practices in Process Not Perfection especially useful in adapting to telehealth or remote platforms. A guided process for experiential learning (specifically geared to COVID-19 and other disaster/crisis response) is also offered.
Duration: 2 hours
Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra for Clinical Professionals
Yoga nidra is a sleep-style meditations that is gaining popularity in the clinical professions. Based on a teaching from the ancient Upanishads, this powerful approach brings together a variety of awareness techniques and strategies to facilitate a greater sense of ease in meditating and working with intention. In this online training, trauma expert and yoga teacher Dr. Jamie Marich teaches you the basic principles of yoga nidra. She walks you through a 20-25 minute script specifically prepared for working via telehealth or other remote platforms. While yoga nidra can be a powerful adjunct to any trauma therapy, it has special potential for bridging together aspects of trauma therapy you may not feel comfortable delivering remotely, specifically because of its focus on intention. While not a full-scale yoga nidra training, this will get you started with the basics to use alongside any approach to trauma therapy.
Duration: 3 hours
Cultivating Sobriety in Times of Uncertainty
Crisis and Change are scary for many people. Feeling scared sometimes can compromise and interfere with our choices. Those people that are diligently pursuing sobriety, need connection with others to heal and sustain their forward momentum. This 90 minute program explores how to grasp that support in crisis. This training will help you discover the tools, techniques and concepts to assist in sobriety, build a solid foundation to support your sobriety goals, learn to identify the triggers that could potentially sabotage the desire to remain clean and sober and recognize the impacts of trauma in addiction recovery.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Attachment, Regulation and Competency: ARC-At-A-Glance: Modular Videos
This 8 module training series of brief, free overview videos describing the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework. This “ARC lite” is a series of remote, brief videos that will give an overview of key ARC concepts, and comment on these concepts as they relate to working and coping in the midst of this pandemic. Although these videos are not a substitute for the full ARC training, we hope they will give some support to your learning until we are able to meet again in person! We may also be offering special topic videos from our team of ARC trainers.
Duration: 8 hours
Stress Management for Healthcare Workers & Essential Employees
A Free Course on Coping with COVID-19. This free course is for healthcare providers & essential employees. It was created in order to support those who are on the front lines in the battle against COVID-19. Inside, there are stress management tips and techniques to assist with self-care, self-preservation, and self-compassion. We hope that you will find this course helpful. Thank you for your service.
Our New Normal is NOT Normal: Resiliency Skills for Public Health Professionals
This is the first webinar in a three-part series, targeted to public health professionals, first responders, healthcare providers, as well as the general public. Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Public Health Workforce Development and the Community Living Education Project (CLEP). Presented by Philip T. McCabe CSW, CAS, CDVC, DRCC.
Duration: 45 Minutes
Social Distancing and Interpersonal Violence: Conversation with Temple Alumni Leaders
Moderator Barbara B. Ernico, SSW ’71, is joined by panelists Kendra Van de Water, CPH ‘10, and Interim Executive Director of the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance Paul DiLorenzo, ACSW, MLSP, SSW ‘78, to discuss how their programs are adapting the challenges of COVID-19.
Host: Temple University College of Public Health
Duration: 30 Minutes
COVID-19 in Older Adults: Best Practices for Providers and Caregivers
The rapidly spreading COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has demonstrated a historic effect on older adult populations, both in the United States and around the world. Understanding current evidence and key trends, as it relates to older adult patients with known or suspected COVID-19 infection, is imperative to protect them.
Duration: 1 hour
Telehealth in Clinical Practice
Gain knowledge of using telehealth technologies for behavioral health services, including potential advantages and challenges.
Host: Relias Learning LLC
Best Practices for Delivering Telehealth
Discusses various modalities of telehealth treatment and most effective approaches.
Host: Relias Learning LLC
Mind Matters Online Series
Dibble will be hosting a free 12-Week Mind Matters Online Series with Dr. Carolyn Curtis and Dixie Zittlow. Unprecedented times, such as these, are stressful and call for everyone to think about ways to help others and themselves. Thus, we see this as an opportunity to offer free professional development and help people practice self-care. Join us as we teach the Mind Matters curriculum to help you develop skills and coping mechanisms to overcome anxiety and build resilience.
Duration: 12 sessions Approx. 1 hour each session
COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness for Front-line Staff
What are the most current recommendations for surge management and front line staff preparedness around the novel coronavirus?
Duration: 45 minutes
How to Address COVID 19 Across Inpatient, Residential and Other Non-ambulatory Care Settings
APA and the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) will host a joint webinar discussion with experts working in inpatient, residential, and other non-ambulatory care settings about how they are assessing the current environment and developing new protocols to care for their patients during the COVID 19 crisis. Hear from experts about how to manage through different types of services, key messages to give to your team leaders, unique challenges for people with SMI, how to approach group therapy, and more.
Duration: 1 hour
Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors
Are you feeling increased levels of stress and anxiety? If you answered yes, know you are not alone. People across the country are mobilizing quickly to ensure services for survivors of crime continue during the COVID-19 crisis. Confronting this new set of challenges in rapidly changing and uncertain times can be stressful. It is critical that we in the crime victims field integrate strategies to manage stress and anxiety into our day-to-day practice. We are joined by Zoe Flowers – advocate, healer, writer, poet, and filmmaker – in a virtual wellness session. Zoe guides us through a number of activities to help us stay grounded and manage stress and anxiety.
Duration: 45 minutes each
Understanding Coronavirus and How to Keep You and Yours Safe
As society grapples with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, questions around the virus and what individuals need to stay safe dominate the headlines. In this webinar, Ron Orth (RN, CMAC, CHC) discusses the basics of what we know today and practical steps to keep you healthy.
Duration: 65 minutes
COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness for Your Front-Line Staff
What are the most current recommendations for surge management and front-line staff preparedness around the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)? Learn more about them from Board Certified Emergency Physician, Phil DiGiacomo, M.D., and Heather Tuttle (BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN).
Healing Informed Care for Survivors from Historically Marginalized Communities
As a way to re-release years of trauma-based on sexual assault, domestic violence, and other traumas– Zoe Flowers from WOCN, INC. shares her body, mind, and spirit connection techniques drawn from decades of experience as a trauma practitioner and healer. More than ever, survivors and advocates alike need new ways to slow down, breath, relax and reconnect to their strength, creativity, and spirit.
Duration: 75 minutes
How to Navigate Grief, Loss, and a New Normal During COVID-19
Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S, hosts a presentation geared towards community members about how to navigate grief and loss during this unprecedented global pandemic. Live recorded on 4/6/2020. Access PowerPoint Slides here.
Duration: 1 hour
Hand Hygiene: The Basics
Handwashing is one of the most important steps to break the chain of infection. This micro-course follows CDC recommendations and provides a refresher on the specific requirements to successfully stop the spread.
Infection Control: The Basics
This course provides updates to HCPs ability to apply scientifically accepted infection control principles to reduce transmission of pathogens.
Personal Protective Equipment
Addresses different types of PPE necessary for job tasks and how to correctly don and doff the needed equipment.
Infection Control: Airborne Precautions
Quick and relevant instruction for implementing infection control measures to prevent transmission of airborne disease.
Cost: Free
Transmission-Based Precautions
This course presents the principles of transmission-based precautions and strategies to apply in daily practice.
Preparing for Pandemic Influenza
The course spotlights Pandemic flu; it offers principles and practices relevant to viral transmission disease precautions.
Working Remotely: Key Considerations For Survivor-Centered Organizations
Talk about the benefits, challenges, technology, share tips, and ideas for how to maintain connection and well-being in a remote environment.
Tele-Advocacy: Ensuring Accessibility for Underserved Crime Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webinar provides an overview of tele-advocacy, confidentiality and security considerations in digital services, and strategies to tele-advocacy is accessible and inclusive for survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors. In addition, an advocate experienced in tele-advocacy discusses strategies she uses to build relationships and provide practical tips for communicating effectively with survivors using digital platforms.
Presenter: Sandra Harrell, Vera Institute of Justice; Amber Hodson, Deaf Hope; Toby Shulruff, National Network to End Domestic Violence
Project Rise: Bringing Relationship Education to Hispanic Youth
Join the staff from Project Rise as they share with you how they are successfully engaging the Latino community including youth and their parents in healthy relationship skills programming. Project Rise is utilizing Relationship Smarts PLUS (Sexual Risk Avoidance Adaptation) to prevent teen pregnancy, reduce associated risk behaviors, and promote healthy adolescent development among Latino teens aged 12-18. They are working in four neighborhoods of Los Angeles County where measures of sexual risk are significantly higher than the national average.
Duration: 1 hour
Exploring Social Poverty: Low-Income Populations and the Impact of Community Ties
The impact of financial poverty has been a focus of researchers for decades. In this webinar Dr. Sarah Halpern-Meekin, author of “Social Poverty: Low-income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties,” examines another dimension of poverty that has been considerably understudied: social poverty. Social poverty, or lacking adequate of close, dependable, and trusting relationships, is an often-ignored form of hardship that is separate from financial poverty. Developing healthy relationship skills and coping mechanisms through relationship education may help address social poverty.
Presenter: Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Duration: 1 hour
Foundations: How to Build & Sustain the Communication Pipeline with Young Adults
Recruiting and appealing to young adults ages 18-24 can be challenging for a multitude of reasons. In this webinar, Vanessa Logan describes her unique “boots on the ground” approach for how to build trust with marginalized young adults and consequently is able to provide them with tools to develop self-sufficiency. Integrated into her approach is the essential building of healthy relationship skills with pregnant and parenting youth, empowering them to successfully parent or even co-parent when no longer together. With a heart for people, Vanessa identifies critical needs of the underserved and builds bridges by partnering with organizations and community initiatives to uncover resources and move others toward economic mobility and self-sufficiency. Vanessa has a voice in the community for what makes a community thrive: it’s people.
Presenter: Vanessa Logan, Founder of “N.E.S.S.A in Your Neighborhood,” Navigate, Explore, Serve, Sustain and Advocate (Spartanburg, South Carolina)
Duration: 1 hour
One-on-One: A New Approach for Teaching Mind Matters in Individual Settings
Young people who have experienced trauma and toxic stress, such as child abuse and neglect, often have difficulty regulating their emotional responses when facing challenges in school, life, and relationships. Thus, Dr. Carolyn Curtis developed Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience, a research-based curriculum effective in helping youth overcome adverse and traumatic childhood experiences. In this webinar, Dr. Carolyn Curtis, will discuss her new addendum to the Mind Matters curriculum. In this guidance, the content of Mind Mattersis divided into 15- to 20-minute segments that can now be taught in one-on-one settings. With these adjustments, the Mind Matters curriculum can now be used for home visitors, mentors, and case workers, as well as anyone who works with young people in a one-on-one setting.
Presenter: Carolyn Rich Curtis, Ph.D., Developer of Mind Matters, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Founder of the Relationship Skills Center in Sacramento, CA.
Duration: 1 hour
“Meet Them Where They Are” Building Protective Factors for the Future
Hear how three agencies that use different funding streams utilize relationship education to meet youth where they are in order to help them to prepare for healthy lives and futures. These organizations use Dibble’s programs to build protective factors so the youth can communicate effectively in jobs, set safe boundaries in relationships, make healthy decisions about their love lives.
Duration: 1 hour
Learning about Positive Youth Development: A Free & Fun Course for Youth Work Professionals
What does positive youth development mean to us? We may think about competencies, opportunities, and supports young people need to thrive and make healthy decisions. We may think about youth voice and leadership. In this webinar co-creator Jutta Dotterweich will provide a guided tour of a new, interactive online training course on positive youth development. This free resource consists of six, stand-alone segments, which were developed with a wide range of audiences in mind (e.g., volunteers, parents, frontline youth workers).
Presenter: Jutta Dotterweich, M.A. Director of Training, ACT for Youth Center of Excellence.
Duration: 1 hour
Victim Assistance Training Online (VAT Online)
VAT Online is a foundational Web-based victim assistance training program that offers victim service providers and allied professionals the opportunity to acquire the essential skills and knowledge they need to more effectively assist victims of crime. VAT Online has four sections: Basics, Core Competencies and Skills, Crimes, and Specific Considerations for Providing Victim Services. The VAT Online training is part of the NACP pre-approved training list. This training meets the requirements for the Introductory Advocacy Training area that can be used to apply for the National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP).
Duration: The entire training is approximately 43 hours. It is divided into various modules and sections. Each module takes about 30–90 minutes to complete. Learners can complete all modules or can complete specific modules, based on their learning needs.
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Identity Theft Victim Assistance Online Training: Supporting Victims' Financial and Emotional Recovery
A user-friendly e-learning tool that will teach victim service professionals and allied professionals knowledge and skills to more effectively serve victims of identity theft and assist with their financial and emotional recovery.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 3-4 Hours
Polyvictimization in Later Life
The purpose of the training is to strengthen awareness of polyvictimization in later life and to provide knowledge and skills of professionals to address the needs of victims. The training addresses the context of polyvictimization; victims and perpetrators of polyvictimization; best practices to work with older adults affected by polyvictimization using trauma-informed, ethical, and culturally appropriate practices; and the latest research and best practices to serve this population.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 6 Hours (5 modules)
Understanding Human Trafficking
The Understanding Human Trafficking training is a series of five interactive online modules that offer foundational learning on trauma-informed and victim-centered approaches to human trafficking. The modules are designed so that a wide audience can benefit. Understanding Human Trafficking is unique in equipping participants to think critically about human trafficking using reliable resources, both locally and from across the United States.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 5 Hours
COVID-19 Just-in-Time Training: Strategies & Techniques for Disaster Behavioral Health Support by Phone
The training is designed for DRCCs answering support lines, but the information can be applied to all services, especially during this time of teleservices. The presenter is Steve Crimando who has years of experience and knowledge working in disasters and critical incidents. Find the PowerPoint Here.
Host: NJ's Diaster and Terrorism Branch
Duration: 90 Minutes
NAMI Basics Course
Welcome to NAMI Basics! We've built this course for the caregivers of children/adolescents who have either been diagnosed with a mental health condition or who are experiencing symptoms, but haven’t yet gotten a formal diagnosis.
Host: National Alliance on Mental Illness
Duration: 6 modules and Wrap Up
Parents, Kids & Mental Health During the COVID-19 Crisis
This webinar from the NASW-NJ Chapter (live recorded on 3/18/20), featuring Pat Spencer, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW, discusses how parents can help their children and families cope during the COVID-19 crisis.
Host: NASW-NJ
Duration: 40 Minutes
The Practice of Mattering During the Time of Social Distancing
This program was recorded live on March 25, 2020. Learn about the practice of mattering in the time of social distancing with social workers, Dr. Tawanda Hubbard, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW. This program is geared to the general public as a way to connect, find resources and support our well-being in these unique times.
Adolescents & Young Adults: Parenting During COVID-19
Live recorded on March 31, 2020. The COVID-19 global pandemic has changed much about our daily lives, especially that of our children. Nationally, adolescents and young adults are grieving as many now are missing milestone moments such as proms, graduations and transitional moments. Join Dr. Widian Nicola, LCSW for a conversation geared toward parents where she will explore loss and how parents can help support children during these unprecedented times.
The Science of Well-Being
In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.
Host: Yale
Duration: 19 hours (Can be completed over several weeks)
Mindfulness, Healing & Transformation
A free seminar featuring Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Duration: 1 hour
Mindfulness in Recovery
The techniques taught in mindfulness play a critical role in relapse prevention. The core mindfulness skills, taken from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), enhance a client's ability to increase awareness of the present moment, increase the time spent in the present, and be in control of his or her mind. This then decreases the amount of mood dependent behaviors, such as using drugs and alcohol and there addictive behaviors. The concepts of mindfulness can also be found all throughout the 12 step program. This presentation will offer education of mindfulness skills found in DBT and give exercises to implement in treatment and recovery to assist clients with understanding how these skills can help them with continued sobriety.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Hunger for Healing: Evidence-Based Practice for Binge Eating Disorder
Most counselors are familiar with – or at least heard of – eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia nervosa. But we are less familiar with binge eating disorder (BED) despite being four times more common in clinical practice. The American Psychiatric Association only recognized BED as a distinct disorder in 2013 and was first included in the DSM-5 (F50.8). This webinar will explore the prevalence, neurobiology, and evidence-based treatments for this common, and extremely challenging disorder. We will pay particular attention to the influence of developmental trauma from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study on the etiology of BED, and the utility of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as part of the treatment regimen.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Recognizing Eating Disorder Behavior in the Substance Use Disorder Population
Up to 35% of patients who suffer from substance use disorder exhibit eating disorder behaviors that can often remain undetected by his or her treatment team. On the surface, eating disorders and substance use disorder may appear to be two entirely different conditions. In this engaging presentation, Robyn Cruze will provide her personal recovery story on eating and substance use disorder. Linda Lewaniak will then discuss why the two illnesses have similarities, why they tend to occur together, the effects both illnesses have on the brain and what integrated treatment looks like in treating both illnesses simultaneously.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Less Is More: A Breakthrough Method for Lasting Change
One ever-present question for addiction professionals is, “How do you foster behavior change and make it stick, whether on an individual or systems level?” Change is hard for our clients, our organizations, and even ourselves, but it doesn’t have to be. This webinar takes you on a deep dive into Tiny Habits®, a revolutionary method to promote lasting change in any setting. The method is based on Stanford Professor BJ Fogg’s breakthrough behavior model that addresses the 10 most common mistakes people make when trying to change behavior. This webinar will revolutionize how you think about behavior change and what you do about it for your clients, organization, and even for yourself in your own life!
Duration: 1.5 hours
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Substance Use Disorders
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) remains one of the most effective forms of treatment for those struggling with substance use disorders and mental health diagnoses. This program will review the basic core components of CBT and present modifications for implementation in substance use treatment programs. Participants will become familiar with the step-by-step process of applying CBT to individual and group sessions. Attendees will be provided a toolbox to assist their clients with creating new responses to triggers to help along the path of recovery beyond the treatment setting.
Duration: 1 hour
Authentic Self-Care for Addiction Professionals
Does life feel out of control? Are you resentful? Many of us are drawn to addiction work due to our history, family, and personal traits, such as compassion and empathy. While these experiences and strengths can be great assets, they can also be detrimental. In this webinar, we will identify healthy and unhealthy traits, how we can care for ourselves, and what authentic self-care looks like. We have been told of the importance of self-care but what does that mean for us? We will identify our personal challenges, triggers, and needs in order to create authentic self-care plans. Caring for yourself will benefit your family, those you work with, and of course, you! Codependent and related tendencies can be successfully combatted with awareness, self-care, and other supports.
Duration: 1 hour
Influences on Addiction and Mental Health in the LGBT Population
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities are reported to have higher incidences of substance misuse. This webinar will focus on the influences on the LGBT population that lead to higher rates of using substances as a coping skill, provide a self-assessment of your preparation for providing services to LGBT clients, and examine your practices for LGBT affirmative practices. Topics include the societal influences of minority stress, micro-aggressions, victimization, religion, visibility management, and invisibility management. Ways to gain knowledge about LGBT issues will allow participants to explore their own biases that influence their work with LGBT clients. The webinar will conclude with best practices for providing affirmative services to LGBT clients.
Duration: 2 hours
Intersection of Race, Culture, Chronic Disease and Chronic Pain
Up to 50 million Americans live with chronic pain at any given time. Minorities who suffer with chronic and intractable pain are facing widespread stigma and public misunderstanding of the difference between tolerance, physical dependence, and addiction when treating a chronic illness. What roles do race and culture play in prescribing practices, pain reporting and treatment, and psychological outcomes? Because chronic pain can affect one's mental health, counseling can be an integral key in treatment. As therapists who practice within multidisciplinary teams or within the community, what is our role in helping to manage chronic pain management?
Duration: 2 hours
Living in a Cloud: Adolescent Nicotine Use
Though adolescent cigarette smoking rates have decreased over the past four decades with fewer than 1 in 25 teens reporting daily tobacco use, e-cigarette use has increased two-fold. There are still lower rates of adolescent nicotine use overall, but a potentially dangerous trend has emerged with the increased use of vaping. Cigarette companies are not allowed to market their products to adolescents, but they have found other ways to create a new teen culture through the sponsorship of vaping “cloud” competitions. The purpose of this presentation is to explore the psychopharmacology of nicotine use, the culture of vaping, and strategies for prevention and treatment. Participants will learn how healthy factors of adolescent development add to the risk of becoming addicted to nicotine.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, On the Global Coronavirus Crisis: Steering Ourselves and Our Clients Through New & Developing Traumas
Join Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of the New York Times #1 bestselling author The Body Keeps The Score and learn timely (and critically important) approaches for all of us in the helping professions. Dr. van der Kolk will give you specific and practical approaches, with your community, and with your clients to address creating connection and community in this global crisis and activities to share with clients that keep them attached and out of re-experiencing past traumas.
Duration: 30 minutes
Counseling Adolescent and Minority Clients with Substance Use Disorders
It is has been repeatedly proven that a lack of cultural competency can and will lead to poorer outcomes in the provision of services to minority populations. This may be especially true of adolescent and transition aged (16-25) clients who may operate more singularly from the world views and perspectives of their own culture than adults who may have more insight and ability to forgive missteps by providers. While these facts are now very well known, it is still difficult for counselors to access training that provides them a real springboard into multicultural competency. This free webinar will provide them with methods of becoming effective that are not restricted to learning "fun facts" about various cultures and calling it a day.
Duration: 1 hour
Parents with PTSD: How Addiction Can Re-traumatize Families
It is well documented that addiction can have significant collateral impacts on parents, extended family, partners and friends. But what happens when these care-givers and supports also have their own Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) history? Living with, loving, and supporting a person with addiction can become personal: triggering parents, partners, and families to relive their own trauma history. This presentation will discuss how ACES can impact the family system, and will address specific support/treatment strategies using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness. Also addressed will be the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, a body of groundbreaking research that looked at how childhood trauma affects long-term health.
Duration: 1 hour
Strength-Based Mind-Body Practice: Building Internal Resources
This webinar offers ideas, examples and guidance for integrating Mind-Body techniques into the Solution-Focused approach. Mind-Body work can enhance the therapeutic relationship and possible successful outcomes. A variety of techniques will be explored, such as body scans, recall, somatic experiencing and more! Presenters will also offer considerations for enhancing personal supervision style through Mind-Body work.
Duration: 1 hour
Healing Addiction and Shame Through Self-Compassion
Shame is a common denominator that runs deep through people struggling with substance use disorders. Only when shame is brought to light can it be healed through empathy and self-compassion. Utilizing the research of Brené Brown, Kristin Neff, and Tim Desmond, this workshop will discuss components and functions of shame and self-compassion from a scientific and philosophical framework and provide resources for specific tools for utilizing self-compassion in the therapy room.
Duration: 2 hours
Ensuring Fidelity to Motivational Interviewing Among Frontline Service Providers
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based treatment protocol often used when treating individuals with substance use disorders. The literature supports MI as an effective strategy for reducing symptoms of substance use disorders. However, while many service providers express agreement with the spirit of MI and align ideologically with MI, MI is a detailed treatment protocol that requires training and skill. This webinar will explore how fidelity to MI was monitored at Prism Health North Texas, an HIV/AIDS service organization in Dallas, Texas. We will detail specific tools, continuous improvement and evaluation processes, and practical strategies that increase fidelity to MI principles among care coordinators.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Guidelines to Developing Competence with Mindfulness-Based Interventions
With the expanding use of mindfulness-based interventions in behavioral healthcare generally, and addiction counseling specifically, there have been emerging concerns over ensuring educational, training, and competency standards with these interventions. This webinar will provide an overview of six emerging guidelines for promoting competence with mindfulness-based interventions. It will also highlight adherence scales that can enhance training and supervision, as well as resources for further development.
Duration: 1 hour
What Addiction Professionals Should Know About Medical Marijuana
Medical marijuana is now broadly or partially legalized in 28 states, though it remains illegal under federal law. Variation in laws can create confusion for mental health professionals, raising a number of questions for mental health professionals in both clinical and forensic settings. This confusion has led to many questions by practitioners, such as: What does the law say about medical marijuana in my state? How do I know whether my client is using medical marijuana therapeutically vs. abusing it? What are the risks, side effects, and potential drawbacks of medical marijuana? If my client uses medical marijuana, can employers discriminate against him or her? What do I do if a client is referred to me for substance use disorder treatment but is legally taking prescribed marijuana? This webinar seeks to answer these questions and more.
Duration: 2 hours
Changing Minds: Implementing Harm Reduction
This webinar will focus on the impact of staff training to change staff attitudes regarding harm reduction interventions. The training will outline a process undertaken at The Bridge of Central MA from 2016-2017, using the Learning Collaborative model to plan and execute trainings in harm reduction. The presentation will review the tracking of process and outcomes using the Harm Reduction Acceptability Scale (HRAS), and recommendations for implementing similar training packages in a variety of settings.
Duration: 1 hour
Journey Through Grief and Loss
This webinar with help participants explore the various components of grief and loss. It will identify different losses in an individual's life. It will look at the various forms of grief: anticipatory, complicated, and disenfranchised. It will help participants identify how grief affects individuals from a physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual perspective. It will address when grief is complicated and ways to help individuals address complicated grief. This webinar will also help participants identify warning signs associated with grief and loss, and how to support individuals who are experiencing intense emotions.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Safety, Ethics, and The Elephant in the Room
Presented by Wanda L. Anderson, MSW, LCSW
Duration: 1 hour
National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative: Training for Child Welfare Professionals
Free state-of-the-art, web-based, standardized training that gives you the ability to learn at your own pace. This curriculum offers 8 interactive learning modules focused on casework practice. These modules include: 1.) A Case For Adoption 2.) Understanding and Addressing Mental Health Needs of Children Moving Towards or Having Achieved Permanence through Adoption or Guardianship 3.) Enhancing Attachment and Bonding for Children Moving Towards/Having Achieved Permanence through Adoption and Guardianship 4.) How Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Class and Diversity Impact the Adoption and Guardianship Experience and Mental Health Needs of Children 5.) The Impact of Loss and Grief Experience on Children’s Mental Health 6.) The Impact of Early and Ongoing Trauma on Child and Family Development, Brain Growth and Development, and Mental Health 7.) Positive Identity Formation and the Impact of Adoption and Guardianship 8.) The Lifelong Journey: Maintaining Children’s Stability and Well-being in Adoptive and Guardianship Families
Duration: 20 Hours There is an additional 5 hours of supervisor-specific lessons with downloadable "Supervisor Coaching and Activity Guide"
Enhancing Your Clinical Practice with Adoptive & Guardianship Families: An Overview of the NTI Web-based Training for Mental Health Professionals
Presented by: Debbie Riley, LCMFT, CEO, Center for Adoption Support and Education
Duration: 80 minutes
National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative: Training for Mental Health Professionals
Free state-of-the-art, web-based, standardized training that gives you the ability to learn at your own pace. This curriculum offers 10 interactive learning modules focused on assessment, support and therapeutic interventions. These modules include: 1.) A Case For Adoption Competency 2.) Understanding and Addressing the Completex Mental Health Needs of Children & Youth in Adoptive and Guardianship Families 3.) Attachment, Child Development, and Mental Health - Promoting Security in Adoptive and Guardianship Families 4.) The Impact of Loss and Grief Experiences on Children’s & Youth's Mental Health 5.) Trauma and the Impact of Adverse Experiences on Brain Development and Mental Health 6.) Understanding the Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Class and Diversity on Children and Families: Implications for Mental Health Practice 7.) Identity Formation and the Impact of Adoption and Guardianship 8.) Assessment and Treatment Planning with Children and Families Experiencing Adoption or Guardianship 9.) Using Therapeutic Parenting Strategies to Address Children's Challenging Behavior 10.) Family Stability and Wellness Post Permanency
Duration: 30 Hours
The Supportive Housing Field Responds to COVID-19
Join CSH for a webinar series designed for anyone providing and housing and services in this crisis where we will: highlight what we have learned in the past week; provide examples of best practices from communities across the country; and discuss what information and resources the field needs. Past webinars are posted and available, including resources and slides
Duration: 30 Minutes
COVID19 - Techniques & Strategies for Support by Phone
Steve Crimando is with DMHAS Disaster and Terrorism Branch. He is a leader in responding to incidents worldwide and instrumental in NJ’s response to events. Please scroll below to listen to a recording of today’s webinar on providing support by phone, an adjustment to the DRCC response.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Coronavirus and Housing/Homelessness
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL) joined speakers from the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness and more to share updates and resources needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic for people experiencing homelessness and low-income renters.
Host: National Low Income Housing Coalition
Duration: 1.75 hours
COVID-19 Health Crisis: Getting Through This Together, School Social Work in a Changing Landscape
This webinar will review the impact of COVID-19 on us as mental health professionals, the ethical responsibilities in meeting the needs of students during this health crisis, guidance related to mental health service delivery, strategies for talking with families and resources to support your practice.
Duration: 1 hour
Medication First: Integration of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Across the Healthcare System
Medication First programs get persons with OUD maintenance medical treatment as quickly as possible and provide voluntary supportive services as needed. A patient’s access to medical treatment is not dependent upon psychosocial treatment compliance or unrealistic expectations about the course of treatment and recovery. The Medication First approach is supported by decades of research. It prioritizes client choice in both service selection and service participation. Expanding the Medication First or “low-threshold” medical approach to opioid use disorder will be essential to reversing the epidemic of opioid-related deaths.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Supporting Children Who Lose Parents to Accidental Overdose
Many children unexpectedly lost a parent to an accidental overdose over the past decade. Many of these children had encountered public systems such as child welfare, mental health, and juvenile probation, both before and after the death of their parent(s). As the opioid crisis persists, this webinar considers specific issues affecting the children left behind. Both presenters discuss implications for the future, including the ways that systems and helping professionals need to adjust to accommodate the growing number children who have lost parents to overdose over the course of their development into adults.
Duration: 75 Minutes
Using Affinity Groups to Advance Black Men to the C-Suite (Virtual Barbership Series)
This conversation will focus on the uphill challenge of increasing racial diversity in the executive suites of community-based organizations. For Black men, the challenge of matriculating to the C-suite is complex and often fraught with an uneven playing field, unconscious bias, and emotional baggage. If real change is to occur, executives who are men of color must foster and sustain affinity groups to teach, advocate, and promote the strategies and benefits of advancing equity, particularly from sharing their professional experiences and research-informed recommendations.
Duration: 1 hour
Getting Real about Workplace Racism (Virtual Barbership Series)
Being Black in America means many things, but one of the most prevalent issues is experiencing racism on a daily basis on multiple fronts. From standard microaggressions on up through direct confrontations, the men who'll be waiting on their haircuts at our barbershop have experienced it all. Black male senior executives in community-based organizations from across the country will share their experiences of confronting and dealing with racism in their daily lives. Hear how they handle it when it's unintended, when it comes from a donor or key stakeholder, or when it happens in the most unexpected places.
Duration: 1 hour
Black Man, Black Man, Where are You? (Virtual Barbership Series)
Examine and explore the role of Black male leaders and leadership development in community-based human services organizations. There is an undeniable absence of Black male leaders in senior and executive leadership positions within our sector. We’ll discuss what is causing this absence and, more importantly, what we can or should do about it. We will also share perspectives on the recent tragedy surrounding George Floyd. We’ll reflect on what Black men should understand from this tragedy and, more importantly, where we, as a society, go from here—exactly what needs to change and how that change happens.
Duration: 1 hour
Black Male Executives on COVID-19 (Virtual Barbership Series)
During this webinar, the first in a series of "virtual barbershops," we will discuss inequities and COVID-19, particularly the virus' impact on African American men and communities of color. One in three people who became sick enough to require hospitalization were African American. African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population. The lack of access to testing, higher chronic disease burden, and historical racial bias within health care institutions are all contributing to higher rates of sickness and death. During this conversational webinar, several African American male executives will share their stories, experiences, and recommendations for increasing organizational capacity to reduce inequities in health outcomes.
Duration: 1 hour
What more can be done to address the intersection of mental health, substance use disorders, social determinants of health and racism? The death of Walter Wallace shines a light on racial disparities for black and brown people in our communities. For people of color who live with behavioral health conditions, addressing racism to advance personal, family and community well-being is a daily practice. Application of social theories to address structural and institutional constructs can and should be lead by the very people impacted. Marrying theory with human-centered design—learning from the journey of those who are impacted by changes in policies, programs and practices—can yield innovative ways to move from cultural competency to structural competency and change.
Duration: 1 hour
Supporting Older Adults in Emergencies: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
The Focus on Aging webinar series addresses important topics for public health and health care professionals, aging services organizations, the research community, and other stakeholders in aging. The series is a joint project of four of the federal agencies that support the health and wellness of older adults in the U.S.: the Administration for Community Living, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the National Institute on Aging at the NIH. Each webinar includes information specific to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, as well as their caregivers.
Duration: 90 minutes
Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults
Human beings are social creatures, thriving on connections with others. These connections can help to reduce social isolation and loneliness and lower risk for a variety of physical and mental health conditions. This webinar will focus on how social isolation and loneliness affect older adults’ health and well-being, particularly amid the unique challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar will also address social isolation and loneliness in the context of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, emphasize the impact of health disparities, and provide information on potential interventions and mitigating technologies.
Duration: 90 minutes
Returning Citizens: Resources for Incarcerated Individuals
This webinar is part of the NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility and Reconciliation Series. Join us for a Community Conversation with Helena D. Lewis, DSW, LCSW, reentry specialist and special guests. On October 19, NJ Governor, Phil Murphy, signed a bill that will release thousands of New Jersey prisoners due to the danger posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us to learn about resources available for these returning citizens.
Duration: 70 minutes
Join us for a Community Conversation with Executive Director of Manavi, and Legal Advocate on addressing gender-based violence in the South Asian community and to learn about the culturally specific services provided by Manavi. With a mission to end all forms of violence against women, Manavi began as an awareness campaign on issues concerning South Asian women; today it continues to centralize women’s needs and interests in all its organizational decisions and service provisions. Manavi simultaneously addresses both the immediate needs of women facing abuse and the long-term vision of establishing peaceful communities free from gender-based violence.
Duration: 1 hour
Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
This online MBSR training course is 100% free, created by a fully certified MBSR instructor, and is based on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Here you will find a complete eight-week MBSR course, designed for people who are not able to take a live MBSR course for financial or logistical reasons. All of the materials used in the live courses I taught, including guided meditations, articles and videos, are freely available here. "Mindfulness" is used in many contexts nowadays and there are many different understandings of the term. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a blend of meditation, body awareness, and yoga: learning through practice and study how your body handles (and can resolve) stress neurologically.
Family Environment Instability: How Early Childhood Shapes Social Maladjustments Over Time
Early family contexts can shape the trajectories of children’s adjustment throughout childhood. Families can provide a safe and stable base for children that is protective against adversity. However, when family environments are not stable (e.g., when parents/parent figures are moving in and out), children may suffer. Join Dr. Elizabeth Karberg of Child Trends, as she explores how family instability in early childhood shapes children’s social (mal)adjustment over time.
Duration: 1 hour
Online Teaching Strategies: Tips and Guidance from the Field
We are starting this school year with many questions. Will we teach students in classrooms? Or, will we engage them via ZOOM? (Based on current conditions, ZOOM looks more and more likely.) Our big question is… how do we effectively teach relationship skills virtually? In March, Dibble convened a working group of clients who were moving instruction online. Together, we created this free Online Teaching Toolkit. Join us in a conversation with several experienced practitioners who were part of that effort to learn how they successfully moved their instruction in Dibble materials into the virtual world.
Duration: 1 hour
Fatherhood: Building Self-Sufficient and Resilient Families
This is an interactive webinar describing the roles of responsible fatherhood (RF) programming in state and non-profit fatherhood organizations.
The State of Ohio RF programming is supported through state TANF and was supported by the 2015 Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood (HM/RF) grant. Kimberly Dent addresses useful information for future HMI/RF grantees in addition to how a father’s past trauma influences his future success and challenges.
Duration: 1 hour
Mind Matters Lesson 1: Self Soothing
Self-Soothing is a skill that is developed over time, through practice The goal of self-soothing is to dial-down the reactive response of the body’s central nervous system. A traumatized person needs a means of reducing the automatic reactivity of their nervous system. Self-soothing will help. You will learn and practice four self-soothing skills that you can use personally as well as share with colleagues and clients.
Duration: 1 hour
Building Partnerships to Enhance the Peer Workforce
In this webinar, you will have an opportunity to learn about the benefits of building partnerships between organizations. In efforts of enhancing and strengthening the peer workforce; it is a crucial time for collaborative partnerships to form and for organizations to have the skills to maintain sustainable, mutual and complementary community partnerships. This webinar will highlight the voices of peer organizations that are already putting these concepts into practice and will explore some simple steps for building partnerships that have successful outcomes for the growth of a peer workforce.
Duration: 1 hour
Physical Wellness for Work: A Guide for Peer Specialists
Too many people with behavioral health challenges are not working or work in jobs that are not satisfying or stimulating because they have physical health issues that get in the way. Success at work requires a level of stamina, energy, and concentration that can be hard to sustain without daily wellness habits and routines. Physical Wellness for Work is a manual of activities and information for increasing workplace health and well-being. Developed for people in recovery who are living with a mental health condition, peer specialists can use this as a self-guided tool or as a tool to help others think about how their wellness affects their ability to get and keep a job. Join Dr. Cook and Dr. Swarbrick for this webinar to learn more about this free resource along with how to access training and technical assistance for using it.
Duration: 1 hour
Trauma and Mental Health Peer Support
Trauma is a factor in many people's lives and can lead to challenges that encompass all facets of living. This presentation will describe basic information about the characteristics and prevalence of trauma - relevant to the work of mental health peer specialists. Risk factors and protective factors will be reviewed so that peer supporters are better grounded in providing trauma-informed care in supporting recovery and resilience. The presentation will review the importance of language and perspective in working with someone who has or is experiencing trauma. It will also highlight how mental health peer specialists can benefit by shifting the focus to emotional understanding and strengths-based interactions that support successful recovery.
Duration: 1 hour
National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
As the United States population continues to diversify, peer specialists must find ways to provide equitable, effective care and services to the culturally and linguistically diverse populations they serve. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health developed the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care to offer a framework for delivering services that are respectful of and responsive to each person’s culture and communication needs. This webinar will introduce the concept of culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS), provide an overview of the National CLAS Standards, share key findings from organizations that have implemented the National CLAS Standards, and provide actionable recommendations for successful implementation of the National CLAS Standards.
Duration: 1 hour
Crisis Engagement Strategies
In acute and crisis situations, peer support specialists can become an essential part of the recovery process for individuals under duress. Peer support specialists engage, empower, and advocate for people in acute and crisis settings.
Duration: 1 hour
Peer Support and Smoking Cessation
Why talk about smoking cessation and peer support specialists? According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide.1 "Approximately 1 in 4 (or 25%) of adults in the U.S. have some form of mental health or substance use disorder, and these adults consume almost 40% of all cigarettes smoked." This webinar will highlight the importance of peer support and a plan for individuals taking a journey toward smoking cessation. It will also offer tips for supporters at different stages of a person’s journey toward self-liberation from cigarettes.
Duration: 1 hour
How Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Can Help Prevent Bullying
This interactive webinar focused on the latest research on bullying among children and adolescents and explored strategies for using social and emotional learning (SEL) to prevent bullying. Social and emotional learning helps children and adolescents to manage their emotions, empathize with others, and develop positive relationships. (1) It provides an important framework for schools to use in helping students acquire and strengthen social and emotional skills to prevent bullying behaviors and support inclusion and respect. (2) Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D., M.Ed. of the University of Virginia and Tracy Waasdorp, Ph.D., M.Ed of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health described their research and practice in applying social and emotional learning to the prevention of bullying. The webinar was moderated by Jim Vetter, Ed.M. of Education Development Center (EDC) and the Social-Emotional Learning Alliance for Massachusetts (SEL4MA).
In this 60-minute webinar, AHP's Patrick Gauthier and Fran Basche explain why every effective accountable care organization (ACO) must have a vibrant behavioral health workforce development plan -- and walk you through exactly how to create one.
Current events like the COVID-19 pandemic, public images of police brutality, and an economic downturn have led to an increase in long-lasting physical and emotional stress in people across the world. These traumatic experiences have led to or exacerbated mental illnesses, substance use, and physical health conditions. Trauma-informed care (TIC) has become a widely recognized paradigm for creating safe spaces for individuals who have experienced trauma and reducing the likelihood that accessing services would cause re-traumatization. But what exactly is trauma and the trauma-informed care framework?
HRC's All Children - All Families Training Series
Human Rights Campaign's All Children - All Families regularly provides online learning offerings covering promising practices in serving LGBTQ children, youth and families. To watch the recordings at no cost, click "View Recorded Webinar" and fill out the short form. You will then receive an email with instructions for viewing the webinar. Their trainings cover five domains: Core Curriculum, Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Parents, Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Youth, Caring for LGBTQ Youth (For Caregivers), and LGBTQ Inclusion Strategies for Agency Leadership.
Duration: Multiple Training Opportunities (1 hour to 90 minutes each)
School to Prison Pipeline
Recorded live on August 18, 2020. This webinar is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series.
Duration: 1 hour
This Community Conversation is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. As the country wrestles with the impact of institutionalized racism and the pandemic, nowhere is the weight of this emotional trauma greater than for parents of color. Join us with special guest, Kecia Melvin, LCSW for this important conversation.
Duration: 1 hour
Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Substance Use Disorders: From Theory to Practice
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been found to be effective for treating a variety of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). This webinar will review the CBT model of substance use, as well as practical treatment strategies and tools to best help individuals affected by SUDs. Resources for further information will be provided.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Medication First: Integration of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Across the Healthcare System
Medication First programs get persons with OUD maintenance medical treatment as quickly as possible and provide voluntary supportive services as needed. A patient’s access to medical treatment is not dependent upon psychosocial treatment compliance or unrealistic expectations about the course of treatment and recovery. The Medication First approach is supported by decades of research. It prioritizes client choice in both service selection and service participation. Expanding the Medication First or “low-threshold” medical approach to opioid use disorder will be essential to reversing the epidemic of opioid-related deaths.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Supporting Children Who Lose Parents to Accidental Overdose
Many children unexpectedly lost a parent to an accidental overdose over the past decade. Many of these children had encountered public systems such as child welfare, mental health, and juvenile probation, both before and after the death of their parent(s). As the opioid crisis persists, this webinar considers specific issues affecting the children left behind. Both presenters discuss implications for the future, including the ways that systems and helping professionals need to adjust to accommodate the growing number children who have lost parents to overdose over the course of their development into adults.
Duration: 75 Minutes
Preventing Suicide and Self-Harm Among Black Youth
This webinar focused on the epidemiology of suicide and self-harm among Black youth, identified evidence-based and informed strategies for prevention, risk and protective factors, barriers to prevention and resources available to providers. Dr. Crystal Barksdale of the National Institute of Mental Health discussed the most recent data on suicide and suicidal behaviors among Black youth. She described risk and protective factors for suicide and deleterious mental health outcomes. Dr. Rhonda Boyd of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine presented barriers to intervention engagement among Black youth and current evidence for suicide prevention, including screening and treatment. She shared information regarding organizations and websites that are important resources for practitioners. Elly Stout, Director of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at Education Development Center, moderated the webinar.
Duration: 1 hour
Middle Management Academy Summer Series
The MMA Summer Series is free and designed to provide quick tools and resources for managers, supervisors and team leaders on how to effectively lead during a public health crisis. The series will have three topic areas: Day-to-Day Supervision; Stress, Chaos, Self-care and Wellness; and Strengths-based Leadership. Within each topic area, there will be between one and three parts that include videos, slide decks and resources that provide guidance.
Duration: 4 hours (4 - 1 hour segments)
Youth Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based approach to identifying patients who use alcohol and other drugs at risky levels. The goal of SBIRT is to reduce and prevent related health consequences, disease, accidents and injuries. Module 1: Introduction to SBIRT & Screening; Module 2: Brief Intervention and Motivational Interviewing; Module 3: Referral to Treatment & Ongoing Management in Primary Care; Module 4: Data Driven Decision Making
Duration: 3 hours (4 modules)
Virtual Supervision - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 1
With the child welfare workforce currently working from home, supervision is more important than ever to ensure continued quality service provision and to keep children safe and families together. How is supervision changing to respond to this new virtual world? What adjustments are being made? This webinar offers expert guidance on virtual supervision and provides opportunities for participants to ask questions and exchange information.
Duration: 1 hour
Well Being - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 2
In these uncertain times, we are all presented with new concerns. Our national child welfare workforce and leaders also find themselves facing new challenges and stressors as everything about the old “normal” is changing. In this session, Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer will provide hopeful perspectives, concrete action steps and tools, and words of comfort and support for our workforce to help them manage through this crisis. Participants will receive ideas to cope and prepare to be in the best position and condition possible as we begin to rebuild together.
Duration: 75 minutes
Physical, Emotional and Psychological Safety - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 3
During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers provide critical services to their communities. As essential public servants, it is important that they have systems in place to ensure their safety during home visits and working in the field. This session explores how child welfare programs are innovating to protect their frontline workers’ physical, emotional, and psychological safety.
Duration: 1 hour
Converting Classroom Training From In-Person to Online - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 4
Much of child welfare professional development, especially foundational training for new workers, takes place in-person. Because of the current situation, training needs to be available online in order to continue to meet the needs of our workforce. This webinar will provide information on converting in-person experiences to virtual learning platforms, as almost anything that can be taught in the classroom can also go online (really!). Learn tips, tricks, and ways to overcome barriers. We will also provide opportunities for webinar participants to ask questions and share information and resources.
Duration: 75 minutes
Coaching Remotely - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 5
Coaching in the child welfare workforce often happens face-to-face or in context of daily work activities. With our shift to virtual work, face-to-face contact may have been curtailed but connecting and supporting growth does not need to stop. This session will explore what stays the same and what adjustments must be made when coaching remotely.
Duration: 75 minutes
Using Social Media and Technology to Engage Children, Youth and Families - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 6
During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers are using technology to communicate with families, and foster parents are using technology to connect youth in their care to services and maintain connection between youth and their biological families. This webinar offers considerations and best practices to support child welfare workers as they use technology with the families they serve.
Duration: 75 minutes
Youth Can Help with Preparedness
National Preparedness Month is held every September to promote the way families and communities engage in disaster and emergency planning. One of this year's themes was “Teach Youth to Prepare for Disasters.” This webinar includes discussion on how Youth Preparedness Councils (YPCs) can have an impact on improving community resilience and how new emergency and disaster readiness tools and programs geared toward kids are now available online.
National Preparedness Month is held every September to promote the way families and communities engage in disaster and emergency planning. One of this year's themes was “Teach Youth to Prepare for Disasters.” This webinar includes discussion on how Youth Preparedness Councils (YPCs) can have an impact on improving community resilience and how new emergency and disaster readiness tools and programs geared toward kids are now available online.
Human Trafficking: The Hidden Crime (2020)
This webinar features a subject matter expert from Homeland Security Investigations tasked with investigating and dismantling human tracking efforts throughout the country. Human trafficking is a hidden crime and it can happen in any community; victims can be of any age, race, gender or nationality. The first step to fighting the battle is to identify victims so they can be rescued and help bring offenders to justice. Education and awareness is the route to a safer community.
Helping Helpers (2020)
Disaster plans primarily focus on how to help crisis survivors, but who’s helping the helpers? The police, first responders and CERTs who help people get back on their feet after a disaster need help too. Raquelle from FEI Workforce, a company with a long history in enhancing workforce resiliency, offers insights on how to support first responders.
Effective Interpersonal Communications for CERT (2020)
Effective communication skills are the pillars of building relationships, fostering teamwork, and increasing productivity and resilience. Raquelle Solon from FEI Workforce provides information and tools to enhance and improve your communications between each other and for those you serve.
Emergencies: Psychological Aspects in the Preparation and Response Phase (2019)
Learn about the importance of psychological preparedness for emergencies and some of the internal factors that influence people to prepare. This webinar features Ingrid Perez, Planning Specialist in the Capacity Building Sector’s Continuity of Operations Unit at the FEMA Caribbean Area Division. This presentation primarily focuses on why some individuals are more proactive than others when preparing for emergencies and also provides general recommendations to support psychological preparedness.
Trauma-Informed Management of People in Crisis (2019)
What is “trauma” from a psychological standpoint? Find out the answer to this question and how crises effect individuals. Webinar attendees will gain a better understanding of how to recognize signs of stress in coworkers, the general public, or themselves; and develop approaches on how to effectively manage them.
Psychological First Aid for CERT (2020)
Join this deep-dive session to learn strategies on how to address psychological stress in yourself, coworkers, or general public during the course of your emergency response.
Emotional Consequences Of Public Health Emergencies (2020)
Learn about the unique aspects of managing the emotional consequences of public health emergencies and the response required to effectively address them.
Psychological Resilience (2020)
This webinar focuses on steps individuals can take in their everyday lives to improve their mental health and personal resilience. These simple, yet powerful practices can help sustain the energy, focus and balance during times of extreme stress. Susan Snyde, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a trainer for the City of Berkeley Community Emergency Response Team is the featured speaker.
The webinar features the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and their role and the programs they provide during a Public Health Emergency; including Medicare and Medicaid flexibilities and waivers. Examples of these programs during a disaster, include Medicaid, Medicare Fee for Service, and Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans. Available in Spanish.
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Helping Children Cope During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out emotional reactions in children that may be difficult to cope with. This webinar discusses strategies and activities to promote positive coping in childern. Yvonne Muzquiz from AmeriCares Hurricane Harvey response is the featured speaker (English version) and Dr. Ivelisse Morales from AmeriCares Puerto Rico is the featured speaker (Spanish version).
The Continuous Improvement Process: How Your Organization Can Document Lessons Learned from COVID-19
Continuous Improvement (CI) can improve operational and programmatic outcomes by building upon what is going well and correcting what needs to be fixed. Learn what it takes to conduct CI related activitie, including how to prepare for and facilitate an After-Action Review. Features representatives from the CI team who also provide real-world examples.
Stress Management Related to Isolation, Social Distancing, and Quarantine
Social distancing is necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19 but can have significant impacts on mental health. Certain groups, such as individuals with preexisting mental health conditions and healthcare workers, are experiencing high levels of stress during the time. In this webinar, AmeriCares discusses stress management strategies for adults and children. Available in Spanish.
Americares – Grief and Losses During the COVID-19 Crisis
Grief is a natural reaction to loss and a complex process that is different for everyone. This webinar reviews the stages of grief, provides strategies on how to cope and ways to support individuals during this process. Available in Spanish.
Flourishing in Adolescence: A Virtual Workshop
The Forum for Children’s Well-Being hosted a one-day virtual workshop on Flourishing in Adolescence. The virtual workshop was held on May 5, 2020 and included discussions about best practices in providing and supporting adolescent health services and key messaging and communication strategies related to adolescent mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Additionally, the workshop featured a panel of youth representatives who shared their own experiences related to mental, emotional, and behavioral health. The workshop videos and presentations are now available.
Duration: 5 hours
As essential workers, it is not surprising that Social Workers experience compassion fatigue. What is it? How can you tell if you are experiencing it? What are some of the treatments? Join Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, a nationally renowned expert and author on Mind and Body Techniques as we explore the emotional and physical exhaustion that can occur during the pandemic.
Duration: 1 hour
Understanding the Final Rule for 42 CFR Part 2 and Next Steps
In preparation for the final rule to go into effect and to educate members about the changes included in the CARES Act, the APA jointly hosted a webinar, Understanding the Final Rule for 42 CFR Part 2 and Next Steps, with the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the American Society of Addiction Medicine on August 12, 2020. You may slides and additional resources here.
Discussing Issues of Race with Young Children
NASW New Jersey presents a community conversation with Dr. La'Tesha Sampson, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW. Recorded live on June 19, 2020.
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded live on June 25, 2020. This webinar is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. Join NASW-NJ's Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson, MSW, Dr. Tawanda Hubbard, LCSW, and Dr. Widian Nicola, LCSW, for a discussion regarding race and trauma. This program will examine the systems that perpetuate intergenerational trauma related to racism. Presented by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1.25 hours
Recorded live June 30, 2020 and facilitated by Bianca Mayes, MPH, CHES of Garden State Equality and Jennifer Thompson, MSW Executive Director NASW NJ|DE.This community conversation discusses the history of LGBTQ pride including the Compton Cafeteria Riots (1966) which preceded the well-known Stonewall Riots (1969). Through the transgender community's activisim around police brutality, the origins of pride began! Queer liberation and racial justice are still incorporated in today's climate through the Black Lives Matter movement and the current rallies against police brutality and injustice. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Join social workers Sharea Farmer, LCSW, and Jennifer Thompson, MSW, to discuss how self-care is a form of activism. As we navigate a national health crisis, and ways to be part of social change and justice we cannot forget the importance of caring for ourselves. During this time when stress and uncertainty are running high, we need to listen to our bodies, hearts and minds so we can find resiliency and renew our lives and work. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Kristin Miller, LCSW and NASW-NJ's Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson, MSW lead a conversation about what white privilege and white fragility mean and the concept of racial identity development. This Community Conversation is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Parental Addiction
The trauma of parental addiction can impact children’s long-term wellness. But there are strategies you can use to mitigate these harmful effects and help children cope. In this webinar, content creator Kama Einhorn walks us through the Parental Addiction topic page. She shares key messages and offers ways you might use these resources in your work with kids and families. Learning Goals: Learn more about the impact of parental addiction on children and families. Become familiar with the Parental Addiction topic page on Sesame Street in Communities. Gain actionable strategies to use to support children and families. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences – Office Hour
The Big Idea: The Sesame Street in Communities team has created resources to help you help kids and families cope after traumatic experiences. Watch this recording of our live session where Senior Content Manager, Kama Einhorn, talks about resources from the Traumatic Experiences topic page. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Helping Kids Grieve - Office Hours
The Big Idea: The Sesame Street in Communities team has created resources to help you support young children and families through their experiences of grief. Watch this recording of our live session where Senior Content Manager, Kama Einhorn, talks about resources from the Helping Kids Grieve topic page. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Understanding Bullying
The Big Idea: Bullying is an important issue in our world—one that we can address early in a child’s life! In this webinar, we’ll talk about how bullying affects young children, and explore ways that as providers, we can empower parents and caregivers to help prevent bullying in the lives of their children. With the Senior Vice President of Curriculum and Content at Sesame Street, dive into some of our resources and look at how they might be integrated into your work with families and children. Learning Goals: Explore the topic of bullying and describe it from the perspective of a preschooler. Talk about assumptions we have when exploring a topic like bullying. Learn strategies to respond to bullying appropriately, as well as pro-social strategies to prevent bullying behavior in the first place. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Sesame Street And Autism: Resources You Can Use
In this webinar, you’ll learn how you can use Sesame Street Autism resources to build acceptance, inclusivity, awareness, and understanding among the children and families that you serve. Goals: Discover resources that will grow your own understanding of autism and the autism spectrum. Learn how to use Sesame Street activities and content during daily routines to support and celebrate the uniqueness of every child, including those on the autism spectrum.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Hand in Hand: Helping Children Feel Safe and Find Hope After Events of Community Violence
When children hear learn of random acts of violence, whether near or far, their sense of safety in the world is challenged. Watch this webinar to learn strategies to help reassure, soothe, and comfort them. In this webinar, content creator Kama Einhorn will help us to understand the difficult reality of community violence and its effect on young children. More than that, she’ll walk us through five strategies we can use to offer comfort and hope to the children and families we care for. We’ll learn that even though can’t control many events, we still hold a lot of power in our own hands. Learning Goals: Define community violence, Understand how community violence may affect young children, Explore strategies to help children cope, and Look at ways providers and caregivers can take care of themselves during troubling times and after disturbing events so they can be at their best for children. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Taking Care of Myself
The Big Idea: The important caregivers in kids’ lives need care too! You do so much to help the children and families in your care. It’s important to remember to take good care of yourself so that you can be at your best to help those who you work with to grow and thrive. We’ve all experienced stress at some point. In this webinar, we’ll learn how to recognize stress symptoms and how they manifest in our own bodies and minds, and we’ll take a look at SSIC’s vast resources to help manage stress, think positively, and cope with emotions. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Guided Play with Roberta Golinkoff, Ph.D.
The Big Idea: Children can learn so much while they play, and grown-ups can add to that learning! Kids don’t have to be working hard to be learning. In fact, they can learn a lot while they play! In this webinar, hear from Dr. Roberta Golinkoff as she shares her insights into how children learn through play, and specifically guided play. She shares strategies that you can use to extend kids’ learning, playfully! Learning Goals: Discuss how children learn through different forms of play, and why each is important. Explore ways to facilitate playful learning in your setting. Learn ‘The Six C’s’ from Dr. Golinkoff’s book, Becoming Brilliant. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Handling Emergencies with Andrew Roszak
The Big Idea: We can all do our part to help our communities prepare for and recover from emergencies. Andrew Roszak’s job is to make sure child care providers and families have the information and tools they need to develop emergency preparedness plans to keep children safe and care for them during disasters. In this webinar, he shares helpful strategies for developing and practicing emergency preparedness plans in child care and family child care facilities. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences: First Steps to Hope (Part 1)
Nearly half of American children under 18 have had at least one type of adverse childhood experience. These experiences can cause physical, emotional, and psychological distress. In Part 1 of this webinar series, we’ll learn about how to help families cope with and overcome these traumatic situations. They will discuss ways to practice simple, consistent, and positive behaviors, to help children and families move forward and achieve health, safety, and happiness. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences: First Steps to Hope (Part 2)
In this webinar series, Ann Thomas, President and CEO of The Children’s Place, discusses the effects of childhood traumatic experiences and articulates strategies that providers can use to help kids and families cope. In part two of this series, Ann walks us through Sesame Workshop’s approach to helping kids and families through traumatic experiences, and examines many resources you can use in your own work with kids and families.Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Empowering Families with EMPath
Join Sesame Street as we talk with our friend, Beth Babcock, MCRP, PhD, from Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath). In this provider interview, Beth tells us what the latest brain science has to say about inter-generational mobility. She shares the frameworks that her team at EMPath uses to help families gain traction and achieve goals together. Learning Goals: Learn about designing environments to accommodate those under stress; Understand materials and tools that can be used to help those under stress; Find ways to stand beside families and help them practice finding, analyzing, and prioritizing their challenges and goals; Learn about how to help families build the executive function skillset that living in poverty often diminishes. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Brave, Strong, Resilient
This interactive, digital training experience is designed to help educators teach kids strategies for building resilience. Through a series of lessons, which include group activities, videos, and printables, children learn to express their feelings and solve problems. Resources are also available to help families practice these resiliency skills at home. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten)
Duration: 3+ Hours
Sesame Strong
Sesame Strong is a scope and sequence designed to support your family engagement efforts! It includes eight bundles full of resources you can use to connect with, celebrate, and support parents and caregivers. Use these resources to host mini-sessions with parents, or simply infuse key messages and big ideas into your everyday interactions with parents. Each bundle includes: A Key Caregiver Strategy. Supporting resources for caregivers: a parent reading, two video clips, a digital storybook, and a hands-on activity to try. Facilitation cues and activity ideas for hosting parent sessions in your setting. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Providers who work to support parents and caregivers
Duration: 3+ Hours
Supporting Military and Veteran Caregiving Families
This series, which includes nine bundles of SSIC resources, aims to help providers support military and veteran caregiving families. The bundles are designed to be implemented as workshops with families and include helpful language, digital resources to share, and hands-on activities to bring concepts to life. Providers are invited to use the ideas and activities in ways that complement their work. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 3+ Hours
Growing Together
The Big Idea: Take an interactive course to learn of ways to partner with families for school readiness across every aspect of child development. Learning Goals: To support school readiness strategies for Kindergarten readiness. To review the developmental domains of early childhood development. Build partnerships with families for student success.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten) Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 3+ Hours
Make Believe With Math
Join us for an interactive course designed for all early childhood educators! Together we’ll explore the importance of math and pretend play in early childhood, key math objectives for children ages 0-5, and ways to create more math moments in student’s lives, especially during pretend play. This course will provide fun and simple activities and ideas that you can begin using right away. This course is now open. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten)
Duration: 3+ Hours
Building a Reader
The Big Idea: An interactive course that explores key literacy goals, strategies, and activities to support learning around language and literacy in children ages 2-5. Join us for an interactive course that explores key literacy goals, strategies, and activities to support learning around language and literacy in young kids.Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten) of Language and Literacy
Duration: 3+ Hours
Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Children
Led by the Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center in Boston and in collaboration with the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, the NCTSN presents this webinar series designed to cover the impact of trauma on children during all phases of their migration journey. Nationally recognized speakers from NCTSN are joined by experts from the Irving Harris Foundation’s Professional Development Network to provide best practices for culturally responsive and trauma-informed provision of services. This series features diverse expertise from the fields of refugee and migrant health, cultural studies, mental health, early childhood development, childhood traumatic stress, trauma-informed systems of care, and secondary traumatic stress. Available in English and Spanish.
Culture, the Migration Journey, Trauma and Assessment
In this webinar developed by Lisa Fortuna, MD, Alisa B. Miller, PhD and Saida M. Abdi, MSW, foundational information is offered related to the intersection of culture, the migration journey, trauma and assessment. Description: In addition, recommendations for providing culturally responsive, child-friendly assessment and best practices are shared for working with interpreters for individuals who have direct contact with unaccompanied children (e.g., care provider staff) or work with people with direct contact with unaccompanied children (e.g., supervisors). Available in English and Spanish.
Culture, Development, Trauma, and Socio-Cultural Responsive Interventions with Youth Ages 7 and Older
Developed by Javier Rosado, PhD, Susana Rivera PhD, and Luis Flores, MA, this webinar defines traumatic separation and grief and outlines the developmental impacts on youth. Additionally, participants will learn how to be responsive to the cultural and linguistic needs of youth. Participants will learn children’s common fears and perceived threats to safety experienced by youth exposed to traumatic events as well as culturally responsive strategies for staff to use when working with youth. Available in English and Spanish.
Attachment, Development, Trauma, and Socio-Cultural Responsive Interventions for Young Children
This webinar, developed by Marta Casas LMHC, MEd, Carmen Rosa Noroña LCSW, MSEd and Marcy Safyer, PhD MSW, will provide a basic overview of the intersection of early childhooddevelopment (0-5), attachment and trauma in young migrant children. Presenters discuss trauma and socio-cultural interventions and engage the audience in reflections about best practices and practice-change with this population. Available in English and Spanish.
Secondary Traumatic Stress: Understanding the Impact of Trauma Work on Professionals
Developed by Raven Cuellar, PhD, Carmen Rosa Noroña, LCSW, Ms. Ed., Ginny Sprang, PhD, and Savina Treves, MA, LPC this webinar defines Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), describes how the sociocultural context and the experience of migration may impact the experience of STS and outlines specific strategies to strengthen protective factors to prevent, identify, and address STS in the workplace. Through case examples, participants will learn who is at risk, organizational and individual factors related to STS, and how to approach support staff wellness. Available in English and Spanish.
Child Welfare Worker Safety in the Time of COVID-19: CDC Recommendations for In-Person Interactions with Families
Child welfare agencies have taken steps to promote safety of case workers and families during this time of physical distancing, including strategies to limit face-to-face interactions. However, circumstances remain where these interactions are necessary to assess child safety and parent/caregiver capacity to maintain child safety and well-being. This webinar will review relevant guidance and recommendations by the CDC to on how to reduce the risk of child welfare case workers while conducting in-person interactions with children and families during the crisis. Participants will also hear an example from the field of how this guidance is being implemented in practice in Massachusetts. Powerpoint and resources can be downloaded here.
Improving Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals
Cultural and linguistic competency is recognized as an important strategy for improving the quality of care provided to clients from diverse backgrounds. The goal of this program is to help professionals increase their cultural and linguistic competency. Course 1, An introduction to cultural and linguistic competency, you'll learn what culture has to do with behavioral health care. Course 2, Know thyself – Increasing self-awareness, you'll learn how to get to know your cultural identity and how it affects your work with clients. Course 3, Knowing others – Increasing awareness of your client's cultural identity, you'll learn how to get to know your client’s cultural identity. Course 4, Culturally and linguistically appropriate interventions and services, you'll learn how to build stronger therapeutic relationships with clients from diverse backgrounds.
Duration: 4 - 5.5 hours Approved by NAADAC and NBCC for contact hours.
Sesame Street in Communities: Health Emergencies
A health emergency brings many changes and much uncertainty for young children and their families, but there are things we can do to face each day with optimism and hope. We can practice healthy habits like handwashing and coughing into the bend in our arm. We can offer comfort, connect with, and care for others safely. And we can keep learning and growing at home through everyday routines and simple activities. The resources on this page can help families cope during challenging times.
Cultivating Post Traumatic Growth in Kids and Families through Mindfulness during COVID
As the shutdowns and stay at home orders lengthen, and as tragic news trickles in from near and far, how can we ensure than we and our clients emerge from this time stronger and more resilient than ever? Join Dr. Chris Willard as we explore the foundations of post traumatic growth, looking to human history, anthropology and neuroscience as we discover and explore tools that have boosted human resilience in the face of adversity for generations. This workshop will dive into child and teen oriented contemplative, mindfulness and positive psychology techniques, along with simple takeaway tips for your clients, colleagues and yourself.
Duration: 4 Hours
Anti-Racism Training
Racism. It is a word that elicits strong emotion, and often even stronger opinions. Taking the step to engage in anti-racism work may seem intimidating, or maybe you already feel confident in your knowledge of racial justice and in your allyship. Regardless of where you sit on that spectrum, this training is one that can have benefit for everyone. Participants will learn about historical events, ideologies, and social structures, and how they inform modern day beliefs, bias, and perception, analyze concepts of racial identity, bias, privilege, and prejudice; reflect on their own identity, bias, privilege, and prejudice; identify strategies to engage in difficult conversations and reflect on ways to integrate anti-racism work into their daily lives.
Duration: 6 hours (3 modules/2 hours each)
Trauma and the Brain
This course is designed for licensed professionals with some foundational knowledge of both trauma and neurobiology. We will delve into the specific ways that psychological and physical trauma can impact both the developing brain during childhood and adolescence, as well as how trauma affects the mature, adult brain.
Duration: Self-Paced
Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist
Unlocking Us with Brene Brown. In this podcast, Brene is talking with professor Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. We talk about racial disparities, policy, and equality, but we really focus on How to Be an Antiracist, which is a groundbreaking approach to understanding uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves.
Duration: 1 hour
A Self-Care Guide for the Paraprofessional
All direct support professionals who provide care to people served – particularly those with trauma – should perform regular self-checks. A simple and quick check-in to assess how you are feeling can be done any time after providing support.
Duration: Self-Paced
A Self-Care Guide for the Clinician
Both burnout and compassion fatigue make daily tasks difficult due to mental exhaustion from emotional overload. You might make more mistakes than usual, both mental and physical, putting both yourself and the people you serve in danger.
Duration: Self-Paced
Suicide Risk Factors, Screening, and Assessment
Through a blend of didactic and interactive exercises, you will learn how to use screening instruments and several different models of comprehensive suicide assessment.
Duration: Self-Paced
The Grip of Grief: Processing The Continual Losses of the Pandemic
You're grieving, our clients are grieving, everyone is grieving. People across the world have been experiencing a wide range of losses caused by the pandemic, including COVID-19-related deaths, the loss of events like graduations and planned trips, and the loss of what-once-was. Jill Johnson-Young, LCSW, provides an easy-to-digest framework for what to know and do/not do with clients as they grieve. This course explores the many types of losses relating to the pandemic, and gives clinicians straightforward and practical clinical interventions. Strategies to help therapists/counselors avoid and respond to grief burnout/compassion fatigue are also shared.
Duration: 1 hour
Racialized Trauma Course
Cultural Somatics Free 5 Session E-course: Explore basics facets of Racialized Trauma and what to do about it. We can't help ourselves even begin to heal racialized trauma if we don't acknowledge that it even exits.
Duration: Self-Paced
Mending Racialized Trauma: A Body Centered Approach with Resmaa Menakem
Resmaa shares that in order to mend racialized trauma we need to move the conversation from race to culture and cultivate a somatic abolitionist mindset and community. And a big part of that work lies in doing our own reps to learn what to pay attention to and then doing the reps with each other’s nervous systems so we can create a culture that knows what to pay attention to. Otherwise it’s just strategy.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Hey, White Therapist, Here's Where We Start
As racial tensions rise around the country, mental health professionals have a fundamental responsibility to support equality, but many white clinicians don’t know how to make a difference. In this interview, white therapists can begin exploring to be more aware of their own racial identity, cultural conditioning, and the effects on white people and people of color. This interview offers practical and compassionate guidance and interventions to white therapists wanting to be more effective in their work with people of color.
Duration: 1 hour
How Racism Impacts those We Serve and How We Serve: Are We Meeting Participants Where They Are?
Issues related to race are among the most difficult and least discussed topics in the field of behavioral health. This webinar is designed to raise the awareness of behavioral health providers of the possible overt, subtle, or unintentional ways that organizational policies and service delivery create barriers for individuals who have experienced racial discrimination. The presenters will review the history of racism, how it impacts participants, and what organizations can do to reduce structural barriers for individuals impacted by racism and discrimination.
Duration: 1 hour
Identity, Bias, and Cultural Humility: Connecting to Ourselves and Others
Cultural humility is a humble and respectful attitude toward individuals of other cultures and identities that pushes one to challenge their own cultural biases, realize they cannot possibly know everything about other cultures, and approach learning about other cultures as a lifelong goal and process. Cultural humility encourages active participation to learn about a client's personal and cultural experiences and identities. Understanding and connecting to our own histories and identities is an important step in developing cultural humility. Not only does this help us make space for understanding others, but it can also help us in formulating our own clinical approaches.
Duration: 1 hour
Legacies of Pain and Resilience: Clinical Implications for Understanding Historical Trauma and Race
Historical Trauma (HT) refers to the psychological distress experienced by survivors or descendants of human initiated acts of oppression. This webinar helped clinicians understand HT and provided some clarity regarding the intergenerational transmission of trauma and how it relates to racial oppression in particular. We summarized the research on the biological, psychological and social forces that promote an intergenerational legacy of pain and suffering among descendants of people impacted by traumatizing historical events. We also outlined the importance of resilience in helping individuals and communities recover and cope with HT.
Duration: 1 hour
Race, Poverty & Trauma: Microaggressions and the Therapeutic Alliance: Exploring Ethnically and Racially Diverse Clinician-Participant Relationships
Racial microaggressions, although often inadvertent and unintended, can be traumatic and polarizing for persons of color. During this webinar, Dr. Monnica Williams discusses the role and prevalence of racial microaggressions and its impact on the therapeutic relationship. She highlights common instances of microaggressions and strategies for how clinicians can challenge racial stereotypes to more effectively work with participants of color.
Duration: 1 hour
Race and Trauma: Race-based Traumatic Stress and Psychological Injury
Racism has severe psychological and emotional effects on people of color, impacting their daily lives and experiences with mental health services. During this webinar, Dr. Robert T. Carter will discuss race-based traumatic stress, ways of working with participants who have experienced racism, and implications for the assessment of trauma beyond the DSM-5.
Duration: 1.5 hour
Race and Trauma:The Role of Racial Trauma in Psychotherapy
Racism can be traumatizing for participants of color, and clinicians may inadvertently perpetuate this form of oppression through microaggressions and invalidating participant experiences. During this webinar, Dr. Monnica Williams will review the role of race and racial identity in the therapeutic relationship, and offer best practices for clinicians working with persons of color.
Duration: 1 hour
Vulnerability factors, prevention and early intervention, keeping connected while staying apart—strategies for remote community participation, resources and risk reduction, ways to mitigate the negative impact of COVID, physical distancing, and the economic changes on mental health as we move forward.
Duration: 1 hour
Topics include: Perceptions, stigma, and unconscious bias in higher-risk populations, Chronic health conditions and coronavirus. How COVID-19 is worsening disparities in pediatric type 1 diabetes and the role of community health workers. COVID-19 testing and deficits in community education. The evolution of Telehealth and how it can help mitigate some of the negative outcomes resulting from minority populations ‘medical distancing’ during COVID. Impact of social determinants. -COVID-19 health and access inequalities. What we’ve learned and what should we do next.
Duration: 1 hour
In his new book, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi holds up both a magnifying glass and a mirror to examine how to uproot racism from society—starting with ourselves. Followed by his talk at UC Berkeley, on September 12, 2019, Kendi is joined in conversation by john a. powell of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Lateefah Simon of the Akonadi Foundation, and moderated by Alice Y. Hom of Northern California Grantmakers.
Duration: 2 hours
Telehealth Skills Adaptations
These are teachings that Dr. Jamie Marich shared on the Mindful Ohio& The Institute for Creative Mindfulness page in the first week of major clinical transition to telehealth. Although the videos are not new and directly drawn from her Trauma Made Simple resources pages, the applications represent new ideas for clinicians in this era. Study them together or in any combination to create your own virtual learning experience. Feel free to use and to pass along! These techniques include Clench & Release, Painting Light, Loving Kindness Meditation, Monkey Tap (aka Butterfly Hug) and Noodling.
Duration: 1 hour (in total)
Addressing Issues of Post-Disaster Trauma Relief for Victims and First Responders
This 5-hour workshop will consist of 4 lectures and a panel discussion devoted to providing culturally competent care to trauma patients and first responders. The neurobiological underpinnings of trauma will be explored, as will ways to deal with secondhand trauma as a clinician and community member. The Steve Frankel Group (SFG) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. SFG maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Approved for 5 CE hours. Currently available for free.
Duration: 5 hours
Process Not Perfection: Remote Applications of Expressive Arts Strategies
Dr. Jamie Marich, expressive arts therapist and author of Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery, developed this course to assist clinicians with adapting to the realities of switching to remote work during the COVID-19 crisis. In this course, Dr. Jamie gives you an overview of expressive arts principles and discusses how people may find the processes and practices in Process Not Perfection especially useful in adapting to telehealth or remote platforms. A guided process for experiential learning (specifically geared to COVID-19 and other disaster/crisis response) is also offered.
Duration: 2 hours
Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra for Clinical Professionals
Yoga nidra is a sleep-style meditations that is gaining popularity in the clinical professions. Based on a teaching from the ancient Upanishads, this powerful approach brings together a variety of awareness techniques and strategies to facilitate a greater sense of ease in meditating and working with intention. In this online training, trauma expert and yoga teacher Dr. Jamie Marich teaches you the basic principles of yoga nidra. She walks you through a 20-25 minute script specifically prepared for working via telehealth or other remote platforms. While yoga nidra can be a powerful adjunct to any trauma therapy, it has special potential for bridging together aspects of trauma therapy you may not feel comfortable delivering remotely, specifically because of its focus on intention. While not a full-scale yoga nidra training, this will get you started with the basics to use alongside any approach to trauma therapy.
Duration: 3 hours
Cultivating Sobriety in Times of Uncertainty
Crisis and Change are scary for many people. Feeling scared sometimes can compromise and interfere with our choices. Those people that are diligently pursuing sobriety, need connection with others to heal and sustain their forward momentum. This 90 minute program explores how to grasp that support in crisis. This training will help you discover the tools, techniques and concepts to assist in sobriety, build a solid foundation to support your sobriety goals, learn to identify the triggers that could potentially sabotage the desire to remain clean and sober and recognize the impacts of trauma in addiction recovery.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Attachment, Regulation and Competency: ARC-At-A-Glance: Modular Videos
This 8 module training series of brief, free overview videos describing the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework. This “ARC lite” is a series of remote, brief videos that will give an overview of key ARC concepts, and comment on these concepts as they relate to working and coping in the midst of this pandemic. Although these videos are not a substitute for the full ARC training, we hope they will give some support to your learning until we are able to meet again in person! We may also be offering special topic videos from our team of ARC trainers.
Duration: 8 hours
Stress Management for Healthcare Workers & Essential Employees
A Free Course on Coping with COVID-19. This free course is for healthcare providers & essential employees. It was created in order to support those who are on the front lines in the battle against COVID-19. Inside, there are stress management tips and techniques to assist with self-care, self-preservation, and self-compassion. We hope that you will find this course helpful. Thank you for your service.
Our New Normal is NOT Normal: Resiliency Skills for Public Health Professionals
This is the first webinar in a three-part series, targeted to public health professionals, first responders, healthcare providers, as well as the general public. Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Public Health Workforce Development and the Community Living Education Project (CLEP). Presented by Philip T. McCabe CSW, CAS, CDVC, DRCC.
Duration: 45 Minutes
Social Distancing and Interpersonal Violence: Conversation with Temple Alumni Leaders
Moderator Barbara B. Ernico, SSW ’71, is joined by panelists Kendra Van de Water, CPH ‘10, and Interim Executive Director of the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance Paul DiLorenzo, ACSW, MLSP, SSW ‘78, to discuss how their programs are adapting the challenges of COVID-19.
Host: Temple University College of Public Health
Duration: 30 Minutes
COVID-19 in Older Adults: Best Practices for Providers and Caregivers
The rapidly spreading COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has demonstrated a historic effect on older adult populations, both in the United States and around the world. Understanding current evidence and key trends, as it relates to older adult patients with known or suspected COVID-19 infection, is imperative to protect them.
Duration: 1 hour
Telehealth in Clinical Practice
Gain knowledge of using telehealth technologies for behavioral health services, including potential advantages and challenges.
Host: Relias Learning LLC
Best Practices for Delivering Telehealth
Discusses various modalities of telehealth treatment and most effective approaches.
Host: Relias Learning LLC
Mind Matters Online Series
Dibble will be hosting a free 12-Week Mind Matters Online Series with Dr. Carolyn Curtis and Dixie Zittlow. Unprecedented times, such as these, are stressful and call for everyone to think about ways to help others and themselves. Thus, we see this as an opportunity to offer free professional development and help people practice self-care. Join us as we teach the Mind Matters curriculum to help you develop skills and coping mechanisms to overcome anxiety and build resilience.
Duration: 12 sessions Approx. 1 hour each session
COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness for Front-line Staff
What are the most current recommendations for surge management and front line staff preparedness around the novel coronavirus?
Duration: 45 minutes
How to Address COVID 19 Across Inpatient, Residential and Other Non-ambulatory Care Settings
APA and the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) will host a joint webinar discussion with experts working in inpatient, residential, and other non-ambulatory care settings about how they are assessing the current environment and developing new protocols to care for their patients during the COVID 19 crisis. Hear from experts about how to manage through different types of services, key messages to give to your team leaders, unique challenges for people with SMI, how to approach group therapy, and more.
Duration: 1 hour
Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors
Are you feeling increased levels of stress and anxiety? If you answered yes, know you are not alone. People across the country are mobilizing quickly to ensure services for survivors of crime continue during the COVID-19 crisis. Confronting this new set of challenges in rapidly changing and uncertain times can be stressful. It is critical that we in the crime victims field integrate strategies to manage stress and anxiety into our day-to-day practice. We are joined by Zoe Flowers – advocate, healer, writer, poet, and filmmaker – in a virtual wellness session. Zoe guides us through a number of activities to help us stay grounded and manage stress and anxiety.
Duration: 45 minutes each
Understanding Coronavirus and How to Keep You and Yours Safe
As society grapples with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, questions around the virus and what individuals need to stay safe dominate the headlines. In this webinar, Ron Orth (RN, CMAC, CHC) discusses the basics of what we know today and practical steps to keep you healthy.
Duration: 65 minutes
COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness for Your Front-Line Staff
What are the most current recommendations for surge management and front-line staff preparedness around the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)? Learn more about them from Board Certified Emergency Physician, Phil DiGiacomo, M.D., and Heather Tuttle (BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN).
Healing Informed Care for Survivors from Historically Marginalized Communities
As a way to re-release years of trauma-based on sexual assault, domestic violence, and other traumas– Zoe Flowers from WOCN, INC. shares her body, mind, and spirit connection techniques drawn from decades of experience as a trauma practitioner and healer. More than ever, survivors and advocates alike need new ways to slow down, breath, relax and reconnect to their strength, creativity, and spirit.
Duration: 75 minutes
How to Navigate Grief, Loss, and a New Normal During COVID-19
Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S, hosts a presentation geared towards community members about how to navigate grief and loss during this unprecedented global pandemic. Live recorded on 4/6/2020. Access PowerPoint Slides here.
Duration: 1 hour
Hand Hygiene: The Basics
Handwashing is one of the most important steps to break the chain of infection. This micro-course follows CDC recommendations and provides a refresher on the specific requirements to successfully stop the spread.
Infection Control: The Basics
This course provides updates to HCPs ability to apply scientifically accepted infection control principles to reduce transmission of pathogens.
Personal Protective Equipment
Addresses different types of PPE necessary for job tasks and how to correctly don and doff the needed equipment.
Infection Control: Airborne Precautions
Quick and relevant instruction for implementing infection control measures to prevent transmission of airborne disease.
Cost: Free
Transmission-Based Precautions
This course presents the principles of transmission-based precautions and strategies to apply in daily practice.
Preparing for Pandemic Influenza
The course spotlights Pandemic flu; it offers principles and practices relevant to viral transmission disease precautions.
Working Remotely: Key Considerations For Survivor-Centered Organizations
Talk about the benefits, challenges, technology, share tips, and ideas for how to maintain connection and well-being in a remote environment.
Tele-Advocacy: Ensuring Accessibility for Underserved Crime Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webinar provides an overview of tele-advocacy, confidentiality and security considerations in digital services, and strategies to tele-advocacy is accessible and inclusive for survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors. In addition, an advocate experienced in tele-advocacy discusses strategies she uses to build relationships and provide practical tips for communicating effectively with survivors using digital platforms.
Presenter: Sandra Harrell, Vera Institute of Justice; Amber Hodson, Deaf Hope; Toby Shulruff, National Network to End Domestic Violence
Project Rise: Bringing Relationship Education to Hispanic Youth
Join the staff from Project Rise as they share with you how they are successfully engaging the Latino community including youth and their parents in healthy relationship skills programming. Project Rise is utilizing Relationship Smarts PLUS (Sexual Risk Avoidance Adaptation) to prevent teen pregnancy, reduce associated risk behaviors, and promote healthy adolescent development among Latino teens aged 12-18. They are working in four neighborhoods of Los Angeles County where measures of sexual risk are significantly higher than the national average.
Duration: 1 hour
Exploring Social Poverty: Low-Income Populations and the Impact of Community Ties
The impact of financial poverty has been a focus of researchers for decades. In this webinar Dr. Sarah Halpern-Meekin, author of “Social Poverty: Low-income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties,” examines another dimension of poverty that has been considerably understudied: social poverty. Social poverty, or lacking adequate of close, dependable, and trusting relationships, is an often-ignored form of hardship that is separate from financial poverty. Developing healthy relationship skills and coping mechanisms through relationship education may help address social poverty.
Presenter: Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Duration: 1 hour
Foundations: How to Build & Sustain the Communication Pipeline with Young Adults
Recruiting and appealing to young adults ages 18-24 can be challenging for a multitude of reasons. In this webinar, Vanessa Logan describes her unique “boots on the ground” approach for how to build trust with marginalized young adults and consequently is able to provide them with tools to develop self-sufficiency. Integrated into her approach is the essential building of healthy relationship skills with pregnant and parenting youth, empowering them to successfully parent or even co-parent when no longer together. With a heart for people, Vanessa identifies critical needs of the underserved and builds bridges by partnering with organizations and community initiatives to uncover resources and move others toward economic mobility and self-sufficiency. Vanessa has a voice in the community for what makes a community thrive: it’s people.
Presenter: Vanessa Logan, Founder of “N.E.S.S.A in Your Neighborhood,” Navigate, Explore, Serve, Sustain and Advocate (Spartanburg, South Carolina)
Duration: 1 hour
One-on-One: A New Approach for Teaching Mind Matters in Individual Settings
Young people who have experienced trauma and toxic stress, such as child abuse and neglect, often have difficulty regulating their emotional responses when facing challenges in school, life, and relationships. Thus, Dr. Carolyn Curtis developed Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience, a research-based curriculum effective in helping youth overcome adverse and traumatic childhood experiences. In this webinar, Dr. Carolyn Curtis, will discuss her new addendum to the Mind Matters curriculum. In this guidance, the content of Mind Mattersis divided into 15- to 20-minute segments that can now be taught in one-on-one settings. With these adjustments, the Mind Matters curriculum can now be used for home visitors, mentors, and case workers, as well as anyone who works with young people in a one-on-one setting.
Presenter: Carolyn Rich Curtis, Ph.D., Developer of Mind Matters, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Founder of the Relationship Skills Center in Sacramento, CA.
Duration: 1 hour
“Meet Them Where They Are” Building Protective Factors for the Future
Hear how three agencies that use different funding streams utilize relationship education to meet youth where they are in order to help them to prepare for healthy lives and futures. These organizations use Dibble’s programs to build protective factors so the youth can communicate effectively in jobs, set safe boundaries in relationships, make healthy decisions about their love lives.
Duration: 1 hour
Learning about Positive Youth Development: A Free & Fun Course for Youth Work Professionals
What does positive youth development mean to us? We may think about competencies, opportunities, and supports young people need to thrive and make healthy decisions. We may think about youth voice and leadership. In this webinar co-creator Jutta Dotterweich will provide a guided tour of a new, interactive online training course on positive youth development. This free resource consists of six, stand-alone segments, which were developed with a wide range of audiences in mind (e.g., volunteers, parents, frontline youth workers).
Presenter: Jutta Dotterweich, M.A. Director of Training, ACT for Youth Center of Excellence.
Duration: 1 hour
Victim Assistance Training Online (VAT Online)
VAT Online is a foundational Web-based victim assistance training program that offers victim service providers and allied professionals the opportunity to acquire the essential skills and knowledge they need to more effectively assist victims of crime. VAT Online has four sections: Basics, Core Competencies and Skills, Crimes, and Specific Considerations for Providing Victim Services. The VAT Online training is part of the NACP pre-approved training list. This training meets the requirements for the Introductory Advocacy Training area that can be used to apply for the National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP).
Duration: The entire training is approximately 43 hours. It is divided into various modules and sections. Each module takes about 30–90 minutes to complete. Learners can complete all modules or can complete specific modules, based on their learning needs.
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Identity Theft Victim Assistance Online Training: Supporting Victims' Financial and Emotional Recovery
A user-friendly e-learning tool that will teach victim service professionals and allied professionals knowledge and skills to more effectively serve victims of identity theft and assist with their financial and emotional recovery.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 3-4 Hours
Polyvictimization in Later Life
The purpose of the training is to strengthen awareness of polyvictimization in later life and to provide knowledge and skills of professionals to address the needs of victims. The training addresses the context of polyvictimization; victims and perpetrators of polyvictimization; best practices to work with older adults affected by polyvictimization using trauma-informed, ethical, and culturally appropriate practices; and the latest research and best practices to serve this population.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 6 Hours (5 modules)
Understanding Human Trafficking
The Understanding Human Trafficking training is a series of five interactive online modules that offer foundational learning on trauma-informed and victim-centered approaches to human trafficking. The modules are designed so that a wide audience can benefit. Understanding Human Trafficking is unique in equipping participants to think critically about human trafficking using reliable resources, both locally and from across the United States.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 5 Hours
COVID-19 Just-in-Time Training: Strategies & Techniques for Disaster Behavioral Health Support by Phone
The training is designed for DRCCs answering support lines, but the information can be applied to all services, especially during this time of teleservices. The presenter is Steve Crimando who has years of experience and knowledge working in disasters and critical incidents. Find the PowerPoint Here.
Host: NJ's Diaster and Terrorism Branch
Duration: 90 Minutes
NAMI Basics Course
Welcome to NAMI Basics! We've built this course for the caregivers of children/adolescents who have either been diagnosed with a mental health condition or who are experiencing symptoms, but haven’t yet gotten a formal diagnosis.
Host: National Alliance on Mental Illness
Duration: 6 modules and Wrap Up
Parents, Kids & Mental Health During the COVID-19 Crisis
This webinar from the NASW-NJ Chapter (live recorded on 3/18/20), featuring Pat Spencer, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW, discusses how parents can help their children and families cope during the COVID-19 crisis.
Host: NASW-NJ
Duration: 40 Minutes
The Practice of Mattering During the Time of Social Distancing
This program was recorded live on March 25, 2020. Learn about the practice of mattering in the time of social distancing with social workers, Dr. Tawanda Hubbard, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW. This program is geared to the general public as a way to connect, find resources and support our well-being in these unique times.
Adolescents & Young Adults: Parenting During COVID-19
Live recorded on March 31, 2020. The COVID-19 global pandemic has changed much about our daily lives, especially that of our children. Nationally, adolescents and young adults are grieving as many now are missing milestone moments such as proms, graduations and transitional moments. Join Dr. Widian Nicola, LCSW for a conversation geared toward parents where she will explore loss and how parents can help support children during these unprecedented times.
The Science of Well-Being
In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.
Host: Yale
Duration: 19 hours (Can be completed over several weeks)
Mindfulness, Healing & Transformation
A free seminar featuring Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Duration: 1 hour
Mindfulness in Recovery
The techniques taught in mindfulness play a critical role in relapse prevention. The core mindfulness skills, taken from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), enhance a client's ability to increase awareness of the present moment, increase the time spent in the present, and be in control of his or her mind. This then decreases the amount of mood dependent behaviors, such as using drugs and alcohol and there addictive behaviors. The concepts of mindfulness can also be found all throughout the 12 step program. This presentation will offer education of mindfulness skills found in DBT and give exercises to implement in treatment and recovery to assist clients with understanding how these skills can help them with continued sobriety.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Hunger for Healing: Evidence-Based Practice for Binge Eating Disorder
Most counselors are familiar with – or at least heard of – eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia nervosa. But we are less familiar with binge eating disorder (BED) despite being four times more common in clinical practice. The American Psychiatric Association only recognized BED as a distinct disorder in 2013 and was first included in the DSM-5 (F50.8). This webinar will explore the prevalence, neurobiology, and evidence-based treatments for this common, and extremely challenging disorder. We will pay particular attention to the influence of developmental trauma from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study on the etiology of BED, and the utility of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as part of the treatment regimen.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Recognizing Eating Disorder Behavior in the Substance Use Disorder Population
Up to 35% of patients who suffer from substance use disorder exhibit eating disorder behaviors that can often remain undetected by his or her treatment team. On the surface, eating disorders and substance use disorder may appear to be two entirely different conditions. In this engaging presentation, Robyn Cruze will provide her personal recovery story on eating and substance use disorder. Linda Lewaniak will then discuss why the two illnesses have similarities, why they tend to occur together, the effects both illnesses have on the brain and what integrated treatment looks like in treating both illnesses simultaneously.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Less Is More: A Breakthrough Method for Lasting Change
One ever-present question for addiction professionals is, “How do you foster behavior change and make it stick, whether on an individual or systems level?” Change is hard for our clients, our organizations, and even ourselves, but it doesn’t have to be. This webinar takes you on a deep dive into Tiny Habits®, a revolutionary method to promote lasting change in any setting. The method is based on Stanford Professor BJ Fogg’s breakthrough behavior model that addresses the 10 most common mistakes people make when trying to change behavior. This webinar will revolutionize how you think about behavior change and what you do about it for your clients, organization, and even for yourself in your own life!
Duration: 1.5 hours
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Substance Use Disorders
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) remains one of the most effective forms of treatment for those struggling with substance use disorders and mental health diagnoses. This program will review the basic core components of CBT and present modifications for implementation in substance use treatment programs. Participants will become familiar with the step-by-step process of applying CBT to individual and group sessions. Attendees will be provided a toolbox to assist their clients with creating new responses to triggers to help along the path of recovery beyond the treatment setting.
Duration: 1 hour
Authentic Self-Care for Addiction Professionals
Does life feel out of control? Are you resentful? Many of us are drawn to addiction work due to our history, family, and personal traits, such as compassion and empathy. While these experiences and strengths can be great assets, they can also be detrimental. In this webinar, we will identify healthy and unhealthy traits, how we can care for ourselves, and what authentic self-care looks like. We have been told of the importance of self-care but what does that mean for us? We will identify our personal challenges, triggers, and needs in order to create authentic self-care plans. Caring for yourself will benefit your family, those you work with, and of course, you! Codependent and related tendencies can be successfully combatted with awareness, self-care, and other supports.
Duration: 1 hour
Influences on Addiction and Mental Health in the LGBT Population
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities are reported to have higher incidences of substance misuse. This webinar will focus on the influences on the LGBT population that lead to higher rates of using substances as a coping skill, provide a self-assessment of your preparation for providing services to LGBT clients, and examine your practices for LGBT affirmative practices. Topics include the societal influences of minority stress, micro-aggressions, victimization, religion, visibility management, and invisibility management. Ways to gain knowledge about LGBT issues will allow participants to explore their own biases that influence their work with LGBT clients. The webinar will conclude with best practices for providing affirmative services to LGBT clients.
Duration: 2 hours
Intersection of Race, Culture, Chronic Disease and Chronic Pain
Up to 50 million Americans live with chronic pain at any given time. Minorities who suffer with chronic and intractable pain are facing widespread stigma and public misunderstanding of the difference between tolerance, physical dependence, and addiction when treating a chronic illness. What roles do race and culture play in prescribing practices, pain reporting and treatment, and psychological outcomes? Because chronic pain can affect one's mental health, counseling can be an integral key in treatment. As therapists who practice within multidisciplinary teams or within the community, what is our role in helping to manage chronic pain management?
Duration: 2 hours
Living in a Cloud: Adolescent Nicotine Use
Though adolescent cigarette smoking rates have decreased over the past four decades with fewer than 1 in 25 teens reporting daily tobacco use, e-cigarette use has increased two-fold. There are still lower rates of adolescent nicotine use overall, but a potentially dangerous trend has emerged with the increased use of vaping. Cigarette companies are not allowed to market their products to adolescents, but they have found other ways to create a new teen culture through the sponsorship of vaping “cloud” competitions. The purpose of this presentation is to explore the psychopharmacology of nicotine use, the culture of vaping, and strategies for prevention and treatment. Participants will learn how healthy factors of adolescent development add to the risk of becoming addicted to nicotine.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, On the Global Coronavirus Crisis: Steering Ourselves and Our Clients Through New & Developing Traumas
Join Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of the New York Times #1 bestselling author The Body Keeps The Score and learn timely (and critically important) approaches for all of us in the helping professions. Dr. van der Kolk will give you specific and practical approaches, with your community, and with your clients to address creating connection and community in this global crisis and activities to share with clients that keep them attached and out of re-experiencing past traumas.
Duration: 30 minutes
Counseling Adolescent and Minority Clients with Substance Use Disorders
It is has been repeatedly proven that a lack of cultural competency can and will lead to poorer outcomes in the provision of services to minority populations. This may be especially true of adolescent and transition aged (16-25) clients who may operate more singularly from the world views and perspectives of their own culture than adults who may have more insight and ability to forgive missteps by providers. While these facts are now very well known, it is still difficult for counselors to access training that provides them a real springboard into multicultural competency. This free webinar will provide them with methods of becoming effective that are not restricted to learning "fun facts" about various cultures and calling it a day.
Duration: 1 hour
Parents with PTSD: How Addiction Can Re-traumatize Families
It is well documented that addiction can have significant collateral impacts on parents, extended family, partners and friends. But what happens when these care-givers and supports also have their own Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) history? Living with, loving, and supporting a person with addiction can become personal: triggering parents, partners, and families to relive their own trauma history. This presentation will discuss how ACES can impact the family system, and will address specific support/treatment strategies using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness. Also addressed will be the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, a body of groundbreaking research that looked at how childhood trauma affects long-term health.
Duration: 1 hour
Strength-Based Mind-Body Practice: Building Internal Resources
This webinar offers ideas, examples and guidance for integrating Mind-Body techniques into the Solution-Focused approach. Mind-Body work can enhance the therapeutic relationship and possible successful outcomes. A variety of techniques will be explored, such as body scans, recall, somatic experiencing and more! Presenters will also offer considerations for enhancing personal supervision style through Mind-Body work.
Duration: 1 hour
Healing Addiction and Shame Through Self-Compassion
Shame is a common denominator that runs deep through people struggling with substance use disorders. Only when shame is brought to light can it be healed through empathy and self-compassion. Utilizing the research of Brené Brown, Kristin Neff, and Tim Desmond, this workshop will discuss components and functions of shame and self-compassion from a scientific and philosophical framework and provide resources for specific tools for utilizing self-compassion in the therapy room.
Duration: 2 hours
Ensuring Fidelity to Motivational Interviewing Among Frontline Service Providers
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based treatment protocol often used when treating individuals with substance use disorders. The literature supports MI as an effective strategy for reducing symptoms of substance use disorders. However, while many service providers express agreement with the spirit of MI and align ideologically with MI, MI is a detailed treatment protocol that requires training and skill. This webinar will explore how fidelity to MI was monitored at Prism Health North Texas, an HIV/AIDS service organization in Dallas, Texas. We will detail specific tools, continuous improvement and evaluation processes, and practical strategies that increase fidelity to MI principles among care coordinators.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Guidelines to Developing Competence with Mindfulness-Based Interventions
With the expanding use of mindfulness-based interventions in behavioral healthcare generally, and addiction counseling specifically, there have been emerging concerns over ensuring educational, training, and competency standards with these interventions. This webinar will provide an overview of six emerging guidelines for promoting competence with mindfulness-based interventions. It will also highlight adherence scales that can enhance training and supervision, as well as resources for further development.
Duration: 1 hour
What Addiction Professionals Should Know About Medical Marijuana
Medical marijuana is now broadly or partially legalized in 28 states, though it remains illegal under federal law. Variation in laws can create confusion for mental health professionals, raising a number of questions for mental health professionals in both clinical and forensic settings. This confusion has led to many questions by practitioners, such as: What does the law say about medical marijuana in my state? How do I know whether my client is using medical marijuana therapeutically vs. abusing it? What are the risks, side effects, and potential drawbacks of medical marijuana? If my client uses medical marijuana, can employers discriminate against him or her? What do I do if a client is referred to me for substance use disorder treatment but is legally taking prescribed marijuana? This webinar seeks to answer these questions and more.
Duration: 2 hours
Changing Minds: Implementing Harm Reduction
This webinar will focus on the impact of staff training to change staff attitudes regarding harm reduction interventions. The training will outline a process undertaken at The Bridge of Central MA from 2016-2017, using the Learning Collaborative model to plan and execute trainings in harm reduction. The presentation will review the tracking of process and outcomes using the Harm Reduction Acceptability Scale (HRAS), and recommendations for implementing similar training packages in a variety of settings.
Duration: 1 hour
Journey Through Grief and Loss
This webinar with help participants explore the various components of grief and loss. It will identify different losses in an individual's life. It will look at the various forms of grief: anticipatory, complicated, and disenfranchised. It will help participants identify how grief affects individuals from a physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual perspective. It will address when grief is complicated and ways to help individuals address complicated grief. This webinar will also help participants identify warning signs associated with grief and loss, and how to support individuals who are experiencing intense emotions.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Safety, Ethics, and The Elephant in the Room
Presented by Wanda L. Anderson, MSW, LCSW
Duration: 1 hour
National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative: Training for Child Welfare Professionals
Free state-of-the-art, web-based, standardized training that gives you the ability to learn at your own pace. This curriculum offers 8 interactive learning modules focused on casework practice. These modules include: 1.) A Case For Adoption 2.) Understanding and Addressing Mental Health Needs of Children Moving Towards or Having Achieved Permanence through Adoption or Guardianship 3.) Enhancing Attachment and Bonding for Children Moving Towards/Having Achieved Permanence through Adoption and Guardianship 4.) How Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Class and Diversity Impact the Adoption and Guardianship Experience and Mental Health Needs of Children 5.) The Impact of Loss and Grief Experience on Children’s Mental Health 6.) The Impact of Early and Ongoing Trauma on Child and Family Development, Brain Growth and Development, and Mental Health 7.) Positive Identity Formation and the Impact of Adoption and Guardianship 8.) The Lifelong Journey: Maintaining Children’s Stability and Well-being in Adoptive and Guardianship Families
Duration: 20 Hours There is an additional 5 hours of supervisor-specific lessons with downloadable "Supervisor Coaching and Activity Guide"
Enhancing Your Clinical Practice with Adoptive & Guardianship Families: An Overview of the NTI Web-based Training for Mental Health Professionals
Presented by: Debbie Riley, LCMFT, CEO, Center for Adoption Support and Education
Duration: 80 minutes
National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative: Training for Mental Health Professionals
Free state-of-the-art, web-based, standardized training that gives you the ability to learn at your own pace. This curriculum offers 10 interactive learning modules focused on assessment, support and therapeutic interventions. These modules include: 1.) A Case For Adoption Competency 2.) Understanding and Addressing the Completex Mental Health Needs of Children & Youth in Adoptive and Guardianship Families 3.) Attachment, Child Development, and Mental Health - Promoting Security in Adoptive and Guardianship Families 4.) The Impact of Loss and Grief Experiences on Children’s & Youth's Mental Health 5.) Trauma and the Impact of Adverse Experiences on Brain Development and Mental Health 6.) Understanding the Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Class and Diversity on Children and Families: Implications for Mental Health Practice 7.) Identity Formation and the Impact of Adoption and Guardianship 8.) Assessment and Treatment Planning with Children and Families Experiencing Adoption or Guardianship 9.) Using Therapeutic Parenting Strategies to Address Children's Challenging Behavior 10.) Family Stability and Wellness Post Permanency
Duration: 30 Hours
The Supportive Housing Field Responds to COVID-19
Join CSH for a webinar series designed for anyone providing and housing and services in this crisis where we will: highlight what we have learned in the past week; provide examples of best practices from communities across the country; and discuss what information and resources the field needs. Past webinars are posted and available, including resources and slides
Duration: 30 Minutes
COVID19 - Techniques & Strategies for Support by Phone
Steve Crimando is with DMHAS Disaster and Terrorism Branch. He is a leader in responding to incidents worldwide and instrumental in NJ’s response to events. Please scroll below to listen to a recording of today’s webinar on providing support by phone, an adjustment to the DRCC response.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Coronavirus and Housing/Homelessness
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL) joined speakers from the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness and more to share updates and resources needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic for people experiencing homelessness and low-income renters.
Host: National Low Income Housing Coalition
Duration: 1.75 hours
COVID-19 Health Crisis: Getting Through This Together, School Social Work in a Changing Landscape
This webinar will review the impact of COVID-19 on us as mental health professionals, the ethical responsibilities in meeting the needs of students during this health crisis, guidance related to mental health service delivery, strategies for talking with families and resources to support your practice.
Duration: 1 hour
Medication First: Integration of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Across the Healthcare System
Medication First programs get persons with OUD maintenance medical treatment as quickly as possible and provide voluntary supportive services as needed. A patient’s access to medical treatment is not dependent upon psychosocial treatment compliance or unrealistic expectations about the course of treatment and recovery. The Medication First approach is supported by decades of research. It prioritizes client choice in both service selection and service participation. Expanding the Medication First or “low-threshold” medical approach to opioid use disorder will be essential to reversing the epidemic of opioid-related deaths.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Supporting Children Who Lose Parents to Accidental Overdose
Many children unexpectedly lost a parent to an accidental overdose over the past decade. Many of these children had encountered public systems such as child welfare, mental health, and juvenile probation, both before and after the death of their parent(s). As the opioid crisis persists, this webinar considers specific issues affecting the children left behind. Both presenters discuss implications for the future, including the ways that systems and helping professionals need to adjust to accommodate the growing number children who have lost parents to overdose over the course of their development into adults.
Duration: 75 Minutes
Using Affinity Groups to Advance Black Men to the C-Suite (Virtual Barbership Series)
This conversation will focus on the uphill challenge of increasing racial diversity in the executive suites of community-based organizations. For Black men, the challenge of matriculating to the C-suite is complex and often fraught with an uneven playing field, unconscious bias, and emotional baggage. If real change is to occur, executives who are men of color must foster and sustain affinity groups to teach, advocate, and promote the strategies and benefits of advancing equity, particularly from sharing their professional experiences and research-informed recommendations.
Duration: 1 hour
Getting Real about Workplace Racism (Virtual Barbership Series)
Being Black in America means many things, but one of the most prevalent issues is experiencing racism on a daily basis on multiple fronts. From standard microaggressions on up through direct confrontations, the men who'll be waiting on their haircuts at our barbershop have experienced it all. Black male senior executives in community-based organizations from across the country will share their experiences of confronting and dealing with racism in their daily lives. Hear how they handle it when it's unintended, when it comes from a donor or key stakeholder, or when it happens in the most unexpected places.
Duration: 1 hour
Black Man, Black Man, Where are You? (Virtual Barbership Series)
Examine and explore the role of Black male leaders and leadership development in community-based human services organizations. There is an undeniable absence of Black male leaders in senior and executive leadership positions within our sector. We’ll discuss what is causing this absence and, more importantly, what we can or should do about it. We will also share perspectives on the recent tragedy surrounding George Floyd. We’ll reflect on what Black men should understand from this tragedy and, more importantly, where we, as a society, go from here—exactly what needs to change and how that change happens.
Duration: 1 hour
Black Male Executives on COVID-19 (Virtual Barbership Series)
During this webinar, the first in a series of "virtual barbershops," we will discuss inequities and COVID-19, particularly the virus' impact on African American men and communities of color. One in three people who became sick enough to require hospitalization were African American. African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population. The lack of access to testing, higher chronic disease burden, and historical racial bias within health care institutions are all contributing to higher rates of sickness and death. During this conversational webinar, several African American male executives will share their stories, experiences, and recommendations for increasing organizational capacity to reduce inequities in health outcomes.
Duration: 1 hour
What more can be done to address the intersection of mental health, substance use disorders, social determinants of health and racism? The death of Walter Wallace shines a light on racial disparities for black and brown people in our communities. For people of color who live with behavioral health conditions, addressing racism to advance personal, family and community well-being is a daily practice. Application of social theories to address structural and institutional constructs can and should be lead by the very people impacted. Marrying theory with human-centered design—learning from the journey of those who are impacted by changes in policies, programs and practices—can yield innovative ways to move from cultural competency to structural competency and change.
Duration: 1 hour
Supporting Older Adults in Emergencies: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
The Focus on Aging webinar series addresses important topics for public health and health care professionals, aging services organizations, the research community, and other stakeholders in aging. The series is a joint project of four of the federal agencies that support the health and wellness of older adults in the U.S.: the Administration for Community Living, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the National Institute on Aging at the NIH. Each webinar includes information specific to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, as well as their caregivers.
Duration: 90 minutes
Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults
Human beings are social creatures, thriving on connections with others. These connections can help to reduce social isolation and loneliness and lower risk for a variety of physical and mental health conditions. This webinar will focus on how social isolation and loneliness affect older adults’ health and well-being, particularly amid the unique challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar will also address social isolation and loneliness in the context of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, emphasize the impact of health disparities, and provide information on potential interventions and mitigating technologies.
Duration: 90 minutes
Returning Citizens: Resources for Incarcerated Individuals
This webinar is part of the NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility and Reconciliation Series. Join us for a Community Conversation with Helena D. Lewis, DSW, LCSW, reentry specialist and special guests. On October 19, NJ Governor, Phil Murphy, signed a bill that will release thousands of New Jersey prisoners due to the danger posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us to learn about resources available for these returning citizens.
Duration: 70 minutes
Join us for a Community Conversation with Executive Director of Manavi, and Legal Advocate on addressing gender-based violence in the South Asian community and to learn about the culturally specific services provided by Manavi. With a mission to end all forms of violence against women, Manavi began as an awareness campaign on issues concerning South Asian women; today it continues to centralize women’s needs and interests in all its organizational decisions and service provisions. Manavi simultaneously addresses both the immediate needs of women facing abuse and the long-term vision of establishing peaceful communities free from gender-based violence.
Duration: 1 hour
Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
This online MBSR training course is 100% free, created by a fully certified MBSR instructor, and is based on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Here you will find a complete eight-week MBSR course, designed for people who are not able to take a live MBSR course for financial or logistical reasons. All of the materials used in the live courses I taught, including guided meditations, articles and videos, are freely available here. "Mindfulness" is used in many contexts nowadays and there are many different understandings of the term. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a blend of meditation, body awareness, and yoga: learning through practice and study how your body handles (and can resolve) stress neurologically.
Family Environment Instability: How Early Childhood Shapes Social Maladjustments Over Time
Early family contexts can shape the trajectories of children’s adjustment throughout childhood. Families can provide a safe and stable base for children that is protective against adversity. However, when family environments are not stable (e.g., when parents/parent figures are moving in and out), children may suffer. Join Dr. Elizabeth Karberg of Child Trends, as she explores how family instability in early childhood shapes children’s social (mal)adjustment over time.
Duration: 1 hour
Online Teaching Strategies: Tips and Guidance from the Field
We are starting this school year with many questions. Will we teach students in classrooms? Or, will we engage them via ZOOM? (Based on current conditions, ZOOM looks more and more likely.) Our big question is… how do we effectively teach relationship skills virtually? In March, Dibble convened a working group of clients who were moving instruction online. Together, we created this free Online Teaching Toolkit. Join us in a conversation with several experienced practitioners who were part of that effort to learn how they successfully moved their instruction in Dibble materials into the virtual world.
Duration: 1 hour
Fatherhood: Building Self-Sufficient and Resilient Families
This is an interactive webinar describing the roles of responsible fatherhood (RF) programming in state and non-profit fatherhood organizations.
The State of Ohio RF programming is supported through state TANF and was supported by the 2015 Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood (HM/RF) grant. Kimberly Dent addresses useful information for future HMI/RF grantees in addition to how a father’s past trauma influences his future success and challenges.
Duration: 1 hour
Mind Matters Lesson 1: Self Soothing
Self-Soothing is a skill that is developed over time, through practice The goal of self-soothing is to dial-down the reactive response of the body’s central nervous system. A traumatized person needs a means of reducing the automatic reactivity of their nervous system. Self-soothing will help. You will learn and practice four self-soothing skills that you can use personally as well as share with colleagues and clients.
Duration: 1 hour
Building Partnerships to Enhance the Peer Workforce
In this webinar, you will have an opportunity to learn about the benefits of building partnerships between organizations. In efforts of enhancing and strengthening the peer workforce; it is a crucial time for collaborative partnerships to form and for organizations to have the skills to maintain sustainable, mutual and complementary community partnerships. This webinar will highlight the voices of peer organizations that are already putting these concepts into practice and will explore some simple steps for building partnerships that have successful outcomes for the growth of a peer workforce.
Duration: 1 hour
Physical Wellness for Work: A Guide for Peer Specialists
Too many people with behavioral health challenges are not working or work in jobs that are not satisfying or stimulating because they have physical health issues that get in the way. Success at work requires a level of stamina, energy, and concentration that can be hard to sustain without daily wellness habits and routines. Physical Wellness for Work is a manual of activities and information for increasing workplace health and well-being. Developed for people in recovery who are living with a mental health condition, peer specialists can use this as a self-guided tool or as a tool to help others think about how their wellness affects their ability to get and keep a job. Join Dr. Cook and Dr. Swarbrick for this webinar to learn more about this free resource along with how to access training and technical assistance for using it.
Duration: 1 hour
Trauma and Mental Health Peer Support
Trauma is a factor in many people's lives and can lead to challenges that encompass all facets of living. This presentation will describe basic information about the characteristics and prevalence of trauma - relevant to the work of mental health peer specialists. Risk factors and protective factors will be reviewed so that peer supporters are better grounded in providing trauma-informed care in supporting recovery and resilience. The presentation will review the importance of language and perspective in working with someone who has or is experiencing trauma. It will also highlight how mental health peer specialists can benefit by shifting the focus to emotional understanding and strengths-based interactions that support successful recovery.
Duration: 1 hour
National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
As the United States population continues to diversify, peer specialists must find ways to provide equitable, effective care and services to the culturally and linguistically diverse populations they serve. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health developed the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care to offer a framework for delivering services that are respectful of and responsive to each person’s culture and communication needs. This webinar will introduce the concept of culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS), provide an overview of the National CLAS Standards, share key findings from organizations that have implemented the National CLAS Standards, and provide actionable recommendations for successful implementation of the National CLAS Standards.
Duration: 1 hour
Crisis Engagement Strategies
In acute and crisis situations, peer support specialists can become an essential part of the recovery process for individuals under duress. Peer support specialists engage, empower, and advocate for people in acute and crisis settings.
Duration: 1 hour
Peer Support and Smoking Cessation
Why talk about smoking cessation and peer support specialists? According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide.1 "Approximately 1 in 4 (or 25%) of adults in the U.S. have some form of mental health or substance use disorder, and these adults consume almost 40% of all cigarettes smoked." This webinar will highlight the importance of peer support and a plan for individuals taking a journey toward smoking cessation. It will also offer tips for supporters at different stages of a person’s journey toward self-liberation from cigarettes.
Duration: 1 hour
How Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Can Help Prevent Bullying
This interactive webinar focused on the latest research on bullying among children and adolescents and explored strategies for using social and emotional learning (SEL) to prevent bullying. Social and emotional learning helps children and adolescents to manage their emotions, empathize with others, and develop positive relationships. (1) It provides an important framework for schools to use in helping students acquire and strengthen social and emotional skills to prevent bullying behaviors and support inclusion and respect. (2) Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D., M.Ed. of the University of Virginia and Tracy Waasdorp, Ph.D., M.Ed of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health described their research and practice in applying social and emotional learning to the prevention of bullying. The webinar was moderated by Jim Vetter, Ed.M. of Education Development Center (EDC) and the Social-Emotional Learning Alliance for Massachusetts (SEL4MA).
In this 60-minute webinar, AHP's Patrick Gauthier and Fran Basche explain why every effective accountable care organization (ACO) must have a vibrant behavioral health workforce development plan -- and walk you through exactly how to create one.
Current events like the COVID-19 pandemic, public images of police brutality, and an economic downturn have led to an increase in long-lasting physical and emotional stress in people across the world. These traumatic experiences have led to or exacerbated mental illnesses, substance use, and physical health conditions. Trauma-informed care (TIC) has become a widely recognized paradigm for creating safe spaces for individuals who have experienced trauma and reducing the likelihood that accessing services would cause re-traumatization. But what exactly is trauma and the trauma-informed care framework?
HRC's All Children - All Families Training Series
Human Rights Campaign's All Children - All Families regularly provides online learning offerings covering promising practices in serving LGBTQ children, youth and families. To watch the recordings at no cost, click "View Recorded Webinar" and fill out the short form. You will then receive an email with instructions for viewing the webinar. Their trainings cover five domains: Core Curriculum, Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Parents, Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Youth, Caring for LGBTQ Youth (For Caregivers), and LGBTQ Inclusion Strategies for Agency Leadership.
Duration: Multiple Training Opportunities (1 hour to 90 minutes each)
School to Prison Pipeline
Recorded live on August 18, 2020. This webinar is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series.
Duration: 1 hour
This Community Conversation is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. As the country wrestles with the impact of institutionalized racism and the pandemic, nowhere is the weight of this emotional trauma greater than for parents of color. Join us with special guest, Kecia Melvin, LCSW for this important conversation.
Duration: 1 hour
Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Substance Use Disorders: From Theory to Practice
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been found to be effective for treating a variety of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). This webinar will review the CBT model of substance use, as well as practical treatment strategies and tools to best help individuals affected by SUDs. Resources for further information will be provided.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Medication First: Integration of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Across the Healthcare System
Medication First programs get persons with OUD maintenance medical treatment as quickly as possible and provide voluntary supportive services as needed. A patient’s access to medical treatment is not dependent upon psychosocial treatment compliance or unrealistic expectations about the course of treatment and recovery. The Medication First approach is supported by decades of research. It prioritizes client choice in both service selection and service participation. Expanding the Medication First or “low-threshold” medical approach to opioid use disorder will be essential to reversing the epidemic of opioid-related deaths.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Supporting Children Who Lose Parents to Accidental Overdose
Many children unexpectedly lost a parent to an accidental overdose over the past decade. Many of these children had encountered public systems such as child welfare, mental health, and juvenile probation, both before and after the death of their parent(s). As the opioid crisis persists, this webinar considers specific issues affecting the children left behind. Both presenters discuss implications for the future, including the ways that systems and helping professionals need to adjust to accommodate the growing number children who have lost parents to overdose over the course of their development into adults.
Duration: 75 Minutes
Preventing Suicide and Self-Harm Among Black Youth
This webinar focused on the epidemiology of suicide and self-harm among Black youth, identified evidence-based and informed strategies for prevention, risk and protective factors, barriers to prevention and resources available to providers. Dr. Crystal Barksdale of the National Institute of Mental Health discussed the most recent data on suicide and suicidal behaviors among Black youth. She described risk and protective factors for suicide and deleterious mental health outcomes. Dr. Rhonda Boyd of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine presented barriers to intervention engagement among Black youth and current evidence for suicide prevention, including screening and treatment. She shared information regarding organizations and websites that are important resources for practitioners. Elly Stout, Director of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at Education Development Center, moderated the webinar.
Duration: 1 hour
Middle Management Academy Summer Series
The MMA Summer Series is free and designed to provide quick tools and resources for managers, supervisors and team leaders on how to effectively lead during a public health crisis. The series will have three topic areas: Day-to-Day Supervision; Stress, Chaos, Self-care and Wellness; and Strengths-based Leadership. Within each topic area, there will be between one and three parts that include videos, slide decks and resources that provide guidance.
Duration: 4 hours (4 - 1 hour segments)
Youth Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based approach to identifying patients who use alcohol and other drugs at risky levels. The goal of SBIRT is to reduce and prevent related health consequences, disease, accidents and injuries. Module 1: Introduction to SBIRT & Screening; Module 2: Brief Intervention and Motivational Interviewing; Module 3: Referral to Treatment & Ongoing Management in Primary Care; Module 4: Data Driven Decision Making
Duration: 3 hours (4 modules)
Virtual Supervision - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 1
With the child welfare workforce currently working from home, supervision is more important than ever to ensure continued quality service provision and to keep children safe and families together. How is supervision changing to respond to this new virtual world? What adjustments are being made? This webinar offers expert guidance on virtual supervision and provides opportunities for participants to ask questions and exchange information.
Duration: 1 hour
Well Being - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 2
In these uncertain times, we are all presented with new concerns. Our national child welfare workforce and leaders also find themselves facing new challenges and stressors as everything about the old “normal” is changing. In this session, Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer will provide hopeful perspectives, concrete action steps and tools, and words of comfort and support for our workforce to help them manage through this crisis. Participants will receive ideas to cope and prepare to be in the best position and condition possible as we begin to rebuild together.
Duration: 75 minutes
Physical, Emotional and Psychological Safety - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 3
During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers provide critical services to their communities. As essential public servants, it is important that they have systems in place to ensure their safety during home visits and working in the field. This session explores how child welfare programs are innovating to protect their frontline workers’ physical, emotional, and psychological safety.
Duration: 1 hour
Converting Classroom Training From In-Person to Online - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 4
Much of child welfare professional development, especially foundational training for new workers, takes place in-person. Because of the current situation, training needs to be available online in order to continue to meet the needs of our workforce. This webinar will provide information on converting in-person experiences to virtual learning platforms, as almost anything that can be taught in the classroom can also go online (really!). Learn tips, tricks, and ways to overcome barriers. We will also provide opportunities for webinar participants to ask questions and share information and resources.
Duration: 75 minutes
Coaching Remotely - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 5
Coaching in the child welfare workforce often happens face-to-face or in context of daily work activities. With our shift to virtual work, face-to-face contact may have been curtailed but connecting and supporting growth does not need to stop. This session will explore what stays the same and what adjustments must be made when coaching remotely.
Duration: 75 minutes
Using Social Media and Technology to Engage Children, Youth and Families - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 6
During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers are using technology to communicate with families, and foster parents are using technology to connect youth in their care to services and maintain connection between youth and their biological families. This webinar offers considerations and best practices to support child welfare workers as they use technology with the families they serve.
Duration: 75 minutes
Youth Can Help with Preparedness
National Preparedness Month is held every September to promote the way families and communities engage in disaster and emergency planning. One of this year's themes was “Teach Youth to Prepare for Disasters.” This webinar includes discussion on how Youth Preparedness Councils (YPCs) can have an impact on improving community resilience and how new emergency and disaster readiness tools and programs geared toward kids are now available online.
National Preparedness Month is held every September to promote the way families and communities engage in disaster and emergency planning. One of this year's themes was “Teach Youth to Prepare for Disasters.” This webinar includes discussion on how Youth Preparedness Councils (YPCs) can have an impact on improving community resilience and how new emergency and disaster readiness tools and programs geared toward kids are now available online.
Human Trafficking: The Hidden Crime (2020)
This webinar features a subject matter expert from Homeland Security Investigations tasked with investigating and dismantling human tracking efforts throughout the country. Human trafficking is a hidden crime and it can happen in any community; victims can be of any age, race, gender or nationality. The first step to fighting the battle is to identify victims so they can be rescued and help bring offenders to justice. Education and awareness is the route to a safer community.
Helping Helpers (2020)
Disaster plans primarily focus on how to help crisis survivors, but who’s helping the helpers? The police, first responders and CERTs who help people get back on their feet after a disaster need help too. Raquelle from FEI Workforce, a company with a long history in enhancing workforce resiliency, offers insights on how to support first responders.
Effective Interpersonal Communications for CERT (2020)
Effective communication skills are the pillars of building relationships, fostering teamwork, and increasing productivity and resilience. Raquelle Solon from FEI Workforce provides information and tools to enhance and improve your communications between each other and for those you serve.
Emergencies: Psychological Aspects in the Preparation and Response Phase (2019)
Learn about the importance of psychological preparedness for emergencies and some of the internal factors that influence people to prepare. This webinar features Ingrid Perez, Planning Specialist in the Capacity Building Sector’s Continuity of Operations Unit at the FEMA Caribbean Area Division. This presentation primarily focuses on why some individuals are more proactive than others when preparing for emergencies and also provides general recommendations to support psychological preparedness.
Trauma-Informed Management of People in Crisis (2019)
What is “trauma” from a psychological standpoint? Find out the answer to this question and how crises effect individuals. Webinar attendees will gain a better understanding of how to recognize signs of stress in coworkers, the general public, or themselves; and develop approaches on how to effectively manage them.
Psychological First Aid for CERT (2020)
Join this deep-dive session to learn strategies on how to address psychological stress in yourself, coworkers, or general public during the course of your emergency response.
Emotional Consequences Of Public Health Emergencies (2020)
Learn about the unique aspects of managing the emotional consequences of public health emergencies and the response required to effectively address them.
Psychological Resilience (2020)
This webinar focuses on steps individuals can take in their everyday lives to improve their mental health and personal resilience. These simple, yet powerful practices can help sustain the energy, focus and balance during times of extreme stress. Susan Snyde, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a trainer for the City of Berkeley Community Emergency Response Team is the featured speaker.
The webinar features the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and their role and the programs they provide during a Public Health Emergency; including Medicare and Medicaid flexibilities and waivers. Examples of these programs during a disaster, include Medicaid, Medicare Fee for Service, and Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans. Available in Spanish.
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Helping Children Cope During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out emotional reactions in children that may be difficult to cope with. This webinar discusses strategies and activities to promote positive coping in childern. Yvonne Muzquiz from AmeriCares Hurricane Harvey response is the featured speaker (English version) and Dr. Ivelisse Morales from AmeriCares Puerto Rico is the featured speaker (Spanish version).
The Continuous Improvement Process: How Your Organization Can Document Lessons Learned from COVID-19
Continuous Improvement (CI) can improve operational and programmatic outcomes by building upon what is going well and correcting what needs to be fixed. Learn what it takes to conduct CI related activitie, including how to prepare for and facilitate an After-Action Review. Features representatives from the CI team who also provide real-world examples.
Stress Management Related to Isolation, Social Distancing, and Quarantine
Social distancing is necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19 but can have significant impacts on mental health. Certain groups, such as individuals with preexisting mental health conditions and healthcare workers, are experiencing high levels of stress during the time. In this webinar, AmeriCares discusses stress management strategies for adults and children. Available in Spanish.
Americares – Grief and Losses During the COVID-19 Crisis
Grief is a natural reaction to loss and a complex process that is different for everyone. This webinar reviews the stages of grief, provides strategies on how to cope and ways to support individuals during this process. Available in Spanish.
Flourishing in Adolescence: A Virtual Workshop
The Forum for Children’s Well-Being hosted a one-day virtual workshop on Flourishing in Adolescence. The virtual workshop was held on May 5, 2020 and included discussions about best practices in providing and supporting adolescent health services and key messaging and communication strategies related to adolescent mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Additionally, the workshop featured a panel of youth representatives who shared their own experiences related to mental, emotional, and behavioral health. The workshop videos and presentations are now available.
Duration: 5 hours
As essential workers, it is not surprising that Social Workers experience compassion fatigue. What is it? How can you tell if you are experiencing it? What are some of the treatments? Join Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, a nationally renowned expert and author on Mind and Body Techniques as we explore the emotional and physical exhaustion that can occur during the pandemic.
Duration: 1 hour
Understanding the Final Rule for 42 CFR Part 2 and Next Steps
In preparation for the final rule to go into effect and to educate members about the changes included in the CARES Act, the APA jointly hosted a webinar, Understanding the Final Rule for 42 CFR Part 2 and Next Steps, with the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the American Society of Addiction Medicine on August 12, 2020. You may slides and additional resources here.
Discussing Issues of Race with Young Children
NASW New Jersey presents a community conversation with Dr. La'Tesha Sampson, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW. Recorded live on June 19, 2020.
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded live on June 25, 2020. This webinar is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. Join NASW-NJ's Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson, MSW, Dr. Tawanda Hubbard, LCSW, and Dr. Widian Nicola, LCSW, for a discussion regarding race and trauma. This program will examine the systems that perpetuate intergenerational trauma related to racism. Presented by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1.25 hours
Recorded live June 30, 2020 and facilitated by Bianca Mayes, MPH, CHES of Garden State Equality and Jennifer Thompson, MSW Executive Director NASW NJ|DE.This community conversation discusses the history of LGBTQ pride including the Compton Cafeteria Riots (1966) which preceded the well-known Stonewall Riots (1969). Through the transgender community's activisim around police brutality, the origins of pride began! Queer liberation and racial justice are still incorporated in today's climate through the Black Lives Matter movement and the current rallies against police brutality and injustice. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Join social workers Sharea Farmer, LCSW, and Jennifer Thompson, MSW, to discuss how self-care is a form of activism. As we navigate a national health crisis, and ways to be part of social change and justice we cannot forget the importance of caring for ourselves. During this time when stress and uncertainty are running high, we need to listen to our bodies, hearts and minds so we can find resiliency and renew our lives and work. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Kristin Miller, LCSW and NASW-NJ's Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson, MSW lead a conversation about what white privilege and white fragility mean and the concept of racial identity development. This Community Conversation is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Parental Addiction
The trauma of parental addiction can impact children’s long-term wellness. But there are strategies you can use to mitigate these harmful effects and help children cope. In this webinar, content creator Kama Einhorn walks us through the Parental Addiction topic page. She shares key messages and offers ways you might use these resources in your work with kids and families. Learning Goals: Learn more about the impact of parental addiction on children and families. Become familiar with the Parental Addiction topic page on Sesame Street in Communities. Gain actionable strategies to use to support children and families. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences – Office Hour
The Big Idea: The Sesame Street in Communities team has created resources to help you help kids and families cope after traumatic experiences. Watch this recording of our live session where Senior Content Manager, Kama Einhorn, talks about resources from the Traumatic Experiences topic page. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Helping Kids Grieve - Office Hours
The Big Idea: The Sesame Street in Communities team has created resources to help you support young children and families through their experiences of grief. Watch this recording of our live session where Senior Content Manager, Kama Einhorn, talks about resources from the Helping Kids Grieve topic page. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Understanding Bullying
The Big Idea: Bullying is an important issue in our world—one that we can address early in a child’s life! In this webinar, we’ll talk about how bullying affects young children, and explore ways that as providers, we can empower parents and caregivers to help prevent bullying in the lives of their children. With the Senior Vice President of Curriculum and Content at Sesame Street, dive into some of our resources and look at how they might be integrated into your work with families and children. Learning Goals: Explore the topic of bullying and describe it from the perspective of a preschooler. Talk about assumptions we have when exploring a topic like bullying. Learn strategies to respond to bullying appropriately, as well as pro-social strategies to prevent bullying behavior in the first place. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Sesame Street And Autism: Resources You Can Use
In this webinar, you’ll learn how you can use Sesame Street Autism resources to build acceptance, inclusivity, awareness, and understanding among the children and families that you serve. Goals: Discover resources that will grow your own understanding of autism and the autism spectrum. Learn how to use Sesame Street activities and content during daily routines to support and celebrate the uniqueness of every child, including those on the autism spectrum.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Hand in Hand: Helping Children Feel Safe and Find Hope After Events of Community Violence
When children hear learn of random acts of violence, whether near or far, their sense of safety in the world is challenged. Watch this webinar to learn strategies to help reassure, soothe, and comfort them. In this webinar, content creator Kama Einhorn will help us to understand the difficult reality of community violence and its effect on young children. More than that, she’ll walk us through five strategies we can use to offer comfort and hope to the children and families we care for. We’ll learn that even though can’t control many events, we still hold a lot of power in our own hands. Learning Goals: Define community violence, Understand how community violence may affect young children, Explore strategies to help children cope, and Look at ways providers and caregivers can take care of themselves during troubling times and after disturbing events so they can be at their best for children. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Taking Care of Myself
The Big Idea: The important caregivers in kids’ lives need care too! You do so much to help the children and families in your care. It’s important to remember to take good care of yourself so that you can be at your best to help those who you work with to grow and thrive. We’ve all experienced stress at some point. In this webinar, we’ll learn how to recognize stress symptoms and how they manifest in our own bodies and minds, and we’ll take a look at SSIC’s vast resources to help manage stress, think positively, and cope with emotions. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Guided Play with Roberta Golinkoff, Ph.D.
The Big Idea: Children can learn so much while they play, and grown-ups can add to that learning! Kids don’t have to be working hard to be learning. In fact, they can learn a lot while they play! In this webinar, hear from Dr. Roberta Golinkoff as she shares her insights into how children learn through play, and specifically guided play. She shares strategies that you can use to extend kids’ learning, playfully! Learning Goals: Discuss how children learn through different forms of play, and why each is important. Explore ways to facilitate playful learning in your setting. Learn ‘The Six C’s’ from Dr. Golinkoff’s book, Becoming Brilliant. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Handling Emergencies with Andrew Roszak
The Big Idea: We can all do our part to help our communities prepare for and recover from emergencies. Andrew Roszak’s job is to make sure child care providers and families have the information and tools they need to develop emergency preparedness plans to keep children safe and care for them during disasters. In this webinar, he shares helpful strategies for developing and practicing emergency preparedness plans in child care and family child care facilities. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences: First Steps to Hope (Part 1)
Nearly half of American children under 18 have had at least one type of adverse childhood experience. These experiences can cause physical, emotional, and psychological distress. In Part 1 of this webinar series, we’ll learn about how to help families cope with and overcome these traumatic situations. They will discuss ways to practice simple, consistent, and positive behaviors, to help children and families move forward and achieve health, safety, and happiness. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences: First Steps to Hope (Part 2)
In this webinar series, Ann Thomas, President and CEO of The Children’s Place, discusses the effects of childhood traumatic experiences and articulates strategies that providers can use to help kids and families cope. In part two of this series, Ann walks us through Sesame Workshop’s approach to helping kids and families through traumatic experiences, and examines many resources you can use in your own work with kids and families.Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Empowering Families with EMPath
Join Sesame Street as we talk with our friend, Beth Babcock, MCRP, PhD, from Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath). In this provider interview, Beth tells us what the latest brain science has to say about inter-generational mobility. She shares the frameworks that her team at EMPath uses to help families gain traction and achieve goals together. Learning Goals: Learn about designing environments to accommodate those under stress; Understand materials and tools that can be used to help those under stress; Find ways to stand beside families and help them practice finding, analyzing, and prioritizing their challenges and goals; Learn about how to help families build the executive function skillset that living in poverty often diminishes. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Brave, Strong, Resilient
This interactive, digital training experience is designed to help educators teach kids strategies for building resilience. Through a series of lessons, which include group activities, videos, and printables, children learn to express their feelings and solve problems. Resources are also available to help families practice these resiliency skills at home. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten)
Duration: 3+ Hours
Sesame Strong
Sesame Strong is a scope and sequence designed to support your family engagement efforts! It includes eight bundles full of resources you can use to connect with, celebrate, and support parents and caregivers. Use these resources to host mini-sessions with parents, or simply infuse key messages and big ideas into your everyday interactions with parents. Each bundle includes: A Key Caregiver Strategy. Supporting resources for caregivers: a parent reading, two video clips, a digital storybook, and a hands-on activity to try. Facilitation cues and activity ideas for hosting parent sessions in your setting. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Providers who work to support parents and caregivers
Duration: 3+ Hours
Supporting Military and Veteran Caregiving Families
This series, which includes nine bundles of SSIC resources, aims to help providers support military and veteran caregiving families. The bundles are designed to be implemented as workshops with families and include helpful language, digital resources to share, and hands-on activities to bring concepts to life. Providers are invited to use the ideas and activities in ways that complement their work. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 3+ Hours
Growing Together
The Big Idea: Take an interactive course to learn of ways to partner with families for school readiness across every aspect of child development. Learning Goals: To support school readiness strategies for Kindergarten readiness. To review the developmental domains of early childhood development. Build partnerships with families for student success.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten) Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 3+ Hours
Make Believe With Math
Join us for an interactive course designed for all early childhood educators! Together we’ll explore the importance of math and pretend play in early childhood, key math objectives for children ages 0-5, and ways to create more math moments in student’s lives, especially during pretend play. This course will provide fun and simple activities and ideas that you can begin using right away. This course is now open. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten)
Duration: 3+ Hours
Building a Reader
The Big Idea: An interactive course that explores key literacy goals, strategies, and activities to support learning around language and literacy in children ages 2-5. Join us for an interactive course that explores key literacy goals, strategies, and activities to support learning around language and literacy in young kids.Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten) of Language and Literacy
Duration: 3+ Hours
Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Children
Led by the Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center in Boston and in collaboration with the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, the NCTSN presents this webinar series designed to cover the impact of trauma on children during all phases of their migration journey. Nationally recognized speakers from NCTSN are joined by experts from the Irving Harris Foundation’s Professional Development Network to provide best practices for culturally responsive and trauma-informed provision of services. This series features diverse expertise from the fields of refugee and migrant health, cultural studies, mental health, early childhood development, childhood traumatic stress, trauma-informed systems of care, and secondary traumatic stress. Available in English and Spanish.
Culture, the Migration Journey, Trauma and Assessment
In this webinar developed by Lisa Fortuna, MD, Alisa B. Miller, PhD and Saida M. Abdi, MSW, foundational information is offered related to the intersection of culture, the migration journey, trauma and assessment. Description: In addition, recommendations for providing culturally responsive, child-friendly assessment and best practices are shared for working with interpreters for individuals who have direct contact with unaccompanied children (e.g., care provider staff) or work with people with direct contact with unaccompanied children (e.g., supervisors). Available in English and Spanish.
Culture, Development, Trauma, and Socio-Cultural Responsive Interventions with Youth Ages 7 and Older
Developed by Javier Rosado, PhD, Susana Rivera PhD, and Luis Flores, MA, this webinar defines traumatic separation and grief and outlines the developmental impacts on youth. Additionally, participants will learn how to be responsive to the cultural and linguistic needs of youth. Participants will learn children’s common fears and perceived threats to safety experienced by youth exposed to traumatic events as well as culturally responsive strategies for staff to use when working with youth. Available in English and Spanish.
Attachment, Development, Trauma, and Socio-Cultural Responsive Interventions for Young Children
This webinar, developed by Marta Casas LMHC, MEd, Carmen Rosa Noroña LCSW, MSEd and Marcy Safyer, PhD MSW, will provide a basic overview of the intersection of early childhooddevelopment (0-5), attachment and trauma in young migrant children. Presenters discuss trauma and socio-cultural interventions and engage the audience in reflections about best practices and practice-change with this population. Available in English and Spanish.
Secondary Traumatic Stress: Understanding the Impact of Trauma Work on Professionals
Developed by Raven Cuellar, PhD, Carmen Rosa Noroña, LCSW, Ms. Ed., Ginny Sprang, PhD, and Savina Treves, MA, LPC this webinar defines Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), describes how the sociocultural context and the experience of migration may impact the experience of STS and outlines specific strategies to strengthen protective factors to prevent, identify, and address STS in the workplace. Through case examples, participants will learn who is at risk, organizational and individual factors related to STS, and how to approach support staff wellness. Available in English and Spanish.
Child Welfare Worker Safety in the Time of COVID-19: CDC Recommendations for In-Person Interactions with Families
Child welfare agencies have taken steps to promote safety of case workers and families during this time of physical distancing, including strategies to limit face-to-face interactions. However, circumstances remain where these interactions are necessary to assess child safety and parent/caregiver capacity to maintain child safety and well-being. This webinar will review relevant guidance and recommendations by the CDC to on how to reduce the risk of child welfare case workers while conducting in-person interactions with children and families during the crisis. Participants will also hear an example from the field of how this guidance is being implemented in practice in Massachusetts. Powerpoint and resources can be downloaded here.
Improving Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals
Cultural and linguistic competency is recognized as an important strategy for improving the quality of care provided to clients from diverse backgrounds. The goal of this program is to help professionals increase their cultural and linguistic competency. Course 1, An introduction to cultural and linguistic competency, you'll learn what culture has to do with behavioral health care. Course 2, Know thyself – Increasing self-awareness, you'll learn how to get to know your cultural identity and how it affects your work with clients. Course 3, Knowing others – Increasing awareness of your client's cultural identity, you'll learn how to get to know your client’s cultural identity. Course 4, Culturally and linguistically appropriate interventions and services, you'll learn how to build stronger therapeutic relationships with clients from diverse backgrounds.
Duration: 4 - 5.5 hours Approved by NAADAC and NBCC for contact hours.
Sesame Street in Communities: Health Emergencies
A health emergency brings many changes and much uncertainty for young children and their families, but there are things we can do to face each day with optimism and hope. We can practice healthy habits like handwashing and coughing into the bend in our arm. We can offer comfort, connect with, and care for others safely. And we can keep learning and growing at home through everyday routines and simple activities. The resources on this page can help families cope during challenging times.
Cultivating Post Traumatic Growth in Kids and Families through Mindfulness during COVID
As the shutdowns and stay at home orders lengthen, and as tragic news trickles in from near and far, how can we ensure than we and our clients emerge from this time stronger and more resilient than ever? Join Dr. Chris Willard as we explore the foundations of post traumatic growth, looking to human history, anthropology and neuroscience as we discover and explore tools that have boosted human resilience in the face of adversity for generations. This workshop will dive into child and teen oriented contemplative, mindfulness and positive psychology techniques, along with simple takeaway tips for your clients, colleagues and yourself.
Duration: 4 Hours
Anti-Racism Training
Racism. It is a word that elicits strong emotion, and often even stronger opinions. Taking the step to engage in anti-racism work may seem intimidating, or maybe you already feel confident in your knowledge of racial justice and in your allyship. Regardless of where you sit on that spectrum, this training is one that can have benefit for everyone. Participants will learn about historical events, ideologies, and social structures, and how they inform modern day beliefs, bias, and perception, analyze concepts of racial identity, bias, privilege, and prejudice; reflect on their own identity, bias, privilege, and prejudice; identify strategies to engage in difficult conversations and reflect on ways to integrate anti-racism work into their daily lives.
Duration: 6 hours (3 modules/2 hours each)
Trauma and the Brain
This course is designed for licensed professionals with some foundational knowledge of both trauma and neurobiology. We will delve into the specific ways that psychological and physical trauma can impact both the developing brain during childhood and adolescence, as well as how trauma affects the mature, adult brain.
Duration: Self-Paced
Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist
Unlocking Us with Brene Brown. In this podcast, Brene is talking with professor Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. We talk about racial disparities, policy, and equality, but we really focus on How to Be an Antiracist, which is a groundbreaking approach to understanding uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves.
Duration: 1 hour
A Self-Care Guide for the Paraprofessional
All direct support professionals who provide care to people served – particularly those with trauma – should perform regular self-checks. A simple and quick check-in to assess how you are feeling can be done any time after providing support.
Duration: Self-Paced
A Self-Care Guide for the Clinician
Both burnout and compassion fatigue make daily tasks difficult due to mental exhaustion from emotional overload. You might make more mistakes than usual, both mental and physical, putting both yourself and the people you serve in danger.
Duration: Self-Paced
Suicide Risk Factors, Screening, and Assessment
Through a blend of didactic and interactive exercises, you will learn how to use screening instruments and several different models of comprehensive suicide assessment.
Duration: Self-Paced
The Grip of Grief: Processing The Continual Losses of the Pandemic
You're grieving, our clients are grieving, everyone is grieving. People across the world have been experiencing a wide range of losses caused by the pandemic, including COVID-19-related deaths, the loss of events like graduations and planned trips, and the loss of what-once-was. Jill Johnson-Young, LCSW, provides an easy-to-digest framework for what to know and do/not do with clients as they grieve. This course explores the many types of losses relating to the pandemic, and gives clinicians straightforward and practical clinical interventions. Strategies to help therapists/counselors avoid and respond to grief burnout/compassion fatigue are also shared.
Duration: 1 hour
Racialized Trauma Course
Cultural Somatics Free 5 Session E-course: Explore basics facets of Racialized Trauma and what to do about it. We can't help ourselves even begin to heal racialized trauma if we don't acknowledge that it even exits.
Duration: Self-Paced
Mending Racialized Trauma: A Body Centered Approach with Resmaa Menakem
Resmaa shares that in order to mend racialized trauma we need to move the conversation from race to culture and cultivate a somatic abolitionist mindset and community. And a big part of that work lies in doing our own reps to learn what to pay attention to and then doing the reps with each other’s nervous systems so we can create a culture that knows what to pay attention to. Otherwise it’s just strategy.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Hey, White Therapist, Here's Where We Start
As racial tensions rise around the country, mental health professionals have a fundamental responsibility to support equality, but many white clinicians don’t know how to make a difference. In this interview, white therapists can begin exploring to be more aware of their own racial identity, cultural conditioning, and the effects on white people and people of color. This interview offers practical and compassionate guidance and interventions to white therapists wanting to be more effective in their work with people of color.
Duration: 1 hour
How Racism Impacts those We Serve and How We Serve: Are We Meeting Participants Where They Are?
Issues related to race are among the most difficult and least discussed topics in the field of behavioral health. This webinar is designed to raise the awareness of behavioral health providers of the possible overt, subtle, or unintentional ways that organizational policies and service delivery create barriers for individuals who have experienced racial discrimination. The presenters will review the history of racism, how it impacts participants, and what organizations can do to reduce structural barriers for individuals impacted by racism and discrimination.
Duration: 1 hour
Identity, Bias, and Cultural Humility: Connecting to Ourselves and Others
Cultural humility is a humble and respectful attitude toward individuals of other cultures and identities that pushes one to challenge their own cultural biases, realize they cannot possibly know everything about other cultures, and approach learning about other cultures as a lifelong goal and process. Cultural humility encourages active participation to learn about a client's personal and cultural experiences and identities. Understanding and connecting to our own histories and identities is an important step in developing cultural humility. Not only does this help us make space for understanding others, but it can also help us in formulating our own clinical approaches.
Duration: 1 hour
Legacies of Pain and Resilience: Clinical Implications for Understanding Historical Trauma and Race
Historical Trauma (HT) refers to the psychological distress experienced by survivors or descendants of human initiated acts of oppression. This webinar helped clinicians understand HT and provided some clarity regarding the intergenerational transmission of trauma and how it relates to racial oppression in particular. We summarized the research on the biological, psychological and social forces that promote an intergenerational legacy of pain and suffering among descendants of people impacted by traumatizing historical events. We also outlined the importance of resilience in helping individuals and communities recover and cope with HT.
Duration: 1 hour
Race, Poverty & Trauma: Microaggressions and the Therapeutic Alliance: Exploring Ethnically and Racially Diverse Clinician-Participant Relationships
Racial microaggressions, although often inadvertent and unintended, can be traumatic and polarizing for persons of color. During this webinar, Dr. Monnica Williams discusses the role and prevalence of racial microaggressions and its impact on the therapeutic relationship. She highlights common instances of microaggressions and strategies for how clinicians can challenge racial stereotypes to more effectively work with participants of color.
Duration: 1 hour
Race and Trauma: Race-based Traumatic Stress and Psychological Injury
Racism has severe psychological and emotional effects on people of color, impacting their daily lives and experiences with mental health services. During this webinar, Dr. Robert T. Carter will discuss race-based traumatic stress, ways of working with participants who have experienced racism, and implications for the assessment of trauma beyond the DSM-5.
Duration: 1.5 hour
Race and Trauma:The Role of Racial Trauma in Psychotherapy
Racism can be traumatizing for participants of color, and clinicians may inadvertently perpetuate this form of oppression through microaggressions and invalidating participant experiences. During this webinar, Dr. Monnica Williams will review the role of race and racial identity in the therapeutic relationship, and offer best practices for clinicians working with persons of color.
Duration: 1 hour
Vulnerability factors, prevention and early intervention, keeping connected while staying apart—strategies for remote community participation, resources and risk reduction, ways to mitigate the negative impact of COVID, physical distancing, and the economic changes on mental health as we move forward.
Duration: 1 hour
Topics include: Perceptions, stigma, and unconscious bias in higher-risk populations, Chronic health conditions and coronavirus. How COVID-19 is worsening disparities in pediatric type 1 diabetes and the role of community health workers. COVID-19 testing and deficits in community education. The evolution of Telehealth and how it can help mitigate some of the negative outcomes resulting from minority populations ‘medical distancing’ during COVID. Impact of social determinants. -COVID-19 health and access inequalities. What we’ve learned and what should we do next.
Duration: 1 hour
In his new book, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi holds up both a magnifying glass and a mirror to examine how to uproot racism from society—starting with ourselves. Followed by his talk at UC Berkeley, on September 12, 2019, Kendi is joined in conversation by john a. powell of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Lateefah Simon of the Akonadi Foundation, and moderated by Alice Y. Hom of Northern California Grantmakers.
Duration: 2 hours
Telehealth Skills Adaptations
These are teachings that Dr. Jamie Marich shared on the Mindful Ohio& The Institute for Creative Mindfulness page in the first week of major clinical transition to telehealth. Although the videos are not new and directly drawn from her Trauma Made Simple resources pages, the applications represent new ideas for clinicians in this era. Study them together or in any combination to create your own virtual learning experience. Feel free to use and to pass along! These techniques include Clench & Release, Painting Light, Loving Kindness Meditation, Monkey Tap (aka Butterfly Hug) and Noodling.
Duration: 1 hour (in total)
Addressing Issues of Post-Disaster Trauma Relief for Victims and First Responders
This 5-hour workshop will consist of 4 lectures and a panel discussion devoted to providing culturally competent care to trauma patients and first responders. The neurobiological underpinnings of trauma will be explored, as will ways to deal with secondhand trauma as a clinician and community member. The Steve Frankel Group (SFG) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. SFG maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Approved for 5 CE hours. Currently available for free.
Duration: 5 hours
Process Not Perfection: Remote Applications of Expressive Arts Strategies
Dr. Jamie Marich, expressive arts therapist and author of Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery, developed this course to assist clinicians with adapting to the realities of switching to remote work during the COVID-19 crisis. In this course, Dr. Jamie gives you an overview of expressive arts principles and discusses how people may find the processes and practices in Process Not Perfection especially useful in adapting to telehealth or remote platforms. A guided process for experiential learning (specifically geared to COVID-19 and other disaster/crisis response) is also offered.
Duration: 2 hours
Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra for Clinical Professionals
Yoga nidra is a sleep-style meditations that is gaining popularity in the clinical professions. Based on a teaching from the ancient Upanishads, this powerful approach brings together a variety of awareness techniques and strategies to facilitate a greater sense of ease in meditating and working with intention. In this online training, trauma expert and yoga teacher Dr. Jamie Marich teaches you the basic principles of yoga nidra. She walks you through a 20-25 minute script specifically prepared for working via telehealth or other remote platforms. While yoga nidra can be a powerful adjunct to any trauma therapy, it has special potential for bridging together aspects of trauma therapy you may not feel comfortable delivering remotely, specifically because of its focus on intention. While not a full-scale yoga nidra training, this will get you started with the basics to use alongside any approach to trauma therapy.
Duration: 3 hours
Cultivating Sobriety in Times of Uncertainty
Crisis and Change are scary for many people. Feeling scared sometimes can compromise and interfere with our choices. Those people that are diligently pursuing sobriety, need connection with others to heal and sustain their forward momentum. This 90 minute program explores how to grasp that support in crisis. This training will help you discover the tools, techniques and concepts to assist in sobriety, build a solid foundation to support your sobriety goals, learn to identify the triggers that could potentially sabotage the desire to remain clean and sober and recognize the impacts of trauma in addiction recovery.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Attachment, Regulation and Competency: ARC-At-A-Glance: Modular Videos
This 8 module training series of brief, free overview videos describing the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework. This “ARC lite” is a series of remote, brief videos that will give an overview of key ARC concepts, and comment on these concepts as they relate to working and coping in the midst of this pandemic. Although these videos are not a substitute for the full ARC training, we hope they will give some support to your learning until we are able to meet again in person! We may also be offering special topic videos from our team of ARC trainers.
Duration: 8 hours
Stress Management for Healthcare Workers & Essential Employees
A Free Course on Coping with COVID-19. This free course is for healthcare providers & essential employees. It was created in order to support those who are on the front lines in the battle against COVID-19. Inside, there are stress management tips and techniques to assist with self-care, self-preservation, and self-compassion. We hope that you will find this course helpful. Thank you for your service.
Our New Normal is NOT Normal: Resiliency Skills for Public Health Professionals
This is the first webinar in a three-part series, targeted to public health professionals, first responders, healthcare providers, as well as the general public. Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Public Health Workforce Development and the Community Living Education Project (CLEP). Presented by Philip T. McCabe CSW, CAS, CDVC, DRCC.
Duration: 45 Minutes
Social Distancing and Interpersonal Violence: Conversation with Temple Alumni Leaders
Moderator Barbara B. Ernico, SSW ’71, is joined by panelists Kendra Van de Water, CPH ‘10, and Interim Executive Director of the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance Paul DiLorenzo, ACSW, MLSP, SSW ‘78, to discuss how their programs are adapting the challenges of COVID-19.
Host: Temple University College of Public Health
Duration: 30 Minutes
COVID-19 in Older Adults: Best Practices for Providers and Caregivers
The rapidly spreading COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has demonstrated a historic effect on older adult populations, both in the United States and around the world. Understanding current evidence and key trends, as it relates to older adult patients with known or suspected COVID-19 infection, is imperative to protect them.
Duration: 1 hour
Telehealth in Clinical Practice
Gain knowledge of using telehealth technologies for behavioral health services, including potential advantages and challenges.
Host: Relias Learning LLC
Best Practices for Delivering Telehealth
Discusses various modalities of telehealth treatment and most effective approaches.
Host: Relias Learning LLC
Mind Matters Online Series
Dibble will be hosting a free 12-Week Mind Matters Online Series with Dr. Carolyn Curtis and Dixie Zittlow. Unprecedented times, such as these, are stressful and call for everyone to think about ways to help others and themselves. Thus, we see this as an opportunity to offer free professional development and help people practice self-care. Join us as we teach the Mind Matters curriculum to help you develop skills and coping mechanisms to overcome anxiety and build resilience.
Duration: 12 sessions Approx. 1 hour each session
COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness for Front-line Staff
What are the most current recommendations for surge management and front line staff preparedness around the novel coronavirus?
Duration: 45 minutes
How to Address COVID 19 Across Inpatient, Residential and Other Non-ambulatory Care Settings
APA and the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) will host a joint webinar discussion with experts working in inpatient, residential, and other non-ambulatory care settings about how they are assessing the current environment and developing new protocols to care for their patients during the COVID 19 crisis. Hear from experts about how to manage through different types of services, key messages to give to your team leaders, unique challenges for people with SMI, how to approach group therapy, and more.
Duration: 1 hour
Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors
Are you feeling increased levels of stress and anxiety? If you answered yes, know you are not alone. People across the country are mobilizing quickly to ensure services for survivors of crime continue during the COVID-19 crisis. Confronting this new set of challenges in rapidly changing and uncertain times can be stressful. It is critical that we in the crime victims field integrate strategies to manage stress and anxiety into our day-to-day practice. We are joined by Zoe Flowers – advocate, healer, writer, poet, and filmmaker – in a virtual wellness session. Zoe guides us through a number of activities to help us stay grounded and manage stress and anxiety.
Duration: 45 minutes each
Understanding Coronavirus and How to Keep You and Yours Safe
As society grapples with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, questions around the virus and what individuals need to stay safe dominate the headlines. In this webinar, Ron Orth (RN, CMAC, CHC) discusses the basics of what we know today and practical steps to keep you healthy.
Duration: 65 minutes
COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness for Your Front-Line Staff
What are the most current recommendations for surge management and front-line staff preparedness around the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)? Learn more about them from Board Certified Emergency Physician, Phil DiGiacomo, M.D., and Heather Tuttle (BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN).
Healing Informed Care for Survivors from Historically Marginalized Communities
As a way to re-release years of trauma-based on sexual assault, domestic violence, and other traumas– Zoe Flowers from WOCN, INC. shares her body, mind, and spirit connection techniques drawn from decades of experience as a trauma practitioner and healer. More than ever, survivors and advocates alike need new ways to slow down, breath, relax and reconnect to their strength, creativity, and spirit.
Duration: 75 minutes
How to Navigate Grief, Loss, and a New Normal During COVID-19
Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S, hosts a presentation geared towards community members about how to navigate grief and loss during this unprecedented global pandemic. Live recorded on 4/6/2020. Access PowerPoint Slides here.
Duration: 1 hour
Hand Hygiene: The Basics
Handwashing is one of the most important steps to break the chain of infection. This micro-course follows CDC recommendations and provides a refresher on the specific requirements to successfully stop the spread.
Infection Control: The Basics
This course provides updates to HCPs ability to apply scientifically accepted infection control principles to reduce transmission of pathogens.
Personal Protective Equipment
Addresses different types of PPE necessary for job tasks and how to correctly don and doff the needed equipment.
Infection Control: Airborne Precautions
Quick and relevant instruction for implementing infection control measures to prevent transmission of airborne disease.
Cost: Free
Transmission-Based Precautions
This course presents the principles of transmission-based precautions and strategies to apply in daily practice.
Preparing for Pandemic Influenza
The course spotlights Pandemic flu; it offers principles and practices relevant to viral transmission disease precautions.
Working Remotely: Key Considerations For Survivor-Centered Organizations
Talk about the benefits, challenges, technology, share tips, and ideas for how to maintain connection and well-being in a remote environment.
Tele-Advocacy: Ensuring Accessibility for Underserved Crime Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webinar provides an overview of tele-advocacy, confidentiality and security considerations in digital services, and strategies to tele-advocacy is accessible and inclusive for survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors. In addition, an advocate experienced in tele-advocacy discusses strategies she uses to build relationships and provide practical tips for communicating effectively with survivors using digital platforms.
Presenter: Sandra Harrell, Vera Institute of Justice; Amber Hodson, Deaf Hope; Toby Shulruff, National Network to End Domestic Violence
Project Rise: Bringing Relationship Education to Hispanic Youth
Join the staff from Project Rise as they share with you how they are successfully engaging the Latino community including youth and their parents in healthy relationship skills programming. Project Rise is utilizing Relationship Smarts PLUS (Sexual Risk Avoidance Adaptation) to prevent teen pregnancy, reduce associated risk behaviors, and promote healthy adolescent development among Latino teens aged 12-18. They are working in four neighborhoods of Los Angeles County where measures of sexual risk are significantly higher than the national average.
Duration: 1 hour
Exploring Social Poverty: Low-Income Populations and the Impact of Community Ties
The impact of financial poverty has been a focus of researchers for decades. In this webinar Dr. Sarah Halpern-Meekin, author of “Social Poverty: Low-income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties,” examines another dimension of poverty that has been considerably understudied: social poverty. Social poverty, or lacking adequate of close, dependable, and trusting relationships, is an often-ignored form of hardship that is separate from financial poverty. Developing healthy relationship skills and coping mechanisms through relationship education may help address social poverty.
Presenter: Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Duration: 1 hour
Foundations: How to Build & Sustain the Communication Pipeline with Young Adults
Recruiting and appealing to young adults ages 18-24 can be challenging for a multitude of reasons. In this webinar, Vanessa Logan describes her unique “boots on the ground” approach for how to build trust with marginalized young adults and consequently is able to provide them with tools to develop self-sufficiency. Integrated into her approach is the essential building of healthy relationship skills with pregnant and parenting youth, empowering them to successfully parent or even co-parent when no longer together. With a heart for people, Vanessa identifies critical needs of the underserved and builds bridges by partnering with organizations and community initiatives to uncover resources and move others toward economic mobility and self-sufficiency. Vanessa has a voice in the community for what makes a community thrive: it’s people.
Presenter: Vanessa Logan, Founder of “N.E.S.S.A in Your Neighborhood,” Navigate, Explore, Serve, Sustain and Advocate (Spartanburg, South Carolina)
Duration: 1 hour
One-on-One: A New Approach for Teaching Mind Matters in Individual Settings
Young people who have experienced trauma and toxic stress, such as child abuse and neglect, often have difficulty regulating their emotional responses when facing challenges in school, life, and relationships. Thus, Dr. Carolyn Curtis developed Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience, a research-based curriculum effective in helping youth overcome adverse and traumatic childhood experiences. In this webinar, Dr. Carolyn Curtis, will discuss her new addendum to the Mind Matters curriculum. In this guidance, the content of Mind Mattersis divided into 15- to 20-minute segments that can now be taught in one-on-one settings. With these adjustments, the Mind Matters curriculum can now be used for home visitors, mentors, and case workers, as well as anyone who works with young people in a one-on-one setting.
Presenter: Carolyn Rich Curtis, Ph.D., Developer of Mind Matters, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Founder of the Relationship Skills Center in Sacramento, CA.
Duration: 1 hour
“Meet Them Where They Are” Building Protective Factors for the Future
Hear how three agencies that use different funding streams utilize relationship education to meet youth where they are in order to help them to prepare for healthy lives and futures. These organizations use Dibble’s programs to build protective factors so the youth can communicate effectively in jobs, set safe boundaries in relationships, make healthy decisions about their love lives.
Duration: 1 hour
Learning about Positive Youth Development: A Free & Fun Course for Youth Work Professionals
What does positive youth development mean to us? We may think about competencies, opportunities, and supports young people need to thrive and make healthy decisions. We may think about youth voice and leadership. In this webinar co-creator Jutta Dotterweich will provide a guided tour of a new, interactive online training course on positive youth development. This free resource consists of six, stand-alone segments, which were developed with a wide range of audiences in mind (e.g., volunteers, parents, frontline youth workers).
Presenter: Jutta Dotterweich, M.A. Director of Training, ACT for Youth Center of Excellence.
Duration: 1 hour
Victim Assistance Training Online (VAT Online)
VAT Online is a foundational Web-based victim assistance training program that offers victim service providers and allied professionals the opportunity to acquire the essential skills and knowledge they need to more effectively assist victims of crime. VAT Online has four sections: Basics, Core Competencies and Skills, Crimes, and Specific Considerations for Providing Victim Services. The VAT Online training is part of the NACP pre-approved training list. This training meets the requirements for the Introductory Advocacy Training area that can be used to apply for the National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP).
Duration: The entire training is approximately 43 hours. It is divided into various modules and sections. Each module takes about 30–90 minutes to complete. Learners can complete all modules or can complete specific modules, based on their learning needs.
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Identity Theft Victim Assistance Online Training: Supporting Victims' Financial and Emotional Recovery
A user-friendly e-learning tool that will teach victim service professionals and allied professionals knowledge and skills to more effectively serve victims of identity theft and assist with their financial and emotional recovery.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 3-4 Hours
Polyvictimization in Later Life
The purpose of the training is to strengthen awareness of polyvictimization in later life and to provide knowledge and skills of professionals to address the needs of victims. The training addresses the context of polyvictimization; victims and perpetrators of polyvictimization; best practices to work with older adults affected by polyvictimization using trauma-informed, ethical, and culturally appropriate practices; and the latest research and best practices to serve this population.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 6 Hours (5 modules)
Understanding Human Trafficking
The Understanding Human Trafficking training is a series of five interactive online modules that offer foundational learning on trauma-informed and victim-centered approaches to human trafficking. The modules are designed so that a wide audience can benefit. Understanding Human Trafficking is unique in equipping participants to think critically about human trafficking using reliable resources, both locally and from across the United States.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 5 Hours
COVID-19 Just-in-Time Training: Strategies & Techniques for Disaster Behavioral Health Support by Phone
The training is designed for DRCCs answering support lines, but the information can be applied to all services, especially during this time of teleservices. The presenter is Steve Crimando who has years of experience and knowledge working in disasters and critical incidents. Find the PowerPoint Here.
Host: NJ's Diaster and Terrorism Branch
Duration: 90 Minutes
NAMI Basics Course
Welcome to NAMI Basics! We've built this course for the caregivers of children/adolescents who have either been diagnosed with a mental health condition or who are experiencing symptoms, but haven’t yet gotten a formal diagnosis.
Host: National Alliance on Mental Illness
Duration: 6 modules and Wrap Up
Parents, Kids & Mental Health During the COVID-19 Crisis
This webinar from the NASW-NJ Chapter (live recorded on 3/18/20), featuring Pat Spencer, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW, discusses how parents can help their children and families cope during the COVID-19 crisis.
Host: NASW-NJ
Duration: 40 Minutes
The Practice of Mattering During the Time of Social Distancing
This program was recorded live on March 25, 2020. Learn about the practice of mattering in the time of social distancing with social workers, Dr. Tawanda Hubbard, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW. This program is geared to the general public as a way to connect, find resources and support our well-being in these unique times.
Adolescents & Young Adults: Parenting During COVID-19
Live recorded on March 31, 2020. The COVID-19 global pandemic has changed much about our daily lives, especially that of our children. Nationally, adolescents and young adults are grieving as many now are missing milestone moments such as proms, graduations and transitional moments. Join Dr. Widian Nicola, LCSW for a conversation geared toward parents where she will explore loss and how parents can help support children during these unprecedented times.
The Science of Well-Being
In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.
Host: Yale
Duration: 19 hours (Can be completed over several weeks)
Mindfulness, Healing & Transformation
A free seminar featuring Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Duration: 1 hour
Mindfulness in Recovery
The techniques taught in mindfulness play a critical role in relapse prevention. The core mindfulness skills, taken from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), enhance a client's ability to increase awareness of the present moment, increase the time spent in the present, and be in control of his or her mind. This then decreases the amount of mood dependent behaviors, such as using drugs and alcohol and there addictive behaviors. The concepts of mindfulness can also be found all throughout the 12 step program. This presentation will offer education of mindfulness skills found in DBT and give exercises to implement in treatment and recovery to assist clients with understanding how these skills can help them with continued sobriety.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Hunger for Healing: Evidence-Based Practice for Binge Eating Disorder
Most counselors are familiar with – or at least heard of – eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia nervosa. But we are less familiar with binge eating disorder (BED) despite being four times more common in clinical practice. The American Psychiatric Association only recognized BED as a distinct disorder in 2013 and was first included in the DSM-5 (F50.8). This webinar will explore the prevalence, neurobiology, and evidence-based treatments for this common, and extremely challenging disorder. We will pay particular attention to the influence of developmental trauma from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study on the etiology of BED, and the utility of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as part of the treatment regimen.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Recognizing Eating Disorder Behavior in the Substance Use Disorder Population
Up to 35% of patients who suffer from substance use disorder exhibit eating disorder behaviors that can often remain undetected by his or her treatment team. On the surface, eating disorders and substance use disorder may appear to be two entirely different conditions. In this engaging presentation, Robyn Cruze will provide her personal recovery story on eating and substance use disorder. Linda Lewaniak will then discuss why the two illnesses have similarities, why they tend to occur together, the effects both illnesses have on the brain and what integrated treatment looks like in treating both illnesses simultaneously.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Less Is More: A Breakthrough Method for Lasting Change
One ever-present question for addiction professionals is, “How do you foster behavior change and make it stick, whether on an individual or systems level?” Change is hard for our clients, our organizations, and even ourselves, but it doesn’t have to be. This webinar takes you on a deep dive into Tiny Habits®, a revolutionary method to promote lasting change in any setting. The method is based on Stanford Professor BJ Fogg’s breakthrough behavior model that addresses the 10 most common mistakes people make when trying to change behavior. This webinar will revolutionize how you think about behavior change and what you do about it for your clients, organization, and even for yourself in your own life!
Duration: 1.5 hours
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Substance Use Disorders
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) remains one of the most effective forms of treatment for those struggling with substance use disorders and mental health diagnoses. This program will review the basic core components of CBT and present modifications for implementation in substance use treatment programs. Participants will become familiar with the step-by-step process of applying CBT to individual and group sessions. Attendees will be provided a toolbox to assist their clients with creating new responses to triggers to help along the path of recovery beyond the treatment setting.
Duration: 1 hour
Authentic Self-Care for Addiction Professionals
Does life feel out of control? Are you resentful? Many of us are drawn to addiction work due to our history, family, and personal traits, such as compassion and empathy. While these experiences and strengths can be great assets, they can also be detrimental. In this webinar, we will identify healthy and unhealthy traits, how we can care for ourselves, and what authentic self-care looks like. We have been told of the importance of self-care but what does that mean for us? We will identify our personal challenges, triggers, and needs in order to create authentic self-care plans. Caring for yourself will benefit your family, those you work with, and of course, you! Codependent and related tendencies can be successfully combatted with awareness, self-care, and other supports.
Duration: 1 hour
Influences on Addiction and Mental Health in the LGBT Population
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities are reported to have higher incidences of substance misuse. This webinar will focus on the influences on the LGBT population that lead to higher rates of using substances as a coping skill, provide a self-assessment of your preparation for providing services to LGBT clients, and examine your practices for LGBT affirmative practices. Topics include the societal influences of minority stress, micro-aggressions, victimization, religion, visibility management, and invisibility management. Ways to gain knowledge about LGBT issues will allow participants to explore their own biases that influence their work with LGBT clients. The webinar will conclude with best practices for providing affirmative services to LGBT clients.
Duration: 2 hours
Intersection of Race, Culture, Chronic Disease and Chronic Pain
Up to 50 million Americans live with chronic pain at any given time. Minorities who suffer with chronic and intractable pain are facing widespread stigma and public misunderstanding of the difference between tolerance, physical dependence, and addiction when treating a chronic illness. What roles do race and culture play in prescribing practices, pain reporting and treatment, and psychological outcomes? Because chronic pain can affect one's mental health, counseling can be an integral key in treatment. As therapists who practice within multidisciplinary teams or within the community, what is our role in helping to manage chronic pain management?
Duration: 2 hours
Living in a Cloud: Adolescent Nicotine Use
Though adolescent cigarette smoking rates have decreased over the past four decades with fewer than 1 in 25 teens reporting daily tobacco use, e-cigarette use has increased two-fold. There are still lower rates of adolescent nicotine use overall, but a potentially dangerous trend has emerged with the increased use of vaping. Cigarette companies are not allowed to market their products to adolescents, but they have found other ways to create a new teen culture through the sponsorship of vaping “cloud” competitions. The purpose of this presentation is to explore the psychopharmacology of nicotine use, the culture of vaping, and strategies for prevention and treatment. Participants will learn how healthy factors of adolescent development add to the risk of becoming addicted to nicotine.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, On the Global Coronavirus Crisis: Steering Ourselves and Our Clients Through New & Developing Traumas
Join Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of the New York Times #1 bestselling author The Body Keeps The Score and learn timely (and critically important) approaches for all of us in the helping professions. Dr. van der Kolk will give you specific and practical approaches, with your community, and with your clients to address creating connection and community in this global crisis and activities to share with clients that keep them attached and out of re-experiencing past traumas.
Duration: 30 minutes
Counseling Adolescent and Minority Clients with Substance Use Disorders
It is has been repeatedly proven that a lack of cultural competency can and will lead to poorer outcomes in the provision of services to minority populations. This may be especially true of adolescent and transition aged (16-25) clients who may operate more singularly from the world views and perspectives of their own culture than adults who may have more insight and ability to forgive missteps by providers. While these facts are now very well known, it is still difficult for counselors to access training that provides them a real springboard into multicultural competency. This free webinar will provide them with methods of becoming effective that are not restricted to learning "fun facts" about various cultures and calling it a day.
Duration: 1 hour
Parents with PTSD: How Addiction Can Re-traumatize Families
It is well documented that addiction can have significant collateral impacts on parents, extended family, partners and friends. But what happens when these care-givers and supports also have their own Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) history? Living with, loving, and supporting a person with addiction can become personal: triggering parents, partners, and families to relive their own trauma history. This presentation will discuss how ACES can impact the family system, and will address specific support/treatment strategies using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness. Also addressed will be the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, a body of groundbreaking research that looked at how childhood trauma affects long-term health.
Duration: 1 hour
Strength-Based Mind-Body Practice: Building Internal Resources
This webinar offers ideas, examples and guidance for integrating Mind-Body techniques into the Solution-Focused approach. Mind-Body work can enhance the therapeutic relationship and possible successful outcomes. A variety of techniques will be explored, such as body scans, recall, somatic experiencing and more! Presenters will also offer considerations for enhancing personal supervision style through Mind-Body work.
Duration: 1 hour
Healing Addiction and Shame Through Self-Compassion
Shame is a common denominator that runs deep through people struggling with substance use disorders. Only when shame is brought to light can it be healed through empathy and self-compassion. Utilizing the research of Brené Brown, Kristin Neff, and Tim Desmond, this workshop will discuss components and functions of shame and self-compassion from a scientific and philosophical framework and provide resources for specific tools for utilizing self-compassion in the therapy room.
Duration: 2 hours
Ensuring Fidelity to Motivational Interviewing Among Frontline Service Providers
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based treatment protocol often used when treating individuals with substance use disorders. The literature supports MI as an effective strategy for reducing symptoms of substance use disorders. However, while many service providers express agreement with the spirit of MI and align ideologically with MI, MI is a detailed treatment protocol that requires training and skill. This webinar will explore how fidelity to MI was monitored at Prism Health North Texas, an HIV/AIDS service organization in Dallas, Texas. We will detail specific tools, continuous improvement and evaluation processes, and practical strategies that increase fidelity to MI principles among care coordinators.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Guidelines to Developing Competence with Mindfulness-Based Interventions
With the expanding use of mindfulness-based interventions in behavioral healthcare generally, and addiction counseling specifically, there have been emerging concerns over ensuring educational, training, and competency standards with these interventions. This webinar will provide an overview of six emerging guidelines for promoting competence with mindfulness-based interventions. It will also highlight adherence scales that can enhance training and supervision, as well as resources for further development.
Duration: 1 hour
What Addiction Professionals Should Know About Medical Marijuana
Medical marijuana is now broadly or partially legalized in 28 states, though it remains illegal under federal law. Variation in laws can create confusion for mental health professionals, raising a number of questions for mental health professionals in both clinical and forensic settings. This confusion has led to many questions by practitioners, such as: What does the law say about medical marijuana in my state? How do I know whether my client is using medical marijuana therapeutically vs. abusing it? What are the risks, side effects, and potential drawbacks of medical marijuana? If my client uses medical marijuana, can employers discriminate against him or her? What do I do if a client is referred to me for substance use disorder treatment but is legally taking prescribed marijuana? This webinar seeks to answer these questions and more.
Duration: 2 hours
Changing Minds: Implementing Harm Reduction
This webinar will focus on the impact of staff training to change staff attitudes regarding harm reduction interventions. The training will outline a process undertaken at The Bridge of Central MA from 2016-2017, using the Learning Collaborative model to plan and execute trainings in harm reduction. The presentation will review the tracking of process and outcomes using the Harm Reduction Acceptability Scale (HRAS), and recommendations for implementing similar training packages in a variety of settings.
Duration: 1 hour
Journey Through Grief and Loss
This webinar with help participants explore the various components of grief and loss. It will identify different losses in an individual's life. It will look at the various forms of grief: anticipatory, complicated, and disenfranchised. It will help participants identify how grief affects individuals from a physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual perspective. It will address when grief is complicated and ways to help individuals address complicated grief. This webinar will also help participants identify warning signs associated with grief and loss, and how to support individuals who are experiencing intense emotions.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Safety, Ethics, and The Elephant in the Room
Presented by Wanda L. Anderson, MSW, LCSW
Duration: 1 hour
National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative: Training for Child Welfare Professionals
Free state-of-the-art, web-based, standardized training that gives you the ability to learn at your own pace. This curriculum offers 8 interactive learning modules focused on casework practice. These modules include: 1.) A Case For Adoption 2.) Understanding and Addressing Mental Health Needs of Children Moving Towards or Having Achieved Permanence through Adoption or Guardianship 3.) Enhancing Attachment and Bonding for Children Moving Towards/Having Achieved Permanence through Adoption and Guardianship 4.) How Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Class and Diversity Impact the Adoption and Guardianship Experience and Mental Health Needs of Children 5.) The Impact of Loss and Grief Experience on Children’s Mental Health 6.) The Impact of Early and Ongoing Trauma on Child and Family Development, Brain Growth and Development, and Mental Health 7.) Positive Identity Formation and the Impact of Adoption and Guardianship 8.) The Lifelong Journey: Maintaining Children’s Stability and Well-being in Adoptive and Guardianship Families
Duration: 20 Hours There is an additional 5 hours of supervisor-specific lessons with downloadable "Supervisor Coaching and Activity Guide"
Enhancing Your Clinical Practice with Adoptive & Guardianship Families: An Overview of the NTI Web-based Training for Mental Health Professionals
Presented by: Debbie Riley, LCMFT, CEO, Center for Adoption Support and Education
Duration: 80 minutes
National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative: Training for Mental Health Professionals
Free state-of-the-art, web-based, standardized training that gives you the ability to learn at your own pace. This curriculum offers 10 interactive learning modules focused on assessment, support and therapeutic interventions. These modules include: 1.) A Case For Adoption Competency 2.) Understanding and Addressing the Completex Mental Health Needs of Children & Youth in Adoptive and Guardianship Families 3.) Attachment, Child Development, and Mental Health - Promoting Security in Adoptive and Guardianship Families 4.) The Impact of Loss and Grief Experiences on Children’s & Youth's Mental Health 5.) Trauma and the Impact of Adverse Experiences on Brain Development and Mental Health 6.) Understanding the Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Class and Diversity on Children and Families: Implications for Mental Health Practice 7.) Identity Formation and the Impact of Adoption and Guardianship 8.) Assessment and Treatment Planning with Children and Families Experiencing Adoption or Guardianship 9.) Using Therapeutic Parenting Strategies to Address Children's Challenging Behavior 10.) Family Stability and Wellness Post Permanency
Duration: 30 Hours
The Supportive Housing Field Responds to COVID-19
Join CSH for a webinar series designed for anyone providing and housing and services in this crisis where we will: highlight what we have learned in the past week; provide examples of best practices from communities across the country; and discuss what information and resources the field needs. Past webinars are posted and available, including resources and slides
Duration: 30 Minutes
COVID19 - Techniques & Strategies for Support by Phone
Steve Crimando is with DMHAS Disaster and Terrorism Branch. He is a leader in responding to incidents worldwide and instrumental in NJ’s response to events. Please scroll below to listen to a recording of today’s webinar on providing support by phone, an adjustment to the DRCC response.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Coronavirus and Housing/Homelessness
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL) joined speakers from the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness and more to share updates and resources needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic for people experiencing homelessness and low-income renters.
Host: National Low Income Housing Coalition
Duration: 1.75 hours
COVID-19 Health Crisis: Getting Through This Together, School Social Work in a Changing Landscape
This webinar will review the impact of COVID-19 on us as mental health professionals, the ethical responsibilities in meeting the needs of students during this health crisis, guidance related to mental health service delivery, strategies for talking with families and resources to support your practice.
Duration: 1 hour
Medication First: Integration of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Across the Healthcare System
Medication First programs get persons with OUD maintenance medical treatment as quickly as possible and provide voluntary supportive services as needed. A patient’s access to medical treatment is not dependent upon psychosocial treatment compliance or unrealistic expectations about the course of treatment and recovery. The Medication First approach is supported by decades of research. It prioritizes client choice in both service selection and service participation. Expanding the Medication First or “low-threshold” medical approach to opioid use disorder will be essential to reversing the epidemic of opioid-related deaths.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Supporting Children Who Lose Parents to Accidental Overdose
Many children unexpectedly lost a parent to an accidental overdose over the past decade. Many of these children had encountered public systems such as child welfare, mental health, and juvenile probation, both before and after the death of their parent(s). As the opioid crisis persists, this webinar considers specific issues affecting the children left behind. Both presenters discuss implications for the future, including the ways that systems and helping professionals need to adjust to accommodate the growing number children who have lost parents to overdose over the course of their development into adults.
Duration: 75 Minutes
Using Affinity Groups to Advance Black Men to the C-Suite (Virtual Barbership Series)
This conversation will focus on the uphill challenge of increasing racial diversity in the executive suites of community-based organizations. For Black men, the challenge of matriculating to the C-suite is complex and often fraught with an uneven playing field, unconscious bias, and emotional baggage. If real change is to occur, executives who are men of color must foster and sustain affinity groups to teach, advocate, and promote the strategies and benefits of advancing equity, particularly from sharing their professional experiences and research-informed recommendations.
Duration: 1 hour
Getting Real about Workplace Racism (Virtual Barbership Series)
Being Black in America means many things, but one of the most prevalent issues is experiencing racism on a daily basis on multiple fronts. From standard microaggressions on up through direct confrontations, the men who'll be waiting on their haircuts at our barbershop have experienced it all. Black male senior executives in community-based organizations from across the country will share their experiences of confronting and dealing with racism in their daily lives. Hear how they handle it when it's unintended, when it comes from a donor or key stakeholder, or when it happens in the most unexpected places.
Duration: 1 hour
Black Man, Black Man, Where are You? (Virtual Barbership Series)
Examine and explore the role of Black male leaders and leadership development in community-based human services organizations. There is an undeniable absence of Black male leaders in senior and executive leadership positions within our sector. We’ll discuss what is causing this absence and, more importantly, what we can or should do about it. We will also share perspectives on the recent tragedy surrounding George Floyd. We’ll reflect on what Black men should understand from this tragedy and, more importantly, where we, as a society, go from here—exactly what needs to change and how that change happens.
Duration: 1 hour
Black Male Executives on COVID-19 (Virtual Barbership Series)
During this webinar, the first in a series of "virtual barbershops," we will discuss inequities and COVID-19, particularly the virus' impact on African American men and communities of color. One in three people who became sick enough to require hospitalization were African American. African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population. The lack of access to testing, higher chronic disease burden, and historical racial bias within health care institutions are all contributing to higher rates of sickness and death. During this conversational webinar, several African American male executives will share their stories, experiences, and recommendations for increasing organizational capacity to reduce inequities in health outcomes.
Duration: 1 hour
What more can be done to address the intersection of mental health, substance use disorders, social determinants of health and racism? The death of Walter Wallace shines a light on racial disparities for black and brown people in our communities. For people of color who live with behavioral health conditions, addressing racism to advance personal, family and community well-being is a daily practice. Application of social theories to address structural and institutional constructs can and should be lead by the very people impacted. Marrying theory with human-centered design—learning from the journey of those who are impacted by changes in policies, programs and practices—can yield innovative ways to move from cultural competency to structural competency and change.
Duration: 1 hour
Supporting Older Adults in Emergencies: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
The Focus on Aging webinar series addresses important topics for public health and health care professionals, aging services organizations, the research community, and other stakeholders in aging. The series is a joint project of four of the federal agencies that support the health and wellness of older adults in the U.S.: the Administration for Community Living, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the National Institute on Aging at the NIH. Each webinar includes information specific to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, as well as their caregivers.
Duration: 90 minutes
Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults
Human beings are social creatures, thriving on connections with others. These connections can help to reduce social isolation and loneliness and lower risk for a variety of physical and mental health conditions. This webinar will focus on how social isolation and loneliness affect older adults’ health and well-being, particularly amid the unique challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar will also address social isolation and loneliness in the context of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, emphasize the impact of health disparities, and provide information on potential interventions and mitigating technologies.
Duration: 90 minutes
Returning Citizens: Resources for Incarcerated Individuals
This webinar is part of the NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility and Reconciliation Series. Join us for a Community Conversation with Helena D. Lewis, DSW, LCSW, reentry specialist and special guests. On October 19, NJ Governor, Phil Murphy, signed a bill that will release thousands of New Jersey prisoners due to the danger posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us to learn about resources available for these returning citizens.
Duration: 70 minutes
Join us for a Community Conversation with Executive Director of Manavi, and Legal Advocate on addressing gender-based violence in the South Asian community and to learn about the culturally specific services provided by Manavi. With a mission to end all forms of violence against women, Manavi began as an awareness campaign on issues concerning South Asian women; today it continues to centralize women’s needs and interests in all its organizational decisions and service provisions. Manavi simultaneously addresses both the immediate needs of women facing abuse and the long-term vision of establishing peaceful communities free from gender-based violence.
Duration: 1 hour
Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
This online MBSR training course is 100% free, created by a fully certified MBSR instructor, and is based on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Here you will find a complete eight-week MBSR course, designed for people who are not able to take a live MBSR course for financial or logistical reasons. All of the materials used in the live courses I taught, including guided meditations, articles and videos, are freely available here. "Mindfulness" is used in many contexts nowadays and there are many different understandings of the term. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a blend of meditation, body awareness, and yoga: learning through practice and study how your body handles (and can resolve) stress neurologically.
Family Environment Instability: How Early Childhood Shapes Social Maladjustments Over Time
Early family contexts can shape the trajectories of children’s adjustment throughout childhood. Families can provide a safe and stable base for children that is protective against adversity. However, when family environments are not stable (e.g., when parents/parent figures are moving in and out), children may suffer. Join Dr. Elizabeth Karberg of Child Trends, as she explores how family instability in early childhood shapes children’s social (mal)adjustment over time.
Duration: 1 hour
Online Teaching Strategies: Tips and Guidance from the Field
We are starting this school year with many questions. Will we teach students in classrooms? Or, will we engage them via ZOOM? (Based on current conditions, ZOOM looks more and more likely.) Our big question is… how do we effectively teach relationship skills virtually? In March, Dibble convened a working group of clients who were moving instruction online. Together, we created this free Online Teaching Toolkit. Join us in a conversation with several experienced practitioners who were part of that effort to learn how they successfully moved their instruction in Dibble materials into the virtual world.
Duration: 1 hour
Fatherhood: Building Self-Sufficient and Resilient Families
This is an interactive webinar describing the roles of responsible fatherhood (RF) programming in state and non-profit fatherhood organizations.
The State of Ohio RF programming is supported through state TANF and was supported by the 2015 Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood (HM/RF) grant. Kimberly Dent addresses useful information for future HMI/RF grantees in addition to how a father’s past trauma influences his future success and challenges.
Duration: 1 hour
Mind Matters Lesson 1: Self Soothing
Self-Soothing is a skill that is developed over time, through practice The goal of self-soothing is to dial-down the reactive response of the body’s central nervous system. A traumatized person needs a means of reducing the automatic reactivity of their nervous system. Self-soothing will help. You will learn and practice four self-soothing skills that you can use personally as well as share with colleagues and clients.
Duration: 1 hour
Building Partnerships to Enhance the Peer Workforce
In this webinar, you will have an opportunity to learn about the benefits of building partnerships between organizations. In efforts of enhancing and strengthening the peer workforce; it is a crucial time for collaborative partnerships to form and for organizations to have the skills to maintain sustainable, mutual and complementary community partnerships. This webinar will highlight the voices of peer organizations that are already putting these concepts into practice and will explore some simple steps for building partnerships that have successful outcomes for the growth of a peer workforce.
Duration: 1 hour
Physical Wellness for Work: A Guide for Peer Specialists
Too many people with behavioral health challenges are not working or work in jobs that are not satisfying or stimulating because they have physical health issues that get in the way. Success at work requires a level of stamina, energy, and concentration that can be hard to sustain without daily wellness habits and routines. Physical Wellness for Work is a manual of activities and information for increasing workplace health and well-being. Developed for people in recovery who are living with a mental health condition, peer specialists can use this as a self-guided tool or as a tool to help others think about how their wellness affects their ability to get and keep a job. Join Dr. Cook and Dr. Swarbrick for this webinar to learn more about this free resource along with how to access training and technical assistance for using it.
Duration: 1 hour
Trauma and Mental Health Peer Support
Trauma is a factor in many people's lives and can lead to challenges that encompass all facets of living. This presentation will describe basic information about the characteristics and prevalence of trauma - relevant to the work of mental health peer specialists. Risk factors and protective factors will be reviewed so that peer supporters are better grounded in providing trauma-informed care in supporting recovery and resilience. The presentation will review the importance of language and perspective in working with someone who has or is experiencing trauma. It will also highlight how mental health peer specialists can benefit by shifting the focus to emotional understanding and strengths-based interactions that support successful recovery.
Duration: 1 hour
National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
As the United States population continues to diversify, peer specialists must find ways to provide equitable, effective care and services to the culturally and linguistically diverse populations they serve. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health developed the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care to offer a framework for delivering services that are respectful of and responsive to each person’s culture and communication needs. This webinar will introduce the concept of culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS), provide an overview of the National CLAS Standards, share key findings from organizations that have implemented the National CLAS Standards, and provide actionable recommendations for successful implementation of the National CLAS Standards.
Duration: 1 hour
Crisis Engagement Strategies
In acute and crisis situations, peer support specialists can become an essential part of the recovery process for individuals under duress. Peer support specialists engage, empower, and advocate for people in acute and crisis settings.
Duration: 1 hour
Peer Support and Smoking Cessation
Why talk about smoking cessation and peer support specialists? According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide.1 "Approximately 1 in 4 (or 25%) of adults in the U.S. have some form of mental health or substance use disorder, and these adults consume almost 40% of all cigarettes smoked." This webinar will highlight the importance of peer support and a plan for individuals taking a journey toward smoking cessation. It will also offer tips for supporters at different stages of a person’s journey toward self-liberation from cigarettes.
Duration: 1 hour
In this 60-minute webinar, AHP's Patrick Gauthier and Fran Basche explain why every effective accountable care organization (ACO) must have a vibrant behavioral health workforce development plan -- and walk you through exactly how to create one.
Current events like the COVID-19 pandemic, public images of police brutality, and an economic downturn have led to an increase in long-lasting physical and emotional stress in people across the world. These traumatic experiences have led to or exacerbated mental illnesses, substance use, and physical health conditions. Trauma-informed care (TIC) has become a widely recognized paradigm for creating safe spaces for individuals who have experienced trauma and reducing the likelihood that accessing services would cause re-traumatization. But what exactly is trauma and the trauma-informed care framework?
HRC's All Children - All Families Training Series
Human Rights Campaign's All Children - All Families regularly provides online learning offerings covering promising practices in serving LGBTQ children, youth and families. To watch the recordings at no cost, click "View Recorded Webinar" and fill out the short form. You will then receive an email with instructions for viewing the webinar. Their trainings cover five domains: Core Curriculum, Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Parents, Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Youth, Caring for LGBTQ Youth (For Caregivers), and LGBTQ Inclusion Strategies for Agency Leadership.
Duration: Multiple Training Opportunities (1 hour to 90 minutes each)
School to Prison Pipeline
Recorded live on August 18, 2020. This webinar is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series.
Duration: 1 hour
This Community Conversation is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. As the country wrestles with the impact of institutionalized racism and the pandemic, nowhere is the weight of this emotional trauma greater than for parents of color. Join us with special guest, Kecia Melvin, LCSW for this important conversation.
Duration: 1 hour
Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Substance Use Disorders: From Theory to Practice
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been found to be effective for treating a variety of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). This webinar will review the CBT model of substance use, as well as practical treatment strategies and tools to best help individuals affected by SUDs. Resources for further information will be provided.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Medication First: Integration of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Across the Healthcare System
Medication First programs get persons with OUD maintenance medical treatment as quickly as possible and provide voluntary supportive services as needed. A patient’s access to medical treatment is not dependent upon psychosocial treatment compliance or unrealistic expectations about the course of treatment and recovery. The Medication First approach is supported by decades of research. It prioritizes client choice in both service selection and service participation. Expanding the Medication First or “low-threshold” medical approach to opioid use disorder will be essential to reversing the epidemic of opioid-related deaths.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Supporting Children Who Lose Parents to Accidental Overdose
Many children unexpectedly lost a parent to an accidental overdose over the past decade. Many of these children had encountered public systems such as child welfare, mental health, and juvenile probation, both before and after the death of their parent(s). As the opioid crisis persists, this webinar considers specific issues affecting the children left behind. Both presenters discuss implications for the future, including the ways that systems and helping professionals need to adjust to accommodate the growing number children who have lost parents to overdose over the course of their development into adults.
Duration: 75 Minutes
Middle Management Academy Summer Series
The MMA Summer Series is free and designed to provide quick tools and resources for managers, supervisors and team leaders on how to effectively lead during a public health crisis. The series will have three topic areas: Day-to-Day Supervision; Stress, Chaos, Self-care and Wellness; and Strengths-based Leadership. Within each topic area, there will be between one and three parts that include videos, slide decks and resources that provide guidance.
Duration: 4 hours (4 - 1 hour segments)
Virtual Supervision - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 1
With the child welfare workforce currently working from home, supervision is more important than ever to ensure continued quality service provision and to keep children safe and families together. How is supervision changing to respond to this new virtual world? What adjustments are being made? This webinar offers expert guidance on virtual supervision and provides opportunities for participants to ask questions and exchange information.
Duration: 1 hour
Well Being - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 2
In these uncertain times, we are all presented with new concerns. Our national child welfare workforce and leaders also find themselves facing new challenges and stressors as everything about the old “normal” is changing. In this session, Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer will provide hopeful perspectives, concrete action steps and tools, and words of comfort and support for our workforce to help them manage through this crisis. Participants will receive ideas to cope and prepare to be in the best position and condition possible as we begin to rebuild together.
Duration: 75 minutes
Physical, Emotional and Psychological Safety - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 3
During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers provide critical services to their communities. As essential public servants, it is important that they have systems in place to ensure their safety during home visits and working in the field. This session explores how child welfare programs are innovating to protect their frontline workers’ physical, emotional, and psychological safety.
Duration: 1 hour
Converting Classroom Training From In-Person to Online - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 4
Much of child welfare professional development, especially foundational training for new workers, takes place in-person. Because of the current situation, training needs to be available online in order to continue to meet the needs of our workforce. This webinar will provide information on converting in-person experiences to virtual learning platforms, as almost anything that can be taught in the classroom can also go online (really!). Learn tips, tricks, and ways to overcome barriers. We will also provide opportunities for webinar participants to ask questions and share information and resources.
Duration: 75 minutes
Coaching Remotely - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 5
Coaching in the child welfare workforce often happens face-to-face or in context of daily work activities. With our shift to virtual work, face-to-face contact may have been curtailed but connecting and supporting growth does not need to stop. This session will explore what stays the same and what adjustments must be made when coaching remotely.
Duration: 75 minutes
Using Social Media and Technology to Engage Children, Youth and Families - National Child Welfare Workforce Institute' Supporting the Virtual Workforce Series, Session 6
During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers are using technology to communicate with families, and foster parents are using technology to connect youth in their care to services and maintain connection between youth and their biological families. This webinar offers considerations and best practices to support child welfare workers as they use technology with the families they serve.
Duration: 75 minutes
Medicare and Medicaid Waivers and Flexibilities (2020)
The webinar features the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and their role and the programs they provide during a Public Health Emergency; including Medicare and Medicaid flexibilities and waivers. Examples of these programs during a disaster, include Medicaid, Medicare Fee for Service, and Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans. Available in Spanish.
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Flourishing in Adolescence: A Virtual Workshop
The Forum for Children’s Well-Being hosted a one-day virtual workshop on Flourishing in Adolescence. The virtual workshop was held on May 5, 2020 and included discussions about best practices in providing and supporting adolescent health services and key messaging and communication strategies related to adolescent mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Additionally, the workshop featured a panel of youth representatives who shared their own experiences related to mental, emotional, and behavioral health. The workshop videos and presentations are now available.
Duration: 5 hours
As essential workers, it is not surprising that Social Workers experience compassion fatigue. What is it? How can you tell if you are experiencing it? What are some of the treatments? Join Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, a nationally renowned expert and author on Mind and Body Techniques as we explore the emotional and physical exhaustion that can occur during the pandemic.
Duration: 1 hour
Understanding the Final Rule for 42 CFR Part 2 and Next Steps
In preparation for the final rule to go into effect and to educate members about the changes included in the CARES Act, the APA jointly hosted a webinar, Understanding the Final Rule for 42 CFR Part 2 and Next Steps, with the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the American Society of Addiction Medicine on August 12, 2020. You may slides and additional resources here.
Discussing Issues of Race with Young Children
NASW New Jersey presents a community conversation with Dr. La'Tesha Sampson, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW. Recorded live on June 19, 2020.
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded live on June 25, 2020. This webinar is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. Join NASW-NJ's Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson, MSW, Dr. Tawanda Hubbard, LCSW, and Dr. Widian Nicola, LCSW, for a discussion regarding race and trauma. This program will examine the systems that perpetuate intergenerational trauma related to racism. Presented by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1.25 hours
Recorded live June 30, 2020 and facilitated by Bianca Mayes, MPH, CHES of Garden State Equality and Jennifer Thompson, MSW Executive Director NASW NJ|DE.This community conversation discusses the history of LGBTQ pride including the Compton Cafeteria Riots (1966) which preceded the well-known Stonewall Riots (1969). Through the transgender community's activisim around police brutality, the origins of pride began! Queer liberation and racial justice are still incorporated in today's climate through the Black Lives Matter movement and the current rallies against police brutality and injustice. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Join social workers Sharea Farmer, LCSW, and Jennifer Thompson, MSW, to discuss how self-care is a form of activism. As we navigate a national health crisis, and ways to be part of social change and justice we cannot forget the importance of caring for ourselves. During this time when stress and uncertainty are running high, we need to listen to our bodies, hearts and minds so we can find resiliency and renew our lives and work. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Kristin Miller, LCSW and NASW-NJ's Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson, MSW lead a conversation about what white privilege and white fragility mean and the concept of racial identity development. This Community Conversation is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series. Hosted by NASW New Jersey.
Duration: 1 hour
Parental Addiction
The trauma of parental addiction can impact children’s long-term wellness. But there are strategies you can use to mitigate these harmful effects and help children cope. In this webinar, content creator Kama Einhorn walks us through the Parental Addiction topic page. She shares key messages and offers ways you might use these resources in your work with kids and families. Learning Goals: Learn more about the impact of parental addiction on children and families. Become familiar with the Parental Addiction topic page on Sesame Street in Communities. Gain actionable strategies to use to support children and families. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences – Office Hour
The Big Idea: The Sesame Street in Communities team has created resources to help you help kids and families cope after traumatic experiences. Watch this recording of our live session where Senior Content Manager, Kama Einhorn, talks about resources from the Traumatic Experiences topic page. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Helping Kids Grieve - Office Hours
The Big Idea: The Sesame Street in Communities team has created resources to help you support young children and families through their experiences of grief. Watch this recording of our live session where Senior Content Manager, Kama Einhorn, talks about resources from the Helping Kids Grieve topic page. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Understanding Bullying
The Big Idea: Bullying is an important issue in our world—one that we can address early in a child’s life! In this webinar, we’ll talk about how bullying affects young children, and explore ways that as providers, we can empower parents and caregivers to help prevent bullying in the lives of their children. With the Senior Vice President of Curriculum and Content at Sesame Street, dive into some of our resources and look at how they might be integrated into your work with families and children. Learning Goals: Explore the topic of bullying and describe it from the perspective of a preschooler. Talk about assumptions we have when exploring a topic like bullying. Learn strategies to respond to bullying appropriately, as well as pro-social strategies to prevent bullying behavior in the first place. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Sesame Street And Autism: Resources You Can Use
In this webinar, you’ll learn how you can use Sesame Street Autism resources to build acceptance, inclusivity, awareness, and understanding among the children and families that you serve. Goals: Discover resources that will grow your own understanding of autism and the autism spectrum. Learn how to use Sesame Street activities and content during daily routines to support and celebrate the uniqueness of every child, including those on the autism spectrum.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Hand in Hand: Helping Children Feel Safe and Find Hope After Events of Community Violence
When children hear learn of random acts of violence, whether near or far, their sense of safety in the world is challenged. Watch this webinar to learn strategies to help reassure, soothe, and comfort them. In this webinar, content creator Kama Einhorn will help us to understand the difficult reality of community violence and its effect on young children. More than that, she’ll walk us through five strategies we can use to offer comfort and hope to the children and families we care for. We’ll learn that even though can’t control many events, we still hold a lot of power in our own hands. Learning Goals: Define community violence, Understand how community violence may affect young children, Explore strategies to help children cope, and Look at ways providers and caregivers can take care of themselves during troubling times and after disturbing events so they can be at their best for children. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Taking Care of Myself
The Big Idea: The important caregivers in kids’ lives need care too! You do so much to help the children and families in your care. It’s important to remember to take good care of yourself so that you can be at your best to help those who you work with to grow and thrive. We’ve all experienced stress at some point. In this webinar, we’ll learn how to recognize stress symptoms and how they manifest in our own bodies and minds, and we’ll take a look at SSIC’s vast resources to help manage stress, think positively, and cope with emotions. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Guided Play with Roberta Golinkoff, Ph.D.
The Big Idea: Children can learn so much while they play, and grown-ups can add to that learning! Kids don’t have to be working hard to be learning. In fact, they can learn a lot while they play! In this webinar, hear from Dr. Roberta Golinkoff as she shares her insights into how children learn through play, and specifically guided play. She shares strategies that you can use to extend kids’ learning, playfully! Learning Goals: Discuss how children learn through different forms of play, and why each is important. Explore ways to facilitate playful learning in your setting. Learn ‘The Six C’s’ from Dr. Golinkoff’s book, Becoming Brilliant. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Handling Emergencies with Andrew Roszak
The Big Idea: We can all do our part to help our communities prepare for and recover from emergencies. Andrew Roszak’s job is to make sure child care providers and families have the information and tools they need to develop emergency preparedness plans to keep children safe and care for them during disasters. In this webinar, he shares helpful strategies for developing and practicing emergency preparedness plans in child care and family child care facilities. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences: First Steps to Hope (Part 1)
Nearly half of American children under 18 have had at least one type of adverse childhood experience. These experiences can cause physical, emotional, and psychological distress. In Part 1 of this webinar series, we’ll learn about how to help families cope with and overcome these traumatic situations. They will discuss ways to practice simple, consistent, and positive behaviors, to help children and families move forward and achieve health, safety, and happiness. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Traumatic Experiences: First Steps to Hope (Part 2)
In this webinar series, Ann Thomas, President and CEO of The Children’s Place, discusses the effects of childhood traumatic experiences and articulates strategies that providers can use to help kids and families cope. In part two of this series, Ann walks us through Sesame Workshop’s approach to helping kids and families through traumatic experiences, and examines many resources you can use in your own work with kids and families.Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Empowering Families with EMPath
Join Sesame Street as we talk with our friend, Beth Babcock, MCRP, PhD, from Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath). In this provider interview, Beth tells us what the latest brain science has to say about inter-generational mobility. She shares the frameworks that her team at EMPath uses to help families gain traction and achieve goals together. Learning Goals: Learn about designing environments to accommodate those under stress; Understand materials and tools that can be used to help those under stress; Find ways to stand beside families and help them practice finding, analyzing, and prioritizing their challenges and goals; Learn about how to help families build the executive function skillset that living in poverty often diminishes. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 30 mins to 1 hour
Brave, Strong, Resilient
This interactive, digital training experience is designed to help educators teach kids strategies for building resilience. Through a series of lessons, which include group activities, videos, and printables, children learn to express their feelings and solve problems. Resources are also available to help families practice these resiliency skills at home. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten)
Duration: 3+ Hours
Sesame Strong
Sesame Strong is a scope and sequence designed to support your family engagement efforts! It includes eight bundles full of resources you can use to connect with, celebrate, and support parents and caregivers. Use these resources to host mini-sessions with parents, or simply infuse key messages and big ideas into your everyday interactions with parents. Each bundle includes: A Key Caregiver Strategy. Supporting resources for caregivers: a parent reading, two video clips, a digital storybook, and a hands-on activity to try. Facilitation cues and activity ideas for hosting parent sessions in your setting. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Providers who work to support parents and caregivers
Duration: 3+ Hours
Supporting Military and Veteran Caregiving Families
This series, which includes nine bundles of SSIC resources, aims to help providers support military and veteran caregiving families. The bundles are designed to be implemented as workshops with families and include helpful language, digital resources to share, and hands-on activities to bring concepts to life. Providers are invited to use the ideas and activities in ways that complement their work. Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 3+ Hours
Growing Together
The Big Idea: Take an interactive course to learn of ways to partner with families for school readiness across every aspect of child development. Learning Goals: To support school readiness strategies for Kindergarten readiness. To review the developmental domains of early childhood development. Build partnerships with families for student success.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten) Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Duration: 3+ Hours
Building a Reader
The Big Idea: An interactive course that explores key literacy goals, strategies, and activities to support learning around language and literacy in children ages 2-5. Join us for an interactive course that explores key literacy goals, strategies, and activities to support learning around language and literacy in young kids.Presented by Sesame Street in Communities.
Who's it for: Early Childhood Educators (PreK - Kindergarten) of Language and Literacy
Duration: 3+ Hours
Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Children
Led by the Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center in Boston and in collaboration with the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, the NCTSN presents this webinar series designed to cover the impact of trauma on children during all phases of their migration journey. Nationally recognized speakers from NCTSN are joined by experts from the Irving Harris Foundation’s Professional Development Network to provide best practices for culturally responsive and trauma-informed provision of services. This series features diverse expertise from the fields of refugee and migrant health, cultural studies, mental health, early childhood development, childhood traumatic stress, trauma-informed systems of care, and secondary traumatic stress. Available in English and Spanish.
Culture, the Migration Journey, Trauma and Assessment
In this webinar developed by Lisa Fortuna, MD, Alisa B. Miller, PhD and Saida M. Abdi, MSW, foundational information is offered related to the intersection of culture, the migration journey, trauma and assessment. Description: In addition, recommendations for providing culturally responsive, child-friendly assessment and best practices are shared for working with interpreters for individuals who have direct contact with unaccompanied children (e.g., care provider staff) or work with people with direct contact with unaccompanied children (e.g., supervisors). Available in English and Spanish.
Culture, Development, Trauma, and Socio-Cultural Responsive Interventions with Youth Ages 7 and Older
Developed by Javier Rosado, PhD, Susana Rivera PhD, and Luis Flores, MA, this webinar defines traumatic separation and grief and outlines the developmental impacts on youth. Additionally, participants will learn how to be responsive to the cultural and linguistic needs of youth. Participants will learn children’s common fears and perceived threats to safety experienced by youth exposed to traumatic events as well as culturally responsive strategies for staff to use when working with youth. Available in English and Spanish.
Attachment, Development, Trauma, and Socio-Cultural Responsive Interventions for Young Children
This webinar, developed by Marta Casas LMHC, MEd, Carmen Rosa Noroña LCSW, MSEd and Marcy Safyer, PhD MSW, will provide a basic overview of the intersection of early childhooddevelopment (0-5), attachment and trauma in young migrant children. Presenters discuss trauma and socio-cultural interventions and engage the audience in reflections about best practices and practice-change with this population. Available in English and Spanish.
Secondary Traumatic Stress: Understanding the Impact of Trauma Work on Professionals
Developed by Raven Cuellar, PhD, Carmen Rosa Noroña, LCSW, Ms. Ed., Ginny Sprang, PhD, and Savina Treves, MA, LPC this webinar defines Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), describes how the sociocultural context and the experience of migration may impact the experience of STS and outlines specific strategies to strengthen protective factors to prevent, identify, and address STS in the workplace. Through case examples, participants will learn who is at risk, organizational and individual factors related to STS, and how to approach support staff wellness. Available in English and Spanish.
Improving Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals
Cultural and linguistic competency is recognized as an important strategy for improving the quality of care provided to clients from diverse backgrounds. The goal of this program is to help professionals increase their cultural and linguistic competency. Course 1, An introduction to cultural and linguistic competency, you'll learn what culture has to do with behavioral health care. Course 2, Know thyself – Increasing self-awareness, you'll learn how to get to know your cultural identity and how it affects your work with clients. Course 3, Knowing others – Increasing awareness of your client's cultural identity, you'll learn how to get to know your client’s cultural identity. Course 4, Culturally and linguistically appropriate interventions and services, you'll learn how to build stronger therapeutic relationships with clients from diverse backgrounds.
Duration: 4 - 5.5 hours Approved by NAADAC and NBCC for contact hours.
Sesame Street in Communities: Health Emergencies
A health emergency brings many changes and much uncertainty for young children and their families, but there are things we can do to face each day with optimism and hope. We can practice healthy habits like handwashing and coughing into the bend in our arm. We can offer comfort, connect with, and care for others safely. And we can keep learning and growing at home through everyday routines and simple activities. The resources on this page can help families cope during challenging times.
Anti-Racism Training
Racism. It is a word that elicits strong emotion, and often even stronger opinions. Taking the step to engage in anti-racism work may seem intimidating, or maybe you already feel confident in your knowledge of racial justice and in your allyship. Regardless of where you sit on that spectrum, this training is one that can have benefit for everyone. Participants will learn about historical events, ideologies, and social structures, and how they inform modern day beliefs, bias, and perception, analyze concepts of racial identity, bias, privilege, and prejudice; reflect on their own identity, bias, privilege, and prejudice; identify strategies to engage in difficult conversations and reflect on ways to integrate anti-racism work into their daily lives.
Duration: 6 hours (3 modules/2 hours each)
Trauma and the Brain
This course is designed for licensed professionals with some foundational knowledge of both trauma and neurobiology. We will delve into the specific ways that psychological and physical trauma can impact both the developing brain during childhood and adolescence, as well as how trauma affects the mature, adult brain.
Duration: Self-Paced
Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist
Unlocking Us with Brene Brown. In this podcast, Brene is talking with professor Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. We talk about racial disparities, policy, and equality, but we really focus on How to Be an Antiracist, which is a groundbreaking approach to understanding uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves.
Duration: 1 hour
A Self-Care Guide for the Paraprofessional
All direct support professionals who provide care to people served – particularly those with trauma – should perform regular self-checks. A simple and quick check-in to assess how you are feeling can be done any time after providing support.
Duration: Self-Paced
A Self-Care Guide for the Clinician
Both burnout and compassion fatigue make daily tasks difficult due to mental exhaustion from emotional overload. You might make more mistakes than usual, both mental and physical, putting both yourself and the people you serve in danger.
Duration: Self-Paced
Suicide Risk Factors, Screening, and Assessment
Through a blend of didactic and interactive exercises, you will learn how to use screening instruments and several different models of comprehensive suicide assessment.
Duration: Self-Paced
The Grip of Grief: Processing The Continual Losses of the Pandemic
You're grieving, our clients are grieving, everyone is grieving. People across the world have been experiencing a wide range of losses caused by the pandemic, including COVID-19-related deaths, the loss of events like graduations and planned trips, and the loss of what-once-was. Jill Johnson-Young, LCSW, provides an easy-to-digest framework for what to know and do/not do with clients as they grieve. This course explores the many types of losses relating to the pandemic, and gives clinicians straightforward and practical clinical interventions. Strategies to help therapists/counselors avoid and respond to grief burnout/compassion fatigue are also shared.
Duration: 1 hour
Racialized Trauma Course
Cultural Somatics Free 5 Session E-course: Explore basics facets of Racialized Trauma and what to do about it. We can't help ourselves even begin to heal racialized trauma if we don't acknowledge that it even exits.
Duration: Self-Paced
Mending Racialized Trauma: A Body Centered Approach with Resmaa Menakem
Resmaa shares that in order to mend racialized trauma we need to move the conversation from race to culture and cultivate a somatic abolitionist mindset and community. And a big part of that work lies in doing our own reps to learn what to pay attention to and then doing the reps with each other’s nervous systems so we can create a culture that knows what to pay attention to. Otherwise it’s just strategy.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Hey, White Therapist, Here's Where We Start
As racial tensions rise around the country, mental health professionals have a fundamental responsibility to support equality, but many white clinicians don’t know how to make a difference. In this interview, white therapists can begin exploring to be more aware of their own racial identity, cultural conditioning, and the effects on white people and people of color. This interview offers practical and compassionate guidance and interventions to white therapists wanting to be more effective in their work with people of color.
Duration: 1 hour
How Racism Impacts those We Serve and How We Serve: Are We Meeting Participants Where They Are?
Issues related to race are among the most difficult and least discussed topics in the field of behavioral health. This webinar is designed to raise the awareness of behavioral health providers of the possible overt, subtle, or unintentional ways that organizational policies and service delivery create barriers for individuals who have experienced racial discrimination. The presenters will review the history of racism, how it impacts participants, and what organizations can do to reduce structural barriers for individuals impacted by racism and discrimination.
Duration: 1 hour
Identity, Bias, and Cultural Humility: Connecting to Ourselves and Others
Cultural humility is a humble and respectful attitude toward individuals of other cultures and identities that pushes one to challenge their own cultural biases, realize they cannot possibly know everything about other cultures, and approach learning about other cultures as a lifelong goal and process. Cultural humility encourages active participation to learn about a client's personal and cultural experiences and identities. Understanding and connecting to our own histories and identities is an important step in developing cultural humility. Not only does this help us make space for understanding others, but it can also help us in formulating our own clinical approaches.
Duration: 1 hour
Legacies of Pain and Resilience: Clinical Implications for Understanding Historical Trauma and Race
Historical Trauma (HT) refers to the psychological distress experienced by survivors or descendants of human initiated acts of oppression. This webinar helped clinicians understand HT and provided some clarity regarding the intergenerational transmission of trauma and how it relates to racial oppression in particular. We summarized the research on the biological, psychological and social forces that promote an intergenerational legacy of pain and suffering among descendants of people impacted by traumatizing historical events. We also outlined the importance of resilience in helping individuals and communities recover and cope with HT.
Duration: 1 hour
Race, Poverty & Trauma: Microaggressions and the Therapeutic Alliance: Exploring Ethnically and Racially Diverse Clinician-Participant Relationships
Racial microaggressions, although often inadvertent and unintended, can be traumatic and polarizing for persons of color. During this webinar, Dr. Monnica Williams discusses the role and prevalence of racial microaggressions and its impact on the therapeutic relationship. She highlights common instances of microaggressions and strategies for how clinicians can challenge racial stereotypes to more effectively work with participants of color.
Duration: 1 hour
Race and Trauma: Race-based Traumatic Stress and Psychological Injury
Racism has severe psychological and emotional effects on people of color, impacting their daily lives and experiences with mental health services. During this webinar, Dr. Robert T. Carter will discuss race-based traumatic stress, ways of working with participants who have experienced racism, and implications for the assessment of trauma beyond the DSM-5.
Duration: 1.5 hour
Race and Trauma:The Role of Racial Trauma in Psychotherapy
Racism can be traumatizing for participants of color, and clinicians may inadvertently perpetuate this form of oppression through microaggressions and invalidating participant experiences. During this webinar, Dr. Monnica Williams will review the role of race and racial identity in the therapeutic relationship, and offer best practices for clinicians working with persons of color.
Duration: 1 hour
Vulnerability factors, prevention and early intervention, keeping connected while staying apart—strategies for remote community participation, resources and risk reduction, ways to mitigate the negative impact of COVID, physical distancing, and the economic changes on mental health as we move forward.
Duration: 1 hour
Topics include: Perceptions, stigma, and unconscious bias in higher-risk populations, Chronic health conditions and coronavirus. How COVID-19 is worsening disparities in pediatric type 1 diabetes and the role of community health workers. COVID-19 testing and deficits in community education. The evolution of Telehealth and how it can help mitigate some of the negative outcomes resulting from minority populations ‘medical distancing’ during COVID. Impact of social determinants. -COVID-19 health and access inequalities. What we’ve learned and what should we do next.
Duration: 1 hour
In his new book, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi holds up both a magnifying glass and a mirror to examine how to uproot racism from society—starting with ourselves. Followed by his talk at UC Berkeley, on September 12, 2019, Kendi is joined in conversation by john a. powell of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Lateefah Simon of the Akonadi Foundation, and moderated by Alice Y. Hom of Northern California Grantmakers.
Duration: 2 hours
Telehealth Skills Adaptations
These are teachings that Dr. Jamie Marich shared on the Mindful Ohio& The Institute for Creative Mindfulness page in the first week of major clinical transition to telehealth. Although the videos are not new and directly drawn from her Trauma Made Simple resources pages, the applications represent new ideas for clinicians in this era. Study them together or in any combination to create your own virtual learning experience. Feel free to use and to pass along! These techniques include Clench & Release, Painting Light, Loving Kindness Meditation, Monkey Tap (aka Butterfly Hug) and Noodling.
Duration: 1 hour (in total)
Addressing Issues of Post-Disaster Trauma Relief for Victims and First Responders
This 5-hour workshop will consist of 4 lectures and a panel discussion devoted to providing culturally competent care to trauma patients and first responders. The neurobiological underpinnings of trauma will be explored, as will ways to deal with secondhand trauma as a clinician and community member. The Steve Frankel Group (SFG) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. SFG maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Approved for 5 CE hours. Currently available for free.
Duration: 5 hours
Process Not Perfection: Remote Applications of Expressive Arts Strategies
Dr. Jamie Marich, expressive arts therapist and author of Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery, developed this course to assist clinicians with adapting to the realities of switching to remote work during the COVID-19 crisis. In this course, Dr. Jamie gives you an overview of expressive arts principles and discusses how people may find the processes and practices in Process Not Perfection especially useful in adapting to telehealth or remote platforms. A guided process for experiential learning (specifically geared to COVID-19 and other disaster/crisis response) is also offered.
Duration: 2 hours
Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra for Clinical Professionals
Yoga nidra is a sleep-style meditations that is gaining popularity in the clinical professions. Based on a teaching from the ancient Upanishads, this powerful approach brings together a variety of awareness techniques and strategies to facilitate a greater sense of ease in meditating and working with intention. In this online training, trauma expert and yoga teacher Dr. Jamie Marich teaches you the basic principles of yoga nidra. She walks you through a 20-25 minute script specifically prepared for working via telehealth or other remote platforms. While yoga nidra can be a powerful adjunct to any trauma therapy, it has special potential for bridging together aspects of trauma therapy you may not feel comfortable delivering remotely, specifically because of its focus on intention. While not a full-scale yoga nidra training, this will get you started with the basics to use alongside any approach to trauma therapy.
Duration: 3 hours
Attachment, Regulation and Competency: ARC-At-A-Glance: Modular Videos
This 8 module training series of brief, free overview videos describing the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework. This “ARC lite” is a series of remote, brief videos that will give an overview of key ARC concepts, and comment on these concepts as they relate to working and coping in the midst of this pandemic. Although these videos are not a substitute for the full ARC training, we hope they will give some support to your learning until we are able to meet again in person! We may also be offering special topic videos from our team of ARC trainers.
Duration: 8 hours
Our New Normal is NOT Normal: Resiliency Skills for Public Health Professionals
This is the first webinar in a three-part series, targeted to public health professionals, first responders, healthcare providers, as well as the general public. Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Public Health Workforce Development and the Community Living Education Project (CLEP). Presented by Philip T. McCabe CSW, CAS, CDVC, DRCC.
Duration: 45 Minutes
Social Distancing and Interpersonal Violence: Conversation with Temple Alumni Leaders
Moderator Barbara B. Ernico, SSW ’71, is joined by panelists Kendra Van de Water, CPH ‘10, and Interim Executive Director of the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance Paul DiLorenzo, ACSW, MLSP, SSW ‘78, to discuss how their programs are adapting the challenges of COVID-19.
Host: Temple University College of Public Health
Duration: 30 Minutes
COVID-19 in Older Adults: Best Practices for Providers and Caregivers
The rapidly spreading COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has demonstrated a historic effect on older adult populations, both in the United States and around the world. Understanding current evidence and key trends, as it relates to older adult patients with known or suspected COVID-19 infection, is imperative to protect them.
Duration: 1 hour
Telehealth in Clinical Practice
Gain knowledge of using telehealth technologies for behavioral health services, including potential advantages and challenges.
Host: Relias Learning LLC
Best Practices for Delivering Telehealth
Discusses various modalities of telehealth treatment and most effective approaches.
Host: Relias Learning LLC
COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness for Front-line Staff
What are the most current recommendations for surge management and front line staff preparedness around the novel coronavirus?
Duration: 45 minutes
How to Address COVID 19 Across Inpatient, Residential and Other Non-ambulatory Care Settings
APA and the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) will host a joint webinar discussion with experts working in inpatient, residential, and other non-ambulatory care settings about how they are assessing the current environment and developing new protocols to care for their patients during the COVID 19 crisis. Hear from experts about how to manage through different types of services, key messages to give to your team leaders, unique challenges for people with SMI, how to approach group therapy, and more.
Duration: 1 hour
Staying Centered: A Virtual Breather for People Supporting Survivors
Are you feeling increased levels of stress and anxiety? If you answered yes, know you are not alone. People across the country are mobilizing quickly to ensure services for survivors of crime continue during the COVID-19 crisis. Confronting this new set of challenges in rapidly changing and uncertain times can be stressful. It is critical that we in the crime victims field integrate strategies to manage stress and anxiety into our day-to-day practice. We are joined by Zoe Flowers – advocate, healer, writer, poet, and filmmaker – in a virtual wellness session. Zoe guides us through a number of activities to help us stay grounded and manage stress and anxiety.
Duration: 45 minutes each
Understanding Coronavirus and How to Keep You and Yours Safe
As society grapples with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, questions around the virus and what individuals need to stay safe dominate the headlines. In this webinar, Ron Orth (RN, CMAC, CHC) discusses the basics of what we know today and practical steps to keep you healthy.
Duration: 65 minutes
COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness for Your Front-Line Staff
What are the most current recommendations for surge management and front-line staff preparedness around the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)? Learn more about them from Board Certified Emergency Physician, Phil DiGiacomo, M.D., and Heather Tuttle (BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN).
Healing Informed Care for Survivors from Historically Marginalized Communities
As a way to re-release years of trauma-based on sexual assault, domestic violence, and other traumas– Zoe Flowers from WOCN, INC. shares her body, mind, and spirit connection techniques drawn from decades of experience as a trauma practitioner and healer. More than ever, survivors and advocates alike need new ways to slow down, breath, relax and reconnect to their strength, creativity, and spirit.
Duration: 75 minutes
How to Navigate Grief, Loss, and a New Normal During COVID-19
Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S, hosts a presentation geared towards community members about how to navigate grief and loss during this unprecedented global pandemic. Live recorded on 4/6/2020. Access PowerPoint Slides here.
Duration: 1 hour
Hand Hygiene: The Basics
Handwashing is one of the most important steps to break the chain of infection. This micro-course follows CDC recommendations and provides a refresher on the specific requirements to successfully stop the spread.
Infection Control: The Basics
This course provides updates to HCPs ability to apply scientifically accepted infection control principles to reduce transmission of pathogens.
Personal Protective Equipment
Addresses different types of PPE necessary for job tasks and how to correctly don and doff the needed equipment.
Infection Control: Airborne Precautions
Quick and relevant instruction for implementing infection control measures to prevent transmission of airborne disease.
Cost: Free
Transmission-Based Precautions
This course presents the principles of transmission-based precautions and strategies to apply in daily practice.
Preparing for Pandemic Influenza
The course spotlights Pandemic flu; it offers principles and practices relevant to viral transmission disease precautions.
Working Remotely: Key Considerations For Survivor-Centered Organizations
Talk about the benefits, challenges, technology, share tips, and ideas for how to maintain connection and well-being in a remote environment.
Tele-Advocacy: Ensuring Accessibility for Underserved Crime Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webinar provides an overview of tele-advocacy, confidentiality and security considerations in digital services, and strategies to tele-advocacy is accessible and inclusive for survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors. In addition, an advocate experienced in tele-advocacy discusses strategies she uses to build relationships and provide practical tips for communicating effectively with survivors using digital platforms.
Presenter: Sandra Harrell, Vera Institute of Justice; Amber Hodson, Deaf Hope; Toby Shulruff, National Network to End Domestic Violence
Project Rise: Bringing Relationship Education to Hispanic Youth
Join the staff from Project Rise as they share with you how they are successfully engaging the Latino community including youth and their parents in healthy relationship skills programming. Project Rise is utilizing Relationship Smarts PLUS (Sexual Risk Avoidance Adaptation) to prevent teen pregnancy, reduce associated risk behaviors, and promote healthy adolescent development among Latino teens aged 12-18. They are working in four neighborhoods of Los Angeles County where measures of sexual risk are significantly higher than the national average.
Duration: 1 hour
Exploring Social Poverty: Low-Income Populations and the Impact of Community Ties
The impact of financial poverty has been a focus of researchers for decades. In this webinar Dr. Sarah Halpern-Meekin, author of “Social Poverty: Low-income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties,” examines another dimension of poverty that has been considerably understudied: social poverty. Social poverty, or lacking adequate of close, dependable, and trusting relationships, is an often-ignored form of hardship that is separate from financial poverty. Developing healthy relationship skills and coping mechanisms through relationship education may help address social poverty.
Presenter: Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Duration: 1 hour
Foundations: How to Build & Sustain the Communication Pipeline with Young Adults
Recruiting and appealing to young adults ages 18-24 can be challenging for a multitude of reasons. In this webinar, Vanessa Logan describes her unique “boots on the ground” approach for how to build trust with marginalized young adults and consequently is able to provide them with tools to develop self-sufficiency. Integrated into her approach is the essential building of healthy relationship skills with pregnant and parenting youth, empowering them to successfully parent or even co-parent when no longer together. With a heart for people, Vanessa identifies critical needs of the underserved and builds bridges by partnering with organizations and community initiatives to uncover resources and move others toward economic mobility and self-sufficiency. Vanessa has a voice in the community for what makes a community thrive: it’s people.
Presenter: Vanessa Logan, Founder of “N.E.S.S.A in Your Neighborhood,” Navigate, Explore, Serve, Sustain and Advocate (Spartanburg, South Carolina)
Duration: 1 hour
One-on-One: A New Approach for Teaching Mind Matters in Individual Settings
Young people who have experienced trauma and toxic stress, such as child abuse and neglect, often have difficulty regulating their emotional responses when facing challenges in school, life, and relationships. Thus, Dr. Carolyn Curtis developed Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience, a research-based curriculum effective in helping youth overcome adverse and traumatic childhood experiences. In this webinar, Dr. Carolyn Curtis, will discuss her new addendum to the Mind Matters curriculum. In this guidance, the content of Mind Mattersis divided into 15- to 20-minute segments that can now be taught in one-on-one settings. With these adjustments, the Mind Matters curriculum can now be used for home visitors, mentors, and case workers, as well as anyone who works with young people in a one-on-one setting.
Presenter: Carolyn Rich Curtis, Ph.D., Developer of Mind Matters, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Founder of the Relationship Skills Center in Sacramento, CA.
Duration: 1 hour
“Meet Them Where They Are” Building Protective Factors for the Future
Hear how three agencies that use different funding streams utilize relationship education to meet youth where they are in order to help them to prepare for healthy lives and futures. These organizations use Dibble’s programs to build protective factors so the youth can communicate effectively in jobs, set safe boundaries in relationships, make healthy decisions about their love lives.
Duration: 1 hour
Learning about Positive Youth Development: A Free & Fun Course for Youth Work Professionals
What does positive youth development mean to us? We may think about competencies, opportunities, and supports young people need to thrive and make healthy decisions. We may think about youth voice and leadership. In this webinar co-creator Jutta Dotterweich will provide a guided tour of a new, interactive online training course on positive youth development. This free resource consists of six, stand-alone segments, which were developed with a wide range of audiences in mind (e.g., volunteers, parents, frontline youth workers).
Presenter: Jutta Dotterweich, M.A. Director of Training, ACT for Youth Center of Excellence.
Duration: 1 hour
Victim Assistance Training Online (VAT Online)
VAT Online is a foundational Web-based victim assistance training program that offers victim service providers and allied professionals the opportunity to acquire the essential skills and knowledge they need to more effectively assist victims of crime. VAT Online has four sections: Basics, Core Competencies and Skills, Crimes, and Specific Considerations for Providing Victim Services. The VAT Online training is part of the NACP pre-approved training list. This training meets the requirements for the Introductory Advocacy Training area that can be used to apply for the National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP).
Duration: The entire training is approximately 43 hours. It is divided into various modules and sections. Each module takes about 30–90 minutes to complete. Learners can complete all modules or can complete specific modules, based on their learning needs.
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Identity Theft Victim Assistance Online Training: Supporting Victims' Financial and Emotional Recovery
A user-friendly e-learning tool that will teach victim service professionals and allied professionals knowledge and skills to more effectively serve victims of identity theft and assist with their financial and emotional recovery.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 3-4 Hours
Polyvictimization in Later Life
The purpose of the training is to strengthen awareness of polyvictimization in later life and to provide knowledge and skills of professionals to address the needs of victims. The training addresses the context of polyvictimization; victims and perpetrators of polyvictimization; best practices to work with older adults affected by polyvictimization using trauma-informed, ethical, and culturally appropriate practices; and the latest research and best practices to serve this population.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 6 Hours (5 modules)
Understanding Human Trafficking
The Understanding Human Trafficking training is a series of five interactive online modules that offer foundational learning on trauma-informed and victim-centered approaches to human trafficking. The modules are designed so that a wide audience can benefit. Understanding Human Trafficking is unique in equipping participants to think critically about human trafficking using reliable resources, both locally and from across the United States.
Host: Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center
Duration: 5 Hours
COVID-19 Just-in-Time Training: Strategies & Techniques for Disaster Behavioral Health Support by Phone
The training is designed for DRCCs answering support lines, but the information can be applied to all services, especially during this time of teleservices. The presenter is Steve Crimando who has years of experience and knowledge working in disasters and critical incidents. Find the PowerPoint Here.
Host: NJ's Diaster and Terrorism Branch
Duration: 90 Minutes
NAMI Basics Course
Welcome to NAMI Basics! We've built this course for the caregivers of children/adolescents who have either been diagnosed with a mental health condition or who are experiencing symptoms, but haven’t yet gotten a formal diagnosis.
Host: National Alliance on Mental Illness
Duration: 6 modules and Wrap Up
Parents, Kids & Mental Health During the COVID-19 Crisis
This webinar from the NASW-NJ Chapter (live recorded on 3/18/20), featuring Pat Spencer, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW, discusses how parents can help their children and families cope during the COVID-19 crisis.
Host: NASW-NJ
Duration: 40 Minutes
The Practice of Mattering During the Time of Social Distancing
This program was recorded live on March 25, 2020. Learn about the practice of mattering in the time of social distancing with social workers, Dr. Tawanda Hubbard, LCSW and Jennifer Thompson, MSW. This program is geared to the general public as a way to connect, find resources and support our well-being in these unique times.
Adolescents & Young Adults: Parenting During COVID-19
Live recorded on March 31, 2020. The COVID-19 global pandemic has changed much about our daily lives, especially that of our children. Nationally, adolescents and young adults are grieving as many now are missing milestone moments such as proms, graduations and transitional moments. Join Dr. Widian Nicola, LCSW for a conversation geared toward parents where she will explore loss and how parents can help support children during these unprecedented times.
The Science of Well-Being
In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.
Host: Yale
Duration: 19 hours (Can be completed over several weeks)
Mindfulness, Healing & Transformation
A free seminar featuring Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Duration: 1 hour
Hunger for Healing: Evidence-Based Practice for Binge Eating Disorder
Most counselors are familiar with – or at least heard of – eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia nervosa. But we are less familiar with binge eating disorder (BED) despite being four times more common in clinical practice. The American Psychiatric Association only recognized BED as a distinct disorder in 2013 and was first included in the DSM-5 (F50.8). This webinar will explore the prevalence, neurobiology, and evidence-based treatments for this common, and extremely challenging disorder. We will pay particular attention to the influence of developmental trauma from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study on the etiology of BED, and the utility of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as part of the treatment regimen.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Less Is More: A Breakthrough Method for Lasting Change
One ever-present question for addiction professionals is, “How do you foster behavior change and make it stick, whether on an individual or systems level?” Change is hard for our clients, our organizations, and even ourselves, but it doesn’t have to be. This webinar takes you on a deep dive into Tiny Habits®, a revolutionary method to promote lasting change in any setting. The method is based on Stanford Professor BJ Fogg’s breakthrough behavior model that addresses the 10 most common mistakes people make when trying to change behavior. This webinar will revolutionize how you think about behavior change and what you do about it for your clients, organization, and even for yourself in your own life!
Duration: 1.5 hours
Influences on Addiction and Mental Health in the LGBT Population
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities are reported to have higher incidences of substance misuse. This webinar will focus on the influences on the LGBT population that lead to higher rates of using substances as a coping skill, provide a self-assessment of your preparation for providing services to LGBT clients, and examine your practices for LGBT affirmative practices. Topics include the societal influences of minority stress, micro-aggressions, victimization, religion, visibility management, and invisibility management. Ways to gain knowledge about LGBT issues will allow participants to explore their own biases that influence their work with LGBT clients. The webinar will conclude with best practices for providing affirmative services to LGBT clients.
Duration: 2 hours
Intersection of Race, Culture, Chronic Disease and Chronic Pain
Up to 50 million Americans live with chronic pain at any given time. Minorities who suffer with chronic and intractable pain are facing widespread stigma and public misunderstanding of the difference between tolerance, physical dependence, and addiction when treating a chronic illness. What roles do race and culture play in prescribing practices, pain reporting and treatment, and psychological outcomes? Because chronic pain can affect one's mental health, counseling can be an integral key in treatment. As therapists who practice within multidisciplinary teams or within the community, what is our role in helping to manage chronic pain management?
Duration: 2 hours
Living in a Cloud: Adolescent Nicotine Use
Though adolescent cigarette smoking rates have decreased over the past four decades with fewer than 1 in 25 teens reporting daily tobacco use, e-cigarette use has increased two-fold. There are still lower rates of adolescent nicotine use overall, but a potentially dangerous trend has emerged with the increased use of vaping. Cigarette companies are not allowed to market their products to adolescents, but they have found other ways to create a new teen culture through the sponsorship of vaping “cloud” competitions. The purpose of this presentation is to explore the psychopharmacology of nicotine use, the culture of vaping, and strategies for prevention and treatment. Participants will learn how healthy factors of adolescent development add to the risk of becoming addicted to nicotine.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, On the Global Coronavirus Crisis: Steering Ourselves and Our Clients Through New & Developing Traumas
Join Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of the New York Times #1 bestselling author The Body Keeps The Score and learn timely (and critically important) approaches for all of us in the helping professions. Dr. van der Kolk will give you specific and practical approaches, with your community, and with your clients to address creating connection and community in this global crisis and activities to share with clients that keep them attached and out of re-experiencing past traumas.
Duration: 30 minutes
Counseling Adolescent and Minority Clients with Substance Use Disorders
It is has been repeatedly proven that a lack of cultural competency can and will lead to poorer outcomes in the provision of services to minority populations. This may be especially true of adolescent and transition aged (16-25) clients who may operate more singularly from the world views and perspectives of their own culture than adults who may have more insight and ability to forgive missteps by providers. While these facts are now very well known, it is still difficult for counselors to access training that provides them a real springboard into multicultural competency. This free webinar will provide them with methods of becoming effective that are not restricted to learning "fun facts" about various cultures and calling it a day.
Duration: 1 hour
Parents with PTSD: How Addiction Can Re-traumatize Families
It is well documented that addiction can have significant collateral impacts on parents, extended family, partners and friends. But what happens when these care-givers and supports also have their own Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) history? Living with, loving, and supporting a person with addiction can become personal: triggering parents, partners, and families to relive their own trauma history. This presentation will discuss how ACES can impact the family system, and will address specific support/treatment strategies using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness. Also addressed will be the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, a body of groundbreaking research that looked at how childhood trauma affects long-term health.
Duration: 1 hour
Strength-Based Mind-Body Practice: Building Internal Resources
This webinar offers ideas, examples and guidance for integrating Mind-Body techniques into the Solution-Focused approach. Mind-Body work can enhance the therapeutic relationship and possible successful outcomes. A variety of techniques will be explored, such as body scans, recall, somatic experiencing and more! Presenters will also offer considerations for enhancing personal supervision style through Mind-Body work.
Duration: 1 hour
Healing Addiction and Shame Through Self-Compassion
Shame is a common denominator that runs deep through people struggling with substance use disorders. Only when shame is brought to light can it be healed through empathy and self-compassion. Utilizing the research of Brené Brown, Kristin Neff, and Tim Desmond, this workshop will discuss components and functions of shame and self-compassion from a scientific and philosophical framework and provide resources for specific tools for utilizing self-compassion in the therapy room.
Duration: 2 hours
Ensuring Fidelity to Motivational Interviewing Among Frontline Service Providers
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based treatment protocol often used when treating individuals with substance use disorders. The literature supports MI as an effective strategy for reducing symptoms of substance use disorders. However, while many service providers express agreement with the spirit of MI and align ideologically with MI, MI is a detailed treatment protocol that requires training and skill. This webinar will explore how fidelity to MI was monitored at Prism Health North Texas, an HIV/AIDS service organization in Dallas, Texas. We will detail specific tools, continuous improvement and evaluation processes, and practical strategies that increase fidelity to MI principles among care coordinators.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Guidelines to Developing Competence with Mindfulness-Based Interventions
With the expanding use of mindfulness-based interventions in behavioral healthcare generally, and addiction counseling specifically, there have been emerging concerns over ensuring educational, training, and competency standards with these interventions. This webinar will provide an overview of six emerging guidelines for promoting competence with mindfulness-based interventions. It will also highlight adherence scales that can enhance training and supervision, as well as resources for further development.
Duration: 1 hour
What Addiction Professionals Should Know About Medical Marijuana
Medical marijuana is now broadly or partially legalized in 28 states, though it remains illegal under federal law. Variation in laws can create confusion for mental health professionals, raising a number of questions for mental health professionals in both clinical and forensic settings. This confusion has led to many questions by practitioners, such as: What does the law say about medical marijuana in my state? How do I know whether my client is using medical marijuana therapeutically vs. abusing it? What are the risks, side effects, and potential drawbacks of medical marijuana? If my client uses medical marijuana, can employers discriminate against him or her? What do I do if a client is referred to me for substance use disorder treatment but is legally taking prescribed marijuana? This webinar seeks to answer these questions and more.
Duration: 2 hours
Changing Minds: Implementing Harm Reduction
This webinar will focus on the impact of staff training to change staff attitudes regarding harm reduction interventions. The training will outline a process undertaken at The Bridge of Central MA from 2016-2017, using the Learning Collaborative model to plan and execute trainings in harm reduction. The presentation will review the tracking of process and outcomes using the Harm Reduction Acceptability Scale (HRAS), and recommendations for implementing similar training packages in a variety of settings.
Duration: 1 hour
Safety, Ethics, and The Elephant in the Room
Presented by Wanda L. Anderson, MSW, LCSW
Duration: 1 hour
Enhancing Your Clinical Practice with Adoptive & Guardianship Families: An Overview of the NTI Web-based Training for Mental Health Professionals
Presented by: Debbie Riley, LCMFT, CEO, Center for Adoption Support and Education
Duration: 80 minutes
The Supportive Housing Field Responds to COVID-19
Join CSH for a webinar series designed for anyone providing and housing and services in this crisis where we will: highlight what we have learned in the past week; provide examples of best practices from communities across the country; and discuss what information and resources the field needs. Past webinars are posted and available, including resources and slides
Duration: 30 Minutes
COVID19 - Techniques & Strategies for Support by Phone
Steve Crimando is with DMHAS Disaster and Terrorism Branch. He is a leader in responding to incidents worldwide and instrumental in NJ’s response to events. Please scroll below to listen to a recording of today’s webinar on providing support by phone, an adjustment to the DRCC response.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Coronavirus and Housing/Homelessness
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL) joined speakers from the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness and more to share updates and resources needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic for people experiencing homelessness and low-income renters.
Host: National Low Income Housing Coalition
Duration: 1.75 hours
COVID-19 Health Crisis: Getting Through This Together, School Social Work in a Changing Landscape
This webinar will review the impact of COVID-19 on us as mental health professionals, the ethical responsibilities in meeting the needs of students during this health crisis, guidance related to mental health service delivery, strategies for talking with families and resources to support your practice.
Duration: 1 hour
Medication First: Integration of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Across the Healthcare System
Medication First programs get persons with OUD maintenance medical treatment as quickly as possible and provide voluntary supportive services as needed. A patient’s access to medical treatment is not dependent upon psychosocial treatment compliance or unrealistic expectations about the course of treatment and recovery. The Medication First approach is supported by decades of research. It prioritizes client choice in both service selection and service participation. Expanding the Medication First or “low-threshold” medical approach to opioid use disorder will be essential to reversing the epidemic of opioid-related deaths.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Supporting Children Who Lose Parents to Accidental Overdose
Many children unexpectedly lost a parent to an accidental overdose over the past decade. Many of these children had encountered public systems such as child welfare, mental health, and juvenile probation, both before and after the death of their parent(s). As the opioid crisis persists, this webinar considers specific issues affecting the children left behind. Both presenters discuss implications for the future, including the ways that systems and helping professionals need to adjust to accommodate the growing number children who have lost parents to overdose over the course of their development into adults.
Duration: 75 Minutes
Conversations on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with the Medical Director Institute
Video series, Conversations on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with the Medical Director Institute, features members of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Medical Director Institute (MDI) engaging in meaningful discussions with other leading experts in the mental health and substance use field about their personal and professional journeys in the DEI space. This video series highlights diverse perspectives on topics from equity in our health care system to the impacts of racism on people’s wellbeing.
Duration: 26 Minutes
Join Dr. Frank Clark and Dr. Sara Coffey in Episode 1 of the "Conversations on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with the Medical Director Institute" video series as they discuss historical trauma, mass violence, and healing through a lens of self-reflection and discovery. The series features members of the National Council's Medical Director Institute engaging in meaningful discussions with other leading experts and peers in the mental health and substance use field about their personal and professional journeys in the DEI space.
Duration: 36 Minutes
Join Dr. Tiona Praylow and Dr. Sarah Vinson as they discuss the impacts of social injustice on mental health and share practical tips for organizations and providers engaging in DEI work. The “Conversations on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with the Medical Director Institute” video series features members of the Medical Director Institute at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing engaging in meaningful discussions with other leading experts and peers in the mental health and substance use field about their personal and professional journeys in the DEI space.
Duration: 18 Minutes