BHNYC External Training Calendar

When working with children, behavioral and emotional concerns rarely occur in isolation from their relationships and broader family system. While individual therapy can provide important opportunities for healing and growth, engaging children within their family relationships can help address interactional patterns that may contribute to or maintain behavioral and emotional concerns. 

Join CTAC and the renowned Dr. Eliana Gil for a two-hour webinar on Family Play Therapy, an approach that integrates systems theory with attachment-focused play therapy to promote family cohesion, emotional connection, and more adaptive patterns of interaction.

In this webinar, participants will examine the role of family dynamics in children’s behavioral and emotional concerns and explore how to strengthen parent/caregiver-child attachment and interactions in ways that contribute to improved mental health outcomes. Participants will then be introduced to a range of practical, experiential family play therapy techniques designed to promote family cohesion and emotional connection. The webinar will also address how family play therapy can be adapted across clinical settings and cultural contexts, with particular attention to the ways play can facilitate communication and connection when trauma makes verbal communication challenging.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify foundational principles and benefits of family play therapy

• Explain how systems theory and play therapy complement one another in family-based practice

• Describe ways to observe and respond to family dynamics during play

• Explain how family play therapy can increase emotional connection in family systems

• Apply the concept of “shifting perspective” to support changes in family members’ behaviors and interactions

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MCTAC is excited to announce an upcoming  webinar on integrating AI in behavioral health settings. This webinar will be hosted in partnership with Doug Golub of Data Potato LLC. This webinar will focus on responsible use of AI in the behavioral health field. 

As access to AI expands and our understanding, use, and governance of it matures, we are moving beyond generative AI and large language models as tools primarily for creating and summarizing text. AI is becoming increasingly embedded in behavioral health workflows, EHRs, documentation, and decision support. Used thoughtfully, it can reduce administrative burden, surface timely insights, and let staff focus more on quality care.

Participants will explore practical uses of AI alongside the risks and responsibilities they introduce, including privacy and confidentiality, bias, documentation integrity, human oversight, professional judgment, and preserving the relationships and trust needed to provide effective supports that reflect what each person wants for their life.

Topic: Responsible AI in Practice: Where We Are and What’s Next

Presenter: Doug Golub, (Principal Consultant at Data Potato LLC) 

When: October 6th, 2026; 11am-12pm 

Audience: All Behavioral Health Providers

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Link: https://registration.nytac.org/event/?pid=10&id=5848

Please join us on Wednesday, October 7, 2026 for the third in a series of sessions dedicated to addressing the implementation challenges presented by H.R. 1.The series serves as an opportunity for continuous quality improvement, fostering dialogue among government officials, consumer advocates, funders, health plans, and provider representatives. Together, we share the latest happenings on the ground, brainstorm promising strategies, and pinpoint problem areas, all with the shared objective of ensuring New Yorkers maintain their health coverage.With up to 1.5 million New Yorkers impacted by federal changes and potential coverage loss due to H.R. 1's new eligibility and community engagement mandates, we are eager to continue this productive and important dialogue.

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Ageism affects the physical health, mental well-being, and daily lives of older adults. In this session, we will define ageism and its forms, and unpack the myths that fuel it. We will examine how age bias shapes social determinants of health, including in mental health settings. We will reflect on our own biases and preconceptions, and explore practical, age-affirming approaches to working with older adults.

Participants will learn how to: 

• Describe how ageism correlates with adverse outcomes on social determinants of health

• Recognize the influence of social/cultural myths on our own relationships with aging

• Identify person-centered approaches to foster deeper empathy and connections with older adults

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February 25, 2026Topic: A Trauma Informed Approach to OB/GYN CarePresenter: Samantha Deans, MD, MPHModerator: Vanessa Tirone, Ph.D.
April 15, 2026Topic: Fertility and Mental HealthPresenters: Nicole Tchalim, MD and Vanessa Tirone, Ph.D.Moderator: Vanessa Tirone, Ph.D. 
June 17, 2026Topic: Opioid Use Disorder in the Perinatal Period: Screening and TreatmentPresenter: Seethalakshmi Ramanathan, MD, MPA
October 14, 2026Topic: Identifying and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence Among Perinatal IndividualsPresenter: Vanessa Tirone, Ph.D.
December 16, 2026 Topic: Substance Use Disorders in the Perinatal Period: Your Role in Screening, Support and Treatment Presenter: Seethalakshmi Ramanathan, MD, MPA

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Medicaid work requirements take effect nationwide on Jan. 1, 2027, and the rules will look different in every state.
What won’t be different is where the disruption lands: at the front desk, in the schedule, and in the gaps that open when a patient’s coverage becomes uncertain. 
The organizations that come through it best will be the ones that already know who’s at risk, how coverage information moves through their teams and what their numbers looked like before the change. 
Join us for a practical session with Mend, our newest Gold Partner, on care continuity in the months ahead. Together, we’ll: 
- Hear how one community behavioral health organization is preparing their teams, workflows and patients for January. 
- See how an AI operator (Mend Coordinate™) supports care continuity in practice, with real results on appointment confirmations, late cancellations and rebooking, and a look at where appointment risk and coverage risk meet. 
- Share a five-part, 90-day readiness check you can take back to your leadership team: Know, Map, Connect, Automate, Measure. You’ll rate your own organization’s plan and ownership on each. 
 
Register today and bring your questions! We’ll save time at the end for them, and you’ll leave with a worksheet to help put what you learned into action.

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