This recurring 1-hour (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) monthly committee meeting takes place every first Wednesday of the month (unless otherwise indicated) and is hosted by NYC's Regional Addiction Resource Center (RARC), led by Natalie Lleras, Associate Director of Training and CRR, and Debbie Wolff, RARC Manager. 

Once you register for this Zoom meeting, you can use the same link to access subsequent monthly meetings. 

CEUs are not offered for our committee meetings. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to Natalie Lleras (she/her) at nlleras@coalitionny.org

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When: Thursday, September 7 - 11:00 AM

Duration: 1 hours 30 minutes

Location: Zoom

Event Details:

This series will consist of two webinars that will focus on: Finance Department Operations and the interrelationship between an agency’s fiscal infrastructure and program operations. This will include the development of a business plan, accounting policies and procedures, executive leadership, and key operational and programmatic functions.

These webinars will build on the previous MCTAC Fiscal Operations webinars offered by this team. There will be a combination of didactic learning and breakout sessions focused on the materials presented. Participants will also develop strategies for effectively integrating the learning components into agency operations. 

Target Audience: C-Suite Officers, Senior Leadership, Program and Finance
Management Staff

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Link: https://registration.nytac.org/event/?pid=1&id=1980

Continuing our discussion from Part 1 of this series, recent rule changes proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will enable regulatory and statutory expansion of behavioral health services and providers. This webinar will focus on how those changes will impact the already strained workforce, and the corresponding impacts on population health, value-based care, and the needs of special populations. Experts will dive deeper into approaches health systems may adopt to handle workforce shortages while expanding access.

When: Wednesday, September 13 - 12:00 PM

Duration: 1 hours 30 minutes

Location: Zoom

Event Details:

In this webinar, Family Peer Advocates (FPAs) will learn fundamentals of domestic violence and intimate partner violence (DV/IPV) and the impacts exposure to DV/IPV may have on children and families. Strategies to engage with survivors that center their experience and promote ongoing discussion around safety and support will be explored. Additionally, given the unique role of FPAs will also have the importance of self-care as an integral component in maintaining this work will be highlighted. 

At the end of this presentation, FPAs will learn:

• Foundational information about DV/IPV and how those dynamics play out in families
• Common impacts of DV/IPV on children and families
• Best practices for strategies and concrete approaches in engaging and supporting survivors of DV/IPV, while maintaining safety within the bounds of their role

Carrie Ann Rollier, FPA-C 

Carrie Ann has been a Family Peer Advocate since 2015, first working at a community-based organization and currently with Families Together in New York State since 2022. Her passion for peer support and supporting its workforce is what led to her holding a seat on the Board of Directors for 2 years before accepting the position of Senior Director of Training and Workforce Development at Families Together; leading a team that oversees the credentialing process and training of Family Peer Advocates and Youth Peer Advocates across the state. As a mother of three young adults with Autism, she struggled navigating the complicated children's systems without support and watched as her children struggled during their childhood without the support and services they deserved. Carrie Ann is dedicated to building an abundant, strong, highly trained Family and Youth Peer workforce throughout the state to support as many families and youth as possible who are experiencing similar challenges. 

Nicole Lee, LCSW

Nicole joined Vibrant Emotional Health's national programs team as a manager of contracts in January 2023, in which she works closely with crisis centers across the United States to ensure quality service provision for 988, the national suicide and crisis lifeline. In her past professional roles, she has directed an outpatient child and family mental health program serving survivors of gender-based violence, led a team providing emergency transitional housing to families fleeing domestic violence, managed a school-based mental health clinic program, and served as an administrator at a NYC public hospital. She also has been in private practice serving children, adults, families and couples since 2016. After earning her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from New York University, she matriculated into NYU's Silver School of Social Work.  Nicole has earned a post-master’s certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice from NYU, training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is a certified supervisor in field instruction (SIFI). In her free time, Nicole sits on the junior board of HeartShare St. Vincent’s and is a member and volunteer with Open House New York. Nicole is passionate about elevating the profession of social work as a vehicle toward social justice through core applications of empathy and advocacy.

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When: Thursday, September 14 - 10:00 AM

Duration: 1 hours

Location: Zoom

Event Details:

Mental health stigma is an area of substantial public health importance. Although many people have grown more comfortable disclosing their mental health struggles in recent years, negative views of people with serious mental health challenges persist that continue to associate those challenges with violence, incompetence and inability to recover. These negative perceptions can be internalized by people with mental health challenges in the form of self-stigma, which can heighten shame, undermine self-esteem, and impact self-efficacy. Research has shown that the effects of mental health stigma have an impact above and beyond that of symptoms. This suggests that for many people the effects of mental health stigma can be worse than the mental health challenges themselves. 

Join us for a series of events focusing on self-stigma, including the latest research on the topic and, most importantly, what providers can do to help mitigate the impact of self-stigma on people living with mental health challenges. This series will feature the work of Dr. Philip Yanos, an internationally recognized expert on mental health stigma. 

In this installment of A Mental Health Moment, Dr. Yanos will share his insights on the topic of mental health stigma with a focus on self-stigma. With many national conversations and controversies regarding mental health, Dr. Yanos will help to clarify why this is a particularly important time for behavioral health organizations and providers to implement strategies and interventions to reduce mental health stigma. He will also talk about Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy (NECT), an intervention he co-developed that focuses on reducing self-stigma.

About the Presenter: Philip T. Yanos, Ph.D., received his doctorate in clinical psychology from St. John's University (1999). Prior to joining the faculty at John Jay, he was a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry of UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Stigma and Health and the author of “Written Off: Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential” (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is the co-developer of 'Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy', a group-based treatment which addresses the effects of self-stigma among people with mental health challenges. He conducts research on stigma, self-stigma, peer support, and other factors related to the community participation of people diagnosed with severe mental health challenges. 

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With suicide being a leading cause of death in the U.S., it’s important for your entire staff to be aware of proper suicide prevention protocols. However, knowing what to do is different than doing it in the moment when face-to-face with a client expressing suicidal thoughts.

Scenario-based learning and simulation training offer a safe space for clinicians to practice their skills — something they might not receive from a traditional training course. This can help clinicians reinforce their suicide prevention skills and improve confidence when applying the same skills to a real-life situation.

Join us Friday, September 15, at 1 PM ET to hear Sara Seidel Beall, Senior Product Manager at Relias, walk you through the technology and importance of suicide prevention simulation courses.

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Please note: This webinar is a free event, and no CEUs or certificates of participation are provided. All registrants will receive a copy of the recorded webinar and slides if you cannot attend the live event.

When: Tuesday, September 19 - 10:00 AM

Duration: 1 hours

Location: Zoom

Event Details:

The Managed Care Technical Assistance Center (MCTAC), in partnership with the NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH), is hosting a live webinar to provide a general overview of expectations, training requirements and responsibilities for Non For Profit Board Members. 

In addition, the following topics will also be discussed:

• OMH overview of expectations and training requirements for board members

• Legal and fiduciary responsibilities for board members

• Review OMH audit observations as it relates to board structure, responsibilities and training

• Additional resources (including board education) will be shared & there will also be time for Q&A 

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What comes to mind when you think about care coordination? Do you picture social workers tirelessly connecting people to the right care across each case? Do you picture Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) bridging the divide between different services to improve patient outcomes? Maybe you think of health homes or patient-centered medical homes (PCMH). Since 2010 and the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the number of state Medicaid programs implementing care coordination initiatives has continued to grow.¹

Join OPEN MINDS and PsychU as we explore the trends in care coordination across the U.S. by state. Tracking of care coordination initiatives is essential as our speakers recognize the growth of these initiatives by state Medicaid program.¹ Tune into this webinar to explore whether the past 13 years of care coordination initiatives have made progress towards their goal of improving the quality of consumer care and bending the health care cost curve.

References:

1. OPEN MINDS. (2023, May 1). State Medicaid Care Coordination Initiatives: The 2019 Update. OPEN MINDS. https://openminds.com/market-intelligence/reference-guide/state-medicaid-care-coordination-initiatives-the-2019-update/

Whether a young child clings to a parent’s leg and will not enter school; has stomachaches and is often sick; or stays home and is online all day, the reasons for school attendance problems are numerous and diverse. It is clear that one size does not fit all when it comes to understanding and helping children who do not go to school.

The goal of this webinar will be to present the latest methods and research regarding how to assess school attendance problems in young people. The approaches examine the specific types and functions of school attendance problems and the factors that maintain the behavior. An assessment tool will be introduced and participants will have the opportunity to identify these factors through a vignette-based activity. The best methods to intervene will be briefly highlighted.

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After this webinar you will be able to:

1. Recognize the historical context and terminology for school attendance problems
2. Explore the characteristics of children and adolescents who do not go to school
3. Understand the functions served by school refusal behaviors
4. Identify applicable components of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment to support children and adolescents who do not go to school

Join Garfunkel Wild’s Robert A. Del Giorno and John G. Martin, on September 20, 2023, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET., for Part II of our roundtable discussion with David Traskey, the firm’s newest Partner and former Senior Counsel with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), as they delve into HHS-OIG’s inner workings, its priorities, and best practices for navigating interactions with the OIG.

Join us for our September 2023 SJLA Learning Series event!

This event will dive into the topic of expanding access to behavioral health services within underrepresented communities through the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model. CCBHC experts Jane King, Gael Thompson, and Donna Chavous will share examples of how they have worked to minimize barriers to service within their communities. This event will additionally help participants identify ways in which they can remove barriers to service access within their own community systems. 
Learning Objectives: 
•Increase knowledge of how the CCBHC model expands access to behavioral health services within underrepresented communities. 
 •Learn about how two CCBHCs expanded access to behavioral health services in their communities. 
•Identify ways in which participants can remove barriers to service access in their own local community systems. 

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