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From: MHTTC Network Coordinating Office <networkoffice@mhttcnetwork.org>
Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Subject: MHTTC Pathways - June 2024
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Share Tweet Share Forward View this email in your browser Welcome to the monthly issue of the MHTTC Pathways Newsletter! Please distribute to your contact list and encourage others to subscribe to the latest news from the MHTTC Network. Newsletter Content Pride and PTSD Awareness Month School Mental Health News: Supporting Black Students Experiencing Racial Stress and Trauma Center Spotlight: Pacific Southwest and Northwest MHTTCs Upcoming Event: Understanding the Intersectionality of Race, Culture, and Perinatal PTSD Featured Resource: MHTTCs Implementing Change (MIC) Stories Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity Happy Pride Month! The MHTTC Network is committed to celebrating and supporting the LGBTQ+ community. This month, we're shining a spotlight on inclusivity, diversity, and love for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Together, let's celebrate Pride Month by prioritizing mental health and fostering a community of acceptance and support. Access our Pride Month resource list here. June also marks Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. PTSD can affect anyone who has experienced trauma, including veterans, survivors of abuse, and individuals who have faced life-threatening events. It's more common than many realize, and PTSD often goes undiagnosed and untreated, leaving many to struggle in silence. The MHTTC Network is committed to providing support and resources for those affected by PTSD.  View our PTSD Awareness Month resource list here. The Great Lakes MHTTC held a multi-part collaboration with Black Mental Wellness to provide training and support for school systems and school-based mental health providers working with Black students experiencing racial stress and trauma. 2 live webinars occurred in April and May 2024 with the recordings and slides now available. The webinars focused on existing policies within school systems and assessing how those policies impact access to equitable and high quality mental and behavioral health care for communities of color. They provided attendees with strategies for how to support students who are coping with complex cultural issues in developmentally appropriate ways. Small group consultation calls have also been scheduled with the trainers throughout June, July, and August 2024 (six calls per group). These calls will provide a safe space for mental health providers to address challenges in their current therapeutic practices, learn additional culturally responsive practices, and support providers in discussing racial stressors while building trust and connection with youth. Our MHTTC Network includes 10 Regional Centers and a Network Coordinating Office for a total of 11 Centers. In this section of our newsletter, we highlight the work of two featured Centers for the month.   Learn more about each below and click here to find the Center that serves your Region.    The Pacific Southwest MHTTC serves the priorities of SAMHSA Region 9 states and territories, including Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and U.S. Pacific Islands of American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. We offer a collaborative MHTTC model in order to provide training, technical assistance (TTA), and resource dissemination that supports the mental health workforce to adopt and effectively implement evidence-based practices (EBPs) across the mental health continuum of care. The Pacific Southwest MHTTC also provides TTA and resources at a national level on our specialty area of youth and young adults of transition age. Our Center provides services that are responsive to workforce requests and consistent with SAMHSA priorities. Our programming method is organized within a framework of four programmatic themes that include Leadership & Workforce Development; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging; Services and Supports for Youth and Young Adults of Transition Age, and Rising Practices & Policies in Mental Health and School Mental Health.   Current Work: Provider Plática Learning Collaborative: Supporting the Training Needs of Practitioners of Spanish Language Mental Health Services: In response to many requests for a bilingual space for mental health providers, the Pacific Southwest MHTTC teamed up with the National Training & Technical Assistance Center to host Provider Plática, a bilingual and collaborative space for peer learning and resourcing. Facilitated by our Associate Director Kristi Silva, this eight-session series enables the mental health workforce to share common challenges and opportunities for providing services to Spanish-speaking communities with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) as well as high-quality resources and innovative solutions. Click here to see a Padlet of rich, in-depth resources Ms. Silva has curated as part of the program’s enrichment materials. Please spread the word about this program, and join us for the June 25th session and any upcoming sessions this summer. Safety, Compassion, and Dignity: A One-Day Symposium on Harm Reduction, Healing Justice, and Mental Health Approaches: May 7th is International Harm Reduction Day. The Pacific Southwest MHTTC hosted a full-day symposium that explored how harm reduction policies, programs, and practices can minimize stigma and discrimination and maximize respect, health, and self-direction. The workshop provided clinical strategies for helping clients who self-harm. A panel of people with lived experience offered insights into how harm reduction can benefit patients when successfully integrated into mental health treatment. A regional spotlight panel highlighted innovative harm reduction work being developed and implemented across Region 9. View the speaker lineup, full program notes, and slide deck on the event page. Additionally, the recordings can be viewed by clicking here for Part 1, and here for Part 2. Rooting Young Adult Mental Health Services in Culturally Sustaining Values & Practices: Co-facilitated by the Pacific Southwest MHTTC’s Youth & Young Adult Program Team Lead, Oriana Ides, with Falilah Bilal, this four-part series deepened practitioner’s ability to provide healing care to transitional-aged young people accessing mental health and community-based services. Through generative conversation, expert panel discussions, active learning experiences, and tangible action steps, the series supported those who work with transitional aged youth with strategies to adopt a more culturally sustaining and affirming approach. Sessions amplified the ways in which a healing-centered approach dismantles the notion that trauma is simply an individual, isolated experience, while highlighting the ways trauma and healing are experienced collectively.   The Northwest MHTTC is honored to serve Region 10: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Our Area of Focus for the network is evidence-based practices (EBPs) for psychosis, including CBTp (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis) and ACT (Assertive Community Treatment). We also have faculty & staff expertise in integrated care, public behavioral health, social justice, and inclusion, and more.  Our Center is housed within the University of Washington (UW) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. As we round the corner on our yearly training plan, we are as busy as ever, bringing new and familiar expertise to events and projects.   Current Work: Learning Series: We are offering several learning series, with topics including ACT Psychiatric Care Providers, Sexual Health in Recovery, Culturally Informed Crisis Support, Pain Psychology Approaches in Therapy, Cultural Humility and Responsiveness, and Motivation in Mental Health Recovery. Upcoming Conferences: Our Center is participating in several upcoming conferences, including the UW Integrated Care Training Programs Annual Conference, the annual Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference with a session sharing our partnership to provide Indigenized Motivational Interviewing to providers serving Native/Tribal communities, and on the planning committee for the annual UW Behavioral Health Institute’s Racial Equity & Social Justice Conference. Northwest Positive Behavior Intervention & Supports (NWPBIS) Conference: In late April, our School Mental Health (SMH) supplement continued its sponsorship of the annual NWPBIS conference’s school mental health strand. Northwest MHTTC SMH faculty and staff presented to over 1,200 educators from throughout the Pacific Northwest through the opening keynote address, four intensive institutes, and six sessions.  Our MHTTC website has several great features including a searchable Products and Resources Catalog that includes free curricula, fact sheets, recorded webinars, and other resources in addition to our Training and Events Calendar that lists all of the training and TA events across the Network. Below we highlight a featured product and some of our upcoming events. Upcoming Event: June 12 The Central East MHTTC partnered with Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. (AHP) to develop a four-session virtual training series that aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), specifically in the context of Black and Latinx mothers. Session 1, Understanding the Intersectionality of Race, Culture, and Perinatal PTSD, will focus on the relationship between racial and culture-based inequality and adverse perinatal mental health outcomes of these mothers. Learn more and register here. Featured Resource! To illustrate the intensive training and technical assistance projects our Network conducts around the country, we developed our MHTTCs Implementing Change (MIC) Stories. This series features examples of implementation projects that led to a significant change in practice. 10 stories are related to School Mental Health projects while the other 10 are related to general mental health topics, for a total of 20 stories. Access these special highlights here.  Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity The Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity provides behavioral health practitioners with vital information on supporting the population of people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, two-spirit, and other diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions. Below is a snapshot of resources they are offering in observance of Pride Month. The Center of Excellence has partnered with Mid-America PTTC's Prevention Perk podcast to bring you four unique podcast episodes all about different ways you can improve your practice and support the LGBTQ+ people in your life. With new episodes dropping every Thursday, join us each week on a journey of learning together: Week 1: Why Focus on LGBTQ+ People? Disparities & Resilience Week 2: Supporting LGBTQ+ Older Adults & Understanding Historical Trauma Week 3: We Have to Support Families of LGBTQ+ People Week 4: What is Gender Affirming Care? The Center of Excellence released a new 2-module e-learning series, Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Data in Behavioral Health Settings! This e-learning series describes why and how to collect Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data in behavioral health settings. Module 1 will focus on why it is important to collect SOGI data. Module 2 will provide a deeper dive into practical aspects of SOGI data collection. The Center of Excellence developed a downloadable Pride Month graphic you can share on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, or in emails to get the word out to your colleagues who want to know more about how to support LGBTQ+ people across the lifespan. Check out our MHTTC website and make sure to follow us on social media! It's just another way to stay up to date with MHTTC Network news and more! MHTTC Network networkoffice@mhttcnetwork.org

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