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April 17, 2023
The Child and Family Behavioral Health (CFBH) unit at Oregon Health Authority (OHA) focuses on children, and young people through age 25 and their families.
For youth, families and community: Discover opportunities give us your thoughts and opinions, get support, training and to connect with each another.
For providers: Find trainings and opportunities to connect with other system providers and peers.
In this issue ...
A Time for Families – Help us improve Oregon’s child and family behavioral health system by telling us about your experiences
Weekly drop-in hour for parents and family members
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Do you have questions about getting the right services for your child? Share your questions and concerns about mental health and addiction services for children and young people.
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How can we better support your family? Share suggestions for how OHA can support youth, young adults, and their families to help them get the right service at the right time for the duration needed.
The call is hosted by the CFBH Director Chelsea Holcomb, and the System of Care Policy Strategist, Hilary Harrison, who is also a family member. A representative from the Reach Out Oregon Parent Warmline attends and is available follow-up with specific immediate concerns.
Please contact hilary.harrison@oha.oregon.gov if you have questions or need interpretation services.
Warmline
Reach Out Oregon, funded by OHA as part of Oregon Family Support Network, has a warm line at 833-732-2467, a website, a chat room for any family member needing support and a weekly virtual support group.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) training opportunities
ASIST is a two-day suicide intervention training focused on helping individuals as young as 16 years old to prevent suicide. The interactive workshop teaches the skills needed to recognize youths who may be at risk of suicide, including identifying warning signs of suicide, providing a skilled intervention, and developing a safety plan. Below is a series of ASIST training opportunities that are open to the public:
Incite Agency for Change has an RSVP list on their site to help determine need, sign up if you are interested in a training
Lane County
Here are two trainings at Lane Education Service District in Eugene, Oregon:
Visit Oregon ASIST website for other trainings and more information.
Finding Balance: A Summit on Youth Wellbeing – Save the Date
Save the date! Thursday, May 11 is OFSN’s Children’s Mental Health Acceptance Day event.
The month of May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month. The second week of May (May 7-13 this year) is Children’s Mental Health Acceptance Week. OFSN is an organization that focuses on families with children who experience mental or behavioral health challenges. Acceptance is found when people advocate and act to change the attitudes, behaviors and systems.
This year you can join them in increasing awareness and acceptance of mental health, participate and engage in methods of how to advocate at local and state levels, and finally, recognize and celebrate advocates that continue to fight and create change in Oregon’s children’s mental health.
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Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023
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Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Cost: FREE event
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Where: Salem, Oregon
What: Resource fair, guest speakers and open mic, lunch (registration required), activities, legislative training session
More details coming soon, go to OFSN’s site for more information. Registration should open soon.
Are you a community partner and interested in tabling at the event? Please contact Britneigh Hammill, OFSN's Communications and Outreach Manager, at britneighh@ofsn.net to receive a registration form and/or check availability.
Youth Engagement Power Hour
In partnership with OHA and youth leaders, the Healthy Transitions Project Team at Portland State University is kicking off the first Youth Engagement Power Hour. The purpose of this series is to give youth and young adults a platform that elevates their voices and creates a space where their advocacy and lived experience will inform work within the mental health system of care. Workers of all roles within the mental health system of care are encouraged to attend. After each event, tool kits, and skills created by expert youth leaders will be emailed to attendees to encourage continued collaboration and connection.
The first presentation will take place on April 20 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom with the Early Assessment Support Alliance's (EASA) Southern Oregon Young Adult Leadership Council (YALC) to talk about their experiences with the EASA program, ongoing youth advocacy efforts, and the importance of youth engagement and lived experience within mental health services. Register by following this link.
EASA is a network of programs and individuals across Oregon who are focused on providing rapid identification, support, assessment and treatment for teenagers and young adults who are experiencing the early signs of psychosis. Council members of YALC are youth and young adults with lived experience with psychosis-related diagnoses. YALC strives to educate and engage communities on mental health experiences, risks, and treatment.
Other upcoming Youth Power Hours:
The Oregon Youth Resource Map: May 4, 4 to 5:30 p.m.
The Oregon Youth Resource Map is a website designed to help young people and their allies connect to youth serving resources, organizations, and leadership opportunities. It serves as a wide-ranging collection of youth-accessible, youth-facing, youth-friendly resources curated and vetted by young people themselves.
This tool was developed by young people with lived experience in mental health services and systems in our state. These young leaders were convened as part of Healthy Transitions Oregon, a federal grant that is working to improve services for transition age youth with significant mental health challenges. In this Power Hour, they are welcoming the youth and organizational partners who have raised awareness of this tool. Discussion will center around best practices for youth engagement and how they have been implemented into the creation and ongoing development of the website. Sign up through this link to attend.
A Theory of Change for One-on-One Peer Support for Older Adolescents and Young Adults: May 18, 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Young adults with experience in providing and participating in peer support are part of a national research project that aims to more clearly define how and why peer support produces positive outcomes. The project is also developing trainings for peer support specialists and their supervisors.
In this Power Hour, Dr. Janet Walker and the young people involved in the project will discuss the background of the project and the "theory of change" that was developed as well as skills and top challenges for peer support specialists as they work with young adults, and key needs for supervision, training and organizational support. Sign up to attend via this link.
Please reach out to Nikobi Petronelli at nikobi.petronelli@oha.oregon.gov or Shannon Marble at marble3@pdx.edu with any questions or opportunities to collaborate.
System of Care Learning Collaborative
Every second Tuesday of the month, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., OFSN, Youth Era, OHA and the System of Care Advisory Council facilitate a conversation for people involved in Oregon’s local System of Care. The Learning Collaborative is an engaging space for anyone involved with SOC to openly discuss challenges, solutions, and build a community with folks across Oregon. Attendees are encouraged to bring their questions to the collaborative and get support from each other. OHA, Youth Era and OFSN attend as consultants and trainers to offer additional and specific support outside of the collaborative.
Contact Christy Hudson at christy.j.hudson@oha.oregon.gov for more details.
Alcohol Awareness Month
In honor of Alcohol Awareness Month, Rethink the Drink is hosting several training opportunities to learn together with partners across Oregon. While they will focus on alcohol as an example in some trainings, they invite any partner to join to build skills to support their communities.
News media training
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When: April 20, 10:30 a.m. to noon
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What: In this session Sue and Lance from Coates Kokes, the media contractor for Rethink the Drink, will help train partners on pitching your story to news media and preparing for news interviews.
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How: Register here
Rethink the Drink Evaluation Release and Celebration
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When: April 27, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
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What: Rethink the Drink is a first of its kind brand. OHA worked with RMC Research to evaluate how the first campaign last summer affected people in Oregon. Join this session to be among the first people to hear the results from this evaluation. We will review the qualitative and quantitative findings and celebrate the monumental achievement of investing in communications research to address excessive alcohol use in Oregon.
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How: Register here
Advanced skills trainings, Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs (AOCMHP)
These trainings are for mental health providers serving those struggling with suicidal thoughts, ideation or behaviors.
Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT)
ABFT is an empirically informed family therapy model specifically designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent suicide and depression.
- April 24-26, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Register by following this link
These trainings can be accessed at no cost by contacting Maria Gdontakis Pos at mpos@aocmhp.org or by visiting the AOCMHP training web page.
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) instructor training for bilingual Spanish candidates
AOCMHP is hosting an MHFA instructor training with grant funding from OHA. This train the trainer event will be held April 24 through 26 in Salem. This training will be in English, with opportunity for candidates to get the Spanish designation to be able to offer Spanish language trainings. They are recruiting candidates that are bilingual Spanish behavioral health staff and includes peers.
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Dates: April 24-26
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Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day
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Location: Salem, venue to be determined
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Cost: FREE, hosted by AOCMHP with funding from OHA (valued at $2,500) to train 16 candidates.
If you are interested in attending, please complete the interest form. This interest form doesn't guarantee attendance. Seats are limited for this training. We will send a confirmation email for those approved to attend. Please ensure you can attend all dates of the training and seek supervisor approval when necessary. Candidates are required to attend all three days. There is some online self-paced pre-work required prior to attending. Once candidates successfully complete the program, they will be equipped to conduct the training.
If you have any questions, please email Maria Gdontakis Pos at mpos@aocmhp.org.
Free Youth SAVE community trainings
AOCMHP is offering several Youth SAVE (Suicide Assessment in Various Environments) trainings at no cost (normally a $250 value) as a part of a statewide effort to expand training capacity.
Here is the schedule for the next few two day, half day sessions. All sessions are 8:30 a.m. to Noon Pacific Time, both days.
These trainings are youth-provider focused suicide intervention trainings for anyone with some behavioral health experience (e.g., peers, QMHAs). The training offers 7.25 National Association of Social Workers continuing education credits and meets the Adi’s Act training requirements. Several more trainings are coming soon.
If you have any question about the training, please contact Tim Glascock, Statewide ASIST/Youth SAVE Coordinator at tglascock@aocmhp.org.
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Trainer Learning Collaborative
Every third Wednesday of the month at 1 p.m., AOCMHP hosts a BIPOC Trainer Learning Collaborative. This space is dedicated to BIPOC instructors, trainers and facilitators who focus on mental health, suicide prevention, and opioid misuse. The collaborative is facilitated by Multnomah County Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Canada Taylor Parker, and African Americans Reach & Teach Health Lead Program Coordinator Angeilea' Yancey-Watson. Learn how to identify and decrease barriers to access to trainings and overall health care.
The discussions focus on:
- Best practices for optimizing trainings
- Networking with other BIPOC instructors/facilitator
- Increasing accessibility to relevant community-based trainings
- Other topics and discussions to support Oregon trainers
Click here to join the Zoom meeting.
Contact facilitators Canada Taylor Parker at canada.taylor.parker@multco.us or Angeilea' Yancey-Watson at angeileay@aarth.org with any questions.
To be added to the calendar invite, please email Maria Pos at mpos@aocmhp.org.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy certification training
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment to help children and adolescents recover after trauma. Research shows that the therapy successfully resolves a broad array of emotional and behavioral difficulties associated with single, multiple and complex trauma experiences. This is a structured, short-term treatment model that effectively improves a range of trauma-related outcomes in eight to 25 sessions with the child/youth and caregiver.
Dr. Alicia Meyer, a national trainer in TF-CBT and a global trainer in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, is offering several two-day online trainings from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., for clinicians to become certified. The training is free for people sponsored by OHA; for others it is $500. OHA sponsored participants can sign up under the OHA Registration section of the website (scroll to the last section of page). To qualify as an OHA sponsored participant you must work in Oregon and hold a license or certification (e.g. QMHP, LCSW, LPC, LPC-A).
Upcoming training dates:
For more information, including prerequisites and required reading materials, visit Dr. Meyer’s website. The prerequisite TF-CBT course costs $35, offers 11 continuing education units and must be completed prior to the two-day training.
If you have any questions about the training, please contact tfcbt@aliciasplace.org.
Collaborative Problem Solving
OHA funded The Child Center to help families strengthen positive relationships and build the skills needed for success at home, at school, in the community and throughout life.
Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) is a philosophy based on the understanding that youth with challenging behaviors may have delays in the development of skills in five different areas needed to adaptively solve problems and make decisions in their lives. CPS works to strengthen existing skills and teach them skills to do better in their environment; the philosophy is that “Kids do well if they can.”
The Child Center:
- Offers free CPS classes to people throughout Oregon. Sessions are once a week for eight weeks.
- Is focused on providing services to seven regions in Oregon that have limited mental health provider resources.
For more information, please visit The Child Center’s website and share widely with families and communities.
Oregon Counseling on Access to Lethal Means
Oregon CALM is an Oregon-adapted curriculum of the national Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) course. This is a 6-hour training developed to assist health care and direct service providers. It covers who needs lethal means counseling and how to work with people at risk for suicide — and their families — to reduce access.
Oregon CALM has been adapted from the National CALM curriculum to incorporate components of Addressing Firearm Safety with Patients at Risk of Suicide: A Couse for Healthcare Providers in Rural Areas and research with Oregon rural firearm owners. Oregon CALM is a suicide prevention training that is neither anti-gun nor anti-medication.
After completing this course, you will:
- Understand why means matter, as evidenced by local and national data and current relevant research
- Know the most effective and culturally appropriate ways to address lethal means with firearms owners
- Have increased confidence in conducting lethal means counseling related to firearms, medications, and other means with clients at risk of suicide
Audience:This training is not intended for the general public. Oregon CALM is developed to assist health care and direct service providers who work with individuals who may be at risk of suicide:
- Primary care and physical health providers
- Mental and behavioral health providers
- Peer support workers
- Case managers
- Social service professionals
These trainings are being offered as part of OHA’s Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To learn more about the Oregon CALM training, visit: http://www.aocmhp.org/oregon-calm-ocalm/.
To find some current available Oregon CALM trainings, follow this link.
To learn more or to access the national CALM training, follow this link.
Please contact Kris Bifulco at AOCMHP for more information at kbifulco@aocmhp.org.
Question Persuade Refer (QPR):
QPR Training for Trainers
Virtual training:
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Contact QPR@linesforlife.org for more information.
Sources of Strength
Virtual info sessions (elementary and secondary models):
- May 4, 8 to 9 a.m.
- Register by following this link.
Elementary coaches training
- April 19-20 (Centennial School District, registration coming soon)
Register for all sessions and find more information at the Sources of Strength website.
For feedback and suggestions for our newsletter and information: kids.team@dhsoha.state.or.us
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