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May 15, 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.
UPLIFT by Youth Era
Explore your own personal power and get ready to uplift your peers while claiming your community. This virtual 360° interactive experience is custom built for youth and young adults. This event will motivate, empower, and support you to change the lives of those around you.
For more than ten years, Youth Era has passionately pursued the answers to the questions, “What skills help us improve relationships?” and “How can we create lasting change within ourselves and others?”
Through years of training and development, they have narrowed down the fundamental tools and strategies to help peers overcome challenges and reach their full potential.
Uplift is packed with engaging lectures, challenging discussions, and impactful activities. You will take yourself to the next level and make a commitment to bettering yourself and those around you.
The next two trainings are:
- May 26-28 from 5 to 8 p.m. on day one and then 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on days two and three.
- June 27-30, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day
Learn more and register for upcoming dates. Scholarships are currently open to Oregon youth, ages 14 through 20.
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 has a training at Lane Education Service District in Eugene, Oregon:
Visit Oregon ASIST website for other trainings and more information.
Youth Engagement Power Hour
In partnership with OHA and youth leaders, the Healthy Transitions Project Team at Portland State University hosts the Youth Engagement Power Hour webinar series.
- The series offers 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, attendees will receive tool kits and skills created by expert youth leaders to encourage continued collaboration and connection.
Join the next Youth Power Hour: A Theory of Change for One-on-One Peer Support for Older Adolescents and Young Adults, May 18, from 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.
Save the date! Mental Health Approaches to Intellectual/Developmental Disability (I/DD) training
National Association for the Dually Diagnosed will be in Oregon August 7-10, providing training to better support individuals dually diagnosed with mental health conditions and I/DD.
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Monday and Tuesday, August 7 and 8 – Clinical track for therapists, social workers, and other Qualified Mental Health Professionals (QMHPs)
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Wednesday, August 9 – Track for foster parents and host home parents within the Oregon Department of Human Services Office of Developmental Disabilities Services system
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Thursday, August 10 – Direct support track for Personal Support Workers, Direct Support Professionals, Skill Trainers, and other Qualified Mental Health Associate (QMHA)-level professionals
All trainings will be free of cost and held at the Oregon Garden Resort in Silverton, Oregon. More details and registration coming soon!
Please reach out to Jessica Stout at jessica.l.stout@oha.oregon.gov with any questions.
Youth mental health and climate change workshop
OHA is convening this virtual workshop on Monday, May 22 from 1 to 4 p.m., as a follow up to the 2022 Climate Change and Youth Mental Health report. The report examined the impact of climate change on youth mental health and offered recommendations.
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Collaboration:
A goal of this workshop is to connect with one another and identify ways to collaborate. You can expect to meet youth climate advocates and people working with youth from the following sectors:
- Climate advocacy
- Education
- Mental health
- Natural resources
- Public health
Workshop agenda:
- Revisit OHA’s report findings and recommendations
- Hear from young climate advocates
- Share out the relevant work already happening in Oregon
- Identify potential collaborations moving forward
Register by following this link. You can also email climate.health@odhsoha.state.or.us with any questions.
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.
Advanced skills trainings, Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs (AOCMHP)
AOCMHP offers several advanced skills trainings for mental health providers serving those struggling with suicidal thoughts, ideation or behaviors. For example, they offer Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT), an empirically informed family therapy model specifically designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent suicide and depression. Visit the AOCMHP training web page to learn about other trainings.
They are currently scheduling future trainings, please fill out this Advanced Skills Interest Form to request trainings you’d like to attend. These trainings can be accessed at no cost by contacting 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 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:
Sign up at Lines for Life Events | Eventbrite.
Contact QPR@linesforlife.org for more information.
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