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August 15, 2023
The Child and Family Behavioral Health (CFBH) team at Oregon Health Authority (OHA) focuses on children and young people through age 25, and their families.
For youth, families and community: Discover opportunities to give us your thoughts and opinions, get support and training, and 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 to 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. 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:
Clinical consultation on intellectual/developmental disability (I/DD) and mental health – Change to monthly meeting date
OHA sponsors a monthly clinical consultation with experts from the National Association of Dually Diagnosed (NADD). The consultation focuses on supporting youth and families dually diagnosed with an I/DD and mental health condition. This a great time for clinicians or other professionals to get consultation about best practice for supporting dually diagnosed youth and their families.
We originally scheduled these calls for the second Thursday of the month. Instead, they are now held on the third Thursday of each month.
Join us Thursday, August 17 from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Meeting ID: 294 301 803 522 Passcode: hzsLSE
- Join by phone (audio only): 971-277-2343 then 531655908#
- Topic: First Symptoms—How to recognize emerging mental health conditions for youth with an IDD
Upcoming consultation dates:
For more information, questions, or to submit a consultation request, please contact Jessica Stout at jessica.l.stout@oha.oregon.gov.
Interdisciplinary Assessment Teams — Expedited Assessment Services for Youth (EASY)
OHA's EASY demonstration project has already helped support psychological testing for several youth. This new program will respond to goals set out in Senate Bill 1 (2019) to provide rapid access to evaluation, assessment and recommendations for complex youth — especially those who are in child welfare custody and are in temporary lodging, emergency department boarding, shelter care, county juvenile facilities or in the custody of Oregon Youth Authority.
EASY provides quick access to full psychological and assessment services within seven to 10 days of referral. It includes:
- A full review of clinical documents,
- Determination of need for psychological testing,
- Psychological testing,
- Communication with current clinical providers and
- When appropriate, coordination with local Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities intake screening departments.
EASY can be mobile and meet the youth in the community, either in person or via telehealth. In some situations, a full psychological evaluation may be all a youth and family need to get on the right path to the services they need.
Initial results have been very promising. EASY has provided much needed clarity by identifying an emerging mental health condition and recommending appropriate mental health services.
If you would like to learn more about EASY, or if you would like to request this service, please visit the EASY web page. This service is available to all youth, regardless of insurance status. Anyone may fill out the request form, including:
- Youth, family members and representatives,
- Mental and behavioral health providers,
- Medical health providers
If you are interested in learning more about this work, please contact John Linn at john.r.linn@oha.oregon.gov.
System of Care Learning Collaborative
Every second Tuesday of the month, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., the Oregon Family Support Network (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 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.
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.
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.
For feedback and suggestions for our newsletter and information: kids.team@oha.oregon.gov.
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