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Webinar: Part 1 Monday, December 2, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Webinar: Part 2 Wednesday, December 3, 2024, from 3 to 5 p.m.
Washington Health Care Authority (HCA) is holding a two-day training course for supportive housing providers.
The supportive housing benefit under the Foundational Community Supports (FCS) program is based on the federal evidence-based and research-based Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) model, Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH).
Please join this two-part webinar to learn how the principles of Permanent Supportive Housing are implemented within FCS programs.
Objectives
- Review the FCS program
- Review key principles of the SAMHSA permanent supportive housing model
- Understand fidelity goals under FCS
- Learn what it is like to participate in fidelity reviews
- Develop skills to be a fidelity reviewer
- Learn interview and charting techniques for fidelity scoring
This opportunity was made possible through partnership with Advocates for Human Potential.
Sessions 5: Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at 11:30 a.m.
The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) Foundational Community Supports (FCS) program invites you to this ongoing series that offers you the opportunity to share your thoughts and feedback regarding the supportive housing fidelity reviews.
We look forward to reflecting on the experiences of our reviewers and engaging in an open discussion about the overall process.
Objectives
- Overall participation in review process
- Learned lessons
- Suggestions for change
- Obstacles and benefits to participating
Let's come together for a discussion that will shape the future of supportive housing!
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Wednesday, December 11, 2024, at noon
Community mental health workers are at high risk of burnout. Although the work is deeply rewarding, the nature of the work is emotionally and mentally taxing. Paired with personal stressors, the need for incorporating self-care strategies becomes a necessity for maintaining professional effectiveness, personal well-being, and long-term sustainability in the field. To support supportive housing staff, this webinar will explore practical strategies, common barriers to self-care, and how supportive housing staff can incorporate self-care into their daily routines to improve overall health and quality of life.
Objectives
- Describe the importance of self-care for health and wellness
- Identify challenges common to supportive housing workers that contribute to stress and burnout
- Recognize how to implement self-care strategies into daily and weekly routines
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Thursday, December 12, 2024, at 9 a.m.
This December webinar will aide in supporting both job seekers in their job searches and providers in their job development efforts. As job development requires an understanding of a company’s culture, it becomes increasingly important to gauge a company’s diversity and inclusion practices and policies. Being able to understand and evaluate company culture will better align job seekers with potential fits.
Objectives
- Review the benefits of understanding a potential company’s diversity and inclusion practices in job matching
- Describe ways to assist job seekers with learning about a company’s diversity and inclusion practices
- Discuss the past month’s successes and challenges with providing employment services for support from others on the call
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Friday, December 13, 2024, at 11:30 a.m.
Join in a session on the Apple Health and Homes Rental Assistance Program (AHAH-RAP), a vital component of Washington State’s Apple Health and Homes initiative. This multi-agency effort integrates healthcare services with housing resources to support vulnerable residents.
AHAH-RAP provides rental assistance to eligible Foundational Community Supports Supportive Housing (FCS-SH) enrollees, helping them achieve stable housing. Eligible FCS-SH participants may be entered into a drawing to receive tenant-based rental assistance (TBRA) through the Department of Commerce’s Office of Apple Health and Homes. This webinar is tailored for providers working with clients who may qualify for AHAH-RAP subsidies, offering practical guidance to support successful housing outcomes.
Objectives
- Learn about AHAH-RAP as one component of the AHAH Initiatives
- Understand the difference between AHAH-RAP’s TBRA and PBRA vouchers
- Understand eligibility requirements for AHAH-RAP and how to enter the AHAH-RAP drawing pool
- Understand post-award process leading to lease-up and fidelity considerations for AHAH-RAP tenants
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar series: Mondays (dates specified below) from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
This four-part Motivational Interviewing (MI) series provides practitioners with valuable tools and resources to utilize MI in their services. MI is an evidence-based practice used in various settings to assist individuals in making behavior changes and achieving goals. It focuses on exploring and resolving ambivalence and is geared toward understanding and enhancing internal motivations that facilitate change. Unlike many other techniques, MI is designed for people at the earlier stages of change (pre-contemplation, contemplation), where most people are. By placing listening ahead of “fixing”, we facilitate the therapeutic relationship and come closer to a course of action that will work for the person making a change.
Each session will provide its own focus and training.
Session 1 (Monday, November 4, 2024) focused on defining MI and its use in behavioral health services and describing the role of providers in facilitating, including examining our communication styles. Additionally, session one examined the spirit of MI and describe how these four elements contribute to positive change.
Session 2 (Monday, November 25, 2024): Focused on describing the four processes of MI and differentiating between sustain and change talk. We will review the MI techniques of open-ended questions, affirmations, and simple reflections
Session 3 (Monday, December 2, 2024): Build upon the techniques learned in Session 2, including introducing complex reflections and summaries.
Objectives
- Differentiate between types of complex reflections
- Use complex reflections in a “real” play
- Describe various types of summaries
Session 4 (Monday, December 16, 2024): Cover the elements of the continuum of change, also known as the stages of change model, and describe the connection between the continuum of change and MI. Additionally, attendees will identify how to best support someone in the change process based on their stage of change.
Objectives
- Identify the elements of the continuum of change
- Describe the connection between the continuum of change and motivational interviewing
- Demonstrate how to best support someone in the change process based on place in the continuum
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Tuesday, December 17, 2024, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
This 90-minute webinar will equip behavioral health professionals with a comprehensive understanding of how to provide affirming and supportive services to individuals of diverse gender and affectional identities, including those within the LGBTQIA+ community.
Participants will explore best practices for cultural humility when working with individuals within the LGBTQIA+ community, learning how to integrate inclusive language and services into their practice. Case studies and applied activities will allow participants to develop practical skills to provide gender-affirming and affectional identity-supportive services with a focus on fostering safe, respectful, and inclusive therapeutic environments.
Objectives
- Define key terms related to gender and affectional identity.
- Identify best practices for integrating gender-affirming care and supportive affectional identity practices into service delivery.
- Apply gender and affectional identity-affirming principles through case study discussions and real-world scenarios, developing culturally responsive approaches.
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Tuesday, December 19, 2024, from 8:30 to 10 a.m.
Employment specialists may need to be better equipped in how to best provide job supports in the most respectful and least intrusive way. This two-part webinar provides tips and resources on how to effectively provide onsite supports and job coaching while also encouraging the use of natural supports, such as coworkers and others, on the job.
Objectives
- Define onsite supports and job coaching
- Assess the need for onsite supports
- Apply best practice onsite support strategies
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Tuesday, January 8, 2025, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Many individuals receiving supportive housing services report experiencing traumatic experiences throughout their lifetime. Due to the high incidence of these experiences, supportive housing staff should increase their knowledge and awareness of how traumatic experiences can impact service recipients.
This webinar will deepen your understanding of trauma and provide you with the knowledge, skills, and practical tools necessary to effectively support individuals receiving supportive housing services. Whether you are working with clients in crisis, individuals with long-term trauma histories, or vulnerable populations facing ongoing challenges, this webinar will equip you to recognize, address, and respond to trauma in a compassionate and trauma-informed way.
Objectives
- Define trauma, the types of trauma, and causes of trauma
- Learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma
- Discuss techniques to support individuals in creating safety and stabilization
- Review skills to implement trauma-informed care strategies and interventions
Presented by The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) in partnership with Rutgers Department Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Webinar: Tuesday, January 21, 2025, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Whether explicit or implicit, we all have biases – unsupported assumptions about people, groups, or things. Dr. Mahzarin Banaji, author of Blind Spots: Hidden Biases of Good People, points out, “We’d like to believe we are open-minded, fair, and without bias, but research shows otherwise. This is an important, even if uncomfortable, realization for most of us.” While these biases aren’t always negative, implicit bias can make us susceptible to unintentionally acting in ways inconsistent with our values and potentially detrimental to personal and professional relationships. Even though you do not choose to have implicit biases, you can choose to be aware of them and combat their effects via awareness and conscious decision-making.
Objectives
- Recognize implicit bias and why it matters
- Identify sources of implicit biases
- Accept the responsibility to identify and understand your implicit biases
- Identify strategies for combating implicit biases
The following story was submitted by Brittany Burgard with Coastal CAP.
In January of 2023, PJ completed DOC and relocated to Grays’s Harbor for a fresh start with his recovery. Here is his story.
While experiencing homelessness and walking around town to fill my time, I was introduced to reentry coordinator Richard Kenney who was able to encourage and educate me on how to get state benefits and resources that would help me towards stability. He supported me with getting connected with FCS supported employment, as well as the Re-Entry Program.
Once enrolled in FCS, I was given support with finding housing and employment. I started working weekly with my employment specialist, Brittney, towards my employment goals as well as my whole health wellness goals including mental health, SUD, and primary care. I was supported with pre-employment prep including resume building, interviewing skills, and job developing. I was given the encouragement and care that I needed to boost my confidence in my abilities by focusing on my strengths and learning how to problem solve.
I had the opportunity to volunteer with Coastal Community Action Program at their annual Point in Time community connect event. At that event, I connected with community members who were experiencing barriers I had previously experienced including homelessness, substance abuse, mental health, and incarceration. From that experience I was inspired and motivated to pursue my passion for helping my peers.
From there I met with my employment specialist, and we began working towards my goal of becoming a certified peer counselor and obtaining employment in human services. I completed the online prerequisites through the HCA and applied for the in-person training. While waiting for the training, my employment specialist was able to connect me with other resources and coordinated with the WIAO program to get me additional supports. I was accepted into their WEX program and offered a paid internship. My employment specialist was able to support me and guide me on how to develop my internship with Coastal Community Action Program.
I interviewed with Jennifer Gonzales, the re-entry program specialist, and Cache McCullum, the HCS housing manager, and was offered the paid internship with CCAP. I was so motivated, encouraged, and supported, I hit the ground running, I had awesome job coaching and team support. This opportunity gave me the hands-on experience I needed towards a career in the field. While working at my paid internship, I was able to accomplish my goals from when I started the program.
I got my peer support certification, a car, an apartment, I got approved for my SSI benefits, and I got engaged! I was offered benefits planning and education to be informed on how working can affect my SSI benefits. After completing my 6 weeks of the paid internship through WEX, I was offered a permanent, full-time position with the re-entry team at Coastal Community Action Program as a jail re-entry coordinator. I get to work with peers that are currently incarcerated and those just reentering the community by supporting them with resources for housing, wrap around services, treatment services, and mainly just being there for them. Every time I get to help a peer, I think of how I was given that support, and knowing I had someone there for me when I was hurting for help.
The FCS supported employment program, the Re-Entry Program, and Coastal Community Action in general has been a huge part of my success and stability in my recovery! All the support encouraged me to change my thinking to knowing I could recover and reach my goals; it made me stay sober.
I now have one year and four months of being clean of alcohol, six years and two days of being clean of cocaine and methamphetamine. I am a leader in the recovery community in our area, I continue to connect with my peers through outpatient treatment, and sober living. I love my job, and my team, you guys saved my life. Without the support of the FCS program and my employment specialist I would be homeless, actively using, not taking care of my mental health, and either ending up in prison again or dead. I promote this program any chance I get, I know it changes lives, it changed mine!
-PJ
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