CBHL Members: Join us for a semi-informal dialogue to meet one another, learn more about upcoming activities and ways to be involved, and to share your recommendations for how CBHL can support you this year.

From New York to California, policies are being implemented which lead to the increased use of forced treatment orders, reverting to policies of years past.  Attempts to address community challenges around homelessness, poverty, and crime are often conflated with mental health challenges and regarded as public safety versus public health issues.  This leads to strategies resulting in involuntary hospitalizations and incarcerations.  There are numerous research findings demonstrating the damaging, discriminating, and inequitable effects of forced treatment, so why are policymakers reverting to these policies?

Join the dialogue on February 23 at 9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET to de-construct non-compliance and explore a counterargument to forced treatment. 

At our February Member Roundtable, Deconstructing Non-Compliance and Exploring a Counterargument to Forced Treatment, the role of families and/or close relationships was raised as critical to avoiding the conflation of public health with public safety issues. The deep divide around these important issues seem to preempt potential collaboration that could strengthen wanted and needed change. For our March Roundtable, we are going to continue this thread of conversation.

At our March Member Roundtable, we discussed opportunities for families, consumers, and advocates to join forces and align around areas to collaborate. In particular, where people or places have concerns about public health, mental health, and/or public safety, leading to forced situations. This dialogue led to a brief discussion around alternatives to forced situations.

Our April Member Roundtable will deep dive alternatives in more detail, with Steve Miccio (People USA) and Harvey Rosenthal (New York Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation) leading the discussion. Join us for a conversation with your CBHL colleagues to learn more about and to contribute to alternatives to forced situations.

CBHL Member Dialogues are an opportunity to connect with CBHL colleagues and discuss leadership challenges, ideas, and questions around specific topics. This Member Dialogue will center on leadership challenges related to data.

Self-direction, also called self-directed care, is an alternative to traditional service delivery models in which participants control an individual budget, create a person-centered plan, and purchase goods and services they feel will best help them to achieve their goals. In this roundtable, two people who self-direct will share how the expanded choice and control in self-direction has impacted their lives. They’ll be joined by a researcher who will describe outcomes, implementation facilitators and barriers, and best practice in self-direction across the country.  Join us for a 90-minute session to engage with the panelists in dialogue.

This month’s roundtable dialogue will focus on policy advocacy, particularly at the local and state level, as a lever for systems change. 

We are excited to be joined by Dawn Yuster, a civil rights lawyer, with over 20 years of experience leading campaigns to win policy change, leading and collaborating with coalitions and state and local government agencies, and developing and implementing policies on mental health, juvenile/criminal, school discipline and police and education justice issues. Dawn also has life-long experience as an individual with mental health challenges navigating and advocating for changes in the mental health care system, particularly for low-income students, people of color, and people who are incarcerated, homeless, and disproportionately targeted by the police.

Join us to learn from Dawn’s experience – and to share your own - advocating for behavioral health policy change at the local and state level to influence systems change. Dawn will share real-life examples and strategies and will engage in dialogue with the audience on how to advocate for policy change in your community or region.

This month's member meet and greet is an opportunity to get to know your CBHL colleagues, to have a leadership conversation around how best to support one another as leaders, and to learn about CBHL's strategic directions.

Join us for a CBHL Member Roundtable on July 26 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET. This roundtable is the first of a series of six bi-monthly dialogues and will focus on an overview of the Principles of Change. Subsequent roundtables will deep-dive each of the five Principles of Change.

Join us for our monthly networking conversation and meet and greet to get to know your CBHL colleagues and to support one another as leaders.   This series was born […]

On September 12, a webinar will be held to discuss building and scaling effective mental health programming and initiatives , including global collaborations focused on school mental health, the successes and challenges of the implementation of evidence-based models, and the value of effective leadership in school mental health programming.

This roundtable dialogue is for members of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL), the International Initiative for Disability Leadership (IIDL), and the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL). Join us to engage in a critical dialogue with school mental health subject matter efforts to deep dive lessons learned from global collaborations.

How do racism and oppression show up in behavioral health?

As a leader, how can I use this knowledge to challenge historical and current practices, policies, and norms to advance health equity?

Join us together with Ebony Chambers, CBHL’s Director of Equity-Grounded Leadership, at our CBHL Member Roundtable on September 20, to explore these questions. This roundtable is the second in a series of six bi-monthly dialogues to deep-dive each of the Principles of Change.