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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Skilling Up the Behavioral Health Workforce: Practical Solutions from Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Skilling Up the Behavioral Health Workforce: Practical Solutions from Higher Education \n\n\n\nTuesday\, June 17\, 2025 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nThis webinar is hosted as a partnership between the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL)\, The National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, and Health Management Associates (HMA).  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe urgency of preparing current professionals to meet this growing need has never been greater. Substantial shortages are projected across key roles—including mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, addiction counselors\, and social workers—by 20371. These shortages are driven not only by increased demand\, but also by burnout\, limited scopes of practice\, and gaps in ongoing training.  \n\n\n\nThis month’s Workforce Solutions Jam will build on April’s conversation\, and spotlight how higher education institutions are innovating to close workforce readiness gaps and ensure that current professionals are equipped\, supported\, and retained to meet increasingly complex care needs.  \n\n\n\nPanelists from leading universities will share real-world examples of how they are aligning academic programs with workforce realities\, expanding access to continuing education\, and partnering with employers to strengthen the behavioral health pipeline.  \n\n\n\nKey highlights of this webinar include:  \n\n\n\n\nExplore strategies for upskilling existing professionals to meet emerging and evolving demands in behavioral health care.  \n\n\n\nUnderstand how academic programs are partnering with employers to align training with real-world needs and expectations.  \n\n\n\nLearn about innovative models for continuing education and professional development that support retention and career growth. \n\n\n\n\n1National Center for Health Workforce Analysis. (2024\, November). Projecting health workforce supply and demand. Health Resources and Services Administration. https://bhw.hrsa.gov/data-research/projecting-health-workforce-supply-demand  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Teresa Garate is an experienced and innovative leader with over 35 years of experience leading systems change\, innovation and growth in the complex environments of public health\, healthcare\, public education\, higher education and government.   As a public health and education expert\, Dr. Garate serves as subject matter expert on topics ranging from strategy development to operations and program evaluation and design.   Dr. Garate has extensive experience in public health\, behavioral health\, substance use disorders and addiction treatment\, school-based health services\, and hospital and health systems \n\n\n\nIn addition to many leadership roles in the field of behavioral health\, substance use disorder and addiction treatment\, Dr. Garate also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Disability and Human Development (DHD) at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the College of Education\, Department of Psychology and DHD.  She has served as a guest lecturer for various universities and is the Vice Chair of the Illinois Community College Board.  Over the years she has mentored and supported numerous students in pursuit of education\, public health\, healthcare and behavioral health fields.  She was a key contributor to the IL Behavioral Healthcare Workforce Shortage Task Force that resulted in the creation of a Behavioral Healthcare Workforce Center. \n\n\n\nMost recently\, she was the executive vice president of strategy\, development and growth\, with Rogers Behavioral Health System\, where she led the development of a multi-disciplinary division\, encompassing government relations\, national policy\, payor contracting\, marketing\, communications\, business development and real estate development. Teresa launched the organization’s first national\, state and local government relations strategy\, restructured the business development department to pursue strategic sales and positioned the organization for national advocacy through national alliances and campaigns. \n\n\n\nTeresa also served as senior vice president of strategic partnerships and engagement for the Gateway Foundation\, a national non-profit serving people with substance use disorders in nine states. She led the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic\, leveraging local and state partnerships\, acquiring PPE\, ensuring timely delivery of vaccinations and securing over $25 million in state and federal grants over five years. \n\n\n\nTeresa was an Illinois state officer in Governor Pat Quinn’s cabinet\, serving as the assistant director of the Illinois Department of Public Health. As a senate confirmed appointee\, she was responsible for managing all of the agency’s day-to-day operations\, including providing guidance and oversight for the state’s 96 local health departments serving 102 counties. She assumed the lead position on developing Medicaid initiatives and healthcare regulations\, including navigating the impact on hospitals and long-term care facilities\, and drove the completion of a legislatively mandated state health improvement plan. Prior to this\, Teresa was chief of staff for the Chicago Public Schools’ Office of Specialized Services\, leading school redesign\, strategic district-wide initiatives\, and public information initiatives focused on special education\, juvenile justice\, and disability access. \n\n\n\nTeresa earned her Doctor of Philosophy and her Master of Education in special education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned her bachelors’ degrees in applied psychology and special education from Loyola University of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNishanna Ramoutar\, LCSW\, MS.Ed.\, is a clinical social work leader with over 15 years of experience\, specializing in trauma-informed infant mental health and child welfare. As Senior Learning Specialist at The Jewish Board\, she oversees the Social Work Residency Program\, managing curriculum development\, training\, and integrating evidence-based practices in outpatient mental health settings across New York City. As an adjunct professor at the Silberman School of Social Work and Erikson Institute\, she supports early-career social workers and infant mental health specialists by cultivating critical thinking\, self-awareness\, and a practice centered on the liberation of marginalized communities\, fostering collective healing through culturally responsive\, community-focused work. A passionate advocate for infant mental health\, she contributes to the professional development of early childhood practitioners through initiatives like the Irving Harris Foundation’s Professional Development Network and her involvement in various IMH and social work associations. Nishanna received her MSW from the Silberman School of Social Work and her MS Ed from Bank Street College of Education. She also holds a postgraduate certificate in Infant Mental Health and Trauma from Adelphi University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Alina Perez\, Dean of the College of Allied Health at Walden University. Dr. Perez holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is a licensed psychologist practicing in Florida. Alongside her leadership work\, she remains deeply connected to clinical practice\, providing psychological assessment and psychotherapy to a wide range of adult clients.  \n\n\n\nBut what truly sets Dr. Perez apart is her impressive professional background—her commitment to mentorship\, her ability to lead with empathy\, and her passion for cultivating growth\, both in others and within herself.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Workforce Solutions Partnership. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce. \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Partnership is the new name for the partnership between the National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, Health Management Associates and the College for Behavioral Health Leadership. The Center for Workforce Solutions continues to operate as an initiative of the National Council.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-june-2025/
CATEGORIES:Public,Workforce Solutions Jam
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SUMMARY:Candid Conversations with Sean Fitzpatrick\, PhD\, LPC | Leading with (Self) Compassion
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 1110:00am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nThis conversation is for CBHL members. \n\n\n\nJoin Sean Fitzpatrick\, PhD\, LPC\, executive director of The Jung Center in Houston\, for this candid conversation about the limits of self-care and the work of leading with compassion when our organizations are in crisis. \n\n\n\nWhat are CBHL Candid Conversations? \nCBHL Candid Conversations provide an informal platform for connecting and networking with other CBHL members\, fostering an environment where we can learn from one another’s experiences.  Led by a CBHL member or partner\, these sessions are designed to facilitate the exchange of valuable leadership insights\, skills\, and support.  Occurring at least once a month\, Candid Conversations are open to all CBHL members.    \n\n\n\n\nThe purpose of CBHL Candid Conversations is to:  \n\nNetwork and Collaborate: Meet and engage with fellow CBHL colleagues in an informal\, small group environment that encourages collaboration and the building of meaningful connections \n\n\n\nLearn and Innovate: Acquire new skills and exchange fresh ideas with experienced leaders in a supportive and trusting environment\, fostering personal and professional growth \n\n\n\nShowcase Success: Highlight successful member programs or best and promising practices that demonstrate potential for scaling and broader application. 
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/candid-conversations-with-sean-fitzpatrick-phd-lpc-leading-with-self-compassion/
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SUMMARY:CBHL Leadership Community | Supporting the Uptake of Behavioral Health Apps and Technology  
DESCRIPTION:11:00 am PT / 12:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAre you grappling with how to address unmet or undermet needs among specific population groups in your community or organization?  \n\n\n\nHave you considered the possibility of integrating behavioral health apps or new technologies into services?   \n\n\n\nDo you feel stuck by how to choose the right technology\, or how to implement successfully?    \n\n\n\nThe increasing demand for behavioral health services\, coupled with challenges in the workforce\, creates a compelling reason to take a closer look at forward-thinking solutions.  Behavioral health apps and other technologies have the potential to supplement existing services by increasing access and engagement among specific communities or population groups.   This quarterly CBHL Leadership Community series is designed for any CBHL member interested in the successful integration of behavioral health apps and technology as a complement to existing practices.  You are encouraged to register and join the full series.  \n\n\n\nBackground:  \n\n\n\nSignificant interest in our November 2023 webinar\, Revolutionizing Behavioral Health: The Role of Behavioral Health Apps in Addressing the Workforce Crisis\, sparked a follow up roundtable dialogue where CBHL members delved into the potential of behavioral health apps as a transformative technology supporting both mental and physical wellbeing. Participants explored challenges faced by organizations in determining how to select the right technology\, considerations for how to implement as a complement to existing services\, and additional support members might need to feel more informed and better equipped to successfully integrate behavioral health apps and technology into existing practices.   \n\n\n\n\nWhat is a CBHL Leadership Community?  \n\n\n\nCBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders\, organizations\, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.  \n\n\n\nWhat is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community? \n\n\n\nCBHL leadership communities are created based on member interest with a focus on a specific topic or leadership population. They are recurring over a specific period of time and open to all CBHL members.  \n\n\n\n\nTo improve knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration\, the exchange of ideas\, and professional dialogue. \n\n\n\nTo facilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual\, organizational\, and community outcomes.\n\n\n\nEncourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuest Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Mohr received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona. He was on the faculty at the University of California\, San Francisco from 1994 to 2006\, when he moved to join the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University. He is the founder and director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs). Dr. Mohr has been elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Behavioral Medicine.  \n\n\n\nDr. Mohr’s work focuses on the design and implementation of digital mental health treatments that fit into the fabric of people’s lives and can be sustainably implemented in real-world settings. His research integrates user centered design processes to incorporate stakeholder input into the creation and evaluation of digital mental health services. He is also examining methods of harnessing sensor data from devices such as smartphones to identify behaviors\, states\, and environmental conditions\, and using these to design digital mental health tools that are more effective and easier for people to use.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Schueller\, PhD is a Professor of Psychological Science and Informatics at the University of California\, Irvine. He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California\, Riverside\, his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California\, San Francisco as part of the Public Health and Minority Cluster at San Francisco General Hospital.  As a clinical psychologist and mental health services researcher\, Dr. Schueller’s work focuses on how technology can improve mental health services by expanding access and improving accessibility. This includes the development\, evaluation\, and implementation of digital mental health treatments in diverse settings and populations.  At UCI\, he directs the Technology and Mental Health (TEAM) Lab\, is the Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Unit for the Institute of Clinical and Translation Science and is a member of UCI’s Connected Learning Lab and the Jacobs CERES Center. \n\n\n\n\n\nLeadership Community Hosts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gastfriend is an addiction psychiatrist. At Harvard Medical School\, he directed addiction research at Massachusetts General Hospital and was an investigator in the NIDA Cocaine Collaborative Study\, NIAAA’s COMBINE Study and NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network. As Vice President at Alkermes\, Inc.\, he directed scientific publications on Vivitrol in clinical\, criminal justice and health economics research. \n\n\n\nHis research led most states to endorse the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria. His 150 scientific publications include the books The ASAM Criteria and Addiction Treatment Matching. His ASAM CONTINUUM – The ASAM Criteria Decision Engine ® and ASAM’s CO-Triage ® tools are being adopted nationwide. \n\n\n\nIn 2016\, he co-founded DynamiCare Health\, a nationally-scalable technology for Contingency Management and predictive analytics\, winning awards from HarvardBusiness School\, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts\, the Governor of Ohio\, and the New York Times. He has consulted to governments in Belgium\, China\, Iceland\, Israel\, Norway\, Russia and the U.S. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGarrett E. Moran\, Ph.D.\, serves as the the Principal Investigator for the Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care\, a program sponsored by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)\, and served as Project Director of the Academy from 2010 until 2018. He is deeply committed to advancing holistic\, person-centered health care. Dr. Moran retired in 2021 from his role as the Associate Director of Services and Policy Innovation in the Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute\, and Professor in the School of Public Health and the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University (WVU). Before coming to WVU he was a Vice President and Associate Director at Westat where he worked for 29 years. \n\n\n\nDr. Moran has more than 50 years of experience in public policy\, program evaluation\, research\, and management. His career has included key leadership roles on projects for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)\, as well as consulting roles with states working on health reform and care integration. His major areas of substantive expertise include integrated healthcare delivery\, health care financing\, health information technology\, and program evaluation. Dr. Moran directed the consultant support and writing contract for the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in the early 2000s\, and subsequently served as an Advisor and Consultant to the States of Maryland and Ohio as they developed mental health transformation plans.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-leadership-community-supporting-the-uptake-of-behavioral-health-apps-and-technology-june-2025/
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SUMMARY:Using Force Field Analysis to Assist in Strategic Directions
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 22\, 202510am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET\n\n\n\nComplimentary for CBHL Members$50 for Non-CBHL Members \n\n\n\n\nLearn More & Register\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn today’s rapidly changing landscape\, successfully implementing innovations and strategic initiatives requires more than just good ideas—it demands a keen understanding of the forces that will help or hinder your success. This practical webinar introduces participants to an adapted approach to Kurt Lewin’s Force Field Analysis\, a powerful diagnostic tool that helps leaders objectively assess the driving and restraining forces affecting their strategic directions. \n\n\n\nWhether you’re launching a new project\, implementing organizational change\, or advancing an innovative idea\, understanding the human dynamics at play can mean the difference between success and failure. Through real-world examples and interactive exercises\, you’ll learn how to systematically map out the individuals and factors supporting or opposing your initiatives\, allowing you to develop more effective implementation strategies. \n\n\n\nKey Learning Objectives \n\n\n\n\nBecome familiar with an adapted approach to Lewin’s Force Field Analysis and how it can be applied to modern organizational challenges\n\n\n\nLearn how to use Force Field Analysis to objectively identify and assess who supports or opposes your innovations or projects—and more importantly\, understand their motivations\n\n\n\nReceive a comprehensive outline template for conducting your own Force Field Analysis\, enabling immediate application to your current strategic initiatives\n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend \n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for executives\, managers\, project leaders\, change agents\, and anyone responsible for implementing strategic initiatives or driving innovation within their organization. \n\n\n\n\nLearn More & Register\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet the Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFran Silvestri\, MBA\, recently left the role as founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Leadership Exchange (GLE)\, formerly the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) and International Initiative for Disability Leadership (IIDL)\, which he helped organize in 2003. GLE is jointly funded by ten countries\, to build partnerships between mental health leaders in order to rapidly exchange knowledge of best and promising practices internationally.Before his work with GLE (formerly IIMHL)\, Fran was CEO of Monadnock Family Services (MFS) in Keene\, NH. In this role he looked internationally to identify\, and then replicate\, innovative services that promote recovery and social inclusion for consumers of mental health services. \n\n\n\nSuch services have included the Wyman Way Cooperative\, an independent\, non-profit corporation managed and operated by consumers of mental health services (based on the Trieste model). He was a founder of a state wide Integrated MH network in New Hampshire owned by six hospitals\, 10 MH centers and the largest physician practice in the state.Through his work with GLE\, he has assisted in building international collaborations resulting in the rapid transfer of innovations and creative practices from one country to another.The unique week long GLE Leadership Exchange is held every two years and is a unique global experience for key MH leaders to meet international colleagues\, share knowledge and build partnerships. GLE also has facilitated a series of ongoing collaborations on specific topics and has partnered with the WHO on their Special Initiative working with 10 low and middle income countries to link key national mental health leaders to support developments.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/using-force-field-analysis-to-assist-in-strategic-directions/
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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Solving Together: Celebrating Year One of Workforce Solutions Jams
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Solving Together: Celebrating Year One of Workforce Solutions Jams\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 20\, 2025 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nThis webinar is hosted as a partnership between the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL)\, The National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, and Health Management Associates (HMA).  \n\n\n\nJoin us for an inspirational webinar as we mark the first anniversary of our Workforce Solutions Jams!  In this milestone event hear from our three partner organizations on their reflections over the last year and what’s ahead. Come connect with cross-sector organizations and change-makers to reflect on a year of collaborative problem-solving and innovation.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat to Expect:  \n\n\n\n\nA retrospective of key takeaways and recurring themes from our Jam sessions \n\n\n\n\n\nStories from organizations that are implementing meaningful changes based on Jam insights \n\n\n\n\n\nIntroduction of exciting new opportunities for engagement and collaboration \n\n\n\n\nWhether you’ve been with us from the beginning or are curious about joining our community\, this webinar offers valuable perspectives on addressing behavioral health workforce challenges through collective intelligence and shared experience.  \n\n\n\nDon’t miss this opportunity to connect with peers\, celebrate our achievements\, and discover new ways to participate in shaping the future of behavioral health workforce solutions.  \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, May 20 for our next Workforce Solutions Jam! The Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Workforce Solutions Partnership. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nResources and Links\n\n\n\nCrosswalk of 400 recommendations on behavioral health workforce \n\n\n\nCall to Action \n\n\n\nPrevious Jam Recordings \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information \n\n\n\n\n\nMary Beth Fessler LPCC\, LADC has been working in the field of substance use disorders and mental health since 2008. She obtained her Masters Degree from the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies and is dually licensed as a LADC and LPCC. She has had a strong passion for working with women since 2010 when she started working at Wayside House. Mary Beth spent 6 years working with mental health residential programs (IRTS) and also has experience in case management services. Her areas of interest include secondary trauma\, work-life balance\, infertility\, and leadership development. When not working\, Mary Beth spends time with her husband\, Branden\, Daughter\, Sloane and yorkies\, Indy & Koda. She is a huge NFL fan\, a MN Vikings season ticket holder\, and is in a couple’s bowling league. Mary Beth is a new mom and thrilled to again be working with women and families. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam provides an opportunity to: \n\n\n\n\nLearn innovative new practices\n\n\n\nStay informed about ongoing efforts\n\n\n\nEngage with subject matter experts\n\n\n\nHear about new legislation and/or federal workforce efforts\n\n\n\nTake action!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Workforce Solutions Partnership. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce. \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Partnership is the new name for the partnership between the National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, Health Management Associates and the College for Behavioral Health Leadership. The Center for Workforce Solutions continues to operate as an initiative of the National Council.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-may-2025/
CATEGORIES:Public,Workforce Solutions Jam
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SUMMARY:CBHL Leadership Community | Equity as a Foundation for Leadership 
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 15\, 2025Theme: Demonstrating Transformational Leadership to Improve Communities 12:00 pm PT / 1:00 pm MT / 2:00 pm CT / 3:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a leader\, are you:  \n\n\n\n\nReady to cultivate an understanding of how inequity is perpetuated by and in behavioral health systems? \n\n\n\nInterested in how to practice intersectional allyship? \n\n\n\nCurious about integrating data equity frameworks and culturally responsive approaches? \n\n\n\nAware of the importance of engaging in co-production and community-driven practices\, but need a little support in doing so? \n\n\n\nPrepared to demonstrate transformational leadership to improve communities? \n\n\n\n\nIf the answer is yes to any of the above\, then this leadership community is for you!  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us together with Ebony Chambers\, CBHL’s Director of Equity-Grounded Leadership\, at our leadership community – Equity as a Foundation for Leadership – for a bi-monthly leadership community designed for any CBHL member interested in developing their knowledge\, skills\, and leadership behaviors as an equity-grounded leader.  You are encouraged to register and join the full series.  \n\n\n\nBackground: Equity-grounded leadership shifts the focus of leaders towards intersectionality\, equity\, and anti-racism to drive behavioral health systems transformation. The equity-grounded leadership concept was co-produced with cross-sector behavioral health leaders from around the country\, who developed equity-grounded leadership competencies\, or Principles of Change. Each of the five Principles is accompanied by the necessary knowledge\, values\, skills\, and operational practice behaviors associated with each principle.    \n\n\n\n\nWhat is a CBHL Leadership Community? \n\n\n\nCBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders\, organizations\, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.  \n\n\n\nWhat is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community? \n\n\n\n\nImprove knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration\, the exchange of ideas\, and professional dialogue.  \n\n\n\nFacilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual\, organizational\, and community outcomes. \n\n\n\nEncourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeadership Community Host\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEbony Chambers is the Director of Equity-Grounded Leadership for The College for Behavioral Health Leadership. In this role\, she oversees the delivery\, facilitation\, content\, and progress of the Equity-Grounded Leadership (EGL) Fellow Program.   \n\n\n\nEbony has over 18 years of experience working with issues of social justice\, equity\, education\, mental health and diversity.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-leadership-community-equity-as-a-foundation-for-leadership-may/
CATEGORIES:CBHL Leadership Community,Members Only
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SUMMARY:Webinar | Reorganization\, Rescission\, & Budget Resolutions: A Federal Policy Update on Behavioral Health
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 12\, 2025\n\n\n\n11:00 am PT / 12:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm ET \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all! \n\n\n\n\n\nThis timely webinar offers behavioral health professionals\, administrators\, and advocates a comprehensive update on recent federal policy changes affecting mental health and substance use disorder services. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn More & Register\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonah Cunningham\, President and CEO of National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHDD) will provide context and background on current policy developments on the federal level including budget rescissions\, the proposed restructuring of key agencies\, and legislative actions that impact behavioral health funding and service delivery. Attendees will be given timely information on how recent policy developments may affect their organizations and communities as well as resources for engagement. \n\n\n\nKey Outcome: \n\n\n\nPolicy Navigation Framework: Participants will receive a clear understanding of recent federal budget resolutions\, rescission measures\, and reorganization efforts affecting behavioral health programs\, with specific attention to funding streams\, reporting requirements\, and compliance timelines. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonah C. Cunningham currently serves as President and CEO of the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHDD).  In this role he proactively advocates for national policies that recognize and support the critical role counties play in caring for people affected by mental illness\, addiction\, and developmental disabilities.  In this capacity he also serves as Executive Director of the National Association for Rural Mental Health.    \n\n\n\nPrior to joining NACBHDD\, Jonah worked at Trust for America’s Health\, a public health think tank\, where he focused extensively on ways to reduce mortality from substance misuse and suicide.  Additionally\, he worked as a congressional staffer for several years in the office of Congresswoman Grace F. Napolitano (CA) where he helped to reestablish the Congressional Mental Health Caucus and created a Suicide Prevention Task Force within the Caucus.    \n\n\n\nJonah C. Cunningham has received numerous awards and recognition for his commitment to the field of behavioral health and those served by the nation’s behavioral health system. Jonah has a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the University of Utah and a Master of Public Policy from The George Washington University.  In his free time\, he enjoys learning how to cook and is an avid Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. 
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/webinar-reorganization-rescission-budget-resolutions-a-federal-policy-update-on-behavioral-health/
CATEGORIES:Public
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T140000
DTSTAMP:20260522T125853
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SUMMARY:Virtual Networking Chat and Member Meet & Greet
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting virtual networking opportunity exclusively for CBHL members on Tuesday\, May 6\, at 10:00 am PT / 1:00pm ET!  \n\n\n\nConnect with fellow behavioral health leaders in a relaxed online environment where you can expand your network\, share insights\, and discover potential collaborations. \n\n\n\nThis interactive session provides the perfect platform to meet new faces\, reconnect with colleagues\, and exchange ideas that can benefit your CBHL membership journey. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Glue Up\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCBHL Members: If you have not yet activated your member account in Glue Up\, don’t worry – register for the event using the same email associated with your CBHL membership and it will guide you through the process! Contact Chelsey Gutierrez cgutierrez@leaders4health.org if you have any questions.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/virtual-networking-chat-and-member-meet-greet/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T140000
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CREATED:20250401T204102Z
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SUMMARY:Candid Conversations with Taina Martinez-Laing\, MSW\, NYCPS | Rising Together: Empowering Peer Leadership and Community Impact
DESCRIPTION:Members-Only \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a one-hour Candid Conversations event exclusively for CBHL members\, focused on advancing peer support\, advocacy\, and leadership. This engaging session is designed to inspire\, empower\, and connect behavioral health leaders who are dedicated to creating meaningful change in their communities. \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Glue Up\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLed by Taina Martinez-Laing\, MSW\, NYCPS\, an accomplished peer leader and CBHL board member\, this conversation will explore essential strategies for thriving in peer leadership roles that require both professional expertise and deep personal resilience. \n\n\n\nParticipants will gain valuable insights into sustainable leadership practices tailored to the unique challenges of behavioral health and peer support. The discussion will also cover strategies for navigating systemic change\, managing complex systems\, and prioritizing self-care as a leader. \n\n\n\nThis intimate gathering offers CBHL members the opportunity to deepen their commitment to peer leadership\, community integration\, and professional growth. Through collaborative dialogue\, participants will explore how community-centered approaches can strengthen organizations and open pathways for ongoing learning and leadership development. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTaina Martinez\, MSW\, NYCPS\, has been employed at Baltic Street Wellness Solutions (formerly Baltic Street AEH\, Inc.) since 2002 and was appointed as the new CEO as of September 2020. Taina brings over 20 years of peer supervision\, advocacy\, and vocational services to individuals with mental health and substance use/misuse diagnoses. Taina is passionate about advocacy that addresses equality and service disparities in low socioeconomic communities. She believes in the power of peer specialists and the integration of peer advocates in all areas of recovery and support. Taina often states\, “Peer advocacy supports are integral to all social determinants of health! We cannot allow social or health policies to be written without the inclusion of the peer perspective and insight.” \n\n\n\nTaina participates on several committees and boards across New York State; she is the Treasurer of the Alliance for Rights and Recovery (formerly New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS))\, is President of the New York State Peer Certification Board\, is a member of the Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA) board\, a member of WCNY-IPA\, and is a professional participant in developing and overviewing the exam of the MHA National Certified Peer Specialist. Taina graduated from Stony Brook University with her MSW\, is a New York State Certified Peer Specialist and is looking forward to pursuing her Ph.D. in researching transgenerational trauma and the links of systematic oppression within the mental health and justice system. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat are CBHL Candid Conversations? \nCBHL Candid Conversations provide an informal platform for connecting and networking with other CBHL members\, fostering an environment where we can learn from one another’s experiences.  Led by a CBHL member or partner\, these sessions are designed to facilitate the exchange of valuable leadership insights\, skills\, and support.  Occurring at least once a month\, Candid Conversations are open to all CBHL members.    \n\n\n\n\nThe purpose of CBHL Candid Conversations is to:  \n\nNetwork and Collaborate: Meet and engage with fellow CBHL colleagues in an informal\, small group environment that encourages collaboration and the building of meaningful connections \n\n\n\nLearn and Innovate: Acquire new skills and exchange fresh ideas with experienced leaders in a supportive and trusting environment\, fostering personal and professional growth \n\n\n\nShowcase Success: Highlight successful member programs or best and promising practices that demonstrate potential for scaling and broader application. 
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/candid-conversations-with-taina-martinez-laing-msw-nycps-rising-together-empowering-peer-leadership-and-community-impact/
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations,Members Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250417T160000
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SUMMARY:CBHL Leadership Community | Equity as a Foundation for Leadership 
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 17\, 2025Theme: Engaging in Co-Production and Community Driven Practices12:00 pm PT / 1:00 pm MT / 2:00 pm CT / 3:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a leader\, are you:  \n\n\n\n\nReady to cultivate an understanding of how inequity is perpetuated by and in behavioral health systems? \n\n\n\nInterested in how to practice intersectional allyship? \n\n\n\nCurious about integrating data equity frameworks and culturally responsive approaches? \n\n\n\nAware of the importance of engaging in co-production and community-driven practices\, but need a little support in doing so? \n\n\n\nPrepared to demonstrate transformational leadership to improve communities? \n\n\n\n\nIf the answer is yes to any of the above\, then this leadership community is for you!  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us together with Ebony Chambers\, CBHL’s Director of Equity-Grounded Leadership\, at our leadership community – Equity as a Foundation for Leadership – for a bi-monthly leadership community designed for any CBHL member interested in developing their knowledge\, skills\, and leadership behaviors as an equity-grounded leader.  You are encouraged to register and join the full series.  \n\n\n\nBackground: Equity-grounded leadership shifts the focus of leaders towards intersectionality\, equity\, and anti-racism to drive behavioral health systems transformation. The equity-grounded leadership concept was co-produced with cross-sector behavioral health leaders from around the country\, who developed equity-grounded leadership competencies\, or Principles of Change. Each of the five Principles is accompanied by the necessary knowledge\, values\, skills\, and operational practice behaviors associated with each principle.    \n\n\n\n\nWhat is a CBHL Leadership Community? \n\n\n\nCBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders\, organizations\, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.  \n\n\n\nWhat is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community? \n\n\n\n\nImprove knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration\, the exchange of ideas\, and professional dialogue.  \n\n\n\nFacilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual\, organizational\, and community outcomes. \n\n\n\nEncourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeadership Community Host\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEbony Chambers is the Director of Equity-Grounded Leadership for The College for Behavioral Health Leadership. In this role\, she oversees the delivery\, facilitation\, content\, and progress of the Equity-Grounded Leadership (EGL) Fellow Program.   \n\n\n\nEbony has over 18 years of experience working with issues of social justice\, equity\, education\, mental health and diversity.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-leadership-community-equity-as-a-foundation-for-leadership-march/
CATEGORIES:CBHL Leadership Community,Members Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T140000
DTSTAMP:20260522T125853
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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Strengthening Workforce Pathways: The Role of Higher Education in Training Future Behavioral Health Professionals
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Strengthening Workforce Pathways\n\n\n\nThe Role of Higher Education in Training Future Behavioral Health Professionals\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 15\, 2025 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nThis webinar is hosted as a partnership between the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL)\, The National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, and Health Management Associates (HMA).  \n\n\n\nHigher education plays a critical role in preparing the next generation of behavioral health professionals. This session will explore how institutions are adapting to meet workforce demands by modernizing curriculum\, expanding access to education and training\, and equipping students with the skills needed to succeed in a rapidly evolving field. Speakers will share strategies for strengthening education-to-workforce pathways and addressing challenges in workforce preparation to build a more sustainable and prepared behavioral health workforce. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey highlights of this webinar include: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand how institutions are adapting to meet workforce demands\n\n\n\nLearn strategies for strengthening education-to-workforce pathways\n\n\n\nHear from leaders on what they are seeing in the field\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Kevin Doyle\, EdD\, LPC\, LSATP is a counselor educator and higher education administrator who was named the President/CEO of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School in January 2022. His career has included over 35 years as a licensed professional counselor\, clinical supervisor\, and non-profit executive. Prior to joining Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School\, he was a professor in the counselor education program at Longwood University (Farmville\, VA)\, where he also served as chair of the Department of Education and Counseling. Dr. Doyle has served multiple terms as a member of counselor licensing boards and has been highly active in the collegiate recovery movement. He has published widely in counseling professional journals and other publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Reives-Houston\, is the Director of Behavioral Health Springboard at the UNC School of Social Work. She has a Ph.D. in education psychology from Capella University and is completing her PsyD in clinical psychology and trauma from California Southern University. Dr. Reives-Houston is certified as a family trauma specialist and as a child and adolescent trauma specialist and engages in research and conducts training on recognizing\, managing\, and mitigating the impacts of trauma on client populations and service providers. Prior to coming to UNC\, she was on the faculty at NC Central University\, where she taught courses and oversaw research projects and evaluation programs. She has also developed training and curriculum materials on mental health\, substance abuse\, systems of care for individuals and families.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCayman Tirado\, MA\, LCDC\, CPS\, RYT-200\, is the director of the Mental Health and Addiction Studies Program at San Jacinto College. Additionally\, she is a board member for INCASE\, the International Coalition for Addiction Studies Education.   \n\n\n\nCayman has worked in the substance use disorder field since 2004\, starting as a prevention specialist for underserved youth. Additional roles include IOP counselor\, sober living case manager\, and clinical case manager for homeless adults with co-occurring disorders. She is also a certified yoga instructor and is passionate about incorporating this into recovery. \n\n\n\nShe has been teaching at San Jacinto College since 2015 and has worked for many years to develop a pedagogical approach that supports the current and future health and wellbeing of students going into the behavioral health professions. \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional speaker information coming soon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Workforce Solutions Partnership. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce. \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Partnership is the new name for the partnership between the National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, Health Management Associates and the College for Behavioral Health Leadership. The Center for Workforce Solutions continues to operate as an initiative of the National Council.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-april/
CATEGORIES:Public,Workforce Solutions Jam
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CREATED:20250310T221407Z
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SUMMARY:CBHL Leadership Community | From Burnout to Breakthrough: Hope and Resilience in Behavioral Health Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Members-Only \n\n\n\n\n\nCaring for others during a difficult time can be stressful and overwhelming\, but support can be found through connection and community. This final session of our leadership community series on Synergy in Action will explore burnout\, supporting each other through community\, and finding flexibility and adaptability in ourselves and others. As we wrap up our series\, this will be a conversation (50 minutes) on supporting each other through community and connection.  \n\n\n\nJoin our session\, From Burnout to Breakthrough: Hope and Resilience Behavioral Health Leadership to learn how to integrate hope and resiliency into the very fabric of mental health workplaces through the powerful concept of “Synergy”. Synergy is the energy that we feel when we just know that healing is happening. According to Dr. Richard Katz\, “Synergy is out there. The universe is synergistic. We just haven’t learned to open ourselves to it.”  \n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 8\, 202510:00am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussion will include:  \n\n\n\n\nincreasing understanding about the concept of Synergy and integrating this concept with wellbeing \n\n\n\nexemplify taking responsibility for wellness at each level of a mental health system – from clients to the workforce to the system as a whole.  \n\n\n\nlearn how to nurture Synergy in action in our current mental health care systems\,\n\n\n\nand identify ways we can collectively work towards transforming mental health care towards more Synergistic approaches in each of our contexts.   \n\n\n\n\nParticipants will be able to ask questions\, receive feedback\, and support one another to better apply each of the synergy strands on individual\, interpersonal\, and collective levels in their particular workplace and lives. \n\n\n\nBackground: In January\, CBHL and Stepped Care Solutions hosted an experiential webinar to demonstrate creativity and agency to cultivate a more supportive and effective system for both the workforce and those they serve. This leadership community series was developed as a follow up to that discussion. \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a CBHL Leadership Community? \nCBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders\, organizations\, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.  \n\n\n\n\nWhat is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community? \nCBHL leadership communities are created based on member interest with a focus on a specific topic or leadership population. They are recurring over a specific period of time and open to all CBHL members.  \n\n\n\n\nEncourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest. \n\n\n\nTo improve knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration\, the exchange of ideas\, and professional dialogue. \n\n\n\nTo facilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual\, organizational\, and community outcomes.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLeadership Community Hosts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gillian Berry\, Senior Advisor of Culture & Workforce Development \n\n\n\nDr. Gillian Berry is Senior Advisor of Culture & Workforce Development at Stepped Care Solutions. She is a published author and a clinical social worker\, with over 35 years of experience as an educator and practitioner. She has overseen the counseling and psychological services at George Washington University\, leading a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals through the implementation of the Stepped Care 2.0 approach into their service delivery. She has been a faculty member at the University of Botswana’s Department of Social Work Southern Africa and the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her clinical interests are strongly influenced by her grandfather’s Indigenous philosophy\, and she provides short-term solution-focused services/therapy from this perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Catie Greene\, Faculty of Culture & Workforce Development \n\n\n\nCatie Greene\, PhD\, LPC is a counselor educator and supervisor.  Catie has worked as a clinician in college counseling centers and group practice\, and an educator in Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate programs for over 11 years and joined Stepped Care Solutions as a faculty consultant on synergy\, beyond diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in 2020. Catie’s research and practice is grounded in Relational Cultural Theory.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Stepped Care Solutions \n\n\n\nStepped Care Solutions (SCS) is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization\, and the creators of Stepped Care 2.0 (SC2.0©) – an innovative and transformative model that leverages collaborative efforts and technology to transform mental health and substance use health systems for better access and outcomes. SCS exists to help organizations and communities reframe\, rethink\, and redesign the delivery of mental health care services. \n\n\n\nBolstered by principles and driven by evidence\, SCS collaborates with government\, business\, health care\, and more\, to promote and implement an equitable and visionary approach to mental health care\, and ensure every individual receives care that is uniquely suited to their needs. \n\n\n\nRecommended reading:  \n\n\n\nStepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums 1st ed. 2023 Edition \n\n\n\nIndigenous Healing Psychology: Honoring the Wisdom of the First Peoples 2017 \n\n\n\nSynergy\, Healing\, & Empowerment: Insights from Cultural Diversity \n\n\n\nDefining Synergy | Dr. Gillian Berry (video)
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-leadership-community-synergy-in-action-april-2025/
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T150000
DTSTAMP:20260522T125854
CREATED:20250218T180601Z
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SUMMARY:Candid Conversations with Marcy Melvin and Fran Silvestri | Leadership in Motion: Adapting to a Changing Political Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Members-Only \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin CBHL Board members Marcy Melvin and Fran Silvestri for a discussion focused on navigating leadership challenges in today’s dynamic political landscape. This facilitated open dialogue will explore the implications of the new administration and emerging opportunities in our field. This interactive session\, developed in response to member feedback\, provides a unique opportunity to share experiences and insights with peers who understand the complexities of behavioral health leadership. Connect with colleagues and contribute to a meaningful discussion about the future of behavioral health in this changing environment. \n\n\n\nLeadership in Motion: Adapting to a Changing Political LandscapeThursday\, March 20\, 202511:00am PT / 12:00pm MT / 1:00pm CT / 2:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRSVP via Zoom\n\n\n\n\nPlease note: this conversation is open to CBHL members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCBHL Board Member\, President-Elect \n\n\n\n\n\nMarcy Melvin\, MA is a pivotal executive with over 25 years of experience in behavioral health policy\, training\, and clinical practice. As a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas her experience includes providing direct clinical and supervisory services to children\, youth\, parents\, and young adults in various clinical settings including residential\, in-home\, outpatient\, private practice\, primary\, secondary\, and post-secondary locations. Marcy is extremely passionate about advancing health equity and reducing disparities and disproportionality; this has been a culmination of her life’s work in various clinical\, organizational and systems settings.  \n\n\n\nMarcy has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Fisk University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCBHL Board Member\, President \n\n\n\n\n\nFran Silvestri\, MBA\, recently left the role as founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Leadership Exchange (GLE)\, formerly the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) and International Initiative for Disability Leadership (IIDL)\, which he helped organize in 2003. GLE is jointly funded by ten countries\, to build partnerships between mental health leaders in order to rapidly exchange knowledge of best and promising practices internationally.    \n\n\n\nBefore his work with GLE (formerly IIMHL)\, Fran was CEO of Monadnock Family Services (MFS) in Keene\, NH.  In this role he looked internationally to identify\, and then replicate\, innovative services that promote recovery and social inclusion for consumers of mental health services. Such services have included the Wyman Way Cooperative\, an independent\, non-profit corporation managed and operated by consumers of mental health services (based on the Trieste model). He was a founder of a state wide Integrated MH network in New Hampshire owned by six hospitals\, 10 MH centers and the largest physician practice in the state.   \n\n\n\nThrough his work with GLE\, he has assisted in building international collaborations resulting in the rapid transfer of innovations and creative practices from one country to another.  \n\n\n\nThe unique week long GLE Leadership Exchange is held every two years and is a unique global experience for key MH leaders to meet international colleagues\, share knowledge and build partnerships. GLE also has facilitated a series of ongoing collaborations on specific topics and has partnered with the WHO on their Special Initiative working with 10 low and middle income countries to link key national mental health leaders to support developments.  \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat are CBHL Candid Conversations? \nCBHL Candid Conversations provide an informal platform for connecting and networking with other CBHL members\, fostering an environment where we can learn from one another’s experiences.  Led by a CBHL member or partner\, these sessions are designed to facilitate the exchange of valuable leadership insights\, skills\, and support.  Occurring at least once a month\, Candid Conversations are open to all CBHL members.    \n\n\n\n\n\nThe purpose of CBHL Candid Conversations is to:  \n\n\n\n\nNetwork and Collaborate: Meet and engage with fellow CBHL colleagues in an informal\, small group environment that encourages collaboration and the building of meaningful connections \n\n\n\nLearn and Innovate: Acquire new skills and exchange fresh ideas with experienced leaders in a supportive and trusting environment\, fostering personal and professional growth \n\n\n\nShowcase Success: Highlight successful member programs or best and promising practices that demonstrate potential for scaling and broader application. 
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/candid-conversations-with-marcy-melvin-and-fran-silvestri-leadership-in-motion-adapting-to-a-changing-political-landscape/
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations,Members Only
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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Understanding Interstate Licensure and Its Impact on the Behavioral Health Workforce
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Understanding Interstate Licensure and Its Impact on the Behavioral Health Workforce\n\n\n\nUnlocking Opportunities for Expanded Workforce Mobility and Enhanced Access to Care \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 18\, 2025 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nThis webinar is hosted as a partnership between the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL)\, The National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, and Health Management Associates (HMA).  \n\n\n\nInterstate licensure compacts offer an opportunity to address long-standing and emerging challenges for the behavioral health workforce such as expanding access\, addressing rural and regional gaps in care\, opening flexibility for providers\, and potentially offering value in times of regional disaster and emergency response efforts. As provider shortages persist and the mental health crisis deepens\, understanding these cross-state practice opportunities has become essential for the future of behavioral healthcare.   \n\n\n\nJoin us for an in-depth exploration of how interstate compacts present an opportunity for behavioral health workforce expansion and mobility. Our expert panel will share frontline insights on implementation strategies\, regulatory considerations\, and emerging opportunities.  \n\n\n\nKey highlights:  \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the current landscape of key behavioral health interstate licensure compacts and reciprocity agreements  \n\n\n\nExplore implementation challenges and success stories from states with existing interstate licensure agreements \n\n\n\nDiscover future trends and anticipated developments in interstate practice \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanet Orwig\, MBA\, CAE\, has led the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT) as its executive director since 2015. In her position\, she supports the Compact’s governing body\, the PSYPACT Commission. Janet manages the day-to-day operations of PSYPACT\, including implementing compact and regulatory compliance. She plays an integral part in developing new services and programs\, securing and managing large government grants\, and furthering stakeholder relations. Her 29-year career in association management includes experience in customer service\, communications\, public relations\, advocacy\, strategic planning and implementation\, leadership development\, and project and program management. Janet earned her Paralegal Certificate and undergraduate degree from Huntingdon College and her Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Phoenix. She is also a Certified Association Executive (CAE). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGreg Searls is the Executive Director of the Counseling Compact Commission. He is a licensed funeral service practitioner in Wyoming\, beginning his regulatory career in 2010 when appointed by the Governor to the Board of Funeral Service Practitioners. In 2016\, he transitioned to an Executive Director role within the Wyoming Professional Licensing Board office. \n\n\n\nThroughout his tenure\, Greg has served as the Executive Director for various boards\, including the Mental Health Professions Licensing Board\, Board of Registration in Podiatry\, Board of Midwifery\, Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology\, Board of Hearing Aid Specialists\, Board of Athletic Trainers\, and Board of Occupational Therapy. During his leadership\, Wyoming enacted statutes to join the ASLP-IC\, Occupational Therapy Compact\, and Counseling Compact. He initially served as the ex-officio representative to the Counseling Compact Commission for AASCB until Wyoming joined the compact\, at which point he was appointed commissioner. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeff Shumway\, Director\, Office of Professional Licensure Review\, Utah Department of CommerceJeff Shumway helped launch the Office of Professional Licensure Review in July 2022. Prior to accepting that role\, Jeff worked with The Bridgespan Group and Social Finance where he advised major nonprofits\, philanthropies\, and government agencies. As director of the Office of Professional Licensure Review\, Jeff leads a team of employees who take a critical look at all state licensure requirements to inform the state legislature on necessary changes and updates to those requirements. Jeff holds a degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a degree in Economics from Brigham Young University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe National Council for Mental Wellbeing launched the Center for Workforce Solutions in 2023 in partnership with The College for Behavioral Health Leadership and Health Management Associates. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-march/
CATEGORIES:Public,Workforce Solutions Jam
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SUMMARY:CBHL Leadership Community | Synergy in Action: Bringing Concepts Beyond DEI into the Mental Health Workplace
DESCRIPTION:Members-Only \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to learn how to integrate DEI with wellbeing into the very fabric of mental health workplaces through the powerful concept of “Synergy”. Synergy is the energy that we feel when we just know that healing is happening. According to Dr. Richard Katz\, “Synergy is out there. The universe is synergistic. We just haven’t learned to open ourselves to it.”Join us for 3 follow up opportunities for CBHL members to practice the skills learned in the Synergy in Action: Bringing Concepts Beyond DEI into the Mental Health Workplace webinar.  These consultation sessions (50 minutes) will be held once per month for the next three months (February\, March\, April). \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 11\, 202510:00am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe invite participants to bring conundrums or areas of need to the sessions and be ready to practice these skills in their workplaces and lives. The sessions will be informed by a 2 question participant interest survey and each subsequent session will be co-designed to the unique needs and challenges the participants are facing in their current contexts.   \n\n\n\nWhen registering for the session\, please answer the following questions:  \n\n\n\n\nWhat challenges are you currently facing with regards to diversity\, equity\, inclusion and/or workforce culture?\n\n\n\nWhat would you like to see as a result of participating in these sessions?\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will be able to ask questions\, receive feedback\, and support one another to better apply each of the synergy strands on individual\, interpersonal\, and collective levels in their particular workplace and lives. \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a CBHL Leadership Community? \nCBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders\, organizations\, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.  \n\n\n\n\nWhat is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community? \nCBHL leadership communities are created based on member interest with a focus on a specific topic or leadership population. They are recurring over a specific period of time and open to all CBHL members.  \n\n\n\n\nEncourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest. \n\n\n\nTo improve knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration\, the exchange of ideas\, and professional dialogue. \n\n\n\nTo facilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual\, organizational\, and community outcomes.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLeadership Community Hosts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gillian Berry\, Senior Advisor of Culture & Workforce Development \n\n\n\nDr. Gillian Berry is Senior Advisor of Culture & Workforce Development at Stepped Care Solutions. She is a published author and a clinical social worker\, with over 35 years of experience as an educator and practitioner. She has overseen the counseling and psychological services at George Washington University\, leading a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals through the implementation of the Stepped Care 2.0 approach into their service delivery. She has been a faculty member at the University of Botswana’s Department of Social Work Southern Africa and the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her clinical interests are strongly influenced by her grandfather’s Indigenous philosophy\, and she provides short-term solution-focused services/therapy from this perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Catie Greene\, Faculty of Culture & Workforce Development \n\n\n\nCatie Greene\, PhD\, LPC is a counselor educator and supervisor.  Catie has worked as a clinician in college counseling centers and group practice\, and an educator in Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate programs for over 11 years and joined Stepped Care Solutions as a faculty consultant on synergy\, beyond diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in 2020. Catie’s research and practice is grounded in Relational Cultural Theory.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Stepped Care Solutions \n\n\n\nStepped Care Solutions (SCS) is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization\, and the creators of Stepped Care 2.0 (SC2.0©) – an innovative and transformative model that leverages collaborative efforts and technology to transform mental health and substance use health systems for better access and outcomes. SCS exists to help organizations and communities reframe\, rethink\, and redesign the delivery of mental health care services. \n\n\n\nBolstered by principles and driven by evidence\, SCS collaborates with government\, business\, health care\, and more\, to promote and implement an equitable and visionary approach to mental health care\, and ensure every individual receives care that is uniquely suited to their needs. \n\n\n\nRecommended reading:  \n\n\n\nStepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums 1st ed. 2023 Edition \n\n\n\nIndigenous Healing Psychology: Honoring the Wisdom of the First Peoples 2017 \n\n\n\nSynergy\, Healing\, & Empowerment: Insights from Cultural Diversity \n\n\n\nDefining Synergy | Dr. Gillian Berry (video)
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-leadership-community-synergy-in-action-bringing-concepts-beyond-dei-into-the-mental-health-workplace-march/
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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SUMMARY:CBHL Leadership Community | Supporting the Uptake of Behavioral Health Apps and Technology  
DESCRIPTION:Members-Only \n\n\n\n\n\nAre you grappling with how to address unmet or undermet needs among specific population groups in your community or organization? Have you considered the possibility of integrating behavioral health apps or new technologies into services?  Do you feel stuck by how to choose the right technology\, or how to implement successfully?   \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 6\, 202511:00 am PT / 12:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe increasing demand for behavioral health services\, coupled with challenges in the workforce\, creates a compelling reason to take a closer look at forward-thinking solutions.  Behavioral health apps and other technologies have the potential to supplement existing services by increasing access and engagement among specific communities or population groups. This quarterly CBHL Leadership Community series is designed for any CBHL member interested in the successful integration of behavioral health apps and technology as a complement to existing practices. You are encouraged to register and join the full series.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuest Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Galbreath\, MPP\, is the director of behavioral health and workforce at the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP). In her role\, Laura collaborates with state and federal policymakers to design evidence-based initiatives that enhance mental health and addiction prevention\, treatment\, and recovery services. With a focus on bridging policy and practice\, Laura advises state health leaders on integrated care delivery models\, workforce strategies\, and financing solutions for behavioral health initiatives. With years of experience in technical assistance and stakeholder engagement\, Laura is passionate about fostering research-driven policies that can positively impact state health systems across the nation. As a skilled health care executive\, Laura has dedicated her career to improving access to behavioral health services for individuals across the nation. Prior to joining NASHP\, she was a consultant and vice president at the National Council for Community Behavioral Health\, where she led the nation’s first national center providing knowledge and technical assistance to support the integration of primary and behavioral healthcare. Laura holds a Master of Public Policy from George Mason University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida. \n\n\n\n\n\nLeadership Community Hosts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gastfriend is an addiction psychiatrist. At Harvard Medical School\, he directed addiction research at Massachusetts General Hospital and was an investigator in the NIDA Cocaine Collaborative Study\, NIAAA’s COMBINE Study and NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network. As Vice President at Alkermes\, Inc.\, he directed scientific publications on Vivitrol in clinical\, criminal justice and health economics research. \n\n\n\nHis research led most states to endorse the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria. His 150 scientific publications include the books The ASAM Criteria and Addiction Treatment Matching. His ASAM CONTINUUM – The ASAM Criteria Decision Engine ® and ASAM’s CO-Triage ® tools are being adopted nationwide. \n\n\n\nIn 2016\, he co-founded DynamiCare Health\, a nationally-scalable technology for Contingency Management and predictive analytics\, winning awards from HarvardBusiness School\, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts\, the Governor of Ohio\, and the New York Times. He has consulted to governments in Belgium\, China\, Iceland\, Israel\, Norway\, Russia and the U.S. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGarrett E. Moran\, Ph.D.\, serves as the the Principal Investigator for the Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care\, a program sponsored by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)\, and served as Project Director of the Academy from 2010 until 2018. He is deeply committed to advancing holistic\, person-centered health care. Dr. Moran retired in 2021 from his role as the Associate Director of Services and Policy Innovation in the Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute\, and Professor in the School of Public Health and the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University (WVU). Before coming to WVU he was a Vice President and Associate Director at Westat where he worked for 29 years. \n\n\n\nDr. Moran has more than 50 years of experience in public policy\, program evaluation\, research\, and management. His career has included key leadership roles on projects for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)\, as well as consulting roles with states working on health reform and care integration. His major areas of substantive expertise include integrated healthcare delivery\, health care financing\, health information technology\, and program evaluation. Dr. Moran directed the consultant support and writing contract for the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in the early 2000s\, and subsequently served as an Advisor and Consultant to the States of Maryland and Ohio as they developed mental health transformation plans. \n\n\n\n\n\nBackground: \n\n\n\nSignificant interest in our November 2023 webinar\, Revolutionizing Behavioral Health: The Role of Behavioral Health Apps in Addressing the Workforce Crisis\, sparked a follow up roundtable dialogue where CBHL members delved into the potential of behavioral health apps as a transformative technology supporting both mental and physical wellbeing. Participants explored challenges faced by organizations in determining how to select the right technology\, considerations for how to implement as a complement to existing services\, and additional support members might need to feel more informed and better equipped to successfully integrate behavioral health apps and technology into existing practices.   \n\n\n\nWhat is a CBHL Leadership Community?  \nCBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders\, organizations\, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.  \n\n\n\n\nWhat is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community? \nCBHL leadership communities are created based on member interest with a focus on a specific topic or leadership population. They are recurring over a specific period of time and open to all CBHL members.  \n\n\n\n\nTo improve knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration\, the exchange of ideas\, and professional dialogue. \n\n\n\nTo facilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual\, organizational\, and community outcomes.\n\n\n\nEncourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest. 
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-leadership-community-supporting-the-uptake-of-behavioral-health-apps-and-technology-march/
CATEGORIES:CBHL Leadership Community,Members Only
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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Behavioral Health Workforce 2025: Critical Insights and Emerging Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Behavioral Health Workforce 2025: Critical Insights and Emerging Challenges \n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 18\, 2025 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nThe behavioral health landscape continues to experience ongoing and multi-pronged complexity\, with systemic challenges intersecting workforce needs\, technological innovation\, and evolving policy developments. This session hosts long-term behavioral health workforce experts in a discussion on current workforce challenges\, emerging solutions\, and lessons learned in how to maintain a focus and attention to workforce initiates throughout policy shifts.   \n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation on insights around navigating increasingly complex environments marked by evolving policy frameworks and heightened demand for adaptive\, resilient workforce strategies. The ability to anticipate\, understand\, and proactively respond to these systemic shifts will be paramount for workforce sustainability in 2025 and beyond.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonah C. Cunningham currently serves as President and CEO of the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHDD). In this role he proactively advocates for national policies that recognize and support the critical role counties play in caring for people affected by mental illness\, addiction\, and developmental disabilities. In this capacity he also serves as Executive Director of the National Association for Rural Mental Health. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining NACBHDD\, Jonah worked at Trust for America’s Health\, a public health think tank\, where he focused extensively on ways to reduce mortality from substance misuse and suicide. Additionally\, he worked as a congressional staffer for several years in the office of Congresswoman Grace F. Napolitano (CA) where he helped to reestablish the Congressional Mental Health Caucus and created a Suicide Prevention Task Force within the Caucus. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Hoge\, Ph.D. is Professor Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and the Director of Yale Behavioral Health. For four decades at Yale\, he has been developing and managing comprehensive systems of behavioral health care and a broad range of clinical\, rehabilitative\, educational\, vocational\, outreach\, and recovery-oriented services for children\, adolescents and adults. Simultaneously\, he has worked to develop and evaluate innovative services\, including alternatives to hospitalization\, crisis response systems\, programs for the homeless\, and therapeutic schools.   \n\n\n\nDr. Hoge\, a clinical psychologist\, is a nationally recognized expert on behavioral health workforce development. He is a founding member and the Senior Science and Policy Advisor of The Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce. He is the senior editor or author of three major works by the Coalition: the SAMHSA-funded national Action Plan on Behavioral Health Workforce Development; the Alaskan Core Competencies for Direct Care Workers in Health and Human Services; and the SAMHSA and HRSA-funded Core Competencies for Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care. Over the past five years he has developed the Coalition’s intensive Recruitment and Retention Learning Collaboratives in Behavioral health and launched these collaboratives across the nation. \n\n\n\nMichael has presented and published widely on behavioral health services and workforce development. He has consulted to the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and to numerous federal and state agencies\, foundations\, and provider organizations. He has been a member of two National Academy of Medicine (IOM) Committees that addressed workforce issues and Chaired the Behavioral Health Professional and Technical Advisory Committee of The Joint Commission. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcy Melvin\, MA is a pivotal executive with over 25 years of experience in behavioral health policy\, training\, and clinical practice. As a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas her experience includes providing direct clinical and supervisory services to children\, youth\, parents\, and young adults in various clinical settings including residential\, in-home\, outpatient\, private practice\, primary\, secondary\, and post-secondary locations. Marcy is extremely passionate about advancing health equity and reducing disparities and disproportionality; this has been a culmination of her life’s work in various clinical\, organizational and systems settings.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWendy Morris\, RN\, MSN\, CS\, has enjoyed various roles in patient care and leadership across the continuum in behavioral health for more than three decades\, including inpatient\, outpatient\, and home health services as well as state government. She served as commissioner for Kentucky’s Department for Behavioral Health\, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities for several years and is currently a Senior Behavioral Health Advisor at the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD).  \n\n\n\nMs. Morris holds a Master of Science in Community Health Nursing from the University of Kentucky and is credentialed as a Public Health Clinical Nurse Specialist by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReyna Taylor\, Senior Vice President\, Public Policy\, National Council for Mental Wellbeing \n\n\n\nMs. Taylor brings extensive experience with federal public policy initiatives to protect access and affordability to her role as Vice President\, Policy & Advocacy at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing where she leads public policy and government affairs activities\, supervises legislative matters and guides overall public policy strategy. With nearly two decades of specialty pharmaceutical and medical device experience\, Ms. Taylor has a wide range of knowledge on public policy issues\, including Medicare\, Medicaid and commercial management of managed care organizations\, hospitals\, pharmacies and mental health centers. She holds a Bachelor of Science in neuroscience from Bates College and earned a Master of Science in biotechnology and Master of Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University. Currently\, she serves on the board of the Mental Health Liaison Group. \n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosh Rubin\, MPPVice President\, Client SolutionsHealth Management Associates \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Center for Workforce Solutions. \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam will provide an opportunity to: \n\n\n\n\nLearn innovative new practices\n\n\n\nStay informed about ongoing efforts\n\n\n\nEngage with subject matter experts\n\n\n\nHear about new legislation and/or federal workforce efforts\n\n\n\nTake action!\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe National Council for Mental Wellbeing launched the Center for Workforce Solutions in 2023 in partnership with The College for Behavioral Health Leadership and Health Management Associates. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-february/
CATEGORIES:Public,Workforce Solutions Jam
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SUMMARY:CBHL Leadership Community | Synergy in Action: Bringing Concepts Beyond DEI into the Mental Health Workplace
DESCRIPTION:Members Only \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to learn how to integrate DEI with wellbeing into the very fabric of mental health workplaces through the powerful concept of “Synergy”. Synergy is the energy that we feel when we just know that healing is happening. According to Dr. Richard Katz\, “Synergy is out there. The universe is synergistic. We just haven’t learned to open ourselves to it.”Join us for 3 follow up opportunities for CBHL members to practice the skills learned in the Synergy in Action: Bringing Concepts Beyond DEI into the Mental Health Workplace webinar.  These consultation sessions (50 minutes) will be held once per month for the next three months (February\, March\, April). \n\n\n\nFebruary 11\, 202510:00am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe invite participants to bring conundrums or areas of need to the sessions and be ready to practice these skills in their workplaces and lives. The sessions will be informed by a 2 question participant interest survey and each subsequent session will be co-designed to the unique needs and challenges the participants are facing in their current contexts.   \n\n\n\nWhen registering for the session\, please answer the following questions:  \n\n\n\n\nWhat challenges are you currently facing with regards to diversity\, equity\, inclusion and/or workforce culture?\n\n\n\nWhat would you like to see as a result of participating in these sessions?\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will be able to ask questions\, receive feedback\, and support one another to better apply each of the synergy strands on individual\, interpersonal\, and collective levels in their particular workplace and lives. \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a CBHL Leadership Community? \nCBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders\, organizations\, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.  \n\n\n\n\nWhat is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community? \nCBHL leadership communities are created based on member interest with a focus on a specific topic or leadership population. They are recurring over a specific period of time and open to all CBHL members.  \n\n\n\n\nEncourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest. \n\n\n\nTo improve knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration\, the exchange of ideas\, and professional dialogue. \n\n\n\nTo facilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual\, organizational\, and community outcomes.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLeadership Community Hosts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gillian Berry\, Senior Advisor of Culture & Workforce Development \n\n\n\nDr. Gillian Berry is Senior Advisor of Culture & Workforce Development at Stepped Care Solutions. She is a published author and a clinical social worker\, with over 35 years of experience as an educator and practitioner. She has overseen the counseling and psychological services at George Washington University\, leading a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals through the implementation of the Stepped Care 2.0 approach into their service delivery. She has been a faculty member at the University of Botswana’s Department of Social Work Southern Africa and the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her clinical interests are strongly influenced by her grandfather’s Indigenous philosophy\, and she provides short-term solution-focused services/therapy from this perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Catie Greene\, Faculty of Culture & Workforce Development \n\n\n\nCatie Greene\, PhD\, LPC is a counselor educator and supervisor.  Catie has worked as a clinician in college counseling centers and group practice\, and an educator in Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate programs for over 11 years and joined Stepped Care Solutions as a faculty consultant on synergy\, beyond diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in 2020. Catie’s research and practice is grounded in Relational Cultural Theory.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Stepped Care Solutions \n\n\n\nStepped Care Solutions (SCS) is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization\, and the creators of Stepped Care 2.0 (SC2.0©) – an innovative and transformative model that leverages collaborative efforts and technology to transform mental health and substance use health systems for better access and outcomes. SCS exists to help organizations and communities reframe\, rethink\, and redesign the delivery of mental health care services. \n\n\n\nBolstered by principles and driven by evidence\, SCS collaborates with government\, business\, health care\, and more\, to promote and implement an equitable and visionary approach to mental health care\, and ensure every individual receives care that is uniquely suited to their needs. \n\n\n\nRecommended reading:  \n\n\n\nStepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums 1st ed. 2023 Edition \n\n\n\nIndigenous Healing Psychology: Honoring the Wisdom of the First Peoples 2017 \n\n\n\nSynergy\, Healing\, & Empowerment: Insights from Cultural Diversity \n\n\n\nDefining Synergy | Dr. Gillian Berry (video)
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-leadership-community-synergy-in-action-bringing-concepts-beyond-dei-into-the-mental-health-workplace-february/
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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SUMMARY:Candid Conversations with Charly Weldon\, MBA | Meet & Greet with CBHL's New CEO
DESCRIPTION:Members-Only \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCBHL Candid Conversations provide an informal platform for connecting and networking with other CBHL members\, fostering an environment where we can learn from one another’s experiences.  \n\n\n\nLed by a CBHL member or partner\, these sessions are designed to facilitate the exchange of valuable leadership insights\, skills\, and support.  Occurring at least once a month\, Candid Conversations are open to all CBHL members.    \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, February 6\, 202511:00 am PT / 12:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharly Hubenak Weldon\, MBA is the Chief Executive Officer of The College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL). For the last 20 years\, Charly has been an innovative change driver for Houston’s most impactful nonprofits and programs that support homeless and at-risk populations. She is recognized as a leader whose passion to serve empowers and motivates organizational teams\, board members\, and community members alike. Charly holds a Master of Business Administration degree from East Texas A&M University\, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston\, Downtown. View Charly’s Full Bio \n\n\n\nWe invite members to come with any questions they may have for Charly! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\nThe purpose of CBHL Candid Conversations is to:  \n\n\n\n\nNetwork and Collaborate: Meet and engage with fellow CBHL colleagues in an informal\, small group environment that encourages collaboration and the building of meaningful connections \n\n\n\nLearn and Innovate: Acquire new skills and exchange fresh ideas with experienced leaders in a supportive and trusting environment\, fostering personal and professional growth \n\n\n\nShowcase Success: Highlight successful member programs or best and promising practices that demonstrate potential for scaling and broader application. 
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/candid-conversations-with-charly-weldon-mba/
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations,Members Only
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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Bridging the Gap: Advancing a Diverse and Resilient Workforce for SUD Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Bridging the Gap: Advancing a Diverse and Resilient Workforce for SUD Treatment \n\n\n\nInnovative Strategies to Strengthen the SUD Workforce and Support Recovery \n\n\n\nTuesday\, January 21\, 2025 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, January 21 for our next Workforce Solutions Jam! The Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Center for Workforce Solutions. \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam will provide an opportunity to: \n\n\n\n\nLearn innovative new practices\n\n\n\nStay informed about ongoing efforts\n\n\n\nEngage with subject matter experts\n\n\n\nHear about new legislation and/or federal workforce efforts\n\n\n\nTake action!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe substance use disorder (SUD) treatment landscape is facing an unprecedented workforce crisis. Recent data from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) predicts the demand for addiction counselors will increase by 62%\, while the supply of addiction counselors is expected to decrease by 13%. The stark reality is that current workforce capacity can only support approximately half of those seeking recovery services—a gap that demands immediate\, innovative solutions.  \n\n\n\nAddressing the SUD crisis requires a robust and ready workforce that is not only skilled but also reflects the diversity of the communities they serve. This Workforce Solutions Jam will focus on actionable strategies to recruit\, train\, and retain a workforce capable of meeting the unique needs of individuals affected by substance use.   \n\n\n\nKey highlights of this webinar include:  \n\n\n\n\nDiscover strategies to create a more diverse and representative SUD workforce \n\n\n\nExplore model legislative frameworks to systematically address SUD workforce development challenges \n\n\n\nUnderstand approaches to developing workforce competencies that improve care quality and recovery outcomes \n\n\n\nGain insights into building partnerships that support recovery-focused employment opportunities \n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexandra Plante is a Senior Advisor of Substance Use at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, and works alongside the United Nations Office of Drug Control Policy (UNODC) on unethical practices in substance use disorder treatment and recovery. Previously she has served as a consultant to U.S. federal agencies and state policymakers\, international agencies\, and private entities such as Google. Her writing has been featured in outlets such as Harvard Health Publications\, Psychology Today\, and The Fix. She holds a M.A. in Quantitative Research in Communications\, and previously served as a Director at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School – Recovery Research Institute\, and DynamiCare Health.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhilip Rutherford is the Vice President for Substance Use in the Strategy and Growth Office at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. In this role\, he expands the organization’s impact in addressing the quality\, effectiveness\, accessibility and affordability of substance use programs and services for National Council members. He is also tasked with charting a course for progress\, transformation and equity.   \n\n\n\nRutherford has managed strategy and operations for several recovery-focused organizations. He is a member of committees at the National Institutes of Health\, the Food and Drug Administration and other federal agencies. He serves on several nonprofit boards\, including Serve Minnesota\, the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers and the Police Treatment and Community Collaborative. Prior to the nonprofit world\, he spent most of his career at Microsoft\, Micron Electronics and the Taylor Corporation. Rutherford is an active member of the recovery community and has considerable experience in the areas of reentry and equity.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Stauffer is in long-term recovery and leads PRO-A\, the statewide RCO of Pennsylvania. Mr. Stauffer is a writer on the history and future of the American Recovery Movement. In 2019 he was honored as the Vernon Johnson Award Individual Recovery Advocate award by Faces & Voices of Recovery. In December of 2023\, he testified to the US Senate Special Committee on Aging for the second time to highlight challenges and opportunities related to the growing problem of substance use disorders in older adults. He recently completed a fellowship at the Hazelton and Betty Ford Foundation in Center City MN through the A.A. Heckman Endowed Fellowship. As part of passing the torch to the next generation\, International esteemed author and recovery thought leader William White asked Mr. Stauffer to open the First National Conference on Addiction Recovery Science held by NIDA\, NIAAA and the Recovery Research Institute at Harvard with his remarks. He is an adjunct Professor of Social Work at Misericordia University in Dallas PA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShelly Weizman is a human rights lawyer who currently serves as the associate director of the Center on Addiction and Public Policy at the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown Law and as faculty at Georgetown’s Master of Science in Addiction Policy and Practice. She previously worked in the governor’s office in New York\, where she oversaw policy and operations related to addiction\, mental health\, and disabilities\, and began her legal career as a civil rights attorney in New York City. Before law school\, she worked with youth and families at a variety of addiction treatment programs. She is also a person living and thriving in long-term recovery from addiction.  \n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe National Council for Mental Wellbeing launched the Center for Workforce Solutions in 2023 in partnership with The College for Behavioral Health Leadership and Health Management Associates. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-january-2025/
CATEGORIES:Public,Workforce Solutions Jam
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SUMMARY:CBHL 2025 Membership Information Call
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in joining CBHL and want to learn more? \n\n\n\nAre you a current CBHL member curious about what’s to come in 2025? \n\n\n\nJoin us for our 2025 Membership Information Call! \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe College for Behavioral Health Leadership is a place for leaders to collaborate to empower communities to thrive. We convene leaders to share expertise\, cross-pollinate ideas\, provide hands-on experiences\, and develop actionable skills. We are committed to equity\, believe recovery is the expectation\, and strive for wellbeing across the lifespan. \n\n\n\nOur members are individuals and organizations representing emerging and experienced leaders from both public and private cross-sector organizations whose work either focuses directly on or intersects with behavioral health. We define leader not by title\, but by the ability and deep desire to effect change. Our membership reflects a diversity of experience\, expertise\, and perspective\, and serve as active participants in our work.  \n\n\n\nJoin us to learn more about CBHL 2025 member benefits\, upcoming initiatives\, and to meet your colleagues. Additionally\, meet our new CEO\, Charly Weldon\, MBA\, and learn more about our new member management system\, Glue Up! \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen: Thursday\, January 16\, 2024 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-2025-membership-information-call/
CATEGORIES:Public
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SUMMARY:Synergy in Action: Bringing Concepts Beyond DEI into the Mental Health Workplace
DESCRIPTION:Synergy in Action: Bringing Concepts Beyond DEI into the Mental Health Workplace\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to learn how to integrate DEI with wellbeing into the very fabric of mental health workplaces through the powerful concept of “Synergy”. This experiential webinar will demonstrate creativity and agency to cultivate a more supportive and effective system for both the workforce and those they serve. \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSynergy is the energy that we feel when we just know that healing is happening. According to Dr. Richard Katz\, “Synergy is out there. The universe is synergistic. We just haven’t learned to open ourselves to it.” \n\n\n\nThe goals of this webinar are to:  \n\n\n\n\nincrease understanding about the concept of Synergy\, a philosophy of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion integrated with Wellbeing\, \n\n\n\nexemplify taking responsibility for wellness at each level of a mental health system – from clients to the workforce to the system as a whole. \n\n\n\nlearn how to nurture Synergy in action in our current mental health care systems\, \n\n\n\nand identify ways we can collectively work towards transforming mental health care towards more Synergistic approaches in each of our contexts.\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will learn about the definition and history of the concept of synergy\, including the major strands of synergy in action\, and discuss examples of synergy in action on individual\, interpersonal\, and collective levels.  Participants will be able to interact with the presentation through discussion questions throughout.  \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all! \n\n\n\nTuesday\, January 14\, 202510:00 am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Stepped Care Solutions \n\n\n\nStepped Care Solutions (SCS) is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization\, and the creators of Stepped Care 2.0 (SC2.0©) – an innovative and transformative model that leverages collaborative efforts and technology to transform mental health and substance use health systems for better access and outcomes. SCS exists to help organizations and communities reframe\, rethink\, and redesign the delivery of mental health care services. \n\n\n\nBolstered by principles and driven by evidence\, SCS collaborates with government\, business\, health care\, and more\, to promote and implement an equitable and visionary approach to mental health care\, and ensure every individual receives care that is uniquely suited to their needs. \n\n\n\nRecommended reading:  \n\n\n\nStepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums 1st ed. 2023 Edition \n\n\n\nIndigenous Healing Psychology: Honoring the Wisdom of the First Peoples 2017 \n\n\n\nSynergy\, Healing\, & Empowerment: Insights from Cultural Diversity \n\n\n\nDefining Synergy | Dr. Gillian Berry(video) \n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gillian Berry\, Senior Advisor of Culture & Workforce Development \n\n\n\nDr. Gillian Berry is Senior Advisor of Culture & Workforce Development at Stepped Care Solutions. She is a published author and a clinical social worker\, with over 35 years of experience as an educator and practitioner. She has overseen the counseling and psychological services at George Washington University\, leading a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals through the implementation of the Stepped Care 2.0 approach into their service delivery. She has been a faculty member at the University of Botswana’s Department of Social Work Southern Africa and the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her clinical interests are strongly influenced by her grandfather’s Indigenous philosophy\, and she provides short-term solution-focused services/therapy from this perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Catie Greene\, Faculty of Culture & Workforce Development \n\n\n\nCatie Greene\, PhD\, LPC is a counselor educator and supervisor.  Catie has worked as a clinician in college counseling centers and group practice\, and an educator in Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate programs for over 11 years and joined Stepped Care Solutions as a faculty consultant on synergy\, beyond diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in 2020. Catie’s research and practice is grounded in Relational Cultural Theory.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister via Zoom
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/synergy-in-action-bringing-concepts-beyond-dei-into-the-mental-health-workplace/
CATEGORIES:Public
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SUMMARY:CBHL Leadership Community | Equity as a Foundation for Leadership 
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, January 9\, 2025Theme: Integrating Data Equity Frameworks and Culturally Responsive Behavioral Health Approaches 12:00 pm PT / 1:00 pm MT / 2:00 pm CT / 3:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a leader\, are you:  \n\n\n\n\nReady to cultivate an understanding of how inequity is perpetuated by and in behavioral health systems? \n\n\n\nInterested in how to practice intersectional allyship? \n\n\n\nCurious about integrating data equity frameworks and culturally responsive approaches? \n\n\n\nAware of the importance of engaging in co-production and community-driven practices\, but need a little support in doing so? \n\n\n\nPrepared to demonstrate transformational leadership to improve communities? \n\n\n\n\nIf the answer is yes to any of the above\, then this leadership community is for you!  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us together with Ebony Chambers\, CBHL’s Director of Equity-Grounded Leadership\, at our newest leadership community – Equity as a Foundation for Leadership – for a bi-monthly leadership community designed for any CBHL member interested in developing their knowledge\, skills\, and leadership behaviors as an equity-grounded leader.  You are encouraged to register and join the full series.  \n\n\n\nBackground: Equity-grounded leadership shifts the focus of leaders towards intersectionality\, equity\, and anti-racism to drive behavioral health systems transformation. The equity-grounded leadership concept was co-produced with cross-sector behavioral health leaders from around the country\, who developed equity-grounded leadership competencies\, or Principles of Change. Each of the five Principles is accompanied by the necessary knowledge\, values\, skills\, and operational practice behaviors associated with each principle.    \n\n\n\n\nWhat is a CBHL Leadership Community? \n\n\n\nCBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders\, organizations\, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.  \n\n\n\nWhat is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community? \n\n\n\n\nImprove knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration\, the exchange of ideas\, and professional dialogue.  \n\n\n\nFacilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual\, organizational\, and community outcomes. \n\n\n\nEncourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeadership Community Host\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEbony Chambers is the Director of Equity-Grounded Leadership for The College for Behavioral Health Leadership. In this role\, she oversees the delivery\, facilitation\, content\, and progress of the Equity-Grounded Leadership (EGL) Fellow Program.   \n\n\n\nEbony has over 18 years of experience working with issues of social justice\, equity\, education\, mental health and diversity.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-leadership-community-equity-as-a-foundation-for-leadership-january/
CATEGORIES:CBHL Leadership Community,Members Only
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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Reducing Barriers to Licensure to Expand and Diversify the Behavioral Health Workforce
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Reducing Barriers to Licensure to Expand and Diversify the Behavioral Health Workforce\n\n\n\nCreating a More Inclusive and Effective Workforce  \n\n\n\nTuesday\, December 17\, 2024 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, December 17 for our next Workforce Solutions Jam! The Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Center for Workforce Solutions. \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam will provide an opportunity to: \n\n\n\n\nLearn innovative new practices\n\n\n\nStay informed about ongoing efforts\n\n\n\nEngage with subject matter experts\n\n\n\nHear about new legislation and/or federal workforce efforts\n\n\n\nTake action!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs the demand for mental health and substance use treatment continues to grow\, it is critical to develop a workforce that reflects the diverse populations it serves. Barriers to obtaining licensure remain a pressing challenge for many entering the field\, as 57% of people who earn master’s degrees in mental health disciplines do not obtain clinical licensure due to financial\, time\, and regulatory constraints. This session will explore creative solutions\, with insight into the Social Work Interstate Licensure Compact and spotlighting the work of the National Mental Health Workforce Acceleration Collaborative (NMHWAC)\, a program that aims to increase the number of qualified licensed mental health and substance use treatment clinicians\, while increasing diversity in client-facing positions.   \n\n\n\nKey highlights of this webinar include:  \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand barriers to obtaining licensure in mental health disciplines \n\n\n\n\n\nGain insight into the Social Work Interstate Licensure Compact\, including recent updates \n\n\n\n\n\nExplore actionable models and strategies to expand and diversify the behavioral health workforce \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Conway\, MPH is Director of Community Health for Kaiser Permanente. She oversees the management and execution of programs including Housing for Health\, Economic Opportunity\, and Food & Nutrition Security. Amy has worked at Kaiser Permanente (KP) for two decades in several different roles. After receiving her Master’s in Public Health from Tulane University in the nineties\, she began her career as a health educator at the KP clinic in Hayward\, California. She then led regionwide tobacco dependence prevention and cessation initiatives and smoking cessation counselor trainings throughout Northern California. Mid-career she left KP to become the executive director of a nonprofit organization whose mission was to teach people mindfulness meditation. She then returned to KP as a senior managerial consultant working closely with Primary Care Chiefs and Managers to lead performance improvement and strategic projects. Amy served as Regional Director of KP’s perinatal substance abuse program for eight years. Outside of work\, Amy enjoys playing tennis\, hiking\, and snowboarding in Colorado where she lives with her partner Michael\, her dog Eddie\, and two quirky cats.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Karen E. Goodenough\, PhD\, MSW\, LGSW\, is Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers – Minnesota Chapter. Dr. KG has worked in direct practice\, non-profit program management\, has been a consultant in evaluation\, data utilization\, and strategic planning\, and has served as adjunct faculty in numerous BSW and MSW programs throughout Minnesota. Her dissertation research focused on exemptions from licensure\, and she is a member of the MN Board of Social Work Advisory Committee and Legislation and Rules Committee. Dr. KG chairs the NASW Licensure Task Force\, was on the document writing team for the Social Work Interstate Compact\, and is the NASW representative to the Compact Commission.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrea S. Meyer Stinson\, Ph.D.\, LMFT is the Director of Workforce Strategy & Initiatives for Resilient Georgia. \n\n\n\nAs Director of Workforce Strategy & Initiatives\, Dr. Andrea Meyer Stinson leads the National Mental Health Workforce Acceleration Collaborative Program. She is dedicated to growing and strengthening Georgia’s workforce of trauma informed professionals\, while simultaneously identifying barriers\, facilitators and solutions related to Georgia’s mental health workforce shortages. She was co-founder of Resilient Middle Georgia where she helped to build awareness about positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs)\, resilience\, and trauma informed care across an 11-county area. \n\n\n\nDr. Meyer Stinson has worked therapeutically with children\, couples\, families\, and communities since 2001. She has trained extensively in Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)\, Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs)\, and Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Approved Supervisor. With more than two decades of experience working in academia\, she has taught undergraduate\, graduate\, and medical students as a professor in Mercer University’s School of Medicine in the Master of Family Therapy program. She is past president for the Georgia Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (GAMFT) and a former board member for Resilient Georgia. She earned her doctoral degree from The Florida State University\, master’s degree from Purdue University\, and two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Georgia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulia Pavon Rojas M.S\, NCC\, is a pre-licensed\, bilingual mental health counselor whose primary focus is providing individual and group counseling to adults\, adolescents and children. Julia works for Ser Familia\, a non-profit organization with offices all across the metro-atlanta area. Ser Familia provides mental health and prevention services for Latino families in Spanish. Julia graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.S in Psychology and criminal justice studies\, and completed her M.S in mental health counseling at Oklahoma State University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmmaly Perks\, MA\, CCRP\, is an experienced leader in mental health and education\, with over a decade of expertise leading workforce and leadership programs. She holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology and a master’s degree in curriculum\, instruction\, and assessment. As the current Director of the National Mental Health Workforce Acceleration Collaborative for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, she oversees a $15MM national program aimed at addressing the mental health workforce crisis through recruitment\, training\, and retention of mental health clinicians from diverse backgrounds. Previously\, Ms. Perks was Director of the Office of Education and Training for the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychiatry\, where she led programs in workforce and organizational development.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy René\, LCSW has over 30 years of social work experience in the Metro Atlanta area. She graduated from The University of Georgia in 1993 with a Bachelor of Social Work degree and began her career in child welfare with DFCS. She has worked at DFCS until 2004 when she went to work for Hillside\, Inc.\, one of the oldest non-profits in Atlanta. Amy obtained her MSW in 2004 from the University of Georgia. \n\n\n\nAmy has worked at Hillside for 20 years and has served in multiple roles including the Vice President of Community Operations and Clinical Services. She was intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Dr. Tom Lynch and Dr. Adam Payne in 2006 with the original cohort of therapists and staff at Hillside. She has also participated in advanced DBT trainings with Dr. Shari Manning and Dr. Marsha Linehan. She has participated in intensive continuing education training in the areas of Family Preservation\, Foster Care\, Kinship\, Wraparound\, Family Finding\, Trauma\, and Child Welfare. \n\n\n\nAmy lives in North Atlanta with her husband of 15 years and 13 year old daughter. \n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe National Council for Mental Wellbeing launched the Center for Workforce Solutions in 2023 in partnership with The College for Behavioral Health Leadership and Health Management Associates. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-december/
CATEGORIES:Public,Workforce Solutions Jam
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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Addressing the Workforce Shortage Through Policy Change
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Addressing the Workforce Shortage Through Policy Change \n\n\n\nTranslating Innovative Policy Solutions Into Action\n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 19\, 2024 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, November 19 for our next Workforce Solutions Jam! The Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Center for Workforce Solutions. \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam will provide an opportunity to: \n\n\n\n\nLearn innovative new practices\n\n\n\nStay informed about ongoing efforts\n\n\n\nEngage with subject matter experts\n\n\n\nHear about new legislation and/or federal workforce efforts\n\n\n\nTake action!\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe focus of this session will be on innovative policy solutions at the federal and state level aimed at addressing the workforce crisis. In September\, The Kennedy Forum released a report titled\, Building the Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Workforce We Need\, which examines the extent of the shortage and provides guidance for policymakers on payment and reimbursement\, licensure and standardization\, education and training\, and data and technology. Representatives from The Kennedy Forum’s workforce committee will share highlights of the report\, followed by a dialogue with state leaders implementing promising strategies aligned with the report.  \n\n\n\nKey highlights of this webinar include:  \n\n\n\n\nReview the policy recommendations set forth in The Kennedy Forum report and how and why they were developed \n\n\n\nExplore innovative\, promising strategies implemented by state leaders aligned with these policy recommendations \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrea Carlstrom has spent her entire career dedicated to health and wellness in a wide variety of environments and has served the community as Chaffee County Public Health’s (CCPH) Director for almost a decade.  CCPH provides the county with over 30 programs and services\, including chronic disease prevention and early intervention\, communicable disease surveillance and investigation\, emergency preparedness and response\, maternal and family health\, environmental health\, aging well\, immunizations\, and so much more.  In 2019\, she and her colleagues were inspired to ignite a storytelling and advocacy movement to empower and unite the people of Chaffee County and to drive systems and policy change from the tales of lived experience from our own backyard which has become We Are Chaffee.  We Are Chaffee is a catalyst for community conversations\, and it is not uncommon for Andrea to be meeting with community partners and members of the public to hear about their experiences and to strategize on solutions to make living in Chaffee County a better place for all.  As chief health strategists in the communities they serve\, local public health directors have an opportunity to connect people and programming\, leverage resources and expertise\, and improve the health landscape with an equitable lens.  Andrea is honored that she has such a unique role in such a special place that she calls home. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Z Counts\, JD\, is the Chief Policy Officer for The Kennedy Forum\, where he advances a public policy agenda which aims to ensure that all individuals have access to the treatment\, services\, and insurance coverage that meets their needs and the supports necessary to promote prevention\, recovery\, and mental well-being. In previous roles\, Nathaniel served as Senior Policy Advisor for Mental Health to the Commissioner of Health for the City of New York and the Senior Vice President of Behavioral Health Innovation for Mental Health America (MHA). His thought leadership and research have been published in journals such as JAMA Pediatrics\, Lancet Psychiatry\, and Nature Mental Health. He received his JD cum laude from Harvard Law School\, where he was a Student Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy\, and his BA in biology from Johns Hopkins. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Erin Parks is a clinical psychologist\, researcher\, and co-founder of Equip\, a virtual eating disorder program that delivers evidence-based treatment for lasting recovery. She has over 15 years of experience with adolescents and adults in inpatient\, partial hospitalization\, and intensive outpatient settings\, where she has seen firsthand the disparity in who gets diagnosed and who has access to quality treatment. Erin is passionate about quality mental health treatment and helping families differentiate between treatment that feels good and treatment that works.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Helen Egger is a child psychiatrist\, mental health epidemiologist\, and digital health innovator. She is a highly sought world expert in the field of child psychiatry working with countries and global organizations on early interventions and measurement-based care. With over 19k citations to her name\, 100+ peer-reviewed research articles\, and dozens of NIH research grants\, she deeply understands what works in mental health and what is just conjecture. She was recognized by Forbes 50 over 50  for co-founding Little Otter with her daughter\, Rebecca Egger. Little Otter is a virtual child and whole family mental health company providing measurement-based and evidence-based care to children from birth to age 14 and their families.  \n\n\n\nPrior to Little Otter\, Dr. Egger was Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health (NYULH)\, Director of the NYU Child Study Center\, and before that Vice-Chair and Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Duke Medicine. She founded the WonderLab and Digital Design Lab at NYULH and the Early Childhood Mental Health Lab and Information and Information & Child Mental Health Initative at Duke.  \n\n\n\nAs the creator of the PAPA\, the gold standard and first diagnostic assessment for preschool children\, Dr. Egger has shaped the science and practice of early childhood mental health. The PAPA is translated into more than 15 languages. Her work has proved that the rate of mental health disorders in children under the age of 6 are the same as the rates in older children and that early treatment is highly effective.   \n\n\n\nDr. Egger attended Yale College and Yale School of Medicine\, is a mother of four children\, and lives in Durham\, NC\, right up the road from her daughter and co-founder\, Rebecca Egger\, and her first grandchild.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Anita Everett is the Director of the Center for Mental Health Services within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Serving in this role since 2018\, she provides executive leadership for federal efforts to improve the nation’s mental health service systems. \n\n\n\nPrior to SAMHSA\, Dr. Everett served as the Section Chief of The Johns Hopkins Bayview Community and General Psychiatry in Baltimore\, Maryland. She was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. At Hopkins\, she directed 22 community psychiatry programs that provided a range of services to individuals from preschool age to older adults\, that included intensive acute services as well as recovery support services for persons with serious mental illnesses. More recently at Hopkins\, she was involved with the leadership of health system behavioral health integration into accountable care structures. \n\n\n\nEarlier in her career\, Dr. Everett also served as the Senior Medical Advisor to SAMHSA where she worked on the promotion of access to quality services and access to medications in the Medicare prescription drug benefit. From 1999 to 2003\, she served as the Inspector General to the Office of the Governor in the Department of Mental Health in Virginia. During this time\, she completed over 80 inspections of Institutions operated and licensed to provide mental health services in Virginia. She received the Patrick Henry Award for outspoken advocacy. \n\n\n\nDr. Everett is a past president of the American Psychiatric Association\, Maryland Psychiatric Society and the American Association of Community Psychiatry and has received commendation for her work in national healthcare reform and advocacy. She has served on the National Institute on Drug Abuse National Advisory Council\, is currently an ex-officio member of the National Institute of Mental Health National Advisory Council and is also active in several professional organizations. She has been engaged in a number of international projects\, including with the Global Leadership Exchange\, and has provided consultation to the Ministries of Health\, Department of Mental Health in Iraq and Afghanistan on the implementation of mental health services in these countries. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLauren Moyer\, LCSW\, is the Executive VP of Clinical Innovation for Compass Health Network. She is a visionary servant leader with over 20+ years’ experience in the behavior health field\, especially around shaping patient-centered approaches and filling gaps within our system of care. She is the current chair of Missouri’s 988 Taskforce and former chair of Missouri’s Suicide Prevention Network. Ms. Moyer’s multi-faceted experience has equipped her with a comprehensive understanding of the intricate complexities surrounding behavioral health and the transformative potential for change.   \n\n\n\nCompass Health Network (CHN) has been a long-standing Community Mental Health Center for 50 years\, and now serves as one of the largest CCBHC’s in the nation. As a comprehensive health care provider in 47-counties throughout Missouri\, spanning the I-70 corridor from St. Louis to Kansas City\, our clinics are in diverse communities and counties\, serving a multitude of Missouri with diverse backgrounds\, socioeconomic status\, and specifically targeting the marginalized and medically indigent who have historically lacked proper access to affordable and clinically effective treatment services. CHN is also an FQHC\, a free-standing psychiatric in-patient hospital and a 988-crisis lifeline provider that includes the full continuum of crisis on-demand services such as Behavioral Health Crisis Centers (BHCC)\, providing 24-7 access to crisis services and support and assisting with hospital and detention center diversion. CHN has made investment in mobile crisis services\, emergency room enhancement projects (placing staff members at local emergency room departments to support referral into after care\, and most recently the addition of a youth behavioral health urgent care.  \n\n\n\n\n\nModerators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Carter\, LCSW is a Director\, Practice Improvement and Consulting\, for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. He leads initiatives for advancing the mental health and substance use treatment workforce. Prior to joining the National Council\, he served as the data and quality assurance manager for Montgomery County\, Md.\, Child Welfare Services\, where he was responsible for agency data collection\, analysis and reporting of key performance indicators. He started with Montgomery County as a child protective services social worker investigating child abuse and neglect allegations and is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW-C) in Maryland. Prior to his career in social work\, Carter was a program manager at Public Allies\, a national workforce development and social justice nonprofit that advances new leadership to strengthen communities\, nonprofits and civic participation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Delia is a Federal Policy Manager for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Peter manages a number of federal policy portfolios for the National Council\, including issues related to workforce\, telehealth\, equity\, 988/crisis\, and social determinants of health. Prior to coming to the National Council\, Peter worked as a senior attorney for the Florida Senate\, where he drafted and analyzed legislation related to behavioral health\, Medicaid\, child welfare\, and elder care issues. Peter has also worked as a senior attorney for the Florida Department of Health\, where he practiced administrative litigation and prosecuted disciplinary matters concerning physicians\, optometrists\, chiropractors\, psychologists\, and dentists. Peter is a South Florida native and currently lives in Tallahassee\, FL with his wife\, Eliza.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe National Council for Mental Wellbeing launched the Center for Workforce Solutions in 2023 in partnership with The College for Behavioral Health Leadership and Health Management Associates. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-november/
CATEGORIES:Public,Workforce Solutions Jam
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SUMMARY:CBHL Leadership Community | Equity as a Foundation for Leadership 
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 14\, 2024Theme: Practicing Intersectional Allyship12:00 pm PT / 1:00 pm MT / 2:00 pm CT / 3:00 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a leader\, are you:  \n\n\n\n\nReady to cultivate an understanding of how inequity is perpetuated by and in behavioral health systems? \n\n\n\nInterested in how to practice intersectional allyship? \n\n\n\nCurious about integrating data equity frameworks and culturally responsive approaches? \n\n\n\nAware of the importance of engaging in co-production and community-driven practices\, but need a little support in doing so? \n\n\n\nPrepared to demonstrate transformational leadership to improve communities? \n\n\n\n\nIf the answer is yes to any of the above\, then this leadership community is for you!  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us together with Ebony Chambers\, CBHL’s Director of Equity-Grounded Leadership\, at our newest leadership community – Equity as a Foundation for Leadership – for a bi-monthly leadership community designed for any CBHL member interested in developing their knowledge\, skills\, and leadership behaviors as an equity-grounded leader.  You are encouraged to register and join the full series.  \n\n\n\nBackground: Equity-grounded leadership shifts the focus of leaders towards intersectionality\, equity\, and anti-racism to drive behavioral health systems transformation. The equity-grounded leadership concept was co-produced with cross-sector behavioral health leaders from around the country\, who developed equity-grounded leadership competencies\, or Principles of Change. Each of the five Principles is accompanied by the necessary knowledge\, values\, skills\, and operational practice behaviors associated with each principle.    \n\n\n\n\nWhat is a CBHL Leadership Community? \n\n\n\nCBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders\, organizations\, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.  \n\n\n\nWhat is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community? \n\n\n\n\nImprove knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration\, the exchange of ideas\, and professional dialogue.  \n\n\n\nFacilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual\, organizational\, and community outcomes. \n\n\n\nEncourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeadership Community Host\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEbony Chambers is the Director of Equity-Grounded Leadership for The College for Behavioral Health Leadership. In this role\, she oversees the delivery\, facilitation\, content\, and progress of the Equity-Grounded Leadership (EGL) Fellow Program.   \n\n\n\nEbony has over 18 years of experience working with issues of social justice\, equity\, education\, mental health and diversity.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-leadership-community-equity-as-a-foundation-for-leadership-november/
CATEGORIES:CBHL Leadership Community,Members Only
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SUMMARY:Candid Conversations with Fran Silvestri | Learning Across the Globe
DESCRIPTION:Members-Only \n\n\n\n\n\nCBHL Candid Conversations provide an informal platform for connecting and networking with other CBHL members\, fostering an environment where we can learn from one another’s experiences.  Led by a CBHL member or partner\, these sessions are designed to facilitate the exchange of valuable leadership insights\, skills\, and support.  Occurring at least once a month\, Candid Conversations are open to all CBHL members.    \n\n\n\nJoin us for a candid conversation with Fran Silvestri\, MBA\, President of the CBHL Board of Directors and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Leadership Exchange (GLE)! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFran Silvestri\, MBA\, recently left the role as founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Leadership Exchange (GLE)\, formerly the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) and International Initiative for Disability Leadership (IIDL)\, which he helped organize in 2003. GLE is jointly funded by ten countries\, to build partnerships between mental health leaders in order to rapidly exchange knowledge of best and promising practices internationally.    \n\n\n\nBefore his work with GLE (formerly IIMHL)\, Fran was CEO of Monadnock Family Services (MFS) in Keene\, NH.  In this role he looked internationally to identify\, and then replicate\, innovative services that promote recovery and social inclusion for consumers of mental health services. Such services have included the Wyman Way Cooperative\, an independent\, non-profit corporation managed and operated by consumers of mental health services (based on the Trieste model). He was a founder of a state wide Integrated MH network in New Hampshire owned by six hospitals\, 10 MH centers and the largest physician practice in the state.   \n\n\n\nThrough his work with GLE\, he has assisted in building international collaborations resulting in the rapid transfer of innovations and creative practices from one country to another.  \n\n\n\nThe unique week long GLE Leadership Exchange is held every two years and is a unique global experience for key MH leaders to meet international colleagues\, share knowledge and build partnerships. GLE also has facilitated a series of ongoing collaborations on specific topics and has partnered with the WHO on their Special Initiative working with 10 low and middle income countries to link key national mental health leaders to support developments.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\nThe purpose of CBHL Candid Conversations is to:  \n\n\n\n\nNetwork and Collaborate: Meet and engage with fellow CBHL colleagues in an informal\, small group environment that encourages collaboration and the building of meaningful connections \n\n\n\nLearn and Innovate: Acquire new skills and exchange fresh ideas with experienced leaders in a supportive and trusting environment\, fostering personal and professional growth \n\n\n\nShowcase Success: Highlight successful member programs or best and promising practices that demonstrate potential for scaling and broader application. 
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/candid-conversations-with-fran-silvestri-learning-across-the-globe/
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations,Members Only
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SUMMARY:Workforce Solutions Jam | Leveraging AI to Streamline Administrative Tasks in Behavioral Health
DESCRIPTION:Workforce Solutions Jam | Leveraging AI to Streamline Administrative Tasks in Behavioral Health\n\n\n\nEnhancing Provider Efficiency and Care Delivery \n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 15\, 2024 | 10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ETEvent Length: One Hour \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, October 15 for our next Workforce Solutions Jam! The Workforce Solutions Jam is a monthly webinar to build national momentum and encourage collaboration through the Center for Workforce Solutions. \n\n\n\nThe Workforce Solutions Jam will provide an opportunity to: \n\n\n\n\nLearn innovative new practices\n\n\n\nStay informed about ongoing efforts\n\n\n\nEngage with subject matter experts\n\n\n\nHear about new legislation and/or federal workforce efforts\n\n\n\nTake action!\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) technology offers the potential to free up valuable time by reducing the administrative burden on clinicians and other staff through automation and/or streamlining of tasks like documentation\, billing\, patient management\, and scheduling.  By integrating AI into daily workflows\, the goal is for clinicians to focus more on patient care\, improving efficiency\, and to feel less burnout.  However\, it isn’t always easy. In this month’s Workforce Solutions Jam\, hear directly from providers who will share their firsthand experiences with implementing – or attempting to implement – AI technology to reduce administrative burdens in their clinics.  Join us for a candid conversation about the real-world impact\, practical challenges\, and successes of AI on provider efficiency\, patient care\, and clinician well-being.  \n\n\n\nKey highlights of this webinar include:  \n\n\n\n\nFinding the right AI tools and vendors to meet your organizational needs and goals \n\n\n\nUtilization of AI to improve client outcomes and documentation compliance \n\n\n\nUsing AI as a recruitment and retention tool \n\n\n\nIdentifying practical challenges and barriers to AI implementation \n\n\n\nConsiderations for whether AI is the right tool for you \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Kjos\, PsyD\, L.P. is a Minnesota licensed psychologist (#LP5534) and the Chief Executive Officer of Woodland Centers\, a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) in west central Minnesota. Dr. Kjos earned her Master’s (2009) and PsyD (2011) in Clinical Psychology at Pacific University in Forest Grove\, Oregon. After being a staff psychologist at Woodland Centers from 2011 to 2014 then the Clinical Director from 2014 to 2016\, she became its CEO in 2016. As CEO\, Dr. Kjos is responsible for the overall coordination of the internal operations of Woodland Centers. The agency has a seven county catchment area and a robust continuum of outpatient\, rehabilitative\, and residential behavioral healthcare programs serving the entire age range.  \n\n\n\nDr. Kjos is very active in behavioral health services across the state through participation in various associations and serving on non-profit boards. She has served on the board of directors of West Central Industries (WCI)\, a vocational rehabilitation service provider based out of Willmar\, Minnesota from October 2019 to present including being the Vice Chair of this board from 2022 to 2023 and Chair from 2023 to present. She has served as a board member on the Minnesota Association of Resources for Recovery and Chemical Health (MARRCH) from November 2019 to present. Dr. Kjos has been actively involved in the Minnesota Association of Community Mental Health Programs (MACMHP) association since 2014 including advocacy for public policy changes\, training\, collaboration with providers and associations across the state\, and innovation of the mental health and substance use system of care in MN. She has served on the MACMHP board of directors from 2019 to present serving as the Treasurer from 2021-2022 and the board chair from 2022 through 2024. Dr. Kjos is committed to transformation of the healthcare system in the state of Minnesota.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Garima Singh\, MD is a Chief Medical Officer at Burrell Behavioral Health and its parent company\, Brightli. She is triple board certified in American Board of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry\, General Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. She also serves as an adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychiatry\, University of Missouri and participates as an expert panel for ECHO Child and adolescent psychiatry. Prior to her current position at Burrell Behavioral Health\, she was the medical director at the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment. Dr. Singh has been actively involved in teaching\, multiple committees and research projects related to mental illness and autism. In her current role she also focuses on novel methods of healthcare delivery including telehealth\, integrated and collaborative care models especially for rural and underserved areas. She has several publications and has presented in state\, national and international level. She specializes in child psychiatry and especially cares of those with special needs\, autism\, and developmental delays. She is passionate about bullying prevention and expansion of mental health services.  \n\n\n\nDr. Singh grew up in India\, earning her medical degree there before completing a fellowship in child psychiatry at Southern Illinois University (SIU) and her general psychiatry residency at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim McEvoy is a Principal with Health Management Associates and is accomplished in architecting robust technology solutions for state agencies\, health plans and service providers. Jim understands the substantial role data will play in the future of healthcare delivery and works to inform clients around data-driven decisions. He is an experienced project manager and business strategist who has successfully led all phases of diverse Medicaid technology projects. With deep knowledge of CMS reporting\, waiver management and pharmacy data\, Jim aligns business goals to deliver groundbreaking healthcare IT solutions. \n\n\n\nAs a vendor for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services\, Jim managed projects to develop web-based enrollment tools\, federal reporting tools and data warehousing strategies for the department’s 1915(c) waivers\, health home projects\, autism state plan amendment\, and home and community-based services projects. He mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of data and a flexible technical solution set. He anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving business environments and the transfer of knowledge among different departmental units. Jim defined processes and tools best suited to each project and moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals. He created detailed project road maps\, plans\, schedules and work breakdown structures. \n\n\n\nJim has been the subject matter expert for Michigan’s pharmacy data warehousing strategy. He oversaw inbound data loads\, pharmacy encounter processing\, and extracts to health plans and Michigan’s fee-for-service pharmacy benefits manager. With significant experience in systems engineering\, Jim led the design\, development and rollout of approximately 40 extract\, transformation and load (ETL) processes and a dozen web applications for clients with the state of Michigan. \n\n\n\nJim had the privilege of serving as the project manager for the CareConnect360 web application. This tool is responsible for delivering Medicaid claims and encounters information to a diverse user audience\, including health plans\, community mental health agencies\, health home providers and foster care workers. It currently serves seven different business units inside of Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services. \n\n\n\nJim received his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University. Jim lives in the Lansing area with his wife and three children. They can often be found camping or at an MSU football game. When not doing those things\, Jim is a rehabilitating runner and co-hosts MSU’s least topical sports podcast. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZach Boyd\, PhD is the Director of the Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy at the Utah Department of Commerce. Dr. Boyd is a faculty member at Brigham Young University’s (BYU) mathematics department\, where he teaches applied and computational mathematics. Dr. Boyd’s research lab focuses on artificial intelligence\, machine learning\, and mathematical modeling in social science applications\, such as psychology\, economics\, and social networks. Before working at BYU\, Dr. Boyd was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, an NDSEG Fellow at UCLA\, a research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory\, and a Presidential Scholar at BYU.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe National Council for Mental Wellbeing launched the Center for Workforce Solutions in 2023 in partnership with The College for Behavioral Health Leadership and Health Management Associates. The partnership is leveraging Collective Impact to address the workforce crisis\, and using a cross-sector approach to address the long-standing challenges for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce.
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/workforce-solutions-jam-october/
CATEGORIES:Public,Workforce Solutions Jam
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SUMMARY:Candid Conversations with Marcy Melvin | Talking About DEI When We Can't Talk About DEI
DESCRIPTION:Members-Only \n\n\n\n\n\nCBHL Candid Conversations provide an informal platform for connecting and networking with other CBHL members\, fostering an environment where we can learn from one another’s experiences.  Led by a CBHL member or partner\, these sessions are designed to facilitate the exchange of valuable leadership insights\, skills\, and support.  Occurring at least once a month\, Candid Conversations are open to all CBHL members.    \n\n\n\nJoin us for a candid conversation with Marcy Melvin\, President-Elect of the CBHL Board of Directors and Senior Vice President of Clinical Policy and Deputy Director of The Hackett Center for Mental Health at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcy Melvin is a pivotal executive with over 25 years of experience in behavioral health policy\, training\, and clinical practice. As a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas her experience includes providing direct clinical and supervisory services to children\, youth\, parents\, and young adults in various clinical settings including residential\, in-home\, outpatient\, private practice\, primary\, secondary\, and post-secondary locations. Marcy is extremely passionate about advancing health equity and reducing disparities and disproportionality; this has been a culmination of her life’s work in various clinical\, organizational and systems settings.  \n\n\n\nMarcy has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Fisk University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\nThe purpose of CBHL Candid Conversations is to:  \n\n\n\n\nNetwork and Collaborate: Meet and engage with fellow CBHL colleagues in an informal\, small group environment that encourages collaboration and the building of meaningful connections \n\n\n\nLearn and Innovate: Acquire new skills and exchange fresh ideas with experienced leaders in a supportive and trusting environment\, fostering personal and professional growth \n\n\n\nShowcase Success: Highlight successful member programs or best and promising practices that demonstrate potential for scaling and broader application. 
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/candid-conversations-with-marcy-melvin-talking-about-dei-when-we-cant-talk-about-dei/
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations,Members Only
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SUMMARY:Candid Conversations with Vic Armstrong | Leadership to Create a Culture of Partnership with Communities
DESCRIPTION:Members-Only \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCBHL Candid Conversations provide an informal platform for connecting and networking with other CBHL members\, fostering an environment where we can learn from one another’s experiences.  Led by a CBHL member or partner\, these sessions are designed to facilitate the exchange of valuable leadership insights\, skills\, and support.  Occurring at least once a month\, Candid Conversations are open to all CBHL members.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictor Armstrong serves as Vice President for Health Equity and Engagement with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. In addition\, he is the National Director of Soul Shop for Black Churches\, a workshop that teaches faith leaders how to minister to congregants that may be dealing with suicidal desperation. Victor previously served as Chief Health Equity Officer for North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services\, with responsibility for leading the overarching strategy and operational goals to promote health equity\, diversity\, and inclusion across all the agency’s health and human services. Victor has also served as ‪Director of the NC Division of Mental Health\, with responsibility and oversight of the public community-based mental health\, intellectual and other developmental disabilities\, substance use\, and traumatic brain injury system in North Carolina. Prior to his NC state government roles\, Victor spent six years as Vice President of Behavioral Health with Atrium Health. \n\n\n\nVictor has over 30 years of experience in human services\, primarily dedicated to building and strengthening community resources to serve individuals who have been historically marginalized. He is a nationally recognized speaker on issues regarding health equity and access to healthcare\, particularly as it relates to individuals living with mental health challenges. \n\n\n\nVictor currently serves on the steering committee of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. He also serves on the Board of Directors for RI International as well as the Board of Directors for I2I Center for integrative health. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for East Carolina University School of Social Work and is the host of the “Strong Talk” podcast. \n\n\n\nVictor’s awards and recognitions include: \n\n\n\n\nLiving Waters Annual Mental Health Summit 2022 “Lifetime Mental Health Champion” Award\n\n\n\nNational Association of Social Workers North Carolina (NASW-NC) 2022 Social Worker of the Year\n\n\n\nAddiction Professionals of NC (APNC) 2021 DEI Leadership & Impact Award\n\n\n\nMental Health America’s 2021 H. Keith Brunnemer\, Jr. Award for “Outstanding Mental Health Leadership”\n\n\n\nBlack Mental Health Symposium 2019 Mental Health Advocate of the Year\n\n\n\nEast Carolina University School of Social Work 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award\n\n\n\nNational Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) NC\, 2012 Mental Health Professional of the Year.\n\n\n\n\nVictor graduated\, Magna Cum Laude\, from North Carolina Central University with a bachelor’s degree in business management and received his MSW from East Carolina University. He is the husband of Dr. Charletta Armstrong and the father of three sons\, Carter\, Alonzo\, and Victor Jr. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\nThe purpose of CBHL Candid Conversations is to:  \n\n\n\n\nNetwork and Collaborate: Meet and engage with fellow CBHL colleagues in an informal\, small group environment that encourages collaboration and the building of meaningful connections \n\n\n\nLearn and Innovate: Acquire new skills and exchange fresh ideas with experienced leaders in a supportive and trusting environment\, fostering personal and professional growth \n\n\n\nShowcase Success: Highlight successful member programs or best and promising practices that demonstrate potential for scaling and broader application. 
URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/candid-conversations-with-vic-armstrong-leadership-to-create-a-culture-of-partnership-with-communities/
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations,Members Only
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