BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The College for Behavioral Health Leadership - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The College for Behavioral Health Leadership X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.leaders4health.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The College for Behavioral Health Leadership REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20200308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20201101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20210314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20211107T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20220313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20221106T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20230312T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20231105T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220608T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220608T140000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220502T235824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220609T144317Z UID:10000186-1654693200-1654696800@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Webinar with Dr. Tom Insel | Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health DESCRIPTION:Offered in partnership with the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership. This webinar is open to all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe fruit of a lifetime of expertise and a global quest for answers\, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health is a hopeful\, actionable account and achievable vision for us all in this time of mental health crisis. \n\n\n\nDr. Insel\, former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health\, left his position atop the mental health research world to investigate all that was broken—and what a better path to mental health might look like. He found that we do have approaches that work\, both in the U.S. and globally. Mental illnesses are medical problems\, but he discovers that the cures for the crisis are not just medical\, but social. This path to healing\, built upon what he calls the three Ps (people\, place\, and purpose)\, is more straightforward than we might imagine. Dr. Insel offers a comprehensive plan for our failing system and for families trying to discern the way forward. \n\n\n\nPlease join Dr. Tom Insel to discuss his new book! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen: June 8 at 12:00pm PDT / 1:00pm MDT / 2:00pm CDT / 3:00pm EDT \n\n\n\nPresented by: \n\n\n\nDr. Thomas Insel | Author: Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to all! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\nDr. Thomas Insel \n\n\n\nTom lnsel\, M.D.\, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist\, has been a national leader in mental health research\, policy\, and technology. From 2002-2015\, Dr. Insel served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). More recently\, he led the Mental Health Team at Verily (2015-2017); co- founded Mindstrong Health (2017-2019)\, a start-up building tools for people with serious mental illness; and served as a special advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom (2019)\, helping on behavioral health issues. In 2020\, he co-founded Humanest Care\, a therapeutic online community for recovery. He currently serves on the boards of Foundation for NIH\, Fountain House\, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy\, and the Steinberg Institute (Chair\, 2019-2022) as well as being an advisor to several mental health start-ups (including Alto Neuroscience\, Cerebral\, Compass Pathways\, Owl Insights\, Koa Health\, Valera Health). He is the author of Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health (Penguin Random House\, 2022). With journalist co-founders\, he recently launched MindSite News\, a non-profit digital publication focused on mental health issues. Dr. Insel is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received numerous national and international awards including honorary degrees in the U.S. and Europe. More information on Dr. Insel can be found here. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/webinar-healing-our-path-from-mental-illness-to-mental-health/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/06152508/Insel-book.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220524T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220524T113000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220427T193715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220510T172708Z UID:10000185-1653386400-1653391800@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Webinar | The Reality of Co-Production: Learning from Experiences of Working with Service Users as Stakeholders DESCRIPTION:Offered in partnership with the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership. This webinar is open to all. \n\n\n\nThe term co-production refers to a way of working where service providers and users\, work together to reach a collective outcome. The approach is value-driven and built on the principle that those who are affected by a service are best placed to help design it. \n\n\n\nCo-production is an approach to decision-making and service design rather than a specific method. It stems from the recognition that if organizations are to deliver successful services\, they must understand the needs of their users and engage them closely in the design and delivery of those services.  \n\n\n\nCo-production rejects the traditional understanding of service users as dependents of public services\, and instead redefines the service/ user relationship as one of co-dependency and collaboration. Just like users need the support from public services\, service providers need the insights and expertise of its users in order to make the right decisions and build effective services. In practice\, it means that those who are affected by a service are not only consulted\, but are part of the conception\, design\, steering\, and management of services. \n\n\n\nUsing real-life examples\, this interactive discussion session will share learning from the theories\, tensions\, challenges and benefits of co-production in health practice and research. Among other areas\, we will collectively discuss power inequalities\, lived experience vs data to inform decision-making\, and ethical considerations.  \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\nUnderstand the theories and policy drivers of undertaking co-production in health research and services.Consider the real-life implementation challenges of co-production in practice within current health systems and contexts. Develop an understanding how leaders can support co-production in future healthcare.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen: May 24\, 2022 at 9:00am PDT / 10:00am MDT / 11:00am CDT / 12:00pm EDT \n\n\n\nPresented by: \n\n\n\nDr. Corinna Hackmann\, Clinical Psychologist/Adult Services Research Development Lead | Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust\, UK \n\n\n\nDr. Bonnie Teague\, Head of Research and Associate Professor in Mental Health Services Research | Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and University of East Anglia \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to all! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\nDr. Corinna Hackmann \n\n\n\nThe research we develop is clinically applied and has co-production at its heart. Meaningful research development should encompass a multitude of perspectives and empower everybody. This has included work on diagnosis\, peer support\, autistic spectrum disorders\, eating disorders and discharge from inpatient settings. We have worked in collaboration with the World Health Organisation on a paper published in the Lancet Psychiatry on the need to include service-user perspectives in diagnostic guidelines. \n\n\n\nI am also interested in co-creativity\, the arts and language. We are currently working on a project to explore the impact of the language on people who have experienced mental health issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Bonnie Teague \n\n\n\nI work across all areas relating to mental health research and lead the strategic programmes of work relating to research within the NHS. \n\n\n\nMy specific research interests are in mental health inequalities\, global health services and social determinants of mental health. I am also Associate Professor in mental health services research at the University of East Anglia\, and act as supervisor for nursing\, PhD and psychology trainees. \n\n\n\nI am passionate about how research can be used as a tool of education and learning for everyone and can also support principles of health equity by challenging the status quo through high-quality evidence.  My current research focuses on supporting marginalised health groups to engage in health intervention development. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/webinar-the-reality-of-health-research-co-production-learning-from-experiences-of-working-with-patients-as-stakeholders/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220518T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220518T120000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220427T164207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220427T164827Z UID:10000183-1652871600-1652875200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Webinar | Community As Medicine DESCRIPTION:Struggling with workforce shortages? Curious about truly integrative bio-psycho-social-soulful care? Wondering how to integrate peers or coaches into your services? \n\n\n\nOpen Source Wellness (OSW) is an Oakland-based nonprofit with a mission of transforming health care and health outcomes in partnership with communities. \n\n\n\nOSW can be understood as a “Behavioral Pharmacy\,” delivering on the “Behavioral Prescriptions” that primary care\, specialty care\, and behavioral health providers offer to their patients who are struggling with (or at risk for) behaviorally-mediated conditions including depression\, anxiety\, social isolation\, diabetes\, and hypertension. OSW partners with clinical providers and payors to deliver its experiential “Community As Medicine” model\, achieving striking clinical patient outcomes and generating revenue for FQHC’s and other clinical delivery systems. Utilizing culturally-relevant health coaches and peer leaders to support diverse and transdiagnostic populations\, OSW represents a next-generation behavioral health solution and a new way of organizing clinical delivery services. \n\n\n\nCome learn about this innovative approach\, explore implementation models in behavioral health\, ask questions\, and get an experiential taste of the OSW methodology.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen: May 18\, 2022 at 10:00am PDT / 11:00am MDT / 12:00pm CDT / 1:00pm EDT \n\n\n\nPresented by: \n\n\n\nElizabeth Markle\, Ph.D.\, Co-Founder\, Executive Director | Open Source Wellness \n\n\n\nBenjamin Emmert-Aronson\, Ph.D.\, Co-Founder\, Director of Operations | Open Source Wellness \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to all! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Markle\, Ph.D.\, is a licensed psychologist\, speaker\, writer\, researcher\, and Associate Professor of Community Mental Health at California Institute of Integral Studies. Dedicated to multi-theoretical and multi-level approaches to individual and community health and healing\, Elizabeth’s current area of study and innovation is around combining clinical expertise with social entrepreneurship to create sustainable\, thriving cultures of health and wellness. She is the co-founder of Open Source Wellness\, a nonprofit initiative offering experiential behavioral health and wellness via a “Community As Medicine” approach in collaboration with healthcare providers and insurers. Liz’s current quest is around creating intimacy at scale\, creating solutions for authentic and nourishing human connection facilitated by technology. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBenjamin Emmert-Aronson\, Ph.D.\, is a psychologist\, researcher\, and advocate. He earned his M.S. in Statistics from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Boston University. He co-founded Open Source Wellness\, a non-profit nationally recognized for innovation in health. Open Source Wellness partners with underserved communities to transform healthcare and health outcomes\, where people do the actual behaviors that produce good health: eat well\, exercise\, reduce stress\, and connect meaningfully. Participants consistently see striking improvements in their health\, including a 21-point decrease in blood pressure\, a 57% decrease in depression\, and a 77% decrease in emergency room visits. Dr. Emmert-Aronson speaks nationally on the importance of daily behaviors to create health\, the ways that societal forces make it much harder for members of some communities to implement daily behaviors\, and the health disparity this causes. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/webinar-community-as-medicine/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220428T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220428T120000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220308T141318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T164114Z UID:10000177-1651143600-1651147200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:CBHL Member Leadership Conversation | Engaging the Workforce Amid Systemic Realities DESCRIPTION:As leaders\, how do we keep the workforce engaged in direct service work when systemic racism\, inequities\, and barriers to change can make their work feel futile? During a recent leadership conversation\, a member raised this question\, prompting a request for further discussion with CBHL members. Even when organizational leaders attempt to engage at all levels – doing their part to serve individuals while pushing for systems change – operationally\, individuals may not feel like change is happening quickly enough. How can we\, as leaders\, continue to support the workforce at all levels? \n\n\n\nJoin us for a participatory leadership conversation on Thursday\, April 28 at 10am PST / 11am MST / 12pm CST / 1pm EST to further explore this topic and identify key actions we can all take as leaders. \n\n\n\nKey themes from the conversation will be captured and used to identify training topics for a future webinar. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nSession Facilitator\n\n\n\n\nJeffrey Ring\, Ph.D. is an author\, leadership coach\, and consultant working to improve successful team leadership and functioning.  He is also a bilingual Spanish-speaking health psychologist with a focus on fostering seamless integrated whole-person health care.  For nineteen years\, he served as Director of Behavioral Sciences and Cultural Medicine at the Family Medicine Residency Program at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles\, and he holds a Clinical Professorship in Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.  His work has focused on health equity and justice and culturally responsive and respectful care.   Dr. Ring is the first author of the book Curriculum for Culturally Responsive Care: The Step-by-Step Guide for Cultural Competency Training. \n\n\n\nDr. Ring has expertise in self-care\, resilience and well-being and has provided teaching\, coaching and facilitation for a wide array of businesses and healthcare organizations.  In the summer of 2016\, he taught mindfulness meditation to approximately 1200 agricultural workers in Spanish in Central California.  In both 2019 and 2020 he was involved in planning and facilitation of travel for health care leaders through Alabama to better understand connections between slavery\, racism\, mass incarceration\, environmental injustice\, poverty and health inequities. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-member-leadership-conversation-engaging-the-workforce-amid-systemic-realities/ CATEGORIES:Members Only ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220426T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220426T123000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220406T183601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220406T183852Z UID:10000181-1650970800-1650976200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:CBHL Member Dialogue | Developing an Agenda for Advocacy DESCRIPTION:President Biden announced on March 1 a strategy to address the national behavioral health crisis focused on 1) strengthening system capacity by supporting the workforce\, 2) strengthening parity through connections to care\, and 3) extending services into new care settings by creating healthy environments.   \n\n\n\nOn Tuesday\, March 29\, CBHL members met to review the recently announced national behavioral health strategy and to provide recommendations for advocacy. A summary of key themes is available here. \n\n\n\nIn this session\, we will review feedback received during the March 29 conversation\, and begin to develop an agenda for advocacy by identifying a set of strategic directions that encompass each of the three components noted above. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nSession Facilitators\n\n\n\nRon Manderscheid\, Ph.D.\, former President and CEO\, NACBHDD\, Adjunct Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health\, Johns Hopkins University and the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work\, University of Southern California \n\n\n\nGina Lasky\, PhD\, MAPL\, Managing Director\, Behavioral Health\, Health Management Associates \n\n\n\nKatherine Sternbach\, MBA\, MEd\, Partner\, TriWest Group \n\n\n\nAaron J. Walker\, MPA\, Policy Manager\, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASHMPD) URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-member-conversation-developing-an-agenda-for-advocacy/ CATEGORIES:Members Only ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220414T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220414T110000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220302T142059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T164658Z UID:10000175-1649930400-1649934000@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Member Dialogue | International Innovations to Support the Workforce: Addressing Moral Distress and Moral Injury in Healthcare Workers DESCRIPTION:Offered in partnership with the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL)\, this member dialogue is open to IIMHL and CBHL members only. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nOn April 7\, Fardous Hosseiny\, on behalf of The Centre of Excellence on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder at The Royal Ottawa and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health presented on A Guide to Moral Injury\, a practical resource for health care workers and organizations. The guide: i) defines moral injury; ii) lays out the stressors and harms that may lead to moral injury\, focusing on those prevalent in the health care setting related to COVID-19; iii) provides a framework for managing events in the workplace that can lead to moral injury; iv) outlines actions that can be taken at the organizational\, team\, and individual levels to mitigate and reduce the harms that can lead to moral injury; v) explores how race and culture intersect with morality and are axes of identity relevant to the experiences of moral distress and moral injury\, and how racism influences health outcomes. \n\n\n\nThis interactive member dialogue\, open to CBHL and IIMHL members\, is an opportunity to meet your colleagues and dive a bit deeper into the topic of moral injury and opportunities to take action to address within your organizations and teams. \n\n\n\nView the April 7 webinar recording on A Guide to Moral Injury here \n\n\n\nWhen: April 14\, 2022 at 9:00am PST / 10:00am MST / 11:00am CST / 12:00pm EST \n\n\n\nHow: Register via zoom! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by: Fardous Hosseiny\, MSc [He/Him/il]\, President and CEO | Président et chef de la direction\, Centre of Excellence on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Centre d’excellence sur le trouble de stress post traumatique (TSPT) \n\n\n\nFacilitator Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFardous Hosseiny (he/him) is the President and CEO at the Centre of Excellence on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Related Mental Health Conditions (CoE-PTSD)\, located at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre in Ottawa. \n\n\n\nBefore coming to the CoE-PTSD\, Fardous was most recently the interim National Chief Executive Officer and the National Director of Research and Public Policy\, at the Canadian Mental Health Association. \n\n\n\nHis research focuses on strategic policy issues related to mental health system transformation\, parity legislation\, Veteran and their Families mental health\, substance use and addiction and mental health for newcomers and underrepresented groups. Fardous is also a frequent commentator on these issues for Global News\, CBC\, CTV News\, The Globe and Mail\, The Toronto Star\, among others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFardous was a part of the Canadian delegation to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly and played a role in the development of the first ever United Nations event dedicated to mental health. \n\n\n\nFardous also serves on many national and international committees\, including as an executive advisor on the Global Alliance for Mental Health Advocates (GAMHA) and past co-chair for the Canadian Alliance for Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) and Canadians for Equitable Access to Depression Medication (CEADM). \n\n\n\nFardous completed a Master of Science with a focus on the neuroscience of addiction and a BSc Honours\, both at the University of Toronto. He also holds a Certified Health Executive (CHE) designation from the Canadian College of Health Leaders. \n\n\n\nFardous is on the Board of Directors – Canadian Juries Commission. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/member-dialogue-international-innovations-to-support-the-workforce-a-guide-to-moral-injury/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Members Only ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220407T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220407T110000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220302T141549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T152135Z UID:10000173-1649325600-1649329200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Webinar | International Innovations to Support the Workforce: Addressing Moral Distress and Moral Injury in Healthcare Workers DESCRIPTION:Register Here\n\n\n\n\nOffered in partnership with the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership. This webinar is open to all. \n\n\n\nIn January\, CBHL members met to discuss the continued strain on our health care – and specifically behavioral health – workforce.  As a result of this conversation\, The College for Behavioral Health Leadership\, in partnership with the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership\, is proud to offer a series of international innovations to support our workforce. \n\n\n\nSince the COVID-19 outbreak\, frontline health care workers and first responders have been under considerable stress. Every day they are engaged in a balancing act making critical decisions around which patients will receive life-saving care when resources are limited\, having to discharge someone earlier than recommended to avoid the risk of infecting others\, or having to eliminate ‘non-essential’ care during the crisis. \n\n\n\nBeing stretched physically and mentally\, and unable to provide optimum care to everyone\, may lead to moral injury. Moral injury refers to the impact of extremely challenging\, morally laden experiences that upset one’s value system. If not addressed\, moral injury can result in long-lasting emotional and psychological damage. \n\n\n\nHealth care workers need organizational\, team\, and individual supports now. \n\n\n\nThe Centre of Excellence on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder at The Royal Ottawa and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health have co-developed A Guide to Moral Injury that addresses this situation among health care workers. A practical resource for health care workers and organizations \,the guide: i) defines moral injury; ii) lays out the stressors and harms that may lead to moral injury\, focusing on those prevalent in the health care setting related to COVID-19; iii) provides a framework for managing events in the workplace that can lead to moral injury; iv) outlines actions that can be taken at the organizational\, team\, and individual levels to mitigate and reduce the harms that can lead to moral injury; v) explores how race and culture intersect with morality and are axes of identity relevant to the experiences of moral distress and moral injury\, and how racism influences health outcomes. \n\n\n\nWhen: April 7\, 2022 at 9:00am PST / 10:00am MST / 11:00am CST / 12:00pm EST \n\n\n\nHow: Register via zoom! \n\n\n\nPresented by: Fardous Hosseiny\, MSc [He/Him/il]\, President and CEO | Président et chef de la direction\, Centre of Excellence on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Centre d’excellence sur le trouble de stress post traumatique (TSPT) \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFardous Hosseiny (he/him) is the President and CEO at the Centre of Excellence on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Related Mental Health Conditions (CoE-PTSD)\, located at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre in Ottawa. \n\n\n\nBefore coming to the CoE-PTSD\, Fardous was most recently the interim National Chief Executive Officer and the National Director of Research and Public Policy\, at the Canadian Mental Health Association. \n\n\n\nHis research focuses on strategic policy issues related to mental health system transformation\, parity legislation\, Veteran and their Families mental health\, substance use and addiction and mental health for newcomers and underrepresented groups. Fardous is also a frequent commentator on these issues for Global News\, CBC\, CTV News\, The Globe and Mail\, The Toronto Star\, among others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFardous was a part of the Canadian delegation to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly and played a role in the development of the first ever United Nations event dedicated to mental health. \n\n\n\nFardous also serves on many national and international committees\, including as an executive advisor on the Global Alliance for Mental Health Advocates (GAMHA) and past co-chair for the Canadian Alliance for Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) and Canadians for Equitable Access to Depression Medication (CEADM). \n\n\n\nFardous completed a Master of Science with a focus on the neuroscience of addiction and a BSc Honours\, both at the University of Toronto. He also holds a Certified Health Executive (CHE) designation from the Canadian College of Health Leaders. \n\n\n\nFardous is on the Board of Directors – Canadian Juries Commission. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/international-innovations-to-support-the-workforce-a-guide-to-moral-injury/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220329T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220329T123000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220311T165013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220324T191346Z UID:10000179-1648551600-1648557000@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:CBHL Member Leadership Conversation | Advocacy for the National Behavioral Health Strategy DESCRIPTION:President Biden announced on March 1 a strategy to address the national behavioral health crisis focused on 1) strengthening system capacity by supporting the workforce\, 2) strengthening parity through connections to care\, and 3) extending services into new care settings by creating healthy environments.   \n\n\n\nJoin us for a participatory leadership conversation led by CBHL members on Tuesday\, March 29 at 10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET to review the recently announced national behavioral health strategy and to provide recommendations for advocacy. CBHL members are encouraged to provide input into President Biden’s plan so that advocacy can move in the right direction and be effective. Key themes and recommendations from the conversation will be captured for follow up. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nSession Facilitators\n\n\n\nRon Manderscheid\, Ph.D.\, former President and CEO\, NACBHDD\, Adjunct Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health\, Johns Hopkins University and the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work\, University of Southern California \n\n\n\nGina Lasky\, PhD\, MAPL\, Managing Director\, Behavioral Health\, Health Management Associates \n\n\n\nKatherine Sternbach\, MBA\, MEd\, Partner\, TriWest Group \n\n\n\nAaron J. Walker\, MPA\, Policy Manager\, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASHMPD) URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-member-leadership-conversation-advocacy-for-the-national-behavioral-health-strategy/ CATEGORIES:Members Only ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220324T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220324T121500 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220302T140552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220317T142406Z UID:10000171-1648119600-1648124100@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Equity as a Foundation for Leadership: Experiences and Recommendations for Behavioral Health Leaders DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime zone information: Webinar starts at 10:00am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00pm ET \n\n\n\nLeaders must embody equity as an operating principle – as a mindset – to transform behavioral health systems.  \n\n\n\nLate in 2021\, Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 3 leaders were asked to share their experiences and perspectives on equity as a foundation of leadership. In a diverse region with nearly 31\,000\,000 people\, clear racial disparities exist on key indicators of health equity. The consequences of these disparities are far-reaching and not only affect the health and well-being of individuals receiving care\, but also of the behavioral health workforce.   \n\n\n\nOn March 1\, 2022\, the Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center (CE-ATTC)\, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and operated by The Danya Institute\, released a report describing and defining Equity Grounded Leadership for use by behavioral health leaders in Region 3 states. This report\, developed by The College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL) in partnership with Just Health Collective\, LLC and Prevention Institute\, builds on the Danya Institute’s ongoing efforts to improve diversity\, increase cultural competency\, and address population-specific needs of people receiving and delivering behavioral health services in Region 3. While developed based on the experiences of Region 3 leaders\, the recommendations are applicable to leaders across the country. \n\n\n\nTo learn more about the experiences of and recommendations for developing equity-grounded leaders and prioritizing health equity stemming from Region 3 behavioral health leaders\, see the report\, Equity as a Foundation for Leadership: Experiences and Recommendations for Behavioral Health Leaders. \n\n\n\nThis webinar will offer an overview of the report development and outcomes\, key takeaways for organizations and communities\, and a description of and discussion about the importance of equity-grounded leadership.  We will also seek your feedback on what is needed next to support equity-grounded leadership in Region 3. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\nOscar MorganProject Director\, Central East (Region 3) Addiction Technology Transfer Center\n\n\n\nDr. Jei AfricaDirector\, Marin County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services\n\n\n\nKathy PostonChief Engagement Officer\, Just Health Collective\, LLC\n\n\n\nRuben CantuAssociate Program Director\, Prevention Institute\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOscar Morgan\, Project Director\, Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center\n\n\n\nOscar Morgan is the interim director of the Danya Institute where he is responsible for the management\, growth\, and development of the Institute and has primary responsibilities for supervision of the Institute’s personnel. He is also the Project Director of the Central East MHTTC where is responsible for the programmatic and administrative coordination of all training and technical assistance (T/TA). \n\n\n\nHis background includes serving as the Mental Health Commissioner for the State of Maryland\, where he expanded the workforce from a static capacity of 200 providers to more than 3\,000\, and established a self-governed\, peer support organization throughout the state. He brings more than 35 years of experience in the mental health and substance use service fields\, with expertise in providing evidence-based and culturally and linguistically competent services\, trauma-informed programs\, mental health and substance use organizational systems\, and program integration. \n\n\n\nHe was an author of The National Action Plan on Behavioral Health Workforce commissioned by SAMHSA and has written articles on health equity and provided T/TA on emerging policies and trends affecting the care and treatment of individuals with mental illness for providers and stakeholders in the 50 states and territories. \n\n\n\nHe holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado\, Boulder and a Masters of Health Service Administration from George Washington University. Mr. Morgan also has a Certificate of Public Health Leadership from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\n\nDr. Jei Africa\, Director\, Marin County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services\n\n\n\nDr. Jei Africa\, PsyD\, MSCP\, CATC-V\, Director of Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) at the County of Marin\, is an innovative thought-leader and clinician who is passionate about integrating effective culturally responsive practices into the core functioning of County health services. Dr. Africa has over 2 decades experience in the areas of behavioral health\, trauma\, health equity and diversity. He maintains also consulting and private psychotherapy practice in the Bay Area. \n\n\n\nFor over a decade\, Dr. Africa served as the Director of the Office of Diversity and Equity with the San Mateo County Health System where he led agency-wide efforts addressing health equity that received State recognition. He spearheaded the development of the first-ever multi-disciplinary behavioral health LGBTQ+ community center\, led the health system’s change efforts to enable the collection of SOGI data for all patients\, and was instrumental in the opening of a transgender health clinic. Prior positions include: Clinical Director at Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse and Manager of Youth Treatment Services at Asian American Recovery Services. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his professional work\, Dr. Africa was appointed to serve as a founding member of the San Mateo County LGBTQ Commission (2014-2017)\, and currently volunteers with Alliance for Community Empowerment (ALLICE)\, an all-Filipino organization offering free education on healthy relationships (2007-present). He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and at the Mabuhay Health Clinic\, a free student-run clinic affiliated with the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). He was a member of the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities Regional Health Equity Council (RHEC) IX\, previously served as a Senior Research faculty member at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University and a fellow with the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) Leadership Institute. \n\n\n\nJei Africa holds a Post-doctoral M.S. degree in Clinical Psychopharmacology\, a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology\, and an M.A. degree in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University/California School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Africa received an undergraduate degree from the University of the Philippines in Behavioral Science. \n\n\n\nKathy Poston\, Chief Engagement Officer\, Just Health Collective\n\n\n\nWith a career spanning more than 25 years in healthcare\, Ms. Poston has extensive management consulting experience leading engagements and managing client relationships. \n\n\n\nMs. Poston partners with executive and senior leaders to advance their health equity and belonging initiatives by providing management consulting and delivery services as well as concentrating on sales and business development. \n\n\n\nIn addition to a more recent focus on health equity and belonging\, Ms. Poston has deep financial and operational experience with matrixed healthcare systems\, specifically focused on physician enterprises. Areas of expertise include large scale physician enterprise assessments\, management and operational redesigns\, patient access and clinical workflow improvements and physician compensation plan redesigns. \n\n\n\nMs. Poston serves as a thought leader around women’s leadership inclusion and advancement issues.  She also serves as an ally in the advancement of people of color\, having served as a member of several business resource communities in support of a diverse and inclusive workforce. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Just Health Collective\, Ms. Poston was a Managing Consulting at Berkeley Research Group and previously held roles at Optum Advisory Services\, a UnitedHealth Group company\, legacy Advisory Board Company. Ms. Poston’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond\, Oklahoma. \n\n\n\nRuben Cantu\, Associate Program Director\, Prevention Institute\n\n\n\nRuben Cantu is an Associate Program Director on Prevention Institute’s Safety and Wellbeing Team. He has more than 20 years of nonprofit experience in public health and mental health and wellbeing through an equity and racial justice lens. At PI\, he leads initiatives to address and prevent community trauma through application of PI’s Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience framework. He also works on strategies to improve mental health and wellbeing through a focus on community conditions. This recently included managing the Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys initiative\, a national community of practice comprising 13 sites across the U.S. implementing upstream\, community prevention strategies to build resilience among men and boys of color and military service members\, veterans\, and their families. He is the primary author of California’s strategic plan for reducing mental health disparities and serves on several state advisory committees. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/equity-as-a-foundation-for-leadership-experiences-and-recommendations-for-behavioral-health-leaders/ CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/06152611/PastedGraphic-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220224T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220224T123000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220207T124143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T145104Z UID:10000225-1645700400-1645705800@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:A Year Ahead in Behavioral Health Policy DESCRIPTION:Hosted in partnership with the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHDD). \n\n\n\nThis event is open to the public and free for all to attend. Click here to register and for login instructions. \n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nOne year into a new administration. Two years into a behavioral health pandemic within a lingering COVID pandemic.  Three opportunities to address the needs of our communities. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a dialogue with some of our nation’s behavioral health leaders to look a year ahead in behavioral health policy for three issues being addressed by communities throughout the country: \n\n\n\nImplementation of 988 and crisis system transformationsSupporting workforce mental health and addressing burnoutAddressing mental health needs of children and youth\n\n\n\nThis 90-minute conversation will include discussion about what is expected in national policy for each of these three issues\, what this means at the local level\, and the balance between community rights and personal rights. \n\n\n\nPre-reading:  We Must Confront Difficult Policy Questions in the New Year \n\n\n\nJonah Cunningham\, President and CEO\, National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHDD)\, Executive Director of the National Association for Rural Mental Health (NARMH)Ron Manderscheid\, former President and CEO\, NACBHDD\, Adjunct Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health\, Johns Hopkins University and the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work\, University of Southern CaliforniaMarcellina Melvin\, Deputy Director\, The Hackett Center for Mental Health\, Deputy Director\, The Hackett Center for Mental Health\, A Regional Center for Meadows Mental Health Policy InstituteAntonio Muñoz-Hilliard\, New York Certified Peer Specialist (NYCPS) and National Certified Peer Specialist (NCPS)Marvin Southard\, Retired Los Angeles County Mental Health Director\, and Retired Professor of Practice at University of Southern CaliforniaHannah Wesolowski\, Chief Advocacy Officer\, Government Relations\, Policy\, and Advocacy\, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)\n\n\n\nWhen: February 24\, 2022 at 10:00am – 11:30am PST / 11:00am – 12:30pm MST / 12:00pm – 1:30pm CST / 1:00pm – 2:30pm EST \n\n\n\nHow: Join us via Zoom! Register below for login instructions. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to RSVP and for Login Instructions\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Info\n\n\n\n\n\nJonah CunninghamDr. Ron ManderscheidMarcellina MelvinTony Muñoz-HilliardDr. Marvin SouthardHannah Wesolowski\n\n\n\n\n\nJonah C. Cunningham\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. \n\n\n\nDr. Ron Manderscheid\n\n\n\nRon Manderscheid\, Ph.D.\, has a life-long commitment to social-justice\, particularly racial\, gender\, and health equity. This is reflected through a career that spans national work with the Congress and Administration\, federal agencies\, NGOs\, and university teaching. \n\n\n\nHe serves currently as Adjunct Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health\, Johns Hopkins University\, and the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work\, University of Southern California. Until recently\, he was President/CEO\, National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors and National Association for Rural Mental Health. Both organizations represent county and local authorities in the DC community. \n\n\n\nConcurrently\, Dr. Manderscheid serves on the boards of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare\, the National Grand Challenge for Social Work Initiative\, the Danya Institute\, and the NASMHPD Research Institute. He also served until recently as the Co-Chair of the National Coalition for Whole Health. \n\n\n\nPast appointments include Director of Mental Health and Substance Use Programs at the Global Health Sector of SRA International and several federal leadership roles at the National Institute of Mental Health\, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration\, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health\, U.S. Department of HHS. Throughout his career\, he has emphasized and promoted the concerns of peers with behavioral health conditions and their family members.    \n\n\n\nDr. Manderscheid was a Member of the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Healthy People 2020; the Clinton Healthcare Reform Task Force; President of the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association (FEIAA) and Foundation; Chair of the APHA Mental Health Section and Governing Council\, and a member of the post-9/11 Work Group; Chairperson of the Sociological Practice Section of the American Sociological Association; President of the Washington Academy of Sciences and the District of Columbia Sociological Society; and President of  The College for Behavioral Health Leadership. \n\n\n\nHe edited eight editions of Mental Health\, United States\, co-edited Outcome Measurement in the Human Services\, and contributed to Public Mental Health\, First and Second Editions. He also published more than 500 papers on services to persons with mental illness and substance use conditions. He serves on several editorial boards and prepares a periodic blog for Behavioral Healthcare Executive (www.behavioral.net). \n\n\n\nMarcellina Melvin\n\n\n\nMarcy Melvin joined Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute in April 2018. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas with over 18 years of experience developing and implementing mental health programs\, systems\, and procedures in primary\, secondary\, and post-secondary educational settings. She is a child\, adolescent\, and family-trained. Ms. Melvin has over 25 years of experience in providing direct clinical and supervisory services to children\, adolescents\, parents\, and young adults in various clinical settings: residential\, in-home\, outpatient\, private practice\, primary\, secondary\, and post-secondary locations. \n\n\n\nWhile at Meadows Institute\, Marcy led the American Red Cross Texas CARES grant and supported the Texas CARES-Training grant. These grants helped to support the mental and behavioral health needs of teachers\, students\, and their families along the Gulf Coast that were impacted by Hurricane Harvey. She assisted in leading a comprehensive environmental scan of the child welfare services in Harris County. She assisted in the financial analysis of the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department MST program. In addition to these projects\, Ms. Melvin helped develop a Mental Health Strategic Framework for Region 4 ESC. She also co-led the Rebuild Texas Dickinson Independent School District project. She was instrumental in developing and delivering curriculum for early childhood teachers\, local early childcare center/daycare center staff\, and parents in Dickinson ISD. The trainings were intended to improve the social-emotional health of young children. Marcy has taken the lead on creating Meadow’s Institutes strategic framework that incorporates health equity into policy work\, and she supports the implementation of these strategies across the organization. \n\n\n\nMs. Melvin 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\nTony Muñoz-Hilliard\n\n\n\nTony Muñoz-Hilliard is a New York Certified Peer Specialist (NYCPS) and National Certified Peer Specialist (NCPS) who firmly believes in the power of lived experience. Tony uses the challenges he has navigated in his own life to inspire hope in others and illustrate that recovery and whole-health wellness are indeed possible\, despite mental illness\, substance use and/or difficult life circumstances. \n\n\n\nTony has lived experience with major depressive disorder and substance use\, and uses his training in Intentional Peer support (IPS) and the Need-Adapted Treatment Model (NATM) to support and provide trauma-informed care to peers. Tony also works on a mobile treatment team in New York City and is a peer advisor for the Public Psychiatry Fellowship of New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center. He has presented nationally and internationally on topics such as peers on interdisciplinary teams\, peer workforce\, trauma and social determinants of health. \n\n\n\nTony is currently a student at SUNY Empire State College\, where he is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology\, and is a trained video producer with Manhattan Neighborhood Network\, which allows him to incorporate the arts in his recovery process. \n\n\n\nDr. Marvin Southard\n\n\n\nDr. Marvin (Marv) Southard is the former Director of the largest county-run mental health services organization in the United States\, the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH)\, with a budget approaching $3 billion\, serving more than a quarter of a million persons annually that supports innovative co-located services within schools\, courts\, other County departments\, and various community organizations.In this role at LACDMH\, Marv assembled a ground-breaking team that accomplished creative and inclusive work with communities including regional mental health urgent care centers\, crisis response teams\, children and older adult systems of care\, Health Neighborhoods\, and partnerships with faith communities to further social justice.Marv has focused his career on empowering healthy urban and rural communities to strengthen recovery from mental health and substance use challenges. He served for a decade as a leader of community behavioral health services in East Los Angeles. Marv also founded substance abuse treatment centers and served as a clinical director and leader of numerous organizations\, as well as acting in another county government leadership role as the Kern County Director of Mental Health. On leaving government service\, Marv continued to serve communities\, mental health organizations\, and governmental entities as a consultant and Professor of Practice at the University of Southern California (USC)\, where he developed the Professional DSW degree program\, mentoring the next generation of community service leaders. \n\n\n\nHannah Wesolowski\n\n\n\nHannah Wesolowski is Chief Advocacy Officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Hannah and the entire Government Relations\, Policy & Advocacy team work with advocates\, partners and NAMI leaders to enact policy change that will improve the lives of all people affected by mental health conditions. She believes in the power of advocates sharing their stories to advance research\, increase mental health funding\, improve access to care\, expand social supports and decriminalize mental illness. \n\n\n\nShe came to NAMI in 2017 with more than a decade of experience in advocacy\, joining the NAMI team after five years at the Public Affairs Council to help associations\, corporations and nonprofit advocacy groups build government affairs efforts programs. She previously led political advocacy efforts at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Institute of Architects. \n\n\n\nHannah grew up in New Hampshire and has a B.A. from New York University\, where she also earned an MPA from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/a-year-ahead-in-behavioral-health-policy/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/06152631/logos.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220217T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220217T143000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220118T182644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220118T182648Z UID:10000222-1645102800-1645108200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Portraits of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion Efforts in Behavioral Health Nationwide DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHDD) and Optum \n\n\n\nEfforts nationwide to promote diversity\, equity\, and inclusion (DEI) are critical to advancing a more just and equitable society.  However\, the strategies and approaches to promoting equity can be drastically different given the organizations leading these efforts as well as the regional and cultural contexts in which they occur.  Please the NACBHDD and Optum as we explore DEI efforts nationwide from state\, local\, and corporate partners.  Our expert panel will also highlight timely resources to help your organizations promote similar efforts.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers include: \n\n\n\nMichelle Cabrera\, Executive Director\, County Behavioral Health Directors of CaliforniaGilbert Gonzalez\, Director\, Bexar County Department of Behavioral and Mental HealthGraham McLaughlin\, Vice President of Social Responsibility\, OptumDebra L. Wentz\, Ph.D.\, President and CEO\, New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies\, Inc. (NJAMHAA)Lynda Zeller\, Former Commissioner for Behavioral Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Administration\, Michigan Department of Health and Human ServicesModerated by Ron Manderscheid\, Ph.D.\, former President and CEO\, NACBHDD\, Adjunct Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health\, Johns Hopkins University and the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work\, University of Southern California\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/portraits-of-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts-in-behavioral-health-nationwide/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220217T120000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220124T174453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220202T002607Z UID:10000223-1645095600-1645099200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:CBHL 2022 Member Meet and Greet and Welcome Call DESCRIPTION:Who:  All CBHL members  \n\n\n\nWhat:  Join us for our 2022 CBHL Member Meet and Greet and Welcome Call to meet your colleagues\, orient you to CBHL member activities and initiatives\, and to discuss how you can be involved! We will discuss topics including: \n\n\n\nLeadership topics of interest to you\,How to access and take advantage of member activities\, Upcoming webinars\, leadership conversations\, and training opportunitiesNew initiatives including the Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program\, And more!\n\n\n\nWhen:  Thursday\, February 17\, 2021 at 10:00am PST / 11:00am MST / 12:00pm CST / 1:00pm EST \n\n\n\nWhere: Join us on zoom! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-2022-member-welcome-call/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Members Only ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220203T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220203T153000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220113T183432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220114T143959Z UID:10000221-1643896800-1643902200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Small Group Dialogue | Equity Grounded Leadership Competencies DESCRIPTION:Time zone information: Focus group starts at 1:00pm PST / 2:00pm MST / 3:00pm CST / 4:00pm EST \n\n\n\nBehavioral health leadership\, historically and presently\, lacks diversity and fails to reflect the populations being served. With a new generation of leaders emerging and increasing attention on the traumatic impacts of racism in behavioral health\, systemic change efforts must be action-oriented\, grounded in equity\, and trauma-informed. \n\n\n\nIn 2021\, the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL) hosted leadership conversations\, participated in key informant interviews\, and conducted surveys to understand experiences and perspectives related to equity-grounded leadership.  Based on this work\, we know leaders of color report a need for intentional focus on equity and anti-racism\, trusted leaders in positions of influence\, and mentorship to develop leaders who embody equity and represent the communities served.  \n\n\n\nAs we work for meaningful systems change and measurable action to transform behavioral health leadership\, we are seeking leaders to join us in conversations that will inform the core competencies for the CBHL Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program. The innovative\, new program is designed to shift the focus of cross-sector behavioral health leaders to equity and anti-racism as the foundation for systems transformation. These 90-minute discussions will center around the defining characteristics of equity-grounded leadership to inform the core competencies of the Fellow Program.  \n\n\n\nWe are seeking behavioral health leaders of all levels to join these conversations. We are particularly interested in co-creating the Fellow Program’s core competencies with leaders of color. \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in contributing to this innovative project and connecting with peers during one of the equity-grounded leadership discussion sessions\, please register today! Participants will receive a modest Amazon gift card for their time. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nProject Team and Focus Group Facilitators\n\n\n\n\nCrystal L. Brandow\, PhD\n\n\n\nProgram Development \n\n\n\nDr. Brandow has been working in the behavioral health field for over a decade\, including in well-being and wellness; trauma\, healing\, and resilience; identity\, culture\, and bias; and social justice. She has served in several positions elevating equity in the behavioral health space. Her interests include broader\, interdisciplinary topics related to public health communication\, population health\, and health disparities. Dr. Brandow centers her work around Wellness First\, and aims to bring an authentic\, impactful\, innovative voice to behavioral health.  \n\n\n\n\n\nEbony Chambers\n\n\n\nCurriculum and Facilitation \n\n\n\nMs. Chambers has over 18 years of experience working with issues of social justice\, equity\, education\, mental health and diversity. She is a speaker\, educator\, and workshop leader who has worked extensively throughout the United States and has served nationally and locally as an advocate and activist for access to care and the elimination of the stigma of mental illness for underserved and unserved communities. Her passion is community engagement and empowerment\, equity\, and working with leaders to achieve this mission. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/focus-group-equity-grounded-leadership-competencies-5/ CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220201T103000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220113T183142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220114T143920Z UID:10000220-1643706000-1643711400@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Small Group Dialogue | Equity Grounded Leadership Competencies DESCRIPTION:Time zone information: Focus group starts at 8:00am PST / 9:00am MST / 10:00am CST / 11:00am EST \n\n\n\nBehavioral health leadership\, historically and presently\, lacks diversity and fails to reflect the populations being served. With a new generation of leaders emerging and increasing attention on the traumatic impacts of racism in behavioral health\, systemic change efforts must be action-oriented\, grounded in equity\, and trauma-informed. \n\n\n\nIn 2021\, the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL) hosted leadership conversations\, participated in key informant interviews\, and conducted surveys to understand experiences and perspectives related to equity-grounded leadership.  Based on this work\, we know leaders of color report a need for intentional focus on equity and anti-racism\, trusted leaders in positions of influence\, and mentorship to develop leaders who embody equity and represent the communities served.  \n\n\n\nAs we work for meaningful systems change and measurable action to transform behavioral health leadership\, we are seeking leaders to join us in conversations that will inform the core competencies for the CBHL Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program. The innovative\, new program is designed to shift the focus of cross-sector behavioral health leaders to equity and anti-racism as the foundation for systems transformation. These 90-minute discussions will center around the defining characteristics of equity-grounded leadership to inform the core competencies of the Fellow Program.  \n\n\n\nWe are seeking behavioral health leaders of all levels to join these conversations. We are particularly interested in co-creating the Fellow Program’s core competencies with leaders of color. \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in contributing to this innovative project and connecting with peers during one of the equity-grounded leadership discussion sessions\, please register today! Participants will receive a modest Amazon gift card for their time. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nProject Team and Focus Group Facilitators\n\n\n\n\nCrystal L. Brandow\, PhD\n\n\n\nProgram Development \n\n\n\nDr. Brandow has been working in the behavioral health field for over a decade\, including in well-being and wellness; trauma\, healing\, and resilience; identity\, culture\, and bias; and social justice. She has served in several positions elevating equity in the behavioral health space. Her interests include broader\, interdisciplinary topics related to public health communication\, population health\, and health disparities. Dr. Brandow centers her work around Wellness First\, and aims to bring an authentic\, impactful\, innovative voice to behavioral health.  \n\n\n\n\n\nEbony Chambers\n\n\n\nCurriculum and Facilitation \n\n\n\nMs. Chambers has over 18 years of experience working with issues of social justice\, equity\, education\, mental health and diversity. She is a speaker\, educator\, and workshop leader who has worked extensively throughout the United States and has served nationally and locally as an advocate and activist for access to care and the elimination of the stigma of mental illness for underserved and unserved communities. Her passion is community engagement and empowerment\, equity\, and working with leaders to achieve this mission. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/focus-group-equity-grounded-leadership-competencies-4/ CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220127T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220127T153000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220113T182833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220114T143839Z UID:10000224-1643292000-1643297400@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Small Group Dialogue | Equity Grounded Leadership Competencies DESCRIPTION:Time zone information: Focus group starts at 1:00pm PST / 2:00pm MST / 3:00pm CST / 4:00pm EST \n\n\n\nBehavioral health leadership\, historically and presently\, lacks diversity and fails to reflect the populations being served. With a new generation of leaders emerging and increasing attention on the traumatic impacts of racism in behavioral health\, systemic change efforts must be action-oriented\, grounded in equity\, and trauma-informed. \n\n\n\nIn 2021\, the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL) hosted leadership conversations\, participated in key informant interviews\, and conducted surveys to understand experiences and perspectives related to equity-grounded leadership.  Based on this work\, we know leaders of color report a need for intentional focus on equity and anti-racism\, trusted leaders in positions of influence\, and mentorship to develop leaders who embody equity and represent the communities served.  \n\n\n\nAs we work for meaningful systems change and measurable action to transform behavioral health leadership\, we are seeking leaders to join us in conversations that will inform the core competencies for the CBHL Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program. The innovative\, new program is designed to shift the focus of cross-sector behavioral health leaders to equity and anti-racism as the foundation for systems transformation. These 90-minute discussions will center around the defining characteristics of equity-grounded leadership to inform the core competencies of the Fellow Program.  \n\n\n\nWe are seeking behavioral health leaders of all levels to join these conversations. We are particularly interested in co-creating the Fellow Program’s core competencies with leaders of color. \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in contributing to this innovative project and connecting with peers during one of the equity-grounded leadership discussion sessions\, please register today! Participants will receive a modest Amazon gift card for their time. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nProject Team and Focus Group Facilitators\n\n\n\n\nCrystal L. Brandow\, PhD\n\n\n\nProgram Development \n\n\n\nDr. Brandow has been working in the behavioral health field for over a decade\, including in well-being and wellness; trauma\, healing\, and resilience; identity\, culture\, and bias; and social justice. She has served in several positions elevating equity in the behavioral health space. Her interests include broader\, interdisciplinary topics related to public health communication\, population health\, and health disparities. Dr. Brandow centers her work around Wellness First\, and aims to bring an authentic\, impactful\, innovative voice to behavioral health.  \n\n\n\n\n\nEbony Chambers\n\n\n\nCurriculum and Facilitation \n\n\n\nMs. Chambers has over 18 years of experience working with issues of social justice\, equity\, education\, mental health and diversity. She is a speaker\, educator\, and workshop leader who has worked extensively throughout the United States and has served nationally and locally as an advocate and activist for access to care and the elimination of the stigma of mental illness for underserved and unserved communities. Her passion is community engagement and empowerment\, equity\, and working with leaders to achieve this mission. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/focus-group-equity-grounded-leadership-competencies-3/ CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220127T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220127T123000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220113T182627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220114T143752Z UID:10000219-1643281200-1643286600@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Small Group Dialogue | Equity Grounded Leadership Competencies DESCRIPTION:Time zone information: Focus group starts at 10:00am PST / 11:00am MST / 12:00pm CST / 1:00pm EST \n\n\n\nBehavioral health leadership\, historically and presently\, lacks diversity and fails to reflect the populations being served. With a new generation of leaders emerging and increasing attention on the traumatic impacts of racism in behavioral health\, systemic change efforts must be action-oriented\, grounded in equity\, and trauma-informed. \n\n\n\nIn 2021\, the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL) hosted leadership conversations\, participated in key informant interviews\, and conducted surveys to understand experiences and perspectives related to equity-grounded leadership.  Based on this work\, we know leaders of color report a need for intentional focus on equity and anti-racism\, trusted leaders in positions of influence\, and mentorship to develop leaders who embody equity and represent the communities served.  \n\n\n\nAs we work for meaningful systems change and measurable action to transform behavioral health leadership\, we are seeking leaders to join us in conversations that will inform the core competencies for the CBHL Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program. The innovative\, new program is designed to shift the focus of cross-sector behavioral health leaders to equity and anti-racism as the foundation for systems transformation. These 90-minute discussions will center around the defining characteristics of equity-grounded leadership to inform the core competencies of the Fellow Program.  \n\n\n\nWe are seeking behavioral health leaders of all levels to join these conversations. We are particularly interested in co-creating the Fellow Program’s core competencies with leaders of color. \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in contributing to this innovative project and connecting with peers during one of the equity-grounded leadership discussion sessions\, please register today! Participants will receive a modest Amazon gift card for their time. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nProject Team and Focus Group Facilitators\n\n\n\n\nCrystal L. Brandow\, PhD\n\n\n\nProgram Development \n\n\n\nDr. Brandow has been working in the behavioral health field for over a decade\, including in well-being and wellness; trauma\, healing\, and resilience; identity\, culture\, and bias; and social justice. She has served in several positions elevating equity in the behavioral health space. Her interests include broader\, interdisciplinary topics related to public health communication\, population health\, and health disparities. Dr. Brandow centers her work around Wellness First\, and aims to bring an authentic\, impactful\, innovative voice to behavioral health.  \n\n\n\n\n\nEbony Chambers\n\n\n\nCurriculum and Facilitation \n\n\n\nMs. Chambers has over 18 years of experience working with issues of social justice\, equity\, education\, mental health and diversity. She is a speaker\, educator\, and workshop leader who has worked extensively throughout the United States and has served nationally and locally as an advocate and activist for access to care and the elimination of the stigma of mental illness for underserved and unserved communities. Her passion is community engagement and empowerment\, equity\, and working with leaders to achieve this mission. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/focus-group-equity-grounded-leadership-competencies-2/ CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220126T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220126T130000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220106T182231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220106T182924Z UID:10000217-1643198400-1643202000@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:CBHL Member Leadership Conversation | Understanding and Addressing Workforce Burnout Through the Pandemic DESCRIPTION:The resurgence of COVID-19 due to the Delta and Omicron variants continues to strain our healthcare\, and behavioral health workforce. Changing workflows\, increased workload\, fear of illness\, and job insecurity all contribute to burnout. Behavioral health providers are pushed to the limits of their mental\, emotional\, and professional bandwidth with no signs of reprieve. Support and administrative staff are taking on new responsibilities and are more frequently isolated from coworkers. As the demand for mental health services remains high\, the impact to our workforce continues to grow. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a participatory leadership conversation on Wednesday\, January 26 at 11am PST / 12pm MST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST to: \n\n\n\nExplore challenges related to workforce burnout.Share solutions implemented to address these challenges.Identify resources and/or training that would be helpful for organizations and systems working to address burnout.\n\n\n\nKey themes from the conversation will be captured and used to identify training topics for a future webinar. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-member-leadership-conversation-understanding-and-addressing-workforce-burnout-through-the-pandemic/ CATEGORIES:Members Only ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220125T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220125T110000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20220113T182045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220114T143715Z UID:10000218-1643103000-1643108400@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Small Group Dialogue | Equity Grounded Leadership Competencies DESCRIPTION:Time zone information: Focus group starts at 8:30am PST / 9:30am MST / 10:30am CST / 11:30am EST \n\n\n\nBehavioral health leadership\, historically and presently\, lacks diversity and fails to reflect the populations being served. With a new generation of leaders emerging and increasing attention on the traumatic impacts of racism in behavioral health\, systemic change efforts must be action-oriented\, grounded in equity\, and trauma-informed. \n\n\n\nIn 2021\, the College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL) hosted leadership conversations\, participated in key informant interviews\, and conducted surveys to understand experiences and perspectives related to equity-grounded leadership.  Based on this work\, we know leaders of color report a need for intentional focus on equity and anti-racism\, trusted leaders in positions of influence\, and mentorship to develop leaders who embody equity and represent the communities served.  \n\n\n\nAs we work for meaningful systems change and measurable action to transform behavioral health leadership\, we are seeking leaders to join us in conversations that will inform the core competencies for the CBHL Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program. The innovative\, new program is designed to shift the focus of cross-sector behavioral health leaders to equity and anti-racism as the foundation for systems transformation. These 90-minute discussions will center around the defining characteristics of equity-grounded leadership to inform the core competencies of the Fellow Program.  \n\n\n\nWe are seeking behavioral health leaders of all levels to join these conversations. We are particularly interested in co-creating the Fellow Program’s core competencies with leaders of color. \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in contributing to this innovative project and connecting with peers during one of the equity-grounded leadership discussion sessions\, please register today! Participants will receive a modest Amazon gift card for their time. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nProject Team and Focus Group Facilitators\n\n\n\n\nCrystal L. Brandow\, PhD\n\n\n\nProgram Development \n\n\n\nDr. Brandow has been working in the behavioral health field for over a decade\, including in well-being and wellness; trauma\, healing\, and resilience; identity\, culture\, and bias; and social justice. She has served in several positions elevating equity in the behavioral health space. Her interests include broader\, interdisciplinary topics related to public health communication\, population health\, and health disparities. Dr. Brandow centers her work around Wellness First\, and aims to bring an authentic\, impactful\, innovative voice to behavioral health.  \n\n\n\n\n\nEbony Chambers\n\n\n\nCurriculum and Facilitation \n\n\n\nMs. Chambers has over 18 years of experience working with issues of social justice\, equity\, education\, mental health and diversity. She is a speaker\, educator\, and workshop leader who has worked extensively throughout the United States and has served nationally and locally as an advocate and activist for access to care and the elimination of the stigma of mental illness for underserved and unserved communities. Her passion is community engagement and empowerment\, equity\, and working with leaders to achieve this mission. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/focus-group-equity-grounded-leadership-competencies/ CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220112T121500 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20211228T171720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211228T180347Z UID:10000216-1641985200-1641989700@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Core Competencies in Peer Crisis Support: Values\, Practices and Skills DESCRIPTION:Offered in partnership with the New York Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (NYAPRS) and Humannovations. This webinar is a follow up to Intensity\, Lived Experience\, and Crisis: Activating Peer Support for a Transformed Mental Health Crisis Response System\, held on December 15\, 2021. \n\n\n\nLived experience of crisis and peer support can be incredibly valuable when people are experiencing ‘crisis-level’ emotions such as suicidal intensity. Dispensing with stigmatizing and dehumanizing language related to these experiences is a crucial first step\, altering clinical and law enforcement practices that feel more like punishment than care is also crucial. Peer specialists and peer empowerment values need to be effectively integrated as supports in intense situations as well. But structural resistance\, risk aversion and stigma have prevented anything like widespread involvement of people with lived experience in crisis or suicide prevention programming. \n\n\n\nGiven that the peer empowerment model developed in reaction\, at least to some degree\, to coercion and dehumanizing  experiences associate with interventions when people were at their worst moments\, how can the value of shared experience and peer support work in a new system of crisis care\, such as envisioned through the 988 transformation? \n\n\n\nThe key to successful integration of “peer crisis support” is a set of core practices and skills that provide people with lived experience with distinctive competencies for supporting peers in these moments and settings\, and the opportunity and confidence to employ them. Ie the practical transformation of lived experience into lived expertise for crisis support. \n\n\n\nIn this session we will present a comprehensive approach to bridging peer support values and practices to support in crisis services and settings\, including core skills for encountering threat of violence and suicidal intensity. The presenters will outline the details of one model of advanced ‘peer crisis support’ training (Growing Through) and provide discussion on the integration of these practices from the point of view of both public mental health and suicide prevention fields. \n\n\n\nParticipants will learn: \n\n\n\nAn approach to bridging peer support values and practices for ‘encountering intensity’ with peers.Trauma-informed reframes of clinical terminology for humanizing the experience of crisis and strugglesA set of peer crisis support core competencies\, including support for suicidal intensity\n\n\n\nWhen: January 12\, 2021 at 10:00am PST / 11:00am MST / 12:00pm CST / 1:00pm EST \n\n\n\nHow: Join us via Zoom! \n\n\n\nPresented by: Eduardo Vega\, M. Psy\, CEO and Founder\, Humannovations \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\nEduardo Vega is an internationally recognized thought leader in recovery-oriented programs and policy\, consumer/patient rights\, stigma reduction\, and suicide prevention\, whose work continues to drive the forefront of change for public health and mental health worldwide. He is founder and CEO of Humannovations\, a consulting and training firm providing innovative solutions for mental health and suicide prevention internationally\, fueled by social justice and the “lived experience” of people who have been there. Clients of Humannovations include the World Health Organization\, Asana\, the White House Office of Science & Technology\, the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\, the Movember Foundation\, Suicide Prevention Australia\, the International Bipolar Foundation\, the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)\, Facebook and more. \n\n\n\nA former Fulbright Specialist and California State Commissioner for Mental Health Services\, Vega has led and served on multiple health policy bodies and as an invited expert to the Office of the White House of President Obama. He has presented and consulted on technical issues in behavioral health with stakeholder and consumer groups\, private industry and government in the US\, Japan\, Australia\, New Zealand\, Canada\, Europe\, Fiji and Latin America. He serves on the the Steering Committee of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\, and the US National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. \n\n\n\nFor his transformative leadership Vega has been recognized by the United States Senate and the United States Surgeon General\, the State of California\, the nation of Fij. He holds an M.A. in Psychology from New School for Social Research. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/core-competencies-in-peer-crisis-support-values-practices-and-skills/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/06152706/LOGOS.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20211215T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20211215T120000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20211118T115635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T185339Z UID:10000215-1639566000-1639569600@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Intensity\, Lived Experience\, and Crisis: Activating Peer Support for a Transformed Mental Health Crisis Response System DESCRIPTION:Offered in partnership with the New York Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (NYAPRS) \n\n\n\nWhile much progress has been made to develop a modern array of ‘crisis services’ including mobile crisis units\, hospital diversion programs and ‘crisis call centers’ through and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network\, the integration of people with lived experience of suicide and crisis as peer support providers\, though\, has been slow to advance. \n\n\n\nPeer support can and should play an active role at many points in the transformation of crisis response systems\, including those driven by the national 988 line initiative. This presentation will address several questions: \n\n\n\nWhere and how these get integrated is the key question.How can ‘crisis’ services connect with the empowerment foundations of peer support?How does peer support look and feel different at times of intensity?How can lived experience be meaningfully connected with when things like self-harm and suicide are present?\n\n\n\nThe presenter covers the array of these issues\, while presenting key concepts for program and policy change\, grounded in the values of dignity and recovery\, to humanize the issues in the practical work of ‘peer crisis support.’ \n\n\n\nWhen: December 15\, 2021 at 10:00am PST / 11:00am MST / 12:00pm CST / 1:00pm EST \n\n\n\nHow: Join us via Zoom! \n\n\n\nPresented by: Eduardo Vega\, M. Psy\, CEO and Founder\, Humannovations \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\nEduardo Vega is an internationally recognized thought leader in recovery-oriented programs and policy\, consumer/patient rights\, stigma reduction\, and suicide prevention\, whose work continues to drive the forefront of change for public health and mental health worldwide. He is founder and CEO of Humannovations\, a consulting and training firm providing innovative solutions for mental health and suicide prevention internationally\, fueled by social justice and the “lived experience” of people who have been there. Clients of Humannovations include the World Health Organization\, Asana\, the White House Office of Science & Technology\, the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\, the Movember Foundation\, Suicide Prevention Australia\, the International Bipolar Foundation\, the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)\, Facebook and more. \n\n\n\nA former Fulbright Specialist and California State Commissioner for Mental Health Services\, Vega has led and served on multiple health policy bodies and as an invited expert to the Office of the White House of President Obama. He has presented and consulted on technical issues in behavioral health with stakeholder and consumer groups\, private industry and government in the US\, Japan\, Australia\, New Zealand\, Canada\, Europe\, Fiji and Latin America. He serves on the the Steering Committee of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\, and the US National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. \n\n\n\nFor his transformative leadership Vega has been recognized by the United States Senate and the United States Surgeon General\, the State of California\, the nation of Fij. He holds an M.A. in Psychology from New School for Social Research. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/intensity-lived-experience-and-crisis-activating-peer-support-for-a-transformed-mental-health-crisis-response-system/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20211214T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20211214T120000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20211102T084121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211118T111713Z UID:10000213-1639479600-1639483200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:CBHL Membership Meeting | What's to Come in 2022 DESCRIPTION:Is it really the end of 2021? CBHL has an exciting year planned with expanding member benefits and opportunities to connect\, convene\, innovate and lead in 2022. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, December 14 at 10am PST / 11am MST / 12pm CST / 1pm ESTto recap 2021 and review member benefits planned for 2022. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-member-meeting-whats-to-come-in-2022/ CATEGORIES:Members Only ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20211202T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20211202T123000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20211026T113938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T113952Z UID:10000212-1638444600-1638448200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Confronting the Twin Pandemics of COVID-19 and Opioid Overdose DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 2\, 2021 | 10:30 a.m. (PT) /11:30 a.m. (MT) / 12:30 p.m. (CT) 1:30 p.m. (ET) \n\n\n\nJoin this webinar for a dialogue regarding the increased risks to health and wellbeing associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and opioid use disorder\, focusing on the value of peer support and public health practice. Speakers will discuss the current status of treatment for individuals affected by opioid use disorder and the value of mental health support systems that include peer networks. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Hosted by the Brown School’s Open Classroom initiative. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\n\nRon Manderscheid\, PhD \n\n\n\nAdjunct Professor\, Bloomberg School of Public Health\, Johns Hopkins University Adjunct Professor\, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work\, University of Southern California \n\n\n\nRon has a lifelong commitment to social-justice\, particularly racial\, gender\, and health equity. He currently serves on the boards of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare\, the National Grand Challenge for Social Work Initiative\, the Danya Institute\, the NASMHPD Research Institute\, and the National Register of Health Service Psychologists. He also serves as the co-chair of the National Coalition for Whole Health. \n\n\n\nStephanie Campbell\, MSW\, MS\, MA \n\n\n\nDirector\, NYS Behavioral Health Ombudsman Office NYS Office of Addiction Services & Supports  \n\n\n\nStephanie has served as director of the ombudsman program since 2018. Previously \n\n\n\nshe worked as a journalist\, lobbyist and teacher before pursuing her MSW and CASAC-T certification at the New York University Silver School of Social Work. She is proud of her work with Friends of Recovery – New York\, an organization that works to reduce stigma\, effect policy change and promote a culture of recovery. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/confronting-the-twin-pandemics-of-covid-19-and-opioid-overdose/ CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/06152718/PastedGraphic-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20211118T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20211118T133000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20211109T185519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T185714Z UID:10000214-1637238600-1637242200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Protecting Health Worker Mental Health: A Call-to-Action Webinar DESCRIPTION:Join the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in welcoming Dr. Vivek Murthy\, Surgeon General of the United States\, and other national experts for a special webinar event on health worker mental health. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nHealth workers face many challenges as part of their work\, such as long work hours\, rotating and irregular shifts\, exposure to human suffering and death\, and increased risks for exposure to disease and other harms. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified these challenges and contributed to worsening mental health. Some of the concerns include burnout\, distress\, compassion fatigue\, depression\, anxiety\, substance use disorders\, and suicidal ideation. These can impact the overall health and well-being of workers and may impact job performance\, patient care\, and safety. \n\n\n\nAs part of the American Rescue Plan of 2021\, CDC NIOSH received Congressional funding to deliver a national awareness and education campaign to protect and improve the mental health of health workers. ​As we begin this effort\, we invite experts from across the nation to this call-to-action forum to discuss this critical topic. \n\n\n\nFeatured Speakers\n\n\n\nVice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy\, MD\, MBA\, U.S. Surgeon General\, Department of Health and Human ServicesJohn Howard\, MD\, MPH\, JD\, LLM\, MBA\, Director\, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health\, Centers for Disease Control and PreventionLiz Royal\, MA\, Coordinator\, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) National Nurse AllianceLotte N. Dyrbye\, MD\, MHPE\, FACP\, Co-Director\, Program on Physician Well-Being\, Mayo Clinic\n\n\n\nRegister now to hear the latest information and find out how you can get involved as we work to protect and promote the mental health of health workers.   \n\n\n\nMore information is available on the registration page. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/protecting-health-worker-mental-health-a-call-to-action-webinar/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/06152715/PastedGraphic-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20211026T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20211026T100000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20211007T122425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T115210Z UID:10000211-1635238800-1635242400@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:CBHL Member Leadership Discussion: Cross-Generational Leadership DESCRIPTION:“A leader’s biggest struggle is not the routine of the familiar\, but the journey of the unknown. It’s getting from where they are to where they want to be strategically\, tactically\, organizationally\, developmentally\, and most importantly relationally.  It’s been said that the best way to impact your future is to change your present circumstances.  And quite frankly\, I can’t think of a better place to ignite that change than by helping you to gain a better understanding of how to connect with what IS the future – the younger generation – the next generation of leaders.” -Mike Myatt\, N2Growth \n\n\n\nThis leadership conversation will focus on leadership connection across generations. We will explore\, how can we better integrate leaders across generations and their respective belief systems? We will ask emerging leaders to share what they would like experienced leaders to know\, and experienced leaders what they would like to know from emerging leaders. \n\n\n\nBest of all\, we will walk away with 1) new connections across generations to learn from and to grow with\, and 2) action steps you can take within your own organization to better integrate leadership across generations. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, October 26 at 8am PST / 9am MST / 10am CST / 11am EST for an interactive discussion to explore cross-generational leadership in behavioral health.  \n\n\n\nRecommended pre-reading (blog post): Generational Leadership \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-member-leadership-discussion-cross-generational-leadership/ CATEGORIES:Members Only ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20210916T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20210916T120000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20210819T162241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210819T162548Z UID:10000209-1631788200-1631793600@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Crisis Response for Rural Communities—Using Technology and Peer Support to Meet People in Crisis\, Where They Are DESCRIPTION:Offered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Academic Training to Inform Police Responses Initiative \n\n\n\nRural communities can face many challenges developing and delivering crisis response programs for people with behavioral health conditions and intellectual and developmental disabilities\, including wide geographic areas to serve\, limitations in options for local treatment and social services\, and resource constraints related to funding and staffing. Across the United States\, rural communities have adapted best practices in crisis response to overcome these challenges and address the need for services in their jurisdictions by having mental health providers meet people in crisis where they are\, either in-person or through telehealth services. These programs can prevent the need for additional resources\, such as police and emergency medical services\, to respond to individuals in crisis and may enhance short- and long-term outcomes for these individuals. \n\n\n\nPresented by the U.S. Department of Justice\, Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Academic Training to Inform Police Responses Initiative\, this webinar will feature two programs that have adapted crisis response for use in rural communities. Panelists will present the innovative approaches in crisis response implemented by their programs and discuss the challenges of ensuring the needs of individuals in crisis who live in rural communities are met. Additionally\, the Academic Training project team will highlight key resources to support rural communities developing and implementing crisis response in their jurisdiction. \n\n\n\nClick here to register URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/crisis-response-for-rural-communities-using-technology-and-peer-support-to-meet-people-in-crisis-where-they-are/ CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/06152723/PastedGraphic-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20210915T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20210915T121500 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20210825T133230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210825T151720Z UID:10000210-1631703600-1631708100@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:CBHL Member Leadership Discussion: Developing an Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program DESCRIPTION:In late May through early July\, CBHL held three leadership conversations with members exploring what equity-grounded leadership means\, barriers encountered\, skills and supports needed\, and what leaders need to thrive. In this session we will introduce the concept and planning underway to develop an Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program\, discuss how members can get involved\, and seek your input around the following four questions: \n\n\n\nHow can the Fellow Program be structured and implemented to promote a leadership culture of equity and anti-racism?How would we know the Fellow Program is promoting equity and anti-racism amongst individual Fellows (participants)?What would we see across the cohort of Fellows that would let us know this program is promoting a culture of equity and anti-racism?What would we expect to see emerge in the communities or regions the Fellows work in? How would we know this program promoted a community culture of equity and anti-racism?\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/cbhl-member-leadership-discussion-developing-an-equity-grounded-leadership-fellow-program/ CATEGORIES:Members Only ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20210901T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20210901T120000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20210818T094834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210818T095045Z UID:10000208-1630494000-1630497600@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:The Role of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics in Early Diversion: A Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act established Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) to provide a comprehensive collection of services that expand access to treatment\, stabilize people in crisis\, and provide needed treatment and recovery support services to those with the most serious and complex mental and substance use disorders. \n\n\n\nNotably\, CCBHCs have proven to expand timely access to treatment for individuals who are justice involved\, by preventing entrance into the criminal justice system\, minimizing penetration into the criminal justice system\, or promptly engaging individuals into treatment upon reentry. They have also been shown to expand referral and support options for law enforcement responding to mental health crisis calls. \n\n\n\nExpanding from just 66 clinics in 2017 to almost 400 in 2021\, CCBHCs are proving to be an important component of the crisis care continuum. \n\n\n\nThis panel discussion and question and answer session will provide an overview of CCBHC funding mechanisms\, program components\, and outcomes. In addition\, two CCBHC sites\, The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES) in New York\, New York\, and Grand Lake Mental Health Center in Nowata\, Oklahoma\, will describe their approach to enhancing access to crisis care and early diversion. \n\n\n\nPresenters\n\n\n\nBilly Green\, MPA\, Director\, Practice Operations and Clinic Programs; Director\, CCBHC Project\, CASES\, New York\, New YorkPerdella Jean Baptiste\, Senior Peer\, CASES\, New York\, New YorkBrett Beckerson\, MSW\, Director\, Policy & Advocacy\, National Council for Mental Wellbeing\, Washington\, District of Columbia Larry Smith\, Chief Executive Officer\, Grand Lake Mental Health Center\, Claremore\, OklahomaJerry E. Bohannon\, Sergeant\, City of Grove Police Department\, Grove\, Oklahoma\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Discussion Group URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/the-role-of-certified-community-behavioral-health-clinics-in-early-diversion-a-group-discussion/ CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/06152724/PastedGraphic-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20210727T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20210727T140000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20210630T174726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210727T162347Z UID:10000207-1627390800-1627394400@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Follow-Up Discussion | Crisis Response: Peer Leadership to Develop Community Solutions DESCRIPTION:Discussion Description: Mental health and substance use disorder crisis response and prevention are critical elements to helping people stabilize and enter a path to recovery and wellbeing.  There are proven opportunities to improve outcomes in crisis settings via the use of peers\, including reduced trauma\, increased trust\, and reductions in recidivism.    \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday June 30\, panelists shared best practice examples of peer-led crisis response and prevention via an excellent webinar\, found here: Crisis Response – Peer Leadership to Develop Community Solutions. Participants asked for a follow up discussion to dive deeper into your questions\, including topics related to financing\, bringing models to scale\, training and more! Join us for a 60-minute dialogue to address these important topics by registering below. \n\n\n\nWhen: July 27\, 2021 at 12:00pm – 1:00pm PST / 1:00pm – 2:00pm MST / 2:00pm – 3:00pm CST / 3:00pm – 4:00pm EST \n\n\n\nHow: Join us via Zoom! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nSeries Overview: At our 2020 Un-Summit – Partnering with Communities to Improve Health Outcomes – We learned from initiatives around the country whose collaborations led to real improvements in community relationships\, resulting in better health outcomes.  Building a foundation for authentic community partnerships to improve mental health and wellbeing requires establishing a leadership team who is representative of and trusted by the community.  \n\n\n\nThrough a series of three webinars\, CBHL – together with our partners – will explore the importance of engaging\, elevating and promoting the voices of 1) black\, indigenous and leaders of color representing the diversity of the community\, 2) community members as resident leaders of their community\, and 3) peer leaders representing the lived experience of the community. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Info\n\n\n\n\n\nHarvey Rosenthal\, CEO\, New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS)Lisa St George\, Vice President of Peer Support and Empowerment\, RI InternationalMark Clarke\, Project ManagerBaltic Street AEH\, Inc.Steve Miccio\, CEO\, People USA\n\n\n\nHarvey Rosenthal serves as the CEO of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS)\, a peer-provider partnership that has been a leading state and national change agent over the past 25 years.  Harvey has over 44 years of experience working to promote public mental health policies and practices that advance the recovery\, rehabilitation\, rights\, dignity and full community inclusion of individuals with mental health and/or trauma related challenges.  Harvey has helped to create several nationally acclaimed and replicated peer support and transformational training innovations.  He has also worked to fight stigma\, discrimination\, and human rights violations and to advance informed choice protections\, self-directed care and cultural competence. Harvey is a recipient of CBHL’s Timothy J. Coakley Award for Behavioral Health Leadership. His interest in his work is personal\, beginning with a psychiatric hospitalization at age 19. \n\n\n\nLisa St George\, MSW\, CPRP\, CPRSS brings over 40 years of experience in the health and human services industry. She is a seasoned executive leader and currently serves as the Vice President of Peer Support and Empowerment at RI International. Her work with RI has spanned 20 years\, during which time she has provided executive leadership and program development of RI International’s peer support workforce and programs in Arizona\, California\, and New Zealand. She is a principle author of RI International’s Peer Employment Training which\, as of February 2021\, has trained 14\,560 peer support workers nationally and internationally. In addition\, she has written over 100 training tools\, articles\, publications\, and presentations that have focused on peer support\, recovery\, inpatient psychiatry\, and crisis services. Ms. St George has been recognized by her peers and has received the Mental Health Director’s Program of the Year (San Diego) and California Health Hero (Mental Health Association of CA) as well as the Elton George Armstrong Award. Recent publications include\, The Emerging Field of Peer Support within Mental Health Services\, within the Book Workforce Development Theory and Practice in the Mental Health Sector\, (2017) IGI Publications\, and Self-Advocacy and Empowerment\, within the Handbook of Recovery in Inpatient Psychiatry (2016)\, and United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association\, Workbook for Certification (2003). Ms St George also serves as a peer reviewer for several professional journals and believes in supporting the growth of knowledge in the field. Ms. St George served as Faculty Associate at Arizona State University and provided the Master’s Level Social Work Course\, Mental Illness\, Recovery and Social Justice. She has supported the mental health community in Phoenix\, AZ by serving as Vice Chair of the Maricopa Human Rights Committee and as a member of the Arizona Behavioral Health Planning Counsel. Ms St George completed both her Bachelor of Social Work and her Masters of Social Work at Arizona State University. She was a board member of International Association of Peer Supporters for fifteen years and sat as Board Chair for three years. As an Advisory Board Member of Open Minds\, Lisa supports organizations and systems in the development of peer support and recovery services as well as training and consultation in a variety of areas. Ms St George\, worked in childhood oncology and child protective services\, where she researched and developed a care protocol for crack addicted infants for the State of Arizona Child Protective Services before joining RI International. Lisa also serves vulnerable communities and especially refugees within her community through education\, support\, and guidance. Ms St George believes in the resiliency of the human spirit\, and in the inherent strength of people with trauma\, mental health\, and addiction challenges. \n\n\n\nMark Clarke is known to have  excellent problem solving skills and even greater interpersonal skills – drive to innovate is second nature. He has a love for technology that he is more than happy to leverage to the betterment of any projects he is assigned. Mark started working as a Peer Bridger in 2018 for Baltic and through hard work and an environment of growth provided by Baltic\, he is the Project Manager for the Adult Home Initiative. \n\n\n\nWithin the Adult Home Initiative\, Mark has worked closely with his team to ensure that those involve in the Class Action Settlement of O’Toole vs Cuomo (NY state) have the opportunity to transition from their current Adult Home living\, into the community of their choice. It has been Mark’s great pleasure to be able to work with such a dynamic team to implement policies and processes that will affect the lives of those who are disenfranchised\, within the Adult Home or Assisted Living system. \n\n\n\nMark has completed course work in the field of International Business Management out of Charles Sturt University in Sydney Australia in 2008-2010. That experience of the world and sharpening of his business acumen\, has guided Mark’s work ethics. Mark is honored with the role he plays within Baltic Street and looks forward to growing with the organization as they seek to do the important work of community-based Peer services. \n\n\n\nQuote : “If one is lucky\, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” – Maya Angelou \n\n\n\nSteve Miccio is Chief Executive Officer of People USA. Inspired and driven by his personal lived experience\, Steve has spent over two decades creating\, providing\, and promoting innovative crisis response services and systems-level improvements – across the United States and internationally – that raise the bar on customer service\, person-centered communication\, trauma-informed care\, empathy\, and positive expectations for people’s recovery & wellness outcomes. Steve’s unique models and approaches significantly reduce hospital utilization\, incarceration rates\, and overall healthcare spending. Steve’s professional highlights since joining People USA in 1999 include the following: \n\n\n\nFirst in the United States to embed peers in a hospital psych. ER\, blazing the way for a best and evidence-based practice standard today.Created the Rose House model of peer-operated crisis respites / home-like alternatives to hospital psych. ERs & inpatient units; first peer-run hospital diversion houses in New York.Helped open 39 peer-operated crisis respites using the Rose House model across the United States and Europe.Developed OMH White Paper\, “Infusing Recovery-Based Principles into Mental Health Services” with input from over 40\,000 New Yorkers.Created the Dutchess County Stabilization Center; first peer-run crisis stabilization center in the world; first crisis stabilization center in the Northeastern United States.Created the Transitional Care Wellness Team model\, a unique hybrid of transitional care management and wellness coaching.Created the Westchester Forensic Mobile Crisis & Response Team; first peer-run criminal justice-focused mobile team in the United States.Engaged in community-wide systems transformation – across sectors – in multiple counties throughout New York’s Hudson Valley region.Developed unique training programs – for hospitals\, local government units\, and behavioral health organizations across the U.S. – to help them build tomorrow’s behavioral health workforce and culture.Organized and provided Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) trainings to hundreds of law enforcement throughout New York.\n\n\n\nSteve is active with the following groups: Chair of the National Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (PRA); Board member of CIT International; Subject matter expert for the Re-entry Policy Academy headed by the SAMHSA GAINS Center and Policy Research Associates; Member of the International Crisis Now coalition; Member of the Crisis Residential Association; Member of New York State Suicide Prevention Council; Board member of 2-1-1 policy board of Hudson Valley; Executive member of the Dutchess County Criminal Justice Council (DCCJC); Chair of the Diversion Committee (DCCJC); Member of the Dutchess County Police Reform and Modernization Collaborative; Advisory Board member of the Northeast Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. \n\n\n\nSteve lives in the Village of New Paltz\, one of NY’s most vibrant college towns; he is originally from Fishkill\, NY. He enjoys drumming\, fishing\, gardening\, hiking\, rocket building\, and – most importantly – spending time with his family\, including his two amazing daughters\, and his partner Renee. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/follow-up-discussion-crisis-response-peer-leadership-to-develop-community-solutions/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20210722T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20210722T113000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20210509T133529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210707T130352Z UID:10000202-1626948000-1626953400@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Intersections Dialogue: Race Matters (Conversations on Equity and Justice) DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\n\n\n\n\nWho: CBHL members  (Max capacity: 30 participants) \n\n\n\nDescription: On April 6\, we held a leadership conversation titled\, Courageous Leadership – Stepping Away from Power and Privilege to Build Community Trust. After this powerful discussion\, there were numerous requests for additional opportunities for participants to open up and share experiences\, to explore allyship more fully\, and to deeper dive the “how” of courageous leadership. \n\n\n\nThis session will be an Intersections Dialogue\, open to CBHL members only\, to explore how we as leaders can step into our own power to address equity and justice.  Our fear of race conversations has continued to perpetuate and prop up systems of injustice and oppression. Together\, we must agree to no longer accept the invisible cloak of racism that has plagued this country and held us back from creating a more just and equitable society. Real change starts at a personal level and requires awareness building\, education\, and activism. \n\n\n\nWhat is an Intersections Dialogue?  Developed by Just Health Collective\, an Intersections Dialogue consists of small group\, facilitated discussions where learners explore three big questions to develop awareness and commit to a set of personal and professional actions.  Through honest and open dialogue\, we create new understanding and awareness to invoke change. \n\n\n\nWhen:  Thursday July 22\, 2021 at 9:00am PST / 10:00am MST / 11:00am CST / 12:00pm EST \n\n\n\nHow: Join us on Zoom! **Please note: Intersections Dialogues are facilitated\, small group sessions. To aid in our facilitator planning\, if you register but later find you are unable to attend\, please be sure to cancel your registration. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now! URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/courageous-leadership-intersections-dialogue/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Members Only ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/06152845/JHC-Logo-Clean-e1608656293433.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20210630T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20210630T100000 DTSTAMP:20260522T134434 CREATED:20210511T202548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210628T102954Z UID:10000203-1625041800-1625047200@www.leaders4health.org SUMMARY:Crisis Response: Peer Leadership to Develop Community Solutions DESCRIPTION:Webinar Description: Mental health and substance use disorder crisis response and prevention are critical elements to helping people stabilize and enter a path to recovery and wellbeing.  There are proven opportunities to improve outcomes in crisis settings via the use of peers\, including reduced trauma\, increased trust\, and reductions in recidivism.  In this webinar\, panelists will share best practice examples of peer-led crisis response and prevention. Panelists will also discuss opportunities to engage and promote peers into leadership positions to develop community solutions to community behavioral health challenges.   \n\n\n\nWhen: June 30\, 2021 at 7:30am – 9:00am PST / 8:30am – 10:00am MST / 9:30am – 11:00am CST / 10:30am – 12:00pm EST \n\n\n\nHow: Join us via Zoom! \n\n\n\n\nClick here to RSVP and for Login Instructions\n\n\n\n\nSeries Overview: At our 2020 Un-Summit – Partnering with Communities to Improve Health Outcomes – We learned from initiatives around the country whose collaborations led to real improvements in community relationships\, resulting in better health outcomes.  Building a foundation for authentic community partnerships to improve mental health and wellbeing requires establishing a leadership team who is representative of and trusted by the community.  \n\n\n\nThrough a series of three webinars\, CBHL – together with our partners – will explore the importance of engaging\, elevating and promoting the voices of 1) black\, indigenous and leaders of color representing the diversity of the community\, 2) community members as resident leaders of their community\, and 3) peer leaders representing the lived experience of the community. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Info\n\n\n\n\n\nHarvey Rosenthal\, CEO\, New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS)Lisa St George\, Vice President of Peer Support and Empowerment\, RI InternationalMark Clarke\, Project ManagerBaltic Street AEH\, Inc.Steve Miccio\, CEO\, People USA\n\n\n\nHarvey Rosenthal serves as the CEO of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS)\, a peer-provider partnership that has been a leading state and national change agent over the past 25 years.  Harvey has over 44 years of experience working to promote public mental health policies and practices that advance the recovery\, rehabilitation\, rights\, dignity and full community inclusion of individuals with mental health and/or trauma related challenges.  Harvey has helped to create several nationally acclaimed and replicated peer support and transformational training innovations.  He has also worked to fight stigma\, discrimination\, and human rights violations and to advance informed choice protections\, self-directed care and cultural competence. Harvey is a recipient of CBHL’s Timothy J. Coakley Award for Behavioral Health Leadership. His interest in his work is personal\, beginning with a psychiatric hospitalization at age 19. \n\n\n\nLisa St George\, MSW\, CPRP\, CPRSS brings over 40 years of experience in the health and human services industry. She is a seasoned executive leader and currently serves as the Vice President of Peer Support and Empowerment at RI International. Her work with RI has spanned 20 years\, during which time she has provided executive leadership and program development of RI International’s peer support workforce and programs in Arizona\, California\, and New Zealand. She is a principle author of RI International’s Peer Employment Training which\, as of February 2021\, has trained 14\,560 peer support workers nationally and internationally. In addition\, she has written over 100 training tools\, articles\, publications\, and presentations that have focused on peer support\, recovery\, inpatient psychiatry\, and crisis services. Ms. St George has been recognized by her peers and has received the Mental Health Director’s Program of the Year (San Diego) and California Health Hero (Mental Health Association of CA) as well as the Elton George Armstrong Award. Recent publications include\, The Emerging Field of Peer Support within Mental Health Services\, within the Book Workforce Development Theory and Practice in the Mental Health Sector\, (2017) IGI Publications\, and Self-Advocacy and Empowerment\, within the Handbook of Recovery in Inpatient Psychiatry (2016)\, and United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association\, Workbook for Certification (2003). Ms St George also serves as a peer reviewer for several professional journals and believes in supporting the growth of knowledge in the field. Ms. St George served as Faculty Associate at Arizona State University and provided the Master’s Level Social Work Course\, Mental Illness\, Recovery and Social Justice. She has supported the mental health community in Phoenix\, AZ by serving as Vice Chair of the Maricopa Human Rights Committee and as a member of the Arizona Behavioral Health Planning Counsel. Ms St George completed both her Bachelor of Social Work and her Masters of Social Work at Arizona State University. She was a board member of International Association of Peer Supporters for fifteen years and sat as Board Chair for three years. As an Advisory Board Member of Open Minds\, Lisa supports organizations and systems in the development of peer support and recovery services as well as training and consultation in a variety of areas. Ms St George\, worked in childhood oncology and child protective services\, where she researched and developed a care protocol for crack addicted infants for the State of Arizona Child Protective Services before joining RI International. Lisa also serves vulnerable communities and especially refugees within her community through education\, support\, and guidance. Ms St George believes in the resiliency of the human spirit\, and in the inherent strength of people with trauma\, mental health\, and addiction challenges. \n\n\n\nMark Clarke is known to have  excellent problem solving skills and even greater interpersonal skills – drive to innovate is second nature. He has a love for technology that he is more than happy to leverage to the betterment of any projects he is assigned. Mark started working as a Peer Bridger in 2018 for Baltic and through hard work and an environment of growth provided by Baltic\, he is the Project Manager for the Adult Home Initiative. \n\n\n\nWithin the Adult Home Initiative\, Mark has worked closely with his team to ensure that those involve in the Class Action Settlement of O’Toole vs Cuomo (NY state) have the opportunity to transition from their current Adult Home living\, into the community of their choice. It has been Mark’s great pleasure to be able to work with such a dynamic team to implement policies and processes that will affect the lives of those who are disenfranchised\, within the Adult Home or Assisted Living system. \n\n\n\nMark has completed course work in the field of International Business Management out of Charles Sturt University in Sydney Australia in 2008-2010. That experience of the world and sharpening of his business acumen\, has guided Mark’s work ethics. Mark is honored with the role he plays within Baltic Street and looks forward to growing with the organization as they seek to do the important work of community-based Peer services. \n\n\n\nQuote : “If one is lucky\, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” – Maya Angelou \n\n\n\nSteve Miccio is Chief Executive Officer of People USA. Inspired and driven by his personal lived experience\, Steve has spent over two decades creating\, providing\, and promoting innovative crisis response services and systems-level improvements – across the United States and internationally – that raise the bar on customer service\, person-centered communication\, trauma-informed care\, empathy\, and positive expectations for people’s recovery & wellness outcomes. Steve’s unique models and approaches significantly reduce hospital utilization\, incarceration rates\, and overall healthcare spending. Steve’s professional highlights since joining People USA in 1999 include the following: \n\n\n\nFirst in the United States to embed peers in a hospital psych. ER\, blazing the way for a best and evidence-based practice standard today.Created the Rose House model of peer-operated crisis respites / home-like alternatives to hospital psych. ERs & inpatient units; first peer-run hospital diversion houses in New York.Helped open 39 peer-operated crisis respites using the Rose House model across the United States and Europe.Developed OMH White Paper\, “Infusing Recovery-Based Principles into Mental Health Services” with input from over 40\,000 New Yorkers.Created the Dutchess County Stabilization Center; first peer-run crisis stabilization center in the world; first crisis stabilization center in the Northeastern United States.Created the Transitional Care Wellness Team model\, a unique hybrid of transitional care management and wellness coaching.Created the Westchester Forensic Mobile Crisis & Response Team; first peer-run criminal justice-focused mobile team in the United States.Engaged in community-wide systems transformation – across sectors – in multiple counties throughout New York’s Hudson Valley region.Developed unique training programs – for hospitals\, local government units\, and behavioral health organizations across the U.S. – to help them build tomorrow’s behavioral health workforce and culture.Organized and provided Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) trainings to hundreds of law enforcement throughout New York.\n\n\n\nSteve is active with the following groups: Chair of the National Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (PRA); Board member of CIT International; Subject matter expert for the Re-entry Policy Academy headed by the SAMHSA GAINS Center and Policy Research Associates; Member of the International Crisis Now coalition; Member of the Crisis Residential Association; Member of New York State Suicide Prevention Council; Board member of 2-1-1 policy board of Hudson Valley; Executive member of the Dutchess County Criminal Justice Council (DCCJC); Chair of the Diversion Committee (DCCJC); Member of the Dutchess County Police Reform and Modernization Collaborative; Advisory Board member of the Northeast Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. \n\n\n\nSteve lives in the Village of New Paltz\, one of NY’s most vibrant college towns; he is originally from Fishkill\, NY. He enjoys drumming\, fishing\, gardening\, hiking\, rocket building\, and – most importantly – spending time with his family\, including his two amazing daughters\, and his partner Renee. URL:https://www.leaders4health.org/event/engaging-and-promoting-peer-leadership-to-develop-community-solutions/ LOCATION:Online Only\, United States CATEGORIES:Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://leaders4health-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06152746/LI_Profile-Bug-01-small.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR