Webinar | Welcoming Integrated Systems and Services for People with Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions
This webinar describes how to organize systems and services at every level to be about the needs and hopes of the people and families with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions who are desperately needing help. Leaders will learn how to align best practice principles of integrated care with best practices for organization change so that all programs and staff can be capable of welcoming, inspiring and providing integrated interventions to those who need help the most.
CBHL 2023 Member Meet and Greet
Online Only , United StatesCBHL Members: Join us for a semi-informal dialogue to meet one another, learn more about upcoming activities and ways to be involved, and to share your recommendations for how CBHL can support you this year.
CBHL Member Roundtable: Deconstructing Non-Compliance and Exploring a Counterargument to Forced Treatment
Online Only , United StatesFrom New York to California, policies are being implemented which lead to the increased use of forced treatment orders, reverting to policies of years past. Attempts to address community challenges around homelessness, poverty, and crime are often conflated with mental health challenges and regarded as public safety versus public health issues. This leads to strategies resulting in involuntary hospitalizations and incarcerations. There are numerous research findings demonstrating the damaging, discriminating, and inequitable effects of forced treatment, so why are policymakers reverting to these policies?
Join the dialogue on February 23 at 9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET to de-construct non-compliance and explore a counterargument to forced treatment.
Webinar | Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program: A Co-Produced Approach to Behavioral Health System Transformation
In this webinar, we will share the journey to co-produce the Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program, explore the five Principles of Change for Equity-Grounded Leaders, including the knowledge, values and skills, and operational practice behaviors for each principle, and celebrate examples of equity-grounded leadership in action.
CBHL Member Roundtable: The Role of Families and Relationships
Online Only , United StatesAt our February Member Roundtable, Deconstructing Non-Compliance and Exploring a Counterargument to Forced Treatment, the role of families and/or close relationships was raised as critical to avoiding the conflation of public health with public safety issues. The deep divide around these important issues seem to preempt potential collaboration that could strengthen wanted and needed change. For our March Roundtable, we are going to continue this thread of conversation.
Webinar | Transformational Systems Change and Impact through Data
In this webinar, we’ll share the stages of development that organizations experience on the way to data-informed decision-making, and how to help your team overcome the obstacles at each crossroads. Improving your effectiveness with operational data is important, and it’s easy to get stuck responding to every new external reporting requirement and never get around to looking at data that really matters.
CBHL Member Roundtable: Alternatives to Forced Situations
Online Only , United StatesAt our March Member Roundtable, we discussed opportunities for families, consumers, and advocates to join forces and align around areas to collaborate. In particular, where people or places have concerns about public health, mental health, and/or public safety, leading to forced situations. This dialogue led to a brief discussion around alternatives to forced situations.
Our April Member Roundtable will deep dive alternatives in more detail, with Steve Miccio (People USA) and Harvey Rosenthal (New York Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation) leading the discussion. Join us for a conversation with your CBHL colleagues to learn more about and to contribute to alternatives to forced situations.
Webinar | 2023-2024 Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program Pre-Application Overview
The College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL) is excited to announce a call for applications for a second cohort of the Equity-Grounded Leadership (EGL) Fellow Program! The call to action is a shift in our focus as leaders to intersectionality, equity, and anti-racism for behavioral health systems transformation.
The 2023-2024 Equity-Grounded Leadership (EGL) Fellow Program Pre-Application Webinar is intended to provide a detailed overview of application requirements and program components.
Leadership Conversation – Data
Online Only , United StatesCBHL Member Dialogues are an opportunity to connect with CBHL colleagues and discuss leadership challenges, ideas, and questions around specific topics. This Member Dialogue will center on leadership challenges related to data.
North American Webinar & Roundtable Dialogue | Self-Direction: Supporting Choice, Control, and Independence
Online Only , United StatesSelf-direction, also called self-directed care, is an alternative to traditional service delivery models in which participants control an individual budget, create a person-centered plan, and purchase goods and services they feel will best help them to achieve their goals. In this roundtable, two people who self-direct will share how the expanded choice and control in self-direction has impacted their lives. They’ll be joined by a researcher who will describe outcomes, implementation facilitators and barriers, and best practice in self-direction across the country. Join us for a 90-minute session to engage with the panelists in dialogue.
CBHL Member Roundtable: Policy Advocacy as a Lever for Systems Change
Online Only , United StatesThis month’s roundtable dialogue will focus on policy advocacy, particularly at the local and state level, as a lever for systems change.
We are excited to be joined by Dawn Yuster, a civil rights lawyer, with over 20 years of experience leading campaigns to win policy change, leading and collaborating with coalitions and state and local government agencies, and developing and implementing policies on mental health, juvenile/criminal, school discipline and police and education justice issues. Dawn also has life-long experience as an individual with mental health challenges navigating and advocating for changes in the mental health care system, particularly for low-income students, people of color, and people who are incarcerated, homeless, and disproportionately targeted by the police.
Join us to learn from Dawn’s experience – and to share your own - advocating for behavioral health policy change at the local and state level to influence systems change. Dawn will share real-life examples and strategies and will engage in dialogue with the audience on how to advocate for policy change in your community or region.
Webinar | Behavioral Health in Ohio: Improving Data, Moving Toward Racial & Ethnic Equity
Since early 2022, a multi-organizational collaborative team with expertise in advocacy, policy, research, and organizational transformation have worked together to improve behavioral health for Ohio’s marginalized racial and ethnic populations. Join us to learn how you might replicate this in your own communities, including rationale for use of data to advance racial and ethnic equity, how to create a team structure and work processes to gather and analyze data, and the ways in which the findings are already making an impact in Ohio.