Webinars and Events

On 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 session to discuss in more detail. This session will be conversational, to dive deeper into your questions.

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. Notably, […]

Presented 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.

Health 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.

As 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.

Join 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.

Offered in partnership with the New York Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (NYAPRS)

While 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.

Peer 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.

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.

Participants will learn:
1. An approach to bridging peer support values and practices for ‘encountering intensity’ with peers.
2. Trauma-informed reframes of clinical terminology for humanizing the experience of crisis and struggles
3. A set of peer crisis support core competencies, including support for suicidal intensity

As 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. 

We 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.