Coming up Webinars and Trainings:

 MARCH 24—Webinar on Medicaid Buy-In: Mental Health America invites you to participate in a webinar on Thursday, March 24, at 3:00 pm, EDT, summarizing research conducted to determine the effectiveness of state Medicaid buy-in initiatives on earnings and employment for people with psychiatric disabilities. The presenters will be Rick Forbess of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and lead reviewers Marci McCoy-Roth and Brigitte Gavin. The study was conducted by the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University in 2010 and was supported by the National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research. To RSVP for this webinar, email Candace Daniels at cdaniels@mentalhealthamerica.net by 12 Noon, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Please write “MEDICAID BUY-IN” in the subject line of the e-mail.

 NEW RESOURCES: Webinars, Toolkits, Invitations

 MARCH 24—Center for Housing Webinar on State Budgets and the Impact on Housing Programs: The Center for Housing will hold a webinar on Thursday, March 24, at 1:00 pm, EDT, on the budget outlook for states, which will focus on the impact of budget shortfalls on housing and other social programs. Speakers from Illinois, Maryland, and other states will describe budget trends affecting their state and possible approaches for supporting housing programs in difficult economic times. To register, visit https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/809701920

 MARCH 24 DEADLINE—Fifth Annual National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media – Call for abstracts: SAMHSA and the CDC invite abstracts for both oral and poster presentations, in addition to panel sessions focusing on health communication, social marketing, media, partnerships, public health policy communication, and other topic areas relevant to this multidisciplinary conference. The submission deadline for abstracts is March 24, 2011. The conference will be held August 9-11, 2011, in Atlanta, GA. For more information, visit http://www.cdc.gov/NCHCMM/abstracts/.

 MARCH 29—CYBERBULLYING AND SUICIDE: What Schools Must Do to Protect Students and Districts: This national webinar will address the true magnitude and toll of bullying and use of the Internet to taunt children all day, every day and everywhere; legal consequences for school districts and legal recourse for parents; how the anonymity that the Internet offers can cloak perpetrators’ identity and enhance the vitriol of their taunting; and what schools, parents and communities must do to keep children safe in the virtual world. The webinar is Tuesday, March 29th, 2011, from 3:00 pm-4:30 pm, EDT. This webinar is free of charge and is sponsored by the Wyoming Department of Health and Wyoming Department of Education. To register, visit https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/724520755. 

MARCH 30—Teleconference from the SAMHSA 10×10 Wellness Campaign:  The SAMHSA 10×10 Wellness Campaign invites you to a free training teleconference titled, “The Impact of Trauma on Wellness: Implications for Comprehensive Systems Change.” This teleconference will educate diverse stakeholders about comprehensive systems change, including preventing harm and inadvertent re-traumatization and ensuring that services and supports are welcoming, engaging, and culturally attuned. The teleconference will be on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 from 3:00 pm–4:30pm EDT. To learn more and to register, visit http://www.promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/10by10/training.aspx.

Registration will close at 5pm ET on Sunday, March 27^th.

MARCH 31—Webinar on Person-Centered Care Planning: The Research to Practice Resource Center will hold a webinar and the second in a four-step series: Step 2 in the Recovery-Oriented Care Continuum: Person-Centered Care Planning. This webinar, to be held on Thursday, March 31, 2011, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m., EDT, will describe the approach of person-centered care planning as it is being developed for people with serious mental illnesses (and as informing the SAMSHA workbooks that are coming out of clearance). For more information about the Research to Practice Resource Center, visit http://www.dsgonline.com/rtp/resources.html.

MARCH 31-Webinar on Anxiety & Adolescents -Recognizing and Managing Teen Anxiety in the
Primary Care Office: The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups will hold a webinar on Thursday, March 31, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, EDT, on methods primary care providers can use to effectively identify anxiety disorders in teen patients, available evidence-based treatments and treatment strategies, and helpful resources for both providers and parents. To view event details, go http://www.teenscreen.org/library/events-webinars/anxiety-and-adolescents.

APRIL 12—Webinar on Peers Providing Employment Related Support Services: Oregon is building a network of peer-run programs that offer employment mentoring.  The Employment Peer Mentor (EPM) project was field-tested in 2010 with a small number of peer-run programs.  Based on the success of that effort, the network of programs is now being expanded. The expanded project is called EPM/OPEN (Oregon Peer Employment Network)—a collaboration of Portland State University and Mental Health America of Oregon. The webinar, which will be held April 12, from 3:00 – 4:00 pm, EDT, will examine foundational principles, model elements, results of a field test, current efforts to expand the network, and strategies to sustain EPM services. Presenters include Rollin Shelton, past executive director of Mental Health America of Oregon. Phone access:  1-866-305-2467, Guest Pin:  518298; Web Access:  www.readytalk.com, Login:  8200138—Login to both at the time of the meeting.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers online violence prevention course: “Principles of Prevention”—a free course that offers continuing education credits—is available 24/7 and teaches key concepts of primary prevention, the public health approach, and the social-ecological model. Participants complete interactive exercises to learn to help prevent five types of violence, one of which is suicide. For more information, visit http://www.vetoviolence.org/pop.

 New Toolkit on Key Strategies for Conducting Advocacy: The National Alliance to End Homelessness has released a toolkit, “Using Advocacy to End Homelessness: A Toolkit for Understanding and Conducting Advocacy.” The toolkit explores strategies to advance policies that prevent and end homelessness, including detailed descriptions of how to execute each strategy as well as engagement tips, adaptable sample materials, and real-life examples. To read more, visit http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/3722.

Recovery to Practice Center:  The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Office of the Associate Director for Consumer Affairs, within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), contracted with Development Services Group, Inc. (DSG) to launch a five‐year Recovery to Practice (RTP) initiative. Within SAMHSA’s workforce development priority area, this initiative seeks to advance a recovery‐oriented approach to mental health care by developing, promoting, and disseminating training curricula on how to translate the concept of mental health recovery into practice; and by providing a Recovery to Practice Recovery Resource Center for mental health professionals engaged in this work. For more information about this center and to subscribe to their newsletter, visit: http://www.dsgonline.com/rtp/resources.html. To receive all Resource Center communications and join the listserv, visit http://www2.dsgonline.com/rtp_listserv/. New resources are being added to the Resource Center on an ongoing basis.