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Annotation: Sections 1 & 2: Do you want to join or become more involved in a committee or council, but are not sure where to begin or which group would be a good fit for you? Do you wonder what the different functions are of decision-making groups and what the members' roles are within these groups? Serving on Groups is a nationally recognized leadership tool that empowers parents to actively and fully participate in decision-making groups. Section 3: The most effective groups use processes to guide their work, and a clear process sets the direction toward the group's goals. So many times, we are on committees or in meetings but don't know what is supposed to happen or how to fully participate. Sections 4 & 5: Are you a member of a committee or council that needs to be more efficient? What makes a committee or council effective? How can group dynamics improve? Section 6: So many times, we are on committees or in meetings but don't know what the process is or how to fully participate, especially when it comes to data. This introductory webinar on data is based on the Serving on Groups that Make Decisions Guidebook resource. The highlight of the revised Guidebook is a section entitled Understanding Data as Information. We live in a world with more available data than ever before. In education, using data is a powerful tool to determine if schools’ efforts are working and if students are meeting their goals. This section provides eight steps to assist you and other group members in making well-informed data-based decisions to improve the experiences of children. It also contains numerous resources for you to access and explore relevant data for your family and community. Sections 7 & 8: Do you want to be more involved in a decision-making group but are not sure where to begin? Are you tired of feeling like the token representative instead of an active member of a decision-making group?

Annotation: Highlights how a family-centered approach to POSC helps states, Tribes, and communities meet the provisions of the 2016 amendments to the CAPTA POSC.

Learning Objectives: • Characterize the essential elements of a family-centered approach. • Summarize Michigan’s collaborative systems efforts across home visiting, substance use disorder treatment, healthcare and child welfare to enhance a family-centered approach to plans of safe care. • Interpret data to understand needs and inform progress. • Recognize equitable access to family-centered services. • Describe stigma.

Annotation: This webinar provides attendees with a roadmap for understanding the science of trust, including strategies that can both develop, nurture, and repair trust between families and professionals. It outlines how researchers have documented new, ongoing, and growing conflict between families of students with disabilities and the professionals who serve them. The presenter explains that the majority of these challenges begin with a lack of trust, that has either never existed in the partnership or deteriorated as a result of a breakdown in communication, incompatible goals, and/or misunderstanding between parties. The webinar reinforces that trust is one of the most commonly mentioned partnership barriers discussed in the literature. Despite this acknowledgment of trust, the science of understanding, developing and nurturing trust is rarely defined, or described in a way that supports conflict prevention or resolution between families and professionals.

Learning Objectives: • Define trust for the family-professional partnership. • Understand the importance of trust. • Identify the barriers to trust. • Describe the relationship between trust and conflict. • Apply strategies used to develop and nurture trust.

Annotation: Cohort #2 of Family Voices of MN, session 5. Authentic parent and professional partnerships. Presented by Carolyn Allshouse.

Learning Objectives: • Identify the key characteristics of authentic parent and professional partnerships. • Advocate and employ strategies for authentic parent and professional partnerships.

Annotation: Building trusting relationships between state, local and academic teams and with youth and young adults is an integral part of nurturing a culture of mutuality and co-creation. This webinar discusses the strategies implemented by the Transitional Age Youth and Young Adults (TSAI) System of Care initiative in Massachusetts to create a culture that prioritizes the communal co-authoring of narratives in support of services that young adults believe in.

Annotation: This recorded session of the SOC Leadership Learning Community focused on how to operationalize family voice and leadership in all aspects of SOC development and expansion. Presenters shared a framework with specific questions and strategies that can be used to guide the implementation of family-driven approaches and foster collaborations with family-run organizations, regardless of the developmental stage of your community and system efforts. Examples that highlight effective approaches to develop and sustain family voice and leadership were shared. In addition, sites will learn how to access resources, peer to peer sharing and ongoing technical assistance in their family engagement and leadership efforts.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the value and importance of family engagement in systems of care. • Understand the role of the Lead Family Contact/Coordinator. • Learn effective strategies for outreach, engagement and activation of families as partners in systems of care.

Annotation: CYSHCN stands from Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs, a group that needs particular attention in our system. This webinar discusses the need for national care coordination standards to help the CYSHCN group. Experts in the field discuss how to achieve the delivery of high quality, family centered and equitable care for this group and talk about their experiences with this work.

Learning Objectives: • Identify who is represented in the CYSHCN group • Explain why national care coordination standards are needed • Reflect on how states can use standards of care coordination of implement better care

Annotation: Family engagement requires a top-down, bottom-up approach where their input permeates the culture of systems, organizations, and programs. Positive outcomes are more likely to be achieved when family engagement is systemic, integrated and comprehensive. Being strategic in how families interact can improve the effectiveness of service delivery in the mental health system. Please watch this recording on Strengthening Systems, Services and Communities for Family Engagement and Leadership.

Learning Objectives: • Identify core principles for meaningfully engaging families. • Learn evidence informed practices for engaging families in child/youth mental health care. • Explore methods for engaging, supporting and retaining family experience and expertise in three key arenas.

Annotation: The National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home (NRC-PFCMH), in partnership with Bright Futures National Center and the Screening, Technical Assistance, and Resource (STAR) Center, is hosting an educational webinar series, Making Connections: The Critical Role of Family-Centered Care in Addressing Social Determinants of Health for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN). The goal of this 2-part webinar series is to provide state Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) / CYSHCN programs, pediatricians, families, and others with information about the impact of social determinants of health on CYSHCN and their families, including implementation strategies for state programs. The series will discuss the role of these groups and state systems in addressing SDOH for CYSHCN by using components of the medical home model. This is the second webinar in the series and features 2 state Title V MCH / CYSHCN programs who will discuss how their states are addressing SDOH for CYSHCN.

Learning Objectives: • Describe data trends related to the impacts of SCOH on CYSHCN. • Increase understanding of the medical home model in addressing SDOH for CYSHCN at the state, community, and clinical levels. • Identify strategies being implemented by state MCH Title V/CYSHCN programs, families, and primary care pediatricians to address SDOH for CYSHCN by using components of the medical home model.

Annotation: The National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home (NRC-PFCMH), in partnership with Bright Futures National Center and the Screening, Technical Assistance, and Resource (STAR) Center, is hosting an educational webinar series, Making Connections: The Critical Role of Family-Centered Care in Addressing Social Determinants of Health for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN). The goal of this 2-part webinar series is to provide state Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) / CYSHCN programs, pediatricians, families, and others with information about the impact of social determinants of health on CYSHCN and their families, including implementation strategies for state programs. The series will discuss the role of these groups and state systems in addressing SDOH for CYSHCN by using components of the medical home model. This is the second webinar in the series and features 2 state Title V MCH / CYSHCN programs who will discuss how their states are addressing SDOH for CYSHCN.

Learning Objectives: • Describe data trends related to the impacts of SCOH on CYSHCN. • Increase understanding of the medical home model in addressing SDOH for CYSHCN at the state, community, and clinical levels. • Identify strategies being implemented by state MCH Title V/CYSHCN programs, families, and primary care pediatricians to address SDOH for CYSHCN by using components of the medical home model.