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Annotation: An estimated 2 million unplanned pregnancies are prevented each year due to family planning services obtained through Title X, Medicaid, and other publicly funded programs. Expanded access to contraception produces many economic benefits for women, such as bolstering educational attainment, labor force participation, and earnings. Affordable access to contraception, including long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and oral contraceptive pills, is proven to result in fewer unintentional pregnancies and significant cost savings to the health care system. Experts say that ongoing restrictions on reproductive health care may reduce contraceptive use, leading to more unplanned births and exacerbating health inequities. This webinar explores women’s health access, focusing on the impact of Medicaid and family planning.

Learning Objectives: • Discuss the impact of contraception on childbearing outcomes and women’s economic status. • Understand Medicaid’s role in providing LARCs to prevent unplanned pregnancies and fill postpartum care gaps. • Learn a state’s perspective on strengthening family planning programs, including expanding access to contraception.

Annotation: This webinar is part of a community of practice from the DEC Family Partnership Community of Practice begins by outlining a process of allowing equity of voice, creating community, respecting every voice, and sharing the stage. The speaker then 1t 22 minutes in begins a presentation on "Recommended Practices for Meaningful Family Participation and Engagemennt." This discussion explains how to use the Practice Guidelines for Families and Practitioners to support the meaningful engagement of families of children with disabilities or developmental delays.

Learning Objectives: • Become familiar with the DEC Recommended Practices and the Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center Practice Improvement Tools for Families and Practitioners.

Annotation: Individuals with lived experience collaborate with agencies in conducting and leading research and program evaluation findings to inform policy and practice. This video focuses on key considerations to sustain research and evaluation partnership with people with lived expertise and minimize harm, as well as offering concrete strategies to collaborate and share power with youth and families in the practice and process of data collection, research (including Participatory Action Research/Youth Participatory Action Research), and evaluation.

Learning Objectives: • Name key considerations to sustain research and evaluation with people who have lived experience. • Describe Participatory Action Research. • Employ strategies to collaborate and share power with people who have lived experience.

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: This presentation, conducted by MCHB, provides a COVID-19 impact overview and recap. Next, breakout discussions are held around 2 topic areas: 1) vaccinating MCH populations and 2) strengthening mental health supports for families.

Learning Objectives: Highlight the role of the TA Providers in: •Supporting the goals of MCHB in building a nation where all mothers, children and families are thriving. •Supporting grantees and/or the MCH field and the system of services for MCH populations, particularly around the impacts of COVID-19. •Amplifying expertise into respective topical areas/audiences. •Describing strategies and successes for the purpose of replicating within the scope of their work.

Annotation: Bullying is a significant issue in schools, and it is most prevalent in the classroom across elementary, middle, and high schools. In 2019, bullying affected 1 in 5 students ages 12-18. Research shows that bullying can have substantial negative impacts on children and youth. Students involved with bullying can experience emotional harm, physical injury, and academic challenges. This webinar provides education to teachers, school staff, and school administrators to better understand the issue of bullying, know how to recognize it, and how to help individuals involved in bullying.

Learning Objectives: • Explain what bullying is and is not, myths about bullying, and the importance of bullying prevention programs in schools. • Understand the forms that bullying can take, including cyber, child roles of involvement, and the impact on school climate. • Learn best practice strategies for how school staff can help their students involved in ongoing conflicts and bullying.

Annotation: The speakers in this webinar, all funded by HRSA, present the keys to meaningful partnerships with families that include trust and mutual understanding; intentional communication; finding common goals; acknowledging strengths; becoming self aware as individuals and organizations; and recognizing opportunities for partnership. The webinar ends with ideas for sustaining what works and teleservices.

Annotation: This webinar provides an overview of high quality and purposeful peer support for parents, as well as a brief history of how Peer Parent Support has been integrated into Wraparound projects. Presenters will provide an evolution of peer parent support and the various ways it has been implemented within a Wraparound structure. They discuss the history of implementation strategies that have been tried over the past twenty-five years, reviewing challenges and lessons learned.

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.