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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: In this webinar, Dr. Natalia I. Chalmers, D.D.S., M.H.Sc., Ph.D., a pediatric dentist and Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, who also served as Dental Officer within the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, discusses trends in oral health services among those enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP and how early intervention can promote oral health outcomes among children. Campaign resources organizations can use in outreach and enrollment efforts to promote oral health year-round, including print materials, social media posts and graphics, newsletter articles, were featured.

Learning Objectives: • Learn the impact of poor pediatric oral health. • Explore why dental coverage and access matters. • Learn the role of parents in children's oral health coverage and access.

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: 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 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: 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.