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Annotation: A diversity of voices is essential for equitable healthcare and a just pandemic response. Yet, the voices of people with lived experience have often been missing from the conversation. This includes those with disabilities, individuals with mental health or addiction issues, or people experiencing systemic oppression and exclusion, who have experienced increased risks of harm and found it harder to access needed supports from healthcare services. This webinar raises the voices of people with lived experience to help those working in the sector understand key considerations to mitigate barriers to care and inform more equitable pandemic planning.

Learning Objectives: • Describe barriers exacerbated by the pandemic. • Characterize approaches to ensure justice, dignity and care are provided to all people.

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: 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.

Annotation: Continuous Quality Improvement is a module within a series based on material produced by the Community Action Partnership and the Association of Nationally Certified ROMA Trainers (ANCRT). The series is comprised of a variety of recorded webinars, workshop PowerPoints, facilitator guides, case study examples, and associated resources. The curriculum is based on foundational ROMA principles and practices, exploring the focus areas for ROMA Next Generation and highlighting how all the elements of the Performance Management Framework fit together. In this video, Barbara Mooney and Carey Gibson from ANCRT provide an overview of the CQI purpose and process for Community Action.

Learning Objectives: • Describe what continuous quality improvement is. • Apply continuous quality improvement to the current situation. • Assess agency readiness for change.

Annotation: Outreach and engagement are critical components to establishing better outcomes for youth and young adults of transition age. During this webinar recording, the Young Adult Services and Supports Learning Community (YASS) explored best practices and lessons experienced by the Florida Healthy Transitions team.

Learning Objectives: • Review best practices in outreach, communication and engagement. • Describe the Florida Healthy Transition team’s outreach to engage Y/YAs in behavioral health services and supports. • Provide examples from Florida HT of lessons learned around the integration of youth and young adult (Y/YA) voice. • Offer specific strategies for replication.

Annotation: In this webinar, Susan Berg from the Center for Shared Decision Making at Dartmouth - Hitchcock explain what is shared decision making and how patients/caregivers can work with their medical team to make decisions regarding their healthcare. (June 19, 2019)

Learning Objectives: • Report what shared decision-making is. • Demonstrate how to partner with your healthcare team to make decisions. • Practice methods to help make decisions regarding healthcare. • Indicate how one can be empowered to stand up for their health.