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Annotation: In this episode, presenters tackle the topic of redefining rest and productivity with Marissa McKool, Career and Life Coach. Marissa shares her personal wake up call on the brink of burnout, explores why we are sometimes hesitant to take time off, discusses how supervisors and managers can be more supportive of staff, the intersection of oppressive systems and thoughts on rest, and shares ideas and tips for reshaping our mindset throughout the conversation.

Learning Objectives: • Inspire and guide actions that will improve the systems that impact maternal and child health populations. • Lift up stories and people from the MCH field by centering the voices of the public health workforce, people and communities most impacted by inequities, and individuals and families with lived experiences.

Annotation: Men have great potential to proactively support and improve maternal health. This webinar includes an expert panel of male maternal health advocates as they provide concrete examples of male engagement in pregnancy and postpartum support, including challenges and inspiring successes.

Learning Objectives: • Explore co-parent coaching services • Learn about the "On My Shoulders" fatherhood curriculum • Describe community fatherhood mobilization strategies

Annotation: In addition to its physical toll, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the emotional and psychological well-being of children and young adults across the country. The pandemic has exposed the need to address the rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide among young people. Care providers fear that the pandemic, and the lack of action to address issues related to it, could have a long term negative impact on young people. This webinar brought together experts to discuss the opportunities and strategies to help care for children and young adults' mental and physical health after a year of unprecedented challenges.

Learning Objectives: • Discuss the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the mental, emotional, and behavioral health problems of children and adolescents in the United States and efforts to promote children’s well-being. • Learn about an organization's efforts to prevent suicide among LGBTQ youth by providing free resources, support centers, and access to 24/7 crisis services. • Explore a health plan foundation’s commitment to partnerships to strengthen and protect children’s mental health throughout the community.

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: 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: In this webinar recording, presenters discuss youth-friendly social media platforms as tools to grow awareness about mental health, best practices to engage youth online, how social media platforms can be leveraged to help youth connect with the support that they need, as well as examples from across the country.

Learning Objectives: • Become familiar with youth-friendly social media platforms as tools to grow awareness about mental health, early psychosis and clinical high risk. • Discuss best practices and principles to engage youth online through relevant messaging and social media engagement strategies. • Discuss how social media platforms can be leveraged to help youth connect with the support that they need at all phases of care. • Discuss examples and learnings from across the country.

Annotation: This set of slides and quizzes introduces Appreciative Inquiry (AI), a change management approach and tool that focuses on how to build on existing strengths and how to engage stakeholders to create change. It outlines a four-step AI process, provides examples, and links to additional resources.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the rationale for using Appreciative Inquiry (AI). • Use the AI tool. • Facilitate and use AI on your own.

Special Instructions: Please note that there is no audio to this presentation. You can click through, read instructions, and review the content of the slides and quizzes.

Annotation: This webinar focuses on strategies for states and communities to create effective partnerships to expand the systems of care (SOC) approach broadly to achieve shared goals of improving services and outcomes for children, youth, and young adults with behavioral health challenges and their families. A framework is presented that outlines the roles of states and communities in SOC expansion and sustainability, along with guidance for partnerships that emerged from an exploration of effective approaches. This webinar is part of the SOC Expansion Leadership Learning Community.

Annotation: System of care communities are challenged with developing and implementing a family-driven array of services and supports. The National Family Support Network offers the Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support, a framework with the vision is implementation will help ensure that families are supported and strengthened through quality practice. It was designed to be used by all stakeholders–public departments, foundations, community-based organizations, and parents–across different kinds of Family Strengthening and Family Support programs as a tool for planning, providing, and assessing quality practice. This Learning Community provides an overview of the National Family Support Network, its Standards of Quality, and how family leaders and family-run organizations can use the Standards to bring communities together for implementation of quality family support practices.

Annotation: This series of webinars includes the following: Be Prepared to Be Engaged (June 6, 2018) Create a Safe Medicine List Together (June 21, 2018) Teach-Back (August 1, 2018) Warm Handoff Plus (August 9, 2018)0

Learning Objectives: • Review the key threats to patient safety in primary care settings and interventions to engage patients and families to improve safety. • Describe the role and value of each innovation in improving patient safety. • Identify strategies for implementing each innovation in primary care settings.

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