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Annotation: This webinar is part of a PAHO series that aims to promote the life course approach to health and wellbeing. This video consists of panelist experts discussing methods of supporting health throughout one’s life, not just when disease strikes.

Learning Objectives: • Define The Life Course Approach for Health and Development • Review the best way to design child and adolescent health programs • Define the biopsychosocial model and its significance • Outline the ways to achieve goals of health and well-being

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 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: Direct Connect: Led by Youth M.O.V.E. National, this LC is a virtual forum for youth and young adults to develop professional skill sets via virtual training opportunities, connect as a community to share and gather new resources, and unite with other youth advocates and professional peers from across the country. Direct Connect will cover the components of a youth focus group, its purpose and an overview on how to successfully conduct them. Focus groups are used to gather information before, during or after youth programming and activities. The information gathered can help with assessing the needs of the youth, collecting general information, developing programs, activities and ideas, and evaluating outcomes. This webinar will also cover a variety of focus group designs, methods, and formats as well as share a variety of interactive activities that can be used during focus groups to help youth feel comfortable while also gathering important information.

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 webinar describes how youth councils can help promote a national diverse youth voice and improve and educate the mental health community and beyond; describes successes and challenges of facilitating a national youth council to infuse meaningful youth input into service delivery and development; and identifies concrete tools for authentically infusing national youth voices in diverse organizations. A video and slides are available.

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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Annotation: This training brief provides specific learning opportunities and resources for use by the Title V workforce that focus on how to implement and execute skills associated with family-professional partnerships.

Annotation: Engaging with families is vital to transforming the health care system and positively impacting the life course of vulnerable populations. Families have extensive experience in partnering with professionals to improve systems of care, are organized and connected across the country, and stand ready to assist at every level of next efforts for improvement. Learn how to meaningfully involve families at every level of health care systems and engage them as critical partners in designing policies that will improve care for all children. Discussing, Families of Children with Medical Complexity: A View from the Front Lines, the lead author and experts in the field reviewed the article’s key content and shared thoughts on the implications of its recommendations.