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Annotation: This video describes how Title V agencies are addressing health equity and social determinants of health (SDOH) as a response to their recent five-year needs assessment. It gives specific strategies being conducted by states and jurisdictions. The presenter then provides a conceptual framework for addressing disparities. This framework serves as the structure to discuss several practical tools to use in equity work. The presentation ends with a summary of where to find additional resources.

Learning Objectives: • Identify how Title V agencies are addressing health equity issues as discovered in their needs assessment. • Synthesize common strategies being used in the field related to both health equity and SDOH. • Utilize additional resources through the MCH Navigator.

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: The Early Childhood Family Network’s (ECFN) vision is to live in a world where all children birth to eight are safe, healthy, and inspired to lifelong learning. Join EFCN for its inaugural webinar series for families and partners dedicated to early childhood social and emotional development. Dr. Alice Farrell presents on effective engagement strategies for counteracting the disparities that many families and children experience and how focusing on the use of best practices in engagement can yield positive family and community connections.

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.March's 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 focuses on practical strategies for engaging diverse families and youth in culturally and linguistically appropriate ways. Topics covered include opening doors through language assistance, outreach and relationship building, establishing trust and creating a welcoming environment that attracts culturally diverse people, and more. This webinar is part of the Cultural and Linguistic Competence Learning Community. Additional resources are listed on the youtube page.

Annotation: Health care providers, payers, and systems serving children, youth and families increasingly focus on family engagement as a strategy to improve health care delivery, enhance consumer and provider satisfaction, and reduce costs. Assessing how well an organization or agency is engaging families is a critical step in achieving these goals. A recent issue brief from Family Voices, A Framework for Assessing Family Engagement in Systems Change, proposes four domains of family engagement – representation, transparency, impact and commitment. Join us as we explore this framework, share models of success and discuss common barriers to incorporating meaningful family engagement in systems-level initiatives. It is recommended that attendees read the issue brief prior to the event.

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.