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November 7, 2016
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This year's National Adoption Month initiative focuses on the adoption of older youth in foster care -- a population that needs the unconditional love and permanence of a family, but often faces some of the strongest barriers to adoption. Visit the 2016 National Adoption Month website for information and resources to help you promote permanency for older youth in foster care.
SAMHSA's recorded webinar on the 2017 Funding Opportunity Announcement: SOC Expansion and Sustainability Cooperative Agreements is now available! This webinar provides a walk-through of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) and provides tips for submitting a successful application.The accompanying FOA Analysis summarizesthe purpose and overall approach in 2017 and highlights the activities required by the FOA with a strategic framework for system of care (SOC) expansion that includes the systemic changes needed to expand and sustain the SOC approach.
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National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day has grown in scope, visibility, and support thanks to our national collaborating organizations. SAMHSA partners with more than 150 Federal and national organizations around the country in observance of Awareness Day. Collaborating organizations are essential in raising awareness about the importance of every child's mental health.
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Application Due: December 07, 2016
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is accepting applications for fiscal year 2017 Cooperative Agreements for Adolescent and Transitional Aged Youth Treatment Implementation grants. The purpose of this program is to provide funding to states, territories, and tribes to improve treatment for adolescents and/or transitional aged youth with substance use disorders (SUD) and/or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders by assuring youth state-wide have access to evidence-based assessments, treatment models, and recovery services.
Application Due: December 20, 2016
SAMHSA is now accepting applications for the fiscal year 2017 program, Planning and Developing Infrastructure to Improve the Mental Health and Wellness of Children, Youth and Families in American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) Communities grants. The purpose of this program is to provide tribal and urban Indian communities with tools and resources to plan and design a holistic, community-based, coordinated system of care approach. These grants are intended to increase the capacity and effectiveness of mental health systems serving AI/AN communities.
Application Due: December 20, 2016
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is also accepting grant applications for the fiscal year 2017 program, Cooperative Agreements for the Expansion and Sustainability of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances. The purpose of this program is to improve behavioral health outcomes for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances and their families.
Application Due: January 03, 2017
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| TA Network Upcoming Events |
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| November |
Cultural & Linguistic Competence Team Office Hours
Thursday, November 10, 3 p.m. ET
The Cultural & Linguistic Competence Team of the TA Network is offering office hours focused on Behavioral Health Disparities Impact Statements (BHDIS). Office hours are offered for direct questions and resources regarding the development of your BHDIS. Topics include best practices for inclusive data collection, data utilization, and the elimination ofdisparities. Please contact Dr. Peter Gamache
( peter.gamache@gmail.com) for BHDIS assistance. To participate, please use the following call information: Conference line: 1-800-216-6327 Passcode: 6802652
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Wednesday, November 16, 2:30-4 p.m. ET
The System of Care Expansion Leadership Learning Community (LC) will launch with an overview of the 2016 SOC Expansion Cooperative Agreements. This LC is designed to support SOC leaders in meeting the requirements of their cooperative agreements and accessing technical assistance resources to support successful SOC expansion and sustainability.
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Thursday, November 17, 3-4:30 p.m. ET
Family-run organizations often work with families that are caring for a child who may be eligible for services from an out-of-home program. This webinar will cover creative ways that family-run organizations can partner with residential and community providers to support use of these best practices, with a special emphasis on successfully engaging families.
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| December |
Wednesday, December 14, 2 - 3:30 p.m. ET
Join this webinar to learn more about free grant research and tools, dynamic proposal development, and relationship management that will steer you and your team to identify the right funding partners and keepthem engaged in your work.
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Direct Connect National Learning Community for Young Leaders
Thursday, December 15, 3:30-5 p.m. ET
Don't miss your opportunity to register for Youth M.O.V.E. National's highly interactive Direct Connect National Learning Community for Young Leaders! We look forward to connecting with you and supporting you in developing skills and relationships that will help you in your work to transform the behavioral health system and expand Systems of Care.
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Pathways RTC has released a consumer-friendly product: AMP's Top Ten Tips for Engaging with Young People. This tip sheet provides information on how to engage successfully with youth, using specific examples to illustrate effective (and ineffective) communication.
The Working With the Correctional System and Incarcerated Parents
podcast features a conversation between those with experience on both sides of the working relationship between the child welfare and correctional systems. Each side of this relationship shares the same vision for the incarcerated parents: Reentry into society and reunification with their family where appropriate.
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| Other Upcoming Webinars, Trainings, or Events |
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The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is holding a series of webinars for Continuum of Care (CoC) Collaborative Applicants and providers, Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) recipients and sub-recipients, and Housing Opportunities for Persons with Aids (HOPWA) grantees to educate participants on therequirements of the Equal Access Rule and Gender Identity Rule and how to ensure that projects operate in compliance with these rules. This webinar series will also provide "LGBT Language 101" training to aid participants in increasing their knowledge and skills in using appropriate, inclusive language with all clients they serve. The dates are November 16th and 17th. Participants will be introduced to HUD's TA materials to aid their compliance efforts, including a self-assessment tool, staff and volunteer training scenarios, and a policies and procedures guidebook (all available on the HUD Exchange LGBT Resource page).
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to advance systemic changes that embed health in school environments. To help this cause, the Foundation will support a collaborative, multi-pronged strategy with three complementary areas of work related to Research, Policy, and Strategic Action. This Call for Qualifications (CFQ) represents Phase I of a two-phase selection process designed to identify eligible organizations to lead each area of work. Responses are due November 30, at 3:00 p.m. ET
Team Up For Families (TUFF) will partner with Youth M.O.V.E. National at the 27th Annual Conference National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health to lay the groundwork for a youth-driven, peer-taught navigation curriculum. On Thursday, November 10, TUFF and Youth M.O.V.E. will co-facilitate an all-day Workshop Lab for 20 youth leaders, followed on Friday by a parallel workshop lab for families/mentors of transition-age youth. After completing the Lab, youth can apply for year-long compensated positions as co-authors of the multimedia curriculum.Also the Caring for Every Child's Mental Health: Social Marketing TA Team will attend and offer two workshops on social marketing related topics If you are interested in attending the Family/Mentor 3-hour Institute on Friday, November 11, please be sure to pre-register!
The Multi-System Collaboration Training and Technical Assistance Program supports jurisdictions that are interested in developing a sound infrastructure to promote multi-system approaches to serving at-risk, justice-involved youth and their families. In partnership with the Center for Coordinated Assistance to the States, the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) will provide distance learning training and technical assistance to up to 6 jurisdictions at no cost to help them identify gaps in policy and practice, enhance information sharing capacities, explore how key decision points impact the trajectory of the youth currently being served, understand utilization of logic models to develop youth- and system-level outcome measures, and support culture change through leadership development. Applications are due by November 11.
The Children's Mental Health Initiative (CMHI) is hosting a two-part series on family and youth involvement in evaluation. The next webinar on November 17 will focus on the implementation of youth-guided and youth-driven practice in evaluation.
Both webinars are designed for individuals fulfilling multiple roles in SOC expansion grant sites, including youth and family organizations, stakeholders, evaluators, directors, managers, and other team members.
The National Association for Children's Behavioral Health (NACBH) is hosting a two-day conference on December 1-2 in St. Pete, FL titled Leveraging Organizational Health to Advance Your Mission. This meeting will provide an opportunity for agency executives and key managers to engage with NACBH's mission-driven thought leaders while learning about organizational health concepts and tools to increase effectiveness.
On December 5, from 3-4 p.m. ET, the National Indian Health Board will host a webinar, The Affordable Care Act: Protections for Native Youth, Children, and Families. The focus will be the discussion and review of provisions of the Affordable Care Act, which provide protections for Native people and access to health insurance. A specificfocus will be placed on provisions in the ACA that are unique to children and families in the child welfare system.
The Adults Working with Native Youth Training of Trainers event, from December 7-9 in San Diego, CA, is intended for adults who work with Native youth. Participants who complete the training will be certified trainers in the Native Wellness Institute's 10-lesson "Native Youth Leadership" curriculum. The training will be hands-on and experiential, and participants will give presentations to display their knowledge and understanding of the curriculum.
The National Council for Behavioral Health NATCON Conference represents the largest gathering of mental health and substance use treatment organizations in our industry and is a wonderful opportunity for you to speak with senior staff, administrators, clinical managers, researchers, policy makers, consumers, and board members of organizations. The conference will be held at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA, April 3 - 5, 2017. To take advantage of a special discount, enter the code "500NCBH17" when you register.
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The Institute for Innovation and Implementation, at the University of Maryland School of Social Work (UMSSW), has entered into a cooperative agreement to establish a National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Children and Youth in Foster Care (LGBTQ QIC). This project will work nationally, in partnership with state child welfare systems, to design interventions to enhance staff, caregiver, and provider knowledge, skills, and competency in providing safe, affirming, and supportive environments for LGBTQ youth in foster care.
The Behavioral Health Disparity Impact Statements (BHDIS) webinar was focused on SAMHSA's requirements, which are used to identify disparate populations served by organizations and SOC. Participants gained a greater understanding of the importance of BHDIS, how to gather data, and methods to utilize the statements for ongoing service development/continuity. SAMHSA grantees are required to submit BHDIS within 60 days of new awards. Office hours will be made available for grantees over the next couple of weeks by Dr. Peter Gamache ( peter.gamache@gmail.com) for BHDIS assistance.
Save the Date: The 30th Annual Research & Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health will be held in Tampa, FL March 5 - 8, 2017. Early bird registration is now open!
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This announcement is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) through the National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health (NTTAC), operated by the National Technical Assistance Network for Children's Behavioral Health (TA Network).
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