A SAMHSA sponsored webinar developed under contract by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) and presented by the National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health will take place Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 2:00pm Eastern Time called Improving Access to Care through Family Involvement & Engagement in Coordinated Specialty Care: Innovations & Best Practices.
Please register here: https://nasmhpd.adobeconnect.com/innovationsandbestpractices_reg/event/event_info.html
Description: Family members and other primary caregivers often play a critical role in supporting loved ones with first episode psychosis, and family support and involvement is a fundamental tenet of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC). There are nevertheless a variety of approaches to engaging, involving and supporting family members, including evidence-based practices as well as more recent innovations. In the first part of this webinar, Dr. Jones will provide an overview of the landscape of family involvement practices in CSC and approaches taken to engaging families in different programs and models. She will then discuss key challenges in family engagement related to cultural diversity and socioeconomic disadvantage. In the next part of the webinar, Donna Fagan will focus in on Texas’ efforts to utilize family partners in CSC, describing the development of the family partner role, and the specifics of implementation in the context of the OnTrackUSA model.
Presenters:
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Nev Jones, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Psychiatry, University of South Florida
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Donna Fagan, Family Partner, Bluebonnet Trails Community Services
Moderator:
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Lynda Gargan, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
When in the seminar room, the Adobe Connect Log-in screen appears, select “Enter as a Guest,” enter the name and state of the participant in the “Name” field (Ex. Jane Doe-AK) and click on “Enter Room.” For attendees, this is a “listen only” webinar. Should they need to dial in, the instructions are on the note pad in the seminar room.
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Note: If you are only able to join the audio portion, then you will not be able to see the webinar presentation.
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If you have any questions please contact Kelle Masten via email at kelle.masten@nasmhpd.org or at 703-682-5187.
**We do not offer CEU credits however letters of attendance are offered upon request.
***Closed-captioning is available for this webinar.