Webinar: Strategies for Preventing Custody Relinquishment for Mental Health Services
Date/Time: June 19, 2019, 11:30am – 1pm PT, 2:30pm – 4pm ET
Part of the SOC Leadership Learning Community, this webinar will focus on the issue of parents relinquishing custody of their children solely to obtain mental health services that they could not access otherwise. Presenters will review the extent to which this practice continues, progress that has been achieved in reducing its occurrence, and approaches used by states to prevent it.
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Webinar: Addressing Trauma in Children of Incarcerated Parents Within Urban Communities
Date/Time: June 20, 2019, 10:30am – 12pm PT, 1:30pm – 3pm ET
This session addresses the epidemiology of children of incarcerated parents nationally and ways that parental incarceration impacts children, youth and their families. The webinar describes trauma-informed interventions, policies, structures and processes to reduce trauma in children of incarcerated parents within systems. The importance of fatherhood involvement in maintaining positive connections within families is emphasized.
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Job Opportunity: Instructional Training and Consultation Specialist
The Systems of Care Institute in the Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services at Portland State University has openings for two full time Instructional Training and Consultation Specialists. Under the guidance of the Director of the Systems of Care Institute, the Instructional Training and Consultation Specialist will develop and deliver Wraparound and System of Care trainings, coaching, consultation, and technical assistance to a variety of programs, system partners, and agencies across the state of Oregon and in other contracted states.
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Job Opportunity: Wraparound Care Coordinator
Greater Oregon Behavioral Health, Inc. (GOBHI) is hiring a full-time Wraparound Care Coordinator in St. Helens, OR. The person in this role will develop, coordinate, lead and facilitate child and family teams to support the highest risk children and families in the community. Services and supports are intended to assist youth to remain in or return to their homes and schools in the community. This position works with a team who values the development of family-driven, child-focused continuum of services when working with youth and their families.
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National Wraparound Implementation Academy
Date/Location: September 9 – 11, 2019, Baltimore, MD
Registration is now open for the National Wraparound Implementation Academy. This biennial event will provide the opportunity to learn from the field's foremost experts in Wraparound and systems of care and connect with peers from across the country.
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2019 Annual Conference Advancing School Mental Health
Date/Location: Nov 7 – 9, 2019, Austin, TX
Each year, the Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health brings together leaders, practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders in the school mental health field to share the latest research and best practices. Hosted by the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the conference emphasizes a shared school-family-community agenda to bring high quality and evidence-based mental health promotion, prevention, and intervention to students and families as part of a multi-tiered system of supports.
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