Save the Date! A Stronger WE: Building Stronger Support, Alignment, and Impact for Systems of Care
2024-09-25 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
National Training & TA Center for Child, Youth, & Family Mental Health
Today, we are working harder than ever to live into the power and possibility of using the System of Care (SOC) approach to transform the lives of children and families in our communities. We are being called to solve an increasingly complex set of challenges that cannot be solved without strengthening fragile community partnerships, realigning our partners’ goals, and smart stewarding of resources that must stretch to meet an ever-increasing need for mental health services and support. Even when our systems of care collaboratively focus on solutions and expanding opportunities for diverse populations, our need to simultaneously build and share power for this work is often unintentionally under-resourced, overlooked, or deprioritized.
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What Is PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports)? An Introduction for Families
2024-09-30 11:00 - 11:30
Mississippi Parent Training & Information Center Project
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based, tiered framework for supporting students’ behavioral, academic, social, emotional, and mental health. When implemented with fidelity, PBIS improves social-emotional competence, academic success, and school climate. It is a way to create positive, predictable, equitable, and safe learning environments where everyone thrives. Join us as we share information on this successful way of educating our students and ideas on how to use it in the home.
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Heart Work Series: Healing-Centered Reunification
2024-10-01 11:00 - 12:30
National Training & TA Center for Child, Youth, & Family Mental Health
Healing-Centered Reunification, led by Lane Krumpos, focuses on reframing reunification practices through a healing-centered approach. Participants will explore the values and phases of reunification, viewing them through the lens of “The Water of Systems Change” by John Kania, Mark Kramer, and Peter Senge.
The session emphasizes shifting from trauma-informed care to healing-centered engagement, where individuals are seen not just as victims of trauma, but as agents in their well-being. Key objectives include understanding the importance of healing-centered practices, identifying strengths-based strategies, and fostering transformative change by addressing systemic structures’ implicit, semi-implicit, and explicit aspects. Through interactive discussions, scenarios, and reflections, participants will be more aware of how to implement equitable, culturally responsive, and relationship-focused reunification efforts in their communities and schools.
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Heart Work Series: Am I Just Another Number? Healing-centered Re-unification for Young People who are Justice-impacted
2024-10-08 11:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-15 11:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-22 11:00 - 12:30
National Training & TA Center for Child, Youth, & Family Mental Health

State studies by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention reveal a 55% re-arrest rate for youth within a year of release, compared to a 24% reincarceration and re-confinement rate. This series challenges the traditional focus on re-entry plans, which often fail to address the underlying needs of young people. We’ll explore how cross-systems of care can help young people transition from re-entry to re-integration with their communities and families.
In each session, you’ll hear from national and international leaders working on the frontlines of youth justice championing healing-centered approaches. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about new paradigms for youth justice!

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Father and Male Role Model Inclusion: Strengthening Program Outcomes by Incorporating Fatherhood Initiatives into Daily Practice with Dr. Andre Walker, Ph.D.
2024-10-08 12:00
Be Strong Families
Intentional structures and systems drive sustainable fatherhood and male engagement initiatives. This includes establishing roles, responsibilities, male engagement champions, research-based practices, and coordinated communication and relationship development plans. This training promotes systems thinking in male engagement practices, establishing enduring responsivity, evaluation, and improvement planning into fatherhood initiatives. Attendees will learn how to create a new male engagement program or evolve its current practices into more effective research-based plans and practices. Participants will learn how to go beyond baseline engagement and learn proven techniques for creating powerful and rich male engagement practices that nurture the self-efficacy and self-esteem of all children’s most prominent male role models. This session will highlight leveraging community and program resources to foster male engagement activities that improve family and child outcomes and strengthen DEI initiatives.
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Meeting Families Where They Are: Developing and Implementing a Tiered Care Coordination System for Youth Behavioral Health Needs
2024-10-16 13:00
National Wraparound Initiative
This webinar is intended for educators, mental health professionals, clinicians, care coordinators, and system leaders interested in learning how a tiered care coordination model could benefit the families they serve. The session will also provide an overview of key considerations for implementing a tiered care coordination model. Attendees will gain actionable insight into the latest and most effective practices for implementing a tiered care coordination model. Whether you are seeking to enhance an existing system or start from scratch, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to make a meaningful impact on the lives of youth and their families.
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Teaming and Collaborating Part 1: Participating on Your Child's Team
2024-11-12 10:30 - 11:00
Mississippi Parent Training & Information Center Project
Family members and other team members need to exchange information and share knowledge and expertise. This session will provide tips on why parents need to be part of and feel like part of the team.
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Youth in Crisis: A Review of the National Runaway Safeline’s 2023 Data
2024-11-19 12:00 - 12:45
National Runaway Safeline
The National Runaway Saeline is excited to announce the details for their Youth Homelessness Outreach, Prevention, and Education (HOPE) Month Lunch & Learn series, and look forward to you joining them for an engaging discussion during any or all of these webinars.
Each webinar will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. ET and will feature a presentation plus Q&A.
Can’t make it? Visit the NRS YouTube page to find a recording of each webinar.
For more information, contact Day Alston, NRS Communications Manager, at dalston@1800RUNAWAY.org.
Webinars and dates are below:

November 19, 2024: “Youth in Crisis: A Review of the National Runaway Safeline’s 2023 Data” presented by Sam Gillis, Chief Program Officer, National Runaway Safeline

November 21, 2024: “Transforming Systems to End Youth Homelessness: NN4Y’s Federal Advocacy, Youth Partnership, and Cross-System Collaborative Work” presented by Darla Bardine, Executive Director, National Network for Youth

November 25, 2024: “Mental Health & Dismantling Stigma Associated With Youth Experiencing Homelessness” presented by Sebastian Ramos, Director of Training, National Runaway Safeline

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Transforming Systems to End Youth Homelessness: NN4Y’s Federal Advocacy, Youth Partnership, and Cross-System Collaborative Work
2024-11-21 12:00 - 12:45

Mental Health & Dismantling Stigma Associated With Youth Experiencing Homelessness
2024-11-25 12:00 - 12:45

Transition: Steps for Success
2024-12-10 12:00 - 13:30
Mississippi Parent Training & Information Center Project
Transition is an ongoing process. Youth with disabilities should have a transition plan in place by the age of 14 that outlines the skills they need to master and the goals to get them ready to exit high school. Join us to learn more about the process, what questions to ask and how to find resources and support.
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Family Collective Podcast
2025-01-01 - 2025-02-04
National Federation of Families
Family Collective is produced by the National Family Support Technical Assistance Center, led by the National Federation of Families & funded by SAMHSA. Featuring conversations to inspire change for families & improve family-driven care. As families experience increasing rates of mental health and substance use disorders, there’s a critical need for more support and parity in coverage for families. Meet people with lived expertise and the changemakers working to strengthen families. The contents are those of the presenters and do not represent the views of SAMHSA/HHS/U.S. Govt.

Advocacy Academy (Part 2)
2025-01-14 10:30 - 12:00
Mississippi Parent Training & Information Center Project
Let’s discuss the importance of self-advocacy and what families/parents can do to help youth plan for the future. The message of this MSPTI session is simple: Access to information and resources will strengthen families/parents’ ability to participate in the process and improve the transition into the community for youth and young adults.
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﻿Navigating the New Normal: Youth Mental Health in a Post-Covid World
2025-01-22 12:00 - 13:30
SAMHSA
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted youth mental health, creating unprecedented challenges and reshaping the support systems youth depend on. This expert panel will examine how the pandemic has shaped youth mental health needs and present actionable solutions for addressing this evolving landscape.
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Navigating the New Normal: Youth Mental Health Post-Covid
2025-01-22 13:00 - 14:30
National Training & TA Center for Child, Youth, & Family Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted youth mental health, creating unprecedented challenges and reshaping the support systems youth depend on. This expert panel will examine how the pandemic has shaped youth mental health needs and present actionable solutions for addressing this evolving landscape.
The discussion will feature diverse perspectives from clinical practice, education, and public health, highlighting emerging best practices, innovative interventions, and cross-system strategies tailored to support young people in a post-pandemic world. Panelists will share concrete approaches to promoting well-being across educational, clinical, and community settings, providing attendees with practical tools to address this critical issue.
This session is designed for professionals seeking effective strategies to meet today’s youth’s evolving mental health needs.
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Better Communication, Stronger Connections: Building Family Engagement in Special Education
2025-04-09 14:00
National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement
In this fast-paced session, we will discuss the transformative power of family engagement and great communication in Special Education.
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Act With Hope: Community Engagement Approaches
2025-07-01 12:00
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Community plays an integral role in recovery. People recovering from substance use challenges thrive when they are able to connect to support within their own community. Join the National Council for Mental Well being for this webinar, which will explore key strategies for integrating peer recovery support specialists (PRSSs) into community-based environments.
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Act With Hope: Engagement Anywhere
2025-07-15 14:00
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Join the National Council for Mental Wellbeing on July 15 for a webinar exploring effective strategies for embedding peer support into telehealth environments, fostering collaboration with clinical teams, and building strong virtual workplaces.
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A Vision of Youth Thriving: Aligning External Assets with Youth Strengths and Needs
2025-07-21 12:30 - 15:00
National Training & TA Center for Child, Youth, & Family Mental Health
Foundational work in Positive Youth Development (PYD) has shifted how we think about adolescence and young adulthood as a time of unique opportunity and potential rather than a time full of risk and deficits. With that orientation, researchers and practitioners are working as a scientific and applied community to better understand thriving and the factors that support it. Stemming from a qualitative study with young people and practitioners across the country, this presentation will highlight a vision of thriving, including key outcomes of mental and physical health, and the strengths and assets youth experience in themselves and the communities that support their thriving. We will discuss how practitioners and others who support young people (either personally or professionally) can use these findings and how others from the field of PYD can be asset builders for young people. We invite you to come with your own wisdom and questions. We are excited to dive in together and envision a world where every young person has the strengths and supports they need to thrive!
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Investing in Our Future - How Mississippi Supports Young Children
2025-09-02 13:00
Mississippi First
Join MS First on Sept. 2 at 1 PM for a free webinar unveiling the 2nd edition of Investing in Our Future. Learn how Mississippi supports young children and access new data for policymakers, educators, and families.
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Becoming a MHFA Instructor
2026-02-12 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-12 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-16 13:00 - 14:00
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Join this hour-long webinar to learn more about becoming a Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Instructor. During the webinar we’ll discuss: -What to expect from a MHFA class. -The role of a MHFA Instructor. -An overview of our Instructor certification process. Become a MHFA Instructor and empower your community to tackle mental health and substance use challenges head-on with an evidence-based, nationally recognized program.
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Rooted at Home: Real Stories and Needed Policy Shifts to Support Inclusive Communities
2026-04-14 13:00
The National Federation of Families
The National Federation of Families presents “The Urgency of Now,” a 5‑part national webinar series focused on ending isolation and strengthening community ecosystems for children, youth, and families. Each session highlights practical solutions, lived experience, and policy shifts that help communities become more inclusive, person‑centered, and supportive.
Part 1, “Rooted at Home,” features Paolo del Vecchio and Caroline Cole, two national leaders whose work spans federal policy, survivor‑led advocacy, and community‑driven reform. Together, they will explore real stories, needed policy changes, and the power of lived experience in building communities where every family can thrive.
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Trauma-Informed Care for Kinship/Grandfamilies
2026-05-11 13:00 - 14:30
Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network
This webinar, co-hosted by Network partner ZERO TO THREE, will address how trauma can present in both kin caregivers and children in their care, and how it impacts relational health. Explore practices associated with trauma-informed care to better support the kin caregivers you serve. Our presenter is Dr. Mike Sherman, a licensed clinical psychologist and NAPA/UC Davis Infant-Parent Mental Health fellow. Dr. Sherman is an expert in infant and early childhood mental health and has presented internationally. For more than 15 years, he has worked at the nexus of community mental health and child welfare programs, including direct service provision, supervision, training, consulting, program development and administration. His work focuses on the integration of mental health in community and child welfare systems and the intersection of trauma- and relationally driven practice.
This webinar will be supplemented by two learning community sessions, where you can take a deeper dive into this topic and participate in highly interactive conversations with your peers. One session, led by Dr. Sherman, will focus on trauma in children using a case study approach. The second session will focus on trauma in caregivers, engaging a panel of kin caregivers, facilitated by Network Subject Matter Expert Dr. Joseph Crumbley. You will need to register for these learning community sessions separately, using the links below.
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CoE-IHS Webinar: Best Practices to Provide Integrated Care for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) & Neurodevelopmental Needs
2026-05-18 12:00 - 17:00
The Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions
The Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions is funded by Grant Number 1H79SM090141-01from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and managed by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. The views, opinions and content expressed in this presentation do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions or policies of the HHS.
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