A parent partner’s greatest strength is their experience of pain and struggle, which makes their story so valuable. This workshop will introduce you to the elements of effective storytelling. Each of us has a compelling story to share that can motivate others. Learn to tell it with the ability to inspire.

This workshop is designed for anyone who deals with Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) victims and their families.

This workshop will provide an overview of the foundation of a 06 Mental Health and Wraparound System of Care, highlighting main components to implementation and sustainability.

This workshop will focus on attachment concepts and how teams can use them in the Wraparound process.

This workshop is designed for supervisors who know and use motivational interviewing (MI) skills and strategies.

We all work with families that don’t seem to be making progress despite our best efforts. This workshop will explore six commonly overlooked reasons why our work with families gets stuck.

This workshop is designed for anyone who deals with Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) victims and their families.

This workshop will provide an overview of the foundation of a 06 Mental Health and Wraparound System of Care, highlighting main components to implementation and sustainability.

Wrangling a group of people to work together on a common mission is never easy, especially when they come with conflicting priorities and disparate ideas of what needs to happen.

This presentation will explore the experience of transgender and gender variant youth by: shifting traditionally understood constructs of gender, understanding disparities in health/mental health outcomes for trans*youth, learning skills needed to be a “visible” ally for trans* youth, learning skills needed to support families and teams within the context of Wraparound services, and learning how to understand the importance of connecting trans* youth to supportive resources.

This workshop is designed for anyone who deals with Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) victims and their families.

This training will provide specific implementation of suicide psychoeducation, assessment, prevention and intervention, including safety planning in a manner that will both empower direct service providers of all skill and educational levels, and individuals in the community to appropriately and confidently address suicide with all client populations.

Many of the families we serve in Wraparound have unresolved grief and loss issues that are often overlooked by Wraparound providers.

This workshop will provide information on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Section 504 school accommodation plan, the IEP, ways to differentiate when you use Section 504 Plan or IEP and information to empower both parents and staff to improve the school environment, reduce expulsion and promote school success.

NAMI on Campus High School (NCHS) is a youth mental health awareness and advocacy club for students.

Our family, our place of work, our circles of friends, each of these are different cultures that we pass in and out of each day. These mini cultures have their own sets of rules for interacting with humor, language, ethnicity and many other topics. This workshop will explore the many types of culture that we and the families we work with move through and examine how professionals can be more effective in facilitating positive and lasting change by broadening our understanding of culture. We will also discuss difficult topics such as addressing problematic areas related to culture while still being respectful.

Wrangling a group of people to work together on a common mission is never easy, especially when they come with conflicting priorities and disparate ideas of what needs to happen.

This presentation will explore the experience of transgender and gender variant youth by: shifting traditionally understood constructs of gender, understanding disparities in health/mental health outcomes for trans*youth, learning skills needed to be a “visible” ally for trans* youth, learning skills needed to support families and teams within the context of Wraparound services, and learning how to understand the importance of connecting trans* youth to supportive resources.

Taking a deeper, more advanced look at the fundamental team skills of confronting others, managing differences and collaborating with others, this workshop will enhance your teaming skills.