Coordinated Behavioral Care
Featured February 2022 Webinars
CBC would like to recognize the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for sponsoring many of the featured trainings this month, and its partnership with the NYS Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, which is also made possible through SAMHSA funding.

All featured trainings are hosted via McSilver Institute's website and require a username and password to register. If you don't already have a username and password for McSilver's website, you can easily create one!
COVID-19 Town Hall #6
Trainer: Brad Hutton, MPH (Trivedi Consults) & Mark Graham, LCSW (CBC)
Monday, February 7 (12:30-2:00pm) 
Funder: SAMHSA

As the Omicron variant has produced a spike in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, we've assembled another Town Hall for NYS behavioral health providers to air their current pandemic-related concerns to an infectious disease expert. Bring your burning questions about how to protect yourself and others in 2022.
"I attended the Ultimate Natural Cure for Stress: Breathing Exercises webinar and it helped me become more relaxedwhich is helpful for a therapist who is in their chair all day!"~ CBC Training Attendee
Under Pressure: Identifying and Managing our Stress Responses
Trainer: Rachael Steimnitz, MPH (NAMI)
Tuesday, February 8 (11am-12pm) 
Funder: SAMHSA

This training will provide an overview of three key skills for developing resilience and teach attendees how to cultivate self-awareness to identify and manage unhealthy coping mechanisms in response to stress.
Hands-On Self-Care for Addressing Trauma
(Service Program for Older People)
Wednesday, February 9 (12:30-1:30pm) 
Funder: SAMHSA

Many behavioral health service providers— clinicians, case managers, residential staff, certified peer specialists and others—live with their own trauma histories, or experience vicarious trauma. In the first of this two-part series, attendees will receive psychoeducation on principles of trauma-informed care and trauma-centered treatment, as well as in-session experiential activities, including diaphragmatic breathing and guided relaxation to help ease and heal. Links to scripts, relaxation exercises and other resources will also be distributed.
"This Yoga session incorporated instruments and high frequency energy I have never experienced in my Yoga practice. It was refreshing and invigorating!"
~AfroFlow Yoga® attendee

"Choice & Voice" Engaging Clients in Shared Decision-Making Around Medication & Treatment
Thursday, February 10 (1-2:30pm) 

CBC Health Home's Adult Home Plus and Health Home Plus care management staff are strongly encouraged to attend this training.

How should non-prescribers talk about medications with clients? From the common effects of prescribed medications to more general discussions pertaining to client preferences and perceptions of efficacy, the answer isn't always so clear. This training will explore the various types and names of the most commonly used psychotropic medications and what they do, and share ways that participants can use "Shared Decision-Making" as a framework to discuss medication usage and treatment with clients. Finally, the training will explore barriers and facilitators that may reduce or increase clients’ adherence to treatment.
"This was a phenomenal, incredible presentation. So helpful and very informative!"~ Borderline Personality Disorder Training Attendee
Exploring & Understanding Racial Trauma: Taking the Pulse (Part 1)
& Daphne Swinton, MPA, LMHC
(Westchester Jewish Community Services)
Monday, February 14 (1-2:30pm) 
Funder: SAMHSA

This two session workshop will provide an opportunity for attendees to understand racism as a trauma—consistent with widely accepted Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research—and to expand concepts of adversity. In this first Taking The Pulse session, attendees will come to a collective understanding of racial trauma by exploring its signs and symptoms, as well as its disproportionality.
Accentuate the Positive: Cultivating Positive Emotions
Trainer: Rachael Steimnitz, MPH (NAMI)
Tuesday, February 15 (11am-12pm) 
Funder: SAMHSA

This training will teach realistic optimism, gratitude practices and flexible thinking to attendees, so that they might enhance their experience of positive emotions and create space to adapt and learn from challenges.
Exploring and Understanding Racial Trauma: Taking the Pulse (Part 2)
& Daphne Swinton, MPA, LMHC
(Westchester Jewish Community Services)
Friday, February 18 (1-2:30pm) 
Funder: SAMHSA

This two session workshop will provide an opportunity for attendees to understand racism as a trauma—consistent with widely accepted Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research—and to expand concepts of adversity. In this second Beginning the Healing session, attendees will engage in discussion of “healing circles,” racial justice in the workplace and personal/professional considerations for this self-care journey.
Hands-On Self-Care for Addressing Trauma
(Service Program for Older People)
Wednesday, February 23 (10:30-11:30am) 
Funder: SAMHSA

Many behavioral health service providers— clinicians, case managers, residential staff, certified peer specialists and others—live with their own trauma histories, or experience vicarious trauma. In the first of this two-part series, attendees will receive psychoeducation on principles of trauma-informed care and trauma-centered treatment, as well as in-session experiential activities, including diaphragmatic breathing and guided relaxation to help ease and heal. Links to scripts, relaxation exercises and other resources will also be distributed.
Please click the button below to see our full training calendar, along with training descriptions. Reserve your space for some professional development and self-care today!
Coordinated Behavioral Care
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