We hope this message finds you well. It's hard to believe that February is already here! Since the start of the year, our team has been hard at work developing and implementing resources that cover a range of focus areas. Read on to learn more about what we've been up to.

As always, we hope to connect with you at one of our many free online trainings happening this month, like the next session of the Healing Roots webinar series and the 2nd MHTTC Grief Sensitivity Virtual Learning Institute.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Take care,

Lunar New Year - Feb. 1

Black History Month - Feb. 1-28

Valentine's Day - Feb. 14

Presidents' Day - Feb. 21

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week - Feb. 21-27

Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention After a Suicide, the next installment of Healing Roots: Considerations for Mental Health Accessibility and Delivery of Services Across Tribal Communities, will air 10-11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 4.

In this webinar, participants will learn about the necessary culturally-appropriate tools to help reduce suicide in Native American communities. Speakers will also address different strategies to support tribal communities after a suicide occurs.

Click here to learn more about the webinar and register. Watch the November webinar, Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Students Attending Tribal Colleges, here.

The next webinar in our series Context Clues: Using Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) to Enhance Treatment will cover trauma and chronic stress and military deployment from 12-1 p.m. CT on Thursday, Feb. 17.

Click here to register. Each webinar in this series, produced in collaboration with Aetna Better Health of Kansas, is divided into two flash presentations. A certificate for half of a contact hour will be provided upon completion of each session.

 Pediatric Sleep (30 minutes) / Adolescent and Adult Sleep (30 minutes)

Webinar recordings from past presentations in the series are also available via the series web page.

Register now for the 2nd MHTTC Grief Sensitivity Virtual Learning Institute (GSLVI). Sessions will convene Feb. 23-24.

In this free two-day training, faculty will offer grounding and foundations for grief sensitivity for the mental health and/or school mental health workforces in the face of COVID-19 and beyond. Click here to learn more and register.

The 2022 Leadership Institute, presented by the Mid-America MHTTC, PTTC, and ATTC, will begin virtual orientation on March 21. Be sure to submit your nomination and application forms by Friday, February 4.

This institute will provide participants with intensive leadership training in personal, partnership, and process development. Candidates for the program must be employed in a behavioral health, mental health, or recovery agency in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, or Nebraska, and be nominated by their CEO or director.

Learn more and download the forms here.

Mid-America MHTTC | 402.552.7697 | MHTTCnetwork.org/midamerica

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