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Best practices and workforce development training 2024

Empower, Elevate and Foster Resilience for Children and Families

The NYS Coalition for Children’s Behavioral Health, in cooperation with the NYS Office of Mental Health is pleased to announce the dates for the 2024 Best Practices and Workforce Development Training. Join us at The Saratoga Hilton in Saratoga Springs, NY on December 3 & 4, 2024.

 

This statewide learning and networking event offers children’s behavioral health professionals the opportunity to share information, gain knowledge, and exchange ideas to better serve New York’s children and families.

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The Call for Presentations Portal is now open until September 13. Learn more below!

Call for presentations

The NYS CCBH, in cooperation with the NYS OMH, welcomes submissions of proposals for New York’s largest annual children’s behavioral health conference! The planning committee invites colleagues to share your positive experiences, models of excellence, promising practices, and innovative ideas with professionals across the continuum of children’s behavioral health services by submitting a proposal by September 13, 2024.

We hope you consider sharing your expertise and knowledge on the many topics of interest outlined in this CFP and below. Proposals will be selected based on relevance to the continuum of children’s services, innovation, practical application and opportunities to model programs and skills to bring back to community behavioral health agencies and the field.

 

To support our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, and to the youth and families we serve, the planning committee is committed to offering presentations that reflect the diversity of our staff, children, families and communities served. Therefore, we encourage including diverse speakers, family & youth voice as part of your proposal.

Guiding Topics for submissions

  • Cross-Systems Efforts to Collaborate on Addressing Local Needs and Gaps

  • Wellness-Informed Care, Alternative Services & Health Knowledge

  • Trauma-Focused Treatment and Services

  • Self-Care for the Direct Caregiver

  • Managing Adverse Childhood Experiences for Successful Outcomes

  • Embracing Social Supports and Determinants of Health for Youth and Families

  • Providing Services & Supports to LGBTQ and Transgender Youth

  • Embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity in Children’s Behavioral Health

  • Integrated Care Models: Primary and Behavioral Health Care

  • Addressing Opportunities and Challenges with Complex Needs, Co-Occurring Disorders (SUD, Eating Disorders, etc.)

  • Issues Impacting Transition Age Youth

  • Supporting the Voice of Youth & Families in our Communities

  • Promising Practices for HCBI, CTI, and other Children’s Services

  • Youth ACT Practices for Staffing, Crisis Management and More

  • Social Media for Youth: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Supports and Coordination for the HCBS Service Array

  • Promising Practices and Lessons Learned for Child-Serving Clinics, School-Based Mental Health and Day Treatment

  • Innovative Approaches to Care via CFTSS Programming

  • Suicide Prevention and Supports for Youth

  • Addressing Sexual and Domestic Abuse and Violence

  • Workforce Recruitment and Retention

  • Managing Loss and Grief

  • Utilizing the Crisis Services Continuum

  • Telehealth for Children’s Services

  • Utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Children’s Services

  • Hybrid Work: Best Practices to Support Productivity and Staff Satisfaction

  • Organization Change & Change Management

Target Audience

The training will be attended by:



  • CEOs and Senior Staff

  • Supervisors and Middle Managers

  • Direct Caregivers

  • Family Members

  • Family Peer Advocates

  • Youth Peer Advocates

  • SPOA Coordinators

  • Other Children’s Behavioral Health Professionals

hotel reservations

A block of rooms have been secured at a discounted rate for all registrants of the training. Click here to make your reservation.

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