Training Institutes 2012 - National Technical Assistance Center for ...

TARGETED INSTITUTE #5 9:30 AM SUNDAY • MIAMI 1-2
Core Competencies for the Children’s Behavioral Health Workforce: Setting High Standards
Objectives—Participants will learn:
1. To describe the importance of designing core competencies and states structures that support training and technical
assistance efforts to develop a quality workforce in the children’s behavioral health field based on data from a
national scan
2. To enumerate the key components to a set of core competencies for children’s behavioral health
3. How to design and implement a set of core competencies including involving important partners, creating a training
structure within the state, and funding
4. To compare and contrast core competencies in two states and apply that information to the development of core
competencies in participants’ states or communities
5. To apply information by formulating next steps to generating support for addressing core competencies and
implementing workforce structures for training and technical assistance in participants’ states and communities
This Targeted Institute will outline the need for core competencies for a children’s mental health workforce. Faculty will
present strategies for bringing a broad group of stakeholder together to develop and implement core competencies with
an emphasis on improving the knowledge and skills of child-serving staff through community mental health systems.
Attention will be given to the use of core competencies to develop training and technical assistance structures that
support the competencies and drive training across states.
The strategies to be highlighted are based on the experience of two states (Maryland and New Hampshire) in creating
stakeholder teams that have worked collaboratively to develop a set of core competencies. Strategies will describe how
to develop and refine the competencies refined over time, including dialogues and decisions made to infuse system of
care values and principles into the competencies; the background research that informed the development of the
competencies; and the shared understanding developed among stakeholders. The presentation will also include a
description and review of the core competencies structure including the Domains and Levels of Competency.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Development of stakeholder groups including funding
• Creation and refinement of core competencies
• Description and examples of core competencies
• Development of a statewide training structure or network to create training on competencies
In addition, the session will include time for participants to review tools, such as feedback and mapping tools from New
Hampshire that can be helpful in the planning process and in creating concrete next steps for participants to implement
when they return home.
The faculty team for the session will offer the perspectives of a state agency’s children’s mental health director, a family
member, and a university staff member involved in the development of core competencies.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Joan Dodge, Ph.D., Senior Policy Associate, National Technical Assistance Center for
Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, Washington, DC
Kathleen Abate, Granite State Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health, Manchester, NH
Melissa Mandrell, M.S.S., M.L.S.P., Project Director, Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, Concord, NH
Albert Zachik, M.D., Director, Office of Child and Adolescent Services, Mental Hygiene Administration, State of
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Catonsville, MD
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