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

TARGETED INSTITUTE #7 9:30 AM SUNDAY • TAMPA 1-2-3
Implementing a Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. How to partner with family members at all levels of systems development (clinical, governance, and policy)
2. To employ strategies in their own communities in order to partner with non-traditional partners such as health,
housing, and parks and recreation
3. To enumerate the key components of a theoretical framework for a public health approach to children’s mental health
4. To specify concrete methods of applying these concepts
This Targeted Institute will focus on expanding systems of care to incorporate a public health framework and linking
with partners that offer the various components of a public health approach. Using an overarching theoretical
framework, faculty will highlight strategies to implement related to all aspects of a public health approach (promotion,
prevention, and treatment) with examples from two systems of care. The emphasis will be on the challenges of providing
promotive and preventive strategies and how these components can be effectively incorporated into systems of care.
The information to be presented is based on the theoretical framework developed at the Georgetown University Center
for Child and Human Development. Family and other system of care leaders from North Carolina and Massachusetts
will provide concrete examples of how the framework has been used in their sites to broaden their systems of care to
adopt a public health approach.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• How to address family-driven services in a public health approach
• How to identify financing mechanisms for promotive and preventive services and supports
• How to build a full continuum of services and supports from promotion to prevention through intervention
• How to address policy issues at the local, state, territorial, and tribal levels
The session will include a small group exercise and take home work in which participants will identify next steps in
promotion, prevention, and intervention in their communities.
The faculty team for the session will include the perspectives of family members, agency administrators, clinicians, and
national experts on children’s mental health.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Neal Horen, Ph.D., Deputy Director Early Childhood Policy and Clinical
Psychologist, National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown University Center for
Child and Human Development, Washington, DC
Susan Osborne, C.S.W., Director, Alamance County Department of Social Services, Burlington, NC
Gita Rao, M.D., M.P.H., Project Director, Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA
Gloria Weekes, Lead Family Partner, MYCHILD, Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA
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