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

WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOP #4 1:30 PM THURSDAY • 10:30 AM SATURDAY • NAPLES 1
Beyond the Uniform: Serving Military Families in Systems of Care
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To identify the key components that define military family culture
2. Strategies for engaging military families in systems of care
3. Strategies for identifying community resources available to military families
4. How to use practical tools for facilitating military family engagement
5. Strategies for building working alliances with military families
This Workshop will focus on the unique needs of military families in systems of care. By addressing military families
as a cultural construct, faculty will outline culturally appropriate, evidence-informed strategies for identifying and
serving military families within systems of care.
Like any cultural group there is no monolithic military family. The diversity of military families can be influenced by
branch of service, installation assignment or active/Guard or Reserve status. This session will examine strategies that
can be implemented by systems of care to leverage the rich history of the military culture and provide culturallyinformed,
collaborative services to military families.
The information and strategies to be highlighted are based on the work of Coming Together Around Military Families at
ZERO TO THREE and the U.S. Department of Defense Family Services programs. The faculty members will also share
their personal experiences as a child growing up in a military family and as a military spouse.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• What constitutes military culture
• Strategies for identifying children of military families with mental health needs
• Steps for engaging military families in services once identified
• Military family outreach strategies for community-based organizations
A DVD montage of military family reunions will be shown and case vignettes will be used to illustrate the concepts
presented. The faculty team will offer the perspectives of an agency administrator/clinician and family member.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Michael Rovaris, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Site Visitor, American Institutes for Research,
Raleigh, NC
Bridgitt Mitchell, Doctoral Candidate, Peyton, CO
WORKSHOP #5 1:30 PM THURSDAY • 10:30 AM SATURDAY • GAINESVILLE 1-2
Youth Support Partners: Peer Support for Better Outcomes
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To apply recruitment strategies on how to hire and support Youth Support Partners (YSPs)
2. How to implement a High-Fidelity Wraparound credentialing process for YSPs
3. To describe strategies to implement a YSP program
4. To examine replication issues and considerations
This Workshop will focus on the “value added” of YSPs with lived experience as peer mentors to youth in systems of
care and as team members on service delivery teams, specifically within the High-Fidelity Wraparound approach.
Faculty will highlight the use of young adults with lived experience in various child-serving systems as staff to
positively impact the outcomes for youth with behavioral health and multi-system concerns.
The information in this session is based on the use of YSPs to support youth in the High-Fidelity Wraparound process in
Pennsylvania. Faculty will emphasize lessons learned and issues and strategies for replicating this approach in
participants’ states and communities.
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