VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2023
REIMAGINING OUR SYSTEMS:
Lessons from the Field to Advance
Recovery-Oriented Communities
APRIL 12-13, 2023
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Conference Overview
The CARE (Crisis and Recovery Enhancement) TA Center is thrilled to announce our third annual virtual conference, “Reimagining Our Systems: Lessons from the Field to Advance Recovery-Oriented Communities.” Driven by the importance of connecting the gap between Systems of Care and community needs, and in solidarity with the increasing support that the behavioral health workforce requires, this conference will explore opportunities to strengthen our Systems of Care by highlighting strategies and models for building equitable partnerships between counties and community. By reimagining systems for a hopeful future to navigate the systems through a new lens, we dive into what we have learned from the field in the past years to highlight best practices for supporting counties and communities. Topics will include Community-Based Crisis Care and Justice Diversion efforts in California, workforce development, and county-focused MHSA programming and administration. We will examine these topics through a recovery focused, health equity, and antiracist lens.
Join us April 12, 2023, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm PT for County Behavioral Health Department-specific topics including MHSA funding, operations and administration, and program highlights. Optional Lightning Talk activity 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. PT for additional county-based technical assistance.
On April 13, 2023, from 9:00am to 3:00pm PT we welcome back County Behavioral Health Department staff and community members to access a range of virtual presentations and panels with the following overarching aims:
- Highlight the successes of California counties’ MHSA programs in addressing the unique needs of local and diverse communities experiencing behavioral health crises.
- Promote the importance and value of lived experience in the crisis care workforce.
- Imagine and lead anti-racist change in the crisis continuum of care.
- Share strategies and best practices to supporting a robust crisis care continuum through a post-pandemic service delivery model
- Apply lessons from the field to better adapt crisis and justice diversion programming to keep individuals out of jails, emergency rooms, and locked facilities.
- Strategies for counties and CBOs to increase the recruitment and retention of a diverse workforce, support for peers in the workplace, and how to apply available tools and resources to create a responsive and reflective workforce
- Education and information to increase understanding of MHSA regulations and funding, program development and implementation, and oversight and reporting needs.
- Enhance the partnerships between counties, CBOs and community stakeholders
This conference will address the crisis continuum of care and justice diversion from multiple perspectives, including recovery communities; historically marginalized communities experiencing racial trauma and disproportionate health disparities; children, youth, young adults, and family systems; mobile crisis responders; and law enforcement and corrections. As a strengths-based, solution-focused conference committed to valuing and honoring the voices of lived experience, we are dedicated to advancing health equity and anti-racist approaches in our collective work.
Learning Opportunities
The conference offers four learning tracks with distinct topical focuses. There are four different session types to choose from within each learning track:
- 10-minute Lightning Talk + Live Audience Chat reserved for April 12th for County Partners only
- 20-minute Presentation/Panel + 10-minute Q&A
- 60-minute presentations and workshops, including Q&A
- 60-minute panel discussion sessions
Audiences are welcome to attend any combination of sessions. Tracks will include presentations with county behavioral health departments and/or community-based organizations and service providers as an opportunity to share best practices, foster peer learning across counties, and celebrate the great MHSA-funded crisis care and justice diversion work happening in California.
Join us to Learn About…
Person-Centered Crisis Care within the community context and outside of 911, emergency rooms, and justice systems.
A systems perspective on the crisis continuum of care and justice diversion with attention to opportunities for services to build linkages and share resources.
Current MHSA-funded efforts among county behavioral health agencies to connect communities to the appropriate crisis care supports and services that divert from unnecessary institutionalized settings.
Principles and specialized approaches for supporting the unique needs of youth and young adults experiencing crisis.
Opportunities to bridge crisis care and disaster response in multipronged crisis response efforts.
Strategies to support a trauma-informed community perspective in crisis care at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, justice involvement, age, and housing stability.
Strategies to support a trauma-informed community perspective in crisis care at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, justice involvement, age, and housing stability.
Accessing Continuing Education Units
We are offering up to 5 no-cost Continuing Education (CE) units for county staff who participate in the conference on April 12 and April 13, 2023. For general registrants who attend the conference on April 13, 2023, we are offering up to 3 no-cost Continuing Education (CE) units.
To receive the CEs, you must attend the Keynote address and one learning session per hour. After attending the conference, registrants must also complete the conference evaluation form for each session attended and the CEU form. Feedback form and CEU form links will be shared during the conference. Each session will be awarded one CE credit hour.
Learning Sessions meet the qualifications for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, ASW, PPS, MFC and/or LEPs as required by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT). Credit also available for RNs, CADC-CAS, CADC I’s, CADC II’s, CCS, CA CCS, CCJP, CCDP, CRPM, LAADAC, and CCPS.