Turn-Over a New Leaf: Employee Investment Series
This series covers all costs associated with employee turnover and provides strategies for assessment and reduction.
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Training Series
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Voices from the Field: A CTAC Podcast
Join us as we embark on discussing mental health, our perspectives on wellness and its impact on youth and families and hear Voices From the Field.
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Healing-Centered Schools: Integrating Trauma-Informed and Resilience Building Approaches as Students Return to School
The series uses a 3-tiered framework for supporting healing-centered practices and offers practical Tier 1 (Universal) approaches to support students returning to school.
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Assessment Overview and Basics
These two webinars on assessment will discuss important considerations for thorough and quality assessment in working with children and their families.
Article 29-I Billing
This series will help providers prepare for the Article 29-I Voluntary Foster Care Agency (VFCA) transition.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
National experts present 3 webinars to help expand knowledge of research, tools and core competencies for working with individuals with ASD throughout the life stages.
Boosting Your Bottom Line: The Bags of Money
This series shares and reviews revenue maximization strategies. Listeners will learn strategies to boost revenue by increasing productivity and motivating the workforce.
Bias and Equity in Early Childhood
Across two webinars, Dr. Gilliam will explore ways to implement effective methods for reducing classroom behavior problems and preschool expulsion.
Billing for Mental Health Clinics
This webinar series explores the concepts of billing in mental health clinics. Topics include billing for beginners, dealing with claim denials and revenue maximization.
Black Boys & Men: Changing the Narrative
This series calls into question issues of systemic racism and oppression & provides concrete steps to attend to issues that disproportionately affect Black boys and men.
Business Best Practices and Management
This webinar series was designed to support organizations with limited infrastructure and resources in understanding best practices in business operations.
Business Intelligence Tools
This series will explore the concepts of business intelligence and use a productivity monitoring use-case to demonstrate the power of these tools available in MS Excel.
Combating Self-Stigma Among Youth, Families, and Adults
This series features the work of Dr. Philip Yanos, an internationally recognized expert on mental health stigma.
Community Delivered Services
ICL has put together videos to explore how to implement services in the community, taking into consideration such topics as insurance, budgeting, safety issues, etc.
Community-Delivered Services: Best Practices and Innovations
CTAC & MCTAC are proud to offer this series on best practices and innovations in providing behavioral health services in the home or community.
Conversations with Dr. Tony
Join “Dr. Tony” in an educational series designed to offer behavioral health providers an opportunity to gain highly relevant insights from distinguished thought leaders.
Coping with Crisis During COVID-19 Pandemic
This series focuses on strategies to address mental health crises during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially for those working with vulnerable clients and families.
Creating Successful Group Experiences
This series provides useful information for first-time and well-seasoned facilitators to make the group experience a successful one.
CTAC/MCTAC Website: Walkthrough and How To
This series aims to help providers gain a better understanding of our website so that they can find and utilize the valuable MCTAC & CTAC trainings, tools, and resources.
Data: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg
This series goes beyond underscoring the importance of collecting data. Organizations will be equipped with tools and strategies to help them effectively use their data.
Documentation
Documentation is one of the most important components of delivering behavioral health services.
Documentation Best Practices for Youth Peer Support
This series reviews best practices for documentation, CFTSS documentation requirements, and recommendations to developing treatment plans for YPS.
Documentation Done Right Workbook Series
Documentation Done Right is a set of workbooks designed to share best practices in documentation and provide users with exercises to practice these skills.
Education Matters! A Webinar Series for Family and Youth Peer Advocates
CTAC has assembled a statewide panel of experts who both understand peer services and the education system to provide you with an orientation to this process.
Family Alignment
This series guides providers from the first contact with families through discharge. It emphasizes collaboration and engagement of families for treatment plans.
Family Treatment During COVID-19
This offering focuses on supporting providers to consider the evidence on family treatment, and to include a parent-education and coaching component in their practice.
Fiscal Operations and the Interrelationship with Program Operations
September 2022 - October 2022
This series explores the relationship between the fiscal department, business & strategic planning, executive leadership, and program operations.
Grief & Loss
Grief is a common response to the loss of someone or something of value. This series covers how to support those grieving.
Harm Reduction
What does “harm reduction” actually mean in social service settings? Examples of harm reduction in service settings and with various populations will be discussed.
HEDIS Measures for Collaborative Care
MCTAC in partnership with CCSI and the Office of Mental Health (OMH) is offering an informational series regarding HEDIS ® Measures and their impact.
ICL Integrated Care
This series, led by ICL, covers a wide array of topics and strategies to provide more integrated care to clients.
An Introduction to Person-Centered Care and Person-Centered Recovery Planning (Video Series)
This course provides a foundational understanding of Person-Centered Recovery Planning (PCRP) in adult mental health services.
Kinship Care
This webinar series will give a better understanding of kinship care in New York State, services available, and information on financial assistance and legal options.
Learning to Love Groups
Learning to Love Groups is a video series on best practices in group facilitation presented by Dr. Anthony Salerno.
Making the Connection: Conversations Around Integrated Care
This 12 part series explore strategies and approaches to integrating mental health and substance use treatment.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) Demonstration Videos
Using scenarios created in partnership with Transition Age Youth(TAY), this video series demonstrates MI consistent conversations for talking with TAY.
Outcomes: From Ideas to Action
This series will take providers through the process of deciding what to measure, collecting data, review tools to interpret and communicate data, and how to use data.
Performance Driven Academy (PDA) Year 1
This series provided participants with an immersive learning experience in order to support their organizations in the transition to a value-based environment.
Person and Family Centered Planning and Leadership
This series focuses on guiding leaders, clinical staff, and peer support providers in a review of person-centered and recovery-oriented practices.
Person Centered Recovery Planning Video Series
This 4-video series/course takes a close look at the mechanics of co-creating recovery plans with adults receiving mental health services.
Picture This! Communicating Meaning Through Data Visualization
October 2021
MCTAC's 4-part series on data visualization discusses all the different ways to view data and introduces readily available tools you can use to create your own!
Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) Leadership
This series urges leaders to look at emerging trends, innovative service models, critical skill sets needed by staff, and strategies toward extending RTF services.
Resolution Focused Crisis Support
This is a series designed to increase Family Peer Advocates’ precision in delivering support to parents that is family-centered, strength-based, and resolution focused.
Responding to the Crisis of Black Youth Suicide: Clinical Implications
This two-part presentation by Dr. Rhonda Boyd focuses on information that providers need to know to treat Black youth who are at risk for suicide.
Shattering Walls
This series provides information about resources and best practices for working with clients who may have experienced or are experiencing sexual abuse, violence, etc.
Supervision Best Practices
This webinar series covers key core competencies of supervision, with strategies and recommendations to guide you in your work.
Supporting Parents of Children with Mental Health Concerns
This two-part series focuses on giving providers the tools they need to address the serious mental health and behavioral challenges parents and caregivers may face in the
Telehealth Guidance & Impact of Ending the Public Health Emergency
This series page provides an overview of the updated Telehealth Guidance issued by the NYS Office of Mental Health & the impact of ending the Public Health Emergency.
Text Messaging: Guidelines for Behavioral Health Providers
This 2-part webinar series reviews the technical and administrative requirements for the ethical and HIPAA compliant use of text messaging.
The Power of Policies & Procedures
This series discusses the process of policy and procedure development and best practices to make them relevant and responsive.
This is How You Do It: Creating Dashboards Through Excel
This series provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the powerful data management features in Excel, and gives you your very own sample database that you can use.
Trauma Informed Care
Viewers will gain knowledge of the 5 core principles of Trauma Informed Care, and build an understanding of how they need to be present for both the recipient and staff.
Trauma Sensitive Schools
This series is intended for school-based administrators, pupil personnel services staff and mental health providers interested in preparing schools to address trauma.
When Child Mental Health is a Concern
This webinar series provides an overview of common childhood mental health diagnoses as well as strategies for FPAs to support family engagement and partnership.
Workforce Priorities
In this webinar series, we discuss how to use HR to attract, hire, and retain a workforce that will help you deliver high-quality services and accomplish your goals.
The Art of Developing Policies and Procedures: Creating Safety and a Roadmap for the Future of Your Organization
This series provides participants with essential knowledge, skills, and tools to develop relevant and timely policies and procedures.
The Art of Supervision: A Series for Supervisors of Youth Peer Advocates
Through presentations, discussion and small break-out sessions, participants explored supervision strategies and approaches that support Youth Peer Advocates.