Texas Events
NAMI Family Support Group
A free 90-minute support group for family, partners, friends and significant others of a loved one with a mental health condition.
NAMI Family Support Group aims to help you:
- Understand and gather insight from other’s experiences
- Help you know that you are not alone in this
- Share success stories and gather the knowledge of other success stories
- Be more heard and connected with individuals that endure similar struggles
NAMI Family Support Groups are facilitated by family members who have a loved one with a mental health condition. You are not obligated to share during this meeting.
Virtual | Wednesdays | 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
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Children and Youth Behavioral Health Subcommittee (CYBHS) Meeting
The quarterly CYBHS Meeting will be held as a virtual meeting via Zoom on April 10, 2024, at 10am CT. What is CYBHS? The Sunset Commission recommended consolidating advisory groups to the 84th Legislature. Acting on this, the Consortium and the Texas Children Recovering from Trauma committee merged into the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Subcommittee (CYBHS) under the Behavioral Health Advisory Committee (BHAC). BHAC advises the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on mental health and substance use for all ages. The CYBHS provides recommendations on children and youth behavioral health topics and serves as the advisory body for the Texas System of Care.
Virtual | April 10th, 2024 | 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
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2024 Mental and Behavioral Health Webinar Series – Family and Caregiver Engagement
The Texas Education Agency’s Supportive Schools Division and Project AWARE host this free virtual monthly series to highlight resources and best practice strategies on timely and relevant safe and supportive schools topics. This month’s topic is Family and Caregiver Engagement. Participants will learn about approaches to family and caregiver engagement in relation to school mental health. CPE credits will be made available to those who attend the full live session.
Virtual | April 11th, 2024 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
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Peerfest
PeerFest is an educational and celebratory event for Texans who have faced mental health challenges and are on a journey to wellness. The self-care and wellness focus is different than a traditional conference focused only on education. Attendees are encouraged to enjoy the environment, learn, connect with others, play, experience, and rest & relax.
Grapevine, TX| April 15th – April 18th, 2024
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Mental Health Symposium for Deaf/Deafblind Youth: Building Toward a Better Tomorrow
This is the 4th annual symposium which will address mental health issues, concerns, and needs of youth who are deaf or deafblind. This in-person and livestream event will be a full day of presentations, group discussion, and networking. Mental health professionals, educators, community service providers, families, and consumers are welcome to attend. Interested persons from across the state are welcome.
Austin, TX | April 25th, 2024 | 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
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ThriveFest: A Showcase Celebrating Youth Well-Being.
Austin, TX | April 27th, 2024 | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
National Events
Minds Matter: Strategies for Supporting Students with Mental Health Challenges in Schools – A Multi-Part Learning Community for Educators
Join this weekly April Learning series with NTTAC! Gain insights and strategies for supporting students with mental health challenges. Each session will include a brief expert presentation on the topic, followed by a presentation and discussion of cases submitted by attendees. Participants may submit cases for discussion prior to the presentation and will be notified of the case chosen for each session sent ahead of time.
Depression & Anxiety | April 5th, 2024 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
ADHD | April 12th, 2024 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Austism | April 19th, 2024 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder| April 26th, 2024 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Counseling with Care: Trauma-Informed School Counseling Practices
Are you a school counselor, becoming a school counselor, or someone who teams/works with school counselors? Zeyda Garcia, founder of Healing Aguas Wellness Solutions and school counseling professor, joins this Pacific Southwest MHTTC series to share how we can anchor and apply trauma-informed principles in school counseling practices, programs, and policies. In this free, virtual workshop they will discuss a high-level overview of trauma, its impacts on students, and different strategies you can implement to support young people in counseling settings.
April 10th | 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
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Establishing Family and Community Partnerships
Join the Northeast and Caribbean MHTTC for this free virtual webinar training. After the training, you’ll understand the importance of family and community engagement within a CSMH system, you’ll consider family and community engagement through a culturally sensitive, trauma-informed lens, and you’ll be able to discuss implementation steps to creating effective School-Family-Community partnerships to support student mental health.
April 11th | 9:00 am – 11:00 am
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2024 Speaker Series Presents: Bullying Prevention in Elementary and Middle Schools – Leveraging Experts in Your Building by Dr. Sara McDaniel | Event Registration
Join the Northwest MHTTC for this free virtual webinar training. Session attendants will learn about the types of bullying, strategies to disrupt bullying in schools, and focus specifically on how to leverage school resource officers, bus drivers, and other safety personnel in your bullying prevention efforts.
April 17th | 1:00 pm – 2:15 m
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Peers and Clinicians Together (PACT)
The mental health system is vast, complex, and often confusing. Peers and Clinicians Together (PACT) is a free monthly series where you can ask anything that’s on your mind of a mental health clinician and peer support!
April 18th | 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
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Youth/Young Adult Support Space (YYASS) Office Hours
This Office Hours series offers a virtual learning space for those leading and coordinating youth engagement efforts in System of Care and Healthy Transitions grant communities, as well as others who are working in and leading youth-run programs and organizations.
April 17th | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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Exploring Strategies School Systems can Utilize to Support Black Students Who Encounter Racial Stress and Trauma
Research has indicated that youth may experience racism, prejudice, and bias as early as preschool. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their experiences of working within schools and school districts and learn strategies to help students navigate a culturally complex world while decreasing negative physical, emotional, and psychological outcomes. This webinar will also focus on existing policies within school systems and assess how those policies impact access to equitable and high quality mental and behavioral health care for communities of color. Attendees will walk away with strategies for how to discuss these topic areas with their students and how to support students who are coping with complex cultural issues in developmentally appropriate ways.
April 18th | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Adverse Childhood Experiences: What Does the Evidence Say and What Can We Do?
This free virtual presentation hosted by Mountain P lains MHTTC will define and describe adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and review the substantial empirical evidence on their mental and physical health effects. Multiple ways of understanding and assessing for ACEs will be discussed, as will how to identify and address them in clinical practice.
April 22nd | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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School Health Assessment and Performance Evaluation (SHAPE) Training
The School Health Assessment and Performance Evaluation (SHAPE) System is a public-access, web-based platform that offers schools, districts, and states/territories a workspace and targeted resources to support school mental health quality improvement. The National School Mental Health Census will lead this training to walk you through a high-level overview of the SHAPE system. See how to login, complete the assessment, and what an outcome report looks like.
April 23nd | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Cyberbullying: Actionable Strategies for Administrators
Administrators are in the unenviable role of having to make very difficult disciplinary and policy decisions as it relates to peer harassment – both offline and online. Furthermore, they are responsible to exercise due diligence in their prevention programming, or else come under scrutiny for possible liability claims. South Southwest MHTTC focuses on equipping these point personnel with the knowledge they need to act through exercises based on real-world examples and research-based best practices that continue to evolve. The targeted audience for this training is school administrators and personnel responsible for implementing discipline and/or policy decisions regarding technology use.
April 25th | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
At Your Own Pace Trainings
NTTAC’s Fatherhood & Fathers Curriculum
If we want to ensure infants’ and young children’s healthy development across domains (i.e. cognitive, motor, social-emotional), fathers and father figures are essential. This curriculum highlights stories from communities around the country to illustrate the importance of including fathers from all backgrounds. Additionally, it provides a comprehensive set of resources on father engagement programming. Practitioners, program leaders, advocates, and other professionals working in our early childhood systems of care will walk away understanding the why and the how of authentic father engagement.
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Family Support and Crisis Intervention Team Training
Learn about Crisis Intervention Team Training. Listen to stories of families advocating for love ones and a CIT trained officer’s message.
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The Impact of Partnering with State Entities and Family Run Organizations
Collaborations and partnerships are essential in business relationships. This webinar focused on how two state family run organizations work with state and government systems to build stronger communities in the field of behavioral health and substance use.