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
In-person (Georgetown, TX) | October 3rd | 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
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NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group
A free 90-minute recovery support group for people living with a mental health condition in which people learn from each others’ experiences, share coping strategies, and offer each other encouragement and understanding.
NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group aims to help you:
● Utilize better coping skills
● Gain greater understanding of interpersonal emotions (i.e. forgiveness and guilt)
● Embrace strength from sharing experiences.
● Acceptance of problem-solution behavior, we cannot solve every problem
● Understanding of trauma induced by mental health and how mental health is not your fault
NAMI Connection Recovery support groups are facilitated by trained persons in recovery who live 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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Restorative Practices for Educators
Restorative Practices helps us to build healthy relationships by identifying core values and establishing consensus around how we relate to one another. Restorative Practices provides a process for effective communication, establishing healthy boundaries, taking responsibility, solving conflict, healing when harm has occurred, and creating accountability for self and others.
In this 6-hour session, participants will first learn about what Restorative Practices is and is not, followed by why Restorative Practices is a proactive and reactive tool that campuses should have in their intervention toolbox. Participants will also learn how to facilitate the restorative process and implement foundational structures from a systems perspective, regardless if your system is one classroom, an entire grade level, or the whole campus.
In-person | October 2nd | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (FULL)
In-person | November 13 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (OPEN)
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Overview of Diagnoses and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders in the Pediatric Population
Child Psychiatry Access Network presents the 2024 CME series! Each month, CPAN will host a CME event on the second Thursday of each month. This session on mental health conditions in the pediatric population is meant for Nurses, LPCs, LCSW, PCP, Pediatricians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants.
Objectives:
- Describe resources for children, adolescents, and mothers with mental health in Texas.
- Distinguish symptoms of the most commonly diagnosed mental health diagnoses in children and adolescents
- Describe treatments for children and adolescents with varying mental health diagnoses
Virtual | October 10th | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Trauma Informed Care Workshop for Educators (Elementary)
The Trauma-Informed Care Workshop for Educators focuses on providing an overview of trauma, and its impact on student behaviors in the elementary (K-5) classroom. Attendees will learn about the role of mental health in daily functioning, how trauma impacts the brain, the importance of unrecognized executive function deficits, and the role neuro diverse complexities play in student behavior. Throughout the workshop, participants will be provided with concrete strategies that can be implemented in a school and/or classroom setting to support all learners through a trauma informed lens.
Virtual | October 10th | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Virtual | November 7th | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
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Trauma Informed Care Workshop for Educators (Secondary)
The Trauma-Informed Care Workshop for Educators focuses on providing an overview of trauma, and its impact on student behaviors in the secondary (6-12) classroom. Attendees will learn about the role of mental health in daily functioning, how trauma impacts the brain, the importance of unrecognized executive function deficits, and the role neuro diverse complexities play in student behavior. Throughout the workshop, participants will be provided with concrete strategies that can be implemented in a school and/or classroom setting to support all learners through a trauma informed lens. This training is open to public ISDs, open-enrollment charter schools, junior colleges, school-based law enforcement, and state agencies that support Texas schools.
Virtual | October 17th | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Virtual | November 14th | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
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Clinical Pearls: Trauma Assessment & Diagnosis in Pediatric Primary Care
At the end of this presentation, participants should have increased information to Identify the signs and symptoms required to appropriately diagnose trauma and related disorders in children/adolescents, provide examples of how to screen and assess for trauma and related disorders in children/adolescents, and describe the different treatment options to consider when treating children. Hosted by UT Tyler Health Science Center.
Virtual | October 14th | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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PeriPAN Grand Rounds Series: Paternal Mental Health and the Perinatal-Postpartum Periods
PeriPAN Grand Rounds is a collaborative learning experience between twelve health-related institutions across the state of Texas. In a joint effort with the Perinatal Psychiatry Access Network (PeriPAN) of Texas, participants can expect engaging discussions on evidence-based practice and care. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and the PeriPAN program are pleased to provide free CME credits for participants.
Virtual | October 15th | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Say Something
Sandy Hook Promise is partnering with the Texas School Safety Center to bring Say Something, the proven violence prevention program to middle and high schools in Texas. Say Something is a no-cost, easy-to-implement, and life-saving program that will help school personnel and/or school-based law enforcement to teach students how to recognize warning signs of potential violence or self-harm and act immediately to intervene. The training will take 2.5 hours with a wide range of activities and resources to ensure training integration within the school culture, supported by student-led SAVE Promise Clubs.
Virtual | October 22nd | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Virtual | December 17th | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
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Texas School Safety Center Bullying and Cyberbullying Training
The Texas School Safety Center, in collaboration with Safer Schools Together, is hosting a no cost, 7-hour Bullying and Cyberbullying training.
Preventing bullying and mitigating its impact begins with a strong understanding of the legal landscape of Texas bullying laws. This virtual training will walk participants through all Texas bullying and cyberbullying laws, including behaviors that may apply to suspected bullying situations, such as assault, harassment, hazing, stalking, sextortion, dating violence, and related federal laws. Participants will explore Texas mandated expectations for campus staff, rights of victims and parents, related penal code, and determining when behaviors go beyond student discipline and into criminal behavior. Participants will also learn about how bullying manifests on and off campus and how to plan and respond with actionable strategies. This training is open to public ISDs, open-enrollment charter schools, junior colleges, school-based law enforcement, and state agencies that support Texas schools.
Virtual | October 24th | 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
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UT Health San Antonio Session: Complex ADHD, DMDD
The objectives of this virtual session are to:
- Learn the role of generalized problems with impulse control (ADHD) in the development of emotion dysregulation and aggressive behavior, as well as other less common roles of other psychiatric and developmental disorders.
- Learn an algorithmic approach to pharmacotherapy of these conditions.
- Become acquainted with a framework for psychosocial treatments.
Virtual | October 29th | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Start with Hello Program
The Texas School Safety Center (T×SSC) is partnering with Sandy Hook Promise to bring Start with Hello, one of Sandy Hook Promise’s no-cost Know the Signs programs which teaches students to be more socially inclusive and connected to each other. With activities and curricula available for all ages, students are empowered to end social isolation in three easy steps which include: see someone alone, reach out and help, and start with hello. The training is 2.5 hours and will consist of a wide range of activities and resources to ensure training integration within the school culture, supported by student-led SAVE Promise Clubs.
Virtual | November 5th | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
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Central Texas African-American Family Support Conference (CTAAFSC)
Join CTAAFSC, for much-needed conversations about mental health, substance use disorders, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Come together to lift one another and move towards a healthier future. The conference is in-person only. Registration opens in August!
Austin, TX | Feb 4th – 5th, 2025 | 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
National Events
Heart Work Series: Am I Just Another Number? Healing-Centered Re-Unification For Young People Who Are Justice-Impacted
State studies by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention reveal a 55% re-arrest rate for youth within a year of release, compared to a 24% reincarceration and re-confinement rate. This series challenges the traditional focus on re-entry plans, which often fail to address the underlying needs of young people. We’ll explore how cross-systems of care can help young people transition from re-entry to re-integration with their communities and families.
In each session, you’ll hear from national and international leaders working on the frontlines of youth justice who are championing healing-centered approaches.
Virtual | October 1st | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Virtual | October 8th | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Virtual | October 15th | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Virtual | October 22nd | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
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Mental Health Advocacy Book Club: Bebe Moore Campbell’s “72 Hour Hold”
Join Dr. Fredrica Brooks-Davis for a live book discussion about Bebe Moore Campbell’s, “72 Hour Hold,” a fictional story inspired by her relationship with a close family member. This book tells the story of a mother coping with her daughter’s bipolar diagnosis, navigating a broken mental health care system, and experiencing stigma associated with mental illness in the Black community.
Virtual | October 15th | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Youth and Young Adult Support Space (YYASS!) October Office Hours
This NTTAC 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. This monthly space is designed for informal, in-depth conversations and connection with peers in the workspace to ask questions, share resources, best practices, challenges, successes, and a space to receive coaching support from Youth MOVE facilitators.
Virtual | October 16th | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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October Pact Session
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! The session is hosted virtually by the National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health (NTTAC). Each month, the featured clinician and peer speakers will be prepared to discuss a specific topic that draws on their expertise, but the majority of the session’s time will be an audience-driven Q&A, so bring your questions!
Virtual | October 17th | 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
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Provider Plática Learning Collaborative: Strengthening Mental Health Services in Spanish
This series is a monthly collaborative space for peer learning and resourcing. Led by a bilingual facilitator, the sessions allow members of the mental health workforce to share common challenges and experiences when providing services to Spanish-speaking communities whose primary language is a language other than English, as well as high-quality resources and innovative solutions.
Mental health professionals across the country and U.S. territories are welcome, including clinicians, peer counselors, and others who provide services to Spanish-speaking individuals whose primary language is a language other than English. We welcome providers in a wide range of professional settings, including clinical, community and government agencies, education, private practice, and more.
Virtual | October 29th | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Family Exchange: Peer Networking for Family Leaders Who Foster and Support Family Engagement
Are you a family leader with lived experience as a primary caregiver of a child, youth or young adult with mental health or substance use need who is working in a role that fosters and supports family engagement in agency practice and policy decisions? Are you interested in connecting with other family leaders working in similar roles to expand and enhance your skills and knowledge?
Whether you are new to your role or you have been in the family movement for many years, the Family Exchange is a peer networking group to share experiences, innovative and effective practices, skills and knowledge, solutions to barriers and challenges, and key information supporting your role as family leaders.
Virtual | October 30th | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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2024 On the Shoulders of Giants Scientific Symposium: “Advancements in Anxiety Care: The Next-Gen Treatments”
The 2024 On the Shoulders of Giants Scientific Symposium will explore the rapidly evolving landscape of anxiety care and the transformative potential of next-generation treatments.
The event will honor the work of this year’s winner of the Sarah Gund Prize for Research and Mentorship in Child Mental Health, Rachel Klein, PhD. She is a leading expert in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders and ADHD. Joining her are her two distinguished proteges: Daniel Pine, MD, and Chad Sylvester, MD, PhD. Together, they will highlight recent breakthroughs in understanding anxiety disorders and their biological underpinnings — and critically assess the promise and pitfalls of innovative solutions such as brain games, virtual reality (VR), brain stimulation, and psychedelics.
The presentations will be followed by a roundtable discussion featuring experts from psychiatry, neuroscience, and digital therapeutics, who will examine the future of anxiety care and its implications for patients.
Virtual | October 30th | 4:00 pm – 6:30 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.