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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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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Texas Mental Health Creative Arts Contest
Children and adults are invited to share their mental health journey through art! This year introduces a new theme: ‘What does mental health and well-being mean to you? Hurt. Healing. Hope.’ Participants may enter one of four age groups: elementary school, middle school, high school and adult. The art categories this year are Traditional Artwork, Digital Artwork, Writing, Multimedia, and Photography. Submissions close on March 1, 2025.
Open for submissions | November 1st – March 1st, 2025
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Horses and Zebras: Distinguishing Between PTSD and Psychosis in Children & Teens
Child and adolescent clinicians are invited to this presentation through the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium. In the presentation you will be educated in regard to the prevalence, clinical presentation, and differential diagnosis and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and childhood-onset/early-onset schizophrenia (COS/EOS).
Virtual | January 14th | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Start with Hello Training
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 | January 21st | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm (Open)
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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.
White Settlement, TX | January 23 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm CT (CLOSED)
El Paso, TX | February 6 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm MT (CLOSED)
Corpus Christi, TX | February 13| 9:00 am – 4:00 pm CT (OPEN)
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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 | January 9th | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (CANCELED)
Virtual | February 6th | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (OPEN)
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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 | January 16th | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (CANCELED)
Virtual | February 13th | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (OPEN)
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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 | January 23rd | 8:30 am – 4:30 pm (OPEN)
Virtual | February 20th| 8:30 am – 4:30 pm (OPEN)
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NAMI Texas Virtual Book Club – “By The Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie’s Smile and Mental Illness” by Cheslie Kryst and April Simpkins
Join Nami Texas for a discussion on “By The Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie’s Smile and Mental Illness” by Cheslie Kryst and April Simpkins. The book is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter’s life.
Virtual | January 21st | 7:00 pm
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Say Something Training
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 | February 4th | 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
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Texas School Safety Conference
The Texas School Safety Conference will provide a unique and exceptional platform for educators, administrators, school-based law enforcement, and school safety professionals to collaborate and work together towards creating and fostering a safe and secure learning environment.
San Antonio, TX | June 22nd – 26th, 2025
National Events
Youth and Young Adult Support Space (YYASS!) January 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. 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 | January 15th | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Virtual | February 19th | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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Peers and Clinicians Together (PACT) Session
Peers and Clinicians Together (PACT) is a free monthly series offering space for clinicians and peer support providers to explore effective ways to collaborate and coordinate in a variety of areas that lead to better partnership with youth and families and positive outcomes for all. Whether you have a question of general nature or you work in the field, PACT is open to anyone hosted virtually by the National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health (NTTAC).
Virtual | January 16th | 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Virtual | February 20th | 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
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Community Wellness & Peer Support Training Academy: Trauma Informed Practice in Integrated Settings
In this seminar, Dr. Keri F. Kirk will discuss the foundations of trauma and chronic stress, what to consider as providers and staff in an integrated environment, tenants of trauma-informed practice and engagement, as well as strategies to promote wellness in an inclusive manner for everyone in the workplace.
Virtual | January 23rd | 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
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Provider Plática Learning Collaborative: Strengthening Mental Health Services in Spanish / Colaborativa de Plática para Proveedores: Fortaleciendo los Servicios de Salud Mental en Español
In response to many requests for a bilingual space for mental health providers, the National Training & Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) is offering this Provider Plática series, a monthly collaborative space for peer learning and resourcing. This series provides the opportunity for 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.
Virtual | January 28th | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Family Exchange: Peer Networking for Family Leaders who Foster and Support Family Engagement
The Family Exchange is a peer networking group to share experiences, innovative and effective practices, skills and knowledge, solution to barriers and challenges, and key information supporting your role as family leaders. The group will be facilitated by experienced family leaders from the Family-Run Executive Director Leadership Association (FREDLA) who will foster peer connections, access to resources and technical assistance, and support family leaders to further family engagement within their agency, community or state.
Virtual | January 29th | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Freeing the “Anxious Generation” From the Harms of a Phone-Based Childhood
Gen Z is the first generation in history to go through puberty with portals in their pockets that call them away from the people nearby and into an alternative universe that is exciting, addictive, and unstable. Zach Rausch, lead researcher for the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation, will argue that the decline of independence, responsibility, and free play in childhood and the rise of smartphone and social media use among adolescents is driving the youth mental health crisis that is impacting teens in nations all across the world. Drawing on research from numerous academic fields, he will provide concrete solutions that will help parents and teens to escape out of the social traps they find themselves in. Join the Child Mind Institute for this session.
In-Person & Virtual | January 31st | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
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Community Wellness & Peer Support Training Academy: Facilitating Culturally Responsive Discussions about Psychotropic Medications
In this seminar, Dr. Williams will discuss the most common culturally-informed beliefs and misconceptions, and participants will reflect on culturally humble approaches to empower their clients to make informed decisions regarding psychotropic medications.
Virtual | February 6th | 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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The Challenge of Evaluating Developmental Dyslexia When 50% of Third Graders Can’t Read: Brain Imaging, Clinical, and Academic Data From a Study of Children in Brazil
This webinar through the Child Mind Institute will be presented by Augusto Buchweitz’s whose research focuses on early literacy and brain development in underrepresented populations (Latin and Central America). Attendees will examine a host of brain imaging, behavioral, clinical, and academic data of Brazilian children with developmental dyslexia (DD). The overarching goal will be to analyze the characteristics of children with DD relative to their peers from the perspective of brain function and structure as well as academic and cognitive performance.
Virtual | February 14th | 10:30 am – 12:00 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.