Texas Events
CPAN Project ECHO Spring 2025
Project ECHO is a 5-week educational series that begins February 6, 2025 and concludes on April 3, 2025. Each meeting will offer a brief CME on a predetermined topic, and then offer participants an opportunity to bring forth a patient or case for discussion.
Session 3: Eating Disorders | Virtual | March 6 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Session 4: Sleep Disorders | Virtual | March 20 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Session 5: Transitional Age Youth & ADHD | Virtual | April 3 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Pediatric Insomnias
Primary care providers and pediatricians are on the front line when caring for the behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and young adults. With limited availability for prompt access to psychiatric or behavioral health specialists, patients often rely on their ‘medical home’ providers to initiate care. CPAN’s aim is to support primary care in the identification and management of patients with behavioral health needs. This session offers practical information with relevant case examples, using evidence-based guidelines to help increase confidence in providing the initial steps of treatment.
Virtual | March 12 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Mitigating Educator Maltreatment Trainings
This comprehensive training will equip adminijstrators with the knowledge, skills, and tools to create and maintain a safe, supportive, and nurturing learning environment for all staff and students. By delving into real-world scenarios and examining TxSSC developed exemplars, participants will explore effective prevention and intervention strategies to address educator maltreatment, which can be defined by incidents of verbal attacks, threats, harassment, and physical aggression. The training will also explore strategies for supporting educators who have experienced maltreatment and processes for returning students to the learning environment. Upon completion, administrators will be equipped to play a crucial role in safeguarding all stakeholders and fostering healthy, positive learning and working environments.
Virtual | March 20 | 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Virtual | April 3 | 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Virtual | April 24 | 8:30 am – 12:30 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.
Round Rock, TX | April 10 | 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 | April 3 | 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 | March 20 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (OPEN)
Virtual | April 10 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (OPEN)
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Intermediate School Behavioral Threat Assessment Manual Training
This course is part of the School Behavioral Threat Assessment (SBTA) Series. This free full-day work session is geared towards district staff responsible for ensuring the operationalizing of school behavioral threat assessment programming within their district. The training is open to Texas public ISDs, open-enrollment charter schools, junior colleges, school-based law enforcement, and state agencies that support schools.
Houston | March 25 | 8:30 am – 4:30 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 | March 27 | 8:30 am – 4:30 pm (OPEN)
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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 | April 1 | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm (Open)
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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 22 – 26, 2025
National Events
Minds Matter: Strategies for Supporting Students with Mental Health Challenges in Schools
Each session in this series includes a brief expert presentation on the topic, followed by a case presentation and discussion. The sessions will help participants be able to identify basic signs and symptoms of common psychiatric diagnoses, conceptualize how symptoms of psychiatric diagnoses can impact a student’s school day, resources within the system of care, and more. This series is intended for school staff to attend (teachers, special education coordinators, licensed clinicians, and administrators.)
Registration is now closed. You can watch the recordings on the NTTAC YouTube channel.
Session 1: Depression/Anxiety | March 7 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session 2: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | March 14 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session 3: Autism | March 21 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session 4: Trauma | March 28 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session 5: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and Transition Age Youth | April 4 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Strengthening Collaborations Between Youth and Parent Peer Support Providers – Session 3
This is part 3 in a 3 part series that focuses on the collaborative relationship between youth and parent peer support providers (YPSP and PPSP) when they are working with the same families. It will provide strategies for their teamwork that is supportive of both the youth and parents.
Virtual | March 12 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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Youth and 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. 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 | March 19 | 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 | March 20 | 1:30 pm – 2:30 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 | March 25 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Family Exchange Series: Peer Networking for Family Leaders who Foster and Support Family Engagement
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, 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 | March 26 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 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.