Washington Council for Behavioral Health

NAMI Signature Education Program - Provider Education
2019-09-21 08:00 - 2019-09-22 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
This training will now take place in Yakima during the weekend of September 21 and 22, 2019. Applications will be due Friday, August 30th and can be found on the
NAMI WA website, or by clicking here.
**No need to resubmit an application if you have already sent one in**
For more information regarding Provider Education Training, please see below.
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Are you a mental health professional? Do you live with a mental health condition, or do you have a family member who does? Do you fall into more than one of these categories? Then becoming a presenter for this program may be for you!
This program is designed as a staff development program for front-line professionals who work directly with people with mental health conditions. The course is designed to expand the participants’ compassion for people affected by mental health conditions—those with the condition and their family/caregivers—and to promote a collaborative model of care.
To be eligible to become a presenter you must meet one (1) of three (3) requirements (and you can fall into more than one category!)

Be a mental health professional
Be living with a mental illness
Have a family member who is living with a mental illness

This is a team-based presentation, we encourage complete teams to come to the training together. The ideal team size is 3 trained individuals, but in some circumstances can be a team of 2, as long as those 2 people meet all three required roles (listed above). NAMI Affiliates who already have trained teams are encouraged to send more folks in order to continue building their teams!
The application deadline is Friday, August 30th, so get your applications in soon!

World Suicide Prevention Conference
2019-09-10 08:00 - 16:00 | University of Washington – Kane Hall, 4069 Spokane Ln, Seattle, WA, 98105
Join us on World Suicide Prevention Day as we present practical, evidence-based strategies that will save lives. This is a conference you do not want to miss.
Featured Workshops
Safety Planning Intervention Unpacked (It’s More than Filling out a Form!)
with Gregory K. Brown, Ph.D., Barbara H. Stanely, Ph.D., & Kelly L. Green, Ph.D.
For years, safety plans have been filled out to assist people at risk for suicide, but not all safety plans are created equal! The developers of the Safety Planning Intervention will be in town to teach us how to ensure safety plans have their maximum impact.
What if it’s that Simple? Non-Demanding Caring Contacts for Suicide Prevention:
with Amanda Kerbrat, MSW, LICSW
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, School of Medicine
For decades, research has indicated that the Caring Contacts intervention may be an efficacious, scalable, and low-cost intervention for reducing suicidal behaviors. Learn about this simple approach for reducing suicide risk with a local suicide prevention champion. This training will also address practical considerations for implementation such as the target population, message content, delivery options, and contact modality (e.g., postal mail, email and text messages).
Advanced LEARN® SAVES LIVES for School Mental Health Professionals
with Harry Brown, M.A., LMFT
Forefront Suicide Prevention in the Schools, Mercer Island Youth and Family Services
There is a lot more we can do to prevent youth suicides from happening. This three-hour suicide prevention training is designed with the school mental health professional in mind teaching practical skills in how to identify, intervene and provide on-going support to youth and young adults who are at-risk. This trainer has carried out hundreds of successful interventions with youth in schools during the course of his 25 year career.
Presented by Forefront Suicide Prevention, a Center of Excellence at the University of Washington, and Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. This event is made possible with funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Washington State Department of Health.
For more information or to register, please CLICK HERE.

Peer to Peer Summit 2019
2019-09-09 - 2019-09-11 | WA
Experience our annual customer event held at Foxwood’s Resort and Casino in scenic Mashantucket, CT.
Two and a half days of informative sessions, networking opportunities, face to face time with Echo staff, and unexpected surprises planned for you each evening.
Save $100 by registering early. Save on resort reservations as well. We’ve negotiated a special rate of only $129 per night!
There’s a limited number of rooms available at this special rate giving you two great reasons to book today!

Clark County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – De-Escalation/Calm in the Storm
2019-09-05 09:00 - 16:30 | WA
Continuing Education Workshop for Peer Support Counselors
The De-Escalation curriculum is founded upon the fundamental concepts of respect, support, prevention, and the mutual relationship. Peers will be provided with an array of effective non-violent skills that are designed to promote person-centered and recovery-based approaches. Peers will leave the workshop with skills and strategies for supporting someone whose behavior may escalate, while preserving the helping alliance.

Spokane County – WaHCA Peer CE Series – Peers in Crisis & Suicide Prevention
2019-08-08 08:00 - 17:00 | WA
Peers in Crisis & Suicide Prevention is a 2 part workshop that builds on itself. Participants will leave the morning session with an ability to recognize if the peer they are working with is in crisis, what to do about it and how to support the peer and still stay grounded themselves. The afternoon session will be based on the morning session and will provide additional tools for identifying a person at risk of suicide and responding appropriately. Both sessions will include opportunities for practice. Participants must attend both sessions.

Stevens County – WaHCA Peer CE Series – Peers in Crisis & Suicide Prevention
2019-08-07 09:00 - 16:30 | WA

Lewis County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – Ethics & Boundaries
2019-08-07 09:00 - 16:30 | WA
Ethics & Boundaries in Peer Support is a dynamic, interactive workshop designed for Peer Support Counselors in any role. The content is largely based on the International Association of Peer Specialists document, National Ethical Guidelines and Practice Standards. Participants will come away with a clear understanding of the ethics, guidelines and boundaries that are essential to their profession.
Please note, lunch will not be provided.

Kitsap County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – Culture & Diversity
2019-08-07 09:00 - 16:30 | WA
Recovery is Culturally-Based!
Recovery is Culturally-Based! is a Diversity Focus training that strives to reinforce diversity, inclusion, and engagement in Peer Support work in order to build and maintain a diverse workforce, foster and develop an inclusive workplace, and promote inclusive diversity to deliver the best services to our Peers. Diversity Focus training develops cultural awareness and sensitivity to others in a multicultural work environment. This Diversity Focus training includes activities and ideas that help ensure we foster an atmosphere of shared ownership on diversity issues. The goal is to build a culture of inclusion where the superiority of a social or cultural group, as well as sexism and racist language do not exist.

Kitsap County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – WRAP Seminar 1 for Peer Support Counselors (2-days)
2019-07-30 09:00 - 2019-07-31 16:30 | WA
WRAP® Seminar 1 Training for Peer Counselors (2-days)
WRAP® workshops are designed to be highly interactive. Facilitators encourage participation at whatever level feels comfortable. WRAP® is a living document that is unique to everyone. WRAP® facilitators skillfully share this simple and profound educational model so that participants can incorporate WRAP® into their lives. Through engagement in a WRAP® Seminar 1 workshop, participants will have a good understanding of the Key Concepts of Wellness and Recovery, and explore ways to integrate the philosophy into daily life. Participants of WRAP® Seminar 1 workshops will engage in a facilitated self-exploration process. They will unearth strengths and create personal powerful action plans to deal with life’s challenges. Through attending this experiential workshop, as well as time spent developing a personal WRAP®, participants can fulfill the prerequisites needed to attend a WRAP Facilitator training.

NAMI Family-to-Family
2019-07-27 - 2019-07-28 | WA
NAMI Family-to-Family is a free, 12-session education program for family, partners, friends, and significant others of adults living with mental illness. The course is designed to help all family members understand and support their loved one living with mental illness while maintaining their own well-being. The course includes information on illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, and other mental health conditions. Thousands of families describe the program as life-changing. The program is taught by trained teachers who are also family members and know what it is like to have a loved one living with mental illness.
For more information, visit the NAMI Washington website or click here for the application.
Family-to-Family 2019 Teacher Training Applications are due by Friday, June 7, 2019.

HFPC 2020 Call for Presentations
2019-07-26 | WA
Call for Presentations NOW OPEN
HFPC 2020

“Housing First – What’s Second? Empowerment, Health & Recovery!”
Pre-Conference: March 16, 2020
Conference: March 17 – 19, 2020
The Westin Seattle | Seattle, WA
Join us in presenting cutting-edge content at the fifth biennial Housing First Partners Conference! This three-day conference (and pre-conference institutes) features workshops, plenaries, and inspiring discussions with providers, researchers, policy makers and those with lived experience, all of whom are passionately engaged in ending homelessness. Our goal is to share best practices and inspire innovative solutions to put housing first, and provide people access to the care and support they need to maintain housing and achieve a good quality of life.
As a presenter at HFPC 2020, you will gain visibility and recognition as a leader in the field and you will have the opportunity to interact and network with a diverse group of attendees working on the many different facets of Housing First. Each proposal selected for presentation will receive one discounted conference registration. (50% off of one full conference registration; does not include Pre-Conference Institutes.)
We seek presenters who are experts in the field and who are authors or authorities on their topics. Presenters should have a proven ability to deliver high-quality presentations. We are inviting presentation proposals in the following topics:

New Development in Housing First
Establishing and Operating Housing First Programs
Integrated Services and Treatment Best Practices
Housing First in the Context of Medicaid and Managed Care
Harm Reduction
The Power of Consumers’ Voices
Research, Program Effectiveness and program Fidelity

We expect more than 800 attendees! Participants attend from across the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. We will comprise local, state & federal government representatives; research and policy experts; funders; medical and behavioral health practitioners; housing and homeless service providers; property managers; peer specialists; veterans, youth and faith community representatives; and more.
Don’t delay – submission deadline is July 26, 2019!
Submit here

BECOME A SPONSOR! Click HERE to find out about how you can get more involved in HFPC 2020 as a sponsor or exhibitor!
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPENS IN JULY 2019.
For more information, please visit www.hfpartnersconference.com

Skagit County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – Ethics & Boundaries
2019-07-10 09:00 - 16:30 | WA

Spokane county – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – WRAP Level 2 (5-Day)
2019-07-08 09:00 - 2019-07-12 16:30 | WA
Spend five days learning to become a WRAP Facilitator.** This course is designed to help you become a powerful change agent as a WRAP Facilitator. You will gain a deeper understanding of the recovery process and learn to:
• work with people who have mental health challenges to discover the strengths they have and can use to enhance their recovery;
• effectively share the underlying concepts necessary to recovery – hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support;
• work with individuals and groups to develop a WRAP;
• teach about wellness tools and strategies;
• empower and motivate people to work toward recovery – feeling the way they want to feel, making their lives the way they want them to be, and moving toward meeting their life goals; and
• use interaction and presentation styles and strategies that enhance recovery.
WRAP Seminar 1: Intro to WRAP is a pre-requisite for WRAP Seminar 2: WRAP for Facilitators – Attendees MUST supply questionnaire answers and appropriate documentation to attend WRAP Seminar 2.

Kitsap County – DBHR Peer Continuing Education Series – Trauma Informed Peer Support
2019-06-26 09:00 - 16:30 | WA
The Trauma-Informed Peer Support Workshop explores the elements of safety, transparency, reciprocal and collaborative relationships, cultural considerations and personal exploration to find the meaning each of us attach to our experiences of trauma and loss. It explains how the peer relationship is key to recovery from trauma and challenges in each of us to discover our own Next Steps. The training is interactive, engaging and a critical tool for peer support specialists. It Is based on real peers own lived experience of trauma and recovery.

Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference
2019-06-12 08:00 - 2019-06-14 14:30 | Hilton Vancouver Washington, 301 West 6th Street, Vancouver, WA, 98660
Welcome to the 30th annual Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference (WBHC), Cultivating Community Solutions. The focus on community could not be more timely as our state considers ambitious proposals to resolve crises and lawsuits surrounding the state hospitals, involuntary treatment capacity, and the criminal justice system. As community behavioral health providers and people living with behavioral health challenges, we know that whenever possible, community-based treatment works best, costs less, and supports recovery. When we gather in June, we’ll hear about earlier access to care, consumer voice and choice, and innovative community-based solutions.
The 2019 Conference promises an exciting and diverse lineup of inspiring speakers who are creating change, advancing hope, and bringing solutions to their communities. These national and regional experts, consumer leaders, and local providers will share their experience, knowledge, and tools, providing you with new resources to apply in your agencies and communities.
To register, please visit WBHC.ORG
For more information, please see the 2019 WBHC registration brochure.

King County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – Ethics & Boundaries
2019-06-05 09:00 - 16:30 | WA

Stevens county – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – Co-Occurring Disorders
2019-06-05 09:00 - 16:30 | WA
Co-occurring Disorders Training for Peer Support Counselors is interactive and provides useful tools for Peer Support Counselors working with people who experience co-occurring disorders – the coexistence of both a mental health and a substance use disorder. It will further define co-occurring disorders, introduce study results, the Stages of Change, relapse prevention, and cover the SAMHSA perspective. In a classroom setting, peer counselors will learn how to positively work with people who experience co-occurring disorders.

Spokane County – WaHCA Continuing Education Series – WRAP Refresher (3 – Day)
2019-05-28 09:00 - 2019-05-30 16:30 | WA
The course is only open to WA state Certified Peer Counselors. The WRAP® Refresher is a interactive course co-facilitated by the Copeland Center Advanced Level Facilitators to sharpen and expand facilitation skills to further engage groups in the Wellness Recovery Action Planning.
Through attendance in this course WRAP Facilitators will:
1.Recognize expanded options on how to give effective group introductions.
2.Identify additional knowledge areas, values and ethics of WRAP.
3.Apply at least one new skill to sharpen and expand group facilitation skills.
4.Develop new and creative approaches to facilitation to accommodate participant challenges and differing group needs.
Recommended for WRAP Facilitators to enhance knowledge and skills with WRAP and to get updates on implementing WRAP as an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP).
*Attendees for this workshop must have prior completion of WRAP Seminar 2: WRAP for Facilitators, and must be a Washington State Certified Peer Counselor. Priority will be given to facilitators who need the refresher (every 2 years). Please submit a copy or photo of your WRAP Seminar 2 certificate to Sharon@holdingthehope.com within one week of registration. Failure to submit a copy of your certificate may result in the loss of your spot in this workshop.

Pierce County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – Culture & Diversity
2019-05-20 09:00 - 16:30 | WA
Recovery is Culturally-Based!
Recovery is Culturally-Based! is a Diversity Focus training that strives to reinforce diversity, inclusion, and engagement in Peer Support work in order to build and maintain a diverse workforce, foster and develop an inclusive workplace, and promote inclusive diversity to deliver the best services to our Peers. Diversity Focus training develops cultural awareness and sensitivity to others in a multicultural work environment. This Diversity Focus training includes activities and ideas that help ensure we foster an atmosphere of shared ownership on diversity issues. The goal is to build a culture of inclusion where the superiority of a social or cultural group, as well as sexism and racist language do not exist.
Parkland, WA

Stevens County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – Documentation
2019-04-26 09:00 - 13:00 | The Hub – Colville Senior Center, 231 Elep Ave, Colville, WA, 99114
Certified Peer Counselors must document their work, but that documentation must be done in a way that is consistent with their unique role. This workshop helps peer support workers understand requirements of Medicaid and the Washington Administrative Codes, focusing on the type of documentations most often required by CPCs. Expect a simple but thorough method, with lots of practice.
For more information or to register, please CLICK HERE.

Grant County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – Documentation
2019-04-24 09:00 - 13:00 | Best Western Lake Front Hotel, 300 West Marina Dr., Sage Room, Moses Lake, WA, 98837

Healthy Futures: ReDefining Prevention Conference
2019-04-17 08:00 - 2019-04-18 17:00 | Great Wolf Lodge, 20500 Old Hwy 99 SW, Grand Mound, WA, 98531
Healthy Futures: Redefining Prevention is a two-day conference focused on preventing substance use in youth and their families. TOGETHER! has a focus on systems change, equity, and community mobilization that extends to our conference. This year we are excited to bring experts in ACEs, Youth Talk Circles, School-Based Crisis Services, Harm Reduction, Racial Equity, Sexual Abuse, and more. Join us for this amazing event which will include two inspiring and engaging keynotes, an emergent strategies session, and 20 expert-led learning opportunities. For more information go to http://thurstontogether.org/healthyfutures.
https://www.facebook.com/events/217057419075252/

Yakima - NAMI Provider Education Training
2019-04-13 - 2019-04-14 | WA
This program is designed as a staff development program for front-line professionals who work directly with people with mental health conditions. The course is designed to expand the participants’ compassion for people affected by mental health conditions—those with the condition and their family/caregivers—and to promote a collaborative model of care.

To be eligible to become a presenter you must meet one of three requirements (and you can fall into more than one category!)

Be a mental health professional
Be living with a mental illness
Have a family member who is living with a mental illness

This is a team-based presentation, we encourage complete teams to come to the training together. The ideal team size is 3 trained individuals, but in some circumstances can be a team of 2, as long as those 2 people meet all three required roles (listed above). NAMI Affiliates who already have trained teams are encouraged to send more folks in order to continue building their teams!

The application deadline is Friday, March 29th, so get your applications in soon! Applications can be found on the NAMI WA website, or can be found by clicking here.

Grant County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – De-Escalation/Calm in the Storm
2019-04-10 09:00 - 16:30 | Best Western Lake Front Hotel, 300 West Marina Dr., Sage Room, Moses Lake, WA, 98837
The De-Escalation/Calm in the Storm curriculum is founded upon the fundamental concepts of respect, support, prevention, and the mutual relationship. Peers will be provided with an array of effective non-violent skills that are designed to promote person-centered and recovery-based approaches. Peers will leave the workshop with skills and strategies for supporting someone whose behavior may escalate, while preserving the helping alliance.
For more information or to register, please CLICK HERE.

Spokane County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – WRAP Seminar 1 for Peer Support Counselors (2-days)
2019-04-03 09:00 - 2019-04-04 16:30 | Ramada by Wyndham, 8909 W Airport Dr, Spokane, WA, 99224
WRAP® Seminar 1 Training for Peer Counselors (2-days)
WRAP® workshops are designed to be highly interactive. Facilitators encourage participation at whatever level feels comfortable. WRAP® is a living document that is unique to everyone. WRAP® facilitators skillfully share this simple and profound educational model so that participants can incorporate WRAP® into their lives. Through engagement in a WRAP® Seminar 1 workshop, participants will have a good understanding of the Key Concepts of Wellness and Recovery, and explore ways to integrate the philosophy into daily life. Participants of WRAP® Seminar 1 workshops will engage in a facilitated self-exploration process. They will unearth strengths and create personal powerful action plans to deal with life’s challenges. Through attending this experiential workshop, as well as time spent developing a personal WRAP®, participants can fulfill the prerequisites needed to attend a WRAP Facilitator training.
For more information or to register, please CLICK HERE.

Skagit county – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – WRAP Level 2 (5-Day)
2019-03-18 09:00 - 2019-03-22 16:30 | Valley Inn Convention Center, 2300 Market Street, Mt Vernon, WA, 98273
Spend five days learning to become a WRAP Facilitator.** This course is designed to help you become a powerful change agent as a WRAP Facilitator. You will gain a deeper understanding of the recovery process and learn to:

work with people who have mental health challenges to discover the strengths they have and can use to enhance their recovery;
effectively share the underlying concepts necessary to recovery – hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support;
work with individuals and groups to develop a WRAP;
teach about wellness tools and strategies;
empower and motivate people to work toward recovery – feeling the way they want to feel, making their lives the way they want them to be, and moving toward meeting their life goals; and
use interaction and presentation styles and strategies that enhance recovery.

WRAP Seminar 1: Intro to WRAP is a pre-requisite for WRAP Seminar 2: WRAP for Facilitators – Attendees MUST supply questionnaire answers and appropriate documentation to attend WRAP Seminar 2.
For more information or to register, CLICK HERE.

Snohomish county – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – Co-Occurring Disorders
2019-03-08 09:00 - 16:30 | Everett Community College, 2000 Tower Street, GWH 264, Everett, WA, 98201
Co-occurring Disorders Training for Peer Support Counselors is interactive and provides useful tools for Peer Support Counselors working with people who experience co-occurring disorders – the coexistence of both a mental health and a substance use disorder. It will further define co-occurring disorders, introduce study results, the Stages of Change, relapse prevention, and cover the SAMHSA perspective. In a classroom setting, peer counselors will learn how to positively work with people who experience co-occurring disorders.
For more information or to register, CLICK HERE.

King County – WaHCA Peer Continuing Education Series – Documentation
2019-03-06 09:00 - 13:00 | Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave STE 100, Seattle, WA, 98122
Certified Peer Counselors must document their work, but that documentation must be done in a way that is consistent with their unique role. This workshop helps peer support workers understand requirements of Medicaid and the Washington Administrative Codes, focusing on the type of documentations most often required by CPCs. Expect a simple but thorough method, with lots of practice.
For more information or to register, CLICK HERE.

Supporting the Youth Peer Support Role Within Your Organization
2019-02-26 11:00 - 12:00 | WA
About the Webinar:
Pacific Northwest (Region10) Mental Health Technology Transfer Center in partnership with Pathways RTC bring you “Supporting the Youth Peer Support Role Within Your Organization.”. Youth peer support is an emerging and innovative role within mental health that is seen as valuable for young adults who are system involved. While many agencies want to employ or do employ youth peer support specialists, there are many questions and challenges regarding how to best support this role. In this webinar we will clarify the responsibilities and boundaries of the youth peer support role and offer tips on how to support this role and these employees within your agency.
About the Presenters:
Caitlin Baird is a Project Manager and Trainer with Pathways Research and Training Center at Portland State University. Caitlin has experience working directly with transition aged youth and young adults as a peer support specialist and as a supervisor for peer support specialists in wraparound and other mental health settings, as well as her own lived experience within mental health systems. She has trained providers across the nation in wraparound, systems of care, and youth driven care.

Mary Beth Welch is a Peer Support Training Specialist with Pathways Research and Training Center. Mary Beth uses her lived experience as a youth in the mental health system, foster care, and special education systems and a peer support specialist who worked with youth to guide her work. Mary Beth is also an avid cat lover!

If you have questions please email nwmhttc@uw.edu.
To register, please CLICK HERE.

STAY* – A brief intervention for families of adolescents with disruptive behaviors
2019-02-25 | Comprehensive Healthcare – Auditorium, 402 S. 4th Ave, Yakima, WA, 98902, United States
STAY is a brief intervention for families with adolescents (11+) experiencing moderate disruptive behaviors and/or other co-morbid mental health issues (depression, anxiety). The STAY model uses a hybrid of evidence-based strategies and techniques that include parent management interventions and components of cognitive behavioral therapy which are delivered through a multi-step approach over the course of 4-8 sessions. At the conclusion of the 4-8 sessions, guidance is provided as to how to transition a family into an extended treatment, if needed.
STAY was originally developed for families with adolescents who are experiencing disruptive behaviors that are causing family distress but may not require a more intensive intervention. It can also be used as a method of engaging the family in the youth’s mental health treatment for other co-morbid conditions that are contributing to family conflict and/or distress.
For more information, CLICK HERE.
