Conference Materials

Transforming Stigma® into Strength

One in five people will experience a mental health challenge during in the next year. The stigma surrounding the subject of mental health is the biggest barrier to people seeking treatment. Mike Veny shares his powerful and unforgettable story about living with depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. He will then introduce The Stigma Cycle™: “Stigma starts with shame. Shame leads to silence. Silence leads to self-destructive behavior and suicide.” The process repeats, and it becomes an endless, downward spiral. Through this engaging and entertaining presentation, you will learn how to transform shame through self-care, transform silence through conversations, and transform sabotage, social injustice, self-destructive behavior and suicide through connecting with others. Mike will share practical tools on how to transform stigma into strength and empower people in their lives to get the help they need.

The Brain as a Historical Organ: How Early Experiences and Relationships Impact Current and Future Functioning

The Brain as a Historical Organ PowerPoint

Brain function and brain development, particularly how early experiences disproportionately affect this development, is instrumental in our work with youth and young adults. In looking at the brain from the bottom to the top, and the inside out, we can better determine what types of interventions may be helpful. Our first connections or disconnections set the stage for all future relationships. Sometimes the very interventions which are the most needed will cause the most distress in our clients' close relationships. The experiential and multi-sensory training will provide take away information, which will be helpful in both your personal and professional lives. The content in this presentation draws heavily from the work of Dr. Bruce Perry and his Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT), as well as the work of Dr. David Cross and Dr. Karyn Purvis of the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University. Traditional types of interventions will be discussed, including their limitations and possibilities, along with case examples.

Developmentally Responsive Practice

SWOT Matrix

NIRN Hexagon Tool

Learn about the evolution and developmental difference inherent to young adulthood, especially those with serious mental health conditions (SMHC). Get acquainted with the innovations and emerging best practices in providing services for young adults through historical studies, stories, and interactive activities. Then, apply strategies to prepare your organization or team for bringing in evidence informed practices to improve young adult engagement in services based on their diverse needs.

Developmentally Responsive Practice Activity

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis of Bringing in Evidence Informed Practices Unique to Working with Young Adults

Originally created for schools, you will use evidenced informed tools to help you think about the domains that would help prepare you to bring evidence informed services for young adults to your organization, team, or practice. You will further your understanding of your organization's readiness to implement these new practices, and learn how training and administrative support might further enhance personnel's confidence of engaging young adults uniquely.

From Self-Determination to Systems Change: Promoting Youth Leadership Through Enhancements at the Provider, Team, and Agency Levels

AMP's Top Ten Tools
Transition Mental Health Services Provider Core Competencies
https://www.pathwaysrtc.pdx.edu/learning-tools

Materials courtesy of https://www.pathwaysrtc.pdx.edu/

For the most part, providers agree young people should have leadership over their lives, their plans, and even in shaping the systems that serve them. However, they may be uncertain about what this looks like and how to implement youth leadership principles in their individual practice, in their agency decision-making, or on advisory councils and committees. This presentation will cover specific techniques and strategies providers can use to promote and prioritize youth perspective and build self-determination skills in one-on-one practice, as well as look at some efforts to evaluate youth leadership at the agency level. We will cover some foundational youth engagement skills and review the results of Portland State University’s Achieve My Plan (AMP) study, and view videos of real participants and young people to demonstrate the impact this individualized coaching can have in supporting youth-driven practice. Then, we will look at youth leadership with a wider lens, considering different levels of youth leadership at an agency level, from tokenizing and superficial, to meaningful collaboration and partnership. Finally, we will cover the Assessment of Youth and Young Adult Voice on Committees and Councils, which is a new study developed by Portland State University in partnership with Youth MOVE National that intends to assess how committees and councils incorporate meaningful youth voice.

From Self-Determination to Systems Change: Promoting Youth Leadership Workgroup:

Participants will get the chance to practice some of the techniques and strategies covered in the presentation by completing part of an activity called, Vision to Activity from the AMP+ curriculum. Under the guidance of facilitators, participants will break into pairs of two and choose a role: “provider” or “client” and complete an activity. They will then switch roles, so each individual will have the chance to practice. Using the strategy of “Guiding without leading” and the youth-driven tools covered during the presentation, the “provider” will guide their partner through completing the Dream Wheel, choosing a goal, and planning specific activities as starting points to that goal. After both members of each group have played the provider role, the larger group will have the opportunity to discuss the activity and experiences.

Lessons from Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES!) - Creating Competency-Based Programs within Current Structures

Yes! Slideshow
Yes! Participant Satisfaction Survey Summary
Yes! Evaluation Report

Behavioral health science is clear that youth & young adults constitute a unique service population within mental health and AODA. Panelists from counties involved in the Youth Empowered Solutions (YES!) grant will discuss the core competencies necessary to effectively meet the needs of youth and young adults who are referred for Comprehensive Community Services (CCS). Youth and young adult members of the panel will share their perspectives on the impact of the YES! approach. Panelists will share their strategies for ensuring youth and young adults feel welcome, preparing youth and young adults to receive services, and creating opportunities for positive youth development and leadership. Panelists will also share how they were able to differentiate their programming in order to be developmentally responsive, while adhering to the rules governing services.

Moving from Shared Health Management to Self Health Management

BYB 8 Tools
Self Health Management PDF Slides
Transition Readiness Assessment
Skills for HCT

Emerging adults with disabilities sometimes struggle to take charge of their own healthcare. There are tools that can help emerging adults and their families to move from parents making health decisions, to sharing in those health decisions, to the emerging adult making their own health decisions with support. We will cover tools that can be used to help move emerging adults and their families along this spectrum.