This NNED space highlights events related to your behavioral health equity work.
We highlight events available online such as webinars or telecasts, national conferences and meetings, and regionally-based events that NNED members can register for and attend.
Interested in finding events in your HHS Region? Click your region below:
How Implicit Bias Affects Our Work: Engagement with Communities
Kick off your summer learning season with the Pacific Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC)’s webinar series on Implicit Bias in Mental Health Services! Everyone has implicit biases. It is important to become mindful of how they ca …
NACCHO 360: Raising the Reach of Public Health
07/07/20 - 07/09/20
Public Health is an inherently multi-disciplinary field with a diverse workforce consisting of professions ranging from clinicians, epidemiologists, and informaticists to health educators, policy analysts, and program evaluators. As a result, people of …
Taking on the “Perfect Storm”: Faith-based Organizations and Partnerships Address Critical Behavioral Health Needs in Communities of Color
07/16/20
July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. This July, communities are facing the “perfect storm” of crises that are deepening the disparities in mental health and wellbeing. The current COVID-19 pandemic, economic crisis, behavioral healt …
National ACT Virtual Meetings to Address Impact of COVID-19
07/17/20
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a multidisciplinary, team-based model that provides intensive community-based and outreach-oriented services to people who experience the most severe and persistent mental illness. The vast majority also have a co …
National ACT Virtual Meetings to Address Impact of COVID-19
07/20/20
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a multidisciplinary, team-based model that provides intensive community-based and outreach-oriented services to people who experience the most severe and persistent mental illness. The vast majority also have a co …
Native American Spirituality
07/24/20
American Indian and Alaska Native communities to come together to discuss the importance of spirituality in our culture. Continuing discussions will cover broader topics of spirituality in Native American and Alaska Native culture, and will be open for …
How Implicit Bias Affects Our Work: Organizational Culture and Climate
07/24/20
Everyone has implicit biases. It is important to become mindful of how they can show up and impact our work with others. They will explore the dynamics of implicit bias and its impact on decision-making in behavioral health spaces. This series will cha …
Mental Health Mutual Support Calls for Thriving at Work During COVID-19 for Mental Health Providers
07/30/20
The Northeast and Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Centers wants to support you and your work during this unprecedented public health crisis. Everyone wants to support each other! Many of you have created unique strategies for meeting the ne …
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Culturally Adapted Therapy to Work with Latino Families
07/30/20
This one and half-hour online session will discuss the Culturally Modified-Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CM-TFT). CM-TFT is Evidence-Based Therapy proven to be effective for Hispanic and Latino children and adolescents that experienced t …
National ACT Virtual Meetings to Address Impact of COVID-19
08/03/20
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a multidisciplinary, team-based model that provides intensive community-based and outreach-oriented services to people who experience the most severe and persistent mental illness. The vast majority also have a co …
Trauma-Informed Care
08/04/20
Trauma-informed care continues to grow as the standard and expectation across multiple settings. As this expectation grows it becomes more and more important that all of healthcare keep the importance of this term in the forefront of treatment. It is n …
Culture and Mental Health Among Central and South Americans Living In The United States
08/07/20
This one and half-hour online session will provide information on 10th, 11th, and 12th largest population of Hispanic origin living in the United States, the Ecuadorians, Peruvians, and Nicaraguans; each group accounted for 1% of the U.S. Hispanic popu …
Mental Health Treatment in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence
08/12/20
Abuse by an intimate partner is associated with a range of mental health consequences, further amplified in the context of structural inequities, ongoing danger, and coercive control. While more research is needed on IPV-specific treatment intervention …
Understanding Suicide: Tools for Providers to Help Someone Experiencing Suicidal Ideation
08/12/20
Join us for this three-part series on addressing suicide in Indian Country. Over the course of these three sessions, we hope to give providers the tools and understanding of this issue that will help prepare them for addressing this with clients, as we …
Biennial Conference – 2020 American Indian Elders Conference
08/17/20 - 08/21/20
The National Indian Council on Aging (NICOA) conference serves as a national forum where American Indian and Alaska Native Elders come from across the Continental United States and Alaska to convene the Biennial meetings. The Biennial C …
TAVA’s Transgender Military Retreat
09/25/20 - 09/27/20
The Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) advocates equality for transgender veterans and active duty service members in healthcare, benefits, and open transgender military service. TAVA also help veterans change their name and gender within …
5th Annual Value Based Care Summit
10/29/20 - 10/30/20
The 5th Annual Value-Based Care Summit in Boston, MA, will convene key decision-makers from leading payer and provider organizations to discuss solutions to challenges facing the industry’s transition to value-based payment. The show will offer a blend …
Facing Race 2020: A National Conference
11/12/20 - 11/14/20
Facing Race: A National Conference is presented by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation. A unique collaborative space for racial justice movement making, Facing Race is the largest multiracial, inter-generational gathering for organiz …