The NNED
Are you someone with experience in community-based behavioral health? Consider joining the National Behavioral Health Experts and Consultants Group!
Elevate CBOs Webinar Series
“Elevate CBOs” is a key initiative at SAMHSA’s Office of Behavioral Health Equity (OBHE) to build capacity, increase the visibility, and highlight the unique role of CBOs serving under-resourced communities in behavioral health.
Data Storytelling: How CBOs Can Share Their Impact
February 22, March 21, April 25, and May 23, 2024 | 2:00 – 3:30 pm ET
The strength of community-based organizations (CBOs) is knowing and engaging with their own stories and that of their communities to make a difference. Building on previous Elevate CBOs webinars, this four-part series, led by Carlos Morales of Viva Technology will focus on providing the context and tools necessary for behavioral health organizations to convey their impact and move their work to the next level through data storytelling.
Through this Elevate CBOs workshop series, attendees will:
- Understand the importance of data storytelling for behavioral health work
- Identify data, stories, and visuals that are optimal for conveying their organizations’ work and impact
- Learn how to make data, narratives, and visuals that are interesting and palatable to their audiences
- Gain the tools necessary to market themselves to funders, community members, and other partners
Sessions:
- Data Storytelling 101: Laying the Groundwork for CBO Impact, Thursday, February 22, 2024
- From Numbers to Visuals: Unleashing the Power of Data to Create Narratives for CBO Impact, Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Beyond the Numbers and Visuals: Building Your CBO Data-Driven Digital Marketing Strategy, Thursday, April 25, 2024
- From Impact to Investment: Leveraging Your CBO’s Story for Funding, Impact, & Internal Growth, Thursday, May 23, 2024
SAMHSA Data and Publicly Available Analysis Tools
Thursday, December 8, 2022 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
We invite you to join this informational virtual workshop led by Kathy Downey Piscopo and Sam Brown from SAMHSA’s Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ) to learn how to use SAMHSA data and tools to advance your behavioral health work. This opportunity intends to provide technical assistance to National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED) members (free to join) and minority-serving and under-resourced community-based organizations (CBOs). This event is a continuation of the Elevate CBOs Webinar Series, an overarching policy-driven initiative from SAMHSA’s Office of Behavioral Health Equity that began in 2021.
By attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand SAMHSA’s CBHSQ data sources, including which to use for different types of information
- Learn what kind of reports, data tables, data files, and analytic tools are available via CBHSQ webpages
- Learn how to use CBHSQ’s publicly available analysis tools to find data needed, with an emphasis on data equity information
Where’s the Data? An Overview of the Behavioral Health Services Information System (BHSIS)
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
Wondering what behavioral health data is available to support work in your community? You’re invited to join this informational virtual workshop led by Herman Alvarado, a Supervisory Social Science Analyst at SAMHSA’s Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, who will provide an overview of how to access SAMHSA’s available data on the Behavioral Health Services Information System (BHSIS) and Online Treatment Locator. This opportunity intends to provide technical assistance to National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED) members (free to join) and minority-serving and under-resourced community-based organizations (CBOs).
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe the different components of the BHSIS
- Understand how to access BHSIS data and their potential use in research and grant writing
- Explain the interaction between BHSIS and SAMHSA’s Online Treatment Locator
Community Needs Assessments
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
You’re invited to attend a community needs assessment data workshop. While this virtual workshop is open to the public, this opportunity intends to provide technical assistance to National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED) members (free to join) and minority-serving and under-resourced community-based organizations (CBOs).
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand the purpose of a community needs assessment
- Identify who should be involved in a community needs assessment
- Plan and conduct a community needs assessment
- Learn about the impact made by community needs assessment reports
Data 101 Workshop
Thursday, May 26, 2022 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
This opportunity intends to provide technical assistance to National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED) members and minority-serving and under-resourced community-based organizations (CBOs).
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Understand data terminologies
- Describe the difference between qualitative and quantitative data
- Identify appropriate usage of qualitative and quantitative methods
Budget 101 Workshop
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
This workshop from the SAMHSA Office of Behavioral Health Equity and the NNED National Facilitation is on developing a budget for grant applications.
This opportunity intends to provide technical assistance to NNED members and minority-serving and under-resourced community-based organizations (CBOs). The webinar will provide an overview of project budget development, explain the importance of an accurate project budget, introduce budget terminology, and offer tips and advice on cost estimates. The webinar will include a question and answer period and contact information for follow-up.
2024 NNED Virtual Roundtable Series
Behavioral Health Equity Best Practices for African Americans
Monday, February 5, 2024 | 1:30-3:00 pm EST
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), Office of Behavioral Health Equity held the Behavioral Health Equity Best Practices for African Americans event on Monday, February 5 at 1:30-3:00 pm EST. This dynamic webinar was a collaboration with SAMHSA’s Division of Children and School Mental, Mental Health Promotion Branch, Suicide Prevention Branch, and the 988 & Behavioral Health Crisis Coordinating Office.
Behavioral health and access to high-quality and affordable healthcare services and support is the right of all individuals. Advancing behavioral health equity means working to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible.
2023 NNED Virtual Roundtable Series
Behavioral Health Equity Challenge Showcase
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 3:00 – 4:30 pm EDT
After the success of the first Showcase in September, we organized this second event in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month! During the Behavioral Health Equity Challenge Winners Showcase Part II, four of the ten Challenge winners — all serving the Hispanic/Latinx community — shared their innovative strategies, lessons learned from implementation, and recommendations for replication in other communities.
Behavioral Health Equity Challenge Showcase
Thursday, September 7, 2023 | 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Earlier this year, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) launched the “Behavioral Health Equity Challenge: Outreach and Engagement Strategies for Underserved Racial and Ethnic Communities.” Community-based organizations (CBOs) often serve on the front lines to address the needs of their community members. The goal of this challenge was to identify and highlight outreach and engagement strategies CBOs use to increase access to behavioral health services for racially and ethnically diverse, underserved communities. This Showcase highlighted the winners of the Behavioral Health Equity Challenge. Winners shared their innovative strategies, lessons learned from implementation, and recommendations for replication in other communities.
It Takes a Village: Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities in the Black Community
Thursday, February 16, 2023 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
In honor of Black History Month, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) hosted a virtual roundtable featuring speakers with lived experience, community leaders, and practitioners to discuss behavioral health challenges in Black communities. Through personal stories and innovative programs, speakers highlighted the often untapped cultural resources that lessen the burden of disease and promote resiliency. This roundtable showcased unity among community in celebration of culture and history.
2022 NNED Virtual Roundtable Series
Where Did Funding (And the Workforce) Go? Exploring Innovative Strategies for Sustainability and Retention in the Behavioral Health Field
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Community-based organizations (CBOs) across the nation are experiencing challenges in sustaining programs and services, staff retention and training, and organizational capacity. With the COVID-19 emergency relief funding coming to an end this summer, many organizations are left wondering how to access long-term funding to continue to serve their communities’ increasing behavioral health needs. The pandemic prompted many CBOs to expand their services to address social determinants of health (SDOH) interrelated with behavioral health — including housing, food insecurity, and employment training — making them “one-stop shops” seeking new ways to tap into funding sources. Compounding these issues is the limited organizational capacity to continue to seek, apply for, and meet the deliverables of grants. As the nation witnesses the “great resignation” with a current quit rate of 3% (~4.6 million — nearly doubled since April 2020), organizations of all sizes are enduring the effects (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022). CBO staff are experiencing high rates of burnout and limited support trying to keep up with the rise of behavioral health needs and filling in workforce gaps.
Join this NNED Virtual Roundtable to gain insight from federal agencies, CBOs, and behavioral health leaders around creative methods to sustain the work being done at the community level. Panelists will provide examples of success stories and discuss strategies for organizations to be able to continue their efforts long into the future.
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Archived Webinars
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Creating and Enhancing Pathways to a Racially/Ethnically Diverse Behavioral Health Workforce
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Partnering to Strengthen the Behavioral Health Infrastructure and Capacity in Communities of Color
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Adapting to the Behavioral Health Needs of Underserved and Racially/Ethnically Diverse Youth
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Taking on the “Perfect Storm”: Faith-based Organizations and Partnerships Address COVID-19 and Critical Behavioral Health Needs in Communities of Color
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Communities Respond to COVID-19: Implications for Asian Pacific Islanders
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Communities Respond to COVID-19 with Innovative High-impact Strategies
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Continuing the Dialogue: Strategies to Address the Opioid Epidemic in Black and Hispanic/Latinx Communities
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Moving Forward: Diverse Community Perspectives and Strategies on Trauma, Healing and Trust
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Workplace Environment Matters: Strategies to Support and Retain Behavioral Health Staff Providing Services to Diverse Ethnic and Racial Populations
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Building the Evidence: Innovative Partnerships to Move Community-Defined Evidence to Best Practice
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Creating Supportive Systems to Improve Mental Health Outcomes for Young African American Boys
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Funding Your Behavioral Health Equity Work: How What and With Who?
- NNED Virtual Roundtable – Voices from the Field, the Impact of Opioid Addiction in Diverse Communities
- Celebrating National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month 2014 Webinar and Twitter Chat
- 2014 National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month Planning
- (En Español): Effective Outreach & Enrollment Practices to Latino Youth
- (En Español): Demographic Overview of Latino Adolescents & their Health Coverage Needs
- Behavioral Health & the Affordable Care Act for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders
- Reaching Latino Audiences—Media Outreach and Digital Engagement
- Barriers and Challenges for Outreach and Enrollment in Latino Communities
- Building Partnerships To Further Outreach & Enrollment in Latino Communities
- Fundamentals of Health Reform Outreach & Enrollment to Latinos
- Celebrating National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month 2013
- Planning and Preparing for National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month 2013
- National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month 2013 History & Highlights Webinar
- Virtual Roundtable: Providing Behavioral Health Services to Diverse Service Members
- National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month 2012
- National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month 2012 Planning
- NNED Forum Call: Healing Hurt People
- NNED Forum Call: Psychological First Aid
- NNED Forum Call: Tenemos Voz (We have a Voice)
- Addressing Re-experiencing & Avoidance in Victims of Urban Trauma
- Trauma Informed Care and Violence Prevention – Recognizing Hyperarousal
- Empowering our Voices: Developing & Sustaining Multicultural Consumer Networks
- Community of Practice – Latino MultiFamily Group Program
- You Say
Potayto I Say Potahto, Don’t Call the Whole Thing Off: The Need for Cross-Cultural Dialogue - Community-Based Responses to Parental Depression
- Community-Based Approaches to Maternal Depression
- Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities Through Faith-Health Partnerships
- Empowering Native Youth Through Experiential Education
- Celebrating Mental Health in Diverse Communities Part II
- Celebrating Mental Health in Diverse Communities Part I
- Social Media Strategies for Community-Based Organizations