Webinars

Configuring EHR Systems to Report EBPs: A Live Demo for youth serving behavioral health organizations in wa state

This webinar shares insights from publicly funded youth serving behavioral health agencies on how to streamline EBP documentation in three EHR systems—Credible, EPIC, and Evolve Netsmart. The session includes practical walk-through demonstration followed by panel discussion Q&A.

Supervising Clinical Mental Health Providers

Clinical supervisors play a key role in supporting and sustaining the behavioral health workforce, ensuring clinical competency, and mitigating clinician burnout. Yet, they often find themselves without sufficient guidance and support. This webinar assembled a panel of experienced community-based supervisors to bring to life the recently published resource, “Supervising Clinical Mental Health Providers."

Family-Based Interventions for Child and Youth Mental Health Webinar Series: Part 4

Family-based behavioral health interventions are therapeutic approaches that incorporate family, community, and/or natural supports into a child's course of care. Given how often family-related factors impact child and youth mental health, engaging family members in treatment is important for meaningful clinical change. This webinar series highlights family-based behavioral interventions with children and youth across the developmental spectrum, and provides frameworks, skills, and approaches to doing family-involved work.

Part 4 of the webinar series focused on best practice, family-based mental health approaches for complex situations. The webinar provided context and tools for clinicians to support themselves when working with complex cases, and discussed how clinicians can determine best course of care in a culturally responsive way. Additionally, the webinar explored modifying family interventions and identifying when they may not be appropriate.

Family-Based Interventions for Child and Youth Mental Health Webinar Series: Part 3

Family-based behavioral health interventions are therapeutic approaches that incorporate family, community, and/or natural supports into a child's course of care. Given how often family-related factors impact child and youth mental health, engaging family members in treatment is important for meaningful clinical change. This webinar series highlights family-based behavioral interventions with children and youth across the developmental spectrum, and provides frameworks, skills, and approaches to doing family-involved work.

Part 3 highlights best practice family interventions used to support and promote adolescent mental health. The webinar discusses best interventions focused on the role of the family and the parent/child dyad relationship. The webinar also covers the benefits of close engagement with family members while working one-on-one with an adolescent client.

Family-Based Interventions for Child and Youth Mental Health Webinar Series: Part 2

Family-based behavioral health interventions are therapeutic approaches that incorporate family, community, and/or natural supports into a child's course of care. Given how often family-related factors impact child and youth mental health, engaging family members in treatment is important for meaningful clinical change. This webinar series highlights family-based behavioral interventions with children and youth across the developmental spectrum, and provides frameworks, skills, and approaches to doing family-involved work.

Part 2 focused on Children's Mental Health, highlighting family interventions used to support and promote children's mental health (5-12 years old) and providing an overview of culturally responsive adaptions of evidence-based practices, clinical best practices, and intervention examples.

Family-Based Interventions for Child and Youth Mental Health Webinar Series: Part 1

Family-based behavioral health interventions are therapeutic approaches that incorporate family, community, and/or natural supports into a child's course of care. Given how often family-related factors impact child and youth mental health, engaging family members in treatment is important for meaningful clinical change. This webinar series highlights family-based behavioral interventions with children and youth across the developmental spectrum, and provides frameworks, skills, and approaches to doing family-involved work.

Part 1 focused on Infant Mental Health, highlighting family interventions used to support and promote infant mental health (birth to 5 years old) and providing an overview of infant mental health research, clinical best practices, and intervention examples.

2021 Washington State Reporting Guide WEBINAR for Evidence-Based Practices in Children's Mental Health

This live webinar focused on the updated 2021 Reporting Guide for Research- and Evidence-based Practices in Children's Mental Health in Washington State. We discussed updates to the guide, what reporting looks like from a provider and supervisory perspective, reviewed a case example, and discussed some of the technical aspects of reporting via EHR and billing systems.

Integrated Care Webinar series part 3 - Examples of Evidence-Informed Pediatric Mental Health Treatment

Pediatric integrated care is an important way to promote high quality mental health care for children and families who face high barriers to care and limited access to mental health resources. Integrated care promotes health equity and improves quality of care by relieving the patient of the expectation to navigate multiple health systems and decreasing stigma of mental health care by providing it in a primary care setting. This webinar series will provide an overview of the pediatric integrated care model and will explore how it is implemented.

The third webinar reviews brief treatment interventions for common mental health needs in children and adolescents.

Integrated care webinar series part 2 - pediatric care practices to implement evidence-informed mental health care

Pediatric integrated care is an important way to promote high quality mental health care for children and families who face high barriers to care and limited access to mental health resources. Integrated care promotes health equity and improves quality of care by relieving the patient of the expectation to navigate multiple health systems and decreasing stigma of mental health care by providing it in a primary care setting. This webinar series will provide an overview of the pediatric integrated care model and will explore how it is implemented.

The second webinar in the series reviews the implementation of new procedures in a pediatric setting.

Integrated Care Webinar Series Part 1 - Best Practices in Integrated Pediatric Mental Health Care

Pediatric integrated care is an important way to promote high quality mental health care for children and families who face high barriers to care and limited access to mental health resources. Integrated care promotes health equity and improves quality of care by relieving the patient of the expectation to navigate multiple health systems and decreasing stigma of mental health care by providing it in a primary care setting.

This first webinar in the series provides an overview of the history and purpose of pediatric integrated care.

The Role of Community Health Navigation in advancing health equity

Health navigation is a strategy used to improve access to healthcare through system level coordination as well as directly with individual clients. This webinar explored both policy research and direct service approaches to increasing healthcare access through health navigation. Panelists included Enos Mbajah from Washington State Health Care Authority, Dr. Mary McKay from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, and Darlene Weigle from YMCA Social Impact Center in Seattle.

Integrating Race and Culture in Evidence-Based Treatments

Led by Dr. Won-Fong Lau Johnson, PhD and featuring panelists Laura Escalona-Flores, MSW/LICSW (school-based mental health manager at Neighborcare Health), Seema Mhatre, LICSW/MPH (licensed clinical social worker at Odessa Brown-Clinic at Seattle Children’s Hospital), and Rickey “Deekon” Jones (founder and CEO of New Developed Nations).

Rising to the Challenge: How State-University Partnerships Strengthen Health Policy

Sponsored by the Evidence-Based Practice Institute and the UW CoLab, this webinar focuses on the role of state-university partnerships in evidence translation to inform policy decision making and to improve population health. Panelists describe their experience and how these partnerships have led to cross-disciplinary research, strengthened state and agency relationships, and engaged scholarship. They also expand on the value of these partnerships to state institutions, policymakers, researchers, Medicaid enrollees, and the larger community.

Evidence-based practices and telehealth for youth

COVID-19 has required a swift transition to providing behavioral health services remotely via telehealth. With this transition, many questions arise around the impact of telehealth on the therapeutic process, including alliance, engagement and use of specific evidence-based practice elements. This webinar will provide a brief review of the literature on effectiveness of telehealth with children and then move to specific guidance around how providers can leverage the telehealth platform to build treatment alliance and engagement, as well as how to implement evidence based practices. Real world examples from WA state community providers will be included throughout . CoLab researchers Dr. Georganna Sedlar and Dr. Lindsey Weil lead the presentation.

Special Program: Dr. Kim Dumont & Dr. Vickie Ybarra

Topic: What Does the evidence say about strategies for Producing Useful Research Evidence and Using it in Impactful Ways

Presented by Dr. Kim Dumont, Senior Program Officer at the William T. Grant Foundation with Dr. Vickie Ybarra, Director of the Office of Innovation, Alignment, and Accountability at DCYF as discussant. Co-hosted by the CoLab (previously SAJE) and the Washington State Partnership Council on Juvenile Justice (WA-PCJJ).

Girls in the Juvenile Justice System

Dr. Sarah C. Walker speaking at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences: Grand Rounds Series