Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone)Skill Development Webinar Series
The aim of Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth, a 12-week webinar series, was to consolidate learning from the quick transition to behavioral telehealth services in response to COVID 19. The webinars teach practical skills to support ongoing improvement of behavioral telehealth. Webinars are tailored for mental health and substance use providers as well as their supervisors. Webinars are for staff from any organization interested in improving their skills in offering behavioral telehealth.
This series was sponsored by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF).
A joint effort by the California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California with funding by the California Health Care Foundation.
HELD: Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 10:00am-11:30am (PST)
Please join us for the webinar: Ensuring Success in Telehealth: What Staff Need to Know. This is the first webinar in the 12-webinar series, Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar is to increase participant’s ability to prepare themselves and their clients for successful behavioral telehealth and telephone sessions. It will include information on HIPAA compliance as well as offer practical strategies providers can use when getting ready and during a telehealth session. Learning objectives include:
HELD: Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 10:00am-11:30am (PST)
Please join us for the webinar: Empathic Communication and Engagement in Behavioral Telehealth. This is the second webinar in the 12-webinar series, Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar is to provide an overview of practical tips and strategies in creating a virtual experience that is warm, relational, empathic and engages clients in a manner that promotes connection and access to care. The Learning Objectives include:
HELD: Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 10:00am – 11:30am (PST)
Please join us for the webinar: Virtual Assessment and Client Plan Development. This is the third webinar in the 12-webinar series, Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar is to improve participants’ skills in conducting assessments and developing client plans using telehealth and will focus on strategies to address the needs of clients while also meeting compliance and billing requirements.
HELD: Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 10:00am – 11:30am (PST)
Please join us for the webinar: Effective Supervision: Addressing Long-Term Virtual Team Needs. This is the fourth webinar in the 12-webinar series, Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar is to increase participant’s ability to meet the basic, psychological, and self-fulfillment needs of their team while supervising virtually.
HELD: Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 1:00pm - 2:30pm (PST)
Please join us for the webinar:Therapeutic Support When Working with Young Children (0-5) and Caregivers in a Virtual Setting. This is the fifth webinar in the 12-webinar series, Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar is to provide strategies to clinicians to engage and provide support to caregivers and their children ages 0-5 in a virtual environment.
HELD: Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 10:00am – 11:30am (PST)
Please join us for the webinar:Telehealth with Traumatized Children and Adolescents. This is the sixth webinar in the 12-webinar series, Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar will help clinicians understand the research behind the use of telehealth with children, adolescents, and their caregivers. It will also look at the implications for traumatized children and adolescents when using a telehealth platform.
HELD: Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 10:00am-11:30am (PST)
Please join us for the webinar: Effective Suicide and Crisis Intervention Using Telehealth. This is the seventh webinar in the 12-webinar series, Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar is to increase skills to manage suicidal behavior and crises using telehealth. The webinar will include a focus on developing safety plans.
HELD: Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 10:00am – 11:30am (PST)
Please join us for the webinar: Self-Management Supports. This is the eighth webinar in the 12-webinar series, Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar is to introduce participants to the values, components, and interventions of self-management supports. The topics of self-care and the stress vulnerability model will be explored in detail in order to connect the dots between the trauma effects of COVID-19 and the work participants do daily in behavioral health.
HELD: Wednesday, June 24, 2020, 10:00am-11:30am
(PST)
Please join us for the webinar: Harm Reduction in a Virtual
Environment. This is the ninth webinar in the series,
Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral
Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar
is to teach participants skills, strategies and interventions to
manage health risk for clients with substance use and
co-occurring disorders, and support goal directed outcomes using
telehealth.
HELD: Wednesday, July 1, 2020, 10:00am-11:30am
(PST)
Please join us for the webinar: Staying Focused and Aligning
with Clients Around Long Term Recovery Goals. This is
the tenth webinar in the series, Minimizing Disruptions in
Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and
Phone). The goal of this webinar is to provide strategies to
stay focused and aligned with clients around their long-term
recovery goals. The webinar will introduce a framework for
conducting virtual sessions with clients regardless of the
specific practice interventions that are used. The session will
cover engagement strategies used throughout the session, keeping
the session relevant to what is meaningful and important to the
person, and how to align with people in goal-directed work.
HELD: Wednesday, July 8, 2020, 10:00am-11:30am (PST)
Please join us for the webinar: Recognizing and Countering Implicit Bias by Changing Practices in Telehealth. This is the eleventh webinar in the 12-webinar series, Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar is to improve whole health outcomes enhancing awareness of implicit bias and offering strategies to counter bias in order to increase individual empathy and organizational responsiveness to clients’ needs.
HELD: Wednesday, July 15, 2020, 10:00am-11:30am (PST)
Please join us for the webinar: Effective Telehealth When Working with Communities of Color. This is the 12th and final webinar in the series, Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth (Video and Phone). The goal of this webinar is to increase providers’ skill in effective outreach to communities of color so they are aware of and more likely to engage in behavioral telehealth opportunities. It also aims to offer strategies and practical tools to improve the quality of behavioral telehealth care and services to ensure they are responsive to diverse cultural behavioral health beliefs, values, practices, and preferred languages in order to decrease behavioral health disparities.
The aim of Minimizing Disruptions in Care Through the Use of Behavioral Telehealth, a 12-week webinar series, was to consolidate learning from the quick transition to behavioral telehealth services in response to COVID 19. The webinars teach practical skills to support ongoing improvement of behavioral telehealth. Webinars are tailored for mental health and substance use providers as well as their supervisors. Webinars are for staff from any organization interested in improving their skills in offering behavioral telehealth.
