Previous Webinars 2019

Using Text and Email with Clients – Guidance and Resources for Providers

Description(October, 2019) Co-hosted by Pathways RTC, and Oregon Health & Science University / Portland State University School of Public Health, and the EASA Center for Excellence, this webinar explains the technical and administrative requirements for the ethical, HIPAA-compliant use of text and email.

Approaches to Evaluating Services for Youth and Young Adults of Transition Age

Description(June 27, 2019) Hosted by Westat as part of the Children's Mental Health Initiative (CMHI) training series funded by SAMHSA, this webinar described strategies for assessing services, supports and systems that serve older youth and young adults with significant mental health needs. The webinar focused on assessment tools and strategies that are sustainable and efficient, and that produce data that is useful to stakeholders.

Drop-in Centers as a Low-Barrier Engagement Strategy for Transition-Age Youth and Young Adults

Description(May 21, 2019) Pathways RTC's 2019 issue of Focal Point focuses on the evaluation of innovative transition programs across the country. This webinar explored two examples of programs featured in the issue that are innovative in their low-barrier approach. Both Massachusetts, with its YouForward Healthy Transitions project, and Kentucky with its Transition Age Youth Launching Realized Dreams (TAYLRD), use drop-in centers as a way to engage transition-age youth and young adults.

Training and Skill-Building for Mental Health Providers – Summarizing the State of the Science on Best Practices, Challenges and Emerging Responses

Description(March 13, 2019) In this presentation, which was not aired previously, Janet Walker and Caitlin Baird outline the state of the science on training best practices. It incorporates video (with special celebrity guest appearances) to help illustrate some key training principles.

Trauma-Informed Care in Youth-/Young Adult-Serving Organizations

Description(January 22, 2019) In this Pathways webinar, Mandy Davis, director of Trauma Informed Oregon, discussed how youth- and young adult-serving organizations can implement the principles of trauma-informed care (TIC) into their organization and services. Examples and tools were provided with an emphasis on those developed by and with youth and young adults. In addition, ideas for TIC staff self-care were shared.