Latasha Colbert

Child and Family Health Collaborative of Ohio

The session will encompass the implementation of best practices for effectively engaging young adults as they transition from foster care to Bridges. It will also incorporate interventions and comprehensive planning that is necessary to ensure the sustained success of young adults throughout their program journey until they reach the age of 21.

Don Kuchey

Ohio Children's Alliance

This workshop is for Bridges Supervisors. Too often we work in crisis mode where we are only putting out fires. When not operating in crisis mode you can be more intentional and work towards successful outcomes.

Brice Mickey

Beech Acres Parenting Center

In this learning and feedback opportunity participants will learn why articulating their "why" behind committing to DEI work is so important and practice how to do it with their peers. We will then elicit feedback from them around what they would like to see in a DEI-based cohort experience offered by the Alliance.

Holly Jones

The Buckeye Ranch

This workshop is designed through a DEI lens to help participants gain an understanding of the power of collaboration towards efforts to improve outcomes for children and families who are engaged in the child welfare system through clinical service provision. This workshop will address collaborative efforts of best practice methods to proactively identify the needs of children and families and provide mental, emotional, and behavioral health services for the prevention of removal, stabilizing placements to reduce the effects of trauma, decreasing the level of care, and supporting the reunifications goals for children and youth.

Andrea Weisberger

The Buckeye Ranch

Complex therapeutic concepts can be difficult for children and adolescents to understand and use in everyday life. The Buckeye Ranch developed an Experiential Psychoeducation Group curriculum to help students learn Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills in Schools. Presenters will provide a brief overview of the DBT Skills in Schools concepts with real time use of the games and activities in the curriculum. Presenters will review the benefits of using experiential activities in prevention groups to increase youth engagement, enhance learning, and invite the practice of skills. Presenters will offer ways that mental health agencies can partner with community centers and schools to provide prevention groups to youth.

Bobbi Beale

Center for Innovative Practices, CABH COE

Post pandemic clinical cases are often very complex, multi-system involved and highly traumatized. Thus, clinicians are exposed to a high level of secondary traumatic stress in addition to the typical stress of dealing with BH clients and their families. This newly updated session will address the supervisory relationship as a parallel process of promoting resilience, providing both support to the provider and a roadmap for the therapeutic relationship that the provider has with the family. We will also address supervisory strategies to monitor and prevent SES symptoms related to resilience promotion. Small group breakouts will be used to promote and model reflective discussions around resiliency components and promotion.

David Paxton

The Village Network

This presentation will describe the term ambiguous loss and explore the potential impact upon children and families experiencing an episode of out-of-home care. The are two types of ambiguous loss:

1. When the person is physically present but psychologically unavailable. An example of this might be when a child's parent has a mental health diagnosis or chemical use issue which makes them emotionally unavailable to meet the needs of the child, even if that parent is physically present.

2. When the person is physically absent but psychologically present. Examples of this would be a child does not live with a parent due to divorce, incarceration, foster care or adoption (Boss, 1999). The greater the ambiguity surrounding one's loss, the more difficult it is to manage the losses and the greater ones depression, anxiety, and family conflict. It is thought that this happens because: (1) it is difficult for a person to resolve grief if they do not know if the loss is temporary; (2) there is a lack of a clear, symbolic ritual surrounding the loss and (3) the griever is not socially recognized (often the case with biological family).

For Children placed in foster care, this ambiguous loss is incredibly hard to process. To help foster children better manage these repeated traumas, foster and adoptive parents we well as child welfare workers, must be sensitive to the role ambiguous loss plays in foster and adopted children's behavior.

Member Only

Child & Family Health Collaborative Governing Council Meeting

The Collaborative Governing Council is a members-only meeting for member organizational representatives of the Child & Family Health Collaborative of Ohio. Register to attend this session ONLY if you are a designated representative for your Alliance-Collaborative member organization.

Margrit Springer

The Buckeye Ranch

Two catchment areas, two Care Management Entities (CMEs), one county - the innovative impact of the OhioRISE vision and mission in the collective effort to improve care for kids and families involved with multiple systems through a reimagined system of care! With the implementation of OhioRISE, The Buckeye Ranch and The Village Network forged a partnership early on aligned with the mission of OhioRISE focused on all of Franklin County. With a foundational understanding of the OhioRISE impact, a recipe for a successful partnership was born grounded in system engagement, transparency in communication, and collaboration focused on better serving children, youth, families and our communities. This foundation and recipe for success is paving a path for a truly innovative approach to system work as OhioRISE continues to evolve and impact our systems of care.

Katie Klakos

Ohio State University College of Social Work

During our time with attendees, we plan on sharing information about our current students and recent graduates, and how we have changed what support looks like in our program as well as ideas for strategizing to strengthen our future in social work.

Lorri Stewart

The Centers/Cleveland Christian Home

Along with partners from Human Resources and Residential Programming, this workshop will review the investigation procedure developed at The Centers/Cleveland Christian Home and the associated process and workflows created to ensure fairness and equity throughout the process. This model was developed with external guidance around both legal principles and equitable/DEI considerations and is used consistently in managing these investigations alongside our external partners in licensing and at the County level. In addition to knowledge gained, attendees will be provided with concrete tools, including interview guides and flowcharts to utilize in their own investigation process.

Matthew Scruggs

The Village Network

Empowering Young Voices: Authentic Marketing with Kids for Mental Health Awareness will explore how kids' authentic perspectives can enhance marketing campaigns. We will start by discussing the value of authenticity and showcasing successful examples of incorporating kids' voices into marketing strategies. Participants will learn practical approaches to involve kids in the creative process, including their choice of colors and elements. Additionally, we will focus on creating sensitive and impactful mental health narratives with input from kids.

Daphne Kackloudis

BMD

This presentation will concern a discussion of changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act, revocation of non-compete agreements nationwide, and the impact of marijuana legalization on employers. We will discuss these issues generally, then provide more detail about what actual changes occurred. We will finish each section by providing real-world takeaways for the attendees to employ at their business.

Kendra Hill

I am Boundless

With the use of various technology platforms, Boundless is able to use data to inform engagement and treatment strategies to improve patient care. Boundless will share how data can be used to not only inform operational business decisions, but also how to inform the provision of clinical care. With focus on patient engagement, using data to inform treatment, monitoring treatment outcomes, and striving to meet value-based care metrics, data can be a powerful tool to increase the quality of care being provided and increase the efficiencies within an organization.

Networking Reception at the Renaissance

You'll want to stick around for our Networking Reception. Always a fun gathering time, and includes delicious appetizers and a free drink on us! We look forward to seeing you at the Renaissance Columbus Westerville-Polaris, 409 Altair Parkway, Westerville, Ohio.