Upcoming Webinar
Promoting First Relationships: Supporting the relationship between parents and their children.
November 2, 2022
10:00 am – 11:30 am PT
This follow-up session will address practice-intervention strategies to support early relational health. Early relational health is evident when children have access to positive, safe, and nurturing relationships to support their emotional security and positive development. Early relational health is the cornerstone of healthy mental development. Children who have access to adults who are sensitive and responsive show greater resilience to stress and have better mental and behavioral health outcomes. Promoting First Relationships is a relationship-based intervention that uses video feedback and is designed to help caregivers have a greater understanding of their young child’s social and emotional needs.
Webinar Presenter:
Monica Oxford, Ph.D. is a research professor in the Department of Family and Child Nursing, the Executive Director of the Barnard Center for Infant Mental Health and the Director of Parent-Child Relationship Programs. Dr. Oxford’s research focuses on birth to five Parent-Child relationship quality and how that dyadic relationship impacts child developmental outcomes for vulnerable families living in challenging environments.
Upcoming Webinar:
Engaging Youth Using a Wellness Screening Tool
December 7, 2022
10:30 am – 12:00 pm PT
This presentation will describe the development and use of a digital screening tool to engage young people in discussing their health and well-being, including substance use and mental health. We will describe the development of a unique screening tool, techniques used by interventionists in meeting with students to build motivation, and program impacts on school connectedness.
Webinar Presenters:
Margaret Soukup, MFT, has led and managed the School-Based Screening Brief Intervention and Referral To services/treatment (SBIRT) public health approach to responding to students universally to address their mental and behavioral health.
Evan Elkin, MA, has more than 30 years of experience in the field of adolescent, family, and community mental health in research, practice, policy, program development and dissemination, and has developed the intervention model and conducted training for practitioners as part of the initiative.
Cari McCarty, PhD, is a Research Faculty at the University of Washington with a research focus on substance use prevention and behavioral health promotion. She has been the lead Program Evaluator for the school-based SBIRT Program.