Meetings & Events
Training opportunities can provide greater understanding of behavioral health issues and their effect on the community, but they can also offer new skills to help others. Take a look at these offerings and visit often, as we will update with new training opportunities as we get them.
NAMI Southwest Ohio Peer-to-Peer Class
NAMI Southwest Ohio will hold its next Peer-to-Peer classes on Zoom starting June 8. The 8-week series for individuals living with mental illness will run each Tuesday from 6 - 8 PM, finishing on July 27.
To register, or for more information, visit the NAMI Southwest Ohio website or call (513) 351-3500.
online via Zoom
NAMI's Ending the Silence
NAMI’s Ending the Silence (ETS) is a presentation about mental health for parents and caregivers of middle and high school students. Audience members learn about mental health and mental health conditions.
● 50-minute interactive virtual presentation designed for parents and caregivers
● Q+A session for an opportunity to ask questions directly
● Offered via NAMI SWOH’s secure Zoom by a trained 2-person team
● One presenter shares an informational presentation, and the other shares their own story of lived experience living with mental health challenges while in school
● Parents and caregivers learn warning signs, facts and statistics, and how to work with school staff.
● Why now? ETS gives an opportunity to learn more about an often-misunderstood topic. Contact with a young adult who experienced mental health challenges can powerfully change views of a common but stigmatized life experience. The message of empathy and hope reduces stigma.
Register now!
Questions? Email NAMI Program Director Jula Saldanha at julia.saldanha@namiswoh.org
NAMI Family to Family classes each Monday
NAMI of Southwest Ohio offers Family-to-Family classes to help families, caregivers, friends and loved ones of people living with a mental illness learn how to assist and support them. This series runs each Monday through October 19.
For more information and to register, visit namiswoh.org or call (513) 351-3500.
Held online each Monday through Oct. 19
Operation Street Smart: Drug Education
Operation Street Smart is a highly informative and very engaging drug education training presented by retired undercover detectives from Franklin County Sheriff's Office undercover narcotic branch. The goal of the program is to provide current and up-to-date narcotics information on trends, terminology, paraphernalia, and physiological effects to those individuals who deal with youth on a daily basis. Participants will be able to see everyday items used by today's youth for substance use and abuse, and items are passed around. A must-attend for any parent or those working with youth!
No sign-up required to attend. Class is held from 6:30 - 8:30 PM at Kings Junior High School, 5620 Columbi Rd., Kings Mills, OH 45029. Enter Door D-5 by the stadium.
QPR Training
Suicide Prevention: QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) will cover three simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. In this session you will learn about warning signs of a suicide crisis: expressions of hopelessness, depression, giving away prized possessions, talking of suicide, or securing lethal means. You'll also learn how to respond to these issues. Training for parents and community members.
To attend, email Heidi Murray at (HMurray@kingslocal.net
Kings Junior High School is located at 5620 Columbis Rd., Kings Mills, OH 45039. Enter Door D-5 by stadium.
First Responder Self Care & PTSD Awareness
No Cost Training Opportunity
First Responder Self Care and PTSD Awareness
The Warren County Combined Training Team, along with the Warren County Crisis Intervention Team, will be hosting no-cost training sessions dealing with first responder wellness. This training will help bring attention and awareness to how first responders experience and cope with traumatic events. All Warren County law enforcement, corrections, dispatch and fire personnel are invited to attend.
Topics include:
Responding to subjects suffering from PTSD
How do first responders experience and cope with trauma
Signs and symptoms of PTSD
Officer wellness and self-care
Available resources and support
Guest Presenters:
Kathleen M. Chard Ph.D.
Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Director of Trauma Recovery Center @ Cincinnati VA Medical Center
Director of the UC Health Stress Center
§Professor of Clinical Psychiatry @ the University of Cincinnati
Steven Click
§First Responder Liaison for Ohio Mental Health & Addiction Services
§Retired Lieutenant from the Ohio State Highway Patrol (1982-2018)
§Previous experience with the Ohio ASSIST program
Registration:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4CAAA928A5F94-first
Trauma & Human Trafficking
This training will provide an overview of Human Trafficking and the impact that past trauma has on vulnerability to this type of abuse. Topics covered will include:
Introduction: Trafficking 101
- Definitions/ laws
- How to report
Awareness / empathy-building activity
The role of ACEs and toxic stress in creating vulnerability
- A neuroscience/ brain perspective
- Disruptive attachment and its impact on building a healthy relationship
"Why” don’t “they” just leave?
- Discussion on barriers to getting out of trafficking and accepting services
Screening for Trafficking
- Screening tools for use in various settings
- Prevention/Recognition strategies
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk
AMSR is a 1-day training designed for all behavioral health professionals working with youth (10-24) to learn how to recognize, assess, and treat suicidality in patients.
AMSR provides professionals with a deeper understanding of suicide ideation and its treatment by training participants in how to approach work with suicidal patients, how to understand suicide, how to get important information from patients regarding suicide, how to form an accurate judgment on client well-being, and how to safely plan and respond to suicide related-behaviors.
National Night Out
National Night Out is an annual event designed to build and encourage strong community-police relationships. MHRS takes part in several events across Warren and Clinton Counties. We look forward to seeing you!
various locations
Prevention 101
Prevention 101 is a training which provides an understanding of how primary prevention of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) is defined and implemented. This training provides an overview of prevention and its evolution, as well as an introduction of skills, competencies, and data-driven decision making to understand the spectrum of prevention and the basics of the strategic prevention framework model.
Trainer will also do a SPF Overview: A planning Process for Prevention
Violence Free Coalition Community Meeting
Learn more about the prevention programs that the Violence Free Coalition supports. including ReDo, PowerUp, and Coaching Boys into Men.
For more information and to RSVP, email Megan Crouch at mcrouch@vfcwc.org.
What Happens in Childhood Does Not Stay in Childhood: What is True and What We Must Do!
Recent advances in the basic sciences of development are potentially transformational. Fields like epigenetics, developmental neuroscience, and life-course studies are allowing us to peer into the proverbial black box that links experiences in childhood with outcomes in health, education, parenting and economic productivity decades later. By understanding how both adverse and affiliative experiences in childhood are biologically embedded, we are well positioned to not only treat the consequences of “toxic stress responses” but to proactively build the safe, stable and nurturing relationships that buffer adversity and build resilience. Although this emphasis on relational health is almost counter-cultural, a public health approach to building safe, stable and nurturing relationships is a science-informed approach to address many of our society’s most intractable problems, including disparities in health, educational achievement, and economic productivity.
The appropriate audience includes anyone working to build resilience within our community.