Website Offers Information about Free Webinars for Mental Health Professionals

 The “Social Work Career Development” blog “helps social workers (and other mental health professionals) with their professional development.” “This site provides a variety of social work career resources such as: roundups of webinars and best in mental health posts from around the web, self-care, interviews with mental health professionals on different modalities/practices, key learnings from trainings, as well as LMSW licensing exam strategies, interviewing tips and more.” Although not all of the webinars will be of interest to those in the mental health arena, October 2014 webinar topics include “Providing Financial Planning, Coaching and Education to People with Disabilities, Part I” (Oct. 1), “WHAM: Feedback from Graduates, Research, and Billable Funding of Peer Program” (Oct. 6), “Supporting Homeless LGBTQ Youth Through Better Access to Care,” (Oct. 8), “Self-Compassion and Psychological Well-Being” (Oct. 9), “Is Bipolar Disorder an Energy Disorder? Evidence and Novel Treatments” (Oct. 14), and “Making Connections and Networking for a Coordinated Community Response” (Oct. 29). For information on more than three dozen webinars in October, click here.

Deadlines Approach for Four Webinars

Four webinars – on “Demystifying Trauma,” “Working with Voices,” Starting a Peer-Run Respite, and Coalition-Building, respectively – will take place next week! “Demystifying Trauma: Sharing Pathways to Healing and Wellness,” organized by SAMHSA’s ADS Center (Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity and Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health), will take place Sept. 26, 2011, 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET. Registration closes at 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 25. To register, click on the following link: http://promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/teleconferences/archive/training/teleconference09262011.aspx.

“Working with Voices” will focus on the Hearing Voices Network and Hearing Voices Groups, which do not pathologize hearing voices or other altered experiences. It will take place Sept. 27, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET. Space is limited; to register, click here: http://cts.vresp.com/c/?NationalMentalHealth/14baa0ba54/ac1ab23981/db99ce0be4. “So You Want to Start a Peer-Run Respite?” will take place on Sept. 28, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET. It the first webinar in a peer-run respite series sponsored by the National Empowerment Center. Space is limited; registration will close on Sept. 27.

To register, click here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/728369694.

“Coalition Building 101 for Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors: Finding Common Ground with Each Other and Allies,” to be held Sept. 30, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET, will include how to address obstacles to sustaining a coalition, action steps to build and/or sustain a coalition, what to do when groups may be competing for the same resources, and more!

To register, e-mail rsvppeerlink@gmail.com with “Coalition Building” in the subject line

 Sources: http://promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov
http://www.nyaprs.org
http://www.power2u.org
SAMHSA/CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News, September 20, 2011