(FREE!) December 7th LGBT Awareness Training!

 

LGBT* AWARENESS TRAINING

 

               What:                            Introduction to LGBTIQQAP (and what it all means!)

 

               Where:              4343 Williamsbourgh Dr, Sacramento 95823 (Strategies for Change)

 

When:                            December 7, 2009              9:30 AM – 12:30 P

Why:                            To help increase awareness and competence when working with LGBTQ         clients

 

Who:                            Open to YSOC Collaborative partners free of charge (such a deal!)

 

 

            CEUs:                            Course meets the requirements for 3 hours of continuing education credit. CEUs will be offered for: MFT, LCSW &                                                                CAADAC.

 

 

 

        RSVP:                            To ensure available seating, please respond by December 3rd to Melody Hazzard at mhazzard@ac-ac.org or (916) 879-2569

 

 

 

Introduction to LGBTIQQAP (and what it all means!) is an interactive training session conducted by Poshi Mikalson, MSW.  Poshi is the LGBT Project Coordinator for the Mental Health America of Northern California and has conducted training sessions throughout Sacramento County. 

 

Feedback from past training sessions:

“The training was very informative and well organized.”

“Poshi was instrumental in dispelling the myths and revealing the reality of adolescent sexuality.”

“The time just flew by because the training was so engaging and fun!”

 

 

Sponsored by the Collaborative to Improve Mental Health Care for LGBT
Transition Age Youth in Sacramento County—funded by the California Endowment

 

* Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender

Stakeholders Meeting Next Week

Next week is our Stakeholders week, in which the YSOC Collaborative will present its Strategic Plan to the community. The event will occur Tuesday, November 17th, from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. at 7001-A East Pkwy in Conference Room 1. Bring a friend!

Client Resource: Free H1N1 Vaccination Schedule

Click here to view the free H1N1 Vaccination schedule from Sacramento County Public Health.

YSOC Collaborative Meeting Ideas

Ideas for YSOC Collaborative Meetings

December 2009—June 2010

 

Please add your ideas, comments, and suggestions and email to Melody at mhazzard@ac-ac.org.  Please note that the group decided that YSOC Collaborative meetings will continue on the third Tuesday of each month, from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. at 4343 Williamsbourgh (Strategies for Change). Because the group has come up with so many ideas for future Collaborative meetings, it was decided at October’s meeting that additional events may be added to the Collaborative’s regular schedule of meetings. These extra events may take place at different times, days, and at different locations than the regular monthly meetings.  The following ideas are based on the group discussion at October’s YSOC meeting.

 

1. “Dialogs” (panels) with primary referring agencies, including: CPS; Probation; law enforcement; courts; and education. The purpose of these dialogs would be to 1) both parties identify barriers to optimum services for clients; 2) facilitate understanding, cooperation, and collaboration between providers and referring agencies; 3) recommend policy change(s) to referring agencies.

 

2. Trainings, including: gang violence (presented by Sacramento Police Department vice gang unit); cultural competency (LGBTQ, others); evidence-based prevention & intervention practices. Trainings would be free to YSOC Collaborative partners, and agencies would be able to bring staff. Will try to offer CEUs for AOD & Mental Health counselors. Will also focus on eliciting participation from referring agencies (CPS, education, probation, law enforcement, etc.).

 

3. Activities to meet grant work plan objectives, including: focus groups; brainstorming sessions; work groups (these could also meet outside of Collaborative meetings. Topics to include: 1) advocacy strategy for AOD & Co-Occurring issues (identifying local, state & federal policies to create a policy statement for YSOC Collaborative, participating in advocacy activities such as recruiting lobbying support from legislative liaison at NASW and attending hearings at State Capitol); 2) inviting county-contracted prevention providers to attend a Collaborative meeting to brainstorm ways to forge better connections between prevention & intervention; 3) “next steps” study session with Sacramento County Alcohol & Drug Services staff to prioritize “do-able” objectives from the YSOC Collaborative Strategic Plan; 4) work session to identify strategies for making data/information from County ADS’s YSOC more accessible for providers.

 

4. Your idea here!

 

 

October 21, 2009

Melody Hazzard, MSW, AOD/YSOC Project Coordinator

Leave a comment with your ideas, suggestions, and feedback!

October YSOC Planning Group Meeting Wrap Up

Hello All!

We had a great time at yesterday's YSOC One Year Appreciation Celebration! We had a tasty lunch of healthy foods, an awards ceremony, a demo of Valley Vision's exciting new youth development website YSP Connect, and changed our name to the YSOC Collaborative. You will find October's meeting summary, as well as the Draft Written Strategic Plan that will be presented to the community at next month's Stakeholders meeting under the YSOC Meeting Summary and Key Documents menu on the left-hand side of this site. Feel free to use track changes to make ask questions and make comments and suggestions to send back to me, this is your document so your input is much appreciated. I will also be sending you all a list of the group's ideas for future YSOC Collaborative meetings for your feedback and additions.

PEI Series Begins Today

The first of MHSA's Prevention and Early Intervention Phase II series of five meetings begins today. The schedule of meetings is as follows:

Meeting 1 (Orientation) Tue, Oct. 13, 3pm-6pm 7000 65th street
Meeting 2 (Stressors) Tue, Oct. 20, 3pm-6:30pm 7000 65th street
Meeting 3 (Trauma) Tue, Oct. 27, 3pm-6:30pm 7000 65th street
Meeting 4 (Discrimination) Tue, Nov. 3, 3pm-6:30pm 7000 65th street
Meeting 5 (Committee) Mon, Nov. 16, 3pm-6:30pm 7000 65th street

Parenting for Prevention Parent-Teen Series

People Reaching Out is holding two FREE Parent-Teen series at the Citrus Heights Civic Center Campus. The dates for the series are:

Wednesdays September 30 - November 18, 2009 from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesdays February 3 - March 24, 2010 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm.

The series is designed to address:
--Key questions teens need answered
--How parents and teens can communicate more effectively
--Tools and techniques that build confidence and responsibility
--How to set and maintain limits
--Steps for good decision making

For more information and reservations call 576-3300 x 306. Check out their website here.

Free Resources for Military Families

Time To Talk has a new (free) kit out for children & families of military personnel. You can download the kit (for free!) here. Resources include: 10 Things Military Teens Want You To Know & Transitions & Teens: A Guide for Military Parents.

Bullying Prevention Task Force

The SCUSD Safe Schools Office, Integrated Support Services, and Youth Development are sponsoring an Anti-Bully Campaign, which will kick-off with the first meeting of the Bullying Prevention Task Force on Wednesday, October 7th at the Serna Center (5735 47th Avenue) in the Pennsylvania Room from 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. The goals of the Bullying Prevention Task Force are to engage a broad group of stakeholders in developing a strategic plan for bullying prevention at SCUSD focused on: programs and services; policies and procedures; education, awareness, and training. For more information, please contact Lawrence Shweky at (916) 643-9141, Zenae Scott at
(916) 643-7992, or Sonja Stires at (916) 643-7990.

LGBTQ Resource Line

Mental Health America (formerly Mental Health Association) of Northern California has partnered with Sacramento City Unified School District to create and implement an LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning) Resource Line. The resource line is a warm line, meaning that adolescents can call, leave a message, and have their phone call returned within 48 hours by a social worker with experience in providing services to LGBTQ students and their families. Services include information/referral, short-term counseling, and advocacy. All calls are confidential and all services are provided free of charge. The LGBTQ Resource Line number is: (916) 643-7997

Other Resources for LGBTQ clients are:

Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)
Student-run clubs that provide a safe place for LGBTQ students get support on campus. GSAs operate on the following campuses in Sacramento County: Burbank; Johnson; Kennedy; McClatchy; New Tech; Rosemont; The Met; and West Campus. For information contact the GSA Network at (415) 552-4229 or online at gsanetwork.org.



Trevor 24-hour Suicide Prevention Line:
1-800-850-8078

PFLAG (Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays)(916) 978-0410 or pflagsacramento.org

Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center(916) 442-0185 or www.saccenter.org

October YSOC One-Year Appreciation Celebration

YOU’RE INVITED!

YSOC One-year appreciation celebration

Please join us for lunch in honor of your hard work in developing the Sacramento Alcohol & Other Drug Youth System of Care Strategic Plan!

October 20, 2009

1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

4343 williamsbourgh

Sacramento, ca 95823

*This event will take place during our YSOC Planning Group meeting

 

 

PLEASE RSVP TO MELODY AT mhazzard@ac-ac.org (or by leaving a comment), so I can get a headcount for the lunch. Thank you!!

September YSOC Planning Group Recap & Update

Hello Planning Group! At this month's YSOC Planning Group meeting, we discussed the upcoming November Stakeholders meeting and the suggested changes to the Strategic Plan as proposed by the Project Coordinator. You can find this month's meeting summary on the left-hand side of the blog under the YSOC Meeting Summary Archive & Key Documents section. You can also find each team's proposed suggested changes to the Strategic Plan and suggested Action Steps to focus on for the next six months, along with the updated Strategic Plan in full, in the same place. Please be sure to attend October's YSOC Planning Group meeting, as we will be doing a run-through for the November Stakeholder's Meeting, presenting the planning group with the narrative of the Strategic Plan, and having a "One Year Appreciation Celebration" to celebrate all the hard work of the planning group in developing the Sacramento Alcohol & Other Drug Youth System of Care Strategic Plan over the past year. We will also have a very exciting website demonstration from Chris of Valley Vision, who will give us a preview of the new Youth Service Provider website. Please help me by emailing me the names and contact information of people you feel should be invited to the Stakeholders meeting so I can send them a formal invitation. Email me at mhazzard@ac-ac.org or sacysoc@gmail.com. Thanks and see you next month!!

AOD Counselors, "Wake Up!" Your Clients

Every 37 is a Sacramento-based organization that promotes awareness and education about drunk driving. Their name "Every 37" comes from the statistic that every 37 minutes, an alcohol-related accident occurs in Sacramento County. Their website has (free!) printable materials, videos, and radio spots that would be great to share with clients.

Shared Resources on the YSOC Blog

There are some very helpful & valuable resources posted on the left-hand side of the blog under the Meeting Summary Archive, Key Documents & Resources menu! There is a Resource List that includes information about hot lines, free support groups, shelter programs, mental health services, counseling centers, hot meals, food banks/closets, free clothing, medical care, & AIDS. There is also a link to Co-Dependents Anonymous support groups, plus much more. I add to the list as people send the resources to me, so please make sure to check it out from time to time. These resources are great for the staff (AOD & mental health counselors, receptionists, etc.) in our agencies who need to find resources quickly for clients, so please pass it on!

Youth Development Network Monthly Update

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the Youth Development Network, a Sacramento youth service provider support organization providing trainings, networking, and advocacy. I met YDN's Co-director, Bina Lefkovitz, at Valley Vision's Youth Development Website (which I know many of you are eagerly anticipating!)steering committee meeting last week, and she was interested in connecting with the YSOC Planning Group. She wanted to communicate with all of you about YDN and what they do. Please check out their website here, and take a moment to check out the their monthly update. She also would like all of you to sign the Sacramento Region Compact for Children and Youth, which you can download and sign on-line by clicking here.

Young Adults' Need For and Receipt of Alcohol & Illicit Drug Treatment

"Nearly 7 million Americans age 18 to 25 were classified as needing treatment in the past year for alcohol or illicit drug use, according to a new SAMHSA report. But 93 percent of these young adults did not receive the help they needed at a specialty treatment facility."
--SAMSHA's Young Adults' Need For and Receipt of Alcohol & Illicit Drug Treatment Report (2007)

Click here for SAMSHA's new eye-opening report.

August YSOC Planning Group Meeting Recap

Hello Planning Group! This month's Planning Group meeting was chock-full as usual. Some highlights are:

1) The group decided to implement the Universal Referral Form created by our Evaluator Allison Burke. The form will be used in an inter-agency capacity and will come with training from Allison on how to input data into the corresponding database she is creating.
2) The October Stakeholders meeting is coming up soon! I am working on the mailing list for the invitations, but I need your help! Please send me your physical address, along with any other people at your agencies that you would like to attend the meeting (think supervisors and Deputy & Executive Directors; we want to show them what you have been doing in all these meetings!). We will prep for the stakeholders meeting at next month's YSOC meeting on September 15th, please be sure to be there!
3) I will be going through each team's section of the strategic plan to get rid of redundancies, clarify language, and come up with a game-plan to ensure success for each team in completing their action steps. Watch for my emails soon... :)

You can view the meeting summary on-line by clicking on the link in the "Meeting Summary Archive & Key Documents" menu on the left side of this blog. I have also added some events to the YSOC Calender, including two free mammogram clinics in September & November a workshop on August 27; you can view the details of these events by clicking on them in the calender. Maureen from Sac County ADS requested that the following resource about prescription drug abuse be posted: http://www.drugfree.org/notinmyhouse/. This is a free resource for parents/guardians/any adult who suspects a youth may be abusing prescription drugs. I want to thank all who showed up, including some new faces; I hope you will join us again next month and for the October Stakeholders meeting!

--Melody

Free Resource!

Mark Grip, Director of Access and Community Outreach at the Sutter Center for Psychiatry, sent me information about a FREE on-line resource for talking to kids about substance abuse. It's called the Time to Talk tool-kit, created by the Partnership for a Drug Free America. You can download the FREE tool-kit on-line by simply supplying your first & last name and an email address. The link to the tool-kit is: http://www.timetotalk.org/comcast/. Check it out!

Need A Helping Hand??

The following message is from Lori Vallone of Sacramento County's Alcohol and Drug Services Department and member of Team B:

Dear Youth Treatment Providers,

As part of the AOD YSOC goals/objectives I was working on with my team, I was researching being able to get interns for this project. The providers listed on the email were interested when we approached this idea in the past. If you are still interested in CSUS interns for the AOD YSOC or for your in-house programs, please contact:

Jill Kelly, LCSW
Director of Field Education
Division of Social Work
CSU-Sacramento

kellyj@saclink.csus.edu

Please also note that your agency must have either an MSW or LCSW on staff to provide supervision to the intern/s.

Team Presentations at Next Week's YSOC Meeting

At our YSOC meeting next week we will focus on how teams are doing with their sections of the Strategic Plan. I have emailed the team leaders, asking them to give a brief presentation about their team's progress. I will have the strategic plan up on power point for all to see, so that teams can share with the whole group their accomplishments, questions, and needs. This will be a great opportunity for teams to ask each other for help, get feedback, and clarify/refine their action steps. If you are a team leader, don't worry, this is an informal presentation--all we're asking is for you to explain your team's sections of the strategic plan to the rest of the group and to share how you've been progressing. You can find the strategic plan on the left-hand side of this blog under the "YSOC Meeting Summary Archive and Key Documents" section. See you all next week!