NatCon20 Accepting Nominations!
NatCon20, is now accepting nominations for the following award categories:
- National Council Innovation Award: In a complex health care landscape, mental health and addiction treatment organizations are thinking “outside of the box” for creative solutions to challenges faced by staff, patients, families and communities. This award recognizes their innovation and achievements.
- Peer Specialist of the Year Award: Great things happen when passion meets purpose. This award recognizes an individual with lived experience who works in a health care organization and uses his or her strengths to help peers on their road to recovery from mental illness.
- Lifetime Achievement Award: This award is in recognition of an individual whose tireless efforts, far-reaching impact and commitment to improving the lives of vulnerable Americans living with mental illnesses and addictions is unmatched.
If you or someone you know has improved the behavioral health of clients or communities by creating and implementing an innovative product, partnership or solution – or by changing an existing program, practice or policy – we want to hear from you! All nominations are due by December 4.
We look forward to honoring a diverse array of game-changers, innovators and thought leaders this April. To celebrate with us, register for NatCon20. For award details, contact us.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SPECIALIST TRAINING PROGRAM
FREE
Behavioral Health Specialist
Training Program
*Earn 12 Rhode Island College Credits*
Bilingual Participants Needed!!!
Link to Printable Flyer
The Workforce S.T.A.T Program is offering a Behavioral Health Specialist Training Program with Bradley Hospital and Rhode Island College. The Behavioral Health Training will start in January and will be 15 weeks at RIC and a 6 week internship at Bradley Hospital.
Earn college credits and a behavioral health certificate!!
Attending an information session is required.
2019 Info Session Dates:
November 6 & 13, 2019 at 1:00pm 335R
Prairie Ave Suite 1B Providence, RI 02905
November 20, 2019 at 12:00pm
(Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Providence, RI 02908 – Building 8)
RSVP to (401) 444-8490
See website for details.
CHW Gathering at Newport’s HEZ!
October 24, 2019 : 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Let’s Build Capacity!
This month’s CHWARI Gathering is at Newport’s HEZ!
CHW Leaders like Jazmine Wray and Neyda DeJesus have cultivated a well-balanced effort toward health equity in Newport that utilizes both grassroots actions and speakers’ platforms!
Come discuss with them how they do it, and share what you are doing to promote health equity!
Date: October 24, 2019 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Florence Gray Center
1 York Street, Newport, RI 02840
(Parking available on street)
RSVP to Sarah Lawrence at joinchwari@gmail.com!
New Recertification Process! Attention CHWs!
New Recertification Process! Attention CHWs!New Recertification Process! Attention CHWs!New email went out to subscribers today: Check it out.
Government Shutdown Update
SHUTDOWN’S IMPACT ON WIC
Below are the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)’s comments on how the current government shutdown impacts WIC. For the whole update, link here.
According to the National WIC Association, WIC agencies continue operating as normal and have so far not reported any issues or disturbances to normal operations. Agencies are expected to have adequate funding on hand currently to last through the month of January. The USDA Food and Nutrition Services has communicated to WIC agencies that they plan to undertake measures on Jan. 3 to identify and provide additional funding, including: allocating all remaining carryover funds and preliminary recoveries to state agencies, working with state agencies to make their FY18 Nutrition Services and Administration grants spend forward funds available for FY19 obligations, and asking state agencies to identify additional unspent FY18 funds that may be available for recovery and reallocation as FY19 grant funds.
Video on CHW’s Experience with Core Training
at the Institute for Education in Healthcare at Rhode Island College
Nicole White, 2018 graduate of RIC’s Core Competency CHW Training program, recounts her experience with fellow students and teachers. She remarks on how well the training matches and capitalizes on her interests and experiences helping people access healthcare resources. After the training, Nicole landed a CHW job at Care New England and now is part of the Community Compass RI program that addresses Social Determinants of Health issues of patients in the Emergency Room. Of RIC’s training program, Nicole says ‘They really set you up for success.'”