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Expires February 2, 2025 | 4 CEHs | $60 | On-Demand Webinar | Cultural Competency Content

This webinar is approved for 4 hours of cultural competency content

Description: The Hmong are a growing population in the United States, with approximately 90,000 living in Minnesota. Most have immigrated since the mid-1970s from Southeast Asia to escape the effects of the Vietnam War. Historically, the Hmong people struggle with intergenerational trauma, poverty, and persecution. This workshop is a comprehensive, in-depth assessment of the Hmong American community, their uniqueness as a culture, their societal struggles, and their mental health issues. Furthermore, this course will also invite participants to become multilingual in their ability to treat patients, as they also become more self-aware of their own cultural biases along with the biases of others. This workshop will advocate for cultural humility, recognizing the value in each culture’s strengths, utilizing them in the appropriate opportunities to endorse collaboration across all races, ethnicities and nationalities. Finally, effective and culturally competent applicational strategies will be introduced and discussed.

Learning Objectives:

1. To gain an in-depth and comprehensive knowledge and awareness of the unique cultural/societal issues that the Hmong community in the United States has, which also impacts their mental health
2. To be able to identify strengths in the Hmong community with regards to addressing mental health concerns.
3. To be able to provide effective and culturally competent strategies in helping the Hmong and their families to appropriately deal with mental health, relational, and societal issues.

Maria Moua, MA, LMFT – Founder & Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Maria Moua Therapy LLC

Level: Intermediate | For: Mental Health Professionals | Ages Addressed: All

About the Presenter

Maria Moua is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She is also a certified perinatal/postpartum counselor. As a first-generation American born in the United States and a daughter of Hmong refugee immigrants, she is passionate about working in the community and helping people strive and grow into their best potential. She’s been practicing in the mental health field for over 13 years, with a foundation of her work being in intensive in-home family-systems therapy, multisystemic therapy, and Children’s Crisis. Maria is also the coordinator for the Hmong MFT Support Group. Maria currently runs her private practice, Maria Moua Therapy LLC.

Website: https://mariamouatherapy.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085386173990

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Expires January 15, 2025 | 2 CEHs | $30 | On-Demand Webinar | Youth Panelists

This presentation will present information on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), address common misunderstandings, and offer practical strategies. Learn how prenatal alcohol exposure impacts brain development, and how you can use this informationto improve outcomes for individuals with FASD. Youth with FASD will also share their personal stories and advice based on their own experiences.

Learning Objectives:

+ Understand how prenatal alcohol exposure impacts brain development.
+ Acquire strategies to help individuals with FASD.
+ Learn approaches from FASD self-advocates with lived experience.

Kendra Gludt, MPH Director of National Programs – Proof Alliance & Marissa Lang, Senior Program Manager – Proof Alliance & Members of the Proof Alliance Youth Panel

Level: Basic | For: Everyone | Ages Addressed: Early Childhood – Young Adult

About the Presenters

Kendra Gludt, MPH, is the Director of National Programs at Proof Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and supporting all those impacted. In the 16 years that she has worked at Proof Alliance, Kendra has worked with many partnering agencies including clinics, treatment centers, county systems, and social service agencies, helping them change their practices to recognize and respond to FASD. Kendra is currently on the faculty of the SAFEST Choice Learning Collaborative, a HRSA-funded program that aims to reduce prenatal alcohol exposure and improve outcomes for children with FASD.

Marissa Lang has over 20 years working in the field of FASD. She began her career screening adjudicated youth for FASD through a federal grant project at Hennepin County Juvenile Corrections in Minnesota, followed by 18 years at Proof Alliance. In her role as Senior Program Manager at Proof Alliance, she is responsible for the development and implementation of programming for individuals with an FASD, and their families. She is also involved in the public policy work at Proof Alliance to help create long-term systemic change. Marissa is passionate about empowering youth using a strength-based approach and providing families critical skills to support loved ones with an FASD.

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Expires January 1, 2025 | 3 CEHs | $45 | On-Demand Webinar | Clinical Content

This webinar is approved for 2.5 hours of clinical content

Sensory Processing and Mental Health teaches participants the basics of sensory processing differences and how they impact daily functioning. These concepts will be related back to a variety of common mental health diagnoses, life circumstances, and impact on behavior. This presentation will promote understanding of preventative strategies as well as optimize function for children with sensory processing differences and mental health challenges to create a positive and predictable environment. Participants increase their understanding of Winnie Dunn’s theory of sensory processing including eight sensory systems, realistic interventions to promote improvement in daily functioning, and the connection between sensory processing challenges and common mental health disorders. The information in this presentation aims to assist educators in reducing behavioral challenges rooted in sensory processing differences, improving their ability to anticipate the needs of students before behaviors become disruptive to classroom functioning, and build confidence in addressing sensory needs of all students.

Learning Objectives:

+ Understand The Trauma Informed Mindset and How it Relates to Sensory Processing
+ Explore The 4 Sensory Processing Quadrants
+ Explore The 8 Sensory Systems
+ Discover Realistic Interventions
+ Understand Sensory Processing in Relation to Cognition
+ Understand Sensory Processing in Relation to Common Mental Health

Jessica Villery, OTS, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist and Instructional Support Staff – GO! Therapy and University of Minnesota 

Level: Basic | For: Juvenile/Restorative Justice Professionals, Education Professionals, Health Care Professionals, Mental Health Professionals | Ages Addressed: 6 years – Adulthood

About the Presenter

Jess is an occupational therapist who has worked in outpatient pediatrics, school-based practice, and currently in mental health, partial hospitalization and academia. Her areas of specialty include sensory processing differences, trauma informed care, challenging behaviors, mental health, neurodivergence, and program development. She is currently the occupational therapist at PrairieCare Mankato and provides instructional support for professional development and program development courses in the occupational therapy department at University of Minnesota on the Twin Cities and Rochester campuses. In her free time, she enjoys crafting (quilting, stained glass, and crocheting), gardening, spending time with her husband and pets, and spending time with friends.

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Expires October 12, 2024 | 3 CEHs | $45 | On-Demand Webinar | MN Educator License Content

Key Warning Signs of Early Onset Mental Illness and Suicide Prevention Best Practices meets the state requirements for educator re-licensure. Attendees will learn strategies, interventions, accommodations and modifications to help students flourish emotionally and socially in school settings and in the community. The presenter will describe signs and symptoms of mental illness in children and youth, including developmental differences from infant and early childhood through transition age youth. Resources will be shared to help educators, families and other professionals connect children and youth with appropriate levels of care when needed. A comprehensive school wide toolkit for prevention, intervention and postvention of suicide will be discussed and shared with participants.

Deborah Cavitt, MS, Family Support Program Manager – Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health

Level: Basic | For: Educators, parents/caregivers, other professionals working directly with children and youth | Ages addressed: Prenatal through young adult

This workshop meets the state requirements for educator re-licensure.

Deborah Cavitt is an advocate, trainer, and program manager for Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health (MACMH). Cavitt gives presentations and works on projects with schools, children, youth, parents and professionals to increase understanding and reduce the stigma related to mental health disorders. As a parent coach and advocate, she helps families navigate systems on their journey of raising a child with mental health challenges. Deborah has a master’s degree in human services with specializations in mental health and substance use counseling and a bachelor’s degree in education. Before joining MACMH, she worked as a prevention specialist and grant coordinator for a substance abuse treatment agency in Iowa City. Preceding her mental health and substance use prevention work, she was a teacher for over twenty years, working on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota.