2025 Children’s Behavioral Health Summit

Breaking Stigmas, Empowering Families, Creating System Change
 
Join us on Monday, May 5th to explore how personal stories can drive change, break down stigma, and influence policy. Participants will engage in discussions on the value of lived experience, learn how to effectively share their stories, and discover where their voices can make the biggest impact. Breakout
sessions will provide space to explore advocacy & training opportunities, while a panel of youth, parents, and system leaders will highlight real-world examples of lived experience shaping the system. By coming together, we can strengthen our collective voice and create a more inclusive and responsive behavioral health system in Washington State.

Training and Technical Support

Washington State Community Connectors networks with organizations across the state in order to provide and organize a variety of trainings and technical support for family-led organizations, and system partners across the state. Trainings focus on helping individuals or groups develop the skills they need for effective advocacy, leadership, and community-level practice. Technical support focuses on helping organizations meet the needs of youth and families in their communities by assisting with the development of sustainable, family and community-focused practices.

If you are interested in organizing a training or need to request technical support, please complete our request form.

WSCC Trainings

Understanding the System of Care

This is a customized, interactive training designed for families from a training created by En Route Consulting for WA State Health Care Authority. The System of Care is the philosophy the WA State Children’s Behavioral Health Community foundation is built upon. Understanding its history, model, and values is essential to ensuring our families’ treatment plans follow this model of service. (90-minute mini-training or 3-hour full training)

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Telling Your Story with Purpose

This is a customized training from a national curriculum to support families in strengthening their tools to tell their story in a valuable and impactful way. A well-told story has the potential to touch hearts and change minds. The training can be customized to fit your time allotment. It is designed to be a 2 or 4-hour training, depending on how much time is used to work on the individual story template and discussion pieces.

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Seven Views of Leadership

This is a customized, interactive training designed from the national curriculum by The Kagen Leadership Group and Georgetown University. The staff of WSCC has been working with a national consultant, Ellen B. Kagen, and her team since 2018 on customizing trainings around the concepts taught in their Adaptive Leadership and Coach Approach Academy. Participants will leave this training understanding the seven views of leadership, how their leadership style fits within these views, and how to

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Serving on Groups that Make Decisions – A Guide for Families

This training is a National Curriculum created in collaboration between two organizations out of Wisconsin and is designed to be customized for each individual state by organizations who have been certified in this curriculum. There are a total of 8 sections; Opportunities to Get Involved, Types of Groups, Processes Groups Use, Tools Groups Use, Tips and Strategies for Groups, Understanding Data, The Role of Families in Groups, and Skills for Serving on Groups. Many of

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Personal Wellness – It Starts with You

This is a customized, interactive training designed from a number of available training tools. This workshop focuses on all-around personal wellness, moving beyond self-care and into intentional wellness. Participants will leave this training with an understanding of what personal wellness means to them, some tools to strengthen their own personal wellness, and activities meant to invite self-reflection and shared wisdom as we share space and learn more about the strength our own personal wellness has

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Parents Empowering Parents – A Training by Parents for Parents

This training was created in the 1990s by a family organization within WA State, A Common Voice. This training contains several creative strategies for parents who are parenting children with behavioral healthcare needs. There are opportunities to practice the strategies and have time to discuss real-life scenarios. It is designed to be a full-day workshop-style training and can be customized to fit within a virtual format of two days (3 hours each day).

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Offered by Statewide Community Connectors:

  • Self Advocacy
  • Person-Centered Planning
  • Effective Advocacy
  • Community Awareness and “First Impression” Training
  • Parents Empowering Parents
  • Mental Health First Aid: Adult and Youth
  • Crisis Cycle
  • Parent Wellness
  • Parents Participating on Teams
  • Ethics and Boundaries in the Family Peer Support Role

Offered by Partners:

  • Building Workforce Capacity (Best Practices)
  • Wraparound Training
  • Certified Peer Counseling Training for Families and Youth
  • WISe Training
  • Youth Professional Leadership Training
  • Leadership and Stigma Busting
  • Digital and Spoken Word

Technical Assistance Request

What is technical assistance? Technical assistance can be sharing information and expertise, skills training, providing consultation, and/or the process of providing targeted support to an organization with a development need or problem. Please be clear about what type of TA you are seeking.

Receipt of this application is not a guarantee that technical assistance will be provided. Your request will be reviewed to determine if the TA you are seeking falls within the WSCC guidelines. We will reach out to you with a decision or to request more information within one week. If it is determined that WSCC will be providing TA for your organization, a meeting will be scheduled to collaborate and discuss details. 

For more information or questions, call Karen at (253) 318-4869.