The Center for Medicaid Services has new opportunities for supporting both youth and adults in reentry following criminal legal system involvement, including a new funding opportunity for State Medicaid Agencies to support their reentry initiatives. These are fantastic opportunities to secure both support from your Medicaid partners and funding for programs that benefit individuals with brain injury that have criminal legal system involvement. 

This session is ideal for states at all stages of developing support for people with criminal legal system involvement and brain injury. We'll explore all of these possibilities together!

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Session Two: Navigating the 1915(c) Public Comment Period and Legislative Opportunities for Effective Advocacy

This webinar is designed for brain injury advisory council members, advocates, and providers who want to make a difference in shaping Medicaid policies that support individuals with brain injuries. Learn how to effectively engage in the public comment process and maximize your impact on the service delivery system for people with brain injury.

Session One: Best Practices for States in Considering Advocate and Public Feedback

Learn how to enhance your state’s brain injury Medicaid program by effectively incorporating advocate and public feedback.

Whether you operate a 1915(c) brain injury waiver, are looking to build a waiver or other Medicaid programs for brain injury, or support individuals with brain injuries through other means, this webinar will equip you with the tools to build a stronger, more inclusive program.

Session Two: Bridging Communication Between State Agencies and Advisory Councils

The goal of these trainings is to cultivate interactions between people with lived experience and state agencies where everyone feels heard, validated, and accommodated. Participants will walk away with several strategies that can lead to successful communication between these parties with a focus on better supporting the needs of people with brain injury in advocacy. We encourage participants to join both webinars to hear the perspectives of both parties.

This session is focused on improving communication skills for state agency personnel to ensure effective communication between the state agency and the advisory council. State examples will be shared.

Session One: Empowering Advisory Councils

The goal of these trainings is to cultivate interactions between people with lived experience and state agencies where everyone feels heard, validated, and accommodated. Participants will walk away with several strategies that can lead to successful communication between these parties with a focus on better supporting the needs of people with brain injury in advocacy. We encourage participants to join both webinars to hear the perspectives of both parties.

This session is focused on improving communication skills for advisory council members to ensure effective communication between the council and the state agency.

Human trafficking is the second leading crime in the world. There are over 1.3 million missing and runaway children in the U.S. and if a child is not recovered within the first 48 hours, the likelihood  is high that they will be trafficked. Incidence and prevalence of brain injury within this extremely vulnerable population is high due to intentional violence, substance use and suicidal attempts.  Join us for an overview of this incredibly challenging topic.

A nationally recognized model, overdose fatality review (OFR) is being used by a growing number of communities to strengthen their community-based responses to the opioid epidemic by generating recommendations to address system, agency, population, research, and policy needs. OFRs help multi-disciplinary collaborations understand their overdose trends, identify missed opportunities for prevention and intervention to implement innovative, community-specific overdose prevention strategies.

NASHIA’s Public Policy Committee hosted a webinar about new federal funding options beyond traditional grants. The webinar will discuss why it's important to think long-term for sustained support and growth and give practical knowledge and tools to navigate and take advantage of different funding sources for state brain injury programs and partners, ensuring better support for those affected.

Either as a provider or as a client/participant who has sustained brain injury, have you ever felt like you struggled to successfully communicate in particular settings or scenarios? This session will approach and address this challenge from both sides of the equation. You will walk away with several strategies that can lead to successful communication for both providers and clients. Everyone deserves to be heard, validated, and accommodated, which, when honored, leads to respect, organized care, and mindful decision-making. This session will recognize the incredible successes and challenges of communication and assist with helping everyone maximize interactions together.

Though intimate partner abuse often involves physical blows, research has been slow to consider the prevalence of brain injuries among women seeking services after intimate violence and implications for navigating systems of care. This presentation will provide brief background on research that has emerged over the last several years on mild brain injuries among women victimized by intimate partners. Findings from new Colorado-based research on brain injuries will be shared; there were more than one hundred women seeking services connected to a family justice center after intimate partner abuse. Implications of the new research for screening, case management, and service navigation to support survivors of intimate partner abuse will be considered.

Supported Decision Making (SDM) encourages persons with disabilities to make their own decisions to whatever extent they can, provided that they have the support to do so. Now law in many states, SDM represents a huge breakthrough for people living with disabilities, as it does not take away their rights of self-determination; rather, it allows them to appoint a supported decision maker (in some states, even if they are under guardianship). This paradigm shift brings with it the element of risk if all the components are not addressed for individuals, parents and caregivers. In this webinar, Elville and Associates’ Managing Principal and Lead Attorney Stephen R. Elville, Esq., will explore SDM and the elements of challenges and solutions. This webinar focuses on SDM and alternatives to guardianship and potential guardianship supplements, and how SDM has the potential to affect and change so many lives, including those of family members and other supporters.

Harm Reduction is a set of practices that help people behave safely while also shifting systems and environments to be safer. Harm Reduction recognizes that society, and the systems within, have historically put people who use drugs and/or engage in sexwork in more harm through oppressive policy and stigmatizing culture. - Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition.

This presentation will provide an overview of how people with brain injury can be supported in terms of reducing risk from overdose, as well as concrete examples on how to apply academic detailing. Successful examples of peer-to-peer modeling will be shared, and a discussion which state and community partners to invite to the table will be conducted.

Assistive technology (AT) plays a critical role in employment success for individuals with brain injury. Low and high-tech options and resources are abundant, but it is important to have an AT navigator at the helm to guide best practice and application for these supports. In this webinar, learn how AT programs assess specific sensory, physical, social, emotional, and cognitive challenges. The process for analyzing, determining, and providing support to individuals, employment staff and businesses will be shared. In addition, case examples in which AT was successfully applied, resources and program information will be highlighted.

Join the Disability Employment TA Center for this free webinar.

The Youth Short Term Executive Plus Program (YSTEP) is designed to teach young people how handle their emotions better and how to be more productive in everyday life. YSTEP is an interactive group intervention for emotional dysregulation following brain injury. It was developed by the Centers for Disease Control supported Injury Control Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and has been utilized at the El Paso County Juvenile Justice Center since 2012 for youth court ordered into the Challenge Academy, a post-adjudication program offering supportive residential drug and behavioral health treatment.

Leading and managing groups in virtual and hybrid settings is our “new normal”. This session will discuss how to organize a session to be the most effective and impactful for you and for your audience. Additionally, the session will explore engagement tools and strategies to get the most from your audience and participants. Participants of Leading Groups in Virtual Spaces will be able to recognize and implement helpful facilitation and engagement strategies in their meetings, trainings and presentations moving forward.

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This 4-part series is designed for the first responder community including law enforcement, parole, and probation personnel, EMTs, and any other members of the community engaged in emergency and front-line efforts.

The National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA) Public Policy Committee hosted a webinar on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, to update members on the status of federal fiscal year 2023 appropriations; H.R. 2992 (TBI/PTSD Law Enforcement Act); and other legislative and Administrative proposals impacting individuals with brain injury and their families. 

This 4-part series is designed for the first responder community including law enforcement, parole, and probation personnel, EMTs, and any other members of the community engaged in emergency and front-line efforts.

This 4-part series is designed for the first responder community including law enforcement, parole, and probation personnel, EMTs, and any other members of the community engaged in emergency and front-line efforts.

Many individuals with spinal cord injury also have concomitant brain injury, and there are also many individuals with brain injury who have sustained varying degrees of paralysis. Join us for an informative webinar on organizations supporting individuals with paralysis and spinal cord injury and learn how to access resources and initiate partnerships between your program, the National Paralysis Resource Center , and the Spinal Cord Injury Model System to collaborate on research and practice.

This 4-part series is designed for the first responder community including law enforcement, parole, and probation personnel, EMTs, and any other members of the community engaged in emergency and front-line efforts.

Learn about two new customized tools to guide behavioral health and community providers in supporting better outcomes for individuals with brain injury and behavioral health needs. Dr. Carolyn Lemsky, Clinical Director for the Community Head Injury Services of Toronto (CHIRS), will conduct an overview of the tools and how to utilize them in your program:

• Traumatic Brain Injury and Substance Use Disorders: Making the Connections

• Substance Use and Brain Injury Client Workbook: Second Edition

The UCEDD system is a nationwide network of independent but interlinked centers, representing an expansive national resource for addressing issues, finding solutions, and advancing research related to the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. UCEDDs have played key roles in every major disability initiative over the past four decades. Collaboration across and among service systems helps to achieve the best outcomes for people. Learn how collaborating with your UCEDD can enhance your brain injury program.

This session will provide an introduction and overview of the Job Accommodations Network, information on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), disclosure of brain injuries in the workplace, the limitations associated with these challenges, and the accommodations that might be needed.

In collaboration with Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center and Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center, NASHIA presents Traumatic Brain Injury and SUD: Effective Strategies for Individual Therapy.

This webinar will focus on why effective collaboration is so important, highlight how shared goals, strong communication, and building capacity fuel effective collaboration, and showcase the successes in NASHIA member states stemming from effective collaboration.

Sexual function and intimacy between individuals with brain injury and caregivers is important to emotional well-being; these important connections will be discussed. Capacity to relate to others and a focus on addressing sexual function with adults with disabilities across the continuum of care, both inpatient and outpatient will be presented.

In collaboration with Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center and Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center, NASHIA presents Traumatic Brain Injury and SUD: Effective Strategies for Individual Therapy.

Problematic sexual behavior for individuals with TBI at home or in community living can be a barrier to independence, and justice-involved youth and adults seeking to return to school, work or community living.

This training will provide participants with a basic understanding of the neurological correlates of problematic sexual behavior (PSB) in persons with traumatic and other types of acquired brain injury and neurological conditions. Guidelines for recognition, assessment and management will also be reviewed and discussed.

This webinar will focus on neurotypical physical, emotional and cognitive growth, and subsequent issues associated with the occurrence of TBI. Optimal points for education for teens and parents will be discussed as well as best practices for providing culturally competent care to adolescents and best supports for families navigating parenting and sexuality with youth who have experienced TBI.