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 RTC Conference - Agenda and Regristration Available Online!
The conference agenda is now available online. Click here to see this year’s roster of presenters.
Register for the conference or reserve your hotel room ONLINE NOW! For more information click here and follow the appropriate link(s).
The 2009 Building on Family Strengths Conference will be held on June 23-25, 2009 at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower in beautiful downtown Portland, Oregon.
This year’s conference will feature the latest developments in two exciting areas:
- Youth empowerment and participation in designing, delivering, and evaluating services, supports, and systems
- Wraparound: practice, supervision, fidelity measurement, outcome studies, system support, and more
And, as always, the conference will include presentations on recent developments and innovations in the fields of family support and children’s mental health.
We hope to see you there!
New Featured Discussion: "Substance Abuse in Young Persons: Does Nature or Nurture Prevail?"
A study out of the University of Georgia is the first to examine the relationship between genetic risk factors and environment to determine substance abuse. Among the participants possessing the genetic risk factor for substance use, those with low levels of involved and supportive parenting had three times the rate of substance use than youth with high levels of parental support. Do these findings imply that genetics do not play a very large role in trying to predict whether someone will struggle with substance dependence?
Join this month's discussion and share your thoughts.
Children's Mental Health Awareness Day - May 7, 2009
The Caring for Every Child's Mental Health campaign is encouraging all organizations that serve children, youth, and families to participate in the "Post NOW!" campaign to promote support for children's mental health.
For more information about Awareness Day, click here.
To view campaign poster, click here.
Results from the RTC Web Publications Impact Survey
Many of you have received--and responded to--invitations to participate in a survey about how useful you found our Center's publications. Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out this survey over the last year or so. Recently, we compiled an informal report on some of the findings. Now you can read about the results of the Publications Impact Survey.
Survey on caregiver/youth stigmatization --
and a chance to win a $25 gift certificate
Are you a young person aged 14-25 who has an emotional or mental health condition?
OR Are you a parent or other caregiver of a child between the ages of 14-25 with an emotional or mental health condition?
IF SO, We invite you to take a survey that asks about your experiences with discrimination or stigmatization. The survey asks about both positive and negative experiences. Results of the survey will be published in the January 2009 issue of Focal Point: Research, Practice and Policy in Children’s Mental Health.
- If you finish the survey, you can enter for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com
- The survey is completely anonymous
- The survey takes about 15 minutes
More information about the survey and the potential risks and benefits of participation can be found here.
TO TAKE THE YOUTH SURVEY, CLICK HERE.
TO TAKE THE PARENT/CAREGIVER SURVEY, CLICK HERE.
New Book - Work, life, and the mental health system of care: A guide for professionals supporting families of children with emotional or behavioral disorders
A new book on work-life integration blends expert research and personal accounts from families to provide readers with information on critical issues that affect families with children that have emotional or behavioral disorders. Learn more at the publisher’s website.
Children’s Stigmatization of Common Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
This article, produced by researchers associated with the Research and Training Center, reports on the results of an online survey that aimed to asses the levels of stigmatization among children towards peers with ADHD and depression, two of the most common emotional and behavioral disorders among youth. Data showed that both ADHD and depression had higher stigmatization rates than asthma, and depression was overall more stigmatized than ADHD. The results also showed that children viewed peers with ADHD and depression as being violent or dangerous; past studies have found that a perception of danger appears to be an important factor contributing to social distancing.
Read more in the publisher's abstract.
Take our Focal Point Survey and Enter a Drawing for a $25 Gift Card!
Are you a Focal Point reader? If so, we invite you to take a 3-minute survey to let us know what you think. We will use the data from the survey to help us improve the quality of our work, and to demonstrate to our funders that our activities have a positive impact. Your responses will be anonymous. At the end of the survey, you will have the chance to enter into a drawing for a $25 e-gift card to Amazon.com. Contact Nicole Aue at aue@pdx.edu with questions or concerns regarding the survey.
New Publications/Tools from the RTC:
--The Role of Welfare Managers in Promoting Agency Performance Through Experimentation
--The evidence base for mental health consultation in early childhood settings: Research synthesis addressing staff and program outcomes.
--Work, life, and the mental health system of care: A guide for professionals supporting families of children with emotional or behavioral disorders.
--Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents.
--Disabilities and work-family challenges: Parents having children with special health care needs.
Search our Publications page by title for more information.
The RTC makes its products accessible to diverse audiences. If you need a publication in an alternative format, please contact the Publications Coordinator.
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