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Parent training options
Keys to Leadership: Understanding the Children's Mental Health System of Care—a comprehensive look at the various components of our system of care including the history behind the movement of family involvement, the Mental Health Act, funding streams, system components and partnering with professionals ( 12 hours; may be delivered in a day and one half session or divided into two hour segments)
Using Anger in a Positive Way to Affect Change—the first step in advocating for change is to leave our anger at the door; an interactive dialogue on how to channel anger into positive strategies for successful system advocacy (one hour training)
Come Grow with Us: The Minnesota Parent Leadership—learn the history behind the MPLN and how you can be a part of an historical grassroots network whose mission is to train parents of children with mental health disorders to be leaders in their community. (1 1/4 hour training)
Design for You—The MPLN and its speaker bureau would be happy to design and deliver a training specific to your needs.
Professional training options
Parents as Partners: Supporting Parent Leadership in Children's Mental Health System of Care—Participants will learn about the MPLN and how we can assist them in their partnership with families. Incorporating parent tin put is critical to the design and evaluation for family driven system of care. strategies for developing a cohesive respectful and diverse work group with parents.( 90 minute presentation)
Family Driven Services: Evidence Based or Just a Passing Fad?—An interactive presentation about what family driven means when designing services , the definition of each partner's role in the process and hot to successfully implement the vision of family driven in the children mental health system of care ( 90 minute presentation)
Welcome to our Home—An inside look at families raising children with mental health disorders - walk a mile in our shoes, learn about the challenges and the joys of raising a child with a mental health disorder. If you've ever wondered if the what comes first the mental health disorder or the crisis, this is the workshop for you.
Parents and Professionals: From Face off to Partnership—learn how the barriers in working effectively came to occur and how to overcome them
We the Parents, By the Parents, For the Parents—Learn the history of how the MPLN came into existence and how you can replicate it in your state.
Design for You—The MPLN and its speaker bureau would be happy to design and deliver a training specific to your needs.
