Face-to-Face Meetings: Are they Worth It? Results from the Deep Dive

Why Behavioral Health? All kids prepared for post high school experience able to contribute as successful community members. Create easier and broader access to services for all students and families Enable a full continuum of care  MH promotion  Prevention  Intervention

How Does Working across Groups in a CoP Contribute to Practice Change? Expands awareness and a greater understanding of resources; ultimately improving efficiency and effectively Creates a common mission, vision, and shared accountability Engaging diverse stakeholders, including decision makers – all with an equal voice to effect change

Knowledge Gaps Relationship between mental health/wellness and academic outcomes Terminology cross-system/resources/funding EBP (distance between knowledge & practice) Systems role in implementing Cultural aspects (role, youth, ethic, family, system, socioeconomics, faith)

Skill Gaps Sustaining consistent knowledge/skills development to respond to mental health needs of all students Collaboration between schools/families/community Family partnerships with schools and community agencies Child and youth engagement /youth empowerment

Relationship Gaps How to share work across stakeholders with a goal to ‘normalize’ that way of working How to work across multiple levels (state – local) How to create shared vision that guides role definition, infrastructure, policy, systems and protocols leads implementation.

How Can PBIS Be a Bridge between Education and Mental Health? Intensive, ongoing training with fidelity of families, community providers and all school personnel. PBIS has supported data base decision-making … and data can become the bridge and conversation about data builds the bridge.

Where should the national CoP put its energy and our resources? Marketing  What’s the message/what’s the data?  Ongoing promotion of working collaboratively (elevator speech, tool kit) Through training on multiple modalities for dialogue/learning  Sharedwork.org  Make user-friendly based on user output Data collection to demonstrate effect of working collaboratively

State CoP Participants matter – balance between targeted voices and broad representation including families and youth (16) Utilize data to promote shared goals and strategies with clear action step and deadlines to improve outcomes and practices for schools, communities, youth and families (12) Ask: Who is missing? How do the issues inform the membership? Develop communication protocols  Transparency  Agreement to share on what and ho  Multiple methods for communication  Honor stories/experiences of members Ensures an authentic means to address the issues

Practice Group Expectation for the practice groups to report out across groups and to the larger CoP. Use sharedwork.org The practice groups are not fixed; there should be a “core” team that leads the focus with shared responsibility. Funding/shared work scopes- a discussion in each practice group for sustainability and scaling of work. Expectation- Disseminate information to local and site level Self reflection

Was It Worth It? Did we have a deep cross-stakeholder dialogue? Did it clarify our purpose? Did it begin to close some gaps?  Knowledge  Skill  Relationship Did it catalyze action?

Continuing the Engagement… What Next? Post the full notes of the brainstorming on sharedwork.org Open the dialogue to the entire CoP Create a blog on each question Volunteer bloggers Expect respondents form the participants Invite others…learn what they think!