2025 Spring Registration Brochure

10 NJAMHAA's Spring Conference 2025 Anthony Nieves, LPC, ACS Care Manager Supervisor/Clinician Circle of Care for Families & Children of Passaic County, Inc. Paulina Dutton, LAC Community Relations and Resource Development Director Circle of Care for Families & Children of Passaic County, Inc. Fostering Inclusive Care: Empowering Bilingual Staff through Targeted Training COURSE DESCRIPTION: Rapidly changing demographics in our state have required mental health agencies to hire staff who match the ethnic and cultural makeup of the clients they are serving. However, increasing diversity of staff is not enough to ensure youth and families are being served with cultural humility by providers. Recognizing the need for bilingual staff to have the appropriate skills to service youth and families, research demonstrates the need for agencies to provide training in the specific language that the provider is servicing youth and families, to enhance the skills of staff and reduce burnout and turnover. The trainers will review some best practices regarding linguistic and multilingual training of staff, and the tools they have implemented in their agency to maintain wraparound fidelity from a cultural humility and linguistically competent lens. Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, attendees will be able to: 1. List the challenges faced by bilingual staff while working with multicultural and multilingual youth and families in a language other than English. 2. Describe best practices to integrate linguistic and cultural competence into comprehensive training within mental health agencies, for both direct line staff and supervisors, who work with bilingual clients/participants. 3. Describe the tools and strategies that facilitate the use of culturally and linguistically competent assessment tools to enhance service delivery, along with ways to implement these within your own agencies. Target Audience: Clinicians and other Medical Professionals Audience Target Levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Number and Type of Credits: Cultural Competency Fostering Inclusive Care: Empowering Bilingual Staff through Targeted Training, Course #6191, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB). Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by the New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies (NJAMHAA) as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 2/21/2025 - 2/21/2027. Social workers completing this course will receive 1 cultural competency continuing education credit. This course is approved by the NJ Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies (NJAMHAA), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #87719, NJAMHAA is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Afternoon Session DAY 1 | APRIL 8, 2025 SESSION 2.2. ................................................................ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM