Welcome to the PBHUC Learning Community!
Below you will find materials from our past Learning Community meetings. Click on the + on the righthand side of each date to expand and see notes, slides, and other resources from each meeting.
PBHUC Learning Community Resources
Evaluation Materials - Outcome Measure Data Collection Tool
As part of the Pediatric Behavioral Health Urgent Care (PBHUC) grant, we will conduct a multi-site evaluation of different outcome measures to determine the effects of this initiative. Below you will find personalized outcome measure data collection tools and instructions on how to use the outcome measure data collection tool. The reporting period of this round of data collection is January - June 2025.
Grant Management Tools - Demographic/Services Provided Data Collection Tool
As part of the grant management process, we will collect data on the demographics and services provided. Below you will find personalized outcome measure data collection tools and instructions on how to use the outcome measure data collection tool. The reporting period of this round of data collection is January - June 2025.
Available Webinars, Trainings, and Resources
Webinars and Trainings Around Substance Use and Misuse
A-CRA trainings: Please reach out to Vanna (vanna.souksavath@mass.gov) for more information.
You can also find other BSAS training events (both virtual and in-person) on the AdCare website here.
iDecide trainings: iDECIDE (Drug Education Curriculum: Intervention, Diversion, and Empowerment) was developed to provide schools with a science-based intervention for students caught violating school substance use policy (e.g., using at school or at school sanctioned events or reporting to school intoxicated). iDECIDE is an alternative to punitive responses to student substance use.Facilitators will be required to attend a free, one-day training and participate in fidelity checks to maintain their certification. If you have questions regarding how to become an iDECIDE facilitator, please feel free to reach out to our team at iDECIDE@mgh.harvard.edu.
Webinar on "Accessing Emergency Behavioral Health Services in the Community"
A training from Boston Children's Hospital on the Behavioral Health Help Line and CBHCs on accessing behavioral health resources and discussing FAQs. You can watch it here.
The BIRCh Center has an online resource library which different toolkits, protocols, and handouts. Below are some examples of their resources:
- Hospital to School Transition Protocol
- School-Mobile Crisis Intervention Collaboration Toolkit
- Partnership Agreements for School-Based Telebehavioral Health Services
- Zones of Regulation for Families Handout
- 10 Ways to Build Resiliency in Middle School Handout
Here is a direct link to the School-Mobile Crisis Intervention Collaboration Toolkit. It is meant to foster collaboration between schools, MCI teams, and caregivers.
NOVEMBER TRAININGS:
The Brookline Center School-Based Telebehavioral Health Pilot Learning Collaborative is excited to sponsor and host this valuable and highly interactive training session designed to teach participants how to screen for early signs of psychosis and how to respond sensitively when a youth presents with possible psychotic symptoms. This is a must-attend event for any Massachusetts-based staff supporting youth with behavioral health needs!
🌟 Topic: Early Psychosis: Symptoms, Identification, & Treatment
🗓 Date: November 6, 2025
⏰ Time: 3:30-5:00 PM ET
🎤 Facilitator: Emily Gagen, PhD, Massachusetts Psychosis Access and Triage Hub (M-PATH), the Brookline Center
📍 Location: Virtual (Register here)
📌 IMPORTANT NOTES:✅ Continuing Education Credit (CE): DESE & ASWB, you must:
- Attend the entire training
- Score 80% or higher on the post-training quiz
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Immigration Raids: Youth Impacts and Knowing Your Rights (Live Webinar-No CE) from University of Michigan Health
This webinar will discuss the widespread mental, physical, and educational impacts of ICE raids on youth (ages 12-24) as well as the broader impacts on families and communities. Drawing on real-life accounts from across the U.S., the session will highlight unique challenges faced by young people affected by immigration enforcement actions. The session will also provide actionable guidance for health care and youth-serving professionals on how to best support young people and families when immigration enforcement occurs in their communities. Important “know your rights” information will be covered, including how to recognize different types of warrants, protect client confidentiality, and respond effectively in school, health care, or other community settings.
Course image: An image depicting monarch butterflies traveling as a representation of the beauty of migration and the right that living beings have to freely move.
This webinar will be recorded and made available in our training catalog within 1-2 weeks.
The contents of this webinar are solely the responsibility of the presenters and do not necessarily represent the official views of AHI or any AHI Section.
Registration
- Opens: October 6, 2025
- Closes: November 5, 2025, 8:00 a.m. EST
- Training Date: November 5, 2025
- Time: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST
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PPAL 11/7/25 Juvenile Justice Basics: Juvenile Justice 101
Learn essential information about the juvenile justice process, interactions with police, racial disparities, and the impact on youth and families before or soon after your child is in court.
November 7, 2025 from 10:00am - 11:30am: Register Here
PPAL 11/14/25 What to Know, What to Expect: Juvenile Justice 102
This workshop is for families whose children are entering, or have recently entered, the Juvenile Justice system. Learn how to work with the Department of Youth Services (DYS), what to expect in court, the commitment process, and how to support your youth returning home.
November 7, 2025 from 10:00am - 11:30am: Register Here
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PPAL 11/13/25 My Child's Not Going To School: What Now?
Does your child resist going to school, avoid doing schoolwork, or frequently ask to come home early? If your child is struggling with school avoidance, join PPAL’s discussion of how to face this challenge while maintaining the number one priority: our relationship with our child!
November 13, 2025 from 12pm - 2pm: Register Here
Funding Opportunities
Trauma-Informed Strategies to Address and Prevent Hate and Bias from DPH
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) Bureau of Community Health and Prevention is seeking applications for Trauma-Informed Strategies to Address and Prevent Hate and Bias. This grant focuses on reducing the prevalence of hate and bias and improving the mental health and wellbeing of those who are targeted by hate and bias. Funding is intended to support the development of a training and technical assistance program or refinement of existing program that supports practitioners – defined as mental health clinicians, counselors, and non-clinical providers that actively engage impacted communities – in implementing a multi-tiered response to hate and bias, including:
- universal and/or primary prevention strategies that prevent hate and bias within the communities they serve
- secondary prevention strategies that effectively engage people who have exhibited hate and/or bias through behaviors or warning signs of supremacist ideology or recruitment
- trauma-informed, healing-centered strategies that effectively support people who are targeted by hate and bias
This procurement is open to any organization that is a nonprofit or municipal organization with the ability to deliver the training program to a broad geographic area. Preference will be given to organizations that demonstrate sound prevention and early intervention strategies for those at greatest risk of experiencing or perpetrating hate crimes or bias incidents. Attachment D includes Massachusetts data on reported hate crimes, experiences of discrimination, and bullying. These data suggest that hate and bias impact people of all ages in Massachusetts and that youth and young adults are often victims and perpetrators.
DPH anticipates awarding 1 contract of up to $250,000 for FY26. Awarded funds must be spent by June 30, 2026. Application deadline was October 29, 2025.
Request For Application (RFA) for a Grant for Behavioral Health Promotion and Prevention
OBHPP is issuing this Request For Applications to solicit Grant proposals from Community-Based Organizations across the Commonwealth to develop, implement and evaluate new behavioral health promotion or prevention programs, or expand existing behavioral health promotion or prevention programs, aligned with OBHPP’s mission and vision. These include primary/universal prevention programs, secondary/selective prevention programs aimed at addressing early inventions for at-risk groups, and programs that promote population-wide well-being.
Application deadline is November 17, 2025.
Roadmap for MassHealth’s 2028-2032 1115 Demonstration Extension
MassHealth is beginning to develop a request to extend its 1115 Demonstration, which currently ends in 2027. This Roadmap provides an update on progress from MassHealth's most recent 1115 Demonstrations, and a preview of goals and an anticipated timeline for the next 1115 Demonstration.
2028-2032 1115 Demonstration Roadmap: PDF
Opportunities to Engage:
MassHealth will host two virtual public meetings to review the Roadmap.
Monday, November 10th 12:30-2:00
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/99995278080?pwd=7w9o9GcgddtfVgqA4ZzCdbqg7EEWtZ.1
Meeting ID: 999 9527 8080
Passcode: 527535
Monday, November 17th 2:00-3:30
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/99976570822?pwd=g9qD0iZu4EE9fOt6cVLKDJt7WnP0Va.1
Meeting ID: 999 7657 0822
Passcode: 231709
For feedback, input, or questions regarding the Roadmap, or to request technical assistance for public meetings, please reach out to 1115WaiverComments@mass.gov. Please note, MassHealth will hold a formal public comment period on the draft extension request in summer 2026.
Sample Communication Documents
Here are example documents that grantees have been using to communicate what about the program to members of the school community:
Example Pamphlet from Riverside
Many of these documents have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese so if you would like to see a copy of those, please email Lina.
Learning Community 10/13/22 - Kick Off Meeting
Learning Community 11/3/22 - Evaluation Discussion
Learning Community 11/17/22 - Skaneateles School Discussion
Learning Community 12/1/22 - BRYT Model Discussion
Learning Community 12/15/22 - Implementation Discussion
Learning Community 2/16/23 - Universal Screenings
Learning Community 5/18/23 - Grant-Funded Staff Implementation Successes and Challenges
Learning Community 10/5/23 - Discuss of Current Project Status
Learning Community 11/16/23 - In-Person Meeting
Using Human Centered Design to Drive Innovation in Complex Systems:
Learning Community 12/6/23 - Services Provided and Demographic Data Briefing
Learning Community 1/18/24 - Substance Use and Its Impacts of Mental Health
Resources from the Office of Youth and Young Adult Services (OYYAS) in the Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS) at the Department of Mental Health
One Pager about the Adolescent Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA)
Guide on When to Refer Students to A-CRA
Flier for Learn to Cope, A Peer-Led Support Network for Families Dealing with Addiction and Recovery
List of OYYAS's School-Based Services and Current List of Schools Using These Services
Learning Community 2/15/24 - Sustainability
Learning Community 3/21/24 - Summer Plans and Trauma
Learning Community 6/20/24 - Family Survey and Summer Plans
Learning Community 9/12/24 - Summer Catch-Up
Learning Community 10/24/24 - Sustainability
Learning Community 12/12/24 - Interim Evaluation Findings
Presentation from Susan Foster on Interim Evaluation Findings
Please note that these slides are not intended for external distribution.
Learning Community 2/13/25 - Group Session Discussion
Learning Community 3/20/25 - Chronic Absenteeism
Learning Community 4/17/25 - Sustainability
Learning Community 5/22/25 - Sustainability
Sample Staff Testimonial Questionnaire
*Reminder to add is a way for people to identify what role they have in the school by asking "What is your role in the school?"
Learning Community 6/5/25 - "Supporting Children & Families who are Grieving: Tools and Resources for Community Behavioral Health Centers"
Learning Community 9/25/25 - Summer Plans and Data Discussion
Learning Community 10/30/25 - Primary Care Plus and Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program Presentation