The Institute for Innovation & Implementation

10/5 Join the Maryland Emerging Leaders Committee and Advance Maryland to navigate voting and legislative participation and learn about effective advocacy campaigns. This event is focused on promoting voting and legislative participation from youth populations and educating youth on proactive legislative advocacy techniques. Register, https://ow.ly/w8bj50Tzxzn.

9/4 New Webinar: Residential Programming for Girls: Creating a Therapeutic, Healing Environment for Girls and Gender-Expansive Young People >> Register here, https://ow.ly/peuF50T6xlL. Please join the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services (DJS) to learn more about their vision for residential programs for girls utilizing national experts and best practices in creating more therapeutic, home-like, healing environments for girls and gender-expansive young people.

Join us for a live webinar with the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services and its partners as they share insights on their collaboration with Credible Organizations. Webinar: Maryland Credible Messenger Programming: What Do You Need to Know to Begin a Per Diem Rate Proposal? This webinar will explore the core components of the Credible Messenger approach, including effective delivery methods and budget development. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about innovative strategies in juvenile justice and how they contribute to safer communities and brighter futures for our youth.     Date: July 24 Time: 10-11:45 a.m.   Here's the Zoom registration link for this webinar: https://lnkd.in/gBwZHNTd   The webinar is hosted by the Institute for Innovation and Implementation, University of Maryland School of Social Work. For general information about webinar registration, please contact the institute’s training and technical assistance manager, Gina Mayers, at rmayers@ssw.umaryland.edu.

You are invited to take part in a survey interested in assessing tobacco use and awareness to inform tobacco prevention programming in Baltimore County. The survey asks general questions about tobacco use, advertising, and public health campaigns, https://ow.ly/R09650ROUVY.

Celebrating Children's Mental Health Awareness Week 2024! May 5-11, 2024 marks Children's Mental Health Awareness Week, and hashtag#UMSSW Institute's Parent, Infant & Early Childhood (PIEC) team is here to support families across the state of Maryland, https://ow.ly/epQp50RyAgy. #CMHMMaryland hashtag#childrensmentalhealthmatters

Open Position: Executive Director of Institute for Innovation and Implementation, https://ow.ly/3WR750QZFCG. #UMSSW believes that the educational environment is enhanced when diverse groups of people with diverse ideas come together to learn.

Empathy is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” It is valued today as a key attribute of emotional intelligence. Today’s perspectives include people with disabilities and the beauty of experiencing and expressing empathy in different, unconventional, and often misunderstood ways. For details to better understand how empathy and hyper-empathy may be experienced and expressed in autism and gain helpful support tools, https://ow.ly/GVJa50R7P9I.

April is Autism Awareness & Acceptance Month! Developmental monitoring and screening are ways to check how children are growing and learning. Through monitoring and screening, we can learn if children may need extra help with things like talking, moving around, or understanding. Parents can monitor their child’s development through daily activities. Visit https://ow.ly/5J2r50R7ORy to learn more about autism from the CDC.

Open Position: Executive Director of Institute for Innovation and Implementation, https://ow.ly/Y3zL50QZFLZ. The mission of the Institute is to support state and local governments and organizations in implementing and sustaining effective systems and practices that best meet the needs of children, youth, and their families involved in public systems.

3/26 Live Webinar: Advancing General Health Integration: A Panel Discussion for Clinics to learn from behavioral health clinic leaders and subject matter experts as they highlight key findings and recommendations from the recent General Health Integration Framework (GHI) learning collaborative, https://ow.ly/wwMk50QX4ki.