Community Technical Assistance Center
All NY State youth and family serving organizations receive ongoing access to research-based information related to the implementation of the best practices in mental health care, including:
- Professional development trainings, webinars, learning communities, or podcasts in a variety of areas and domains
- Attending to time-sensitive critical issues
- Supporting providers’ ability to meet the needs of vulnerable populations
In partnership with Families Together in NYS, CTAC administers the NYS Family and Youth Peer Credential and offers family and youth peer trainings and continuing education. CTAC offers a variety of trainings and resources to address the ongoing skills and knowledge needs of family and youth peer advocates and to support the growth of the peer workforce.
CTAC is committed to equity and inclusion and we promote learning and implementation to center wellness for providers, youth, families, and communities.
Initiatives
STARS Certificate Course
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The Kids Who Aren't Okay: What They Need Now
The research is deeply unsettling; extremely high rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, chronic absenteeism, and concerning behavior in kids. Though many kids are still doing fine, the data tells us all is not well with many others. Responding to these kids differently is imperative. ...
Career Planning for Youth Peer Advocates
Youth Peer Advocates are in a unique position where their credential to provide Youth Peer Services has an age limit. After a YPA’s 31st Birthday, their credential will automatically expire. Once the credential expires, former YPAs can no longer provide Medicaid reimbursable services. So the q...
Validating Voices: Simple Skills That Make a Lasting Difference
During this webinar, the presenter will walk you through the role of using validation when working with a caregiver. In addition to the virtual screening of Skills in Action: Validation, a guided discussion and interactive practice activity will help strengthen your capacity to integrate validation...
Recent Trainings
Partnering with Families: Engagement is Partnering
Part 3 will provide you with essential strategies and insights to build authentic, collaborative relationships with young people and their families. By embracing the principles of family driven care a...
Partnering with Families: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers
Part 2 provides an overview of barriers to partnership from various perspectives, including family, provider, and organizational system barriers. Presenters will discuss types of barriers and its impa...
Understanding and Treating Personality Disorders Part 2: Treatment Challenges and Strategies with Personality Disorders
Clinicians working in behavioral health settings with adults often encounter complex, misunderstood presentations of personality disorders that are compounded by systemic stressors. Attachment disrupt...
Partnering with Families: Families as Partners
Part 1 of this series will discuss the importance of youth and family partnership, ground us in important frameworks, orient us to the training series, expectations, and plans; and introduce a family...
Family Partnership in Ongoing Care
Continuing to partner with families throughout your time together helps to support the caregiver as an 'agent of change' and the family's role as primary decision-makers. Guiding them in trying out ne...
Family Partnership in the Beginning of Care
Family-driven and youth-guided care are key to effective family partnership. Recognizing caregivers as "the knower" and primary decision-makers while affirming their strengths and centering the voice...