>> So I should start and just say welcome. And then. You'll pop in with the interpretation information. Great. OK. >> Carole, can I ask you to stop sharing and then reshare but only share your -- the power point from like -- because you're sharing your whole screen and we can see your messages that pop up. >> You're muted. >> I wasn't sharing at all, I didn't think. I thought I unshared. >> No, oh, this is Virginia. Can you do that, Virginia? Because I can see all your staff messages that pop up. >> I don't understand -- let's see. Stop share. >> Stop share and then reshare and then click the power point like where it says Microsoft power point. >> Hold on. Don't share your whole screen. >> Where did my -- screen share. Where it says power point slide show. >> Yes. >> You want to send me a slack real quick and make sure it doesn't pop up? >> Yeah, I can do that. Work? >> OK. Great. OK. >> We're going to start the Webinar. I can't see Page, are you good to record? >> Yeah, I'm good to record. Should I start recording before or after I start the Webinar? >> So let's start the Webinar and then hit record. >> OK. >> And then make sure you're just in Spanish. >> Will do. >> Thank you. Good luck, everyone! >> Thank you. >> Here we go! >> Recording in progress. >> Welcome, everyone! Thank you so much for joining us so our family violence prevention services administration American rescue plan technical assistance session number 1. My name is Virginia Duplessis and we're going to get started in just one minute. We have American sign language and Spanish interpretation. We're going to review our Spanish interpretation instructions before we move any further. >> OK. Hi, everyone. I will start providing this language interpretation instructions. Give me just one second here. OK, and we are already starting with this feature on. You're welcome to tune into the language that you prefer. However, I will provide some instructions both in English and in Spanish if you're interested, know how to select or make this selection. So give me just a few seconds. OK, let's see here. [Speaking Spanish] So hello, my name is Andrea, introducing myself. I'm here with my co-interpreter and we'll be the interpreters for this session. [Speaking Spanish] We would like to begin by acknowledging all the languages represented by everyone here today. In this case, this conference will be interpreted into and from English and Spanish as well as ASL, American language sign. So language making sure that everyone can participate in the conversation in a more equitable manner by being able to speak and hear in their language of preference. [Speaking Spanish] So as I mentioned, we will be using the interpreting function today and in a few seconds, we will give you instructions on how to select interpretation. And then after that, we will do a quick check to make sure everyone who wants to use interpretation has been able to choose their language. [Speaking Spanish] If you're using a computer, you will see a globe at the bottom of your screen. To listen to the interpretation, press the globe icon and then select language interpretation. And choose your language channel. In this case, English. This will not prevent you from listening to the main room. [Speaking Spanish] If you're on a tablet or phone, tap lightly on your screen. You will see three dots on bottom of your screen and see a menu pop up where you can select language interpretation and choose English. OK? So I'm going to give everyone a few seconds to do this selection and I'll be doing the same thing. Here we go. We're going to conduct a really quick test where right now, I'm speaking in English. This means that anyone who is tuning into the English channel can hear my co-interpreter and I'm able to hear her right now. I'll give her a thumbs up. [Speaking Spanish] >> Now I'm speaking in Spanish so anyone who is listening in on the English channel can hear her interpreting. You give us a thumbs up if you can hear Annibel interpreting? Into English? See that Carole and Virginia are giving me a thumbs up. So if you speak a little too fast, we will ask for you to keep your eye on the screen and we will do this gesture to make sure that you slow down. Now, we go with Virginia. Thank you. >> Great, thank you so much. We're going to go ahead and get started. As I mentioned, my name is Virginia Duplessis. I work at futures without violence directing the health resource center on domestic violence. And we have put together in collaboration with the national center on domestic violence trauma, and mental health this three-part Webinar series. We know that many folks in the field are working on their plans to use their American rescue plan health funds. We want to give you some ideas in terms of lessons that we've learned in our 30 plus years of doing this work at the intersection of health and domestic violence. Share some tools and previous initiatives that we've worked on and, of course, leave some time for questions and answers. All right. So first up, today in our short time together, we're going to give an overview of some of the available training and technical assistance that we have through the health resource center and the national center on domestic violence, trauma and mental health. Give you some specific ideas for how to use these American rescue plan health funds, and just as a reminder, you know, this first session is more of a general overview to give you a lay of the land of what's on our menu of options. Our two other sessions are happening in January. As you know, your plans are due February 7th so I wanted to give you some time to really chew on the information before they're due and, perhaps, to incorporate some of the ideas that we're presenting over the series. So our second session is January 11th and we're going to be talking about increasing access to support services for survivors. We're going to have some additional special guests from other national resource centers, and then our third session is going to focus very specifically on promoting workforce wellness and resilience on January 25th. And as you may know, from the guidance that is one of the allowable uses for these funds. All right. So what is this American rescue plan health opportunity? It's really an opportunity to think about the creative policies and practices that we know have already been happening during Covid. So really thinking broadly about the range of efforts to mitigate Covid and improve access to health care. We know that the eligibility is for all grantees and really this focus on partnering with health departments and health services. When we think about this in the short term, it's definitely about Covid prevention mitigation, the moment we're in right now. We really want to think about improving health access for survivors and their children. I want to lift up from the beginning, we want to make sure that children are also part of the consideration as you think about your plans and your strategies. And, of course, that piece around workforce resilience. Also, reminder that the guidance does explicitly say that these funds are aligned with health and medical advocacy. And then, when we think about long term, right. So this funding opportunity is for three years. And we have this chance to create a really strong foundation or strengthen the foundation that we already have to think about those longer term outcomes that we're hoping for. Better health for survivors and their children, I'm sure you would all agree is one of our goals. Thinking about any partnerships that we are starting right now or strengthening, how we can make them sustainable beyond this funding. Thinking about systems improvement. I think for this grant, you know, there's a mix of kind of individual level strategies but also happen to work towards system improvements which we know in the long term is going to help us prevent violence as well as promote healing and prevention. So again, we always have our eye towards prevention. I also just want to say, as I talk about health, I'm talking about the capital h health, right, we're talking about physical health. We're talking about mental health, behavioral health. It's a little bit of a shortcut to say health and some may assume that I'm talk about that medical piece. We want to make sure that everyone understands this is an opportunity we can use for a whole range of health concerns. All right, so why is addressing health important? We know that it's an essential element of safety planning and wellness. Domestic violence can have serious long term health impacts. We know that good health is important for healing and for thriving. We really want to capitalize on this opportunity that advocates have to intervene and improve access to care. We know that advocates are trusted by survivors. They may be one of the few supports that they have and so you have really this access and opportunity to talk about health. We want to think about how you can promote advocates as part of a health care team, so within the health arena, people are definitely thinking about how we can have more holistic care, make sure that there are many people at the table who are supporting patients and clients. And we want to make sure that advocates are part of that team again because of that unique position and relationship that you have to survivors. Talking about health is also a way to encourage us to move beyond criminal legal responses to domestic violence. So, as you know, many survivors do not feel safe or comfortable using the police or other criminal/legal options for addressing violence. But they are still accessing health services, right, so we have this great, again, opportunity to make sure that we are providing services that are going to be trauma informed and appropriate for survivors. And then again, always bringing it back to prevention. We have this incredible opportunity to promote prevention and especially when we think about also addressing the health needs of children. All right. So now that I've made this incredible case for addressing health, just a couple of things to mention about the national health resource center on domestic violence provides. We are going to put the slides in the chat, so you will have them available and the Pdf has links, all of these darkened and underlined texts are links, and anyone who is registered for this Webinar will also be sent follow-up information that will include the slides, the recording, and we are putting together with the national center on domestic violence trauma and mental health a resource list as well that includes even more than what we're presenting today. So what do we have on our menu of services currently? We have lots of downloadable and hard copy health resources focusing on various specialties, populations and key issues. In a little bit, I will show you some of those very specifically, but remembering that these resources are kind of for three audiences. One is a health care provider to help them guide conversations about violence. The others are for advocates, so again, increasing the capacity of advocates to address health and their programs. And then, of course, we have resources that are specifically to give to survivors. People are gaga for on-line tool kits. We have a couple available for health care providers and domestic violence advocates to really think about how you can prepare settings to address domestic violence and how domestic violence settings can address health. We have lots of step-by-step on-line guidance for creating those partnerships between the health and domestic violence programs. We know that a key part of successfully addressing survivor health is going to be those partnerships and we have some examples coming up in just a couple of minutes. We have live and on demand Webinar series. We host leaders from state and tribal domestic violence coalitions who are already doing work to address the intersection between health and domestic violence. And, of course, we are available for individual technical assistance including any tailored trainings. So just a couple of examples. Futures has been the host of the health resource center for over 20 years now. And so we worked with a range of programs, local, regional, state, national and so we just wanted to share some of the successes and ideas that you might be able to put into your proposals. So one is the Rose Brooks center which is domestic violence program in Kansas city, Missouri, and they've been partnering for many years with the local medical school. And They offer the domestic violence program as a rotation site for medical students, social workers, and nursing students. So they are able to offer some services right on site in their programs. They've also for many years added questions like a basic health assessment when they are doing intakes for clients, and that's for residential or non-residential services. And they do ongoing health advocacy. And for all of these, feel free to contact futures or reach out directly to the program. We'd be happy to help facilitate those conversations. Another example is the center for hope and healing, it's a sexual violence program in Lowell, Massachusetts, and they recently started a mobile van program in April of this year called driving hope. And as you know, mobile vans or mobile health units are one of the strategies that are specifically listed in the applications for the American rescue plan health funding. So that's an important strategy again, making sure that folks are able to receive services where they are, reducing those barriers. And the other thing in addition to the health van is they share information about other local Covid services. So if there are services that they can't provide with that van, they also help make those to other things in the community. So I mentioned that at futures, we have offered training and technical assistance and really kind of program management for a number of national initiatives over the years that are really helping to connect the health and domestic violence fields. Most recently, we had an initiative called project catalyst that just recently sunsetted and this one really focused on state level partnerships for community health centers to think about state policies and system changes in community health centers in domestic violence programs. So if you visit our website, we have lots of tools and also archived events where you can find out more about that program. And then just broadly wanting to mention some strategies to address survivor health. Thinking about how other types of community health workers can really be leveraged because they have these close relationships with community members, opportunities to really talk about relationship health and safety, how to get connected to health services. We know that many public health and community health clinic mobile services are being offered at domestic violence programs. We've seen lots of successes with telehealth offices being set up in DMES being violence and other community based organizations. So sometimes, it's a matter of space, technology capacity. And, again, in terms of thinking long term is a telehealth office, something that could be set up using these funds. Thinking about children, where do you have school based health centers in your communities? It's a great way to be connected to parents and children who may be experiencing violence. And then my favorite, I have to admit are doulas, I'm trained as a doula as well so thinking about how a doula can be an important member of the care team who again is able to make this connection between health, violence and accessing Covid mitigation and prevention. All right, so for all of these strategies that I've talked about, really the heart of the model is building these meaningful partnerships. We never want a health program to think they need to know everything about domestic violence and to offer those kinds of supportive services. We never want a domestic violence program to think that they're the ones who have to know everything about health, right? So in order to be successful, it's so important to have this bidirectional learning between the health and domestic violence fields. Having policies that are going to support this partnership and, of course, bringing in leaders and thinkers from both industries really to sustain the partnership. The other thing I wanted to mention, a recent new project at futures is health partners on intimate partner violence and exploitation. It's funded by the bureau of primary health care. And it's really working with health centers to support those at risk of experiencing or surviving intimate partner violence or human trafficking. So we have a great new website, again, it's healthpartnersipve.org where we have lots of tools and resources. There's also Webinar series and other technical assistance opportunities. So I promised I'd show you a couple of tools. This is just an example of some of our safety cards. You can see that we have safety cards for lots of different topics and practice settings. A lot of our cards are in addition to English. We have them available in Spanish and we do have some cards available in other languages as well. In terms of on-line tool kit, here you can see the listing of all of the elements that we have in our IPVhealthpartners.org on-line tool kit. We updated this to include guidance on COVID-19 and telehealth support through the duration of this grant, we will also be adding more tools and resources as we learn more from everyone out in the field as well. So it's definitely a living body. I wanted to mention in terms of tools that advocates might be able to use in their programs, a trauma-informed client health brochure. And it's really to help survivors who are -- may have difficulty visiting the doctor and really just validating those fears and concerns. And it's a way to open up conversations about how to make health care visits less scary or hard. And all of these are available on our website. All right, so we've thrown a lot at you today in terms of what is currently available. And for the next couple of years, we are going to be really ramping up our training and technical assistance so we can be of specific support to the work that you'll be doing with your American rescue plan health funds. So a couple of things that are in the works are innovation lab where we're going to have folks really sharing their experience. It's kind of a learning collaborative where we'll be, you know, talking about the successes and maybe some of the fabulous tools they are using with this money. The resilience program that we'll talk more about in our third session, but this is really a cornerstone of this project because we want to make sure that we are supporting those folks doing the work. We will continue to have Webinar series. We're going to beef up our coalition working group on health, update our tools and resources and, of course, offer some individual training and technical assistance. We will also have a web page soon which will include all of the tools and resources, the guidance from the family violence prevention and services administration. And basically, it will be a one stop shop including a letter of support for intent to collaborate so we welcome an opportunity to more formally talk with you all as you're submitting your work plans about how we can support you with our training and technical assistance. So that's me. I'm going to hand it over to Carole now. >> Thank you. Now, I'm going to do the screen share. Let's see. Give me one second. >> So while Carole is getting set, want to remind you we do have a question and answer pod that you can enter your questions into and we'll have time at the end, also, to address some questions. >> Trying to move the -- OK, perfect. I just got a new second big screen and I'm trying to coordinate how to use them both. So OK, so let me go back one. So I'm Carole Warshaw, director of the national center on domestic violence, trauma and mental health. And I'm joined today by Gabriela Zapata-Alma our new associate director. I'll be doing most of the speaking and Gabriela will join in and doing more of the presentation for the next Webinar. And we're going to focus on strategies to enhance services for survivors and their families who are experiencing mental health and substance use related needs in the context of COVID-19. So the -- that aspect of the health component of this funding opportunity. And, you know, as most of you know, our center is a social resource center focusing on these issues and providing a comprehensive array of training and technical assistance, research and evaluation, policy development and analysis and public awareness. And we're also in the process of ramping up and figuring out how to tailor our training resources towards these new funding opportunity that I'll be talking about a little bit more today. So this is kind of what we're planning to focus on for the next 15 minutes or so. One is a little bit about unmet needs and why it's really worth considering using your -- our funds to address the trauma, mental health and substance use in the context of COVID-19. I'll share a survey that we did across the country sort of highlighting the unmet needs that we all know about. And then we'll talk a little bit about strategies and opportunities for collaboration. Again, some examples of cross-sector collaborations and some of the key elements. A little bit about the our funding possibilitys and want to highlight a little bit about the funding that's done out to the substance abuse and mental health services administration to support mental health and services that building partner ships at this time is really an important opportunity and some more about resources that we can share with you. So first why consider using your ARP funds to enhance services? For survivors and their children who are experiencing the range of trauma, mental health and substance use-related needs and to support the DV program and advocate well-being? We know that domestic violence has significant mental health and substance use-related effects. And that these effects have been further amplified during COVID-19 as we well know. We know that mental health and substance use coercion which is highly prevalent undermine health and well being, treatment and recovery, housing and economic stability and child custody. So abuse and violence that's specifically targeted towards survivor's mental health and substance use being coerced into using, undermining sanity and sobriety, sabotaging recovery, making it impossible for people to access treatment. And turning around and using those concerns for systems around survivors. We also know that domestic violence programs have reported increased needs for mental health and substance use disorder treatment and services pre-Covid. Our survey was done in 2019. Test test. Test test. >> Our apologies, everyone, it looks like we lost the service. But we're going to start right back where we were at. You will also have to reselect your language of preference for language interpretation. Thank you. >> Should I start? OK, so -- >> Recording in progress. >> OK, so significant mental health and substance abuse related effects, high rates of suicidality and substance use and that programs have reported increased needs for mental health services and substance use services pre-Covid. I'm trying to make up for lost time. I'll slow down. And we know that Covid has further amplified the impact of the mental health and substance abuse impacts partly to being trapped with abusive partners and not having access to the usual sources of support. And increases in abuse itself and coercion. So also know that people who access mental health and substance use disorder treatment, services have high rates and not dressed in those settings. Part of our effort to provide more access to survivors is accessing systems that often don't have a good understanding of often more trauma but less domestic violence so collaborative partnerships are critical to entering the survivor's access services that are sensitive to their needs and don't create harm. We also know, as you all know, that programs are experiencing very high rates of COVID-19 related burnout and secondary trauma in addition to the direct traumatic effects of racism, hate crimes and structural violence related inequities both for themselves and in their communities and are frequently overburdened and understaffed. A lot of programs are thinking of using their funds to rebuild their capacity, their workforce capacity. But we also know that integrated approaches both ACRTI, capacity building support is really critical as well as integrated approaches to DV trauma and substance use and mental health to healing and recovery. As well as staff and program well-being, so those kinds of things, I think, everyone knows the question is how do we use this opportunity to support the capacity of our programs and survivors and their families? Want to highlight just a couple of national surveys that we've conducted over the last couple of years, the most recent one was a survey of 527 local and tribal domestic violence programs. Second one was a survey with a national association of state alcohol and drug abuse directors and it was 26 states responded and it was mostly from their women's services coordinator network, substance abuse and mental health services administration block grants for substance use, block grants have a carveout for women's services. And women's services coordinator and the majority of states and our wonderful resources and allies for DV coalitions and programs. And we've done a while back, a survey with the national association of state mental health program directors. And what we found is there was a high level of need for addressing the intersection of domestic violence trauma substance use and mental health, very limited collaboration at the state level. But there was a high desire for cross training access to collaborative or integrated and coordinated services. And desire for policy strategies to address system barriers. So while we have clear needs on the DV side, mental health and substance use equivalence in the state level also recognize the need and there are a lot of people who are very open to cross sector collaboration. This is from the survey of DV programs that we recently put on their website. Over 70% of programs reported that they were seeing increased demands for mental health and substance use disorder treatment. But the majority felt very unprepared to meet the needs of survivors experiencing mental health and substance use challenges and even more so when survivors were parenting. The top three resources that DV programs indicated that they wanted were expedited referrals for substance use disorder mental health treatment, training for staff on these intersections and funding for more on-site substance use and mental health services. So this is a wonderful opportunity with our funds to meet some of those needs that programs have indicated are really critical for them. And this was from the survey, the respondents were very enthusiastic about improving service delivery as well. And wanting to increase, you know, collaborative co-located or integrated services which requires funding and partnerships. They also were very interested in decreasing barriers that they recognize like providing on the spot transportation and childcare which is a major barrier for survivors accessing substance use disorder treatment and to enhance cross training. And They talked a lot about incentives or requirements that could be included in both federal and state grants as well as contract licensing agreements with agencies. As well as licensing requirements. So there's lots of ways that your equivalence at the state mental health and substance use systems are open to considering to improve services for survivors of domestic violence and their children. So one of the things that can help enhance this collaboration was joint information memorandum that was issued by SAMHSA and the administration on children and families in 2019, kind of calling for collaboration at the state level between state mental health and substance use directors and state administrators. And it includes lots of guidance about what the issues are and what people can do to address them. Let me go to the next one. And we're hoping to kind of -- kind of during Covid, kind of dropped off everyone's radar. But we're hoping to reconstitute it both with the office going forward particularly in light of the ARP funds that are available. So some of the things that the memo guided state mental health and substance use directors to do is really encourage cross training on domestic violence. Developing policy responses and partnerships so they could safely link survivors and their families to domestic violence services. Promoting whole family treatment approaches, and developing partnerships with not only administrators but state territory and tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions. So there's -- there is that impetus and we're hoping to have them reissue that so that people recognize that it's still important and a priority. For administrators, it was also encouraging DV programs to really do -- be fully inclusive and provide comprehensive services to survivors and their families with mental health and substance use needs to reduce unnecessary barriers. We hear some programs are still doing drug testing which is not in compliance with federal regulations or even drug sniffing dogs. Encouraging training, better practices and really fostering collaboration. So there is federal guidance for this and I want to just keep that in mind, the information memo is on our website with a lot of other resources that you can use if you want to bolster those collaborations in your state. What are some ways we could work together and some examples? The number of examples just to share and we have a lot more information on our website as well. Partnership that we were involved with a couple of years ago with the Colorado office on children, youth and families, domestic violence program, and their office on behavioral health to do a pilot with DV programs and women's substance use disorder treatment programs to pilot their mental health and substance use coercion tool kit on how to do a better job of serving survivors. It was a really wonderful pilot and we worked with them on enhancing their ability to provide programs to prevent overdoses. The West Virginia coalition against domestic violence has a long standing partnership with the West Virginia department of health and human resources, bureau for behavioral health. And we've been working with them from -- for many, many years since probably to early 2005 or before where the coalition recognized the need to do some cross sector collaborative work and started a statewide collaborative working group to really understand the differences in perspectives, and issues and to build collaboration and develop, to brainstorm to develop collaborative strategies for improving services. And then we ended up working with them for a long time and developing training, cross training and technical assistance and strategic planning and because of their partnerships with their state agencies and respect that the coalition had, they were able to leverage funds and resources to support these cross sector collaborative training and initiatives and partnerships across the state. Many of which have continued to -- through different administrations and funding resources. So that level of collaboration has been really important and sustained. The main coalition to end domestic violence, know that you're on this call, wonderful project. We had nothing to do with, and there was -- they were able to pass legislation in Maine to require training on domestic violence for mental health counselors and providers as part of their licensing requirements. Developed a 12-hour curriculum with numerous partners and now the coalition delivers that curriculum so it's another example of a state level collaboration that can really improve services for survivors. Once we have the opportunities to make referrals, we want to make sure that survivors are getting services that we want them to get. I also wanted to highlight open doors to safety multisite initiative which was really from 2008 to 2011 with seven state coalitions and transformation Detroit. And we have -- I put a link to the summary of the final report from that project. And as we were preparing for today, I was thinking that was from a long time ago. But the lessons learned are still fully applicable now for building -- the time that it takes to build those relationships, as you said, Virginia, to build the partnerships whether it's at the state level with partners where you can creatively figure out what are the opportunities to share funds to change policies and to set up collaborative processes. The importance of having dedicated staff and time and resources to support the project which makes the ARP funding a perfect opportunity to do that to create relationships that are sustainable. Some programs did local partnerships where they really developed similar to what you're talking about where there was co-location of services, expedited referrals, payment plans and making sure that people understood all the privacy and confidentiality regulations that are often mental health and substance use providers don't understand. And making sure that, again, that the services were both accessible cultural responses, trauma informed and DV informed. State level projects also, some like Idaho use their money to hire mental health clinicians who work on site in DV programs and there was a lot of work to figure out how to integrate them well and how to provide services to programs that were more remote and didn't have access to an on-site person and also creating a statewide network. And in Delaware, Delaware coalition hired someone who had worked for their state behavioral health system who knew all the players and was able to be a liaison and develop all kinds of collaborative processes for services in the state. So lots of examples. And our Chicago based initiatives, there's a link to an article in 2003 looking at some of the data of how we built those collaborations as well. But again, dedicated staff and funding are really critical. Also wanted to highlight that, you know, the flexibilities in the funding as Virginia, as you noted, there's an opportunity to support advocacy workforce capacity and well being. That's important especially during Covid. As we think of parallel processing, if we're not able to be present with the people we're working with, it's hard if we're not being cared for as well. So that's not just individual self-care but really organizational support. And it can be used to support on-site, virtual and mobile mental health and substance abuse treatment and recovery services and cross sector collaboration. We were able to get clarification about that from the FVPSA office. One of the things that I wanted to highlight for you, we're starting to do some research on what kinds of funding are going out through SAMHSA. I wanted to click on this link to show you you can look at some of the other links of what's happening in your state and who is getting the money. So you can think about who to reach out to and partner with. Get out of here. So same with like certified community behavioral health centers. That link isn't working. So it's just thinking about there's money for community block grants for mental health and substance use. There's state opioid response grants that really critical for DV coalitions to be part of and in Illinois, they've done a lot of work around linking those issues. Certified community behavioral health center clinics have gotten a lot of money to expand and they're a wonderful resource. And some of their original funding was to create partnerships with other community stake holders that potentially include domestic violence programs. There's another huge pile of money going out from SAMHSA to expand crisis stabilization systems and services including the new dateline that will be instead of calling the national suicide prevention life line, there's a 988 number that's going to be live in July and create statewide coordinated systems of 24/7 mobile crisis units that can go out to someone who is experiencing a crisis and link them to services. It reduces having police go out to the crisis calls, and there's a lot of work to link the crisis lines, hotlines with suicide prevention crisis lines, thinking there's a lot of work that we'll be working with strong hearts and the national suicide prevention lifeline on. So those are things that we can be working with you and providing TA on. These are some of our resources. Lots of resources on building collaboration with, you know, every kind of toolkit, practice guidelines, share some of those in the end of our slide set. Comprehensive library including archived Webinars, resources on creating accessible culturally responsive trauma informed organizations and services and resources specifically related to Covid including policy guidance around telehealth and loosening regulations, another issue that we're working on federally. But there's lots of things that need to happen at the state level that coalitions could be involved in. Some of our upcoming technical assistance -- do you want to talk about some of these? >> There's only five minutes left so I think at this point, we can probably just say that we'll have a lot of opportunities for peer based learning and support and capacity building as well as some different monthly Webinar series. We actually have one starting tomorrow for curriculum on becoming successful in trauma informed organizations so there's still time to sign up for that. Starts tomorrow and then will be, you know, monthly kind of sections after that. And then, you know, just a wealth of different kinds of training and TA resources as well as opportunities to connect. >> Great. And including supporting advocates while being in healing. So these are some of the questions that we're hoping we'd have time for like really ask you what kinds of maybe there's a little time in the chat. And we can do more in the next two Webinars. What kinds of issues are coming up for survivors? You know, we have put in mental health and substance use but also health-related issues in terms of needs and service access and really wanting to know what you all see is the most pressing needs. What kinds of collaborations you're currently engaged in. What your priorities are. And what challenges you face, and what additional resources and support would be most helpful from our center and from the health resource center. So anything you want to share in the chat related to those questions and we can pick up on those next time. Here are some of the other resources that we have. They'll both for mental health providers and DV programs that you can share. >> I see that the slides were shared in the chat. If you have any trouble accessing those, please let us know. I'm going to also see if there's a question around whether these funds can be used for mental health services for DV program staff members as well as survivors. And so I wanted to speak on that question in the few minutes that we have and also welcome other folks to add to it. Or correct me, please, if I, you know, answer anything that isn't exactly accurate. So my understanding is that we couldn't necessarily contract like "mental health services" to support staff. That said, part of having a trauma informed organization and, you know, workforce is absolutely providing supports for our staff. And that includes things that often fall under like employee assistance programs. Being able to contract with not only formal mental health supports but also culturally specific and more community specific support. And so having worked for the organizations and having heard from organizations who contract elders to provide supportive services and kind of culturally specific healing resources for staff. And so absolutely, as far as it means to have a supportive organization that is trauma informed and we're providing the support that staff need to be able to show up in the work, right, in this incredibly difficult work, absolutely, yes. And then we have one minute. >> I know that we presented a lot of information today, a lot of resources. I invite you to take a look through some of the links and documents that we share. Again, we will be sharing a power point. Everyone who has registered for this Webinar will receive a follow-up E-Mail that has everything that we've presented today. A reminder that we have the two upcoming Webinars in January, one focused on workforce wellness and one on increasing access. And I also wanted to say, you know, I know that we talked a lot about our historical resources and projects and just a reminder that so many of the work that we are currently doing and are planning for the next couple of years, both of our resource centers is clearly, you know, and squarely focused on the Covid vaccine testing and mobile health unit. To kind of ramping those up for DV programs, you know, that is really what this funding is focusing on and so to the extent that we can help you all think creatively about, you know, the work that you previously have done and how to adapt that to Covid times, mitigation and prevention and again, supporting our workforces as well. All right, well, I want to thank everyone for joining us today. Hopefully, we'll see you at our next two Webinars. We are going to keep an eye on the chat. If there are specific questions or comments that came up, we will be able to respond to them. And again, Carole, Gabriela, myself, are all available to answer your questions or just talk about, you know, what you're thinking about for your American rescue plan health funds. So thank you, everyone. Thank you, also, to our interpreters and our captioners, we're really grateful that we're able to offer these sessions in a way that's more accessible to more people. So thank you, everyone! >> And Virginia for organizing this. >> Thank you so much! Take care.