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Endeavour Foundation (Australia): Mental Health and Intellectual Disability
A basic introduction of how a mental health condition manifests in people with ID and communication skills for service providers …
Health Literacy and Clear Communication: Fundamentals of Empowerment through Health Information
Testimonials and data to underscore the result of unclear health care information. Learn practical ways to make medical and health …
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network seeks to advance the principles of the disability rights movement with regard to autism …
Kentucky Protection & Advocacy (KY P&A)
Mission: To protect and promote the rights of Kentuckians with disabilities through legally based individual and systemic advocacy, and education …
Kentucky Voices for Health (ThriveKY)
ThriveKY is a coalition of organizations who pursue systemic change to assure that the commonwealth meets the basic needs of …
MHDD Module: Disability 101
Review the basics of disability, including definitions, history, and etiquette. This is designed to get service providers more comfortable with …
MHDD Module: Intellectual Disability
Learn about Intellectual Disabilities, including self-advocacy, rights, dual diagnosis, and communication skills. This is designed to get service providers more …
MHDD: Anxiety Disorders
Learn how to recognize the difference between common anxiety and an anxiety disorder. This module covers the signs and risk …
MHDD: What to Expect in a Mental Health Therapy Session
An introduction to mental health therapy, including an overview of the types of professionals and the services they provide, what …
MHDD Module: Intellectual Disability
A definition of intellectual disability (ID), including a brief history of societal treatment, self-advocacy, rights, dual diagnosis, and communication skills …
MHDD Module: Depression
A basic overview of depression, what it is, common signs, risk factors, self-harm, suicide, and support …
MHDD Module: Introduction to Supported Decision-Making
An introduction to supported decision-making as a way to assist people who may face challenges making decisions. It includes an …
MHDD Module: Bipolar Disorders 101
Learn the differences between bipolar disorders, as well as common signs and symptoms …
MHDD Module: Schizophrenia 101
The module covers the definition of schizophrenia and teaches the common signs and symptoms. It offers ways to support oneself …
Ohio DODD: Best Practices for Working with People with Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Intellectual Disability
Learn how to support people with dual diagnoses, including strategies for team support and trauma-informed care …
Ohio DODD: Psychiatric Assessment and Interview of People with Intellectual Disabilities
This module covers the ID diagnosis, including conducting a psychiatric interview and interview challenges …
Ohio DODD: Psychiatric Care in People with IDD and Suicide Prevention
Learn how to prepare for a psychiatric appointment. This module also covers the most common mental health symptoms and conditions …
Ohio DODD: Psychopharmacological Management for Individuals with ID
This details how clinicians, service providers, and caregivers can better understand psychotic medical labels and directions, including what the medications …
Ohio DODD: Supporting Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Overview of Mental Illness and Disorders
Learn about common mental health conditions and how they present in people with IDD, including traumatic brain injury, and trauma-informed …
MHW-IDD: Integrated Healthcare for Individuals with IDD
This provides healthcare professionals information to support working with people with IDD by illustrating the importance and value of using …
MHW-IDD: Communicating with Individuals with IDD
This provides healthcare professionals information to support working with people with IDD by illustrating the importance and value of using …
MHW-IDD: Trauma-Informed Care for Clinical Providers
This module covers trauma-informed care for patients with IDD. Learn about the prevalence of trauma and the circumstances that cause …
MHW-IDD: Co-Occurring Disorders – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness
Learn about mental health conditions and concerns for people with IDD and explore what it means to have a co-occurring …
MHW-IDD: Trauma Informed Care for Individuals with IDD
Learn the signs and effects of trauma on people with IDD, how to use trauma-informed care, challenging behavior, and the …
Ohio DODD: Anxiety Disorders and Intellectual Disability
Learn how anxiety manifests in people with ID compared to the general population …
Ohio DODD: Direct Support Professionals and Therapeutic Program Workers in IDD Psychiatry
Identify common behavior in people with mental health conditions and ID and learn about de-escalation strategies …
Ohio DODD: Mood Disorders and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Learn how mood disorders manifest in people with ID, including diagnostic and treatment challenges, and methods of overcoming them …
Ohio DODD: Psychotic Disorders in People with Developmental Disabilities
Learn about the diagnosis for psychotic disorders in people with IDD, including descriptions of common presentations, discussion of treatment, and …
MHDD Module: Discapacidad 101
Siguiendo este módulo, los participantes podrán: Describe las definiciones de discapacidad, Hablar sobre la historia de la discapacidad y el …
Partnership for a Resilient Kentucky
Partnership for a Resilient Kentucky (PaRK) is a network of organizations and People with disabilities, advocates dedicated to promoting positive …
Mental Health in People with disabilities, advocates with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Vanderbilt Kennedy Center)
Recording of online community discussion with VKC researchers discussing mental health and IDD, including increased stigma, accessibility and affordability of …
The Link Center
The Link Center works to improve supports available to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), brain injuries, …
Mental Health Texas
Mental Health Texas provides learning and treatment opportunities for people with mental health conditions and those who support them …
Strength in Neurodiversity: Inclusive Mental Health Care for Providers, Professionals, & Community Members
This webinar gives an overview of neurodiversity, including the medical v. social models of neurodiversity. For mental health care providers, …
MHDD: Cultural Diversity in Disability and Mental Health Services
An overview of how to define diversity and intersectionality. This webinar covers the importance of learning and understanding how culture …
Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
AUCD supports disability research, provides workforce training, and creates an equitable future for all …
Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities National Resource Center (MHDD)
This organizations works to improve mental health services and supports for people with developmental disabilities. By serving as a national …
Mental Health America (MHA)
Mental Health America advances the mental health and well-being of all people living in the U.S. through public education, research, …
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is a nationwide, grassroots mental health organization. NAMI offers educational programs, advocates for …
Mental Health America of Kentucky (MHA KY)
Mission: to improve the accessibility and quality of mental health and substance use services through advocacy with local, state and …
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human …
National Alliance on Mental Illness Kentucky (NAMI KY)
NAMI Kentucky provides education, support, and advocacy for well-being of all individuals affected by mental illness …
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Mission: To transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, …
National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS)
The NASDDDS mission is to assist member state agencies in building person-centered and culturally and linguistically appropriate systems of services …
American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
AAIDD promotes progressive policies, sound research, effective practices, and universal human rights for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities …
Kentucky Division of Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
It is the mission of the Division of Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities (DDID) to empower each person to realize his …
NADD
NADD’s mission is to promote leadership in the expansion of knowledge, training, policy, and advocacy for mental health practices that …
Autism Society of the Bluegrass
The Autism Society of the Bluegrass is a resource and support group for families and professionals in the Central Kentucky …
The Arc
Mission: Promoting and protecting the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supporting their full inclusion …
Advocacy Action Network
Advocacy Action Network is a group dedicated to promoting mental health and disability rights through coalitions …