Multiethnic Advocates for Cultural Competence, Inc. (MACC)

Teen Talk!
2026-04-25 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Columbus Africentric Early College, 3223 Allegheny Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43209, United States
Hosted by 100 Black Men of Central Ohio, Inc. as part of their Elevate Leadership AcademyPresented in partnership with Multiethnic Advocates for Cultural Competence (MACC) through the Start The Right Conversation campaign and sponsored by ADAMH of Franklin County.
Teen Talk! is a youth-centered community conversation designed to create space for honest dialogue around substance use and mental health challenges. As part of MACC’s Start The Right Conversation campaign, this event is intended to encourage open discussion, meaningful connection, and supportive engagement with young people in a welcoming community setting.
Through guided conversation and shared reflection, Teen Talk! offers youth an opportunity to be heard, encouraged, and connected with helpful resources. This event centers the importance of youth voice while promoting understanding, support, and healthier conversations around topics that deeply affect young people, families, schools, and communities.
Teen Talk! also reflects the mission of the Elevate Leadership Academy by uplifting young voices, encouraging personal growth, and helping participants build confidence, connection, and awareness.
What to Expect

Open and supportive conversation – Youth will have space to engage in real talk about substance use, mental health, and the challenges facing young people today.
Encouragement and connection – Participants will be welcomed into a setting that promotes listening, support, and respectful dialogue.
Resource sharing – Attendees will be connected with helpful information, community resources, and support options.
Youth-centered engagement – The event is designed to uplift youth voice and create an environment where young people feel seen, heard, and valued.
Community-based support – Teen Talk brings together trusted organizations and community leadership to foster awareness, connection, and hope.

Who Should Attend?

Teens and youth
Families and caregivers
Youth-serving professionals
Educators and school staff
Community members
Mentors and youth advocates
Anyone interested in supporting healthy conversations around youth mental health and substance use

Event DetailsSaturday, April 25, 202610:00 AM – 11:30 AMColumbus Africentric Early College3223 Allegheny AvenueColumbus, Ohio 43209
Registration is not required.

FASD 101: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, The Basics
2026-04-28 10:00 - 12:00
Our current statistics indicate that 2-4% of youth are affected by FASD in the United States and UK, yet every study highlights how these numbers vastly underrepresent the prevalence of this disorder. This session will explore what we know understand about the causes, impact, and wide-spread effect of FASD on children, families, and broader society. From micro-level realities to system-wide impact, we will review the social, fiscal, and sociopolitical truths related to health equity and how to better understand this complex phenomenon. Includes toolkit.2 CEUs awarded for Ohio Chemical Dependency Board.
0.75 hours in C1, 0.5 hours in C5, and 0.75 hours in TR1
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From Pain to Portrait: Transforming Lived Experience Through Art
2026-04-29 13:00 - 15:00 | Shine Bright Community Center, 4590 E Broad St, Columbus, 43213, United States
Sponsored by Arts Equity Collective2.0 Ohio CSWMFT Board CEUs offered
Cost: FREEPresenter: Rachael DuBose, M.S. Ed., LPCC-S, CCTP
Discover how creative expression can be used to promote mental health awareness, reduce stigma, and support healing within diverse communities. This interactive training introduces behavioral and mental health professionals to arts-based approaches that can deepen engagement, elevate underheard voices, and create more meaningful opportunities for connection, reflection, and advocacy.
Through visual art, spoken word, movement, discussion, case examples, neuroscience-informed insights, and hands-on experiential exercises, participants will explore how creative modalities can be integrated into behavioral health, community, and educational settings. Attendees will leave with practical tools and strategies that can be adapted to support individuals, groups, and communities in thoughtful, culturally responsive ways.​
**Please note that there is an option for either in-person attendance and livestreaming. The in-person will include art materials to make your own creation.
This training aligns with Arts Equity Collective’s broader community work through the Survivor’s Ball, a signature event that uses art, storytelling, and collective remembrance to honor lived experience while shifting dominant narratives around survival and strength. Learn more at https://www.artsequitycollective.org/
What to Expect

Interactive Creative Exercises – Participate in guided arts-based activities that demonstrate how creative expression can support reflection, connection, and healing.​
Discussion and Case Examples – Explore examples of how art can be used in behavioral health and community settings to foster engagement and reduce stigma.​
Neuroscience-Informed Insights – Learn more about the relationship between creativity, emotional regulation, healing, and resilience.​
Practical Strategies for Professional Use – Leave with ideas and tools that can be adapted for use in clinical, advocacy, educational, or community-facing work.​
Supportive and Thought-Provoking Dialogue – Engage in meaningful conversation about how creative approaches can expand the way we promote mental health awareness and support diverse communities.

Who Should Attend?

Behavioral health professionals
Mental health professionals
Social workers
Counselors
Peer supporters
Case managers
Community health workers
Prevention specialists
Educators and school-based support staff
Advocates and nonprofit professionals
Anyone interested in creative, healing-centered approaches to mental health awareness and stigma reduction

We are limiting this event to a smaller group of up to 40 attendees to allow individualized support and questions when needed.
An email with the Zoom link will be sent to the livestream attendees before the event.
Please contact MoPoetry Phillips at 1mopoetry@gmail.com for any additional questions.
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Before the Crisis: Prevention that Actually Works - CLASS IS FULL
2026-05-12 13:00 - 15:30
This training reframes prevention as an early, relational, and system-level practice rather than a reaction to crisis. Participants examine why prevention often occurs too late, how stress accumulates before behaviors escalate, and how timely support can improve outcomes without being permissive or punitive. Through guided reflection and applied discussion, the course supports a shift from reactive responses to practical, trauma-responsive, prevention-focused decision-making embedded in daily practice, relationships, and organizational culture.2.5 CEUs awarded for Ohio registered CSWMFT.
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How to Navigate Cultural Awareness/Competency Work in the Current Political Climate Using the Shared Human Experience Lens​
2026-05-19 10:00 - 12:00
This course helps professionals navigate cultural awareness and relational practice in today’s complex political and regulatory climate. Participants will explore practical strategies to strengthen therapeutic relationships and trust across diverse populations, followed by a brief roundtable discussion on current challenges and resources.
2 CEUs awarded for Ohio registered CSWMFT.

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Engaging in Recovery Support for Underserved Populations
2026-05-28 10:00 - 12:10
This training explores practical, trauma-informed approaches for engaging individuals and communities who may be experiencing substance use concerns, mental health challenges, homelessness, sexual violence, and other overlapping stressors. Participants will review how trauma, substance use, mental health concerns, and unstable living conditions can affect the brain, behavior, self-regulation, help-seeking, and recovery. The course also examines the difference between behaviors and trauma reactions, introduces core helping strategies, and highlights harm reduction principles as part of effective recovery support. Participants will leave with a stronger understanding of how to provide respectful, responsive, and sustainable support while also recognizing the impact of helping work on helpers.

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School Success Conference 2026 - Stronger Together: Cultivating Responsive School Communities
2026-06-10 - 2026-06-11 | Eversole Run Middle School, 9015 Gardenia Drive, Plain City, 43064, United States
June 10-11, 2026 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Join us for the 2026 School Success Conference: Stronger Together — Cultivating Responsive School Communities, a two-day conference designed to bring together educators, school-based professionals, behavioral health providers, prevention specialists, community partners, and youth-serving organizations committed to supporting student success.
Held on June 10–11, 2026, at Eversole Middle School in Plain City, Ohio, this year’s conference highlights the power of collaboration across systems. Through engaging workshops, meaningful discussions, and practical learning opportunities, attendees will explore strategies that strengthen school communities, support student wellness, and build more responsive, connected environments for young people.
The conference will focus on key topics such as school-based mental health, prevention and early intervention, student assistance models, youth substance use prevention, trauma-informed and culturally responsive practices, staff wellness, workforce resilience, and systems-level collaboration.
Under the theme Stronger Together, this event recognizes that student success is not the responsibility of one profession, program, or system alone. When educators, behavioral health professionals, families, community organizations, and school leaders work together, schools are better equipped to meet the diverse needs of students and create environments where young people can learn, heal, grow, and thrive.
This conference is presented in partnership with the Ohio School-Based Center of Excellence for Prevention & Early Intervention (SBCOE), Multiethnic Advocates for Cultural Competence (MACC), Miami University’s ASPIRE, Central Ohio and Greene County Educational Service Centers (ESC), and other committed community and statewide partners.
Whether you work in education, behavioral health, prevention, advocacy, or community support, this conference offers an opportunity to learn, connect, and strengthen your role in building responsive school communities.
Registration link: https://miamioh.nbsstore.net/school-success-2025-registration-breakout-sessions

NAMI Family Peer Support Specialist Training
2026-06-15 - 2026-06-25 | Capital One Shine Bright Community Center, 4590 E Broad St, Whitehall, OH, 43213, United States
Have you supported a loved one with mental health, substance use, or developmental challenges? Your journey can help others. Gain the tools, confidence, and certification pathway to support other families with hope and connection.
Family Peer Support (FPS) providers use their lived experience to offer hope, guidance, and connection to fellow caregivers.

Share your story to make a difference
Get Specialized training and tools
Join a powerful network of change-makers

Ready to support others while growing your skills?
Attend our FREE 40-hour training and start your journey to become a certified Family Peer Support provider
This is a hybrid course and all sessions must be completed to become certified.
In person: June 15-17th, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Capital One Shine Bright Center, 4590E. Broad Street, Columbus OH 43213
Virtual: June 24-25th, 9:oo AM – 5:00 PM, ZOOM

Adult Mental Health First Aid Part 1- CLASS IS FULL
2026-06-16 09:00 - 12:00
This session continues Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) by focusing on how to respond when someone needs support. Participants practice using the MHFA Action Plan (ALGEE) as a clear framework to assess concerns, communicate supportively, and connect adults to appropriate professional help, self-help, and community resources—while emphasizing safety and privacy during the conversation.
**Both Part 1 and 2 required.3.0 CEUs awarded for Ohio registered CSWMFT.
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Positive Youth Development in Practice: Strengthening Youth Voice, Equity, and Cross-System Support
2026-06-22 10:00 - 12:15
Positive Youth Development (PYD) is a holistic approach that focuses on creating a developmentally appropriate learning setting for young people. Positive youth development strategies focus on:

forging positive relationships
strengthening academic soft and technical skills
cultivating trustworthy safe spaces
offering youth opportunities to succeed in meaningful ways.

Positive Youth Development treats youth as equal partners and engage with their communities, schools, organizations, peer groups and families in ways that are both constructive and productive.
PYD training equips youth practitioners with best practices to engage in youth led/adult-guided support through adolescent development. Using strength-based approaches that foster caring environments, competence, character, confidence and connection; participants will learn how these aspects contribute to the overall well-being of young people. These principles will also guide in understanding the importance of authentic youth voice & leadership, family engagement, and equity when interfacing with systems.
Presented by: Ruchelle Pride, M.S., CDE, CPC

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Adult Mental Health First Aid Part 2- CLASS IS FULL
2026-06-23 09:00 - 12:00
This session continues Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) by focusing on how to respond when someone needs support. Participants practice using the MHFA Action Plan (ALGEE) as a clear framework to assess concerns, communicate supportively, and connect adults to appropriate professional help, self-help, and community resources—while emphasizing safety and privacy during the conversation.
**Both Part 1 and 2 required.2.5 CEUs awarded for Ohio registered CSWMFT.
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Beyond Sobriety: Empowering Lives through Trauma-Informed Recovery​
2026-06-30 10:00 - 12:00
This training session will address the critical intersection of trauma and substance use disorders through a comprehensive and transformative approach. By recognizing the profound impact of trauma on individuals with substance use disorders, this session will inspire participants to implement trauma-informed care principles, enhance treatment outcomes, and promote holistic recovery.2 CEUs awarded from OH Chemical Dependency Board.

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Exploring the Best Practices for Supporting Families Affected by SUD
2026-07-09 10:00 - 12:15
Explore the Best Practices for Supporting Families Affected by SUD helps participants better understand substance use disorder, its impact on loved ones and family dynamics, and the importance of open communication, healthy boundaries, self-care, and connection to support resources. This interactive training offers practical tools for supporting families with compassion while recognizing that recovery is a process.
Presented by: Laura Hinds, MSW, LCSW

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Substance Use Across the Lifespan: Prevention, Treatment, and Community Response​
2026-07-15 10:00 - 12:00
This training provides an overview of substance use across different stages of life, with attention to prevention, treatment, and community-based support. Participants will examine broad trends, contributing factors, and collaborative strategies for response.
2 CEUs awarded from OH Chemical Dependency Board.

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Loneliness, Loss, and Substance Use Later in Life​
2026-07-29 10:00 - 12:00
This training explores how loneliness, grief, and life transitions can impact substance use among older adults. Participants will consider factors that may increase risk and discuss supportive approaches for prevention, awareness, and community response.
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Talking to Adolescents About Substance Use Disorder
2026-08-13 10:00 - 12:10
Engaging adolescents in conversation at developmentally appropriate levels can be a challenge for adults. Speaking to adolescents about substance use disorder can be even more daunting. This event engages providers in recognizing the barriers that negate effective conversations with adolescents about their behavioral health and how to overcome them. Via a reflection on best practices, evidenced based techniques, and scripts and tips, providers will be empowered to reflect on and revamp their communication strategies with adolescents who are at risk for substance use disorder or are already affected.
Presented by: Laura Hinds, MSW, LCSW

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