Navigating the Menopause Transition
2024-02-05 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
The road to menopause can be long and winding, with many women experiencing hot flashes and other bothersome symptoms for 7-10 years or more during the perimenopausal period. After menopause, some symptoms related to hormonal changes may persist for life. Join Vanessa Ross, CNM, Menopause Society Certified Provider, Baystate Midwifery and Women’s Health, for a discussion about what is menopause, what to expect and how to manage your symptoms.

Minimally Invasive, Maximally Effective: New Technologies in the Cardiac Cath Lab
2024-02-04 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for an insider’s view of the latest devices and innovations used in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab for procedures such as valve replacement, stroke prevention, and more.
This event is being held on-line as a webinar and also in-person at the Baystate Health Education Center, 361 Whitney Ave, 2nd Entrance, Holyoke, MA.
Please register using the corresponding registration link whether attending virtually or in-person. All other Heart & Vascular Events will be virtual.

Long COVID-19 & Mental Health: Emerging Research and Implications for Practice
2024-02-02 13:00 - 16:15 | Webinar
Live Interactive Webinar
Instructor: Ellie Lipton, M.S.W., LCSW, LICSW
February 2, 2024, 1 – 4:15 p.m. ET
Level: Intermediate
CEs: 3
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The CDC estimates that in 2023 19% of adults in the U.S. are experiencing Long COVID-19 symptoms. Long COVID, or post-COVID syndrome, describes a range of symptoms that emerge or persist four weeks after initial infection of SARS-COV-2. Symptoms can impact every organ system in the body, most notably the cognitive, cardiac and respiratory systems. Common symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, heart palpitations, muscle weakness, shortness of breath, gastrointestinal distress, changes in mood and post exertional malaise.
Emerging research overwhelmingly points to Long COVID exacerbating pre-existing mental health symptoms and impacting emergent mental health problems. While researchers are unsure of the cause of Long COVID, current theories suggest that the COVID-19 virus causes lasting organ damage, reduces circulating serotonin and/or causes inflammation and autoimmunity.
This course will explore the mental health impacts of Long COVID in adults. The course will provide an overview of Long COVID and discuss emerging research on Long COVID, including Long COVID’s impact on both pre-existing and emergent mental health concerns. This course will include implications for clinical practice and policy creation.

Clinical Practice in Treatment Systems: A Psychodynamic Systems Approach
2024-01-29 13:00 - 16:15 | Webinar
Live Interactive Webinar
Instructor: Cathleen Morey, Ph.D., LICSW
Level: Intermediate
CEs: 3
Clinical practice in treatment systems is complex and challenging. Effective clinical practice is contingent on knowledge and skills that are particular for systems-based work involving multiple mental health practitioners and clients interacting in a relational matrix. Yet, not all clinical theories and constructs that were developed for application in individual, group, and family modalities are directly transferable to the practice setting of a treatment system. In this seminar, Cathleen Morey, Ph.D., LICSW, outlines a conceptual framework that synthesizes contemporary psychodynamic principles with systems theory – referred to as a psychodynamic systems approach – to inform and advance knowledge of systems-based clinical practice. This approach considers the interplay of dynamic processes among the four levels of the socially co-constructed system, as well as patient, staff and organizational factors that uniquely impact clinical processes in systems of care. Five key clinical phenomena are frequently actualized in systems work: transference, countertransference, splitting, projective identification and enactment. Definitions of these phenomena formulated from a dyadic perspective and a contemporary psychodynamic systems approach will be offered, and their similarities and differences will be discussed.
Based on Morey’s empirical research, she will describe the construct of system enactment and its relevance for clinicians practicing in treatment systems. She will outline a four-step framework for engaging system enactments to repair alliance ruptures with patients, restore intra-staff functioning and address problematic organizational dynamics. Throughout the seminar, Morey will highlight social justice and anti-oppressive elements of a psychodynamic systems approach. Case discussions will illustrate the application of concepts in ways that are clinically relevant for participants.

Community Impact Team, Virtual Open Office Hours
2024-01-26 10:00 - 13:00
Virtual Open Office Hours
The Community Impact Team will have virtual open office hours for nonprofits and other stakeholders on the following dates:

Friday, January 26, 2024, 10AM to 1PM

Catchafire Day
2024-01-10 09:00 - 11:30
Catchafire Update
HSF in coordination with The Beveridge Foundation, Community Foundation of Western Mass, and the Irene E. & George A. Davis Foundation are excited to be able to offer access to Catchafire for a third year to our members.

HSF members have accessed support and services valued at over $465,000.00 FOR FREE! HSF Executive Director, Becca Coolong, will let you know how HSF has used Catchafire for services ranging from rebranding to creating print materials to data analysis to strategic planning. We know that TIME is the biggest barrier to use so she will update you on how little time it really takes. This event will help programs, and locations in your organization benefit from having access to Catchafire. This is not just a resource for senior leaders, it is a resource for everyone!

Following the informational hour Becca will give technical assistance to start or move forward your projects.

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