Recorded Trainings

In this 12-part training from the Illinois Collaboration on Youth (ICOY)’s Medicaid Technical Assistance Center (MTAC), Illinois healthcare providers will learn how to start billing Medicaid managed care. Training objectives include: - What Medicaid managed care is - How to become credentialed as an Illinois Medicaid provider - How to contract with a managed care organization - How to submit clean claims to managed care organizations - and get paid! Follow along with the presented slides here

This playlist includes the following 12 modules:

1. Introduction

2. The Move to Managed Care

3. Provider Perspective: from Theory to Practice presented by Aunt Martha’s Health & Wellness

4. Inside the Mind of the MCO

5. Getting Credentialed

6. Setting Up to Bill

7. Medicaid Eligibility/Enrollment

8. Billing for Community-Based Services

9. Authorizations and Utilization Management

10. Common Billing Errors

11. Provider Interview featuring Turning Point

12. MCO Perspective featuring the Illinois Association of Medicaid Health Plans (IAMHP)

Who should watch: This training is for healthcare provider leadership interested in learning the steps their organization needs to take to bill Medicaid managed care (MMC) in Illinois. This includes organizations that have never billed Medicaid or MMC and those who are newly navigating MMC contracts.

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Presented by Dr. Dorene Wiese, CEO of the American Indian Association of Illinois & Marjorie Moore and Vanessa Peterson from Illinois Department of Children and Family Services

In this webinar, learn from experts about working with the Native community within Illinois, and best practices to abide by the federal law and keep Native children, families, and culture safe.

Key discussion topics include:

• - The history and importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) - Presented by Dr. Dorene Wiese, CEO of the American Indian Association of Illinois
• - The process of ICWA implementation in Illinois - Presented by Marjorie Moore and Vanessa Peterson from DCFS

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Presented by Megan Angle from Porte Brown Accountants and Advisors

In this webinar, Megan Angle from Porte Brown Accountants and Advisors will discuss a memorandum issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on March 19 to provide administrative relief to recipients affected by the loss of operational capacity and increased costs due to the COVID-19 crisis, as well as actions Illinois is taking for its providers. 

She will help you understand the provisions of the OMB's memo and how it can potentially affect your federal grants and contracts, and explain the most recent updates provided by state agencies for guidance on the treatment of contracts during this time.

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Presented by Megan Angle from Porte Brown Accountants and Advisors

In this webinar, Megan Angle from Porte Brown Accountants and Advisors discusses how the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and the CARES Act will affect employers. She explains what your organization needs to know regarding the payroll and tax relief provisions of these acts, which are intended to ease the cost of compliance with the expanded leave provisions.

Key points discussed include:

• Review of paid Family/Sick leave requirements in FFCRA
• FFCRA benefits for furloughed or let-go employees who will be claiming unemployment
• FFCRA Employer Tax Credits
• CARES Act Provisions – Employee Retention Credits and Payroll Tax Deferral

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Presented by Libby Sanders from Northeast DuPage Family and Youth Services

Current approaches to adolescent domestic battery have produced harmful outcomes --  including youth being arrested and removed from their homes, limited emphasis on unaddressed mental health and underlying trauma of youth and/or caregivers and missed opportunities to address the immediate family crisis. In addition, local research shows that adolescent domestic battery is often processed the same way in the court system as intimate partner violence, despite it being a different issue that requires a different response. 

In this webinar from ICOY, you'll hear an expert, Libby Sanders, from Northeast DuPage Family and Youth Services, provide an overview of how we can improve community-based responses for youth experiencing family conflict by recognizing the ways adolescent domestic battery differs from intimate partner violence and how to utilize the Adolescent Domestic Battery Typology Tool (ADBTT).

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Presented by Amanda Mendoza, LCSW, LSOTP and Sandy Chavez, LPC, LASOP of Youth Outreach Services, which began to offer evidence-based treatment for youth displaying problematic sexual behavior in 2017​. 

Youth with problematic sexual behavior (PSB) are a chronically underserved and misunderstood population. In this webinar hosted by ICOY, you'll hear experts from Youth Outreach Services share myths and misconceptions about youth with PSB, as well as the most current research and best practices for serving them.

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Presented by Hallie Riggs, LCSW, CSW-PIP, Clinical Director of the Simply Smiles Children's Village - a first-of-its-kind intentional community for Lakota children on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

In this training Hallie Riggs, LCSW, CSW-PIP, provides a brief overview of what constitutes childhood trauma, with specific attention to abuse and neglect, as well as the neurobiological impact of trauma and implications for a limited capacity to form attachments, regulate emotions, learn and navigate the world safely. The majority of this training focuses on the application of realistic, evidence-based strategies for caregivers, practitioners, teachers and child care workers in structured settings like school, summer camp and home, so that children can heal from trauma and thrive.

This webinar will provide an overview of the following topics to help you recognize and appropriately respond to childhood trauma: 

1. What constitutes childhood trauma
2. The neurological impact of trauma
3. The application of strategies to help children heal from trauma

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This is a video recording of the January 17th  Quarterly Management Meeting for Community Youth Employment Program (CYEP) and helps providers learn what they need to know to effectively provide CYEP and comply with program regulations. This training is perfect for crisis workers and new supervisors. Through lectures, case studies, group exercises and role-play, participants will learn how to work with youth and their families; how to interact effectively with partners in the community including law enforcement officers, school personnel and child welfare workers; and how to initiate effective case management for clients.

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The purpose of this presentation is to engage nonprofit organization board members in advocacy efforts. This presentation will coach local board members on effective advocacy messaging and provide tools to support their advocacy. In addition, it will educate them on the rights and responsibilities of board members to advocate for a sustainable revenue solution that will stabilize Illinois’ finances and create a more secure and predictable revenue base for their organizations.

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Presented by ICOY, this webinar reviews the findings from our recently released Medicaid Managed Care Readiness Survey of Human Service Providers: Bridging the Gap to Medicaid Managed Behavioral Health Care in Illinois.

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Presented by Samantha Acosta from Willow House, this webinar will educate participants on how to support grieving children, teens and families. Participants will have the opportunity to explore:

•  What is grief?
• The effects that grief has on children, teens and families.
• How to be a supportive and caring individual for grieving children and teens.
• The importance of self-care while supporting individuals who are grieving.

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• The purpose of this webinar is to educate the audience with an innovative approach to handling youth offenders with a balanced and restorative justice program for eligible youth and disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. Illinois and many parts of the country are faced with this disturbing trend of juveniles being funneled out of the public school systems and into the criminal justice system. Students suspended, expelled or detained for discretionary school violations are nearly three times more likely to be in contact with the juvenile justice system within a year. Peace conferences look to address these discretionary violations through a balanced and restorative justice approach aimed at: 
• Keeping juveniles engaged in school
• Holding juveniles accountable for their behavior 
• Making victims of their offense/behavior whole while diverting them from the formal court process

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Presented by Rebecca Carter and Dereck Gruen, LCSW

Statistics on the prevalence of bullying suggests a large variance in rates across populations and contexts. While it is clear that bullying is a problem affecting many children and youth, new research suggests that traditional methods for bullying prevention are not only ineffective but may have adverse effects. In this webinar, Rebecca Carter and Derek Gruen, LCSW (Gads Hill Center) explore:

• Theories on bullying prevention 
• Discussion on which strategies are effective along with which can be harmful

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Presented by Rachel Reynolds, Outreach and Prevention Specialist, from National Runaway Safeline

This webinar will provide participants with a better understanding of the importance of runaway and homeless youth prevention and ways to collaborate with National Runaway Safeline (NRS) in prevention efforts. We will be discussing National Runaway Prevention Month (NRPM), which takes place every November to raise awareness of the runaway and homeless youth crisis and educate the public about solutions and the role they can play in ending youth homelessness. Participants will learn how they can be involved in NRPM and how to utilize NRS’ hotline (1-800-RUNAWAY) and digital crisis services (1800RUNAWAY.org).

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Presented by Carolyn Frazier

Only 3 in 1,000 juvenile arrest records were expunged in Illinois between 2004 and 2014, according to a groundbreaking report by the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission in partnership with the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law. When young people enter adulthood with a record, it creates significant barriers to seeking steady employment and housing, limiting their ability to embark on a positive path and reach their full potential. Recent reform measures that have been enacted into law are beginning to make it easier to erase juvenile records and get a second chance. 

In this webinar, Carolyn Frazier, a staff attorney and clinical assistant professor at the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Bluhm Legal Clinic, will discuss how the passage of the Youth Opportunity and Fairness Act in August 2017 has simplified Illinois’ juvenile expungement process and strengthened confidentiality protections. 

This webinar will help youth service providers understand what these changes mean and specifically how the new law impacts their work with young people throughout the state. The webinar will also provide concrete, practical information about steps providers can take to help young people expunge their records in Illinois. 

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Presented by Karina Gil

Approximately 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys have been sexually abused. The effects of sexual abuse can be long-lasting. Children and youth who have experienced sexual abuse are four times more likely to misuse substances, four times more likely to develop PTSD as adults and three times more likely to experience an episode of major depression as adults. It is critical that caregivers, counselors, educators and youth workers recognize the signs of sexual abuse, provide a safe and nurturing environment for children and youth to share without fear and respond appropriately to help stop further abuse.

Survivors of child sexual abuse can recover, and you can play a significant role in the healing process.

In this webinar, Karina Gil, education, outreach and prevention specialist at Chicago Children's Advocacy Center (ChicagoCAC), defines child abuse and child sexual abuse, discusses how to effectively listen and respond to disclosures of sexual abuse, helps participants understand trauma and its impact on survivors and outlines the mandated reporting process and ChicagoCAC's role in responding to more than 2,000 reports of child sexual abuse and exploitation annually.

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Presented by Greg Storms

The state of Illinois designated April 29th as #40toNoneDay day in 2015 to increase awareness of LGBT youth homelessness and engage in efforts to end homelessness, thanks to a campaign led by ICOY. It is estimated that up to 40% of youth experiencing homelessness in the U.S. identify as LGBTQ. This is particularly concerning considering that LGBTQ youth account for only an approximate 7% of the entire U.S. youth population. In Illinois, an estimated 25,000 youth experience homelessness. Youth experiencing homelessness face numerous challenges, and LGBTQ youth face additional obstacles including lack of safe emergency housing and discrimination in employment and housing based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

In this webinar, Greg Storms, director of youth services at Center on Halsted, discusses the factors that often precipitate LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness, suggested best practices for addressing their unique needs and how we can create safe and affirming spaces for all of our youth. Storms has worked with LGBTQ and HIV+ communities and has experience in research, education and prevention.

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Presented by Jennifer McAdams

Approximately half a million teens in the U.S. struggle with eating disorders or disordered eating. The misconceptions and stigma surrounding eating disorders make it much more challenging for young people to seek treatment and our communities to raise awareness of these potentially life-threatening disorders.

The earlier an eating disorder is detected, the higher the chance of recovery. Recovery offers us the opportunity to break the stigma. In this webinar, Jennifer McAdams, Clinical Site Manager at Insight Behavioral Health Centers' Eating Recovery Center, explains some of the signs of eating disorders and methods for intervention, differentiating between other forms of eating disruption and varying levels of severity.

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Presented by Rachel Ostergaard

In 2016, an estimated 1 out of 6 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely sex trafficking victims. Of those, 86% were in the care of social services or foster care when they ran away. With the proper tools, social service professionals can play a key role in supporting survivors of human trafficking, become a strong voice for those who are exploited and combat this growing crisis.

Ostergaard provides an introduction to sex and labor trafficking and will discuss recruitment tactics and ways to identify victims. Ostergaard's work involves teaching and training professionals who may encounter victims of trafficking. She provides comprehensive case management services to survivors of human trafficking within the Chicago metropolitan area. Additionally, she is responsible for the development, implementation and oversight of a low threshold drop-in center for youth in the sex trade in downtown Chicago.

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Presented by Lisa Jacobs, J.D.

Our communities thrive when we promote chances for all children and youth to succeed. Part of that effort involves preventing and reducing their entrance into the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. A growing body of research consistently confirms that a key to improving youth outcomes is avoiding cross-system involvement. Social workers, probation officers, judges, attorneys and advocates should be equipped in addressing the unique needs of dually involved youth. It is vital that such professionals have the tools to ensure the well-being of these youth and to create strong communities.

Jacobs offers strategies and resources to support those who work with youth who are dually involved. Jacobs has 15 years of experience in courts and system administration and is the program manager of the Chicago Center for Criminal Justice Research, Policy and Practice at Loyola University Chicago, where she provides training, technical assistance and guidance to state and local jurisdictions. This work is targeted at developing law, policy and programs which improve outcomes for dual status youth and families and enhance the performance of youth- and family-serving agencies. In this capacity, Jacobs has provided assistance to jurisdictions in Georgia, Indiana and South Dakota. She is currently assisting state-level child welfare, juvenile court, probation and corrections leaders in North Dakota in their 16-month Dual Status Initiative.

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Presented by Mary Reynolds, Casa Central

The prevalence of intimate partner violence is widespread, impacting 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men in their lifetime. This type of violence has far-reaching effects, especially for children and youth who grow up in homes where there is domestic abuse. Each year, 1 in 15 children are exposed to domestic violence, and 90% of these children are witnesses to the violence. Children exposed to domestic violence experience significant trauma, and witnessing violence alters a child's brain development.

In recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Mary Reynolds, M.A., MSW, LCSW, ICDVP, Deputy Director of Children, Youth & Employment Training Services at Casa Central, will examine the effects of domestic violence on children and adolescents with a specific focus on building resilience. Reynolds has 20 years of experience working with survivors of domestic violence. She began her career providing shelter-based crisis intervention services. Currently, Reynolds oversees Casa Central's Early Learning Academy, School-Age Program and the Violence Prevention & Intervention Program.

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Presented by Screening for Mental Health, Inc.

Suicide rates for teens are climbing; the suicide rate doubled among teen girls and rose by more than 30% among teen boys since 2007, according to the Center for Disease Control. Suicide is a public health crisis impacting individuals, families and communities. In the U.S., 70% of those in crisis tell someone, directly or indirectly, before taking their own life. Screening for Mental Health, Inc., which provides innovative mental health and substance use resources and coordinates nationwide mental health screening programs, will provide guidance for providers working with adolescents through the process of providing support with evidence-based youth suicide prevention programming.

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To view a sample of the SOS Signs of Suicide Prevention Program content and program videos, please visit https://sossignsofsuicide.org and enter the following credentials:

Username - sos-sample-imp

Password - sossample

Presented by Michelle Seliner

Over the past decade, self-injury has grown from an obscure psychiatric symptom to a mainstream problem. This workshop helps participants better understand the purposes of body focused self-injurious behaviors and the reasons it has grown to be so prevalent.

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• Describe similarities and differences between self-injury and suicide
• Explain three meanings and functions of the self-injurious act
• Describe possible cultural, familial and biological underpinnings of self-injury
  

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Presented by AJ Jennings

This webinar offers an introduction to understanding gender identity and the needs of transgender and gender-expansive young people.  It includes basic language and terminology and gives participants the opportunity to build a foundational understanding of what it means to be transgender and/or gender-expansive. We offer ideas for best practices in creating affirming and supportive environments for transgender and gender-expansive youth. Finally, we explore the importance of language in creating an affirming atmosphere. 

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Presented by DeAnna Hall, LSW, Mindfulness Trainer at Peaceful Minds Enterprises, Therapist

Stress is an inevitable emotion that all humans experience; however, the absence of a coping mechanism to reduce or eradicate stress can lead to chronic effects including exhaustion, feelings of depression and hopelessness and even sickness. Mindfulness, the awareness that emerges through purposefully paying attention to the present moment, is scientifically proven to reduce stress and build inner strength so that future stressors have less impact on our physical and mental well-being. This webinar introduces participants to mindfulness, identifies the core benefits of the practice and discusses practical tools for incorporating mindfulness into your daily routine.

Participants will:

• Gain a foundational understanding of mindfulness
• Recognize the impact of stress and how mindfulness reduces stress
• Discover techniques and strategies for supporting a daily mindful routine
  

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Presented by Pam Asen, LSW

This free webinar will introduce participants to concepts related to healthy, unhealthy and unsafe relationships. Together, we will explore the unique strengths and challenges that young people experience as they enter friendships and dating relationships. We will unpack the dynamics of Teen Dating Violence and its impact on young people, diving into the barriers that many youth face when reporting, and we will work to understand the ways that we can support youth to both build healthy relationships and to reach out for help if they are experiencing violence.

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Presented by Jackie Garlock

This training led by ICOY's own Jackie Garlock will provide participants with a basic understanding of childhood trauma. 

Participants will: 

• learn how trauma impacts the brain and development 
• gain an understanding of how the experience of childhood trauma is connected to outcomes in the health, behavior, functioning and overall well-being of young people.
  

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Presented by Julia Strehlow

This webinar will cover:

• how to define child abuse and child sexual abuse
• signs and symptoms of abuse, including the grooming process
• recognizing and intervening during concerning situations
• reacting to disclosures of sexual abuse
• trauma and its impact
• the mandated reporting process
• Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center’s role
• how to support children, families and yourself
  

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Presented by Tiana Cody, MSW

It is important for professionals in the helping field to increase their awareness of the impact of secondary trauma and to learn strategies for self-care. Participants in this webinar will learn about the definition of secondary trauma, identifying early signs of compassion fatigue and self-care strategies to increase resiliency.

Participants will:

• Gain an understanding of secondary trauma experienced by helping professionals.
• Learn the importance of self-care practice for participants and the employer.
• Learn techniques and strategies to practice self-care.
  

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