Families as Partners

This presentation was part of the 6th Annual Mobile Mental Health Crisis Response Summit.

This one-hour class helps professionals understand the family perspective and gain insight into the experience and barriers families face in the mental health system of care. We ask participants to examine implicit bias and how it plays out in their work. Learn new strategies to improve engagement with families.

Learning Objectives: Increase understanding of the family perspective • Gain new insight into the barriers faced by families • Understand unconscious bias and its impact • Learn new strategies to improve engagement with families

Content Level: General level: Covers crisis response basics and terminology.|Innovation: Designed to highlight new learnings, strategies or lines of thinking.

Presenter: Greta Kjos, Juris Doctor, Author, Director of Children’s Programs – NAMI Minnesota

Bio: Greta provides leadership and guidance for NAMI Minnesota™s childrens, youth and young adult programs. She brings extensive knowledge of the children’s mental health systems through her own lived experience as a parent of a child living with mental illnesses. She is certified in Youth Mental Health First Aid. Her passion for helping others led her to rite a book and start her own business where Greta created mental health programs, wrote curriculum and offered coaching. Greta has a B.S. degree in Political Science and a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law.