ONE state, ONE system, ONE vision…
toward ONE community, ONE leadership team…
by, for, and with…
ONE whole child and ONE whole family.

2023 Breaking Barriers Integrated Care Symposium

Tuesday, November 14 - Thursday, November 16, 2023
Sacramento, CA

Below are the presentation slides and resource materials provided for select sessions. Recordings of all the sessions will be posted soon on the Breaking Barriers YouTube channel.

Day 1 Slides & Resources

Opening/Welcome - Uniting in Care

  • Elizabeth Estes, Founder, Breaking Barriers California

  • Youth Leaders from SACYMH

  • Pap1 Grand3, Spoken Word Artist, Bay Area Creative

  • Jackson McBrayer, Spoken Word Artist, Bay Area Creative

  • Jenna Robinson, Program Director/Director Teaching Artist, Bay Area Creative

The Power of ONE: Trusting Relationships in Information Sharing

  • Nicola Parr, Senior Director, Student Services & Educational Options, Solano County Office of Education

Building Community-Based Solutions for More Accessible and Integrated Care

  • Ryan Eisenberg, Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Health Council

  • Ramsey Khasho, Chief Clinical Officer, Children’s Health Council

  • Jessi Misslin, Vice President Program & Engagement, Pacific Foundation Services / Senior Program Officer, Sand Hill Foundation

Realizing One Children’s System: California’s Children & Youth Behavioral Health Ecosystem - Overview, Development, and Implementation

  • Melissa Stafford Jones, Director, Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CalHHS)

  • Autumn Boylan, Deputy Director for Office of Strategic Partnerships, California Department of Health Care Services

  • Chaunise Powell, Chief of Student Services, Alameda County Office of Education

Stories from the Field: Applying the Ecosystem Recommendations to Regional & Local Realization of ONE Children’s System

  • MODERATOR: Mike Lombardo, Education Advisor, Consultant

  • Carla Bryant, Executive Director, Center for District Innovation And Leadership in Early Education

  • Amanda Dickey, Executive Director of Government Relations, Santa Clara County Office of Education

  • Mindy Fattig, Senior Advisor for the Statewide System of Support, CCEE

  • Jeanine Gaines, Director of Partnerships, The Social Changery

  • Chris Hartley, Deputy Executive Director, CCEE

  • Hayin Kimner, Managing Director, CSLX

  • Richard Knecht, Managing Partner, Integrated Human Services Group

  • Chris Stoner-Mertz, Chief Executive Officer, California Alliance of Child & Family Services

KEYNOTE PANEL: Literacy as a Shared Goal for California

  • Nancy Brynelson, Statewide Literacy Co-Director, California Department of Education

  • Bonnie Garcia, Statewide Literacy Co-Director, California Department of Education

  • Stephanie Gregson, Deputy Executive Director-Teaching, Learning, and Leading Center, CCEE

  • Michael DeFrancesco, Director of Educational Services and Human Resources, Calistoga Joint Unified School District

  • Barbara Nemko, Superintendent of Schools, Napa County

Closing Remarks

  • Youth Leaders from SACYMH

Day 2 Slides & Resources

Redefining Self in a Context of Whole Child Leadership

  • Richard Knecht, Managing Partner, Integrated Human Services

California Policy Development to Promote Integrated Services for Children, Youth, & Families

  • MODERATOR: Jason Willis, Clinical Professor of Public Policy, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific

  • Lishaun Francis, Senior Director, Behavioral Health, Children Now

  • Trina Frazier, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools

  • Natasha Hall-Sevilla, Executive Director, The Primary School-East Bay

  • Tanya Lieberman, Chief Consultant, California State Assembly Education Committee

PANEL: Building Shared Leadership in a County to Lessen the Chaos in the Field

  • Twylla Abrahamson, Director, Placer County Children’s System of Care

  • Lindsay Alderette, Program Manager - Whole Person Learning, YES Program

  • Luke Anderson, Executive Director, Prevention Supports and Services, Placer County Office of Education

  • Jina Coronado, MCT Family Advocate, Cal Voices, Placer County Children’s System of Care

  • Indira Infante, Program Manager, Cal Voices, Placer County Children’s System of Care

  • Mike Lombardo, Education Advisor, Consultant

  • Honorable Colleen Nichols, Superior Court Judge, Placer County

  • Brian Passenheim, Assistant Chief Probation Officer, Placer County Probation

PANEL: Yolo County Roadmap to the Future

  • Lucas Frerichs, Vice Chair, Yolo County Board of Supervisors

  • Karleen Jakowski, Assistant Director, Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency

  • Garth Lewis, Superintendent of Schools, Yolo County

Conducting a Needs Assessment and Developing Shared Goals

  • Amanda Dickey, Executive Director of Government Relations, Santa Clara County Office of Education

PANEL: Envisioning, Designing, and Building a County-wide Well-Being System

  • Peter Blanco, Regional Director-San Diego District, California Department of Rehabilitation

  • Lori Clarke, Co-Director, San Diego State University Social Policy Institute

  • Jennifer Cannell Pyle, Child Welfare Specialist Supervisor, ICF: State and Local Projects

  • Kimberly Giardina, Director, Child and Family Well-Being, County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency

  • Kate Kinnamont, Associate Executive Director, San Diego Regional Center

PANEL: Tuolumne County Children’s System of Care Dashboard

  • Michelle Clark, Director, Systems of Care, Tuolumne Department of Social Services

  • Annie Hockett, Assistant Chief Probation Officer, Tuolumne County

  • Betty Hoskins, Program Manager, Tuolumne County Behavioral Health Department

  • Tyler Jackson, Senior Staff Services Analyst for Children's Services, Tuolumne County Department of Social Services

Day 3 Slides & Resources

Welcome

  • Saran Tugsjargal, Student Commissioner, California Department of Education, Advisory Commission for Special Education

Universal Array of Services: From Concept to Reality

Doing the Work of Workforce Development: State and Local Partnership Strategies for a Reimagined Behavioral Health Workforce

  • MODERATOR: The Social Changery

  • Hovik Khosrovian, Senior Policy Advisor for Health Workforce Development, Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI)

  • Emiliano Rosas, Coordinator of Community Engagement, PRO Youth & Families

  • Robert Williams, Dean, College of Education and Allied Studies, Cal State East Bay

Children & Youth System of Care Supplementary Analysis to the Multiyear Plan for Increasing Capacity: Methodology, Research/Agency Partnerships, and Next Steps

California’s State Children and Youth System of Care Joint Resolution Team (JRT)

  • Christine Bagley, Southern Region Manager, Office of Community Operations, California Department of Developmental Services

  • Diana Casanova, Foster Youth Data Liaison, Education Research & Evaluation Consultant, Data Access & Strategy Office, California Department of Education

  • Dina Kokkos-Gonzales, Behavioral Health, California Department of Health Care Services

  • Sara Rogers, System of Care Branch Chief, Children and Family Services Division, California Department of Social Services

Integrated Funding Panel: Strategies for Sustaining New Investments in Student Health & Education

  • Lisa Eisenberg, Child & Youth Health Financing Project Director, WestEd

  • Scott Ostendorf, Project Manager: Student Behavioral Health Incentive Program (SBHIP), Marin County Office of Education

  • Marni R. Sandoval, Deputy Director of Behavioral Health, Child and Adolescent Services, County of Monterey Health Department

  • Jonathan Barnett Tugbenyoh, Director of School Partnerships, Seneca Family of Agencies

Wrap-up Remarks

  • Elizabeth Estes, Founder, Breaking Barriers California

  • Saran Tugsjargal, Student Commissioner, California Department of Education, Advisory Commission for Special Education

Deep Dive: HIPAA, FERPA, and Information Sharing

  • Elizabeth Estes, Founder, Breaking Barriers California

  • Nicola Parr, Senior Director, Student Services & Educational Options, Solano County office of Education

  • Camden Webb, Director of Clinical Services, Solano County Office of Education

Breaking Barriers YouTube Channel

View our past sessions, including all programming from our past Symposiums and webinars on the Breaking Barriers YouTube channel.

Symposium Sponsors and partners

Thank you to the sponsors and partners of this year’s Breaking Barriers Symposium. Learn more about sponsorship opportunities on our Symposium Sponsors page.

Presenting Sponsor

 
 

Advocate

 

Community Care

 
 

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For more information on the Symposium or to sponsor Breaking Barriers programming, contact us at info@breakingbarriersca.org.