How Leaders Can Improve Workplace Climate for Successful Implementation of Mental Health Practices
Date: June 22 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm PDT
Implementation of mental health practices and programs occurs within complex, multilevel systems with many factors that can impede or enhance implementation efforts. For example, clinical providers who deliver the mental health practice often face direct costs, time demands, and limited expertise that hinders implementation. Organizational factors such as resource allocation, staffing, and performance monitoring and feedback can also impact implementation. Strong and effective leadership can address these factors and result in the successful implementation and sustainment of mental health programs within and across service systems.
Join the Pacific West Hub for a two-part learning series led by international implementation science experts Mark Ehrhart, PhD, Marisa Sklar, PhD, and Greg Aarons, PhD. This series will help leaders in behavioral health organizations and systems understand how effective and aligned leadership at multiple organizational levels and an organizational climate that emphasizes implementation directly influence successful and sustained implementation efforts.
Each 1-hour session focuses on key leadership and organizational factors that promote the successful implementation of effective mental health practices or programs. Participants will examine how intentional leadership strategies can address common implementation barriers—such as time limitations, staffing challenges, and resource constraints—while fostering an organizational climate that supports learning, accountability, and sustainment.
This event is open nationally to all states and territories.
Session 1: Leadership for Implementing Mental Health Practices
Monday, June 22, 2026 ~ 12:30–1:30 pm Pacific
Session 2: Building and Sustaining an Implementation Climate that Supports Mental Health Practices and Programs
Monday, June 29, 2026 ~ 12:30–1:30 pm Pacific
Learning objectives:
- Distinguish general approaches to leadership and climate from those focused specifically on implementation.
- Understand the relationship between leadership and climate in enhancing mental health practice implementation.
- Identify specific actions that improve implementation leadership.
Presenters
Mark Ehrhart, PhD, Marisa Sklar, PhD, and Greg Aarons, PhD
Host:
Pacific West Hub
Open to:
East Coast|Midwest|Northeast Atlantic and Caribbean|Pacific West|Southwestern Plains
Event format: Virtual
Target audience(s):
Systems Leaders and Administrators|People Responsible for Leading Implementation Efforts
Duration (hours): 2
Experience(s):
Beginner|Intermediate|Advanced
Language(s): English