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April 6, 2023: Main Character Syndrome - Cynthia V. Catchings, LCSW-S Executive Director-Psychotherapist-Women's Emotional Wellness Center & Consulting Firm

Each one of us has the perspective of being the main character in our lives as we progress through education, career, relationships, and health. Main Character Syndrome describes a condition where our main character perspective becomes selfindulgent and over dramatic, interfering with social relationships as people in our lives are placed in roles of antagonists in our personal perspective dramas and are increasingly endorsing a false narrative, in real life or on social media. Join us as we speak with psychotherapist Cynthia Catchings to explore this natural perspective in mind.

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April 13, 2023: Adolescents Substance Use Disorder Harm Reduction - Christen Magana-Program Supervisor-Adolescent Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment Program

Harm reduction is an approach that emphasizes engaging directly with people who use drugs to prevent overdose and infectious disease transmission. Harm reduction helps improve physical, mental and social wellbeing of those served, and offer low-threshold options for accessing substance use disorder treatment and other health care services. Substance use treatment has evolved to include these lifesaving interventions. Join us as we explore harm reduction strategies utilized at Imperial County Behavioral Health.

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April 20, 2023: Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACEs) - Frank Spesia, M.Ed, MGA-Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACEs) Coordinator- St. Joseph County Department of Health, Indiana

PACEs refers to the research about the significant effects of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs) and how they work together to affect our lives. Having a supportive friend or partner, living in a safe neighborhood, and having access to nutritious food are all things that are shown to be positive influences. There is research linking each of these positive experiences to better health and increased resilience that may offset adverse experiences and promoted happier, more successful youth lives!

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April 27, 2023: Directing Change - Jackie Valadez, Teacher Southwest High School and Directing Change Film Contestant Students

Directing Change is a statewide video competition among high school students in which students participate by creating videos that talk about mental health. Submission categories include Suicide Prevention, Mental Health Matters, and Through the Lens of Culture with the goal of reducing stigma that surrounds mental health. Southwest High School students created several submissions that will be shown at a community wide premier on April 27th at Southwest High School. We talk to the teams that created these videos and they share their stories. Join us here and then at Southwest High School on April 27th to celebrate these youth efforts.

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Let's Talk About It March 9, 2023: Let's Talk About It March 2023 - Jessica Aviles, MSW-Program Supervisor, and Brian Phillips

By providing a combination of mental health support and educational services to adolescents enrolled in secondary schools whose emotional/ behavioral disturbances prevent them from learning and functioning in a regular classroom, AHLP seeks to resolve problem behaviors, restore successful educational trajectories in brief periods and provide lifetime mental health self-management skills. Join us as Jessica Aviles and Brian Phillips talk in depth about the program and its positive impact in the community.

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Let's Talk About It March 16, 2023: Mental Health First Aid - Marie Arroyo, LMFT-Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Program Supervisor-Adult and Older Adult Services-Calexico Anxiety and Depression

The Mental Health First Aid program is an interactive training program that introduces participants, 18 years of age and over, to risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems. This training, is offered free of charge as a community service to the public by Imperial County Behavioral Health. It builds understanding of the impact of mental health concerns and outlines common treatments. Mental health awareness can support safer and healthier communities.

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Let's Talk About It March 23, 2023: Northend Family Resource Center: Mental Health and More! - Maria Nava-Froelich Calipatria-Niland Family Resource Center Director

Maria Nava-Froelich has spent decades building a Family Resource Center located at Calipatria High School that services a variety of human needs for the residents of the Calipatria/Niland area. Let's Talk About It gets together with Ms. Nava-Froelich to talk about the history, growth and vision of the Resource Center, along with the supports available and how having this type of resource not only offers an access point to behavioral health services, it helps support wellness by meeting a diverse list of community needs.

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Let's Talk About It March 30, 2023: Talking to Children About Mass Shooting - Stephannie Ramirez, LCSW-Licensed Clinical Social WorkerSupervising Therapist-Children Services.

Young children across the nation are struggling with their emotions about the stories on mass shootings, which will cause them to seek out trusted adults for help and reassurance. Many students as young as kindergartners continue to participate in active shooter drills at schools. The exposure to these drills can lead to very difficult questions and conversations. Join us as Stephannie Ramirez, supervising therapist talks more in detail about this important subject and how to ease those feelings in children.

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