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Let's Talk About It May 4, 2023: Mindfulness and Horses - Jennifer Cohen Harper-Founder and CEO-Little Flower Yoga

Mindfulness encourages you to disengage from the media and take in the sights and sounds of the moment while relaxing while clearing your mind from thinking, stress and worries. Horses have an acute ability to be in the moment that allows them to pick up on our subtle body language cues and emotions. When combining mindfulness and horses the horses helps us to become more in touch with our emotions and help us heal from our past traumas. Jennifer Cohen Harper talks about this mindfulness practice and its development during pandemic lockdown as a way for people to reconnect with nature. 
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Let's Talk About It May 11, 2023: Applied Suicide Intervention Skill Training (ASIST) - Dalia Pesqueira, LMFT- Licensed Marriage and Family TherapistBehavioral Health ManagerYouth and Young Adults Services

This workshop is for caregivers who want to feel more comfortable, confident and competent in helping to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. Over one million caregivers have participated in this two-day, highly interactive, practical and practiceoriented workshop. The Behavioral Health Department has utilized ASIST training for suicide intervention for over 20 years. Now available monthly to our schools and our community members, ASIST contributes to a suicide safer community. Join us and learn more.
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Let's Talk About It May 18, 2023: Casa Serena - Maria Ruiz, MSW, Deputy Director Mental Health Triage and Engagement Services

Week of May 15 Sometimes people in our community suffer serious mental health symptoms that are disrupting their lives. They need a safe harbor, a port in the storm, to stay safe and avert a potentially dangerous mental health crisis. Casa Serena provides that safe harbor, providing supportive elements of in-patient services for those who are having a mental health crisis before the crisis escalates. Join us as Deputy Director, Maria Ruiz, talks more in depth about this new program.
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Let's Talk About It May 25, 2023:Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Daphna Peterson, LCSW-DBT Therapist Christopher Conley, MSW, RSW-DBT Clinician Portland DBT Institute

Week of May 22 Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides clients with a new set of skills to manage painful emotions and decrease conflict in relationships. This therapy focuses on four areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT is an evidenced-based treatment program incorporating individual therapy, group therapy, and a therapist consultat on team. This comprehensive approach is a new addition to the stable of evidence based practices embraced by Behavioral Health, join us to hear more.
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Let's Talk About It June 1, 2023: Best S.T.E.P. Forward - Jacqueline Riddell Best S.T.E.P. Forward CEO/Founder- Coach Coordinator Calipatria PAL President

Best S.T.E.P. Forward is an organization that is rapidly growing throughout Imperial Valley from Calipatria in the north to Calexico in the south. Best S.T.E.P. Forward hosts programs for children of all abilities. The acronym S.T.E.P. stands for Sports, Theatre, Expression, and Perseverance. They believe in "having fun while learning the fundamentals and structure of the organization." Join us as we speak with Jacqueline Riddell as she shares her personal experience and what she's learned from parenting children who are differently abled, to the birth and growth of a non-profit to support those children and youth. 
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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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