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Let's Talk About It - July 7, 2022 - National Alliance on Mental Illness: The Value of Lived Experience - Ingrid Alvarez Ron Program Manager Shannon Switzer Lead Trainer NAMI Career Pathways 2.0 San Diego and Imperial Counties

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is offering a series of training courses for individuals and family members with mental health concerns. The ‘lived experiences’ are unique and important to each individual and important for their own recovery process . Join us as we explore the value of lived experience and how it supports behavioral health recovery. 
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Let's Talk About It - July 14, 2022 - The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind - Dr. Dan Siegel Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine; Founder and CoDirector of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center

Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the filed. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No, it’s just their developing brain calling the shots! Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the best selling book Mindsight, explains the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures.
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Let's Talk About It - July 21, 2022 - Talking to Children About Mass Shooting - Stephannie Ramirez, LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker Supervising 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 kindergarteners 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 feeling in children.
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Let's Talk About It - July 28, 2022 - Best S.T.E.P. Forward - Jacqueline Riddell Best S.T.E.P Forward CEO/Founder Coach Coordinator Calipatria PAL President.

The 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, the birth and growth of a non-profit and how to support these children and youth.
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Let's Talk About It - June 9, 2022 Dispelling the Myth of Violence and Mental Illness - John Grohol, Psy.D. Founder of Psych Central Health Network

Historically, society has perceived people with mental disorders as being more violent and dangerous than other folks, resulting in a public perception of those suffering mental illness as being more dangerous members of our community. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Dr. Grohol shares the facts
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Let's Talk About It - June 16, 2022 - 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 supports, it helps support wellness by meeting a diverse list of community needs.
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Let's Talk About It - June 23, 2022 - Teen Challenge: Stress, Anger Management and Mindfulness - Dalia Pesqueira, LMFT Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Behavioral Health Manager Youth and Young Adult Services

Youth and Young Adults face an emerging world of cellphones, social media, academics, relationships and parents, all while experiencing the biological changes and challenges of adolescence. Data indicates that both anxiety and depression are increasing common in youth populations, Debilitating stress or anger, internalized or externalized can result. Mindfulness techniques, framed towards youth, can help.
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Let's Talk About It - June 30, 2022 - Holistic Outreach Prevention & Engagement (HOPE) Program - Anna Welzein Behavioral Health Manager Youth and Young Adults El Centro Anxiety and Depression Clinic

The intent of the HOPE Program is to engage individuals who have no prior history receiving mental health services, and to enhance the support for individuals who are currently receiving outpatient services. ICBHS will implement a set of new holistic wellness activities focused on mindfulness, fitness, and music/art (mind, body and soul). Referrals to the HOPE Program will be generated through ICBHS crisis and youth outpatient services. Upon admission to the HOPE Program, the wellness coordinator will assess the client’s strengths and needs and collaboratively develop an individual wellness program designed to reduce the need for higher level behavioral health services
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