
January 2021
Youth Mental Health First Aid (Online)
Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is a comprehensive, online training that teaches educators, family members, and caregivers (18+ years old) to approach, assess, and assist a young person with a mental health challenge or substance use concern. Just as CPR or First Aid helps you assist an individual in a medical crisis by following specific steps, YMHFA helps you assist a young person experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis using specific steps until appropriate help is received or…
Find out more »Author Sameer Pandya in conversation with Terence Keel: A UCSB Reads 2021 Event
Register here: https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8XN1zrtUTb60x3jdibnz-Q Join Sameer Pandya and Terence Keel for a discussion of Pandya’s recent novel Members Only, which engages with issues of racial politics and campus culture and considers the nature of brownness. Co-sponsored with the Department of Asian-American Studies. Sameer Pandya is Assistant Professor in UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies and author of the story collection The Blind Writer, which was long listed for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship. Terence Keel is Associate Professor…
Find out more »Youth Mental Health First Aid (Online)
Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is a comprehensive, online training that teaches educators, family members, and caregivers (18+ years old) to approach, assess, and assist a young person with a mental health challenge or substance use concern. Just as CPR or First Aid helps you assist an individual in a medical crisis by following specific steps, YMHFA helps you assist a young person experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis using specific steps until appropriate help is received or…
Find out more »Youth Mental Health First Aid (Online)
Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is a comprehensive, online training that teaches educators, family members, and caregivers (18+ years old) to approach, assess, and assist a young person with a mental health challenge or substance use concern. Just as CPR or First Aid helps you assist an individual in a medical crisis by following specific steps, YMHFA helps you assist a young person experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis using specific steps until appropriate help is received or…
Find out more »February 2021
Art & Activism: A Talk with Book Artist and Printmaker Tia Blassingame
Register here In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2021, UCSB Library presents a talk by Tia Blassingame, a book artist and printmaker whose work explores the intersection of race, history, and perception. The talk will be followed by audience Q&A moderated by Iman Djouini, Assistant Teaching Professor in College of Creative Studies and UCSB Department of Art. A book artist and printmaker exploring the intersection of race, history, and perception, Tia Blassingame often incorporates archival research and her own poetry in…
Find out more »Celebration of the Sector
If there was ever a good time for one, it’s 2021. Nonprofits did more than weather the uncertainty of a global pandemic and the challenges of social unrest in the struggle for social justice. We led the way in catalyzing change while meeting the needs of communities rocked by COVID-19. Philanthropy is at the very heart of this enterprise. Another Zoom meeting, you ask? Yes, but this one will be different. Expect fun, surprise guests and a chance to reconnect…
Find out more »New Beginnings Counseling Center – Clinical Training on Trauma Stress
New Beginnings is holding a CEU-eligible training with Sherisa Dahlgren, LMFT, a renowned therapist who specializes in secondary trauma stress. The training is $40 and meets the requirements for 2 hours of continuing education credits for mental health professionals. The training meets the requirements for 2 hours of continuing education credits for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs, as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. UCSB Counseling and Psychological Services is also sponsoring the training and is approved by…
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